Agenda
Here's what's scheduled for the event. All times are in GMT.
| 8:20 AM | Registration and networking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:05 AM | Conference introduction Maurice Button, Chief Executive, City & Financial Global | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:10 AM | Chair’s opening remarks Minesh Tanna, Partner and Global AI Lead, Simmons & Simmons; Chair, Society for Computers and Law (SCL) AI Group; Chair, City of London Law Society (CLLS) AI Committee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:15 AM | Keynote address I Kai Zenner, Head of Office and Digital Policy Advisor for MEP Axel Voss (EPP Group), European Parliament | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:35 AM | Keynote address II How to navigate the EU Act with confidence Dr Frank De Jonghe, EY EMEIA Financial Services Quantative & Analytics Services Leader | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:55 AM | Panel I The EU AI Act – where are we now and what’s the outlook for the near and remote future? Comparing the Act with the regulatory approaches of the UK & US – how do they differ and why? What are the business implications, i.e., dangers of fragmentation? Moderator Laurie-Anne Ancenys, Counsel and Head of Paris Tech & Data Practice at Allen & Overy Panel Julia Sterling, Vice President Big Data & Advanced Analytics, Commerzbank AG Kai Zenner, Head of Office and Digital Policy Advisor for MEP Axel Voss (EPP Group), European Parliament Stephan Geering, Global Privacy Officer and Trustworthy AI Lead, Anthology UCL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:00 AM | Morning coffee and networking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:20 AM | Keynote address III How to prepare for the EU AI Act: learnings from early movers Meeri Haataja, Founder & CEO, Saidot Ltd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:35 AM | Panel II How will the EU AI Act impact the financial services sector and other industries in the UK and beyond? How will it apply to both providers and users and what are the pitfalls we should be wary about? Moderator Catharina Glugla, Senior Associate Duesseldorf, Allen & Overy Panel Sarah Beddoes, General Counsel and Committee for Responsible AI Co-Chair, Adarga Limited Amied Shadmaan, Director, AI & Clinical Collaborations, GE HealthCare Dr Nataliya Tkachenko, ESG Data & Generative AI Ethics Lead, Lloyds Banking Group | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12:25 PM | Panel III Practical steps your company should be taking now to get ready for the change. Looking into governance, data quality, general principles, risk management and conformity assessments. Moderator Vivienne Artz OBE FCSI (Hon), Data Strategy & Privacy Policy Advisor, Centre for Information Policy Leadership Panel John Lloyd, Practice Lead, Securys Limited Oliver Patel, Enterprise AI Governance Lead, AstraZeneca Group Nebahat Arslan, Global Partnership Legal and Ethics Director, Women in AI Group and Group General Counsel & Compliance Officer, Goodnotes Janine McKelvey, General Counsel – Data, Group Data Protection & Ethics Officer, BT Group | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1:15 PM | Lunch and networking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2:15 PM | Keynote address IV How AI Act deal will affect SMEs, innovation and assistive technologies topology | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2:35 PM | Fireside chat I The EU AI Act - Interplay with GDPR and other EU digital regulation Host Nicole Wolters Ruckert, Counsel, Amsterdam, Allen & Overy In conversation with Sophia Ignatidou, Group Manager for AI and Data Science, ICO John Bowman, AI Ethics Market Strategy Lead, AI Regulation and Market Readiness, IBM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3:10 PM | Fireside chat II Foundation models, general purpose AI and generative AI Host Minesh Tanna, Partner and Global AI Lead, Simmons & Simmons; Chair, AI Group, Society for Computers and Law (SCL); Chair, AI Committee, City of London Law Society (CLLS) In conversation with José Martín Quesada, Founder & CEO, Krew Sajjad Khan, Senior Technology and AI Executive in Financial Market Infrastructures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3:45 PM | Afternoon tea and networking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4:00 PM | Fireside chat III Developing standards in support of the regulatory requirements set out in the AI Act – update and potential implications for your firm Host Dr Ansgar Koene, PhD, EY Global AI Ethics and Regulatory Leader In conversation with Rupert Shute, Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser, UK Home Office Professor Carsten Maple, Turing Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute; Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering, University of Warwick's Cyber Security Centre (CSC); Principal Investigator, NCSC-EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence, Cyber Security Research | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4:35 PM | Fireside chat IV How to deal with the lack of skills, one of the biggest barriers to AI adoption at the moment? Best practice in the UK, Europe and beyond Host Minesh Tanna, Partner and Global AI Lead, Simmons & Simmons; Chair, AI Group, Society for Computers and Law (SCL); Chair, AI Committee, City of London Law Society (CLLS) In conversation with Nimmi Patel, Head of Skills, Talent and Diversity, techUK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5:10 PM | Chair’s closing remarks & close of proceedings Minesh Tanna, Partner and Global AI Lead, Simmons & Simmons; Chair, Society for Computers and Law (SCL) AI Group; Chair, City of London Society (CLLS) AI Committee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
