09:00 – 09:30

ARRIVAL OF PARTICIPANTS AND REGISTRATION

Welcome Coffee and Refreshments

Master of ceremony: Josselin Hebert, Senior Business Strategy Officer, European Stability Mechanism   

09:30 – 09:45

WELCOME ADDRESS by Pierre Gramegna, Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism

09:45 – 10:15

Keynote speech: AI: An enabling technology with opportunities and fears

Speaker: Jens Kreisel, Rector of the University of Luxembourg

10:15 – 11:15

AI IMPACT ON EUROPE’S GROWTH, TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND FINANCIAL STABILITY
Moderator: Rolf Strauch, Chief Economist and Management Board Member at the European Stability Mechanism

Panel: 

• Rashad Abelson - Technology Sector Lead, Centre for Responsible Business Conduct, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Mariarosaria Comunale - Economist in the European Department at the International Monetary Fund; co-author of The Economic Impacts and the Regulation of AI: A Review of the Academic Literature and Policy Actions
• Jon Danielsson - Reader in Finance; Director, Systemic Risk Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Leonardo Gambacorta - Head of Innovation and Digital Economy, within the Monetary and Economic Department, Bank for International Settlements

11:15 – 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 12:30

AI-DRIVEN CAPITAL MARKETS AND INVESTMENTS TO BOOST EU COMPETITIVENESS

Moderator: Kalin Anev Janse, Chief Financial Officer and Management Board Member at the European Stability Mechanism

Panel: 

• Philipp-Bastian Brutscher - Head of Strategy, European Investment Fund
• Isabelle Mateos y Lago - Group Chief Economist, BNP Paribas
• Luba Protopopova - Chief Operating Officer, Cradle  
• Henning Soller - Partner, McKinsey & Company

12:30 – 13:30

WALKING LUNCH

13:30 – 14:30

LEVERAGING ON AI TO TRANSFORM ORGANISATIONS

Moderator: Nicola Giammarioli, Secretary General and Management Board Member at the European Stability Mechanism

Panel:

• Iris Lucas - Head of Data Intelligence, Autorité des Marchés Financiers, France
• Helen Lu - Professor of AI and Accounting, Vlerick Business School
• Andrew Salmon - Director, Alpha FMC
• Artur Queiroz - Deputy Head of Unit, Data, Artificial Intelligence & Web,  DG DIGIT, European Commission

14:30 – 15:30

AI REGULATION AND SUPERVISION
Like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018, the EU AI Act could become a global standard, determining to what extent AI has a positive rather than negative effect on people’s lives. The EU’s AI regulation is already making waves internationally.

Moderator: João Gião, General Counsel and Member of the Management Board at the European Stability Mechanism

Panel:

• Grazia Bruzzese - Doctoral Researcher in Financial and Economic Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of Luxembourg
• Juha Heikkila - Adviser for International Aspects of Artificial Intelligence, AI Office, European Commission
• Claude Marx - Director General, Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier, Luxembourg

15:30 – 15:45

CLOSING REMARKS