Agenda

December 18th -19th, 2020

09:00-10:12

Opening Remarks

Host: Yang Bin, Vice President of Tsinghua University, Board Director of I-AIIG

09:00-09:05

Introduction of guest speakers

Yang Bin, Vice President of Tsinghua University, Board Director of I-AIIG

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09:05-09:10

Welcome remarks

Qiu Yong, President of Tsinghua University (TBC)

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09:10-09:15

Welcome remarks

Beate Trankmann, Resident Representative, UNDP China

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09:15-09:30

Opening speech

Wang Qinmin, Vice-chairman of the 12h CPPCC National Committee and Director of the National Committee of E-government Experts

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09:30-09:40

Keynote speech #1

Li Meng, Vice Minister for Science and Technology (TBC)

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09:40-9:48

Keynote speech #2

Fabrizio Hochschild, UN Under Secretary-General, Special Adviser for the UN Secretary-General on digital cooperation

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09:48-09:56

Keynote speech #3

Zhao Houlin, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union

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09:56-10:04

Keynote speech #4

Wang Xiaolong, Director General, The Department of International Economic Affairs , Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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10:04-10:12

Keynote speech #5

Zhu Xiumei, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

Main Plenary

Post-COVID International AI governance for a resilient future

Part I: Keynote speeches

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Host:  Xue Lan, Executive President of I-AIIG

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10:15-10:20

Introduction of guest speakers

Xue Lan, Executive President of I-AIIG

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10:20-10:30

Keynote speech #1

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Turing Award Winner, Dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua

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10:30-10:40

Keynote speech #2

Zhang Bo, Director of Tsinghua Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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10:40-10:50

Keynote speech #3

Yolanda Gil, AAAI Conference Chair

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10:50-11:00

Keynote speech #4

Chaesub Lee, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau

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11:00-11:10

Keynote speech #5

Q&A

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Part II: Thematic Talks

AI Governance: Current status and Future Prospects 

Moderator: Liang Zheng, Vice Dean, I-AIIG

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11:10-11:15

Introduction of guest speakers

Liang Zheng, Vice Dean of I-AIIG

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11:15-11:25

Themed Talk #1

Fu Ying, Honorary Dean of I-AIIG

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11:25-11:35

Themed Talk #2

Ya-Qin Zhang, Dean, AI Industry Research Institute, Tsinghua University

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11:35-11:45

Themed Talk #3

Xue Lan, Dean of I-AIIG

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11:45-11:55

Themed Talk #4

Wang Lei, Coordinator for Cyber Issues, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China

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11:55-12:05

Themed Talk #5

Kay Firth-Butterfield, Head, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, World Economic Forum

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12:05-12:15

Q&A

13:30-17:00

Thematic session #1

​Role of AI in combating Covid-19: what are the lessons?

​13:30

Welcome Remarks

Xue Lan, Dean of I-AIIG; Josh Cheng, Executive Director, Stanford Center at Peking University

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13:35

Keynotes speech #1

Dr. Yang Yu, I-AIIG

14:05

Keynotes speech #2

Prof. Effy Vayena, Co-chair of the WHO’s expert advisory group on Artificial Intelligence health ethics and governance

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14:25

Keynotes speech #3

Xia Huaxia, VP and Chief Scientist, Meituan

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14:40

Keynotes speech #4

Yang Fan, Co founder and Vice President of Sensetime

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15:00

Panel #1 The innovative technology solutions for fighting COVID-19: what have been done globally?

