MAIN STAGE
Thursday
09:15
Welcome Address
by PD Dr. Alex Ilic (Executive Director at ETH AI Center), and Prof. Dr. Christian Wolfrum (Vice President for Research and a member of the Executive Board at ETH Zurich)
09:40
Rebalancing the Global AI Landscape - the International Computation and AI Network (ICAIN)
by Prof. Ciira Maina (Director at Data Science Africa), and Katharina Frey (Deputy Head of Division for Digital Foreign Policy at FDFA)
10:15
The State of AI
Moderated by Daniel Naeff, Head of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, ETH AI Center
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Adrian Ott, Chief AI Officer, EY
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Angela Carpintieri, Head Analytics & Transformation - CRO, Julius Bär
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Islam El-Ashi, AI Lead, Staff Engineer, DFINITY Foundation
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Dr. Abdel Labbi, Engineer & Dept Head, Data & AI Platforms, IBM
10:55
What you need to know about language in order to use AI effectively
by Prof. Noah Bubenhofer, Professor at University of Zurich
11:15
Shaping Tomorrow’s Innovators: AI Education and Skills
Moderated by Cloé Salzgeber
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Fiona Könz, Project Lead AI for Schools
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Martin Hirzel, Präsident Swissmem
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Andreas Urbanski, Former Director of AI Partnerships, Google
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Andri Silberschmidt, Nationalrat, FDP
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Prof. Dirk Wilhelm, Dean School of Engineering at ZHAW
FRIDAY
16:35
Generative AI: Unleashing Our New Superpower or Hitting PeakAI?
by Prof. Björn Ommer, Head of Computer Vision & Learning Group at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
16:55
New Faces of Bias in Online Platforms
by Prof. Anikó Hannák, Assistant Professor at University of Zurich
17:20
AI for Spaceship Earth: Innovations at the Intersection of Technology and Environmental Science
Moderated by Dr. David Dao, Co-Founder GainForest, Co-Lead ETH BiodivX
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Prof. Kristy Deiner, Co-Founder & CEO at SimplexDNA
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Dr. Lily Xu, Postdoc at Oxford
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Prof. Andreas Krause, Professor at ETH Zurich, Chair and Core Faculty Member at ETH AI Center
18:10
Unlocking Entrepreneurial Success in Tech
by Melanie Gabriel, Co-founder of Yokoy & followthegradient.io