Conferences and Seminars – Page 2 – Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Tomaso Buzzi, the Architect of Vittorio Cini

Valerio Terraroli, professor at the University of Verona and one of the leading scholars of the work of the brilliant and visionary architect Tomaso Buzzi from Lombardy, will speak at a conference held at the Castle of Monselice at 11:00 AM. During the lecture, he will discuss the special relationship between Tomaso Buzzi and Vittorio Cini. He will particularly focus on the work done for the Villa di Montericco, the Gallery of Palazzo Cini in Venice, and another prominent historical residence owned by Cini: the monumental complex of the Castle of Monselice and Villa Duodo Balbi Valier, for which the archive of the Institute of Art History preserves “thoughts,” designs, and original sketches.

The bond between Vittorio Cini and the brilliant and visionary architect Tomaso Buzzi (1900-1981), once described as “the most cultured of architects”, was a long-standing and affectionate one, originating from Buzzi’s established friendship with Count Cini from the 1930s, when the architect worked on the interior design of Cini’s Villa di Montericco in Monselice (1938-1942). These were the years of Tomaso Buzzi’s full professional success in the field of private architecture: he was a cultured designer, a respectful restorer, and a refined creator of homes and gardens for the rising bourgeoisie and the most progressive aristocracy. He became a sensitive arbiter of elegance, capable of blending sophisticated historicism—rich with antique references and ‘style’ setting with the Novecento and Art Deco influences of 1920s Milan. Among his many clients, the elite of the economy, politics, culture, and intellectual circles, many had ties to Vittorio Cini through business, friendship, intellectual relations, and collecting: from the Volpi di Misurata family to the antique dealer Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, from Minister Giovanni Gentile to the bibliophile and scholar Tammaro de Marinis. For Cini, Tomaso Buzzi was the architect of choice, able to give form to the desires for renewal expressed in numerous residences. In the early 1940s, alongside the furnishing and arrangement of the Villa di Rimini, Buzzi began his first interventions to modernize and update Cini’s residence on the Grand Canal, Palazzo Cini. This path culminated between 1956 and 1958 with the creation of the neoclassical oval drawing room, designed to scenographically display the 18th-century Cozzi porcelain service, and the famous spiral staircase.

The harmonious relationship between Buzzi and Count Cini, and with the Foundation established in 1951 on San Giorgio Island, led the architect to donate 138 drawings to the Cini Foundation. These included capricci, views, phantasmagorias, scenes of Venetian fêtes, ceremonies, and concerts, recently exhibited in the 2021 show Venezia è tutta d’oro. Tomaso Buzzi: disegni “fantastici” (1948–1976), curated by Valerio Terraroli, held in the evocative spaces of the Longhena Library, marking forty years since the passing of this key figure in modern Italian taste.

11:00 AM | Download the invitation.

Strategy Innovation Forum | ARTI-FACTS Alla ricerca dell’impresa totale

Since 2015, SIF – Strategy Innovation Forum – has been bringing together the only Italian think tank on strategic innovation every year in Venice.

Arti-facts. In search of the total enterprise is the theme of SIF 2024 to be held on 11 October 2024 at the ‘Lo Squero’ Auditorium of the Giorgio Cini Foundation on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore.

The Forum involves entrepreneurs, managers, professionals, academics and political figures in order to create and disseminate knowledge and relationships, in favour of the transformation of the entrepreneurial system.
Strategy Innovation Forum was created with the aim of bringing the business world closer to the academic world, making scientific research available to businesses and bringing the topic of innovation, specifically strategic innovation, closer to entrepreneurs.

Each edition of SIF is conducted around a scientific research developed under the scientific direction of Professor Carlo Bagnoli of the Department of Management, and other Departments of Ca’ Foscari University, which analyses the possible impact of social and technological innovations on business models.
Are there similarities between the work of the entrepreneur and that of the artist? And how can the art world be an inspiration for the business world?
To try to answer these questions, SIF 2024 aims to explore the role of the arts as a catalyst for innovation in the corporate landscape.

