- Harnessing AI for the Future of Work
- Moderator : Sana de Courcelles, Thematic Envoy for Future of Work
- Speakers :
- Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary for the Relations with States, Vatican
- Guillaume Faury, CEO, Airbus
- Christy Hoffman, General Secretary, UNI GLOBAL
- Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director-General, ILO
- Denis Machuel, CEO, The Adecco Group
- Creating a Virtuous Circle between AI, Creation & Information
- Moderator, Elsa Keslassy, Journalist and Executive International Editor, Variety
- Speakers
- Alar Karis, President of the Republic of Estonia
- Nabil Ayouch, Movie Director
- Jane Ginsburg, Columbia University Professor
- Pierre Louette, CEO, Les Echos-Le Parisien Group
- Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Co-founder, TILDE
- Privacy, cybersecurity & information integrity: Leveraging AI to protect democracies
- Moderator : Guillaume Poupard, Thematic envoy for Trust in AI
- Speakers :
- Edgars Rinkēvičs, President, Republic of Latvia
- Mathias Cormann, Secretary general, OECD
- Nighat Dad, Founder, Digital Rights Foundation
- Marie-Laure Denis, President, French Privacy Authority (CNIL)
- Meredith Whittaker, President, Signal
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Setting up Efficient & Truly Inclusive AI Governance
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Moderator: Henri Verdier, Thematic envoy for international AI governance
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Intervenants:
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Azali Assoumani, President, Union of Comoros
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Mauro Vieira, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Brazil
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General, WTO
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Anna Tumadóttir, CEO, Creative Commons
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- Scaling Competitive & Sustainable AI ecosystems across the globe
- Moderator : Roxanne Varza, Thematic Envoy for Innovation & Culture
- Speakers
- Yoo Sang-Im, Minister of Science and ICT, Republic of Korea
- Aiman Ezzat, CEO, Capgemini
- Nyallang Moorosi, Researcher, Distributed AI Research Institute
- Kim Sang-Hyup, Director general, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
- Lisa Su, CEO, AMD
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Bending the Arc of AI towards Public Interest: towards a Resilient and Open AI Ecosystem
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Moderator: Martin Tisné, Thematic Envoy for Public interest AI
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Speakers:
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Petteri Orpo, Prime minister, Finland
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Abeba Birhane, Research Fellow, AI Accountability Lab, Trinity College Dublin
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Clément Delangue, Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face
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Vilas Dhar, Président, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
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Janet Haven, Executive Director, Data & Society
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Amandeep Singh Gill, Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies, United Nations
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CARVIEW |
10 & 11 FEBRUARY 2025 - GRAND PALAIS Program

- Building Trustworthy AI: From Voluntary Commitments to Collaborative Codes of Practices
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Moderator Lucilla Sioli, Director, EU AI Office
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Speakers
Henna Virkkunen
Executive Vice-President for Tech
Sovereignty, Security and Democracy,
European Commission
Yoshua Bengio
Full Professor, Université de Montréal
Founder and Scientific Director, Mila - Quebec AI Institute
Sarah Hooker
Head of Policy Planning and Programs, Anthropic
Uljan Sharka
CEO, iGenius
Navrina Singh
CEO, CredoAI
Sana Zakaria
Research Leader for Science and Emerging Technologies, RAND Europe
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- Towards Safe and Trustworthy AI: Companies Commitments
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Moderator
Audrey Plonk
Deputy Director, Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD
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Speakers
Takuo IMAGAWA
Vice-Minister, Ministry of Interior and Communications, Japan
Sara Hooker
VP of Research and head of Cohere AI, Cohere
John McDermid
Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of York
Peter Sarlin
CEO, AMD Silo AI
Lisa SODER
Senior Policy Researcher, Interface AI
- Fuelling trustworthy AI innovation through collaboration between industry & government
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Moderator
Dr. Seth Center
Acting Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology, US Department of State
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Josephine Teo
Minister of Digital Development and Information, Singapore
Sasha Baker
Director for National Security, OpenAI
Akiko Murakami
Director, Japan AI Safety Institute
Alexandr Wang
CEO, Scale AI
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- AI & Science: the Scientific Data Bottleneck
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Moderator
Martin Tisné : Thematic envoy for Public Interest AI, AI Action Summit
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Speakers
Aisén Etcheverry
Minister of Science, Technology,
Knowledge and Innovation,
