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European AI Forum – 4th Edition
Thursday, 16.12.2021, starting at 10am (CEST)
We are happy to invite you to our next European AI Forum on December 16th – our flagship conference in collaboration with nine national AI-associations in the EU. This time our friends from AI4SI are in Charge and the event will be broadcasted from Ljubljana.
With our conference, we aim to bring policymakers and AI-entrepreneurs together to discuss the most pressing issues that are driving the AI ecosystem around. We are excited to have a fantastic line-up of high-level speakers from across the European Union waiting for you.
Next to several keynotes and fireside chats, we are looking forward to engaging in these panels:
Glass-Steagall – How to approach responsible biometric recognition
New AI related regulation and AI act is the most recent topic of discussion. Among many topics biometric surveillance and facial recognition are one of the most controversial so far. What problems and challenges in relation to biometric recognition Europe is facing? What will be the impact of EP regulations on facial recognition? Those and many more related points will be covered in this panel.
European pain points of AI progress
The recent survey of the European AI Forum revealed recent pain points of Europe’s startups and SMEs which are working in the field of AI. What are the most disturbing challenges new innovators are facing right now? How to change the current issues? How will it impact competitiveness in the global market? Those and many more related points will be covered in this panel.
AI vs AI – Is cybersecurity the new European AI frontier
Artificial intelligence thrives with data. On the other hand the internet and social platforms are in everyone’s lives nowadays. In such the cybersecurity is facing largest scale problems so far. How can we ensure the business from cyber attacks? Where is all the cybersecurity software being developed? What are the most common risks nowadays? Those and many more related points will be covered in this panel.
Confirmed speakers

Claire Skentelbery
Director general of EuropaBio – The European Association for Bioindustries
Klemens Himpele
CIO of the City of Vienna, Austria
Virginijus Sinkevičius
European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
Volker Wissing
Federal MinisterMinistry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, Germany

Martin Danovsky
Chairman of the Bulgarian State Agency for Research and Innovation, Bulgaria
Matthias Grabner
Director of Technology at ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA
Franc Bračun
Chief Data officer, NLB
Jean-François Kleinfinger
CEO of Whispeak
Yordanka Ivanova
Legal and policy officer for AI, DG CNECT, European Commission
Maria Gabriel
Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth
Colonel Patrick Perrot
French National Gendarmerie, France
Andrej Tomšič
Deputy Information Commissioner, Slovenia
Nojus Antanas Bendoratis
TRINITI JUREX, Lithuania
Jasen Tanev
Leader of cybersecurity consulting committee at the Bulgarian Industrial Association
Françoise Soulié
Representative of AI working Task Force “CyberCampus”
Maxime de Jabrun
Executive vice president of Beija flor contact, France
Samo ZORC
Ministry for Public Administration, Slovenia
Jasen Tanev
ThinksThinking
Ronny Reinhard
Lead Business, Cloud & Heat
Roberto Cascella
European Cyber Security Organisation
Eglė Markevičiūtė
Vice-Minister of the Economy and Innovation, Lithuania
Kristina Eskenazi
Chairwoman of Health & life Sciences Cluster, Bulgaria
Valeria Klassen
Vice President Data Strategy & Products, RTL
Mark Boris Andrijanič
Minister for Digital Transformation, Slovenia
Carina Zehetmaier
CEO & Co-Founder – Taxtastic / Ambassador Women in AI Austria
Eirik Gulbrandsen
Senior Engineer in The Norwegian Data Protection Authority
Gregor Strojin
Chair of CAHAI – Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (Council of Europe)
Boris Cergol
Regional Head of Data at Endava
Mislav Malenica
Founder/CEO – Mindsmiths
Ivana Vukov
Special adviser to the Prime Minister of Republic of Croatia
Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl
Director-General of DIGITALEUROPEModerators

Jeannette Gorzala
AI Austria
Andreja Lampe
Vice-president AI4SI
Jan Stedul
Secretary GeneralCroAI

Kaloyan Ratchev
Co-FounderAI Bulgaria

Vanessa Cann
Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Science and Information, University of Primorska
Mitja Trampuz
President AI4SI
Daniel Abbou
Managing DirectorKI Bundesverband
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