The first part focuses on the visionary perspective of the arts, exploring how it can shape present, past and future scenarios that will guide businesses in new strategic directions, thus defining their role in a rapidly changing environment.
The second part will explore the link between art, corporate identity and strategic innovation. In particular, by defining the characteristics of the ‘total enterprise’, an attempt will be made to understand how art can become a structural element for change, capable of acting on every dimension of the enterprise and generating cultural and social value.

h 9:30am – 8:30pm | Admission by invitation only.

Dimensions of Current Compositional Practice: The Composers’ Perspective in Dialog with Musicologists

One of the distinctive features of twentieth-century musical culture is the intense publishing activity of its composers. A significant part of this is the theoretical reflection that can be manifested in didactics, conferences, radio and television broadcasts, articles for newspapers and magazines as well as treatises. Such reflection reveals the horizon of starting questions from which composers conceived and created their works; it also refers to the general context of music theory and to the even more general context of the history of thought.

This event takes its cue from the Leçons de musique that Pierre Boulez held at the Collège de France over the years 1976-1995; in the various cycles of lectures, the composer addressed the fundamental nodes of twentieth- century compositional technique from a historical and retrospective perspective, presenting not only his own view of the historical process but also providing a series of valuable stimuli for musicological exegesis.
From this model, the historical approach may be derived first and foremost, as well as the investigation of compositional questions right from
their origins and the various answers they received over the decades. In contrast to the ex cathedra approach of Boulez’s lectures, the conference intends to adopt a dialogical approach at various levels. The concepts of form, instrument, sound and timbre will be discussed alternately by two composers who have been at the centre of international interest for decades thanks to their works, their teaching and publishing activities: Agostino Di Scipio and Marco Stroppa. In turn, they will establish a dialogue with Mark Delaere and Ulrich Mosch, internationally renowned musicologists with a wealth of music theory, as well as with a group of young composers and musicologists.
The event will conclude with a concert by the mdi ensemble performing works by the two composers.

Repatriating/Rematriating sounds: a (digital) challenge for XXI-Century Sound Archives

The concepts of repatriation and rematriation are crucial for contemporary sound and audiovisual archives that preserve music of oral tradition. Indeed, these concepts are at the core of important issues in the contemporary debate of the ethnomusicological discipline, such as the processes of decolonization, the development of a participatory, shared, dialogic ethnomusicology, the accessibility of sources through new technologies, the historical dimension of research on music of oral tradition and the use of archival recordings for educational purposes.

Ethnomusicology has been concerned with repatriation for more than three decades. Recent technological, economic, and sociocultural changes, however, have brought forth new questions that call ethnomusicologists to engage in profound reflection. Who are the subjects (individual or collective) entitled of repatriation projects in a global context in which the bonds between territories, ethnicities, languages, and religions are becoming increasingly nuanced? Who holds the rights over the documentation of the past? How do local and global access to archival collections relate to each other in the age of the Web? How can cultural institutions balance the interests of entitled individuals with their mission of public service and make the repatriation and rematriation actions economically sustainable?

The seminar aims to provide an overview of the most up-to-date theories and research methodologies on the topic, but also, and especially, to present some significant good practices that are being implemented today in the perspective of a public ethnomusicology.

Scientific Committee:

Giovanni Giuriati, Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Gianluca Chelini, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
Costantino Vecchi, Università Ca’Foscari Venezia

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Neapolitan Mediterranean, Venetian Mediterranean

The seminar aims to highlight two perspectives and ways of being a Mediterranean state through the prism of medieval and modern history. Venice and Naples are two great capitals of the ancient sea and are above all two
unique places, cities that were able to express their own specific civilisations.
They are states located in the heart of the Mediterranean, both on the border with different worlds. The Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Venice are also, in their own way, declinations of the history of Italy, the
history of the Mediterranean and indeed of Europe. The seminar is also a proposal to examine the inverse, Mediterranean perspectives of these civilisations.
The approach is thus comparative, intertwined with wide-ranging visions and interpretations of history and culture.

