Provisional Programme (subject to change)
 

Day 1, Thursday 5 March

09:00-09:45
Welcome and introduction

09:45-10:45
Individual presentations (5 minutes per person). Please introduce yourselves and comment on how your work and interests relate to the overall symposium description. 

10:45-11:00
Coffee break

11:00-12:00
Introductions (continued) - we have allocated more time to ensure there is sufficient space to engage each other and ask questions.

12:00-13:00
Lunch

13:00-14:15
Harmonized standards AIA

• What is the current process in the creation of Harmonized standards for AI?

• What are Harmonized standards expected to do?

Presentation: Anders Skaarup Johansen (Postdoc at Aalborg University, DK)

14:15-15:30
Governance of AI-Transparency: Collective Behavior, Design and Enforcement Dilemmas

• The on-going process of developing codes of practice for AIA

Presentation: Anja Bechmann (Professor at Aarhus University, DK)

15:30-15:45
Coffee break

15:45-17:00
Standards and codes as meaningful governance tools for AI?

• What problems could standards and codes potentially address, especially when
  we consider LLMs?

Presentation: Huw Roberts (Doctoral Researcher at University of Oxford, UK)

17:00-17:15
Summing up

19:00
Dinner

Day 2, Friday 6 March

09:00-09:30
Introduction to Day 2

09:30-10:30
The gaps between regulations, standards and the making of tech in practice

• What is “inclusive normative design of AI systems”? What does it look like?

Presentation: Vanja Skoric (PhD Candidate at University of Amsterdam, NL)

10:30-10:45
Coffee break

10:45-12:00
Technical and human infrastructures – the challenge of OSS

• Codes of conduct and governance practices in OSS
• OSS, AI and the challenges to tech infrastructures?

Presentation: Hana Frluckaj (PhD Student at University of Texas at Austin, US)

12:00-13:00
Lunch

13:00-14:00
Group work exercise – implications and alternatives

• Connecting imaginaries, risk assessments, standards and technical practice
• What are the implications of current governance regimes?
• What alternative modes of governance and oragnising can be imagined?

14:00-14:45
Reporting back from group exercise

14:45-15:00
Coffee break

15:00-16:30
Summing up and way forward. We will ask everyone to revisit the presentations and discussions from both days. How would you like to take this further? (in terms of: collaborations, networks, publications, etc.).

18:00
Dinner, for those still around