Responsibly intelligent:

Towards an international agreement

on the ethics of artificial intelligence

23 September 2019 · Brussels

Scotland House
14 : 00 - 18 : 30
 Responsibly intelligent:
Towards an international agreement on the ethics of artificial intelligence

14:00 Welcome and opening remarks by Richard L. Hudson, Editor-in-Chief;

Vice-Chair of the Board, Science|Business

14:05 What are we worried about? Views of good, and bad, prospects for Al
Andrea Renda, Senior Researcher Fellow; Head, Global Governance,
Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy, Centre for European Policy
Studies
Anna Jobin, Researcher, Health Ethics and Policy Lab, ETH Zurich

14:35 National and regional perspectives

Lucilla Sioli, Director, Al and Digital Industry, DG Communications
Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission
Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, Member; Vice-Chair, Committee on
PROGRAMME

Internal Market and Consumer Protection, European Parliament

Rémi Quirion, Chief Scientist, Québec
Beeuwen Gerryts, Chief Director, Technology Localisation, Beneficiation
and Advanced Manufacturing, Department of Science and Innovation,
Republic of South Africa
Patrizio Bianchi, Regional Minister, European Affairs, Research,
Universities, and Labour, Emilia Romagna Regional Government

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Towards an international approach

Karine Perset, Administrator, Digital Economy and Artificial Intelligence
Policy, OECD
Cornelia Kutterer, Senior Director, EU Government Affairs, Microsoft
Walter Weigel, Vice-President and Chief Scientific Officer, European
Research Institute, Huawei Technologies
Jim Dratwa, Head, European Group on Ethics, Science and New
Technologies Office, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

17:00 What's next? Open discussion and conclusions

17:30 Networking reception

Welcome by Beeuwen Gerryts, Chief Director, Technology Localisation,
Beneficiation and Advanced Manufacturing, Department of Science and
Innovation, Republic of South Africa

Reception sponsored by the Department of Science and Innovation, Republic of

South Africa
 PATRIZIO BIANCHI
Regional Minister, European Affairs, Research, Universities and Labour,
Emilia Romagna Regional Government
Patrizio Bianchi is Minister for European Affairs, Research, Universities, and
Labour in the Emilia Romagna Regional Government since 2010. Bianchi has
worked as an expert in industrial development and public policy for national
governments and international institutions in Europe, Latin America and
Africa. From 2000 to 2008, he was adviser to the Governor of Guangdong,
China, for industrial development. He has been secretary of the National Plan
for Automotive Industry Reorganisation, a member of the privatisation
committee and president of the National Development Agency. He was rector
of the University of Ferrara from 2004-2010 and president of the Foundation
of the Conference of Italian University Rectors between 2006 and 2010.
Bianchi became full professor of economic policy at the University of Bologna
in 1990, and founded the faculty of economics and management in the
University of Ferrara in 1998.
S P E A K E R S

JIM DRATWA
Head, European Group on Ethics, DG Research and Innovation, European
Commission

Jim Dratwa heads the team tasked with ethics in science and new
technologies at the European Commission. He is the secretary-general of the
Commission’s International Dialogue on Ethics and Bioethics, and the
Commission representative in international organisations dealing with the
ethical implications of science and new technologies. He has taught at the
Ecole des Mines de Paris, Sciences Po Paris, Harvard University, and the Free
University of Brussels, where he is currently based. Dratwa has served in the
Commission’s Bureau of European Policy Advisers, the European Political
Strategy Centre, and in the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation.
He was the first global fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center.  

BEEUWEN GERRYTS
Chief Director, Technology Localisation, Beneficiation and Advanced
Manufacturing, Department of Science and Innovation, Republic of
South Africa

Beeuwen Gerryts joined the South African Department of Science &

Technology in 2011 and was appointed permanently in 2012 as chief director
of technology localisation, beneficiation and advanced manufacturing. He is
currently co-developing a portfolio of R&D-led industry programmes in areas
such as additive manufacturing and mining. He serves as a board member of
the Council for Geosciences and is co-chair of the Joint Aerospace Steering
Committee. He is occasionally an external examiner for the Graduate School
for Technology Management at the University of Pretoria.
 RICHARD L. HUDSON
SPEAKERS Editor-in-chief, Vice Chair of the Board, Science|Business

Richard Hudson has been a leading science and technology journalist in Europe
for more than 30 years. In 2004  he co-founded London- and Brussels-based
Science Business Publishing Ltd., a media and communications company
focused on research and innovation in Europe; he  is currently editor-in-chief
and vice chair of the Board of Directors. Previously, he was with the Wall Street
Journal for 25 years, as reporter, technology editor and, from 1997 to 2003,
managing editor of the European edition. He began his career at the  Boston
Globe. He is co-author of a book, now a  best-seller in 13 languages, on  how
bad math on Wall Street leads to big losses. He wrote it with famed Yale/IBM
mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot: The (mis)Behavior of Markets: A fractal view
of risk, ruin & reward.” He is a graduate of Harvard College, a former Knight
Fellow at MIT, and lives in Brussels.
S P E A K E R S

ANNA JOBIN
Researcher, Health Ethics and Policy Lab, ETH Zurich

Anna Jobin is a researcher at the health ethics and policy lab, department of
health sciences and technology at ETH Zurich. She has a multidisciplinary
background in sociology, economics, and information management. Her
current research projects focus on ethics in research and citizen science,
interaction with algorithmic systems, and ethical artificial intelligence. Prior to
joining ETH, Jobin was a visiting scholar at Cornell and Tufts University. She is
a recipient of a Swiss National Science Foundation career grant, and a
member of the Internet Research Ethics working group.

