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SUMMARY:AI Sovereignty: Charting Switzerland's Path Amid US and Chinese AI
  Dominance
DTSTART:20261111T093000
DTEND:20261111T183000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Antoine Bosselut (Professor\, Natural Language Processing Labo
 ratory NLP\, EPFL) Rachid Guerraoui (Professor\, Distributed Computing Lab
 oratory DCL\, EPFL) Robert West\, (Professor\, Data Science in AI Laborato
 ry DLAB\, EPFL) Carsten Maple (Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering\, Un
 iversity of Warwick\, UK) Lam Kwok Yan (Professor\, Nanyang Technological 
 University\, Singapore) Céline Castets-Renard (Full Professor of Law FDEF
  University of Luxembourg / ANITI Chair / EU AI Expert Scientific Panel @A
 I Office European Commission AI Act)\;  Cristian Canton (Associate Direct
 or\, Barcelona Supercomputing Center\, Spain) Yves Pitton (Chief Business 
 Solutions Officer and Executive Board Member\, ELCA)  Wallyson Lemes de O
 liveira\, Chief AI Officer\, Giotto.ai\,  Yaniv Benhamou (Professor of Di
 gital Law\, University of Geneva)\nAs the global AI landscape consolidates
  around US and Chinese dominance\, every nation outside this duopoly faces
  an urgent question: how can countries retain meaningful control over a te
 chnology increasingly expected to shape their economic competitiveness\, n
 ational security\, and societal resilience? From the viability of sovereig
 n cloud architectures and open-weight foundation models to the governance 
 mechanisms needed to ensure AI systems reflect Swiss values and legal fram
 eworks\, this conference brings together industry leaders\, researchers\, 
 legal experts\, policymakers\, and civil society actors to assess the conc
 rete levers of AI sovereignty and work toward actionable recommendations f
 or a Swiss sovereign AI strategy.\n 
LOCATION:Starling Hotel https://www.starling-hotel-lausanne.com/contact-lo
 cation https://c4dt.epfl.ch/c4dt-conference-on-ai-sovereignty/
STATUS:CANCELLED
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