Munich AI Lectures

Foundational Methods for Foundation Models for Scientific Machine Learning

Prof. Dr. Virginia Dignum, Umeå University

   09.07.2025

   6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

   Plenarsaal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW), Alfons-Goppel-Straße 11, 80539 Munich

The invited speaker is Prof. Dr. Virginia Dignum, 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.

In her lecture titled “Responsible AI: Governance, Ethics and Sustainable Innovation”, Dignum will address how increasing autonomy in AI systems challenges existing governance structures and how ethical and sustainable approaches can guide the development of trustworthy AI.

A reception will follow the lecture from 7:45 to 9:00 PM.

The event will also be available via Livestream. The streaming link will be published on time on the Munich AI Lecture website.