On the occasion of the seminar, the latest issues of Studi Veneziani, published by the Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society, will be presented.

Materiality at the Intersection of Ecology and Religious Studies

The conference is organized jointly by the Giorgio Cini Foundation (the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities – NICHE, Center for the Study of Lived Religion, and Department of Asian and North African Studies), University College Dublin (Irish Research Council Government of Ireland), and Harvard Divinity School (Center for the Study of World Religions).

In this international, cross-disciplinary conference, we aim to investigate the literary, philosophical, anthropological, and political aspects of an ecological rematerialisation of religions and spiritualities, in dialogue with the ever-growing academic production related to the connection between religious thinking and environmental praxis.

Download the programme of the conference here.

Admission is free upon registration on Eventbrite:

-Registration for the Conference “Materiality at the Intersection of Ecology and Religious Studies” 21 – 23 May 2024

-Registration for the Film Lagunaria at Cinema Giorgione 22 May, 18:00 -20:00

For questions about availability, please contact: civilta.comparate@cini.it

Singing in the pool, with masks

The seminar Singing in the pool, with masks organised in collaboration with the Théâtre Performance et Societé of the Université Paris 8 and the École Universitaire de Recherche ArTeC – Nanterre, will be held from 5 to 7
March. During the seminar, financed by ANR (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche de France), both theoretical and practical teaching on the use of the mask in theatre, with particular reference to aquatic environments,
will be offered to the students of the University of Nanterre. During the Venetian meeting, which follows an initial seminar held in Paris, curated by Isabelle Moindrot and Giulia Filacanapa, participants will be able to
work on a selection of graphic and pictorial materials conserved in the various archive funds of the Institute for Theatre and Opera. The Institute will also be involved in a series of lectures on the history of contemporary
theatre and the theatrical heritage held at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

Accademia Vivaldi 2024. Masterclasses on the interpretation of the music of Antonio Vivaldi

In 2024, the advanced Masterclasses on the performance of Antonio Vivaldi’s music will continue in six encounters lasting three to four days each.
Over the course of the year, there will be six appointments dedicated to singing (sacred vocal music, secular vocal music and musical drama), held by Gemma Bertagnolli and Gianluca Capuano and one appointment
dedicated to the basso continuo, to be held by Antonio Frigé. The Masterclasses will take place on the following dates: 20 to 22 March, 8 to 11 April, 8 to 11 May, 12 to 15 June, 3 to 6 July 2024. The ten selected students
and scholarship winners will have the opportunity not only to enhance their own interpretation, but also to explore musicological aspects of the pieces examined, thanks to lectures given by musicologists in partnership
with the Italian Antonio Vivaldi Institute and with the research group La drammaturgia musicale a Venezia (1678–1792) of the Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi. There will be a concert at the end of each of the encounters.
In February, prior to the start of the courses, an appointment will be held by Federico Maria Sardelli, entitled “Interpretare Vivaldi a partire dai suoi manoscritti” (‘Interpreting Vivaldi on the basis of his manuscripts’),
providing an introduction to the subsequent courses, aimed at instrumentalists, singers, conductors and musicologists who wish to enhance their understanding of the performance practices of Vivaldi’s music through
the study of his manuscripts and the many interpretative notes to be found therein. More than any of his contemporaries, Vivaldi was the composer who littered his scores with invaluable indications for the performer.
Gathering them from all his manuscripts, learning how to interpret them and contextualise them is of great help to performance practices, providing answers to many questions and allowing us to correct numerous errors
and misunderstandings of our time.

The courses will be held on the following dates:

March 20 – 23
Thursday, March 20 at 5 p.m. there will be a lecture at the Giorgio Cini Foundation organized in collaboration with the Levi Foundation

April 8 – 11

May 8 – 11

Singing (Gemma Bertagnolli)

Thursday, May 9 at 6 p.m. there will be a lecture by Professor Lucio Tufano (University of Palermo) organized in collaboration with the research group La drammaturgia musicale a Venezia (1678-1792) of the Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation.

