Plenary Session 2 - Unravelling the Web of Disinformation
6 November 2024 - 14.30-16.00 / Hemicycle, Palais de l’Europe
INTERPRETATION: FR/EN
Introductory Address by Gordan GRLIĆ RADMAN, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Croatia
Moderator:
Annette Gerlach from Berlin is a bilingual journalist and TV host for ARTE, the European cultural channel she joined when it was founded in 1992. She presents the daily news programme as well as prestigious live music events from La Scala in Milan, La Fenice in Venice, the Paris Opera, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Salzburg Festival, and the Savonlinna Festival in Finland. She is also in charge of developing Educ'ARTE and ARTE Campus in Germany, ARTE's educational tools for schools and universities. Annette Gerlach is a regular speaker at conferences, round tables, symposia or award ceremonies for the Council of Europe or the European Parliament, among other institutions and associations. She also does coaching for television and stage presentations.
Alex Taylor is a European journalist. He has produced and presented TV and radio programmes for 30 years, mainly on French TV and radio (France Télévisions, France Inter), but also for international broadcasters (Euronews, TV5 Monde, ARTE, BBC). He was Programme Director for Radio France Internationale in charge of implementing the current 24 hours news format. Parallel to journalism, he has hosted some 1 500 international conferences on a wide variety of topics, especially environmental issues. He has also written a best seller on his passion, languages, of which he speaks (more or less) 7. He also once worked as a camel trainer in a circus.
Panel:
Abeba Birhane is a cognitive scientist, currently a Senior Advisor in AI Accountability at the Mozilla Foundation and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her research focuses on AI accountability, particularly on auditing AI models and training datasets, for which she was featured in Wired UK and TIME, appearing on TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI list. Abeba Birhane also serves on the United Nations Secretary-General’s AI Advisory Body and the newly convened AI Advisory Council in Ireland.
Gordan GRLIĆ RADMAN, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Croatia
Andreas KRAVIK, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
KUWAHARA Kyoko, Japan Institute of International Affairs, Japan
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books -- including A Hacker's Mind -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram and blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow, and an advisory board member of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.
Andrew Wilson is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at University College London. His most recent books are Political Technology: The Globalisation of Political Manipulation (CUP, 2024) and The Ukrainians (Yale UP, 2022). See also the additional materials at politicaltechnology.blog. He is currently finishing the book How Russia Created the Propaganda that Helped Create the War Against Ukraine.
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