Speakers & Panelists

Joanna Bryson is Professor of Ethics and Technology at the Hertie School. Her research focuses on the impact of technology on human cooperation, and AI/ICT governance. From 2002-19 she was on the Computer Science faculty at the University of Bath. She has also been affiliated with the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oxford, the School of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim, and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy. During her PhD she observed the confusion generated by anthropomorphised AI, leading to her first AI ethics publication “Just Another Artifact” in 1998. In 2010, she co-authored the first national-level AI ethics policy, the UK's Principles of Robotics. She holds degrees in psychology and artificial intelligence from the University of Chicago (BA), the University of Edinburgh (MSc and MPhil), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD). Since July 2020, Prof. Bryson has been one of nine experts nominated by Germany to the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence.

Christoph Busch is Professor of Law at the University of Osnabrück and Director of its European Legal Studies Institute. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. His research focuses on contract law, consumer law, digital platforms and algorithmic regulation. He is a member of the European Commission’s Expert Group for the Observatory on the Online Platform Economy (DG CNECT) and the Consumer Policy Advisory Group (DG JUST). His latest books are a volume on Algorithmic Regulation and Personalized Law (C.H.Beck & Hart Publishing 2021, co-edited with Alberto De Franceschi) and an article-by-article commentary of the Platform-to-Business Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 (C.H.Beck 2022). 

Vicky Charisi is a Research Scientist at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission with a focus on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on Child Development. Her work contributes to the design, use and evaluation of embodied robotic artefacts in novel environments for children’s development. For her research, she collaborates with leading research groups, international organizations (e.g. UNICEF, IEEE) and industry (e.g. Honda Research Institute, JP) and she conducts experimental, participatory and ethnographic studies on child-robot interaction in Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States. Vicky is currently serving as a Chair at the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for Cognitive and Developmental Systems, TF Human-Robot Interaction (2021-2023).

Prof. Dr. Dagmar Gesmann-Nuissl holds the Professorship for Private Law and Intellectual Property Rights at Chemnitz University of Technology. In various projects funded by the BMBF and BMWi at the interface of innovation, technology and law, she deals, besides others, with legal issues of digitalization. In addition, she leads a sub-project in the Collaborative Research Center CRC 1410 "Hybrid Societies: Humans Interacting with Embodied Technologies", which addresses the overarching question of responsible action in hybrid societies, combining psychological, sociological, and legal aspects. Her findings are published in prestigious journals. As an expert in technology law, she also participates in various expert committees, for example contributing as co-author to the "German Standardization Roadmap AI" last year. Furthermore, as co-editor of the legal journal "InTeR" - Innovation and Technology Law - she ensures the dissemination of scientific expertise in these highly dynamic areas of law.

Saskia Mattern studied law at the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin), specializing in the areas of contract law and international law. Before joining the Berlin office of the FZI Research Center for Information Research in October 2017, she worked as a lawyer in the field of renewable energies. She is working on her PhD in corporate law, environmental law and energy law. Since June 2018, Saskia Mattern is an
in-house lawyer at FZI.

Stefanie Meyer is a research associate at the Professorship for Private Law and Intellectual Property Rights at Chemnitz University of Technology.  As a doctoral student, she works together with Prof. Dr. Dagmar Gesmann-Nuissl in the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1410 in the sub-project "Responsibility in Hybrid Societies" and is a member of the associated Research Training Group. Her research interests include media and technology law, with a special research focus on gaming.
 

Silvia Milano is a Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, and a research associate in the Governance of Emerging Technologies programme at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research examines the epistemological and ethical implications of emerging technologies, particularly in information access and recommender systems. She has published articles on the ethics of personalised targeting and recommendation. 

Dr. Julia Maria Mönig is currently the manager of the philosophical part of
the KI.NRW-Flagship-Project "Zerfizierte KI" ("certified AI"). Before joining
the University of Bonn's Center for Science and Thought she worked as research
assistant for the Institute for Digital Ethics at the Hochschule der Medien in
Stuttgart, where she developed ethical guidelines and an ethical self-
assessment for highly automated driving [https://link.springer.com/cha pter/
10.1007/978-3-030-45131-8_4], as well as for the European Network of Research
Ethics Committees (EUREC Office). Her research focusses on ai ethics, the
ethical and social implications of highly automated and autonomous driving,
ICT ethics,  ethics of technology, privacy, exile, Hannah Arendt, philosophy
of education, political philosophy and 20th century philosophy. She is also a
member of the Center for Ethics and Humanism of the Vrije Universiteit
Brussel. Dr. Mönig holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Passau and
studied Philosophy, French and Educational Sciences in Wuppertal and Paris.

Lisa Roux holds a Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence, a Master Degree in Philosophy, and Bachelors of Psychology and History. Her main research interests are Machine Learning, philosophy of technology (ethics and epistemology), and political philosophy (the power relations and the cognitive shaping mechanisms in the capitalist society). She has currently a postdoctoral position in AI at Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour.

Shannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence and Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh, where she is also Professor in the Department of Philosophy. Professor Vallor's research explores how emerging technologies reshape human moral and intellectual character, and maps the ethical challenges and opportunities posed by new uses of data and artificial intelligence. Her work includes advising academia, government and industry on the ethical design and use of AI. She is a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and a former Visiting Researcher and AI Ethicist at Google. Her current project examines responsibility gaps in the governance of autonomous systems, as part of the EPSRC-funded Governance node of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems programme. She is the author of Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting (Oxford University Press, 2016) and editor of the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology. She is the recipient of multiple awards for teaching, scholarship and public engagement, including the 2015 World Technology Award in Ethics.

Aimee van Wynsberghe has been working in ICT and robotics since 2004. She began her career as part of a research team working with surgical robots in Canada at CSTAR (Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advance Robotics). She is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bonn in Germany. Aimee is co-founder and co-director of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics and on the board of the Institute for Accountability in a Digital Age. She is a 2018 L'Oreal Unesco 'For Women in Science' laureate. Aimee also serves as a member of the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on AI and is a founding board member of the Netherlands AI Alliance. She is a founding editor for the international peer-reviewed journal AI & Ethics (Springer Nature) and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Futures Council on Artificial Intelligence and Humanity. Aimee has been named one of the Netherlands top 400 influential women under 38 by VIVA and was named one of the 25 ‘women in robotics you need to know about’. She is author of the book Healthcare Robots: Ethics, Design, and Implementation and has been awarded an NWO personal research grant to study how we can responsibly design service robots. She has been interviewed by BBC, Quartz, Financial Times, and other International news media on the topic of ethics and robots, and is often invited to speak at International conferences and summits.