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Socrates Seminar 2022

At the first Socrates Seminar 2022 in Central Europe, we welcomed 20 senior executive leaders from business and NGO from across Central Europe as well as the US to discover new perspectives on disruptive technologies in the seminar entitled The Next Wave of Tech Innovation: What It Means for How We Live and Do Business.

Based on pre-selected texts, the moderator Wilson White, Vice President, Government Affairs & Public Policy at Google, led the participants through a moderated dialogue focused on understanding the rise and potential of the next wave, exploring the challenges digital innovation presents in labour as well as in global industry competition. Thirdly, we looked at where the path forward is, especially how to respond to the challenges.

Digital technology is radically changing just about everything we do, from raising families to running businesses. Much of this innovation is powered by recent breakthroughs in the development of machine learning artificial intelligence (AI). Optimists welcome this shift, arguing that technology is growing up and starting to take care of us. However, while technological shifts will undoubtedly unlock significant societal benefits and opportunities, these innovations also present new challenges and risks. Governments around the world are exploring policy and regulatory approaches to ensure the benefits of technology are widely shared while addressing concerns around bias, safety, privacy, jobs, democratic election integrity, and other potentially negative implications. This seminar used these issues as a backdrop to examine considerations for the responsible development and application of emerging technologies. We also explored whether the technical underpinnings of recent tech innovations have the potential to solve some of the world’s most difficult problems, while also creating new challenges.

The Socrates Seminar is not meant to give ready made answers, but it rather engages the participants in an enriching and meaningful conversations that challenge the them with in-depth debating experience which brings them to think out of the box, and hopefully feeling empowerment to take action as a more effective leader.

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Participants of the Socrates Seminar 2022

 

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