EPURAI 2024: Enhancing a Citizen-Centric Public Sector with AI

         
Friday, 06 December 2024 | Executive Academy Foyer at WU Vienna
         

Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, neural networks, and data analytics are poised to disrupt interactions between actors within society, and present a broad range of possibilities for innovation in the public sector.  Now more than ever before it must be asked: how do robots and AI shape societies, economies, and governments? And how are these technologies in turn impacted by the people and environments within which they are deployed? The third edition of Ethics of Public Robots and Artificial Intelligence (EPURAI) seeks to bring together theoretical and empirical perspectives that critically explore the debates and issues arising from these questions, providing a forum for discussion and deliberation between scholars from diverse scientific fields, including administrative sciences, informatics, economics, management, mechanical engineering and psychology, as well as practitioners from industry, governmental and non-governmental institutions within the GovTech and Public Sector Innovation policy field.

Organized jointly by the WU Vienna’s Institute for Public Management & Governance and the Institute for Digital Ecosystems in collaboration with the World Bank’s GovTech and Public Sector Innovation team, this one-day workshop is structured into themed sessions consisting of academic-style presentations and lightning talks.
    

Keynote speakers include

• Marija Slavkovik (University of Bergen),

• João Ricardo Vasconcelos (World Bank),

• Verena Dorner (Institute for Digital Ecosystems, WU Vienna),

• Gerhard Embacher-Köhle (BRZ), and

• Lisa Neuhofer (BRZ).

Also featured are lightning talks by Ali Özkes (SKEMA Business School), Christina Schamp (WU Vienna), Clemens Denner (Federal Chancellery), David Lansky (EY-Parthenon), Ilkin Temocin (UNIQA), Kai Kaiser (World Bank), and Oliver Bernecker (KnowCenter).

Breakout sessions are built into the programme to allow for participant networking on topics of common interest. A roundtable of academics and practitioners will be held at the end of the workshop, bringing together its major themes and outlining a roadmap for future research and action.
    

Organising Committee:

• Shefali Virkar (Institute for Public Management and Governance, WU Vienna)

• Verena Dorner (Institute for Digital Ecosystems, WU Vienna)

• Jurgen Willems (Institute for Public Management and Governance, WU Vienna)

• Ali Özkes (SKEMA Business School)

• João Ricardo Vasconcelos (World Bank)

• Philip McGrath (World Bank)

More information available at: https://www.wu.ac.at/en/applied-ai-network/events/epurai