June 12 – 15

Singing (Gianluca Capuano)

The course will be dedicated to Antonio Vivaldi’s Drammi per musica; concluding concert open to the public on Friday, June 14.

July 3 – 6

Singing (Gemma Bertagnolli)

The meeting will be entirely dedicated to the serenade La Senna Festeggiante, RV 693 so all the pieces presented must be taken from this work; in addition, all admitted singers will have to prepare the three choruses of the serenade (the initial one and the two concluding ones of the first and second parts).

The course will conclude with the performance of the Serenata in a public concert.

International Conference | Music, Archives and Politics in East and West Berlin since 1963: Cosmopolitan, International, Global

The conference is jointly organised by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini’s Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies and several Berlin institutions:
Humboldt Universität, Stiftung Humboldt Forum, Ethnologisches Museum; Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung and the Universität der Künste.
The conference aims to explore the role of music at the time of the division of Berlin and Europe during the Cold War. In particular, it intends to bring together scholars and witnesses of that time to assess how, across the divide, both blocs pursued a cosmopolitan perspective and how the dissemination of various world musics influenced the cultural and political dynamics of the day.
The International Institute for Traditional Music (IITM), active from 1963 to 1994 (the dates considered by the conference), played an important
role in those years. The foundation of the IITM – sister institute of the Venetian Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies – by the Indologist and music researcher Alain Daniélou with funds from the Ford Foundation took place in a political-cultural context characterised by the East-West conflict. This context will be the subject of reflection, focusing on the particular situation in Berlin and assessing how music constituted as much an element of division as of connection, contributing to the construction of original and sometimes shared paths in a period of deep divisions, reconsidering their cultural legacy.
The event, which also includes performances, is an ideal follow-up to the conference organised at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in 2019, in collaboration
with the Stiftung Humboldt Forum, on the same themes.

Global Health in the Age of AI: Charting a Course for Ethical Implementation and Societal Benefit

The Fondazione Giorgio Cini is hosting a three-day symposium, entitled “Global Health in the Age of AI”, assessing the societal implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare sector, including issues related to accessibility, equity, and potential impacts on healthcare disparities.

Scientific Programme

The scientific program, structured over three days, is developed by Prof. Luciano Floridi, Director of the Digital Ethics Center (DEC) at Yale University and Professor in the Department of Legal Studies at the University of Bologna. Professor Floridi is supported in this work by Dr. Jessica Morley and Ms. Renée Sirbu from Yale University, and two rapporteurs: Ms. Emmie Hine (Universities of Bologna and Yale) and Mr. Huw Roberts (University of Oxford).

Scientific Outputs

A series of papers authored by the conference participants will be disseminated in a series of scientific publications published in an open-access format.

Fellowships

The Fondazione Giorgio Cini is pleased to announce the availability of eight, fully funded fellowships for young researchers interested in attending the three-day symposium “Global Health in the AI Age: Charting a Course for Ethical Implementation and Societal Benefit,” to be held in Venice from November 7th to November 9th, 2024. The deadline for Applications is September 15th, 2024.

The call for fellowships has closed.

Download Call for Applications

Program

Thursday 7 November 2024

14:00 – 15:00 Opening Remarks.

15:00 – 15:30 Framing the debate.

Jessica Morley, Yale University, US.

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[accordion_entry title=”15:30 – 17:00 The Ethics of AI in Health care.”]

Although there is plethora of guidance for the ethical development and use of AI in general, specific sectors of application have seen less of this activity. In the domain of global health, the leading voice for the ethics of AI has been the World Health Organization which has issued specific guidance on the ethics and governance for AI for health, and more recently guidance for the development and use of Large Multimodal Models in health. In this talk I will discuss the proposed guidance by WHO, examining the six ethical principles that form the foundation of the documents, and situate it within the broader ecosystem of global governance. As the implementation of the WHO guidance is still ongoing I will then focus on its impact in the development of AI ethics tools and in the revision of institutional approaches such as ethics review boards.

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Keynote: Effy Vayena, Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH).

