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How will automation shape the Gigabit Age?

 

Robots and I: Another event presented by the Vodafone Institute will take place in Brussels on February 7 with a stellar line up of international thinkers and robotics experts.

Robots And I: how will automation shape the Gigabit Age?

7 February 2017, 6:00 to 8.00 pm

BMW Brand Store, Boulevard de Waterloo 23-24, Brussels 1000

Doors open at 5.30pm, talks start at 6.00pm sharp, walking dinner to follow.

For registration, please contact Cindy De Koninck: cindy.dekoninck(at)vodafone.com [2]

The European Parliament has urged [3] the European Commission to put in place rules to ensure robots are and will remain in the service of humans. Are robots a threat to our lives and livelihoods? Could they be technology’s answer to many of humanity’s greatest challenges? Should robots have rights and who owns the data they collect?

The Vodafone Institute invites you to join a stellar line up of international thinkers to explore some big questions and challenge our assumptions about the impact of automation in the Gigabit Age.

Setting the scene:

 

Kate Darling [4]

‘Mistress of Machines’
Expert in Robot Ethics, Researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab

 

 

 

Johan Norberg [5]

Author, Lecturer, Documentary Filmmaker
Author of ‘Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future’

 

 

Probing the possibilities:

 

[6]Angelica Lim [7]

A.I. roboticist, working at SoftBank Robotics

 

 

 

 

Professor Cecilia Laschi [8]

Professor  of  Biorobotics  at  the BioRobotics  Institute of  the Scuola  Superiore [9]  Sant’Anna

 

 

Tackling the tough questions:

 

[10]Mady Delvaux-Stehres [11]

Member of the European Parliament LSAP (Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party)

 

 

 

[12]Juha Heikkilä [13]

Head of Unit, Robotics & Artificial Intelligence, DG CONNECT, European Commission

 

 

 

Aimee van Wynsberghe [14]

Assistant Professor in Ethics of Technology at the University of Delft,
President of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics [15]
Author of ‘Healthcare Robots: Ethics, Design, and Implementation’

 

Hosted by:

 

Matthew Kirk [16]

Chairman of the Advisory Board, Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications
External Affairs Director and Member of the Executive Committee, Vodafone Group Plc

 

 

Moderated by:

 

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Paulina Modlitba Söderlund [18]

Founder and CEO; We Should Be Friends AB
MIT Media Lab alum with a background in robot-human-interaction and service design