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SecondsConference ConFluence: Ethics, AI & Data Power on May 15, 2025 at Kinepolis in Luxembourg, and ONLINE!
May 15, 2025 / 6:00 - 8:30PM (CEST)
Hello, Bienvenue, Bonjour!
Welcome to the conference cycle on Ethics & AI organised by The House of Ethics™ in Luxembourg.
There are 3 hybrid conferences in the ethical pipe.
Conferences are held in English and hosted by Katja Rausch, Founder of The House of Ethics™ and roundtables are moderated by Daniele Proverbio, Director of Interdisciplinary Research at The House of Ethics™.
April 2, 2025 - ConVergence: Ethics, AI & Human Identity
Guest of Honour: Dr. Susie Alegre
Author of "Human Rights, Robot Wrongs"
May 15, 2025 - ConFluence: Ethics, AI and Data Power
Guest of Honour: Dr. Carissa Véliz
Author of "Privacy is Power", an Economist Best Book of the Year
June 19, 2025 - Collective: Ethics, AI & Innovation
Guest of Honour: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes
Digital Strategist and Deep Tech Diplomacy Advocate
Mumm Séiss and AI?
Our introductory video to the three-conference Ethics & AI cycle ConVergence, ConFluence and Collective features music from the Luxembourg Operette D'Mumm Séis oder De Geescht by Dicks (Edmond de la Fontaine, 1823-1891) performed by the Luxembourg Military Band.
Heritage feeds the Future.
SPEAKERS on May 15, 2025 at Kinepolis, Luxembourg and online
Katja Rausch
Founder @ The House of Ethics™
As a Sorbonne Linguist, Katja Rausch has accumulated over 25 years of international and cross-industry expertise as a digital strategy consultant in Europe and the US (Booz Allen & Hamilton, New York).
Simultaneously, she has been professor of Information Systems and Business Linguistics at the Master in Logistics, Marketing & Distribution at the Sorbonne Management School for 12 years.
In 2016, she started one of the first Data Ethics Master’s classes in France at the Paris School of Business. With focus on data privacy, cybersecurity, and applied computer ethics she early on combined Agile Project Management, Ethical Leadership and Artificial Intelligence.
In 2021, she founded The House of Ethics™, which gained quick international reputation for its novel, managerial and interdisciplinary perspectives on ethics. With Daniele Proverbio, she developed Swarm Ethics™ inspired by collective emerging swarm intelligence to fill a practical and systemic gap in modern digital business ethics.
Daniele Proverbio
Director of Interdisciplinary Research @ The House of Ethics™
Dr. Daniele Proverbio is an interdisciplinary researcher, bridging science, humanities and innovation.
Daniele Proverbio holds a PhD in Complex Systems from the University of Luxembourg, an MBA from the Collège des Ingénieurs (Turin, Paris, Munich) and is currently a researcher at the University of Trento, dealing with complex systems core properties, with applications to neuroscience and the development of sustainable AI.
He is also Director of Interdisciplinary Research at the House of Ethics and co-founder of the Swarm Ethics initiative, weaving complex systems insights with ethical thinking, to bring forth a novel ethical framework for the digital age. He specialises in ethics and AI, with focus on bias, fairness and sustainability.
Prof. Dr. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes
Digital Strategist and Deep Tech Diplomacy Advocate
Prof. Dr. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes is a visionary leader operating at the intersection of academia, business, government and not-for-profit sectors, recognized globally for her deep tech diplomacy and digital ethics efforts.
She has served as an expert advisor to numerous Fortune 100 and 500 companies, US DOD, IEEE, NIST, and EU, UN or G20-affiliated organizations, guiding them on strategic decisions around digital transformation, digital risk governance, digital trust, and digital cyber-ethics orchestration.
Carissa Véliz
Professor of Philosophy and AI Ethics Researcher @ University of Oxford
Author of "Privacy is Power" Carissa Véliz works on digital ethics (with an emphasis on privacy and AI ethics), practical ethics more generally, political philosophy, and public policy. Dr. Véliz is also the author of the highly acclaimed The Ethics of Privacy and Surveillance (Oxford University Press, 2024), and the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics. Carissa Véliz received the 2021 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy from the International Association of Computing and Philosophy. She has advised the UK and Spanish governments on issues related to digital technologies, among other public and private institutions.
Edmund White
VP Medtech - Healthcare & MedTech Executive @ AI Body
Edmund White is a pioneering leader in biomedical innovation. Leveraging his academic background in biology and medical informatics, Edmund has spent over 25 years on the cutting edge of medical technology advancement focused on improving patient lives. Edmund spearheaded development of novel electrophysiological therapies for cardiac arrhythmias at an international German medical technology company. Motivated by helping patients, Edmund has developed companies for new technologies helping young children with congenital heart disease and more recently digital health technologies to aid patients with autoimmune disease. He also founded an innovative biomedical startup taking on the challenge of creating the world’s first bacterial cellulose coronary artery bypass graft to give hope to those with advanced heart disease. Edmund White is the author of "AI Today: OI Tomorrow: The Dawn of Organoid Intelligence: Opportunities, Ethics, and the Future of Humanity".
Anna Gorbatcheva
Senior Strategy and Market Intelligence Manager @ 1KOMMA5°
Anna Gorbatcheva is a Senior Strategy and Market Intelligence Manager at 1KOMMA5°, a climate tech company operating across Europe and Australia building carbon-neutral energy systems for private households, enabling them to actively participate in the energy transition. Prior to joining 1KOMMA5°, Anna completed her PhD at University College London, focusing on the scalability of local energy markets with a particular focus on peer-to-peer energy trading systems. She also served as Task Lead at the Global Observatory on Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading (GO-P2P), a global initiative under the IEA's UsersTCP, where she coordinated international research on innovative business models for decentralised energy systems.
