[PNAI] [2023mag_private] Working meeting on PNAI's session for IGF2023 - Wednesday 20.9. at 11 UTC

Mon Oct 2 02:48:57 EDT 2023

Dear Yik Chan, Amrita, all,

Thank you Yik Chan! I'll send Prof. Xing Li the invite email now so that he will have all the information.

With this we have four confirmed speakers (+one invitation pending), looks like we only need to find the onsite Moderator. I add our current list of speakers below.

Regards,
Maikki

Confirmed speakers

José Renato Laranjeira de Pereira, Founder and Advisor, Laboratory of Public Policy and Internet - LAPIN; Expert Member at the Brazilian AI Strategy

Alice Munyua, Senior Director, Africa Mradi at Mozilla corporation

Prof.  Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Executive President, AI movement, the Moroccan International Center for Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Xing Li, Professor, Tsinghua University

Invitation sent

Owen Larter, Director of Public Policy Office of Responsible AI at Microsoft

Onsite Moderator  = ??

Online Moderator
Shamira Ahmed, Executive Director, Data Economy Policy Hub

Link to PNAI Session concept with details on speakers<https://docs.google.com/document/d/15efAX0YG-X0JY5056dFIkXtc1QE-_FjyhS9ux8GjRBA/edit>
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Subject: Re: [2023mag_private] [PNAI] Working meeting on PNAI's session for IGF2023 - Wednesday 20.9. at 11 UTC

Dear Amrita and others,

I have spoken to Prof. Xing LI and he has confirmed his attendance at the PNAI panel.

His email is xing at cernet.edu.cn<mailto:xing at cernet.edu.cn>

Best,
Yik Chan

On Sun, 1 Oct 2023 at 02:27, Amrita Choudhury <amritachoudhury8 at gmail.com<mailto:amritachoudhury8 at gmail.com>> wrote:
Please go ahead and confirm with him Yik.

Regards

On Sat, 30 Sept 2023, 21:01 Yik Chan Chin, <yikchanchin at gmail.com<mailto:yikchanchin at gmail.com>> wrote:
If we agree to replace Dr. Xiao Zhang with Mr Xing Li, I will contact him to confirm his attendance so that he can also get prepared for the panel discussion.
Please let me know.

Thank you!

Best,
Yik Chan
On Sat, 30 Sept 2023 at 16:25, Yik Chan Chin <yikchanchin at gmail.com<mailto:yikchanchin at gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear Amrita and others,

Thanks for the follow-up. As far as I remember, the panel has two female speakers and two male speakers at the moment. we agreed to invite another female academic,
gender wise, Xing Li sounds ok.

Best,
Yik Chan

On Sat, 30 Sept 2023 at 05:20, Amrita Choudhury <amritachoudhury8 at gmail.com<mailto:amritachoudhury8 at gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks for the update Yik Chan.

If we are balanced from the gender perspective, we can offcourse consider Professor Xing Li. He was considered first.

Regards,

Amrita

On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 10:47 PM Yik Chan Chin <yikchanchin at gmail.com<mailto:yikchanchin at gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear Amrita and others.

I have received an email from Dr. Xiao Zhang yesterday that she cannot make our PNAI panel at Kyoto IGF due to a conflict of schedule.

I would suggest Professor Xing Li from the technical sector to replace her. We have considered Prof Li in our previous round of deliberation.

Here below is Professor Xing LI's profile again.

Xing Li

Professor, Tsinghua University

https://www.internethalloffame.org/2022/12/01/dr-xing-li-a-pioneer-in-developing-the-chinese-internet/

Technical sector

Topic: Interoperability of AI governance

He will discuss the interoperability of AI issues from a technical standards perspective.

China

He will be at the 2023 IGF in Kyoto in person

Inductee of the Internet hall of fame 2021.

Deputy director of China Education and Research Network (CERNET) Center;former member of IAB (Internet Architecture Board), co-chair of CCIRN (Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networking), Chair of APNG (Asia pacific Network Group), member of APNIC Executive Council and Chair of Internet Sub Chapter of Computer Society of China (CCF).

Thank you

Best,
Yik Chan

发件人： zhangxiao at cnnic.cn<mailto:zhangxiao at cnnic.cn>
发送时间： 2023-09-28 14:44
收件人： yikqchanchin<mailto:yikqchanchin at gmail.com>
主题： from Xiao
Hi，Professor Qian,
Thank you for your support.  Sorry to let you know due to some conflict schedule, I cant come to this panel on spot.
 I will also be glad to involve in the discussion in the future and provide some input.
Thank you again for considering me.

