DEMOCRATIZING
THE POWER OF AI

From the cradle of Democracy to the heart of Technology

Phygital Interactive Forum Held simultaneously in Athens, Greece and San José, CA, U.S.A.

About The Event

AI IA FORUM 2022 took place from Wednesday 22 to Friday 24 June 2022

AI IA FORUM aims at promoting AI in a way that aligns with universal values of Democracy, Freedom and Privacy.

We are bringing together leaders of governments, international organizations and institutions, academia, industry and society at large to commit and to take decisive action. 

We want to trigger balanced results on the global arena, and we plan to do so in a simple, tangible, understanding and understandable way.

When

AI IA FORUM 2022

Wednesday 22 to Friday 24

June 2022

8:00 -21:00
(Athens – EEST & San José – PST)

Where

Physical locations
– Ancient Agora, Athens, Greece
– San José State University, CA, USA

Digital location
www.ai-action.org

Overview

Are we there yet?

Yes, we are!
Artificial Intelligence has seeped into every aspect of our lives. From industry to healthcare and from agriculture to transportation, communication and safety; artificial intelligence is everywhere and it is definitely here to stay.

How do we cope with that?
How can we find a happy mean between the undisputed benefits of AI and the current and future drawbacks?
In their effort to tame the threats and drawbacks for the benefit of all, national governments and supranational organizations are issuing guidelines and recommendations. They do so, however, in an uncoordinated, almost haphazard, way. One cannot tackle global challenges by acting individually; concerted global action is required.

We have already started.
AI IA Artificial Intelligence In Action, a non-profit organization based in Silicon Valley and inspired by the ideals of Athenian Democracy, aims at promoting AI in a way that aligns with universal values of Democracy, Freedom and Privacy.

We are bringing together leaders of governments, international organizations and institutions, academia, industry and society at large to commit and to take decisive action.

This is where we stand.
We want to trigger balanced results in the global arena, and we plan to do so in a simple, tangible, understanding and understandable way.

We invite you to join us!

WATCH FORUM REPLAY

Some of the Highlights

Keynote: Strategically addressing contextual and design issues of AI systems

Dr Konstantinos Karachalios, Managing Director, IEEE SA Standards Association & Member of IEEE Management Council

Keynote: The Ethics of Foundation Models

Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Vice President and Fellow at Google Research

Fireside Chat

Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Vice President and Fellow at Google Research in an in-depth conversation with
Dr Konstantinos Karachalios, Managing Director, IEEE SA Standards Association & Member of IEEE Management Council

Accelerating Commercial Technology for National Security

Dr Rogan Shimmin, Senior Engineer & Technical Program Manager, Space Portfolio, Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) / U.S. Department of Defense

Science, Peace and Security Αctivities at ΝΑΤΟ: Ηistory and Κey Αchievements

Dr Deniz Beten, Senior SPS (Science for Peace and Security) and Partnership Cooperation Advisor, NATO

Frameworks for Integrated Design of Entrusted Systems – Owning the Trust Calculus

Michael Woudenberg, Senior Engineering Manager, Chainalysis Inc

Keynote Speakers

Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Vice President and Fellow at Google Research

Dr Konstantinos Karachalios

Vice President of the BoD
AIIA NPO
Managing Director IEEE SA Standards Association & Member of IEEE Management Council

Christopoulos Leonidas

Secretary General of Digital Governance and Simplification Procedures

Professor Costas Synolakis

Keynote Speaker,
Member, Academy of Athens, President, Athens College
Prof. Civil, Environmental and Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California
Chairman, Scientific Committee on Climate Change for Greece
International Expert, Natural Hazards

Dr Deniz Beten

Senior SPS (Science for Peace and Security) and Partnership Cooperation Advisor, NATO

Francesco Di Maio

Co-Chair, Transport Group Civil Aviation (TG CA), NATO
Head, Corporate Security Department, ENAV - Italian Air Navigation Services Provider

Dr Vangelis Karkaletsis

Director of the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications
NCSR "DEMOKRITOS"

David W. Opderbeck

Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology and Institute for Privacy Protection
Seton Hall University Law School

Professor Barry O’Sullivan

University College Cork, Ireland

Michael Woudenberg

Senior Engineering Manager, Chainalysis Inc.

