Venue: HKUST Shaw Auditorium, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

Opening Ceremony Yike GUO (Provost, HKUST Secretary-General of Organizing Committee, International AI Cooperation and Governance Forum 2023)
08:45 - 08:50	Introduction
08:50 - 08:55	Opening Remarks Prof the Hon SUN Dong, JP Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry HKSAR Government
	Welcome Remarks
08:55 - 09:00	Harry SHUM Chairman of Academic Committee, International AI Cooperation and Governance Forum 2023; Council Chairman, HKUST
09:00 - 09:05	Nancy IP President, HKUST
09:05 - 09:10	Hongwei WANG [Mandarin] Vice President, Tsinghua University Xiqin WANG [Pre-recorded] [Mandarin] President, Tsinghua University
09:10 - 09:15	Lan XUE Chairperson, Academic Committee International AI Cooperation and Governance Forum 2023
09:15 - 09:25	Photo All Distinguished Guests
International Greetings Session Chair: Lan XUE (Chairperson, Academic Committee International AI Cooperation and Governance Forum 2023)
09:25 - 09:30	Introduction
09:30 - 09:35	YBhg. Datuk Ts. Dr. Mohd Nor Azman Hassan Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia
09:35 - 09:40	Tshilidzi MARWALA [Pre-recorded] Rector of the United Nations University and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
09:40 - 09:45	Manuel Innocencio DE LACERDA SANTOS JR. Consul-General, Consulate General of Brazil in Hong Kong
09:45 - 09:50	Thomas GNOCCHI Ambassador/Head of Office European Union Office to Hong Kong and Macao
09:50 - 09:53	Mojalefa MOGONO Consul-General, South African Consulate General Hong Kong SAR & Macau SAR
09:50 – 10:00	Coffee Break
Keynote Talks Session Chair: Ke GONG (Executive Director, Chinese Institute of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies; Director, Haihe Laboratory of Information Technology Application Innovation)
10:00 - 10:05	Introduction by Session Chair
10:05 - 10:15	Keynote Speech Brad SMITH [Pre-recorded] Vice Chair and President, Microsoft
10:15 - 10:45	Security Issues in the Development of Next Generation AI Wen GAO [Mandarin] Director, Peng Cheng Laboratory; Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
10:45 - 11:15	Intelligent Photoelectronic Computing Qionghai DAI [Mandarin] Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering; Dean, School of Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
11:15 - 11:45	Three Waves of AI Ethics Stephen CAVE Director, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge
11:50 - 12:05	Signing Ceremony between HKUST and Peng Cheng Lab
12:15 - 14:00	Lunch (By Invitation)
AI: Today and Future Session Chair: Maosong SUN (Executive Assistant Dean of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Tsinghua University; Foreign Academician of European Academy of Sciences)
14:00 – 14:05	Introduction by Session Chair
14:05 – 14:25	IndustryGPT: World‘s First Large Language-Vision Model for Industrial Automation Jiaya JIA Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Founder and Chairman, SmartMore
14:25 – 14:45	Practices and Prospects of BaiChuan AI in the Era of Large Language Models Xiaochuan WANG [Mandarin] Founder and CEO, Baichuan AI
14:45 – 15:05	Societal AI: Tackling AI Challenges with Social Science Insights Xing XIE Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia
15:05 – 15:25	Generative AI and affective computing in Human-Machine Spoken Interaction: today and future issues Laurence DEVILLERS Professor in Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence, Sorbonne University
AI Ethics and Governance Session Chair: Pascale FUNG (Chair Professor, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering; Director, Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, HKUST)
15:25 – 15:30	Introduction by Session Chair
15:30 – 16:10	Practical AI Fairness: Math, Ethics and Politics Chloé BAKALAR Chief Ethicist, Responsible AI, Meta & Joaquin Quiñonero CANDELA AI Technical Fellow, LinkedIn
16:10 – 16:30	AI and the Future of Legal Services Haitian LU Director, Mainland Development Office and Hong Kong Sustaintech Foundation Professor in Accounting and Finance, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
16:30 – 16:50	Reconceiving AI Governance as Social Care Shannon VALLOR Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, The University of Edinburgh
16:50 – 17:10	Current Opportunities and Challenges for AI Governance and Ethics Christoph LÜTGE [Pre-recorded] Director, Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Munich
17:10 – 17:30	The International Governance of AI Wendell WALLACH Carnegie-Uehiro Fellow, The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Roundtable Discussion: Developing A Global Framework for AI Governance Session Chair: Liesbeth VENEMA (Chief Editor, Nature Machine Intelligence)
17:30 – 18:30	Pascale FUNG Chair Professor, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering and Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence Research of HKUST Zheng LIANG Vice Dean, Institute for AI International Governance, Tsinghua University Rostam J. NEUWIRTH Professor and Head, Department of Global Legal Studies, University of Macau Serge STINCKWICH Head of Research, United Nations University Institute in Macau Jianrong TAN Professor, Zhejiang University; Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (In alphabetical order of last name)
18:45 - 20:30	Dinner (By invitation)

