1rst Edition Program

DAY 1, Tuesday June 10, 2025

Welcoming Coffee (8.15 - 8.45)

Introductory Session (8.45 - 9.00)

Session 1 (9.00 - 10.00): LLMs for Data

• How LLMs transform Market Research: Applications, Trends, and Future Prospects, Isabelle Engeler, Management, UNIL, HEC, DMK

• Information Extraction from Competition Authority’s Decisions Using Machine Learning and LLMs, Arnold Vialfont, Economics, UPEC

• MultiCyclone: Multi-Modal Learning for Tropical Cyclone Intensity Prediction, Ilia Azizi, Statistics & Computer Science, UNIL, HEC, DO

Session 2 (10.00 - 11.00): Education

• Co-Designing the Future of Learning: My Experience Using Hoja AI at UNIL, Katherine Tatarinov, Management, UNIL, HEC, SGS

• Critical Assessment of ChatGPT Data analysis “skills”  Eva Cantoni, Statistics, UNIGE, GSEM

• Could ChatGPT Get an Engineering Degree? Evaluating Higher Education Vulnerability to AI Assistants, Anna Sotnikova, Computer Science, EPFL, NLP Lab, Postdoctoral researcher

Coffee break (11.00 - 11.30)

Session 3 (11.30 - 12.30): Serious Game on AI

• Exploring the Social and Environmental Challenges of Generative AI, Céline Carle-Faye & Callista Spiteri, Resilio

Lunch (12.30 - 14.00)

Session 4 (14.00 - 15.00): AI in Practice

• From Shelves to Suggestions: Rethinking How We Find Knowledge at the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne , Michalis Vlachos, Computer Science, UNIL, HEC, DESI

• AI in Practice – Exploring Horizons, Sandro Saitta, viadata, Advisor in Data & AI

• Practical Uses of AI at Nestlé, Vivek Mehta, Nestlé

• AI Security Testing for Autonomous Vehicles, Kathrin Grosse, Computer Science,  IBM

Session 5 (15.00-16.00): Healthcare

•  A General Overview of LLMs in Healthcare, François Bastardot, Clinical Informatics, CHUV, Chief Medical Information Officer

• Trevor: Towards Explainable AI to Support Self-Management in Patients with Rare Diseases, David-Zacharie Issom, Computer Science, HESSO HEG Genève

• Building Large-Scale Interpretable Generative Models for Health and Disease, Julien Bodelet, Computer Science, CHUV 

• Assessing Brain Diseases Using Smartphones, Oliver Chén, Computer Science, CHUV, Chief of Bio-informatics Platform

Coffee break (16.00 - 16.30)   

Session 6 (16.30-18.00): AI challenges (1/3) – Adoption and Acceptability

• AI at UNIL: Good Practices, Institutional Projects and Governance, Thé Van Luong, Computer Science, UNIL, Head of AI and Research IT Systems, and Nicolas Salamin, Computer Science, UNIL.

• Ban Chatgpt, Provide Guidelines, Regulate Procurement or Develop it in House? Public Administration and LLMs in California and France, Gilles Jeannot, Sociology, ENPC, LATTS

• Human-AI Interaction in the Age of LLMs, Yuanjun Feng, Computer Science, UNIL, HEC, DESI

• Consumer–AI Interactions: From Reactance to Collaboration, Melanie Clegg, Management, UNIL, HEC, DMK

DAY 2, Wednesday June 11, 2025

Session 7 (9.00 - 10.00): AI challenges (2/3) – Information and Privacy

• The Limits of AI Safeguards: The Challenge of Combatting AI-Generated Fake News, Amirsiavosh Bashardoust, UNIL, Computer Science, UNIL, HEC, DESI

• Leveraging Data Shared with Conversational Agents for Large-Scale Manipulation, Noé Zufferey, Computer Science, ETHZ, Postdoctoral researcher

• Ask_ArchiLab: Enhancing Archival Practice through Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Basma Makhlouf-Shabou and Wassila Ramli, HESSO HEG Genève

Session 8 (10.00 - 11.00): AI challenges (3/3) – Environment and Responsibility

• Environmental and social impacts of AI, Julia Paolini, Computer Science, EPFL, Research Engineer

• Mastering Data: A Lever for Corporate Digital Responsibility, Dessislava Leclere and Athanasios Priftis, Computer Science, HESSO HEG Genève

Coffee break (11.00 - 11.30)

Session 9 (11.30 - 12.30): Legal Environment of AI

• Mapping Global AI Regulation, Florence Guillaume, Law, Founder of the LexTech Institute,  and Alexis Lombart, Law, UNINE

• Right to Privacy and Non-discrimination, Nesa Zimmermann, Law, UNINE, Chair of Swiss and Comparative Constitutional Law

• Answering AI by Social Dialogue, the Example of Collective Agreements in France, Claire Marzo, Law, UPEC       

Lunch (12.30 - 14.00)

Session 10 (14.00 - 15.00): AI in Legal Practice

• Can AI Experimentation Solve the Pacing Dilemma? Preliminary Results of an Empirical Analysis of Regulatory Sandboxes, Sophie Weerts, Law, UNIL, IDHEAP

• AI and Law: How Automation is Changing the Law, Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux, Law, UNIL, Founder of the Legal Design & Code Lab

• AI in the Public Transnational Domain: Unavoidable Digital Divide?, Agnese Raimondi, Operational Research, UNIL, HEC, DO, and Valentina Scioneri, Senior Researcher & Project Administrator at Foundation Sociography ETS

Coffee break (15.00 - 15.30)

Session 11 (15.30-17.00): Regulating AI Technologies

• France’s innovative PEReN : Pooling DS and AI experts to supercharge regulators, Lucas Serrano, Data Scientist - Software Engineering Lead at PEReN

• Switzerland’s Approach to AI Governance : Balancing Innovation, Fundamental Rights and Trust, Thomas Schneider, Ambassador and Director of International Relations (OFCOM) & Chair of CoE Committee on AI (CAI)

• AI in the Swiss Federal Administration : Examples and Challenges, as Seen From the Perspective of the CNAI, Kerstin Johansson Baker, Head of CNAI Unit

Concluding session (17.00 - 17.15)

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