Speakers

Professor Periklis Papadopoulos

Forum’s Chair
President of the BoD, AIIA NPO
Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics
SJSU (San José State University)

Professor Costas Synolakis

Keynote Speaker,
Member, Academy of Athens, President, Athens College
Prof. Civil, Environmental and Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California
Chairman, Scientific Committee on Climate Change for Greece
International Expert, Natural Hazards

Christopoulos Leonidas

Secretary General of Digital Governance and Simplification Procedures

Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Vice President and Fellow at Google Research

Angelos Roupas Pantaleon

Forum's Moderator
Founder
Second Wind & Partners

Despina Travlou

Secretary General & MoB
AIIA NPO
Managing Director
Slide2Open Communications

Pierce Barnett

Student, Aerospace Engineering, San José State University
Member of ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), Black Student Union, and AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics)

Dr Deniz Beten

Senior SPS (Science for Peace and Security) and Partnership Cooperation Advisor, NATO

Dr Nikolaos D. Bogonikolos

President & CEO, Aratos Group

Dr Briones Janette

Senior Researcher, NASA Glenn Research Center

Elisabeth Calbari

Neuropsychologist, Executive Trainer
Founder of Self Balance

Czarina Catalogna

Aerospace Engineer, Chair of Silicon Valley AIIA Forum's Organizing Committee, f. Chair of AIAA

Luigi Alberto Ciavoli Cortelli

Past President of ASAS,
Member of Confindustria and
Lecturer at Capri Campus

Francesco Di Maio

Co-Chair, Transport Group Civil Aviation (TG CA), NATO
Head, Corporate Security Department, ENAV - Italian Air Navigation Services Provider

Aris Dimitriadis

Executive Director, Compliance, Risk & Insurance, OTE Group,
Vice Chair, Transparency International Greece

Markellos Diorinos

Entrepreneur, CEO, Bryq

Dr Rachel Dudukovich

Senior Researcher, NASA Glenn Research Center

Prof. Massimo Farina

Adjunct Professor of “Computer Law” and “Digital Forensics”, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE), University of Cagliari (Italy)

Dave Fox

Managing Director at Geospatial Insight Ltd

Dr Jeremy D. Frank

Lead, Planning & Scheduling Group, Autonomous Systems and Robotics, Code TI, NASA Ames Research Center

Arturo Garcia

Chief Automation Officer, Abu Dhabi Terminals

Dr George Giannakopoulos

Researcher, NCSR "DEMOKRITOS"
CEO at SciFY PNPC

Woody Gibson

CEO, SpaceComm Global, Inc.

Dr Christos Gizelis

Principal Innovation Analyst, OTE Group

Prof. Andrew J. Hacker

Cybersecurity Expert in Residence at Harrisburg University and Founder/CEO of The Thought Network Blockchain

Professor Hua Harry Li

Computer Engineering, San Jose State University
Director, CTI One Corporation
IEEE Organizing/Technical Committee Member

Mantalena Kaili

Executive Director, ELONtech

Dr Konstantinos Karachalios

Vice President of the BoD
AIIA NPO
Managing Director IEEE SA Standards Association & Member of IEEE Management Council

Dr Vangelis Karkaletsis

Director of the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications
NCSR "DEMOKRITOS"

Kelli Kedis Ogborn

Vice President of Space Commerce and Entrepreneurship
Space Foundation

Eirini Liadi

ICT Senior Sales Specialist, OTE Group

Dr Michael Lowry

Senior Researcher, NASA AMES Research Center

Anna Mamalaki

VP of AI Organizational and Workplace Transformation, AIIA NPO
Organizational Transformation & People Operations Consulting | Executive Coach

Dr Nikolaos Mavridis

PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Academic & Consultant in Artificial Intelligence

Dr Frederico Mesquita

Partner at Lotus Investments

Marcus S. Murbach

Principal Investigator, NASA Ames Research Center

Jean Marie Muylaert

Academician SB -RAS and IAF, Former ESA Chief Scientist and former Dir of the VKI, Member of the Scientific Committee EC ISTC

Professor George Nikolakopoulos

Chair Professor Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Luleå University of Technology

Dr Vassilis Nikolopoulos

Head of Applied Research and Development | Innovation Energy and NG BU, MYTILINEOS SA

David W. Opderbeck

Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology and Institute for Privacy Protection
Seton Hall University Law School

Dr Garrick Orchard

Senior Researcher at INTEL Labs

Professor Barry O’Sullivan

University College Cork, Ireland

Panagiotis Papadopoulos

Aerospace Engineer, Delft University of Technology

Vasilis Papakonstantinou

Partner, Blue Dome Capital & Vice-Chairman MIT Enterprise Forum Greece

Mru Patel

CEO and Founder My Tokenized Capital and eWealthTech

George Patseas

CPO at Enneas.gr | CTO at CXM

Michael J. Penders Esq.