Moderator: Liang Zheng, Vice Dean of I-AIIG

Panelists:

• Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon, corporate vice president of Microsoft, chairman of Microsoft’s Asia-Pacific R&D Group, and managing director of Microsoft Research Asia

• Dr. Song Jiqiang, managing director of Intel Lab China

• Tang Jian, Chief Scientist of Intelligent Control, DiDi

• Wang Jingjing, vice-director of Institute of Public and Environmental Affaires

• Luo Linfeng, Vice Governor of Xiaoshan District Government, Hangzhou

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16:00

Panel #2 The outlook of post-pandemic governance of AI in the globe

Moderator :  Sun Maosong, Vice Dean, I-AIIG

Panelists:

• Yin Qi, Co-founder & CEO, Megvii

• Li Ming, Head of Research, Siemens China

• Jenny (Yu) Zeng, Managing Partner, MSA

• Tokuchi Tastsuhito, executive director and research fellow of the Center for Industrial Development and Environment Governance (CIDEG), Tsinghua

• Adrian Weller, Programme Director for AI at The Alan Turing Institute

• Rohintion Medhora, president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

17:00

End of Session

17:00-19:00

Break

19:00-21:00

Thematic session #2
AI governance for Sustainable Development Goals

​Moderator: Wei Zhang, Assistant Resident Representative, UNDP China

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Keynote #1: 

Thomas Davin, Director of Innovation, UNICEF

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Keynote #2:

Max Tegmark, Co-Founder, Future of Life Institute

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Keynote #3:

Yi Zeng, Co-Director, China-UK Research Center for AI Ethics and Governance at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Panelists: 

• Christian Guttmann, Executive Director, Nordic Artificial Intelligence Institute

• Zhu Xufeng, Executive Director, Institute for Sustainable Development Goals, Tsinghua University

• Rohan Samarajiva, Chairman, LIRNEasia, Sri Lanka

• Mila Romanoff, Data Privacy Specialist, UN Global Pulse

• Nannan Lundin, Innovation Counselor, Swedish Embassy

• Zheng Zhitai, Chief Strategist, Horizon Robotics

21:00-22:00 

Thematic session #3
AI and International Security: Challenges and Opportunities (CISS)

Moderator: Xiao Qian, Deputy Director, CISS

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21:00-21:10

Keynote #1

John Allen, President, the Brookings Institution

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21:10-21:15

Keynote #2

Fu Ying, Chair, CISS

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21:15-21:22

Launch of the Chinese Project Report (Li Bin)

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21:22-22:00

Panelists

• Nils Gilman, Vice President of Programs, Berggruen Institute

• HAO Yinghao, Senior Engineer, Academy of Electronics and Information Technology, China Electronics Technology Group

• LI Chijiang, Vice President and Secretary-General, China Arms Control and Disarmament Association

• Chris Meserole, Fellow and Director of Research and Policy, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative, the Brookings Institution

• Tom Stefanick, Visiting Fellow, Foreign Policy, the Brookings Institution

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22:00-22:30

Q&A

09:00-10:30

Thematic session #4
International cooperation on AI governance

Moderator: Devanand Ramiah, UNDP China, Deputy Resident Representative

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Keynote #1

Zia Khan, Senior Vice President, Rockefeller Foundation

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Keynote #2

Yeong Zee Kin, Assistant Chief Executive (Data Innovation & Protection), Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA)

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Panelists: 

• Jae Moon, Director Institute for Future Government, Yonsei University, Korea

• Cyrus Hodes, Vice President and Chair of the AI Initiative, the Future Society

• Rudradeb Mitra, founder of Omdena, India

• Surina Shukri, CEO Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), Malaysia

• Wilson Wong, Director of Data Science and Policy Studies Programme (DSPS), The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Mark Findlay, Professor of Law at Singapore Management University, and Director of its Centre for AI and Data Governance

• Warren Hero, CIO, Webber Wentzel, South Africa (pre-recorded)

10:30-12:00

Thematic session #5
Security and Safety of Data and AI (Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, BAAI)

Moderator: Yi Zeng, Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence.

Keynote #1

Danit Gal (Associate Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, UK)

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Keynote #2

Vincent Muller (Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands)

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Keynote #3

Roman V. Yampolskiy (University of Louisville, USA)

Panelists:

• Yafeng Deng (Qihoo 360, China)

• Joy Dantong Ma (Data Scientist, USA)

• Jianfeng Cao (Tencent, China)

• Shenkuo Wu (Beijing Normal University, China)