2021

EurAIEuropean Association for Artificial Intelligence

Carles Sierra (President)

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Key Talking PointsOrganisations involved

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Conference ECAI

Course ACAI

Governance: Board, General Assembly

ADRA

Organisations involvedThe European Association for Artificial Intelligencewas established in July 1982 as a representativebody for the European Artificial Intelligencecommunity. Its aim is to promote the study,research, and application of Artificial Intelligence inEurope.

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Associació Catalana d'Intel·ligència Artificial

ACIAАссоциация Создателей и Пользователей Интеллектуальных Систем

ADUIS

Association Française pour l'Intelligence Artificielle

AFIAArtificial Intelligence Association of Ireland

AIAI

Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale

AIxAIAssociação Portuguesa para a Inteligência Artificial

APPIA

Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour

AISB

Associació Catalana d'Intel·ligència Artificial

ARIA

Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial

AEPIA

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Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence

ASAIBulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association

BAIA

Benelux Association for Artificial Intelligence

BNVKI/AIABNČeská společnost pro kybernetiku a informatiku

CSKI

Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society

EETNSuomen Tekoälyseura

FAIS

Danish Artificial Intelligence Society

DAIS

Fachbereich Künstliche Intelligenz der Gesellschaft für Informatik

GI-FBKI

Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence

BCS-SGAI

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Israeli Association for Artificial Intelligence

IAAIIn process of adhesion

In process

Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Society

NAISNeumann János Számítógép-tudományi Társaság

NJSZT

Российская ассоциация искусственного интеллекта

RAAISwedish Artificial Intelligence Society

SAIS

Polish Artificial Intelligence Society

PAIS

Swiss Group for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science

SGAICO

Lietuvos KompiuterininkųSąjunga

LIKS-AIS

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Slovenian Artificial Intelligence Society

SLAISSlovenská spoločnosť pre kybernetiku a informatiku pri SAV

SSKI SAV

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Conference ECAI

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The premier conference on AI• First Conference Brighton (1974). Organised by AISB but considered the first European

Conference.• Organised in València by AEPIA and ACIA in 2004.• Organised by AEPIA (online) in 2020. To be physically organised in Santiago de Compostela

in 2024 • Every four years in collaboration with IJCAI in Europe

• Next conference, IJCAI-ECAI-2022, will take place in Vienna, Austria, hosted by ZIF and theKurt Goedel Society

• From 2022 an anual conference.

Curs ACAI

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ACAI Highlights• Hold in odd-numbered years.

• The EurAI's 18th Advanced Course on AI will take place in Berlin from 11-15 October 2021. The main theme will be "Human-centred AI".

• The EurAI’s 19th Advanced Course on AI (ACAI) will take place in Barcelona organised byACIA in March 2022. First time in Spain.

Awards and grants

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• Distinguished Service Award

• Fellows. 181 researchers, up to 3% membership.

• AI Dissertation Award since 1998.

• AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. 1M$ Award.

Governance

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BoardSteven Schockaert (Treasurer), Fredrik Heintz, Holger Hoos, CatholijnJonker, Torsten Schaub, Carles Sierra (President)

General Assembly

Meeting once a Year.

ADRA

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Adra Signature. May 20, 2021

• Openness and inclusiveness to bring European and cross-domain knowledge together to fulfill the vision• Openness to include new partners (new businesses, new experts, new knowledge, new entrepreneurs etc.)• Joint strategy leveraging European strengths and unique selling points to be developed

BUT also a strong focus on new emerging businesses (e.g. verticals, service businesses etc.)• Leading principle must produce valuable content in/for Europe and to overcome particular interests. Trust to each others.• Well balanced amount of members covering AI, Data and Robotics and well balanced between Research and Industry.

Representativeness of the new innovation forces/communities (e.g Start-ups, high-tech companies, …)

https://ai-data-robotics-partnership.eu/

Strategic Research Innovation and Deployment AgendaCross-sectorial Technology Enablers:

SRIDA v2 SRIDA v3

Sensing, measurement and

Perception

Continuous and Integrated Knowledge

Trustworthy Hybrid Decision Making

Physical and Human Action and Interaction

Systems, Methodologies and

Hardware

Sensing and Perception

Data, Knowledge and Learning

Reasoning and Decision Making

Action and Interaction

Systems, Methodologies and

Hardware

Implementing the Partnerships: key IAs

Thanks for listening!

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