Cybersecurity Program Manager TÜV SUD
International Lawyer and Former Prosecutor USA
President, Environmental Security International

Pyrgiotis Nikolas

VP of Technology Ventures at The Signal Group

Zachary Reece

Partner of GEO Finance

Amedeo Scaramella

Physicist, BA from the University of Naples “Federico II”
Member of Capri-Campus. Founder of GAIA, Geo Artificial Intelligence Applications ENGO

Mario Scaramella

Lawyer, Security consultant and Academic Professor at University of Bergamo Marte, Chair of the Faculty at Capri Campus

Dr Rogan Shimmin

Senior Engineer & Technical Program Manager, Space Portfolio, Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) / Pentagon

Robert Sobon

Student, Seton Hall University School of Law

Dr Sofoklis Sotiriou

Director of Research, Ellinogermaniki Agogi

Dr Tarek M. Taha

Senior Researcher, Brisk Computing

George M. Teriakidis

Area Manager East Mediterranean & Black Sea, DNV

Prof. Elisabetta Trenta

Professor of International Relations and former Minister of Defence of the Italian Republic

Cmdr USN Shawn J. Winter

Director Antiterrorism Europe Africa at Military Sealift Command (ret.)

Michael Woudenberg

Senior Engineering Manager, Chainalysis Inc.

Dr Xenia Ziouvelou

co-chair of AI at the European DIGITAL SME Alliance
AI Working Group (FGAI),
Researcher, NCSR Demokritos (Gr) &
University of Southampton (UK)

Agenda

The Forum

A Breakthrough Phygital Interactive Forum

Organized by AI IA Artificial Intelligence in Action nonprofit organization in association with AIAA and San José State University (SJSU), the AIIA Forum 2022 aimed at producing tangible results, while providing delegates with valuable insights into activities, practices and trends.

We brought together leaders of governments, international organizations and institutions, academia, industry and society at large to commit and to take decisive action.

We want to trigger balanced results in the global arena, and we plan to do so in a simple, tangible, understanding and understandable way.

From the cradle of Democracy to the heart of Technology

The Forum was held simultaneously in Athens, Greece, in San José, CA, USA and all around the world.

Following applicable protocols and guidelines, we were able to welcome face-to-face a limited number of distinguished guests along with the Forum’s moderators and some speakers to physically participate and interact in our physical venues in Athens, in Capri and in San José. The Forum was live streamed from our 3D virtual venue at www.ai-action.org. Video replay is available.

Your time is precious! With that in mind we created a series of sessions with interviews, breakthrough presentations, debates, brief and to the point panels and a lot of surprises.

We invite you to join us and to Watch the Replay of the Forum or any keynotes and discussions you missed during the live and gain valuable information, find out novel ways to tackle the unpredictable in the digital world and discover a Breakthrough Phygital Interactive Forum Experience.

Physical locations:

Ancient Agora, Athens, Greece
San José State University, San José, CA, USA

Digital location:
www.ai-action.org

Key topics of the Forum:

  • Safeguarding the Panhuman Values of Democracy, Freedom and Privacy
  • Democratizing the Power of AI
  • Protecting Data and Privacy
  • AI/ML in Space
  • Capri Campus on Security and Intelligence
  • AI Biotechnology, Bioethics and Pharma
  • Protecting the Environment with the use of AI
  • AI and Art
  • AI and Metaverse
  • AI/ML in Earth Observation and Beyond
  • AI and its Impact on the Human Capital
  • AI and the Startup Ecosystem
  • AI and Decentralized Finance

Forum’s Chairman:

Dr Periklis Papadopoulos, Professor in Aeronautics & Astronautics, San José State University, President of the BoD, AI IA NPO

Forum’s Organizer and co-Chair:

Despina Travlou, Managing Director, Slide2Open Communications, Concept Founder & Secretary General of the BoD, AI IA NPO

Forum’s Moderator:

Angelos Roupas Pantaleon, Founder, Second Wind & Partners, Member of the BoD, AI IA NPO

One-to-one video call meetings

Wednesday 22 June / Thursday 23 June / Friday 24 June 2022

  • Pre-arranged private meeting schedule
  • Participation upon request prior to the forum, subject to availability and approval

Parallel events, workshops and happenings
Organized in association with the sponsoring companies.

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