Chile
Astha Kapoor
Co-Founder, Aapti Institute
Alondra Nelson
Professor, Institute for Advanced Study; former head, White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy (US)
Joëlle Pineau
Vice President of AI Research, Meta
Fidji Simo
CEO and Chair, Instacart and Board
Member, OpenAI, President and Co-Founder, Metrodora Foundation
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- Project Syndicate: Introduction & Opening Keynote
Moderator
Jo Coburn, Presenter, BBC
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Speakers
Jean-Noël Barrot
Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, France
Petr Pavel
President, Czech Republic
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- Project Syndicate: Competition & Investment
Moderator
Jo Coburn, Presenter, BBC
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Speakers
Reid Hoffman
Co-Founder and Board Member, Inflection AI
Co-Founder, LinkedIn
Ren Ito
Co-Founder, SakanaAI
Mariana Mazzucato
Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London
Founding Director, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Nabiha Syed
Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation
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- Project Syndicate: Innovation & Future of Work
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Moderator
Jo Coburn, Presenter, BBC
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Speakers
Sylvain Duranton
Global Leader, BCG X
Celina Lee
CEO and Co-Founder, Zindi Africa
James Manyika
SVP Research, Technology & Society, Google
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- Project Syndicate: Sustainable AI
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Moderator
Jo Coburn, Presenter, BBC
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Justin Trudeau
Prime minister, Canada
Kate Kallot
Fonder and CEO, Amini
Sasha Luccioni
AI and Climate Lead, Huggingface
Patrick Pouyanné
CEO, TotalEnergies
Alexander Vollert
CEO, AXA Group Operations
- Building Trustworthy AI: From Voluntary Commitments to Collaborative Codes of Practices
---
Moderator Lucilla Sioli, Director, EU AI Office
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Speakers
Henna Virkkunen
Executive Vice-President for Tech
Sovereignty, Security and Democracy,
European Commission
Yoshua Bengio
Full Professor, Université de Montréal
Founder and Scientific Director, Mila - Quebec AI Institute
Sarah Hooker
Head of Policy Planning and Programs, Anthropic
Uljan Sharka
CEO, iGenius
Navrina Singh
CEO, CredoAI
Sana Zakaria
Research Leader for Science and Emerging Technologies, RAND Europe
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- Towards Safe and Trustworthy AI: Companies Commitments
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Moderator
Audrey Plonk
Deputy Director, Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD
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Speakers
Takuo IMAGAWA
Vice-Minister, Ministry of Interior and Communications, Japan
Sara Hooker
VP of Research and head of Cohere AI, Cohere
John McDermid
Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of York
Peter Sarlin
CEO, AMD Silo AI
Lisa SODER
Senior Policy Researcher, Interface AI
- Fuelling trustworthy AI innovation through collaboration between industry & government
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Moderator
Dr. Seth Center
Acting Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology, US Department of State
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Josephine Teo
Minister of Digital Development and Information, Singapore
Sasha Baker
Director for National Security, OpenAI
Akiko Murakami
Director, Japan AI Safety Institute
Alexandr Wang
CEO, Scale AI
---
- AI & Science: the Scientific Data Bottleneck
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Moderator
Martin Tisné : Thematic envoy for Public Interest AI, AI Action Summit
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Speakers
Aisén Etcheverry
Minister of Science, Technology,
Knowledge and Innovation,
Chile
Astha Kapoor
Co-Founder, Aapti Institute
Alondra Nelson
Professor, Institute for Advanced Study; former head, White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy (US)
Joëlle Pineau
Vice President of AI Research, Meta
Fidji Simo
CEO and Chair, Instacart and Board
Member, OpenAI, President and Co-Founder, Metrodora Foundation
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- Project Syndicate: Introduction & Opening Keynote
Moderator
Jo Coburn, Presenter, BBC
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Speakers
Jean-Noël Barrot
Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, France
Petr Pavel
President, Czech Republic
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- Project Syndicate: Competition & Investment
Moderator
Jo Coburn, Presenter, BBC
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Speakers
Reid Hoffman
Co-Founder and Board Member, Inflection AI
Co-Founder, LinkedIn
Ren Ito
Co-Founder, SakanaAI
Mariana Mazzucato
Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London
Founding Director, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Nabiha Syed
Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation
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- Project Syndicate: Innovation & Future of Work
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Moderator
Jo Coburn, Presenter, BBC
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Speakers
Sylvain Duranton
Global Leader, BCG X
Celina Lee
CEO and Co-Founder, Zindi Africa
James Manyika
SVP Research, Technology & Society, Google
