Speaker

Jeannette Gorzala is a leading figure in the European AI ecosystem.
Among other things, she founded the AI governance consultancy ACT.AI.NOW and the law firm go_legal attorneys at law.
As Vice President of the European AI Forum, she formed one of the largest networks for AI companies in Europe and represented over 2,000 companies in the AI Act legislative process.
She is also Deputy Chair of the AI Advisory Board of the Austrian Federal Government.
With over 15 years of experience, she is a recognized expert in business law and AI.
CEO & Founder ACT.AI.NOW

Thomas Burri is a professor of public international law and European law at the University of St. Gallen. He has more than a decade of experience in dealing with technology and law and ethics. His most recent endeavor was an international competition, a “Grand Challenge”, in which the application of the EU’s new regulation on artificial intelligence was tested using concrete AI applications from technology companies. A report appeared in Nature Machine Intelligence, see also www.thegrandchallenge.eu.

Professor of Public International Law and European Law
University of St. Gallen, Law School

Stefan Thalmann is Professor of Business Analytics and Data Science and Head of the Business Analytics and Data Science Center at the University of Graz.
He received his Ph.D.
in Information Systems and a habilitation from the University of Innsbruck.
He works on topics such as Business Analytics, Data-Driven Decision Support and No and Low Code for AI as well as AI auditing.
He has published over 80 peer-reviewed publications and is a regular program committee member and track chair at international conferences and journals.

Professor of Business Analytics and Data Science
University of Graz

Dr. Julia Shaw, born in Cologne in 1987 and raised in Canada, is a bestselling author, memory expert and researcher in the Department of Psychology at UCL (University College London). There she conducts research in the fields of legal psychology, memory and artificial intelligence. She advises the police, armed forces, lawyers, the judiciary and business in German and English-speaking countries. In 2017, she founded the startup SPOT in Silicon Valley, which uses artificial intelligence to combat discrimination in business.
Her non-fiction debut “The Deceptive Memory” became an international bestseller in 2016 and was published in 20 languages. In fall 2018, she published her second international bestseller “Böse. The psychology of our abysses”. This was followed in 2022 by her personal, award-winning book “Bi. Discovering diverse love”. Her work has been featured in Der Spiegel, Focus, The Times and New York Magazine, among others.

Bestselling author, legal psychologist (UCL) and startup founder
University College London (UCL)

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the University of Oxford and researches the role of information in business and society.
His books, including “Big Data”, “Delete” and “Framers”, have won many prizes; the total number of copies of his works exceeds the two million mark.
In addition to his teaching and research activities, Mayer-Schönberger advises governments, companies and international organizations.

Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation
University of Oxford

Jana Lasser is Professor of Data Analysis at the University of Graz, where she heads the research group for Complex Social & Computational Systems at IDea_Lab.
She investigates emergent phenomena in complex social systems using methods of machine learning, data science, natural language processing and computational and statistical modeling.
Her current research interests include the effectiveness of counter-speech strategies, the spread of misinformation on social media platforms and the impact of social media recommendation algorithms on society.

Professor of Data Analysis
University of Graz – IDea_Lab

Markus Kneer studied philosophy and cognitive science at Oxford, Princeton and the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris and is Professor of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.
His research deals with fundamental questions of human-machine interaction, responsibility in dealing with artificial intelligence, algorithmic bias and propositional norms for LLMs and uses both theoretical and empirical methods.

Professor of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
University of Graz – IDea_Lab