Agenda 2024

Day 1 Monday,
November 04 2024

FOYER

11:30 - 12.30

Welcome lunch & Exposition

PHILIPS HALL

12:45 - 14.00

Plenary Opening

Moderator of the day: Maryline Fiaschi
Science Business, CEO

Keynote

Willem Jonker
AiNed, Chairman

Fireside Chat

Lucilla Sioli
European Commission - DG CONNECT, Director of the "EU AI Office"

Panel Discussion

Antti Vasara
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, President & CEO

Björn Juretzki
European Commission - DG CONNECT, Head of Unit "Data Policy and Innovation"

Cécile Huet
European Commission - DG CONNECT, Head of Unit Robotics & AI Innovation and Excellence

JUPITER

14:00-15:30

Generative AI for Human-AI Collaboration

Chair: Paul Lukowicz, Passant Elagroudy
German Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

NEPTUNE

14:00-15:30

Achieving efficient trustworthy AI in the cloud-edge continuum

Chair: Fabrizio Della Pace
EIT Digital

VENUS

14:00-15:30

Why current benchmark approaches are not sufficient for Safety

Chair: Tom David
PRISM Eval

PLUTO

14:00-15:30

How can AI, Data and Robotics solutions help to solve the critical raw materials crisis?

Chair: Nabil Belbachir
NORCE, euRobotics aisbl & ADRA

MERCURY

14:00-15:30

Instructions for use: how do we use the data spaces to solve real problems

Chair: Alessandro Paciaroni, Sveva Ianese
The Lisbon Council

EXHIBITION & CATERING AREA

15:30-15:45

Exposition + Coffee break

PHILIPS HALL

15:45-16:15

Europe’s AI moment: How the EIB and EC boost AI Innovation in Europe

Chair: Yuexiu Hu
European Investment Bank Advisory Services

PHILIPS HALL

16:15-16:45

PAL Robotics: 20 years of service robotics

Chair: Francesco Ferro
PAL Robotics

PHILIPS HALL

16:45-17:15

The IntelliMan Project: AI-Powered Manipulation System for Advanced Robotic Service, Manufacturing and Prosthetics & The Sestosenso project: Revolutionising Human-Robot Collaboration Through Proxy-Tactile Perception

Chair: Gianluca Palli (University of Bologna) & Francesco Grella (University of Genova)

JUPITER

15:45-17:15

Alliance for Language Technologies EDIC – state of play

Chair: Fabio Pianesi
TNO

NEPTUNE

15:45-17:15

Towards an overarching robotics strategy for Europe

Chair: Reinhard Lafrenz
euRobotics AISBL

SATURN

15:45-17:15

Standards and Metrics for Trustworthy and Safe AI

Chair: André Meyer-Vitali (DFKI), Rodica Mihai (NORCE), Chokri Mraidha (CEA), Irene Kitsara (IEEE), Henri Sohier (IRT SystemX)

VENUS

15:45-17:15

GenerAItions – Evaluation of GenAI in Horizon Europe

Chair: Edina Nemeth
Ideal-ist - Network of National Contact Points for Horizon Digital

PLUTO

15:45-17:15

Resource-efficient AI: how to improve the data, labour and energy-efficiency of AI methods and systems

Chair: Sabine Demey
imec

MERCURY

15:45-17:15

Shaping the new Adra topic group 'Innovation, Deployment and Uptake of ADR technologies'

Chair: Iddo Bante
University of Twente

EXHIBITION & CATERING AREA

17:15-18:00

Exposition + Networking drinks

18:00 - 18.30

Transport to Social Dinner

VAN DER VALK HOTEL

18:30 - 21.30

Social Dinner

Day 2 Tuesday,
November 05 2024

FOYER

08:30 - 09.30

Conference Open

PHILIPS HALL

09:30 - 10.30

Plenary Opening

Moderator of the day: Maryline Fiaschi
Science Business, CEO

Keynote

Robert-Jan Smits
Eindhoven University of Technology, President

Fireside Chat

Maurice Geraets
NXP Semiconductors Netherlands, Executive Director

Panel Discussion

Maurice Geraets
NXP Semiconductors Netherlands, Executive Director

Sabine Demey
imec, Director Flanders AI Research Program & Directeur Vlaams AI-Onderzoeksprogramma

Thomas Ferré
European Investment Bank (EIB), Venture and Growth Investor

EXHIBITION & CATERING AREA

10:30 - 10.45

Exposition + Coffee Break

PHILIPS

10:45-11:15

From AI Act to Structured Testing of AI Systems

Chair:Nishat I Mowla, Katya Mishchenko & Kabir Fahria
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

PHILIPS

11:15-11:45

How does investing in Data Science Open Source software development contribute to enhancing European technological sovereignty?

Chair: Selma Souihel
Inria

PHILIPS

11:45-12:15

Co-optimizing learning, reasoning and compute hardware for trustworthy and resource-efficient AI

Chair: Sabine Demey
imec

JUPITER

10:45-12:15

European AI, Data and Robotics SRIDA

Chair: Nabil Belbachir
NORCE, euRobotics aisbl & ADRA

NEPTUNE

10:45-12:15

Generative AI for Intelligent Interactive Robots

Chair: Francesco Ferro
PAL Robotics

SATURN

10:45-12:15

From Algorithms to Assurance: Designing Human-Centric AI to enhance Collaboration, Trust, and Acceptance

Chair: Sara Neves
INESC TEC

VENUS

10:45-12:15

Harnessing AI and Data for Enhanced Decision Support

Chair: Vito Trianni
CNR

MERCURY

10:45-12:15

Harnessing ADR tech transfer through FSTP and EDIHs

Chair: Antonio Montalvo
FundingBox Accelerator Sp Zoo

EXHIBITION & CATERING AREA

12:15-13:15

Exposition + Lunch

FIRST FLOOR

12:15-13:15

Exhibition Retrofuture - Free of charge

Be transported to the future of yesterday with 'RetroFuture'. An astonishing exhibition about humanity's eternal dreams of the future. 'RetroFuture' explores how we envisioned the future in the past and what our current expectations for the future are.

PHILIPS

13:15-13:45