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January, 19, 2026

CONFERENCE

AI for public sector co-creation: values, challenges, and competences

Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

Faculty of Management and Economics

Traugutta str., 79, Room 110/111

Welcome to the Conference "AI for Public Sector Co-Creation: Values, Challenges, and Competences"

Conference "AI for public sector co-creation: values, challenges, and competences" is the final dissemination event of the AICOSERV Project that is co-funded by the Erasmus+ EMDM Programme. The project is coordinated by Gdańsk University of Technology, with consortium partners from Austria, Portugal, Germany, Sweden, Ukraine, and Poland.

The conference will focus on:

presenting the key results of the AICOSERV project, including research findings, analytical frameworks, and educational outcomes related to AI-enabled public sector co-creation;
exchanging knowledge and experiences on the use of artificial intelligence in public services, with particular attention to values, ethics, transparency, and citizen participation;
discussing best practices and real-world cases of AI-supported co-creation in public administration from partner countries;
presenting the results of the project: "Development of a technology enabling algorithm-based computer analysis of real estate to maximize its use for hotel purposes" (No. POIR.01.01.01-00-0900/21-10), co-financed by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund) as a practical example of AI-enabled decision support and co-creation involving data-driven analysis and stakeholder input;
creating a space for dialogue between academics, public administration representatives, policymakers, practitioners, civil society organisations, and technology experts.

The event combines scientific, practical, and policy-oriented perspectives. The programme includes keynote talks, roundtable discussions, panel debates and project results presentations and offers participants an opportunity to exchange experiences and establish new professional connections.

Participation in the conference is free of charge. Coffee breaks and lunch are included.

The conference will be conducted in English.

Registration is open until 16.01.2026 via the online registration form:

Registration form

Keynotes

Adegboyega Ojo

Adegboyega Ojo is Full Professor at the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University, Canada. Prof. Ojo is also Canada Research Chair in Governance and Artificial Intelligence. His research focuses on how AI, data-driven innovation and advanced analytics improve government services and address societal challenges while ensuring ethical implementation. He examines the technical and policy conditions needed for AI adoption in the public sector, with a focus on transparency, accountability and social impact. Before joining Carleton University, he was a tenured faculty at Maynooth University and earlier a Senior Research Fellow & Head of the E-Government Unit at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University of Galway, Republic of Ireland. He also worked at the Centre for Electronic Governance, United Nations University in Macao SAR, China, where he supported governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in developing digital government strategies. Adegboyega is Associate Editor of the Government Information Quarterly Journal (Elsevier), Digital Government: Research and Practice journal (ACM) and also the Information Polity Journal (IOS Press).

Virginia Dignum

Virginia Dignum is the Professor of Responsible AI at Umeå University and head of the AI Policy Lab. She serves as Chair of the ACM Technology Policy Council and advises the Wallenberg Foundations on AI policy. Dignum is a Wallenberg Scholar, EURAI and ELLIS Fellow, and co-chair of the WEF Global Future Council on AI, among many other expert roles. As Director of the AI Policy Lab at Umea University, Virginia has created a collaborative hub of researchers to share ideas about AI policies. Virginia’s educational qualifications include an MSc in Computer Science from Vrije Universitieit Amsterdam and a PhD in Computer Science from Utrecht University. With over 12 years of experience in consultancy and system development, Virginia returned to her alma mater Utrecht University as an Assistant Professor and is currently the Principal Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Having been the Chair of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Virginia is an Executive Committee Member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Autonomous Systems. She is also an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at the Delft University of Technology.

Michał Kuszewski

Michał Kuszewski is an AI and ethics specialist serving as the Chief Specialist for Innovative Economy at the Warsaw City Hall, where he coordinates the "Generating Innovations" program as part of Warsaw's 2030 Strategy. Combining his background in psychology and UX design with experience in public administration, he takes an interdisciplinary approach to challenges associated with new technologies in urban governance.

Michał is the coordinator and co-creator of the "Guidelines for Responsible Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Warsaw City Hall" - one of Europe's first municipal-level initiatives establishing comprehensive ethical frameworks for GenAI use in public administration. He created and leads an inter-departmental working group comprising representatives from eight Warsaw City Hall offices, collaborating with external experts from SWPS University, EGO, and the Center for Ethics of Technology at the Humanities Institute.

Currently, Michał coordinates a group of experts focused on developing and implementing responsible AI practices in municipal services. He actively promotes knowledge about responsible AI use in public administration through conferences and expert groups, including participation in the AI Working Group at the Ministry of Digital Affairs.

Jan Cudzik

Jan Cudzik (Architect, PhD) is an accomplished scholar and innovator who bridges architecture, artificial intelligence, and digital technologies. As Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Gdańsk University of Technology, he leads the Laboratory of Digital Technologies and Materials of the Future, focusing on computational design and AI applications in the built environment.

His research encompasses kinematic architecture, digital fabrication, and the integration of advanced artificial intelligence into architectural workflows. As COO and Research Lead of OutlineAI, he oversees the development of generative AI tools that compress weeks of site analysis and design into minutes, enabling architects and urban planners to make data-driven decisions rapidly. OutlineAI has been recognized as a PropTech Festival 2024, EEC 2025, and Infoshare 2025 winner, and holds a patent for a geometric method combining AI with architectural design (US Patent No. 11,960,798 B1).

Plenary speakers

Tomasz Janowski

Tomasz Janowski is an Associate Professor at Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland; an Invited Professor at the University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria; an Associate Editor of Government Information Quarterly; and a President-Elect of the Digital Government Society. An expert in digital government, sustainable digital transformation, and digital transformation for sustainability, he has been on Stanford University's list of the World's Top 2% scientists, both for lifelong career impact and single-year impact, continuously since 2023. He brings nearly two decades of experience within the United Nations system, including serving as the founding head of UNU-EGOV. He has lectured to academic and policy audiences in over 60 countries and led more than 40 projects with a combined value of over USD 9 million, including projects with funding from international organizations such as the Commonwealth Secretariat, the European Commission, EIT, IDB, OSCE, UNDP, UNESCO, UNU, and the World Bank.