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- Project Syndicate: Sustainable AI
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Moderator
Jo Coburn, Presenter, BBC
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Justin Trudeau
Prime minister, Canada
Kate Kallot
Fonder and CEO, Amini
Sasha Luccioni
AI and Climate Lead, Huggingface
Patrick Pouyanné
CEO, TotalEnergies
Alexander Vollert
CEO, AXA Group Operations
- International gouvernance of AI
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Modérateur
Henri Verdier, Thematic envoy for global AI governance
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Speakers
Maritza Chan Valverde
Permanent Representative
of Costa Rica to the United Nations
Abhishek Singh
Additional Secretary, Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technologies
Amandeep Singh Gill,
Under-Secretary-General and
Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies, United Nations
Héctor Gómez Hernández
Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations, Spain
Han Minyoung
Director-General for Climate, Environment
and Science of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea
Gabriela Ramos
Assistant Director General for Social
and Human Sciences, UNESCO
Jerry Sheehan
Director for Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD
Roberto Viola
Director General of the DG CNECT,
EU Commission
Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Secretary General, ITU
Golestan Sally Radwan
Chief Digital Officer, UNEP
Alain Berset
Secretary General, Europe Council
Ren Ito
Co-Founder, SakanaAI
Raul Echeberria
Executive Director, ALAI
Sylvie Forbin
Vice-Director General, WIPO
Tonu Badu
Director, International Program, Access Now
Gaia Marcus
Director, Ada Lovelace Institute
Moussa Faki
Chairperson, African Union Commission
Natasha Crampton
VP, Chief Responsible AI, Microsoft
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- AI in Health and Science: Identifying Opportunities, Prioritising Real World Evidence
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Modérateur
Tariq Khokhar : Head of Data, Wellcome Trust
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Speakers
Megan Doerr
Director, Sage Bionetworks
Kim Myuhng-joo
Director of the South Korean AI Safety Institute
Fidji Simo
CEO and Chair, Instacart
Board Member, OpenAI
President and Co-Founder, Metrodora Foundation
Gaël Varoquaux
Research Director, Inria
Roberto Viola
Director General of the DG CNECT, EU Commission
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- How to succeed the integration of AI in the workplace
--
Moderator
Franca Salis Madinier
Member, European Economic and Social Committee
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Speakers
Thierry Beaudet
President, French Economic social and environmental Council
Pascal Daloz
CEO, DASSAULT Systems
Eric Manzi
Deputy Secretary-General, International trade union confederation
Oliver Röpke
President, European Economic and Social committee
Roberto Suárez Santos
Deputy Secretry-General, International Organisation of Employers
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- AI and Children’s Development: a Multistakeholder Dialogue
--
Moderator
Justin Vaïsse
Founder and Director General,
Paris Peace Forum
--
Speakers
Grégory Renard
Head of Applied ML and Co-Initiator of AI4Humanity-AI Strategy for France in 2018, Docugam
Mathilde Cerioli
PhD, Chief Scientist, everyone.AI
Nesta Quiroz-Aitken
Youth Representative, The Alan Turing Institute
Natasha Crampton
VP Responsible AI, Microsoft
Caroline Stage Olsen
Minister for Digitalization, Denmark
Karianne Tung
Minister of Digitalisation and Public Governance, Norwegian Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance
Chris Lehane
Chief Global Affairs Office, OpenAI
Prof. Cécile Aptel
PhD, Deputy Director, UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight
James P. Steyer
Founder and CEO,
Organization Common Sense Media
Remi Marcelli
Laurence Devillers
Professor in AI at la Sorbonne/ Researcher at CNRS
Seena Amidi
Managing Partner, EMEA, Plug and Play
Michael Preston
Executive Director, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
Stuart Russell
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley
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- ROOST: Building an open source future for online and AI Safety
--
Moderator
Camille François
Associate Professor of Practice of
International and Public Affairs,
Columbia University
--
Speakers
Ryan Beiermeister
Vice-President Product Policy, OpenAI
Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist, Meta
Eric Schmidt
Founding Partner of Innovation Endeavors
Clint Smith
Chief Legal Office, Discord
Eli Sugarman
Senior Fellow, SpecialCompetitive Studies Project (Schmidt Entities)
Audrey Tang
Senior Fellow, Project Liberty Institute
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- Linguistic Diversity: Creating Value and Inclusion for AI Adoption
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Modérateur
John Palfrey
President, John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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Speakers
Faure Gnassingbe
President, Togo
Bosun Tijani
Federal Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Nigeria
Zameer Brey
Deputy Director,
Technology Diffusion, Gates Foundation
Nishant Lalwani
CEO, International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM)
Irene Mwendwa
Executive Director, Policy
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- A Call to Rethink AI: Why Gender Equality and Human Rights Matter Now More than Ever
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Modératrice
Delphine O.