CORNELIA KUTTERER
Senior Director, EU Government Affairs, Microsoft

Cornelia Kutterer is senior director of EU government affairs at Microsoft.

Kutterer is responsible for AI, privacy and regulatory policies in the EU with a
focus on digital transformation and ethical implications. She has long standing
experience in information society and internet policies at European level and
speaks regularly at regional and international conferences. Previously,
Kutterer  was head of legal department and senior legal adviser at BEUC, the
European Consumer Organisation. She has also gained experience in a top 10
law firm in the fields of competition law and regulatory affairs and in a
German organisation focusing on the freedom of services and labour law. She
started her professional career in the European Parliament as a political
adviser to an MEP in 1997.
 MARIA MANUEL LEITÃO MARQUES
FEATURED GUESTSMember; Vice-Chair, Committee on Internal Market and Consumer
Protection, European Parliament

Maria Manuel Leitão Marques is a full professor of the faculty of economics at

the University of Coimbra and was elected MEP in the last European elections
of 2019 for the Portuguese Socialist Party. She is currently vice-chair of the
Internal Market and Consumer Protection committee and a member of the
delegations to both the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and the Euro-
Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. She is also a substitute MEP in the
ITRE and FEMM committees, as well as in the delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint
Parliamentary Committee. She previously served as Minister of the presidency
and administrative modernisation between 2015-2019 and as secretary of
state for administrative modernisation between 2007-2011.
S P E A K E R S

KARINE PERSET
Administrator, Digital Economy and Artificial Intelligence Policy, OECD

Karine Perset is administrator on digital economy and artificial intelligence

policy in the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation in 
Paris. She focuses on trends in development and diffusion of AI and on
opportunities and challenges that AI raises for public policy. Other recent
research focuses on internet intermediaries and internet governance. She was
previously an adviser to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers’s governmental advisory committee.

REMI QUIRION
Chief Scientist, Québec

Rémi Quirion is the inaugural chief scientist of Québec and president of the
three management boards of the Fonds de recherche du Québec since 2011.
He served as vice-dean in the faculty of medicine at McGill University, in
addition to being the CIHR executive director for Alzheimer’s from 2009 to
2011. Quirion was the inaugural scientific director of the Institute of
Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction until March 2009.
 ANDREA RENDA
FEATURED GUESTS
Senior Researcher Fellow; Head, Global Governance, Regulation,
Innovation and Digital Economy, Centre for European Policy Studies

Andrea Renda is a senior research fellow and head of global governance,

regulation, innovation and the digital economy at the Centre for European Policy
Studies. He is currently a non-resident senior fellow at Duke University’s Kenan
Institute for Ethics, and was adjunct professor of law and economics at Duke Law
School in 2016/2017. From September 2017, he holds the “Google Chair” for
Digital Innovation at the College of Europe in Bruges. At the College of Europe, he
is also responsible for the course “regulatory impact assessment for business”
since 2007. His current research interests include regulation and policy
evaluation, regulatory governance, private regulation, innovation and
competition policies, Internet policy, and the alignment of policies for long-term
impacts such as sustainability and decarbonisation.
S P E A K E R S

LUCILLA SIOLI
Director, Artificial intelligence and Digital industry, DG Communications,
Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission

Lucilla Sioli is the director of articial intelligence and digital industry in the
European Commission's CONNECT directorate-general. She is responsible for
coordinating the digitisation strategy for European industries. Previously, she
was responsible for the publication of the Digital Economy and Society Index
and the annual European Digital Progress Report, as well as the management
of digital skills policy for the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition. Sioli holds a PhD
in economics, and has been a civil servant at the Commission since 1997.

WALTER WEIGEL
Vice-President; Chief Scientific Officer, European Research Institute,
Huawei Technologies

Walter Weigel is vice president of the European Research Institute of Huawei.

