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EMERTECH 2019

International Conference

«Emerging Technologies: Societal Challenges and Global Governance»

 Program

On December 5, 2019 Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences  with support of the Delegation of the European Union to Russia, The Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund organizes on Dec.5, 2019 3rd international conference «Emerging Technologies: Societal Challenges and Global Governance» (EMERTECH 2019). The conference will take place in Moscow in IMEMO building. 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing, with global markets to grow almost 3 times in the next decade from current $20-25 billion, new technological advancements already in place, and new innovation frontiers in sight. Unsurprisingly, developed and emerging economies are putting strong accent on AI. In 2017 The State Council of China endorsed the “New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan”, Germany unveiled AI Strategy in 2018, the USA released American AI Initiative in February of 2019, Russia adopted National AI Strategy in October of 2019. Other nations including India are also elaborating policy options. 

The world is entering a global AI race, with important societal, economic, political and regulatory challenges to be addressed. 

Supporting global discussions on the AI, IMEMO and its partners are focusing EMERTECH 2019 at following aspects of AI development: 

• Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy for AI.
• AI Regulatory challenges.
• Russian efforts in AI area and international cooperation.
• AI: Issues For Global Governance.

We expect  more than 30 leading experts and officials from the Russia and other nations and international organizations to take part in the event as speakers.

SPEAKERS

Igor Agamirzian
Vice President, Head of the Department for Management of Innovation, Higher School of Economics
 

Feodor Voitolovsky
Director of IMEMO, Ñorresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Politics), Russia
 
 

Presentation I, II
Dr. Rong Ke
Associate Professor, Institute of Economics, School of Social Science at Tsinghua University
 

Presentation
Alex Nevidomsky
Head of AI Lab at Samsung R&D Institute,
Russia
 
 

Anna Abramova
Head of Department of Digital Economy and Artificial Intelligence of ADV Group of Companies, scientific adviser for the AI Master Program at MGIMO University
 

Presentation I, II
Vladislav Shershulsky
Director, Prospective Technologies, for Microsoft in Russia
 
 

Presentation
Anastasia Nazarenko
Deputy Director, Center for Industry and Corporate Projects, ISSEK, HSE
 

Ivan Danilin
Head of Science and Innovation Department,
IMEMO
 
 

Presentation
Carina Prunkl
Professor, Oxford University
 
 

Presentation
Gennady Kurkin
Director, Center for AI Science and Technology, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Fiztekh)
 

Vladimir Kuznetsov
Representative of the U.N. Information Center
in Moscow
 
 

Presentation
Garbuk Sergey
Director for Research Projects,
Higher School of Economics
 

Anton Lachinov
Head of Analytical Support for Interaction with Government Agencies,
Vimpelcom PJSC

Tim Cranton
Associate General Counsel,
Microsoft Europe
 

Nikhila Natarajan
Fellow, digital content, ORF, India
 
 

Presentation
Chen Fan    
Professor, Northeastern University, China
 
 

Presentation
Artemy Malkov    
Founder of the AI Business Solutions laboratory
 
 

Presentation
Tada Kanae
Technical officer in areas of youth employment and labour market research at the International Labour Organization (ILO)

Presentation
Andrey Rzhaksinskiy
Expert SAP 
 

Julien Nocetti 
IFRI (Institut Français Des Relations Internationales), France
 

Igor Sheremet 
Deputy Director for Science of Russian Foundation For Basic Research, Corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Wang Jian
Professor, Tsinghua University, China