On 10 – 11 September 2020, the Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences organized the third international SOLAIR Conference 2020. The main focus of the conference were Fundamental Rights and Values in the Digital Age from the perspective of use and development of artificial intelligence.
The conference was organized jointly by the Institute of State and Law of the CAS, the United Nation’s UNCITRAL, the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, Microsoft, the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Justice of Japan, and the Japan International Dispute Resolution Center. The conference was organized under the auspices of the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Justice of the State of Israel and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel. The conference also hosted a special side event – an online workshop titled “Dispute Settlement in the Digital Economy” organized jointly by the UNCITRAL, Israel, Japan and the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade.
A report from the conference published in The Lawyer Quarterly (2020, Vol. 10, No. 4, p. 540) is available here.
Program of SOLAIR 2020
10 September 2020
| Opening Addresses |
9:30 – 10:00 |
- Věra Jourová – European Commission – DG JUST (video talk)
- Petr Očko – Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic
- Štěpán Pech – Director of the Department for European Legal and Institutional Support, Office of the Government of the Czech Republic
- Antonín Fejfar – President of the Council of Sciences of the Czech Academy of Sciences
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| Keynotes |
10:00 – 11:00 |
- Alžběta Krausová – Institute of State and Law of the CAS
- Yordanka Ivanova – European Commission (virtual talk): Initiatives of the European Commission to reap the benefits of the AI technology, while addressing the potential risks to fundamental rights and core European values
- Zsuzsanna Matrai – Microsoft (virtual talk): Human values as guiding principles for responsible AI
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| Coffee Break |
11:00 – 11:30 |
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| Keynotes |
11:30 – 13:00 |
- Anna Joubin-Bret – Secretary, UNCITRAL – United Nations Commission on International Trade Law; and Director, International Trade Law Division, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (virtual talk)
- Carlo Di Nicola – UNIDROIT: Digital Assets and Private Law: Challenges and Prospects for Legal Harmonisation
- Karine Perset – OECD (virtual talk): OECD work on AI policy – from Principles to Practice
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| Lunch Break |
13:00 – 14:00 |
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| Discussion Panel |
14:00 – 15:30 |
AI and Fundamental Values and Rights from Policy and Business Perspective
- Rudolf Urbánek – Microsoft: AI Driven Business: From Labs into Reality
- Milena Jabůrková – Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic, IBM
- Jan Klesla – Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic
- Alex Ivančo – Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic
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| Coffee Break |
15:30 – 16:00 |
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| Academic Panel |
16:00 – 17:30 |
Selected Legal Issues Related to AI and Fundamental Human Rights
- Gerald Spindler – University of Göttingen: AI and liability – the impact of fundamental rights
- Peggy Valcke – KU Leuven/Leuven.AI/imec – Vice-President CAHAI (virtual talk): Translating human rights, democracy and the rule of law to the digital age: introduction to the Council of Europe’s activities on AI
- Michal Toman – P. J. Šafárik University in Košice (virtual talk): Implementation of AI in Slovakia with focus on Fundamental Human Rights by establishing the Standing Committee for Ethics and Regulations of AI
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| Closing Remarks |
17:30 – 17:40 |
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11 September 2020
| Opening Addresses |
9:00 – 9:15 |
- Monika Pauknerová – Member of the UNIDROIT Governing Council: Czech projects at UNIDROIT
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| Specialised Workshop |
9:15 – 10:30 |
Legal Issues Related to Personalized Online Content: AIM Law project
- Alžběta Krausová – Institute of State and Law of the CAS
- Veronika Žolnerčíková – Institute of State and Law of the CAS
- Kateřina Turková – Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
- Miloslav Konopík – Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia
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| Coffee Break |
10:30 – 10:45 |
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| Special Panel |
10:45 – 11:00 |
- Gabriela Ramos – Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO (virtual talk): Ethical Reflection on Artificial Intelligence in the Times of COVID-19
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| Academic Panel |
11:00 – 12:30 |
Selected Legal Issues Related to AI and Fundamental Human Rights
- Felix Steffek – University of Cambridge (virtual talk): Artificial Intelligence and Dispute Resolution
- Juraj Sajfert – Vrije Universiteit Brussel (virtual talk): Data Protection for Law Enforcement and AI
- Kamil Szpyt – Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University (virtual talk): Using Artificial Intelligence in the Insurance Sector and Protecting Consumer Rights
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| Lunch Break |
12:30 – 13:30 |
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| Academic Panel |
13:30 – 14:30 |
Merging Artificial Intelligence with Organic Life
- István Böröcz – Vrije Universiteit Brussel (virtual talk): “Our thoughts are at least our own.” Are they though? – EEG-based neuroimaging under the GDPR
- Hananel Hazan – Tuft’s University (virtual talk): Hybrid robots with biological brain: state of the art and future prospects
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| Closing Remarks |
14:30 – 15:00 |
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Side event – Dispute Settlement in the Digital Economy
The SOLAIR 2020 hosted a special online workshop titled “Dispute Settlement in the Digital Economy” organized jointly by UNCITRAL, Israel, Japan and the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade. The online workshop focused mainly on discussions why there is a need for a separate instrument for hi-tech disputes, and how it’s different than other sectors like construction and energy, what the content of the instrument might include, and in what format such instrument(s) should be drafted.
The workshop took place on 10 September 2020 from 13:30 to 17:40 of CET (Prague time).
Materials for the workshop
Program of the workshop
| Legal Issues Pertaining to AI and Data |
13:30 – 15:30 |
- Introduction of JIDRC (Japan International Dispute Resolution Center)
- Shinnosuke Fukuoka: Presentation on Artificial Intelligence
- Atsushi Okada: Presentation on Data
- Questions & Answers
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| Coffee Break |
15:30 – 16:00 |
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| Hi-Tech Dispute Settlement |
16:00 – 17:40 |
- Introduction: Presentation of Israel-Japan proposal & summary of the discussions at the roundtable
- Discussion with panelists – Monika Feigerlová, Tilman Niedermaier, Crenguta Leaua, Loukas Mistelis, Racheli Pery-Reichman: What substantive changes, if any, should be made to existing texts to better address needs of hi-tech dispute settlement? What are the potential formats of texts that could address these issues?
- Questions & Answers
- Concluding remarks
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Partners in 2020
Auspices for 2020
President of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Prof. Eva Zažímalová
