Minds And Tech Program
A Journey Towards Intelligent Development
Detailed Minds And Tech Program
08.30 | Registration and Welcome Coffee
09.15 | Opening Remarks
Cecilia Nicolini, Fellow at MIT Center for Collective Intelligence & Harvard Ash Center. Director at Opinno Research Center.
Bertrand Serp, Vice President at Toulouse Métropole for Digital Economy & Robotics.
09.25 | A Global Mind for Global Challenges
Keynote – Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together. Cecilia Nicolini, Fellow at MIT Center for Collective Intelligence & Harvard Ash Center. Director at Opinno Research Center.
09.50 | Switching to Positive Impact Through AI Solutions
Panel – What Emerging Solutions for Mobility, Health and Education?
11.05 | Coffee Break
11.35 | Constructing a Smart Governance to Embrace Uncertainty
Panel – Ethics: Is AI a Humanity Obstacle?
The Moral Machine Experiment. Jean-François Bonnefon, Research Director at CNRS and Toulouse School of Economics.
Learning From Nature to Assess Our Intelligence Needs. Henry Shevlin, Research Associate and Project Leader at University of Cambridge.
The Role of Cobots to Empower Humans. Denis Rothman, Artificial Intelligence Author, Instructor and Speaker.
Panel – Policies: Where Is Europe Heading To?
AI in Europe: How Humans and Machines Can HarmonAIze for a Bright Future. Nancy Nemes, Founder & CEO at Ms. AI.
Governing the Rise of AI: From Principles To Practices. Nicolas Miailhe, Founder & President at The Future Society.
Can Collective Intelligence Fix Democracies?
Intersections of Innovation: Co-Designing the Future of Digital Governance. Sasha Rubel, Programme Specialist, Knowledge Societies Division, Communication and Information Sector at UNESCO.
13.40 | Lunch
15.00 | Building a New Economy for an Intelligent Ecosystem
Keynote – The Future of Work: Practical Examples of How Collective and Artificial Intelligence Jointly Shape It. Gianni Giacomelli, Head of Innovation at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence Design Lab. Head of Innovation at Genpact.
Panel – How Evolving Technologies Are Reshaping the Economy?
How Emerging and Exponential Technologies Are Creating and Empowering New Business Models. Vikas Pandey, Chief Technology Officer at EME.
Impact Tech: Investing in the Future We Want. Manuella Cunha, Co-founder at Good Tech Lab.
16.10 | Challenging Minds Competition
Challenging Minds Pitches.
Sunthetics. Pitched by Daniela Blanco, Co-Founder.
Observe Technologies. Pitched by Charchris Sloan.
BrightSign. Pitched by Hadeel Ayoub.
Urban Data Eye. Pitched by Rodrigo Delso.
Brightest AI/CI Mind Award in Partnership with Ms. AI.
16.55 | Closing Remarks
Bertrand Serp, Vice President at Toulouse Métropole for Digital Economy & Robotics.
Cecilia Nicolini, Fellow at MIT Center for Collective Intelligence & Harvard Ash Center. Director at Opinno Research Center.
17.00 | Networking and Cocktail
18.00 | Event Closure
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Program Narrative
New powerful technologies such as AI have created great impacts on our society, however, it is difficult to fully apprehend their scope and side effects. Are We Truly Heading Towards Intelligent Development? Minds & Tech will address this key question by articulating its program around 5 main blocks of content:
Collective Intelligence & Global Challenges (i.e. A Global Mind for Global Challenges): Minds & Tech will open the day by questioning the current concepts we hold on intelligence. Together, we will explore how adopting the perspective of collective intelligence can help us think imaginatively about our future and redesign our systems in order to tackle the most complex challenges humanity is facing in our century.
AI Solutions (i.e. Switching to Positive Impact Through AI Solutions): Part of the solutions harnessed by collective intelligence involve another kind of intelligence: the artificial one. AI offers a vast range of possibilities that will eventually enable us to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); this will be illustrated by reviewing innovations in the food industry, health and education.
Governance Solutions (i.e. Constructing a Smart Governance to Embrace Uncertainty): No matter how good the innovation is, if it is not envisioned through all aspects or boosted by smart decision-making bodies, it will not generate positive impact. It is therefore fundamental to think about how AI and CI should be incorporated within public institutions and policy-making for a responsible use of new technologies.
Industry Solutions (i.e. Building a New Economy for an Intelligent Ecosystem): Time to go to markets! To complete the journey towards intelligence, Minds & Tech will delve into the future of industry examining how work environments will look like and how they respond to the new demands of markets.
Start-up Competition (i.e. Challenging Minds): The 5 selected start-up of our Challenging Minds competition will pitch their project in front of the audience and a panel of experts will ask questions to provide further details about each project. Before the closing of the event, we will proceed to a collective vote by the audience in order to recognize the winner of our Challenging Minds Award which will name the Brightest AI/CI Mind.