Best Regards
Xiao

Xiao Zhang
________________________________
zhangxiao at cnnic.cn<mailto:zhangxiao at cnnic.cn>

On Mon, 25 Sept 2023 at 12:23, Amrita Choudhury <amritachoudhury8 at gmail.com<mailto:amritachoudhury8 at gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear Cherie,

Thanks for the suggestion. However, we  are looking for a specialist in AI who has been working on the aspects being discussed in the PNAI report.

Regards,

Amrita

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 4:42 PM Cherie Lagakali <cherie.lagakali at gmail.com<mailto:cherie.lagakali at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Amrita,  Noia

Maureen will be attending in person as she is confirmed for the DC-SIDS session. Have cc'd her above.

Regards
Cherie

On Mon, 25 Sept 2023, 9:36 pm Tenanoia Simona, <nanoia at gmail.com<mailto:nanoia at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Amrita,

Thanks for the reminder, let me see if I can find someone from the region to speak.

Best,
Noia

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 7:57 PM Amrita Choudhury <amritachoudhury8 at gmail.com<mailto:amritachoudhury8 at gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks Noia,  we  would have loved having you speak and share the Pacific perspective. Unfortunately, as you know, we MAG members cannot speak in the main sessions.

Is there anyone (female) from Pacific Islands you are aware who would be there and can be invited to speak?

Regards,

Amrita

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 3:02 AM Tenanoia Simona <nanoia at gmail.com<mailto:nanoia at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Amrita,

If you still need more female to join, please, count me in, I will be joining on-site.

Best,
Tenanoia (Noia)

On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 at 2:43 AM Amrita Choudhury <amritachoudhury8 at gmail.com<mailto:amritachoudhury8 at gmail.com>> wrote:
We need women speakers from business, tech or academia   as well as a moderator.

Regards

Amrita

On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 8:11 PM Yik Chan Chin <yikchanchin at gmail.com<mailto:yikchanchin at gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear Amrita and Makkii,

thank you for your update on the speakers, and sorry I could not attend the meeting due to other commitments.

May I clarify, do you still need women speakers or only moderators?

Best wishes,
Yik Chan

Best wishes,
Yik Chan

On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 12:39, Amrita Choudhury <amritachoudhury8 at gmail.com<mailto:amritachoudhury8 at gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear All,

At the PNAI meeting today we agreed that invitation mails will be sent to

1. Alice Munya Senior Director, Africa Mradi at Mozilla corporation Kenya (Technical Community)
2. Jose Renato Laranjeira de Pereira Founder and Advisor, Laboratory of Public Policy and Internet - LAPIN; Expert Member at the Brazilian AI Strategy (Civil Society)

Carol would have to come back if  Mr. Rodney Taylor, Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union would be interested to speak on AI

The other speakers who were considered were :

Owen Larter from Microsoft
and Prof  Xing Li

However as we need to have gender balance in the panel we are looking for women speakers preferably onsite from : Business, Academia/ Technical Community, Government.

We also need recommendation for a strong moderator.

Kindly share the same at the earliest over email

During the PNAI call on 26th September, we will reserve some time for discussion on the main session.

Regards,

Amrita & Audace

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 2:21 PM Maikki Matleena Sipinen <maikki.sipinen at un.org<mailto:maikki.sipinen at un.org>> wrote:
Dear all,

We will organize tomorrow on Wednesday 20.9. a working meeting on the PNAI session for IGF2023. The call will take place at 11-12 UTC. You are welcome to join, here are the Zoom details:

Topic: Working meeting: PNAI session for IGF2023
Time: Sep 20, 2023 11:00 AM Universal Time UTC
Join Zoom Meeting: https://intgovforum.zoom.us/j/94226608515
Meeting ID: 942 2660 8515

I share again the latest version of our session concept<https://docs.google.com/document/d/15efAX0YG-X0JY5056dFIkXtc1QE-_FjyhS9ux8GjRBA/edit?usp=sharing> to those of you who would like to refresh your memory on the latest plans. Our goal tomorrow is to check the status and make decisions needed to proceed with speakers + time permitting also plan panel discussion questions and advance other ongoing preparations.

We will have an update on this topic in our next big PNAI call together with everyone!

Kind regards,
Maikki

Maikki Sipinen

Policy Network on AI

Secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum | United Nations

maikki.sipinen at un.org<mailto:maikki.sipinen at un.org>

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