 

 

Venue: Lo Ka Chung Building, HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

Keynote Talks Session Chair: Qian XIAO (Vice Dean, Institute for AI International Governance, Tsinghua University)
Venue: IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
09:00 - 09:05	Introduction by Session Chair
09:05 – 09:25	Keynote Speech [Mandarin] Bo ZHANG Honorary Dean, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University; Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
09:25 – 09:52	Developing a Global Framework for AI Governance Dame Wendy HALL Regius Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton
09:52 – 09:58	Keynote Speech Shahbaz KHAN Director, UNESCO Cluster Office in Beijing
10:00 – 10:30	Democratic Governance or Techno-Libertarianism for Managing Frontier AI Risks? [Zoom Live] Yoshua BENGIO Professor, Université de Montréal; Founder and Scientific Director, Mila – Quebec AI Institute; 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureate
10:35 - 10:50	Coffee Break
AI Industry Development and Governance Session Chair: Lei CHEN (Dean, Information Hub; Chair Professor Thrust of Data Science and Analytics HKUST (GZ))
Venue: IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
10:50 – 10:55	Introduction by Session Chair
10:55 – 11:10	Lei FANG Founder and Chairman, DataCanvas
11:10 – 11:25	Thinking about the Framework of a Practical AI Governance Bifei MAO Chief Expert of AI Governance, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab
11:25 – 11:40	Exploration and Practice of Using Al to Create Industry-level Productivity in Network Safety Zhiqing YIN Chief Engineer of QI-ANXIN Group, Chief Cybersecurity Architect of Olympic Winter Games 2022
11:40 – 11:55	The Safety/Alignment of Large Language Models in Practice [Mandarin] Jiang LIU Chief Ecologist, Zhipu AI
11:55 – 12:30	Panel Discussion Lei FANG Founder and Chairman, DataCanvas Jiang LIU Chief Ecologist, Zhipu AI Ruoyue LUO Vice President of QI-ANXIN Group Bifei MAO Chief Expert of AI Governance, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab Jun YANG Professor, Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, UESTC; Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (In alphabetical order of last name)
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch (By Invitation Only)
Frontier AI Safety and Governance [Parallel Session] Session Chairs: Brian TSE (Founder and CEO, Concordia AI) Kwan Yee NG (Senior Program Manager, Concordia AI)
Venue: IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
13:30 – 13:35	Opening Remarks Bo ZHANG Honorary Dean, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University; Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Topic 1: What Can the Scientific Community and AI Developers Do to Support Frontier AI Safety and Governance?
13:35 – 14:30	Keynote Talks Bowen ZHOU Chair Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University Jimmy BA [Zoom Live] Member of the Founding Team, xAI Michael SELLITTO Head of Geopolitics and Security Policy, Anthropic Sean S. ÓHÉIGEARTAIGH Programme Director of AI: Futures and Responsibility, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge
14:30 – 15:00	Panel Discussion Jie FU Visiting Scholar, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Sean S. ÓHÉIGEARTAIGH Programme Director of AI: Futures and Responsibility, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge Michael SELLITTO Head of Geopolitics and Security Policy, Anthropic Xing XIE Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Bowen ZHOU Chair Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University (In alphabetical order of last name)
	Topic 2: How Can National Policymakers and the International Community Work Together to Improve Frontier AI Safety and Governance?
15:00 – 15:55	Keynote Talks Nicolas MIAILHE Co-founder and President of The Future Society Michael FRANK Senior Fellow, Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies, Center for Strategic and International Studies Qiqi GAO Director and Professor of Political Science Institute, East China University of Political Science and Law Wan Sie LEE Director for Data-Driven Tech at Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority
15:55 – 16:25	Panel Discussion Qi CHEN Deputy Director, Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University Michael FRANK Senior Fellow, Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies, Center for Strategic and International Studies Qiqi GAO Director and Professor of Political Science Institute, East China University of Political Science and Law Wan Sie LEE Director for Data-Driven Tech at Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority Nicolas MIAILHE Co-founder and President of The Future Society Angela ZHANG Director of the Philip K. H. Wong Center for Chinese Law, University of Hong Kong (In alphabetical order of last name)
16:25 – 16:30	Report Launch Concordia AI: “Best Practices for Frontier AI Safety” Report Launch
AI for Sustainable Development [Parallel Session] Session Chair: Wei ZHANG (Assistant Resident Representative, UNDP China) * (Co-organized by UNDP)
Venue: IAS Room 1038, 1/F
14:00 – 14:05	Introduction by Session Chair
14:05 – 14:20	Keynote Talk Yike GUO Provost and Chair Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, HKUST
14:20 – 14:35	Keynote Talk Xufeng ZHU Dean, School of Public Policy and Management; Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals, Tsinghua University
14:35 – 14:45	Spotlight: U&AI Bootcamp Showcasing Al-Powered Nature-based Solution to Improvewater Ecosystem Xiuyuan LI
14:45 – 16:15	Panel Discussion Fengchun MIAO [Zoom Live] Chief, Unit for Technology and AI in Education, UNESCO Headquarters Alexandra Håkansson SCHMIDT International Consultant, Governance, Peace and Security, UNWomen Asia Pacific Regional Office Zhongxin CHEN [Zoom Live] Senior Information Technology Officer, Digitalization and Informatics Division, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Janine BERG [Zoom Live] Senior Economist, International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva (In alphabetical order of last name)
Venue: IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
16:30 - 16:40	Closing Remarks Bin YANG [Pre-recorded] [Mandarin] Vice President, Tsinghua University
16:40 - 16:55	Group Photo

