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Invited Speakers

(Updated as of December 7, 2023)

 
Jimmy BA
Member of the Founding Team, xAI
 
Chloé BAKALAR
Chief Ethicist, Responsible AI, Meta
 
Yoshua BENGIO
Professor, Université de Montréal; Founder and Scientific Director, Mila – Quebec AI Institute; 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureate
 
Janine BERG
Senior Economist, International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva
 
Joaquin Quiñonero CANDELA
AI Technical Fellow, LinkedIn
 
Stephen CAVE
Director, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge
 
Qi CHEN
Deputy Director, Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University
 
Qionghai DAI
Dean, School of Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University; Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
 
Laurence DEVILLERS
Professor in Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence, Sorbonne University
 
Lei FANG
Founder and Chairman, DataCanvas
 
Michael FRANK
Senior Fellow, Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies, Center for Strategic and International Studies
 
Hualing FU
Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities; Dean, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong
 
Jie FU
Visiting Scholar, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
 
Pascale FUNG
Chair Professor, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering; Director, Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, HKUST
 
Qiqi GAO
Director and Professor of Political Science Institute, East China University of Political Science and Law
 
Wen GAO
Director, Peng Cheng Laboratory; Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
 
Ke GONG
Executive Director, Chinese Institute of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies; Director, Haihe Laboratory of Information Technology Application Innovation
 
Yike GUO
Provost and Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, HKUST
 
Dame Wendy HALL
Regius Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton
 
Jiaya JIA
Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Founder and Chairman, SmartMore
 
Shahbaz KHAN
Director, UNESCO Cluster Office in Beijing
 
Wan Sie LEE
Director for Data-Driven Tech at Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority
 
Zheng LIANG
Vice Dean, Institute for AI International Governance, Tsinghua University
 
Gang LIU
Chief Economist of Chinese Institute for the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies; Director of Economic Research Institute of Nankai University; Dean of Binhai Development Research Institute of Nankai University
 
Jiang LIU
Chief Ecologist, Zhipu AI
 
Haitian LU
Director, Mainland Development Office and Hong Kong Sustaintech Foundation Professor in Accounting and Finance, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
 
Ruoyue LUO
Vice President of QI-ANXIN Group
 
Christoph LÜTGE
Director, Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Munich
 
Bifei MAO
Chief Expert of AI Governance, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab
 
Nicolas MIAILHE
Co-founder and President of The Future Society
 
Rostam J. NEUWIRTH
Professor and Head, Department of Global Legal Studies, University of Macau
 
Kwan Kee NG
Senior Program Manager, Concordia AI
 
Sean S. ÓHÉIGEARTAIGH
Programme Director of AI: Futures and Responsibility, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge
 
Alexandra Håkansson SCHMIDT
International Consultant, Governance, Peace and Security, UNWomen Asia Pacific Regional Office
 
Michael SELLITTO
Head of Geopolitics and Security Policy, Anthropic
 
Brad SMITH
Vice Chair and President, Microsoft
 
Serge STINCKWICH
Head of Research, United Nations University Institute in Macau
 
Maosong SUN
Executive Assistant Dean of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Tsinghua University; Foreign Academician of European Academy of Sciences
 
Weijie SUN
Co-Founder and CEO, DP Technology
 
Jianrong TAN
Professor, Zhejiang University; Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
 
Brian TSE
Founder and CEO, Concordia AI
 
Shannon VALLOR
Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, The University of Edinburgh
 
Liesbeth VENEMA
Chief Editor, Nature Machine Intelligence
 
Wendell WALLACH
Carnegie-Uehiro Fellow, The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
 
Xiaochuan WANG
Founder and CEO, Baichuan AI
 
De Kai
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST
 
Qian XIAO
Vice Dean, Institute for AI International Governance, Tsinghua University
 
Xing XIE
Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia
 
Jun YANG
Professor, Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, UESTC; Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
 
Yongheng YANG
Director, Office of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Administration, Tsinghua University
 
Zhiqing YIN
Chief Engineer of QI-ANXIN Group; Chief Cybersecurity Architect of Olympic Winter Games 2022
 
Angela ZHANG
Director of the Philip K. H. Wong Center for Chinese Law, University of Hong Kong
 
Bo ZHANG
Honorary Dean, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University; Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
 
Wei ZHANG
Assistant Resident Representative, UNDP China
 
Bowen ZHOU
Chair Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University
 
Xufeng ZHU
Dean, School of Public Policy and Management; Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals, Tsinghua University
 

* Listed in alphabetical order of last name