Respondent: Ravi Parikh, University of Pennsylvania, US.

Q&A

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[accordion_entry title=”17:30 – 19:00 AI and global health equity: How can we move from promise to practice?”]

Many expect that AI will help to solve complex problems in medicine, whether by improving quality of care and access, improving diagnostic capacities, offering new more targeted therapies, or reducing costs. In particular, AI has been promoted as a means of addressing persistent problems of health equity, including in low and middle income countries. Yet AI is not a silver bullet for medicine. The past decade has seen a growing push to address serious issues with AI in medicine, such as recurrent issues around algorithmic bias. While essential for reducing the risk that AI systems replicate and amplify existing forms of societal inequality and discrimination, a narrow focus on the improvement of algorithm performance misses the broader context required for AI to operate as designed. This talk explores the kinds of investments that are needed, particularly in low and middle income countries and in higher income countries with significant health disparities, in order to ensure that AI systems promote health and equity. Without significant, foundational investments in the social, political, and infrastructural context necessary for AI, critical resources for health will be wasted, perhaps causing more harm than good.

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Keynote: Amelia Fiske, University of Munich (TUM), Germany.

Respondent: Enrico Coiera, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Australia.

Q&A

19:30 – 20:15 Panel: From Regulation to Standards and Implementation.

Sophie Van Baalen, Rathenau Instituut, Netherlands.

Alexandre Dias Porto Chiavegatto Filho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Federica Mandreoli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Moderator: Glenn Cohen, Harvard Law School, US.

20:15 – 20:30 – Closing Remarks: Luciano Floridi, Yale University, US, and University of Bologna, Italy.

Friday 8 November 2024

9:20 – 9:30 Greetings from President Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Gianfelice Rocca.

Opening Remarks: Luciano Floridi, Yale University, US, and University of Bologna, Italy.

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[accordion_entry title=”9:30 – 11:00 AI and Public Trust.”]Trust has emerged as a central issue in the context of data driven research and innovation, including AI. From trust in the institutions and companies that develop AI tools, to trust in the technology itself, there has been a lot of attention on how to secure, engender and maintain trust. Trust is perceived as fundamental for the development and introduction of new data-based technologies, such as AI, but also for the acceptability of the conditions and infrastructures that would enable the development of these technologies. And yet, how to ensure or foster trust remains elusive. In this talk, I will engage with the issue of public trust in AI. Drawing from theoretical and empirical studies, I will examine questions such as, what does it mean for the public to trust AI? Is the concept of trust appropriate or relevant in this context, and what kind of normative implications arise for those who seek public trust? I will close by offering some reflections on why the ‘deficit of trust’ in AI seems to persist, and even increase, despite efforts to ensure trustworthiness, and what could be done about it.

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Keynote: Angeliki Kerasidou, University of Oxford, UK.

Respondent: Federica Mandreoli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Q&A

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Social determinants of health are the conditions of the places where we live, play, work and gather. These include a wide range of factors, such as socioeconomic status, neighborhood and physical environment, healthcare access and quality, social support networks, education and literacy, employment conditions, food environment, cultural and social norms, early childhood experiences, social exclusion and discrimination, access to transportation, and stress and psychosocial factors. The importance of studying social determinants of health to create effective public health policies and healthcare interventions is well-established. However, data is not always at the ready. Advances in artificial intelligence and the availability of massive datasets generated from digital and remote sensing tools offer opportunities for capturing granular details on the conditions of the spaces people occupy. This talk will highlight how data from social media, mobile phones, street images, and satellite images can be used to study social determinants of health and the impact of policies that impact health.

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Keynote: Elaine Nsoesie, Boston University School of Public Health, US.

Respondent: Kee Yuan Ngiam, National University Hospital, Singapore.

Q&A

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[accordion_entry title=”14:30 – 16:00 The Challenges of real-world Implementation – Turbocharging AI in Clinical Practice.”]

