Program

8:30 am - 9:00 am

Registration

9:00 am - 9:30 am

Territorial Acknowledgement and Opening Remarks

Reuben Quinn, Michael O'Driscoll, Astrid Ensslin, Geoffrey Rockwell

9:30 am - 10:15 am

Keynote Speech - Explain Yourself: A Semantic Stack for Artificial Intelligence. Speaker: Randy Goebel. (Location: 5-40A Stollery Executive Development Centre, Business building)

10:30 am - 1:00 pm

AM Workshops (NOTE: These AM workshops are concurrent sessions; you can only attend one of them)

• Session A: From Principles to Practice - Creating the Standards for Ethically Aligned Design (IEEE). Speakers: Moira S. Patterson, Lloyd Green, AJung Moon, Maike Luiken, Beth-Anne Schuelke Leech. (Location: 5-40A Stollery Eexecutive Development Centre, Business building)
  
  

• Session B: [SESSION FULL--NEW REGISTRANTS WILL BE WAITLISTED] Help to Shape Machine Intelligence and Ethics in Alberta (Amii). Speakers: Almin Surani, Victor Silva. (Location: 5-40B Stollery Executive Development Centre, Business building)

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Lunch Break

2:00 pm - 4:30 pm

PM Workshops (NOTE: These PM workshops are concurrent sessions; you can only attend one of them)

• Session A: Integrating Ethical Dimensions Into your Product Development Cycles (ATB Financial). Speakers: Chandra Rink, Bettina Berendt. (Location: 5-40A Stollery Executive Development Centre, Business building)

• Session B: [SESSION FULL--NEW REGISTRANTS WILL BE WAITLISTED] Data Ethics: The Public and the Private (Digital Scholars Lab). Speakers: Harvey Quamen, Katrina Ingram, Roman Eisner, Ben Gready, Karen Parker, Kris Joseph. (Location: 5-40B Stollery Executive Development Centre, Business building)

10:30 am - 4:30 pm

Full Day Workshops (NOTE: Our full day workshops run concurrently with each other and with the AM/PM workshops; you can only attend one full day workshop, and you can't attend AM/PM workshops if you choose to attend a full day workshop)

• Session A: AI Student Un/Conference (*restricted to students only). (Location: 5-06 Stollery Executive Development Centre)

• Session B: [SESSION FULL--NEW REGISTRANTS WILL BE WAITLISTED] Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for the Humanities (*restricted to faculty members and students only). Facilitator: John Simpson, Chris Want. (Location: 5-13 Stollery Executive Development Centre)

4:30 pm - 4:40 pm

Closing Remarks

9:00 am - 9:10 am

Opening Remarks (Geoffrey Rockwell, Jared Bielby)

9:10 am - 10:00 am

Keynote Speech - The Age of Artificial Intelligences. Speaker: Rafael Capurro.

AM Presentations -

Specific and Governmental - Critical and Indigenous

• Indigenous Protocol and AI Working Group (Jason Edward Lewis)
• Decolonizing Science and Technology (Kim TallBear)
• "SunSpring" and the Wilful Incoherence of Algorithms and Digital Culture (Jonathan Cohn)

11:45 am - 1:15 pm

AM Presentations -
Specific and Governmental - Policy

• Assessing Privacy and Ethics in Big Data Projects: A Regulator's Perspective (Jill Clayton)
• Artificial Intelligence and Public Policy Development (Jason Fung)
• The Influence of Social Networks and Algorithms in Political Campaigning (Victor Silva)

1:15 pm - 2:15 pm

Lunch Break

PM Presentations -
Ethical Topics - Better Practices

• AI for the Common Good?! Pitfalls, Challenges, and Ethics Pen-Testing (Bettina Berendt)
• Ethical Best Practices for Industry and Government Developing Responsible AI Services (Jaco Du Toit)
• Statistical Strategies for Improving Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (Ivor Cribben)

3:45 pm - 4:00 pm

Coffee Break

PM Presentations -
Ethical Topics - Philosophical Questions

• Technological Displacement and the Duty to Increase Real Incomes: From Left to Right (Howard Nye)
• Online Reputation, Big Data, and Privacy: A Perspective from Asia (Soraj Hongladarom)

5:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Closing Remarks (Geoffrey Rockwell, Jared Bielby)

Reception with brief remarks by Denise Larsen and Toni Samek (Location: Arts Lounge, Arts & Convocation Hall building main floor)

9:00 am - 9:10 am

Opening Remarks (Geoffrey Rockwell, Jared Bielby)

9:10 am - 10:00 am

Keynote Speech - A Pragmatic Ethics Approach to AI. And a Little Bit of Marvin the Paranoid Android. Speaker: Robbie Stamp.

AM Presentations -

Technical and Education - Education Topics

• Higher Education at a Computational Crossroad: Ethics and Privacy in Using Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining (Samira ElAtia and Donald Ipperciel)
• Toward an Ethics of Technology for Educators (Cathy Adams)
• Altered Academic State: Artificial Intelligence and Higher Education (Toni Samek)

11:30 am - 11:45 am

Coffee Break

AM Presentations -

Technical and Education - Survey Topics

• Development Practices of Trusted AI Systems Among Canadian Data Scientists (Mark Gierl)
• Exploring Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: A Metadata Analytics Approach (Ali Shiri)
• AI Ethics in East Asia and Developmental Statism: Implications for Canadian AI (Dongwoo Kim & Kai Valdez Bettcher)