The EU Digital Technologies and Policies (EUDTP) conference aims at bringing together researchers, professionals, scholars, and policymakers, to discuss and enable exchanges and collaborations about broad-impact digital technologies in EU society and economy. Given the nature of addressed challenges and issues, the conference is inter-disciplinary, and encourages participation and exchange of different scientific disciplines, engineers (electrical and electronic, mining, mechanical), computer and data scientists, mathematicians, physicists; but also law scholars, economists, sociologists, historians, political scientists, or philosophers.

The conference will take place in Brussels for two days, and will consist of six sessions including (but not limited to) digital technology advances and applications (AI, quantum, nanotechnologies), digital infrastructures, hardware and materials (chip design, semiconductors, mining technologies, supply chains), energy and sustainability, data economy, digital rights and sovereignty, and impact of EU digital regulation.

This conference is soliciting extended abstract submissions (1p) with contributions to the different aspects related to digital technologies and policies: scientific perspectives, use cases and constraints, opportunities and risks in the EU and globally, underlying needs and requisites, social implications and regulation approaches.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Digital, automation and information-processing technologies 

• Artificial Intelligence, information-processing technologies and applications (healthcare, transportation, safety/security)
• Robotics
• Sustainable transportation: smart cities, electric vehicles
• Nanotechnologies and quantum technologies

Data collection and manipulation; safety, privacy, and security challenges

• Cybersecurity challenges, strategies and regulations
• Data privacy and regulation
• Digital sovereignty and digital rights

Social impact of technologic transforms

• Disinformation, fake news, social platforms, impact on public debate, and regulation
• Ethics and fairness in AI-powered and automated systems
• Impact of EU digital regulations (AI Act, Chips Act, eIDAS, Cybersecurity Act…) and other digital regulation models

Digital infrastructures for computing, communication and information services

• Digital infrastructures: cloud deployments, datacenters, IOT deployments and services, and the Internet
• Mobile communications, cellular networks and deployments (5G/6G)

Physical layers of computing

• Semiconductors technologies and chip design
• Raw materials for digital technologies: resource sustainability, manufacturing chains, mining technologies and challenges

Energy and sustainability

• Energy and sustainability: energy production technologies (nuclear, hydrogen-based), transport/distribution (smart grid) and stocking technologies (batteries), consumption of digital infrastructures

Contributions need to be sketched in short abstracts (up to 1 page). Accepted contributions will be presented in talks of 10-15min, with no slides (unless necessary, contact your session chair in this case). Talks will be grouped in thematic sessions, and followed by a debate and Q&A with the public and among the speakers.

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Day 1 of the conference takes place in the Maison Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie (100, rue du Trône, 1050 Bruxelles).

• How to get there.

Day 2 of the conference takes place in the Espace Léopold of the European Parliament (Rue Wiertz, 60, 1047 Bruxelles).

• General chair: Juan-Antonio Cordero (IP Paris)
• María Montoiro (IP Paris)
• Sonia Vanier (École Polytechnique-IP Paris)
• Hervé Debar (TSP-IP Paris)
• Anita Schneider (EuroTech)
• Jay Pearlman (IEEE SSIT)

• Ruta Binkyte (CISPA, Germany)
• Grégory Blanc (TSP-IP Paris, France)
• Cristina Blasi (UAB, Spain)
• Miguel Colom (ENS Paris-Saclay, France)
• Marceau Coupechoux (TPT-IP Paris, France)
• Claudia D'Ambrosio (CNRS, France)
• Jordi Domingo-Pascual (UPC, Spain)
• Margarita González (GTRI, IEEE, United States)
• Juan Herrera (UPM, Spain)
• Darina Martykánová (UAM, Spain)
• Eduardo Oliva (UPM, Spain)
• Alonso Silva (Nokia Bell Labs, France)

This conference is organized by École Polytechnique / Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris), and supported by the IEEE Society of Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), and academic networks EuroTech Universities Alliance and EuroTeQ University of Engineering.

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Inscription is free but mandatory.

Abstract submission: TBD

Notification: TBD

Conference: TBD