 

 

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New Paradigm of Artificial Intelligence Empowering Social Science Research Session Chairs: Ke GONG (Executive Director, Chinese Institute of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies; Director, Haihe Laboratory of Information Technology Application Innovation) Gang LIU (Chief Economist of Chinese Institute for the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies; Director, Economic Research Institute, Nankai University; Dean, Binhai Development Research Institute, Nankai University)
Venue: IAS Room 1038, 1/F
10:40 - 10:45	Welcome Remarks Ke GONG Executive Director, Chinese Institute of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies; Director, Haihe Laboratory of Information Technology Application Innovation
10:45 - 10:50	Welcome Remarks Yongheng YANG Director, Office of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Administration, Tsinghua University
10:50 - 11:10	Artificial Intelligence Empowers Social Science Research Gang LIU Chief Economist of Chinese Institute for the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies; Director, Economic Research Institute, Nankai University; Dean, Binhai Development Research Institute, Nankai University
11:10 - 11:30	De Kai Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering HKUST
11:30 - 11:50	Would AI bring a Paradigmatic Change in Legal Research Hualing FU Warren Chan Pofessor in Human Rights and Responsibilities; Dean, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong
11:50 - 12:10	New Paradigm of Scientific Research, AI Enlightening Scientific Research Weijie SUN Co-founder and CEO, DP Technology
12:10 - 12:30	Panel Discussion
12:30 - 12:40	Closing Ke GONG Executive Director, Chinese Institute of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies; Director, Haihe Laboratory of Information Technology Application Innovation
Digital Humanities and Education in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Venue: IAS Room 2042, 2/F & IAS Room 5007, 5/F
09:30 - 12:30	Digital Humanities and Education in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Part 1) Co-organizer: The Institute of Education, Tsinghua University; the moderator and speakers will be invited by the Institute of Education of Tsinghua University.
14:00 - 17:00	Digital Humanities and Education in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Part 2) Co-organizer: The Institute of Education, Tsinghua University; the moderator and speakers will be invited by the Institute of Education of Tsinghua University.