Speakers

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 is primarily in the area of digital government. He studies how digital and data technologies can be used to support innovation in government institutions and address societal challenges. Prof. Ojo is keen on understanding the conditions and technical design requirements for the beneficial and ethical use of data-driven innovation, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence-based solutions in different public service and policy contexts

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. His work demonstrates how ethical considerations can be effectively integrated into technological innovation, setting standards for cities seeking to implement AI responsibly while ensuring citizen rights and democratic values

Aleksander Orłowski, PhD, DSc, Eng, professor at Gdańsk University of Technology in the Department of Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdańsk University of Technology, and Vice President of the Gdańsk Agglomeration Development Forum. Professionally, he researches and develops the Smart Cities concept, co-authored (2016-2017) studies on the Smart City readiness of ten leading Polish municipal offices, and authored the book: Model of the Process Readiness of a Municipal Office to Achieve a Smart City (2019). He is a scholarship holder of the Minister of Science and Higher Education (Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists 2016-2019), secretary of the Team for Urban and Metropolitan Areas of the Committee for Spatial Development of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2019-2023). He has completed research internships at the University of Newcastle Australia, Lebniz University Hannover, and Visual Interaction & Communication Technologies VicomTECH San Sebastian, among others. Consultant and member of teams preparing, among others, Smart Specialization project for the Pomeranian Voivodeship: Smart Port&City, member of the jury of the Smart City Poland Award competition

Professor Vera G. Master is Head of the IT Commission at the Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences (THB), Deputy Ombudsman for Integrity in Academic Work at THB, Deputy spokesperson of the working group on business informatics at universities of applied sciences in German-speaking countries, Assessor for ASIIN for the accreditation of study programs in business informatics and related disciplines, and Member of the Faculty Council for Economics at THB. Her areas of expertise include business process modeling standards, semantic technologies and knowledge modeling standards/vocabularies, higher education didactics & e-learning, competency-based assessment and video lectures, management processes in IT, IT management and IT governance, IT project management, software engineering

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

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 specialty "Computer Science" (bachelor's and master's degrees).