Panellists

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Guglielmo Tamburrini is Philosophy of Science and Technology Professor at the University of Naples, Italy. His main research interests concern the methodology of robotics, AI and the cognitive neurosciences, in addition to ELS issues arising in the context of human-computer and human-robot interactions. He acted as coordinator of the first EC project on the ethics of robotics (CA ETHICBOTS, 2005-2008, VI FP). Visiting Scholar in 2009-10 at ZIF (Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld, Germany), in 2014 he was awarded the Giulio Preti International Prize by the Regional Parliament of Tuscany (Italy) for his research and teaching activities on ethical and social implications of ICT and robotic technologies. He is member of ICRAC (International Committee for Robot Arms Control), USPID (Unione Scienziati Per Il Disarmo) and SILFS (Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia della Scienza).

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Philip Larrey, Ph.D., is a Catholic priest who holds the Chair of Logic and Epistemology at the Pontifical Lateran University in the Vatican. His publications deal with the philosophy of knowledge and critical thinking. He has published several books concerning the effects of the new digital era on society. Two of his recent works highlight this theme: Futuro ignoto (IF Press) and Connected World (Penguin). The Italian translation of this latter was published by Mondadori in 2018, entitled, Dove inizia il futuro.
For years he has been following the philosophical implications of the rapid development of artificial intelligence. With candor, he challenges industry leaders he comes into contact with at the Vatican to discuss how technology is shaping the fabric of our society. His new book, Artificial Humanity, delves into a more philosophical discussion of what AI research means for all of humanity.

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Peggy Valcke is research professor in ICT and Media Law at KU Leuven, and visiting professor at the University of Tilburg. Before that she was part-time professor at the European University Institute in Florence, and visiting professor at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. She is currently member of the management board of the Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (formerly known as ICRI and CIR), and one of the research leaders in the Security Department of iMinds. Peggy has a broad experience with working in international and interdisciplinary research teams. In previous years she has been involved in over 30 research projects – funded by the European Commission, KU Leuven, Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders, the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology, iMinds, national authorities and regulators – dealing with legal aspects of IT and media innovation. Other topics she worked on include: fundamental rights of the digital citizen, data protection and media freedoms, data portability, right to be forgotten, big data, media convergence, social media, personalized media, user-generated content, online journalism, media concentration and ownership, market regulation and competition in media and telecommunications, public service broadcasting and state aid, co- and self-regulation in the media, privacy in electronic communications and social networks. She has published widely on these topics in English, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian and Chinese, and has served as an expert for organisations like the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the German Media Concentration Commission, as well as administrations and authorities in Belgium. Peggy is assessor of the Belgian Competition Authority and member of the General Chamber of the Flemish Media Regulator since 2008. She was a member of Google’s Advisory Council on the Right to be Forgotten and is currently a member of Digital Minds for Belgium, a working group convened by Belgium’s Minister for Telecommunications and Digital Agenda.

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Hannes Werthner is the Dean of the Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien, and Professor for e-commerce at the same University. Before that he was Professor at the University of Innsbruck, the Vienna University of Economics, and the University of Trento. In Trento he was also the head of the eCTRL (e-commerce and tourism research lab), a joint lab of fbk (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) and the University of Trento. At the Faculty of Informatics of TU Wien he served as Director of the Vienna PhD School of Informatics, and he founded i2c (Informatics Innovation Center), an innovation hub at the faculty. His research activities cover a wide range from e-tourism and e-commerce, service engineering, recommender systems and social network analysis. Hannes Werthner was member of the ISTAG strategic advisory board for the European research program IST in FP5, is on the editorial board of several journals and served as (Program) chair of many conferences. In the field of e-tourism the International Federation for IT and Tourism (IFITT) awards the “Hannes Werthner Tourism and Technology Lifetime Achievement Award” to outstanding academics and/or professionals in the field.