Connectionists: IEEE Computer Society’s Digital Platforms and Societal Harms Event

[Nathalie Japkowicz]

The IEEE Computer Society invites interested academics, policy experts, computing professionals, and civil society leaders to participate in an international event on Digital Platforms on Societal Harms which will take place in Washington DC on October 2nd and 3rd.

This novel event features invited international speakers with backgrounds in public policy, government, artificial intelligence, and other computing technologies and will focus on solutions to the challenges of hate speech, extremism, exploitation, misinformation and disinformation on digital platforms. Our keynote panels can be attended in person or online (either live or via a recording at your convenience).

Those participating in-person will have access to additional sessions and benefits including:
* The opportunity to share research / products / services / work in this space by providing a poster and / or software demos (NB: posters are for display only and will not be published).
* Networking opportunities with others working in this space across disciplines and sectors.
* Small group discussions to share thoughts on the panels and add expertise from the attendees to the discussion.
* An introductory session to IEEE’s work in public policy and standards followed by workshops. to discuss potential new engagements in the public policy and standards space to tackle hate speech, extremism, exploitation, misinformation and disinformation.
* A number of expert workshops addressing the event’s themes.
* The event includes a dinner to facilitate further networking and discussion.

This event has been heavily subsidized by the IEEE Computer Society and places for in-person attendance are limited, please register now to avoid disappointment and to benefit from the early bird discounts (public: $290; IEEE Members: $175; IEEE Students: $120). Early bird discounts are also currently available for online participation in the keynote panels (public: $64; IEEE Members: $52; IEEE Students: $28). Until September 15, universities wishing to have a class watch a keynote panel may purchase sets of 50 student tickets for a heavily reduced price of $800 (equivalent to $16 per ticket).

Further details: https://tech-forum.computer.org/societal-harms-2023/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/tech-forum.computer.org/societal-harms-2023/__;!!IaT_gp1N!xF8Fc_k8e-3Isx7HjFDm44y2K3FF8p5YkmdSaqU8EBf6Gdz1nTF6WYK1EmNRbrEK6MKfI--xfM90RBn7$>




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Nathalie Japkowicz, Ph.D.                               Links to Publications

Professor and Chair                                          Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=U884avUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao>

Department of Computer Science                 DBLP<https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/j/Japkowicz:Nathalie>

American University

http://fs2.american.edu/japkowic/www/

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