EU Digital Technologies and Policies Conference

EUDTP 2025 : EU Digital Technologies and Policy Conference

14-15 May 2025 Brussels (Belgium)

Introduction

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.

List of talks

(See the EUDTP 2025 conference and sessions schedule also in this page.)

Day 1: Technologies
(Salle Joliot-Curie, Maison Irène et Frédéric Joliot Curie, 100 rue du Trône)

9h-10h30
Session I: AI Technologies, Services and Applications. Chair: Sonia Vanier (l’X-IP Paris).

Trustworthy AI (Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez, UGR)
LLMs and Symbolic AI (Mehwish Alam, TPT-IP Paris)
AI conditional content generation for multimodal data (Vicky Kalogeiton, l’X-IP Paris)
Unboundling social networks and collaborative recommendation (Anne Alombert, Université Paris 8)
AI to accelerate fusion engineering (María Ortiz de Zúñiga, F4E)

11h-12h30
Session II: Digital Infrastructures. Chair: Miguel Colom (ENS Paris Saclay).

Submarine communication cables: security and resilience in the EU (Stefano De Luca, EPRS)
ChatControl EU Regulation: Impact and Risk (Diane Leblanc-Albarel, KU Leuven)
Sustainability fundamentals and the case of the Internet (Romain Jacob, ETHZ)
Datacenter energy footprint and LLM power inference (Patrice Nivaggioli, Cisco Systems)
Life-cycle emissions of ICT infrastructures (Jukka Manner, Aalto University)

14h-15h30
Session III: Materials and Physical Basis of Computing. Chair: Hervé Debar (TSP-IP Paris).

RISC-V-based chip design in the EU (Rafael Gomà, BSC)
Navigating complexity in high-precision semiconductors systems (Calina Ciuhu, TU/e)
Governance of post-quantum cryptography transition in the EU (Laima Jančiūtė, VUB)
The lithium mining project in Jadar and the green transition in Europe (Ivanka Popović, University of Belgrade)

16h-17h30
Session IV: Energy and Sustainability. Chair: Eduardo Oliva (UPM).

Enabling the hydrogen economy (Timo Böttcher, TUM)
Magnetic confinement fusion in Europe (Juan Knaster, ITER)
Inertial fusion (Markus Roth, TU Darmstadt)
Integration of renewable energies in modern power systems (Georges Kariniotakis, Mines-PSL)
Methods for integrated energy and transportation networks (Bissan Ghaddar, DTU)

Day 2: Policy (*)
(EPRS Library, European Parliament, 60 rue Wiertz)

9h15-10h45
Session V: Social Impact of AI and Technology. Chair: Juan-Antonio Cordero-Fuertes (l’X-IP Paris).

Digital rights, personal data collection and inferences: the case of gender (Gloria González-Fuster, VUB)
Legal challenges of Text and Data Mining (Arturas Gramulaitis, Vilnius University)
Dark patterns and consumer protection in the EU: legal challenges and policy responses (Pratiksha Ashok, Tilburg University)
Trust, disinformation, and verification: issues, approaches, challenges (Jochen Spangenberg, Deutsche Welle)
Implementation challenges and opportunities under DSA (Fabio Giglietto, Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo)

11h-12h45
Session VI: Digital Regulation and Strategy in the EU. Chair: Michael Adam (EPRS).

Digital priorities of the European Commission (TBD, EPRS)
Digital identity, the specific case of age verification (Olivier Blazy, l’X-IP Paris)
AI for human interaction (Andrew Mcstay, Bangor)
Open-Source AI Models as Software: Freedoms and Rights in the EU AI Act (Simona Ramos, UPF)
Survive or Thrive? Legal impact of AI Act in business (Neringa Gaubiené, Vilnius University)
Digital strategy in the EU (Claudio Feijóo, UPM)

Disclaimers:

These talks have been pre-confirmed with involved speakers, but titles are tentative and the list of talks is orientative, only provided for informational purposes. Changes may occur before the conference day due to reasons beyond the control of the organization. For specific requests or confirmations, reach out to the conference organization.
(*) Sessions and talks in day 2 (policy) are conditional to the approval of the European Parliament.

Topics of interest

The conference presents contributions 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 and ML-based technologies at large (e.g., LLMs and Generative AI), computing technologies and applications (healthcare, transportation, safety/security)
Robotics and automation
Nanotechnologies and quantum technologies

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

Cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities (ransomware, data breaches), extent, and strategies
Data privacy, Intellectual Properties (IP), and regulation
Digital sovereignty, safety and autonomy of critical infrastructures, and digital rights

Digital infrastructures for computing, communication and information services

Digital infrastructures: cloud and edge deployments, submarine cables, datacenters, IOT deployments and services, Internet, and Internet traffic dynamics
Mobile communications, cellular networks, and deployments (5G/6G)

Physical infrastructures and material layers of computing

Semiconductors technologies, chip design, European strategy on chips and semiconductors
Raw materials for digital technologies: resource sustainability, manufacturing chains, mining technologies, and challenges

Social and global impact of technologic transforms

Disinformation, fake news and deep fakes, social platforms, impact on public debate, and governance of digital space
Effects of AI and digitization on education, and human interaction with technology
Ethics and fairness in AI-powered and automated systems
Global competition for materials and technology, power shifts, and implications for European strategic autonomy
Impact of EU digital regulations (AI Act, Chips Act, eIDAS, Cybersecurity Act…) and other digital regulation models

Energy and sustainability

Energy and sustainability: energy production technologies (nuclear, hydrogen-based, renewable), transport/distribution (smart grid) and energy storage technologies (batteries), energy consumption of digital infrastructures
Green computing, recycling and digital sobriety
Sustainable mobility: smart cities, connected public transportation, electric/autonomous vehicles

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.

High-quality papers based on extended versions of talks in the conference will be welcome for consideration at a special issue of the IEEE Transactions of Technology & Society (IEEE-TTS) journal.

Program Committee

Partners

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

The 2025 edition of this conference is hosted by France Universités, at the Maison Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie in Brussels, and the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), in the reading room of the European Parliament (EP), Brussels site.

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