expert panels
April - SEPTEMBER 2022
2022 EXPERT PANELS
In the lead up to the Symposium (September 21-23 2022), GARI and its partners will convene 3 interdisciplinary Expert Panels
First panel: experts from the 5 symposium strands relay their interpretation of what is going on, what they think will happen, and mainly the challenges they and their sector face
Second panel: experts from technology, methodology, and foresight “solve” and design responses and solutions to the first panel’s challenges from their expertise and perspective
Third joint panel: will discuss the integration of the challenges & solutions and discuss the abilities and practicalities of the application of solutions as well as the issues around the meeting of the two (panel) realms (trust, applicability, understandability, and relationship building between the geopolitical/socio-economic and tech/foresight realm)
The online Expert Panels inform the program of the N100 Symposium
programme strands
TAMING VOLATILITY
Global inflation
Food & energy prices
Scarcity & its social, economic, and geopolitical impact
CHANGING SOCIAL FABRIC
Labour
Trust
Ageing population
Digital governance
GLOBALLY UNCHAINED
Global supply chains
Global de-coupling and deglobalization
KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON
Energy
Green energy transition
Rare earth materials (CRMs)
DEFENSE & GEOPOLITICS
Geopolitics in the 21st century
Cyber, AI & Defense
Warfare & weapons
1st expert panel
program TOPICS
Terra Quantum AG, Assistant Prof., Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, form. Director of Volkswagen Group Data Lab
Process Improvement & Digital Transformation Leader, award-winning Author
Senior policy advisor to the Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, UK Cabinet Office
President of RAND Europe; Vice President, RAND Corporation
Director, Technology & International Affairs Program/Senior Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
London School of Economics, Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute
Founding Executive Director, Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy
Executive Director, C Minds Eon Resilience Lab
Professor, École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, former Senior Advisor to Chancellor Kohl
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Managing Director, Digital Economy
University Research Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of Waterloo
foresight and strategy, Mercator Foundation Switzerland
Project Manager, Rasmussen Global, Non-resident fellow, Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, senior fellow at CIGI
Strategist, Military Intelligence of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Defence, former Cyber Attaché to the United States & Canada, National Cyber Security Strategy Expert Group
Chief Executive Officer, Nordic Foresight
Adjunct assistant professor, political science, University of Waterloo, senior fellow at CIGI, Global Governance Programs, Balsillie School of International Affairs
Founder & President of the Board, Global Arena Research Institute
Executive Director, Global Arena Research Institute
2nd expert panel
technology, methodology, foresight
Former Director, CERN
Pioneer in dynamics & predictability of weather & climate
Founder & CEO of Intuview
Applied Brain Research Inc.
CEO & principal consultant, Articulate Software. Suggested Upper Merged Ontology, Sigma ontology environment
Merve Hickok, Founder @AIethicist.org, Research Director @Center for AI & Digital Policy
Chief Executive Officer, Nordic Foresight
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), AI Index Report
Founder & Vice President for Technology Diplomacy & IR, Inspiring Futures; Team Leader, International Outreach for human-centric Artificial Intelligence (InTouchAI.eu)
CEO at AdalanAI, Founder @AIGI, AI Governance, AI Policy Advisor
University Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Head of Research, Metis Institute for Strategy and Foresight at Bundeswehr University Munich
Associate Professor, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Network scientist, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Head of Digitalisation and AI at VDE (Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies), AI committees at OECD, IEC, Council of Europe & UNESCO
Executive Director, Global Arena Research Institute
distinguished researcher at the Czech Institute of of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC) heading the ERC Consolidator project AI4REASON
Research Scientist at Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, former Google Brain, Microsoft Research, Facebook AI Research
Director, SIPRI’s European Security Programme
Associate professor, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, member, CrySP group, & NSERC/RBC chair in data security
discussion points
April - SEPTEMBER 2022
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The Next 30 Years: What are the likely developments? What do we want them to be? How do we get there?
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Future of energy, labor, trade, defense, development
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Resilience of supply chains
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Development and application of technologies on policy and decision-making in the socio-economic and geopolitical sphere
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How will technology and methodology change / develop in the next 30 years, what needs to be done in order to achieve the ideal end result?
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What will the breakthroughs be in the next 30 years in your area of expertise?
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How do we overcome the obstacles to realize the breakthrough?
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How can the practice of data analytics, forecasting, and scenario-making be improved to understand, monitor and help solve the challenges of policy/decision-makers and be applied in the real world?
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How to globally share more data, access to data, and use of big data analytics for global goals (climate, economic prosperity, democracy, governance innovation)?
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Funding innovation
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Global interdisciplinary cooperation
AGENDA & OUTCOMES
EXPERT PANELS 1 & 2
concept
1st expert panel agenda
1st expert panel report
1st expert panel bios
2nd expert panel bios
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