Day 1 (October 17, 2023)
OPENING (OCT 17, 9 AM)
- Christiane Wendehorst (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna): Welcome to the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Michael Stampfer (Vienna Science and Technology Fund - WWTF): Welcome to Vienna
- Christoph Bock (CeMM/OeAW & Medical University of Vienna): Convergence? Interfaces of the digital and the living
SESSION 1 "BODIES: CYBORGS ABOUND?" (OCT 17, 9:10 AM)
- Oskar Aszmann (Medical University of Vienna): Bionic extremity reconstruction - cyborgs ahead?
- Tamar R. Makin (University of Cambridge): Brain plasticity and body augmentation
- Dani Clode (University of Cambridge): Augmentation design exploring the future body
- Amber Case (Research Director at Metagov, New York): Calm technology
Coffee break
SESSION 2 "BRAINS: CONNECTED MIND?" (PART 1) (OCT 17, 11:10 AM)
- Surjo R. Soekadar (Charité, Berlin): Brain-computer interfaces
- Rajesh P. N. Rao (University of Washington, Seattle): Brain co-processors: when AI meets the brain
- Overview of the interactive formats
Lunch break
SESSION 3 "BRAINS: CONNECTED MIND?" (PART 2) (OCT 17, 1 PM)
- Joanna Bryson (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin): Artificial intelligence, ethics and collaborative cognition
- Johannes T.B. Overvelde (AMOLF & Eindhoven University of Technology): Physical intelligence in soft robots
- Various contributors to the conference: 2-minute presentations by the leaders of the interactive elements in Session 4
SESSION 4 "PARTICIPANT-CONTRIBUTED PROGRAM" (OCT 17, 2 PM)
* Short Talks: (1) Martina R. Fröschl: Look through the eyes of butterflies through immersive digital art. (2) Philipp Wintersberger: Unleashing the power of AI for managing human attention. (3) Moritz Grosse-Wentrup: Artificial intelligence & brain-computer interfaces. (4) Matthias Samwald: Trustworthy Superintelligence? How to control machines that are smarter than us. (5) Henriette Löffler-Stastka: Are we ready for un-controllabilities?
* Discussion Sessions:
Digital humanism in health and disease (lead: Michael Stampfer, Manfred Hecking, Christiane Druml)
Ageing & medicine (lead: Noah Weber, Nata Sturua, Melanie Kuhrn, Marc Brehme)
Coffee break
SESSION 5 "CELLS: HOMO SAPIENS 2.0?" (OCT 17, 4 PM)
- Elly Tanaka (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna): Regrowing our bodies
- Thomas Hartung (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore): Organoid intelligence: New frontier in biocomputing and intelligence-in-a-dish
- Tarja Knuuttila & Johannes Jäger (University of Vienna): Disruption or convergence? Cognition redistributed between the biological and the artificial
- Thomas Feuerstein (Independent artist, Vienna): Daemons of life. BioArt, technology & artificial intelligence
EVENING EVENT (OCT 17, 6 PM)
- Panel discussion "Living the future: How biomedical technology and AI may change society and humanity"
Light buffet dinner
Day 2 (October 18, 2023)
SESSION 6 "INTERACTIONS: I – YOU – WE?" (OCT 18, 9 AM)
- Brief summary of day 1 themes and day 2 outlook
- Natalie Sebanz (Central European University (CEU)): Joint action and the social mind
- Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv University): Evolution beyond the genes: Learning and experience, epigenetics and augmentation
- Kristina Kashtanova (AI artist & educator, New York): Creating worlds with AI
- Manos Tsakiris (Royal Holloway, University of London): Being a self in an artificially generated world
Coffee break
SESSION 7 "PARTICIPANT-CONTRIBUTED PROGRAM" (OCT 18, 11:10 AM)
* Short Talks: (1) Konstantinos Kafetsios: Context impacts emotion expression and perception. (2) Markus Tünte: The rhythms within - Investigating perception of heartbeat and respiration in infants. (3) Karen Kastenhofer: Epistemic, social, cultural and regulatory implications of technoscientific convergence. (4) Julia Keseru: Bodies of data or databodies? Our right to bodily integrity in a digital age. (5) Christopher Frauenberger: Rethinking human-technology relationships for designing alternative futures
* Discussion Sessions:
Robot rights & interactions (lead: Wolfgang Schröder, Astrid Weiss)
Enjoyable interfaces for boring data (lead: Martina Fröschl, Mehrta Shirzadian, Peter Mindek)
Lunch break
SESSION 8 "CULTURES: FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY?" (OCT 18, 1:50 PM)
- Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff (Institute for Information Systems & Society at WU Vienna): Value perception, ethics and technology implications
- Mark Coeckelbergh (University of Vienna): The problem of AI and climate change on the nexus of the technological and the living
- Bart de Witte (HIPPO AI Foundation, Berlin): Sustainable Innovation: The Power of Regenerative AI and ESG to Drive Finance Toward the Common Good
- Helga Nowotny (European Research Council (former president)): Prediction, uncertainty and the illusion of control - challenges for digitalized medicine
Coffee break
SESSION 9 "WRAP-UP & CLOSING" (OCT 18, 3:45 PM)
- Live Music in Virtual Space (Performance "ECHTZEITKUNSTWELT graz mp" by Dominik Gruehnbuehel, Sebastian Pirch & Norbert Unfug)
- Reports and outlooks from the Discussion sessions
- Summary of day 2 and future perspectives