Ambassador, Secretary General
of the Generation Equality Forum
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Speakers
Logi Einarsson
Minister of Culture, Innovation and Universities, Iceland
Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni
Minister for Digital Transition and Administration Reform, Kingdom of Morocco
Susan Hendrickson
President and CEO, Human Rights First
Hanne Juncher
Director of Security, Integrity and Rule of Law and AI Coordinator, Council of Europe
Cristina Lunghi
Founder, ARBORUS
Alessandra Sala
Co-Chair of the Women4EthicalAI Platform, UNESCO
Meredith Whittaker
President of the Signal Foundation, co-founder of the AI Now Institute
- International gouvernance of AI
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Modérateur
Henri Verdier, Thematic envoy for global AI governance
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Speakers
Maritza Chan Valverde
Permanent Representative
of Costa Rica to the United Nations
Abhishek Singh
Additional Secretary, Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technologies
Amandeep Singh Gill,
Under-Secretary-General and
Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies, United Nations
Héctor Gómez Hernández
Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations, Spain
Han Minyoung
Director-General for Climate, Environment
and Science of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea
Gabriela Ramos
Assistant Director General for Social
and Human Sciences, UNESCO
Jerry Sheehan
Director for Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD
Roberto Viola
Director General of the DG CNECT,
EU Commission
Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Secretary General, ITU
Golestan Sally Radwan
Chief Digital Officer, UNEP
Alain Berset
Secretary General, Europe Council
Ren Ito
Co-Founder, SakanaAI
Raul Echeberria
Executive Director, ALAI
Sylvie Forbin
Vice-Director General, WIPO
Tonu Badu
Director, International Program, Access Now
Gaia Marcus
Director, Ada Lovelace Institute
Moussa Faki
Chairperson, African Union Commission
Natasha Crampton
VP, Chief Responsible AI, Microsoft
--
- AI in Health and Science: Identifying Opportunities, Prioritising Real World Evidence
---
Modérateur
Tariq Khokhar : Head of Data, Wellcome Trust
--
Speakers
Megan Doerr
Director, Sage Bionetworks
Kim Myuhng-joo
Director of the South Korean AI Safety Institute
Fidji Simo
CEO and Chair, Instacart
Board Member, OpenAI
President and Co-Founder, Metrodora Foundation
Gaël Varoquaux
Research Director, Inria
Roberto Viola
Director General of the DG CNECT, EU Commission
--
- How to succeed the integration of AI in the workplace
--
Moderator
Franca Salis Madinier
Member, European Economic and Social Committee
---
Speakers
Thierry Beaudet
President, French Economic social and environmental Council
Pascal Daloz
CEO, DASSAULT Systems
Eric Manzi
Deputy Secretary-General, International trade union confederation
Oliver Röpke
President, European Economic and Social committee
Roberto Suárez Santos
Deputy Secretry-General, International Organisation of Employers
--
- AI and Children’s Development: a Multistakeholder Dialogue
--
Moderator
Justin Vaïsse
Founder and Director General,
Paris Peace Forum
--
Speakers
Grégory Renard
Head of Applied ML and Co-Initiator of AI4Humanity-AI Strategy for France in 2018, Docugam
Mathilde Cerioli
PhD, Chief Scientist, everyone.AI
Nesta Quiroz-Aitken
Youth Representative, The Alan Turing Institute
Natasha Crampton
VP Responsible AI, Microsoft
Caroline Stage Olsen
Minister for Digitalization, Denmark
Karianne Tung
Minister of Digitalisation and Public Governance, Norwegian Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Governance
Chris Lehane
Chief Global Affairs Office, OpenAI
Prof. Cécile Aptel
PhD, Deputy Director, UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight
James P. Steyer
Founder and CEO,
Organization Common Sense Media
Remi Marcelli
Laurence Devillers
Professor in AI at la Sorbonne/ Researcher at CNRS
Seena Amidi
Managing Partner, EMEA, Plug and Play
Michael Preston
Executive Director, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
