VNO-NCW & MKB Nederland -together with the Representation of the European Commission in the Netherlands- put together a big AI Act conference on Tuesday April 23rd in The Hague.
This conference was meant for members from VNO-NCW and MKB-Nederland, representatives of ministries, members of parliament and stakeholders from the scientific community in the Netherlands and Europe.
Speaker line-up
- Focco Vijselaar, general director at VNO-NCW & MKB-Nederland
- Michiel Boots – Director General Economics & Digitalisation at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate
- Elizabeth Crossick – Head of Gov Relations – EU and Global AI Policy Lead at Relx
- Lisa Vermeer, policy advisor digital technology and human rights at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate
Moderator Jim Stolze hosted three panel discussions:
- Implementation of the AI Act
- Regulatory sandboxes
- Supervision on AI
With the following panel members:
- Luc Gimbrere – CEO Betabit, board member at NLDigital
- Huub Jansen – chair European regulators on AI working group, Cybersecurity Expert at the Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure
- Meindert Kamphuis – AI Authority at the Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure
- Barbara Kathmann – Chair parliamental commission Digital Affairs, Digital parliament member of the year
- Sophie Kuijt – CTO at IBM Consulting Europe
- Cas Mevissen – Policy advisor at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate
- Anke den Ouden – CEO at Microsoft Netherlands
- Prof. mr Corien Prins – Professor Law and Information Technology at the Tilburg University, chair of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy WRR
- Marianne Schoenmakers – Senior Consultant Digital Society at TNO, Institute for applied research
- Sven Stevenson – director Algorithm Coordination Directorate at the Dutch Data Protection Authority
- Kai Zenner – Head of Office and Digital Policy Adviser for MEP Axel Voss (EPP group) in the European Parliament
Panellist Kai Zenner was kind enough to share some of his slides online.