Luís Barbosa

Luís Soares Barbosa is currently the Deputy Head of UNU-EGOV. He is also Full Professor at the Department of Informatics of the University of Minho and senior researcher at the High Assurance Software Laboratory at Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Tecnologia e Ciência (HASLab INESC TEC). In recent years, he has coordinated six research projects at the national level, bilateral partnerships with Brazil and China, and served as the Portuguese coordinator for the Language Engineering and Rigorous Software Development ALFA EU-Latin America network. He participated in a number of consultancy missions to International Institutions and Governments, including the UN and UNESCO, as well as Governments of Colombia, S. Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde, Mozambique and Guiné-Bissau

João Álvaro Carvalho

João Álvaro Carvalho is an Adjunct Professor at the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV) since 2015. He is also a full professor at the Department of Information Systems, School of Engineering, University of Minho and a researcher at Centro ALGORITMI, University of Minho.
His academic interests are focused on the fundamentals of information systems and enterprise development interventions that involve adopting, using and exploiting information technology. He is also interested in research approaches and methods and in information systems curricula and education. The results of his work have been published in book chapters, journal articles and conference proceedings. He has supervised around 20 doctoral students and more than 30 master’s degree students

Nina Rizun

Nina Rizun is an Assistant Professor at the Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Management and Economics, Department of Informatics in Management (Gdańsk, Poland); a Visiting Professor at the School of Public Policy & Administration at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada); and at Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences (Brandenburg, Germany); coordinator of AICOSERV project

Her main research interests include advanced computational and linguistic analytics, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing, with a focus on their application to robust policy analytics for service improvement, decision support, and evidence-based policymaking. Her thematic fields include AI-enabled public service co-creation, e-government and ICT governance, AI safety and ethics in the public sector, open government data, and smart sustainable cities

Vera Meister

Prof. Dr. Vera G. Meister is a Full Professor for Business Information Systems and Knowledge Management at Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, where she also serves as Vice President for Teaching and Internationalization. Her academic work focuses on business process modeling, knowledge engineering, enterprise knowledge graphs, and digitalization in organizations. She has extensive experience in university teaching, research leadership, and international academic cooperation, as well as a strong background in applied research and e-learning systems. She holds a PhD in Mathematics and combines interdisciplinary expertise from mathematics, economics, and information systems.

Magdalena Ciesielska

Magdalena Ciesielska, PhD is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland. Her research focuses on digital government, smart and sustainable cities, and the governance of digital transformation in the public sector. She examines how digital technologies, including AI, reshape public service delivery, citizen engagement, and institutional arrangements. She has served as a track chair and reviewer at major international conferences in information systems and public administration and has been involved in several international research projects, including EU-funded initiatives on smart cities, digital governance, and service innovation. Her work has been published in leading international journals and presented at top-tier conferences

Nina Khairova

Nina Khairova is a professor in Computational Linguistics. The research interests cover computational linguistics, Machine Learning for Text Mining, misinformation detection, LLM, and responsible AI. Her research focuses on understanding natural language, exploring models, and developing approaches for language processin. She is actively involved in the projects: ‘A Human-AI Approach to Misinformation Detection in the Context of News Reporting on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine‘ and ‘Building TRUST in Social Media: Assessing the Trustworthiness of Public Information on Ukrainian Migration to Europe’

Marta Kuc-Czarnecka

Marta Kuc-Czarnecka serves as Vice-Dean for Organization of Studies at the Faculty of Management and Economics of Gdańsk University of Technology, as well as the Dean’s Plenipotentiary for AMBA Accreditation. She is a co-founder of Rethinking Economics Gdańsk and a member of the Edward Lipiński Foundation for the Promotion of Pluralism in Economic Sciences. From 2018 to 2022, she worked as an expert for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

She is a long-standing member of the Regional Studies Association, the Polish Statistical Association, the Polish Economic Society, the Classification and Data Analysis Section of the Polish Statistical Association, and the European Regional Science Association. She holds a GIS analyst certification and is passionate about modern data visualization methods

Yuliia Bartashevska

Yulia Bartashevskaya is Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Information Technologies at Alfred Nobel University. She took part in projects for the digitalization of education. She was the head of the research topic: "Methods and algorithms in computer modelling problems"; a participant in the international project "Digital Ukraine: ensuring academic success in crisis"). She has experience in the creation, implementation and positive accreditation by the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance of study programs (Ukraine) in the speciality "Computer Science" (bachelor's and master's degrees).

Venue

Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Management and Economics

Traugutta 79 Street, 1st Floor,

Room 110/111, Gdańsk, Poland

Gdańsk University of Technology is the oldest technical university in northern Poland, and is currently one of the leading universities in Poland. It has 8 faculties, which educate over 14,000 students in over 30 fields of study.

The Faculty of Management and Economics at Gdańsk University of Technology is a rapidly growing Faculty, offering career opportunities to students by providing market-oriented educational courses in Bachelor's, Engineering, Master's and PhD programmes. The Faculty also offers an MBA programme - Master of Business Administration, aimed at active professionals. It offers more than 30 postgraduate courses. Some degree courses are offered in both full-time and part-time (weekend) modes

Coference is supported by the European Union through the Erasmus+ Programme, under the project AICOSERV (AI Technologies for Sustainable Public Service Co-Creation). Project No. 101180346, funded by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).

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