Panel discussion
Co-hosted with CultTech Association
Moderator
Geraint Wiggins (GB)
Panelists
Susan Bischoff (DE)
Héloïse Fontanel (FR)
Rachel Armstrong (IE)
Geraint Wiggins (GB)
Geraint Wiggins is Professor of Computational Creativity at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Queen Mary University of London. He has studied artificial creative intelligence since 1987. He co-founded the field of Computational Creativity, and chaired the international Association for Computational Creativity from 2008 to 2014. He studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Cambridge and Artificial Intelligence (PhD, 1991) and Music (PhD, 2007) at the University of Edinburgh.
Héloïse Fontanel (FR)
Héloïse Fontanel is the head of European and International Public Affairs at Sacem, the world leader in the collective management of authors’ rights. A private, non-profit, Sacem represents almost 200 000 authors, composers, music publishers, dubbing and subtitling authors, writer-directors in all artistic genres. Sacem licenses all digital platforms, and all the ways musical works are used online. Héloïse chairs the Public Affairs & Coms Committee of GESAC since 2016. She worked at the European Commission before joining MCG Europe, a consultancy specialized in the audiovisual and telco sectors. She holds a MA on European Law from Paris Sorbonne University.
Susan Bischoff (DE)
Susan Bischoff is a fully qualified lawyer, doctoral candidate at the University of Freiburg and research associate at Morrison & Foerster. She researches and publishes on the challenges to European and German copyright law posed by digital forms of content use and accompanying business models, such as user-generated content, NFTs and AI. Her practice focuses on national and international intellectual property law in the fields of film, media and entertainment as well as platform regulation. She holds an LL.M. in Intellectual Property & the Digital Economy from the University of Glasgow and lectures on copyright and media law.
Rachel Armstrong (IE)
I am ZAP (independent) professor of Regenerative Architecture at KU Leuven and co-ordinator for the “Microbial Hydroponics” EIC Pathfinder Challenges project. I am Vice Chair of Supervisory Board of the EIT C&C and a Senior TED Fellow. I develop an approach for the design of applications for next generation sustainable, or “regenerative” architecture that exists at the intersection of design, architecture, science & ecology
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