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SUMMARY:Opening Conference of the Sustainability Days
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DESCRIPTION:Stéphanie Lacour\, Aimee van Wynsberghe\, Katharina Frey\,
  Silvia Quarteroni\, Rachid Guerraoui\nThe opening conference of the Sus
 tainability Days entitled "When AI Meets Sustainability: Environmental\, 
 Social and Ethical Perspectives" will focus on the social\, ethical\, and 
 environmental dimensions of artificial intelligence.\nThe keynote lecture 
 by Dr. Prof. Aimee van Wynsberghe will explore these three dimensions\, fo
 llowed by a round‑table discussion with experts from EPFL and ETH Zurich
 .\nThe conference examines the environmental and societal impacts of AI sy
 stems\, introduces the concept of Sustainable AI\, distinguishes it from A
 I for Good\, and addresses emerging challenges related to governance\, dig
 ital sovereignty\, and democracy.\n\nProgramme :\n\n17:30 : Doors open\n\n
 18:00 : Welcome words and introduction by Stéphanie Lacour\, Vice-Presid
 ent for Support to Strategic Initiatives\n\n18:10 : Talk entitled "Repair
 ing AI for Environmental Justice" by Aimee van Wynsberghe\, Professor for
  Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence & Director of the Institute for
  Science and Ethics at Bonn University\n\n18:40 : Round table and Q&A mode
 rated by the Journalist Julie Winz with:\n \n\n	Aimee van Wynsberghe\n	Ka
 tharina Frey\, Executive Director of ICAIN\, a global initiative to demo
 cratize access to advanced AI capabilities for societal benefit\, ETH Zür
 ich\n	Silvia Quarteroni\, Chief Transformation Officer & Head of Innovati
 on at the Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) of EPFL\n	Rachid Guerraoui\, 
 Full Professor\, Distributed Computing Laboratory (DCL)\, EPFL\n\n19:30 
 : Aperitif           \n\nBiography of the main speaker: \nFor nearl
 y two decades\, the Canadian Professor Dr Aimee van Wynsberghe has been ac
 tive in the field of information and communications technology (ICT) as we
 ll as robotics. After studying in Canada and the Netherlands\, she defende
 d her acclaimed doctoral dissertation on the ethical design of care robots
  at the University of Twente in 2012. She subsequently held assistant prof
 essorships in Twente and at the Technical University of Delft\, Netherland
 s\, and assumed an associate professorship in ethics and technology at TU 
 Delft in 2020. She was then already director of the Artificial Intelligenc
 e Lab in the Faculty of Technology\, Policy and Management. For her resear
 ch work and her contributions to scientific dialogue\, the philosopher rec
 eived the L’Oréal UNESCO For Women in Science award in 2018. In Februar
 y 2021 she took up her position as a Humboldt Professor at the University 
 of Bonn.     
LOCATION:RLC E1 240 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==RLC%20E1%20240
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