Press Release: AI Sessions: Navigating the European Commission’s AI Act
Online event / 25 February 2025 / 10h-12h CET
🔗 Register now: https://www.f6s.com/ai-sessions-navigating-the-european-commissions-ai-act.
An event supported by 17 EU-funded projects run by F6S Innovation in collaboration with other partners. Each project addresses critical AI-related challenges: AI4DEBUNK, AI4Europe, AI4MEDIA, AI-BOOST, AID4SME, AUTOASSESS, DeployAI, DiMAT, FOODITY, HEDGE-IoT, MOSAICO, NebulOuS, NexusForum.EU, ResilMesh, SOPRANO, TWAIN and TrustChain.
AI Sessions will be a series of events that promise to bring together AI startups, innovators, policymakers, legal & industry experts, investors and more. Through insightful panel discussions, interactive Q&A sessions, and practical takeaways, the AI Sessions aim to empower innovators with the tools and strategies needed to succeed in the evolving landscape of AI in Europe.
- The “AI Sessions – Navigating the European Commission’s AI Act”, will be the first event of this series and will focus on the key regulations, classifications, and startup impacts under the EU AI Act.
- The session will start with a keynote outlining what startups need to know regarding the European Commission’s AI Act, namely the key regulations, the AI Act’s goals and how this impacts startups, as well as the challenges and the opportunities for startups complying with it.
- It will be followed by a panel discussion on navigating compliance, exploring strategies for balancing innovation and regulatory adherence, and how startups can play a pivotal role in driving responsible AI development and governance.
- Finally, a roundtable discussion will focus on the challenges, opportunities and success stories of AI startups and public funding. Invited speakers will share insights into available programmes, successful funding strategies, and the future of AI funding in Europe.
- It will be followed by a panel discussion on navigating compliance, exploring strategies for balancing innovation and regulatory adherence, and how startups can play a pivotal role in driving responsible AI development and governance.
- Finally, a roundtable discussion will focus on the challenges, opportunities and success stories of AI startups and public funding. Invited speakers will share insights into available programmes, successful funding strategies, and the future of AI funding in Europe.
The projects taking part in this event
This edition of the AI Sessions is a collaboration between 17 EU-funded projects, each addressing critical AI-related challenges. Get to know them a bit better:
- AI4DEBUNK: Innovative AI Solutions to Support Trustworthy Online Activity
- AI4Europe: A community-driven channel empowering knowledge and services for the community
- AI4MEDIA: The go-to place for AI researchers & Media professionals to delve into AI applications in Media, share & exchange expertise, and stay informed & educated about AI.
- AI-BOOST: Aims to establish a prominent open challenge prize programme that will serve as a standard for the European Artificial Intelligence community.
- AID4SME: enabling SMEs to develop AI and Data solutions through the support of a Community of Practice and low-TRL & high-TRL playgrounds
- AUTOASSESS: AI & robotics for safe vessel inspection
- DeployAI: Deploying AI for business
- DiMAT: Holistic digital transformation for the SMEs manufacturing industry
- FOODITY: Puts the control of your food and nutrition data in your hands.
- HEDGE-IoT: Holistic Approach towards Empowerment of the DiGitalization of the Energy Ecosystem through the adoption of IoT solutions
- MOSAICO: Management, Orchestration and Supervision of AI-agent Communities for reliable AI in software engineering
- NebulOuS: Aims to become the go-to Operating System for the Cloud Computing Continuum.
- NexusForum.EU: Building a European Edge Cloud From Theory to Action
- ResilMesh: Situation-Aware Enabled Cyber Resilience for Dispersed, Heterogenous Cyber Systems
- SOPRANO: Socially Acceptable and Trustworthy Human-Robot Teaming for Agile Industries
- TWAIN: Integrated, Value-based, and Multi-objective Wind Farm Control powered by Artificial Intelligence
- TrustChain: Supports innovators to develop the Next Generation Internet protocols
