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Abstract: This talk will provide an introductory overview of the EU's landmark regulation on AI, the AI Act. It will specifically seek to address the role of experts in its development, the foreseen impact on the technical and research communities, and how these can support its implementation. Furthermore, the talk will give participants an opportunity to learn more about the role of the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's science and knowledge service, in the shaping of the AI Act. Lastly, it will introduce the Commission's AI in Science Strategy, currently undergoing a public consultation.
Emilia Gómez Bio: Dr. Emilia Gómez (MSc. Telecommunication Engineering, PhD in Computer Science) joined the JRC in 2018. She leads the Human Behaviour and Machine Intelligence (HUMAINT) team, providing technical and scientific support to EU AI policies, notably the AI Act and the Digital Services Act, as part of the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency. She is also a guest professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and has a long academic experience in the fields of Music Information Retrieval and Human-Centric Machine Learning.
She was the 1st female president of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, is a member of the OECD One AI expert group, an ELLIS fellow, and her work has been recognized by means of citations and honors, e.g. EUWomen4Future, Red Cross Award to Humanitarian Technologies or ICREA Academia.
Elinor Wahal Bio: Elinor Wahal is a Legal and Policy Officer at the European Commission’s AI Office, working in the AI Regulation and Compliance Unit. As an EU and International AI Governance Expert, Elinor contributes to the European Commission's Artificial intelligence policy development, its AI regulatory framework, as well as the European Union's international strategy for AI policy.
Prior to joining the European Commission, Elinor was Director at the global business advisory firm FTI Consulting, where she led the activities on European and International AI policy.
Elinor’s experience also includes working with WHO’s digital health team and the OECD. In Paris, she worked on AI and its policy implications at the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science & Technology, and she lectured on Innovation at the Polytechnic Institute of Paris.
Elinor was editor of the collective volume Unboxing AI: Understanding Artificial Intelligence (Fondazione Feltrinelli Editore, 2021), and authored multiple international academic publications on AI and digital policy.
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Irwin King
10 April 2025
