Agenda

9:00 - 9:30
Opening Ceremony

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• Mr. Jean Todt, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety

• Tshilidzi MARWALA, Rector of the United Nations University and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations

• Luming Li, President, Tsinghua

09:30-10:35
Plenary Session

Moderator: GONG Ke, Executive Director, Chinese Institute of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies; Director, Haihe Laboratory of Information Technology Application Innovation

• Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley 

• Chair: Xue Lan, Dean of Institute for AI International Governance of Tsinghua University Gong Ke, Director of Haihe Laboratory of Information Technology Application Innovation

• Yu Xiong, Associate Vice-President, University of Surrey

• Celine Yunya Song, Associate Head and Professor and Director of Media Intelligence Research Center, HKUST

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10:45-11:45
Panel 1: The University Disrupted 
 

Moderator: Simon Chesterman (NUS & AISG)

• Loy Hui Chieh, Vice Dean (Academic Affairs), NUS College, National University of Singapore

• Jungpil Hahn, Deputy Director (AI Governance), AI Singapore 、

• Liz Johnson, Emeritus Professor, Deakin University

• Natasha Ziebell, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Melbourne

• Gregor Kennedy, University of Melbourne (Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic) 

09:55-10:15
Panel 2: AI Literacy for Whom and for What? 

 

Moderator: Professor Jeannie Marie Paterson

• Stef Lovett, Director of Government Affairs & Public Policy for Australia and New Zealand (Google) 

• Evelyn Wong (AVPN)

• Dr Brett Szmajda, Strategy and Growth Lead(National AI Centre)

• Associate Professor Greg Nyilasy (Faculty of Business and Economics ) 

• Fei Wu (Microsoft)
   

12:45-1:30pm

Lunch

1.30-2.30pm
Public Talk: AI and Indigenous languages
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• Dr Steven Bird

• Dr Marc Cheong (Chair) 

11:00-12:30
Panel 3: From Risks to Responses: Collective Action for AI Safety

• Ratna Malar Selvaratnam, Manager, Learning Technologies & Innovation, Edith Cowan University 

• Tianhao Chen, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University 

• Kate Seward, Director, Corporate, External and Legal Affairs, Microsoft 

• Dr Zena Assaad Ratna Malar Selvaratnam

3.30-4:00pm
Break

5:00-6:00pm
Panel 4: AI for Industry, AI for Society

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• Zheng Liang, Vice Dean, I-AIIG, Tsinghua (moderator) 

• Tian Tian, RealAI

• Yu Xiong, Associate Vice-President (External Engagement), University of Surrey

• Cyrus Hodes, Co-Founder & General Partner, 1infinity Ventures

Friday 28 November

9.30-10:30 am
Panel 5: People, Economy, Governance and Human Development

 

• Wei Zhang, Assistant Resident, Representative for the United Nations Development Programme in China (moderator)

• Weixing Shen, Director, Institute for Studies on Artificial Intelligence and Law, Tsinghua University

• Xufeng Zhu, Professor and Dean, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University

• Liang Zheng, Vice Dean, The Institute for AI International Governance of Tsinghua University (I-AIIG)

• Shen Zhou, Associate Researcher, Department of Communication of Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China

10:30-11:30am
Panel 6: Cultural Alignment & Low-Resource Languages: Adapting LLMs for diverse cultures

11.45am-12.45pm
Panel 7: Technical Approaches for Responsible AI

• Prof Eduard Hovy - Explanation in AI 

• A/Prof Sarah Erfani - AI Assurance 

• A/Prof Caren Han - Cross-modal AI

• Prof Tom Drummond - Validation with small LLMs