AI Action Summit

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Speakers

Agenda

Moderator: Jo Coburn
2:00 PMOpening Keynote
  1. Petr Pavel, President of the Czech Republic
Session One: AI in the Public Interest: Competition & Investment
The private-sector AI investment boom has raised questions about whether these new technologies and services will be widely accessible to all segments of society, rather than to just a few first-movers or dominant firms. What needs to happen to ensure that the fruits of the investment boom ultimately serve the public interest and the common good?
2:05 PMPanel Discussion and Q&A with International Media
  1. Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder and Board Member of Inflection AI and Co-Founder of LinkedIn
  2. Ren Ito, Co-Founder of SakanaAI
  3. Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL) and Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP)
  4. Nabiha Syed, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation
2:45PMVideo Report: Global South AI
  1. Dzung Do Nguyen, Co-Founder and CEO of enfarm Agritech
  2. Toriola Oladeji, Co-CEO of Vinsighte Limited
Session Two: Innovation & The Future of Work
While AI is billed as a technology that will supercharge productivity - allowing industries to do more with less, and at an accelerating pace - precisely how these benefits are pursued is what matters. What do policymakers and managers need to do to ensure that new tools serve not only capital but also labor, consumers, and society more broadly?
2:50 PMFireside Chat
  1. Sylvain Duranton, Managing Director and Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group and Global Leader of BCG X
  2. Celina Lee, CEO and Co-Founder of Zindi Africa
  3. James Manyika, Senior Vice President for Research, Labs, Technology, and Society at Google
3:20 PMBreak
Session Three: Sustainable AI
Although AI holds the potential to transform a wide range of climate-related industries for the better, it is also a notoriously heavy user of electricity - and its energy footprint will only grow. How can we ensure that the technology becomes an overwhelmingly net positive for the planet?
3:50 PMKeynote Address
  1. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
3:55 PMPanel Discussion and Q&A with International Media
  1. Kate Kallot, Founder and CEO of Amini
  2. Sasha Luccioni, AI and Climate Lead at Hugging Face and an Invited Researcher at Ecole Normale Supérieure
  3. Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies
  4. Alexander Vollert, AXA Group Chief Operating Officer and AXA Group Operations CEO
4:35 PMVideo Report: Democratic Participation in AI
  1. Audrey Tang, Senior Fellow at the Project Liberty Institute
Session Four: High-Level Fireside Chat
Moderated by Jo Coburn.
4:40 PM
  1. Daron Acemoglu, Nobel Laureate in Economics and Institute Professor of Economics at MIT
  2. Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France

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