Event

Digital Future Society Summit at SCEWC 2019

Nov 19, 2019Nov 20, 2019
10:00H17:00H
Fira Barcelona Gran Via

Does facial recognition have a place in smart cities?

Should biometric technologies form part of the inclusive, equitable, and sustainable digital future we want? Do citizens really have a choice in the matter? Join us at the Digital Future Society Summit at Smart City Expo World Congress 2019, where we will discuss these and other challenges, risks, and opportunities of facial recognition and biometric technologies. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to join top-tier international speakers in the debate around digital trust, security, ethics and legal issues when it comes to the controversial use of these emerging technologies in the public sphere.

 

Tuesday 19th of November

10:30 – Opening Session

  • Nadia Calviño, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Business

11:00 – Keynote

Agility in your face. Policy Trends in Facial Recognition and Governmental Response Today and in the Future

  • Ed Vaizey, Former UK Digital & Culture Minister
  • Lisa Witter, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Apolitical

11:45 – Panel Session

The central theme of the panel will be a deep dive into how civic organisations implement and interact with new facial recognition technologies. And the range of approaches varying from San Francisco to Hong Kong.

Moderator: Azeem Azhar, CEO & Founder of Exponential View

  • Natalia Olson-Urtecho, Chief Innovation Officer & Board Member at Smart City Works & Disruptive Factory
  • Jeff Merrit, Head of IoT, Robotics and Smart Cities for the World Economic Forum
  • Ed Vaizey, Former UK Digital & Culture Minister
  • Lisa Witter, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Apolitical

12:15 – Digital Future Society Lunch

12:45 – Parallel Sessions

  • Workshop: Responsible AI Certification process for SMEs (Co-organized with Inter-American Development Bank) [SOLD OUT]

13:15 – Parallel Sessions

  • Seminar: Regulation and technological development: limitations and possibilities. (Co-organized with ESADE)
  • Workshop: Urban Living Lab Playground: the game (Co-organized with ENOLL)
  • Workshop: Building Open and Inclusive Cities Using Critical Digital Innovation (Co-organized with Smart Citizenship)

15:15 – Coffee Break

15:45 – Parallel Sessions

  • Workshop: G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance (Co-organized with World Economic Forum)[SOLD OUT]
  • Seminar: Design Criteria for Algorithmic Decision Making in the Public Sector (Co-organized with iRightslab)
  • Workshop: From location, location, location to talent, talent talent. (Co-organized with RutaN)

18:00 – End of the day

 

Wednesday 20th of November

10:00 – Opening Session

  • Francisco Polo, Secretario de Estado por el Avance Digital

10:30 – Keynote

  • Rumman Chowdhury, Global Lead, Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence

11:00 Panel Session

The central theme of the panel will expose the cutting edge of facial recognition technology and explore the opportunites and challenges does it represents presents as well as looking at good and bad examples of implementation.

Moderator: Azeem Azhar, CEO & Founder of Exponential View

  • Mary Haskett, Co-founder and CEO at Blink Identity
  • Catherine Luckhoff, Co-founder and CEO of 20fifty
  • Jiun-Huei Proty Wu, Director of UK Office for Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan.
  • Joan Clos, Consultant
  • Rumman Chowdhury, Global Lead, Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence

12:00 – Coffee Break

12:30 – Parallel Sessions

  • Seminar: Increasing the attractivity of cities for high-potential women tech entrepreneurs (Co-organized with ECWT)
  • Workshop: Avoiding mismatched interactions to foster public participation (co-organized with IE PublicTech Lab)
  • Workshop: Digital Identities and Data Governance (Co-organized with ITS)
  • Workshop: A planet of civic labs for distributed collaborative prototyping (Co-organized with MediaLab Prado)

14:30 – Digital Future Society Lunch

15:30 – Parallel Sessions

  • Seminar: Public Innovation for a Digital Future (Co-organized with CNID)
  • Workshop:  Are we forgetting the Digital Inclusion of Marginalised Groups? Recommendations for monitoring Digital Inclusion.  (Co-organized with UNU)
  • Workshop: Responsible Innovation Toolkit: How can ADMS be used in Public Sector (Co-organized with IAM)

17:30 – End of the day

 

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Speakers

Check out some of the speakers confirmed for DFS Summit at SCEWC.

Former UK Digital & Culture Minister

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Global Lead, Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence

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Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Apolitical

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Chief Innovation Officer & Board Member at Smart City Works & Disruptive Factory

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Head of IoT, Robotics and Smart Cities for the World Economic Forum

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Director of UK Office, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan

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Co-founder and CEO at Blink Identity

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Co-founder and CEO of 20fift

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Consultant

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Parallel Sessions