Speakers
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 |
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| 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
