RAID Brussels 2025 Regulation of AI, Internet and Data
Welcome Address
Panel 1: Smart Regulation for Intelligent Economies – Comparing International Approaches
- How to balance regulation and innovation to promote more productive economic growth.
- Agile regulation: should regulators permit mistakes in order to learn from them?
- Sharing experiences to improve regulation across industries, and how to avoid regulatory overlap and inefficiency.
- What is the best way to establish universal approaches to regulation?
Panel 2: How Europe Can Build Competitive AI Applications
- Why is it important for European AI applications to be trained on European data?
- Where are Europe’s key datasets and how can they be made accessible, standardised
and interoperable, for example through national data libraries? - Should European governments provide data as a public good, and how can they balance public and private interests?
- How and why should public compute capacity be increased?
Panel 3: International Data Flows in a Time of Fragmentation
- How is increasing global friction impacting data transfer laws?
- What are the opportunities and constraints of standard contractual clauses (SCCs) for data transfers between countries and jurisdictions?
- How are regulators forging alliances?
- Where do the legitimate sovereignty concerns lie?
Keynote Q&A: What is AI, and Are We in Control?
Is AI an enhanced data processing technology, or is it developing agency? Can AI be sentient and does this matter? Gauging the pace of AI development – are we at a crossroads to superintelligence? Is the singularity nearer?
Lunch and Networking
Panel 4: AI and Data in Healthcare and Pharma: Balancing Innovation and Ethics
- How is the AI Act impacting innovation in the healthcare and pharma industries?
- What are the most important regulatory considerations when enabling access to health data for research and development?
- How do global regulatory approaches compare? How are regulatory frameworks, such as those of the FDA, EMA, and MHRA, evolving to address the use of AI?
- Does the need to comply with horizontal tech legislation help or hinder the development of safe new products?
Panel 5: What Do European Tech Companies Need to Stay in Europe?
- How can regulatory burdens on Europe’s tech companies be reduced? What regulatory barriers to entry and scale-up do European tech companies face?
- How can regulators enhance access to capital markets and public investment?
- What is being done to improve education and infrastructure to enable growth in the tech industry?
- What needs to be done to strengthen the Single Market, to link EU and national systems?
Coffee Break and Networking
Panel 6: Cross Sector Insights on Implementing the AI Act and Comparable Legislation
- Balancing innovation with responsibility – how regulators can be pragmatic in interpreting legislation.
- How are industries dealing with implementing the AI Act and related legislation
- What are the biggest compliance challenges and how can they be overcome?
- Comparing the AI Act with relevant legislation in other jurisdictions.
Panel 7: Data and AI in Mobility: Can Regulators Help Drive Innovation?
- Compare and contrast which jurisdictions are leading mobility regulation
- What are the challenges and opportunities of data sharing frameworks such as European Mobility Data Space?
- How can the “FAIR” principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability be applied to transportation data?
- The future of connected and autonomous vehicles: what practical applications will emerge next and in what timeframes?
Cocktail Reception
In the garden, weather permitting
VIP Dinner (invitation only)
MOBILITY REGULATORY COMPLIANCE WORKSHOP
FINANCE REGULATORY COMPLIANCE WORKSHOP
VIP Address
Panel 8: Balancing Privacy and Innovation
- How do regulators approach safeguarding personal data while enabling data-driven innovation?
- What impact is legislation such as the Data Act and the Data Governance Act having on industry verticals?
- How are different jurisdictional data protection laws developing, and what are the drivers and opportunities for alignment?
- How can companies show leadership in privacy, through initiatives such as privacy-by-design and privacy-enhancing technologies?
Panel 9: How Can Policy Harness Investment into European AI?
- What do investors need from lawmakers and regulators to accelerate investment?
- Where is the money coming from?
- How should public sector investment stimulate private investments?
- How can policymakers best engage with investors?
Refreshments & Networking
Panel 10: Why and How Algorithms Should be Regulated
- What are the biggest risks posed by algorithms and does current legislation address them sufficiently?
- Transparency vs innovation: what is reasonable to disclose and what is needed?
- What can we learn from the regulation of industries such as pharmaceuticals, automotive and banking?
- How can regulators have confidence that companies are in control?
Panel 11: Balancing the Pros and Cons of Very Large Online Platforms
- Is it possible to provide consumers with greater choice, while retaining the benefits of network effects of the VLOPs?
- How does the Digital Markets Act compare with legislation across industries and jurisdictions?
- How to ensure competition policy does not block consolidation and M&A in the tech sector if Europe is to be competitive
- Should the playing field be levelled further to allow newcomers to compete?
Lunch & Networking
Keynote Address: Free Speech and Accountability
Where does responsibility for content lie? Do platforms have a responsibility to distinguish fact from falsehood? How should lawmakers and regulators tackle these tensions?
Panel 12: Making Online Spaces Safe and Trustworthy
- Comparing cross-jurisdictional approaches to age restrictions.
- How are jurisdictions tackling broader issues of trust and safety?
- Comparing the Digital Services Act with legislation in other jurisdictions.
- How are platforms responding to concerns over trust and safety? Are self-regulation and community-based approaches adequate?
Refreshments & Networking
Panel 13: Regulating Financial Services in the Age of AI
- What risks does AI exacerbate or create in financial services?
- Are these risks best addressed by horizontal or vertical legislation?
- Is the growing acceptance of digital financial assets a good thing for stability?
- What lessons can regulators in other sectors learn from financial services?
Panel 14: Legislating for AI’s Transformative Effect on Robotics
- Does Europe have an opportunity for harnessing AI in robotics, and in which sectors?
- What impact is AI-driven robotics having on jobs and productivity, and how can lawmakers promote positive impacts?
- How are regulators around the world addressing the rise of autonomy in robotics?
- How are human-robot interactions advancing and what opportunities and challenges does this present for industries and their regulators?
CLOSE OF CONFERENCE
HEALTH CARE REGULATORY COMPLIANCE WORKSHOP
REGULATORS & LAWMAKERS WORKSHOP