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 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 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
• 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), 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.

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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 is hosted by the EPRS, in the reading room of the European Parliament library (access through 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), 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 Fréderic 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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Abstract submission: until January 31st, 2025

Notification: February 28, 2025

Inscription: until May 1st, 2025

Conference: May 14-15, 2025