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Bulgarian BEYOND4.0 team members on AI and future of the labour at a high level conference in Sofia
by Bagryan Malamin | 24.11.2020

“Who is afraid of artificial intelligence: challenges for the labour market" was the presentation held by Prof. Dr. Vassil Kirov and Bagryan Malamin, members of the Bulgarian BEYOND4.0 team, at the  international conference “The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Our Society” organized by Swiss Embassy in Bulgaria, Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

The event was opened by Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev (Bulgaria) and European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Mariya Gabriel and President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Prof. Julian Revalski.

Among the speakers were Prof. Dirk Helbing, ETH Zürich, Mrs Doris Leuthard, Chair of the Swiss Digital Initiative Foundation, Prof. Dr. Paul Lukowicz, Head of the Research Department Embedded Intelligence, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence.

The conference was attended online by more than 120 representatives of policy makers, academics and diplomates, and was widely featured in the Bulgarian media.

Video diary of the conference is available here.