Leveraging large datasets and identifying complex underlying patterns in well curated data allows the technological advances in machine learning to offer products that enhance clinical accuracy, reduce health costs, improve efficiency, save time and resource, whilst minimising human errors. Whilst key applications include automated diagnostics, clinical decision support and predictive and pre-emptive personalized medicine for whole populations, the current reality of adopted products falls in diagnostic and descriptive domains.

The successful implementation of machine learning in these domains requires a structured approach grounded in implementation science and the TURBO framework – testable, useable, reliable, beneficial and operable platforms, adhering to national research ethics, clinical and research guidelines such as STARD-AI, QUADAS-AI, local governance frameworks, national regulatory adherence and thorough health-system research approvals. Utilizing the UK’s NHS as a case example, tangible solutions include developing clear guidelines for AI integration, conducting pilot studies to demonstrate efficacy, and establishing multidisciplinary teams to oversee implementation. Here, collaborations with industry will become increasingly visible as clinical AI advances are realised.

If AI is the ‘new electricity’, it will bring both foreseeable applications and unexpected innovations. It is crucial to identify which platforms can seamlessly integrate with existing clinical pathways and which ones will necessitate disrupting current care models to enable their optimal adoption for patient benefit.

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Keynote: Hutan Ashrafian, Imperial College London.

Respondent: Sara Gerke, College of Law, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Q&A

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[accordion_entry title=”16:30 – 18:00 Open AI meets Open Notes: Generative AI and clinical documentation.”]In this presentation, I discuss two innovations – patient online record access (‘ORA’) and its relationship to generative AI tools. Reviewing the challenges and opportunities that ORA invites, I explore the range of ‘traditional’ solutions proposed to deal with these challenges. I then discuss how generative AI could assist clinicians with documentation by reviewing findings that clinicians are already deploying this tool, and exploring current evidence of its effectiveness, including the benefits and risks of using it generative AI for clinical documentation purposes.

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Keynote: Charlotte Blease, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Respondent: Alexandre Dias Porto Chiavegatto Filho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Q&A

18:30 – 19:15 – Panel: The Geopolitics of Global Health and AI.

Sandeep Reddy, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Jessica Morley, Digital Ethics Center, Yale University, US.
Tamara Sunbul, John Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Saudi Arabia.

Moderator: Naomi Lee, BMJ Global Health.

19:15 – 19:30 Closing Remarks: Luciano Floridi, Yale University, US, and University of Bologna, Italy.

Saturday 9 November 2024

9:20 – 9:30 Opening Remarks: Luciano Floridi, Yale University, US, and University of Bologna, Italy.

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[accordion_entry title=”9:30 – 11:00 Medical AI: Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Considerations. “]Policies to regulate AI focused on safety are unfolding. In the healthcare arena, there is movement towards holding health systems and providers accountable for AI-based discriminatory decisions. From an AI perspective, it will be extremely challenging to prove when an algorithm makes a mistake. For diagnosis, it is seldom that biopsies and autopsies are performed, so errors are not easily discovered. For predictions, the counterfactual is not available so it’s impossible to prove that an algorithmic decision wronged a patient. Tracking errors made by AI sounds great in principle but cannot be operationalized by current data and modeling limitations. In addition, there is plenty of evidence that health systems have etched long standing structural inequity in the way care is delivered, predating adoption of any AI algorithm. It is odd that they will be held accountable for discrimination caused through their use of an algorithm but are not held accountable for other forms of discrimination. We have a long way to go.

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Keynote: Glenn Cohen, Harvard Law School, US.
Respondent: Melissa McCradden, University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada.

