Please note that the programme is a draft which will be refined and finalised in the coming weeks.

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Start

End

Session title

Speaker

Organisation

09:00

09:15

Introduction

Philip Piatkiewicz

ADRA

ECS objectives, schedule, message

Christophe Leroux

CEA, European Affairs

09:15

09:45

Key note speech on ADR in EU

Tanguy Coenen

IMEC

Panel 1

European strategies in ADR: The European Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Big Data research and innovation players facing international competition. 

Moderator

Philip Piatkiewicz

ADRA

09:45

10:15

Keynote speaker session 1

Thilbauld Jongen

Generative Robotics

10:15

11:15

Panel session 1

Bjoern Juretzki

EC DG Cnect

Stefan Martinic

Kramaric & Partners

Antoine Couret 

Hub FranceIA

Golboo Pourabdollahian

IDC

11:15

11:30

ADR exhibition pitch session

11:30

11:45

Coffee break

Panel 2

ADR facing Environmental issues: The paradox related to the risk of increasing energy consumption due to the development of ADR vs the ambition to reduce CO2 emissions and increase sustainability

Moderator

Ana Garcia

BDVA

11:45

12:15

Keynote speaker session 2

Monique Calisti

Martel Innovate

Panel session 2 

Jean-Philipe Nominé

ETP4HPC

12:15

13:15

Armando Carillo

EURNEX

Enzo Tartaglione 

Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Jan-Willem van de Meent  

University of Amsterdam

Chris Decubber

EFFRA

Petri Myllymäki

University of Helsinki

13:15

13:30

ADR exhibition pitch session

13:30

14:30

Lunch break

Panel 3

Public involvement and normative issues: The impact of the combination of these technologies in terms of public acceptance, ethical, regulatory and socio-economic issues, in particular on employment 

14:30

15:00

Moderator

Holger Hoos 

RWTH Aachen University, Universiteit Leiden, The University of British Columbia, and CLAIRE

Keynote Speaker session 3
 

Albert Sabater Coll

Observatory for AI Ethics, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Business at the University of Girona

15:00

15:45

Panel Session 3

Reinhard Lafrenz

euRobotics

Andrea Čović

European Commission in Croatia

Tea Žakula

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture

Chiara Venturini

Eurocities

15:45

16:00

Coffee break

Foresight Panel

Overview of results, connection of remarks with the ADR SRIDA, draft of ECS message 

16:00

16:45

Moderator

Iddo Bante

Univ. Twente

Panel Session – “Now work together towards a sustainable Europe” 

Philip Piatkiewicz

ADRA

Ana Garcia

BDVA

Fredrik Heinz

Linköping University

Petri Myllymäki

University of Helsinki

Reinhard Lafrenz

euRobotics

Kimmo Rossi 

European Commission

16:45

17:00

Wrap up