Stuart Russell
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley
--
- ROOST: Building an open source future for online and AI Safety
--
Moderator
Camille François
Associate Professor of Practice of
International and Public Affairs,
Columbia University
--
Speakers
Ryan Beiermeister
Vice-President Product Policy, OpenAI
Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist, Meta
Eric Schmidt
Founding Partner of Innovation Endeavors
Clint Smith
Chief Legal Office, Discord
Eli Sugarman
Senior Fellow, SpecialCompetitive Studies Project (Schmidt Entities)
Audrey Tang
Senior Fellow, Project Liberty Institute
--
- Linguistic Diversity: Creating Value and Inclusion for AI Adoption
--
Modérateur
John Palfrey
President, John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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Speakers
Faure Gnassingbe
President, Togo
Bosun Tijani
Federal Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Nigeria
Zameer Brey
Deputy Director,
Technology Diffusion, Gates Foundation
Nishant Lalwani
CEO, International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM)
Irene Mwendwa
Executive Director, Policy
--
- A Call to Rethink AI: Why Gender Equality and Human Rights Matter Now More than Ever
---
Modératrice
Delphine O.
Ambassador, Secretary General
of the Generation Equality Forum
---
Speakers
Logi Einarsson
Minister of Culture, Innovation and Universities, Iceland
Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni
Minister for Digital Transition and Administration Reform, Kingdom of Morocco
Susan Hendrickson
President and CEO, Human Rights First
Hanne Juncher
Director of Security, Integrity and Rule of Law and AI Coordinator, Council of Europe
Cristina Lunghi
Founder, ARBORUS
Alessandra Sala
Co-Chair of the Women4EthicalAI Platform, UNESCO
Meredith Whittaker
President of the Signal Foundation, co-founder of the AI Now Institute
Invitation-only high-level meetings will take place during the day on the following topics:
- Building national AI ecosystems in Africa
- AI for education for intergenerational dialogue
- AI & National Security
- Energy-efficient chips for supporting AI spread in the Cloud and at the Edge
- Investing in AI
- Building the EU AI Continent with AI Champions and AI Factories
Invitation-only high-level meetings will take place during the day on the following topics:
- Building national AI ecosystems in Africa
- AI for education for intergenerational dialogue
- AI & National Security
- Energy-efficient chips for supporting AI spread in the Cloud and at the Edge
- Investing in AI
- Building the EU AI Continent with AI Champions and AI Factories
Anne Bouverot, Special Envoy for the AI Action Summit
- Frontier AI: From Understanding the World to Shaping It
Speakers
Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Denning Co-Director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and Co-Founder and CEO of World Labs
- AI practive: project pitches from innovators around the word, demos and artist projections
Anne Bouverot, Special Envoy for the AI Action Summit
- Frontier AI: From Understanding the World to Shaping It
Speakers
Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Denning Co-Director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and Co-Founder and CEO of World Labs
- AI practive: project pitches from innovators around the word, demos and artist projections
Program
Day 2 – February 11th
- The Summit of Heads of State and Government will take place on February 11th. A plenary session will be held at the Grand Palais with international participants to discuss the key common actions to take on artificial intelligence.
- Throughout this "AI Action Week", numerous parallel events will be held in Paris, including a Business Day event at Station F on February 11th, 2025. Events dedicated to AI and democracy, the environmental impact of this technology, information manipulation, and cybersecurity will also be organized.
Several art installations will be present on site during the Summit. You can find a presentation of the artists here.
Updated : 3 February 2025