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Integrating AI in healthcare raises concerns about safety, reliability, and ethical use, highlighting the urgent need for a harmonized global regulatory framework. The current regulatory landscape for AI in healthcare varies significantly across jurisdictions, with countries and regions adopting different approaches based on their specific needs and priorities. In this talk, I argue that while these efforts (e..g, the EU AI Act) are commendable, the lack of a unified global approach to AI regulation in healthcare can lead to inconsistencies, confusion, and potential risks for patients and healthcare providers. To address these challenges, fostering international collaboration and working towards a harmonized regulatory framework for AI in healthcare is crucial. This harmonization would ensure that AI systems adhere to consistent safety standards, transparency, accountability, and fairness, regardless of where they are developed or deployed. By establishing a standard set of principles and guidelines, regulators can promote the responsible development and use of AI technologies in healthcare while facilitating cross-border collaboration and innovation. Moreover, global harmonization of AI regulation in healthcare would benefit all stakeholders, including regulators, healthcare providers, AI developers, and patients. Through collaborative efforts, these stakeholders can establish comprehensive and efficient regulatory frameworks that prioritize patient safety, privacy, and ethical considerations in the development and deployment of AI technologies. This collaborative approach would foster greater trust in AI-driven healthcare solutions, encouraging wider adoption and improving patient outcomes worldwide.

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Keynote: Sandeep Reddy, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Respondent: Esther Bleicher, Hello Heart and Alliance for Ai in Healthcare.
Q&A

14:30 – 15:00 Summary of the Symposium – Luciano Floridi, Yale University, US, and University of Bologna, Italy.

15:00 – 15:10 Closing Remarks and goodbye by President Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Gianfelice Rocca.

SPEAKER BIOS

Hutan Ashrafian

Lead for Applied AI and Big Data at the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and Chief Scientific Officer of Preemptive Health at Flagship Pioneering. (Google Scholar)

Charlotte Blease

Associate Professor (Docent) at the Participatory eHealth and Health Data Research Group at Uppsala University, Sweden. (Google Scholar)

Esther Bleicher

General Counsel at Hello Heart, Co-Chair Federal Engagement and Regulatory Affairs Committee Alliance for AI In Healthcare.

Enrico Coiera

Director of the Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, and Foundation Professor in Medical Informatics, Macquarie University, Australia. (Google Scholar)

Glenn Cohen

James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Deputy Dean, and Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics at Harvard Law School, US. (Google Scholar)

Sher Muhammad Daudpota

Professor of Computer Science and Director of Postgraduate Studies at Sukkur IBA University, Pakistan. (Google Scholar).

Alexandre Dias Porto Chiavegatto Filho

Associate Professor at the School of Public Health of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Google Scholar)

Amelia Fiske

Senior Research Associate at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. (Google Scholar)

Luciano Floridi

Professor and Founding Director, Digital Ethics Center, Yale University, US and Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bologna, IT.

(Google Scholar)

Sara Gerke

Associate Professor of Law and Richard W. & Marie L. Corman Scholar, College of Law, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Angeliki Kerasidou

Associate Professor at the Ethox Centre and research fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford, UK.

Naomi Lee

Head of Organisational Transformation at NICE UK, formerly Vice Chair for the ITU/WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health and Senior Executive Editor at The Lancet.

Federica Mandreoli

Associate Professor at the FIM Department of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. (Google Scholar)

Melissa McCradden

Assistant Professor at the Division of Clinical and Public Health in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto and an Associate Scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada. (Google Scholar)

Jessica Morley

Postdoctoral Associate, Digital Ethics Center, Yale University (Google Scholar)

Kee Yuan Ngiam

Senior Consultant at the Division of General Surgery (Thyroid & Endocrine Surgery) at the National University Hospital, specializing in Thyroid and Endocrine surgical disorders, Singapore. (Google Scholar)

Elaine Nsoesie

Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health, US. (Google Scholar)

Ravi Parikh

Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a practicing oncologist, US. (Google Scholar)

Sandeep Reddy

Sandeep Redd, MBBS DPH MMgmt MSc MBAcert PhD SFHEA FCHSM FAIDH CHIA CHE ECFMG

Professor and Head of Discipline, Healthcare Management, School of Public Health and Social Work Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

(Google Scholar)

Tamara Sunbul

Medical Director of Clinical Informatics at John Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Saudi Arabia.

Sophie Van Baalen

Senior researcher in medical technologies at Rathenau Instituut, Netherlands.

Effy Vayena

Professor of Bioethics at the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) and a renowned expert at the intersection of medicine, data, and ethics, Switzerland. (Google Scholar)