On September 16, 2020, at the Welcome and Introductory Session of World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid Policy Lab: Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance – A New Social Contract on Artificial Intelligence, after keynote speech of Manuel Muñiz, Secretary of State for Global Spain, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain, Professor Thomas Patterson, Board Member of the Boston Global Forum, launched and presented Social Contract for the AI Age. Mr. Ramu Damodaran, Chief of the Academic Impact, United Nations, and Editor in Chief of the United Nations Chronicle Magazine, moderated the discussion. Discussants include Prime Minister of Latvia, Valdis Birkavs.
The list of speakers of the special sessions are below.
Welcome Session
- Danilo Türk, President of WLA-CdM, President of Slovenia (2007-2012)
- Manuel Muñiz, Secretary of State for Global Spain, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain
- Mr. Nguyen Van Tuong, Chairman of Tram Huong Khanh Hoa
- Governor Michael Dukakis, Chair of The Boston Global Forum
- Keynote Speech “Transatlantic Relations and the Digital Social Contract”
- Manuel Muñiz, Secretary of State for Global Spain, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain
Introductory Session: A New Social Contract in the Age of AI
Keynote: Thomas Patterson, Research Director of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, Professor of Government and the Press of Harvard Kennedy School
Facilitator: Ramu Damodaran, Editor-in-Chief of the UN Chronicle and Chief of the United Nations Academic Impact
Panel discussion:
- Valdis Birkavs, WLA-CdM Member, Prime Minister of Latvia (1993-1994)
- Jerry Jones, WLA-CdM Advisor Executive Vice-President, Ethics and Legal Officer, Live Ramp and Advisor
- Nuria Oliver, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, member of the High Level Expert Group on B2G data sharing at the European Commission
Link: https://boston.dialoguescdm.org/on-demand/#02
