We are very proud that, the past two days, at Adra - AI-Data-Robotics-Association (ADRF25), our own Argyro Amidi, FDI’s legal counsel, participated in three engaging workshops, highlighting legal and ethical aspects of the related topics.
🔹 Workshop Title: “The Value-Based and Human-centered Artificial Intelligence, Data and Robotics Approach at the intersection of Technology, Ethics and Law” organized by HELEN Cluster.
The workshop gathered representatives from EU projects such as:
▶️ AI-DAPT EU Project (Marina Da Bormida in Cugurra | S&D Consulting)
▶️ Graph-Massivizer Project (Dumitru Roman | SINTEF)
▶️ COMFORTage | Horizon EU Project (Francesca Morpungo | CyberEthics Lab.) and
▶️ CyclopsProject (Argyro Amidi | FDI).
🚀 Mihalis Kritikos, Secretary of the European Group of Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE), representing EC-DG RTD, contributed decisively in the productive discussion.
🔹 Workshop Title: “Automating compliance for a Value-based European Digital economy”, moderated by Till Christopher Lech (SINTEF), where representatives from DataPACT (Nikolay Nikolov, PhD, Dumitru Roman -SINTEF), ACHILLES project, #ACCOMPLISH and CERTAIN Project (Claude Bauzou - IDEMIA) projects presented some of the projects’ findings regarding the role of automatic compliance systems in the demanding compliance journey.
Stefano Bertolo from EC-CNECT G1 offered his insightful thinking on behalf of the policy makers, while Argyro Amidi (ADRA Ethical and Legal Topic Group co-chair) and Ana Garcia Robles (BDVA Secretary Generale) offered their valuable comments on behalf of the stakeholders involved.
🔹 Workshop Title: “Efficient and trustworthy AI frameworks: making the best of cloud-edge European data for scalable real-world industry deployments”, organised by the 5 sister projects:
▶️ MANOLO Project (Ricardo Simon Carbajo | CeADAR Ireland, Argyro Amidi | FDI)
▶️ AI-DAPT EU Project (Theodore Dalamagas | Athena Research Center)
▶️ RAIDO Project (Vasilis A. | Kingston University)
▶️ PANDORA Horizon Europe Project (Stella Markopoulou | AEGIS IT RESEARCH)
▶️ EXTRA-BRAIN (Pawel Herman | KTH Royal Institute of Technology) and moderated by Susanne Kührer (EIT Digital).
Many thanks to ADRA and NORCE for organizing an amazing ADRF25 , let’s save the dates for next year ADRAF26 in Porto!!