Program for May 15, 2025
ConFluence: Ethics, AI & Data Power Conference Program
Welcome and introduction by Katja Rausch, Founder of The House of Ethics™
Conference hosted by Katja Rausch.
6:20 -6:40pm
Dr. Carissa Véliz on "Privacy is Power" live from Oxford
6.45-7pm
Daniele Proverbio
Director of Interdisciplinary Research, The House of Ethics™
7:20-7:35pm
Edmund White
VP in Medtech, AI Body
7:40-7:55pm
Anna Gorbatcheva
Senior Strategy and Market Intelligence Manager
@ 1KOMMA5°
8-8:10pm
Prof. Dr. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes joining live from Miami
8:10-8:30pm
Roundtable moderated by Daniele Proverbio
Cocktail reception.
Press Review for Conference on April 2, 2025
RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg "Invité vun der Redaktioun" Katja Rausch, Grënnerin vum The House of EthicsTM
https://www.rtl.lu/radio/invite-vun-der-redaktioun/a/2286697.html
PAPERJAM
https://paperjam.lu/article/la-naissance-de-la-politico-technologie-est-tres-alarmante
FORBES LUXEMBOURG
https://www.forbes.lu/when-ethics-challenges-ai-understand-anticipate-act/
https://www.forbes.lu/the-house-of-ethics-pioneering-applied-ai-ethics/
TECHSENSE
INFOGREEN
https://www.infogreen.lu/pour-en-savoir-plus-a-vos-agendas.html
CHRONICLE.LU
https://chronicle.lu/pages/about-luxembourg
SILICON
https://www.siliconluxembourg.lu/calendar/conference-convergence-ethics-ai-the-house-of-ethics/
https://www.siliconluxembourg.lu/tag/the-house-of-ethics/
FEMMES MAGAZINE LUXEMBOURG
https://www.femmesmagazine.lu/katja-rausch-lethique-doit-redevenir-laffaire-de-tous/
Press Kit - EN / Dossier de Presse - FR
For Press requests, please contact Patrick Lesage at p.lesage@takaneo.com
"Digital ethics is not a hobby.
With artificial intelligence infiltrating
our daily lives, ethics is becoming
and endemic. It determines our being,
conditions our choices and
shapes our DNA.“
Téléchargez le dossier de presse - version française - cliquez ici
« L’éthique digitale n’est pas
un hobby. Avec l’intelligence
artificielle qui infiltre notre
quotidien, elle devient identitaire
et endémique. Elle détermine
notre être, conditionne nos choix
et façonne notre ADN. » [Katja Rausch]
April 2 ConVergence: Ethics, AI & Identity with Guest Speaker Susie Alegre, international Human Rights Lawyer and author of "Human Rights, Robot Wrongs"
Conference Program for Collective: Ethics, AI & Innovation on June 19, 2025 with Guest Speaker Prof. Dr. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes
Guest of Honour: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes
Digital Strategist and Deep Tech Diplomacy Advocate
With over two decades of executive experience, she has held numerous high-impact leadership roles and has extensive complex system integration expertise, driving the development of responsible, inclusive, diverse, sustainable AI, blockchain and other deep tech innovation ecosystems at a regional, national or international level.
She is an alumna of MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia University, and University of Miami's Herbert Business School.
In addition, she is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, holding executive certifications in AI, Blockchain, Finance, Mediation, Tech Diplomacy, Human Rights, and Ethics.
Dr. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes has served as an expert advisor to numerous Fortune 100 and 500 companies, US DOD, IEEE, NIST, and EU, UN or G20-affiliated organizations, guiding them on strategic decisions around digital transformation, digital risk governance, digital trust, and digital cyber-ethics orchestration.
Prof. Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes will join live from Miami.
Confirmed Speakers for June19, 2025
Dr. Maria Spindler - International Expert on Power and Group Dynamics
Dr. Caterina Bulgarella - Corporate Culture Architect, Compliance, Ethics and Behavior
Redha Moulla - CEO AxIA Paris, AI and Automation
Daniele Proverbio - AI Researcher with focus on fairness, sustainability and biases.
Guest of Honour: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes
Digital Strategist and Deep Tech Diplomacy Advocate
With over two decades of executive experience, she has held numerous high-impact leadership roles and has extensive complex system integration expertise, driving the development of responsible, inclusive, diverse, sustainable AI, blockchain and other deep tech innovation ecosystems at a regional, national or international level.
She is an alumna of MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia University, and University of Miami's Herbert Business School.
In addition, she is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, holding executive certifications in AI, Blockchain, Finance, Mediation, Tech Diplomacy, Human Rights, and Ethics.
Dr. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes has served as an expert advisor to numerous Fortune 100 and 500 companies, US DOD, IEEE, NIST, and EU, UN or G20-affiliated organizations, guiding them on strategic decisions around digital transformation, digital risk governance, digital trust, and digital cyber-ethics orchestration.
Prof. Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes will join live from Miami.
Confirmed Speakers for June19, 2025
Dr. Maria Spindler - International Expert on Power and Group Dynamics
Dr. Caterina Bulgarella - Corporate Culture Architect, Compliance, Ethics and Behavior
Redha Moulla - CEO AxIA Paris, AI and Automation
Daniele Proverbio - AI Researcher with focus on fairness, sustainability and biases.
