Politico AI Summit 2022 | POLITICO | 20 April 2022 | ACE events, Avenue d’Auderghem 22, 1040 Brussels, Belgium

Brussels took the first steps in 2021 to regulate the continent’s most innovative artificial intelligence technologies with an ambitious legislative package. And the verdicts are out: for some, it shouldn’t open the door to stifling innovation. For others, it doesn’t go far enough in preventing the use of high-risk or unethical AI. One year on, and with the legislative train well en route, where do global policymakers, tech leaders and civil society representatives stand in the discussion?

This comes as debates continue around key legislative files such as the Data Act and the Digital Services Act (DSA), data protection, as well as international cooperation in AI development and how to best harness the potential of AI in areas as diverse as cyber security, health care and gaming.

These themes and more will be dissected during POLITICO flagship AI & Tech Summit, taking place in Brussels and online on April 21, 2022. Convening key players in AI and tech development across the globe, you won’t want to miss having a seat to these compelling discussions.

2022 Speakers

Alexandre Alaphilippe
Executive Director, EU DisinfoLab

Lorena Boix Alonso
Director, digital society, trust & cybersecurity, DG CONNECT, European Commission

Ivan Bartoš
Deputy prime minister for digitization and minister of regional development, Czech Republic

Brando Benifei
MEP (S&D, Italy), European Parliament

Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl
Director general, Digital Europe

Marco-Alexander Breit
Deputy director general artificial intelligence, data, digital technologies, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Germany

Sam Cannicott
Deputy director
Center for Data, Ethics and Innovation, United Kingdom

Marian Croak
Vice president, engineering, responsible AI and human centered technology, Google

Martina Dlabajová
MEP (Renew Europe, Czech Republic), European Parliament

Edouard Duchesnay
Research director in data science, CE

Rachel Dunscombe
Visiting professor and director, Digital Health Leadership Programme
Imperial College London

Salvador Estevan
Director general for digitalization and artificial intelligence
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Spain

Claire Fernandez
Executive director, European Digital Rights

Liz Grennan
Associate partner, global co-leader of Digital Trust, QuantumBlack (a McKinsey company)

Bart Groothuis
MEP (Renew Europe, The Netherlands), European Parliament

Kilian Gross
Head of unit, artificial intelligence policy development and coordination, DG CONNECT European Commission

Peter Harrell
Senior director for international economics and competitiveness, White House National Security Council

Fanny Hidvegi
Europe policy manager, Access Now

Ilias Iakovidis
Adviser for digital aspects of green transformation
DG CONNECT, European Commission

Yoichi Iida
Deputy director general for G7/G20
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan

Miapetra Kumpula-Natri
MEP (S&D, Finland), European Parliament

Jean-Marc Leclerc
Director, EU affairs | co-director
IBM | IBM Policy Lab

Yuh-Jye Lee
Deputy executive secretary of the office of science and technology, Executive Yuan, Taiwan

Christian Lovis
Professor and chairman, division of medical information sciences, University Hospitals of Geneva

David Martin
Senior legal officer and Digital Rights team leader, The European Consumer Organization

Luis Neves
Chief executive officer
Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative

Chris Philp
Minister for tech and the digital economy, United Kingdom

Didier Reynders
EU commissioner for justice, European Commission

Saila Rinne
Head of sector, eHealth, Well-Being and Ageing
DG CONNECT, European Commission

Christel Schaldemose
MEP (S&D, Denmark), European Parliament

Stefan Schnorr
State secretary to the Federal Minister for Digital and Transport Germany

Andreas Schwab
MEP (EPP, Germany), European Parliament

Nigel Shadbolt
Executive chair and co-founder | principal of Jesus College and professorial research fellow in computer science
The Open Data Institute | University of Oxford

Keith Sonderling
Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, United States

Werner Stengg
Cabinet expert for Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager
European Commission

Elham Tabassi
Chief of staff, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States

Dragoș Tudorache
MEP (Renew Europe, Romania), European Parliament

Kim van Sparrentak
MEP (Greens/EFA, The Netherlands), European Parliament

David van Weel
Assistant secretary general for emerging security challenges
North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Margrethe Vestager
Executive vice president for a Europe fit for the digital age
European Commission

Axel Voss
MEP (EPP, Germany), European Parliament

Mathieu Weill
Head, Digital Economy Department, Directorate-General for Enterprise,

MODERATOR

Leonie Cater
sustainability reporter, POLITICO

Laurens Cerulus
cybersecurity editor & deputy technology editor, POLITICO

Clothilde Goujard
Technology reporter, POLITICO

Pieter Haeck
Tech policy reporter, POLITICO

Vincent Manancourt
Technology reporter, POLITICO

Carlo Martuscelli
Health care reporter, POLITICO

Mark Scott
Chief technology correspondent, POLITICO

Samuel Stolton
Technology reporter, POLITICO

Nick Vinocur
Editor, POLITICO Pro, POLITICO

2022 Partners

PRESENTING PARTNER:
• Google
• IBM
• workday

VISIBILITY PARTNER:
• Center for Dota Ethics and Innovation
• Protocol
• The Future Society