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Drafting the European AI Act

Hosted by the LSE Law School

MAR2.05, Marshall Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Speakers

Dr. Emmanuel Kahembwe

Dr. Emmanuel Kahembwe

Dr. Sebastian Hallensleben

Dr. Sebastian Hallensleben

Chair

Andrew Murray

Andrew Murray

Professor, LSE Law School

In the fourth and final LTS 2022 Seminar Dr. Emmanuel Mbabazi and Dr. Sebastian Hallensleben of VDE will discuss the process of developing and drafting the EU AI Act.

Andrew Murray is a Professor of Law at LSE Law School, with particular reference to New Media and Technology Law. He is Director of the LSE Law, Society and Technology Group, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA). He is also Associate Dean of LSE Law School.

Dr. Emmanuel Kahembwe is a member of the ART/1 Committee on Artificial Intelligence at the British Standards Institution (BSI). He is also a member of the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CEN-CENELEC) WG on Digital Sovereignty. He is an alumni of The University of Edinburgh (MSc & PhD), Heriot-Watt University (PhD), Napier University (BSc), The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and The Heidelberg Laureate Forum. His expertise spans the fields of AI, Robotics, Autonomous Systems, High Performance Systems and Games Development. He is the CEO of VDE UK, part of the VDE group, which is Europes oldest and largest technology organisation. 

Dr. Sebastian Hallensleben chairs AI standardisation in Europe (CEN-CENELEC JTC21), leads AI risk assessment within OECD ONE.AI and is a thought leader on the operationalisation of AI Ethics, including in international standardisation at IEC. He is Head of Digitalisation and AI at VDE, one of the largest independent technology organisations worldwide

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