From 2006 to 2011, he was director general of the European
Telecommunication Standards Institute. Between 1991 and 2015 he held
several positions within Siemens, including as vice president of external
cooperations and head of standardisation in corporate technology. From
1984 to 1991 he was assistant professor at the Institute of Data Processing at
the Technical University in Munich.
 Johannes Ahvo, Junior Policy Officer, Business Finland
Noemi Azzolina, Project Design and Delivery Lead, Digital Innovation Hub, Imperial College London
Lorenza Badiello, Director, Delegation of the Emilia Romagna Region to the EU
Eric Badiqué, Advisor to the Director, DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology,
European Commission
Paolo Bellavista, Professor, University of Bologna
Dominique Bérubé, Vice-President, Research Programs, Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada
Patrizio Bianchi, Regional Minister, European Affairs, Research, Universities and Labour, Emilia
Romagna Regional Government
Gérard Biau, Professor, Probability, Statistics, and Modeling Laboratory, Sorbonne University
Tobias Blanke, Professor, Humanities and Artificial Intelligence, University of Amsterdam
Massimo Busuoli, Head, Brussels Office, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Mark Cole, Professor, University of Luxembourg
Martha Crago, Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation, McGill University
Oliver Cusworth, Policy Advisor, European Investment Bank
P A R T I C I P A N T S

Dorothea Dalig, EU Affairs Consultant, Frontiers; Interel

Pascal Dayez-Burgeon, Head, Brussels Office, CNRS
Frederick de Backer, Regulatory Affairs Manager, Telefonica
Anna Dederichs, Director, European and Multilateral Affairs, Quebec General Delegation in Brussels
Davide Delaiti, Ethics Research Coordinator, EUREKA
Viorika Dishnica, Research and Innovation Officer, Delegation of the Emilia Romagna Region to the EU
Lindiwe Dladla kaMkhonza, Chief Executive Officer, Chiefkazi
Jim Dratwa, Head, European Group on Ethics, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Maryline Fiaschi, Managing Director, Science|Business
Patrik Floréen, Vice-Director, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Aalto University
Michael Gastrow, Chief Research Specialist, Education and Skills Development Research Programme,
Human Sciences Research Council
Beeuwen Gerryts, Chief Director, Technology Localisation, Beneficiation and Advanced Manufacturing,
Department of Science and Innovation, Republic of South Africa
Jan Gulliksen, Professor, Human Computer Interaction, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Carlos Härtel, Special Advisor, Science|Business
Alexander Hasgall, Head, Council for Doctoral Education, European University Association
Gert Helgesson, Professor, Karolinska Institutet
Ted Hewitt, President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Richard L. Hudson, Editor-in-chief, Vice Chair of the Board, Science|Business
Eddy Charles Iragi Kagizi, Corporate Institutional Affairs Assistant, Innovation and Technology,
Gestamp
Anna Jobin, Researcher, Health Ethics and Policy Lab, ETH Zürich
Ilse Karg, Chief Director, Future Industrial Production Technologies; Industrial Development Division;
National Department of Trade, Industry and Competition, Republic of South Africa
Bran Knowles, Member, Technology Policy Committee, ACM Europe
Ben Krose, Professor, Digital Life, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Cornelia Kutterer, Senior Director, EU Government Affairs, Microsoft
Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, Member; Vice-Chair, Committee on Internal Market and Consumer
Protection, European Parliament
 Rendani Mamphiswana, Senior Technical Advisor, Energy Products and Technologies, SASOL
Mònica Mateu, Senior Advisor, Science|Business
Dora Meredith, Europe and Global Portfolio Manager, Innovate UK
Jérémy Michel, Senior Manager, Public Affairs Europe, Sanofi
Andiswa Mlisa, Executive Director, Earth Observation, South African National Space Agency
Marleen Moor, Junior Policy Analyst, The Guild
Jason Naud, Coordinator, Ministry of Economy and Innovation, Government of Quebec
Diogo Nogueira Leite, Accredited Parliamentary Assistant, European Parliament
Boitshoko Ntshabele, Minister, Agriculture, South African Embassy
Karine Perset, Administrator, Digital Economy and Artificial Intelligence Policy, OECD
Simon Pickard, Network Director, Science|Business
Rémi Quirion, Chief Scientist, Québec
Rendani Ramabulana, Chief Executive Officer, Tirisan Tech Solutions
Adelaide Ramatlo, Director, Policy Analysis, Department of Communications, Republic of South Africa
Andrea Renda, Senior Researcher Fellow; Head, Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital
P A R T I C I P A N T S

Economy, Centre for European Policy Studies

Julia Schmalenberg, Senior Policy Advisor, Fraunhofer EU Office
Lucilla Sioli, Director, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry, DG Communications Networks, Content
and Technology, European Commission
Crystal Sissons, Senior Programme Officer, Policy and International, Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada
Suhayfa E. Soobedar, Minister Plenipotentiary, South African Embassy
Sudhir Sookla, Minister, Economy, South African Embassy
Tom Sorell, Professor, Politics and Philosophy; Head, Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group, Politics
and International studies, University of Warwick
Torbjørn Karl Svendsen, Professor; Director, Digital, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Paul Timmers, Chief Advisor, EIT Health
Meri Georgievska van de Laar, EU Liaison Officer, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Roel van den Berg, Business Director, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Daniel Visser, Research and Development Strategy Manager, Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research, South Africa
Claudine Vliegen, Counsellor, Telecom and Digital Affairs, Permanent Representation of the
Netherlands to the EU
Nicholas Wallace, Policy Editor, Science|Business
Walter Weigel, Vice-President; Chief Scientific Officer, European Research Institute, Huawei
Technologies
Garth Williams, Research Specialist, Intelligence, Technology Innovation Agency