SOLAIR 2022

On 3 – 4 November 2022, the Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences organized the fourth international SOLAIR Conference 2021. The subtitle of the conference was “Artificial Intelligence for the Safer World: EU – US – IL Perspective”.

The conference was organized jointly by the Institute of State and Law of the CAS, the Czech Technical University, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic, the Czech Academy of Sciences, UNIDROIT, Atlantic Council, CEDMO, Microsoft, Amazon, and Amazon Web Services.

The event was organized under the auspices of the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Fiala, the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences Eva Zažímalová, the Minister of Finance Zbyněk Stanjura, and the U.S. Embassy Prague. The conference was organized as part of Czech Digital Week and it was also an official event related to the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

A report from the conference was published in The Lawyer Quarterly (2023, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 110-112) and is available here.  

Program of SOLAIR 2022

3 November 2022

Opening Addresses	9:00 – 10:00	Eva Zažímalová – President of the Czech Academy of Sciences Vojtěch Petráček – Rector of the Czech Technical University Věra Jourová – Vice-President of the European Commission (video talk) Ivan Bartoš – Deputy Prime Minister for Digitisation (online) Petr Očko – Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Moderated by: Alžběta Solarczyk Krausová, Institute of State and Law, Czech Academy of Sciences
Opening Statement on the EU AI Regulations	10:00 – 10:20	Gerald Spindler – Georg-Augustus-Universität Göttingen (online)
Keynotes AI Policies for Safer World	10:20 – 11:20	Irina Orssich – Head of Sector for AI Policy at the European Commission, DG CONNECT (online) Ruth Berry – Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Information and Communications Policy Cedric Sabbah – Director, Emerging Technologies, Office of the Deputy Attorney General (International Law), Ministry of Justice of Israel Alžběta Solarczyk Krausová – Institute of State and Law, CAS Moderated by: Jan Klesla, Institute of State and Law, CAS & Czech Technical University
Coffee Break	11:20 – 11:40
Keynotes AI for Strategic Security	11:40 – 12:40	Robert Strayer – Executive Vice President of Policy at the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) Leehe Friedman – Managing Director of 8200 Impact & Adjunct Professor at Reichmann University; formerly Coordinator of the Israeli National AI Initiative Cornelia Kutterer – Senior Director, Head of Responsible Tech & Competition, European Government Affairs, Microsoft Introduced and moderated by: Vít Střítecký, Charles University
Discussion panel AI Application in Business – Benefits and Concerns	12:40 – 13:00	Marek Havrda – Deputy Minister for European Affairs James Waterworth – Director, Public Policy EU at Amazon Moderated by: Alžběta Solarczyk Krausová, Institute of State and Law, CAS
Remarks on Strategic Security	13:00 – 13:10	Tomáš Pojar – Advisor to the Prime Minister for Security and Foreign Policy, former Ambassador in Israel
Lunch Break	13:10 – 14:00
Panel The Future of AI Policies and Regulations	14:00 – 15:00	Irina Orssich – Head of Sector for AI Policy at the European Commission, DG CONNECT (online) Daniel Všetečka – Ministry of Industry and Trade Franco Spicciariello – Director Public Policy AWS ITA & ECSEED at AWS Moderated by: Alžběta Solarczyk Krausová, Institute of State and Law, CAS
Break	15:00 – 16:00	Optional trip to Strahov technology center – the future Digital Innovation Hub (transportation arranged for the participants) Moderated coffee break discussion among the conference participants
Panel Activities of International Organizations	16:00 – 17:30	Lily McFeeters – Multilateral Engagement Officer, International Information and Communication Policy, Bureau of Cybersecurity and Digital Policy, U.S. Department of State Monika Hanych – Representative of the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic at the Council of Europe’s CAI Hamza Hameed – UNIDROIT – International Institute for the Unification of Private Law, Legal Consultant Moderated by: Alžběta Solarczyk Krausová, Institute of State and Law, CAS
Closing Remarks	17:30 – 17:40

4 November 2022

Panel AI and Societal Cyber Resilience	9:00 – 10:30	Rand Waltzman – Adjunct Senior Information Scientist at the RAND Corporation (online) Anzhelika Solovyeva – Central European Digital Media Observatory (online) Tomáš Ščerba – Institute of State and Law, CAS (online) Moderated by: Alžběta Solarczyk Krausová, Institute of State and Law, CAS
Coffee Break	10:30 – 11:00
Special workshop Online AI-Based Personalization and Human Rights	11:00 – 12:30	Alžběta Solarczyk Krausová – Institute of State and Law, CAS Silvie Cinková – Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Miloslav Konopík – Faculty of Information Technologies, University of West Bohemia Moderated by: Veronika Příbáň Žolnerčíková, Institute of State and Law, CAS
Lunch Break	12:30 – 13:30
Panel Inspiring Ideas	13:30 – 15:00	Julian Mueller-Kaler – Resident Senior Fellow at the GeoTech Center & Scowcroft Strategy Initiative Jana Pattynová – Partner at Pierstone  Hananel Hazan – Tuft’s University Moderated by: Alžběta Solarczyk Krausová, Institute of State and Law, CAS
Closing Remarks	15:00 – 15:10

 

Side Events in 2022

Revising the National AI Policy: Best Practices and Strategies

9 September 2022 | 10:00 to 11:00 CET | Czech Academy of Sciences, Národní 3, room 108

The purpose of this workshop was to open the debate on conceptual changes to the Czech National AI Strategy.  

Partners for 2022

Auspices for 2022

The conference is organised under the auspices of Petr Fiala, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, under the auspices of Zbyněk Stanjura, Minister of Finance, under the auspices of Eva Zažímalová, President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and under the auspices of the U. S. Embassy in Prague.

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