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July 5 – 7: keynote ‘The techno-terrestrial condition: human-technology relations and the anthropocene’. Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations conference 2022, Copenhagen.
June 14: lecture ‘Ethiek van AI op de werkvloer: van beoordelen naar begeleiden’. Sociaal-Economische Raad Vlaanderen, Brussel.
June 2: lecture at Werkconferentie Ethiek en Digitalisering in de Zorg, Leiden.
May 30: symposium ‘The Ethics of Science in Society: Lessons from the Pandemic’, DesignLab University of Twente, organized with the UNESCO World Commission for the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology.
May 23: lecture ‘Wetenschap als basis voor de politiek? Tussen fact-free science en evidence-based policy’. Mini-symposium Parlement en Wetenschap, Den Haag.
April 8: Keynote on Disruptive Technologies and Responsible Design at AGRAFA2022 conference, Katowice.
March 17: lecture ‘Disruptive Technologies and the Ethics of Technology’, The Futures Lecture Series, Edinburgh Futures Institute
Jan 28-29: conference ‘Intercultural Ethics and Technology’, organized within the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies research program.
Jan 24: lecture ‘Technological hermeneutics and the ethics of technology’, ARRTI Lectures and Seminars Karlsruhe

2021

Dec 16: keynote ‘Techno-topology: Interculturality and the Technological Mediation of Place’. PLATIAL’21 conference, ITC, The Netherlands
Dec 9: keynote ‘Disruptive Technologies and Responsible Design’. Conference ‘Senses&Sensibility21: Designing Next Gernera(c)t!ons’, Bari (Italy)
Nov 18: (Dutch) keynote ‘De ethiek van medische techniek: verantwoord omgaan met de digitale revolutie in de zorg’ – opening van conferentie Nederlandse Vereniging voor Medisch Onderwijs (postponed because of COVID restrictions)
Nov 5: lecture ‘COVID Technologies and Techno-Anthropology: Lessons from the Pandemic’. Aalborg University, campus Copenhagen.
Oct 25: keynote ‘Ethics as Enabling Infrastructure’. IAEA technical meeting on AI for nuclear applications.
Oct 7: public discussion with Ron Wakkary on design research and philosophy of technology
Sept 24: presentation at UNESCO Intergovernmental Bioethics Commission on COVID-19 passes
July 5: panelist in webcast
‘Citizen Participation for Smart Nation Governance‘, NTU Singapore & DesignLab University of Twente
June 29: paper ‘Living in the Flesh: Technologically Mediated Chiasmic Relationships in Times of a Pandemic’, with Bas de Boer. 2021 Conference Society for Philosophy and Technology
June 28:lecture ‘Technology and Morality: How Bioethics meets Philosophy of Technology’. Yale Summer Institute in Bioethics 2021.
June 28: paper ‘Rethinking What Things Do‘, panel on The “Thingly Turn” in the Philosophy of Technology: Assessment and Perspectives. 2021 Conference Society for Philosophy and Technology
June 17: lecture ‘The Ethics of Clinical Technologies’, 20th anniversary conference Bioethics Advisory Committee Singapore.
April 14: panel on Ethics and Artificial Intelligence, SG Innovate event Singapore & The Netherlands
April 8: lecture at conference ‘Corporate Ethics in a Changing World’, UC Davis (digital).
April 7: speaker at conference ‘The Future of Education’, PO Raad
March 25: lecture and Q&A ‘CYBORG FUTURES‘ (digital)
March 18: digital visit Queen Maxima on Responsible Artificial Intelligence
March 16: keynote lecture ‘Disruptive Technologies and the Reconfiguration of Risk’, SRA-A conference 2021
March 3: keynote ‘On Intertechnicality: Postphenomenology, New Materialism, and Digital Materiality’. Conference On humans and machines. Human-machine interactions in digital cultures. FernUniversität Hagen (Germany)
Feb 24: keynote lecture ‘Artificial Intelligence and ethical disruption’. SACAIR conference, Pretoria (digital).
Jan 28: Roundtable discussion with Yasmine Boudiaf, CPDP conference Brussels (online), on art, intercultural ethics, and digital technologies.

2020

Dec 8: lecture ‘Digital citizenship and the ethical guidance of digitalization’. Kenniscentrum Data en Maatschappij / Vlaamse Akademie van België voor Wetenschap en Kunsten.
20 Nov: Citizen Science conference, DesignLab University of Twente
Nov 8: High-Level Dialogue Panel on Scientific Ethics and Science Culture at the 2nd World Forum on Science and Technology Development (WFEO).
Nov 4-7: Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations conference 2020 (digital conference, hosted from the DesignLab of the University of Twente).
Oct 29: Lecture Webinar ‘Mensgerichte Artificiële Intelligentie’Webinar ‘Mensgerichte Artificiële Intelligentie’, Nederlandse AI Coalitie
Oct 7: Keynote lecture at SURF SUMMIT 2020, on Responsible Digitalization in Science and Education.
Sept 14 – 18: (digital) meeting UNESCO World Commission for the Ethics of Science and Technology
Aug 31 – Sept 4: (hybrid) meeting of the UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Group on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
July 14: lecture ‘Technology and Morality: How Bioethics meets Philosophy of Technology’. Yale Summer Institute in Bioethics (digital lecture)
July 2: invited lecture ‘The Moral Status of Technological Artifacts’. Lisbon: Filosofia da Ciência, Tecnologia, Arte e Sociedade (digital lecture)
June 8: keynote lecture ‘Responsible Innovation for a Digital Society’. 27th Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, Antwerp (digital lecture because of the corona virus)
June 4: invited lecture at ICRA 2020 Workshop “How will Autonomous Robots and Systems Influence Society? Debate from technological, philosophical, ethical, legal, and social implications perspectives”, Paris (digital lecture because of the corona virus)
May 20: (digital) lecture ‘Responsible Design in Times of Radical Transformation‘, Digital Society School, HvA
May 15: (digital) workshop Philosophy of Technology and Techno-Anthropology, Aalborg University, campus Copenhagen.
April 20-24: (digital) meeting UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Group on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Mar 30: panelist Ethics and AI, Global AI Summit, Riyad, Saudi-Arabia (POSTPONED)
Mar 24: Keynote lecture SRA Benelux conference, Eindhoven (POSTPONED)
Mar 19: (Dutch) Curator en lezing middagprogramma over technologisch burgerschap, conferentie Raising The Future, Amersfoort (POSTPONED)
Mar 11: Lecture on the Ethics of Digital Technology, IBM Academy Amsterdam
Mar 8: (Dutch) BrainWash Talk over de Ethics van Kunstmatige Intelligentie, Amsterdam (tevens TV-opname)
Mar 6: Keynote lecture, Conference ‘Reshaping Work’. AI@Work, Amsterdam
Feb 6: Keynote lecture on the Ethics of Robotization, symposium Robotization and Pharmacy, Princess Maxima Center, Utrecht
Jan 26: (Dutch) Lutterzand literair, dubbelinterview met Jan Terlouw, door Marjon Kok

2019

Dec 20, committee member PhD defense Merel Ekelhof, VU Amsterdam
Dec 16, committee member PhD defense Tania Moerenhout, Ghent University, Belgium
Dec 9, lecture and moderator, symposium on Autonomous Vehicles KNAW, Amsterdam.
Dec 4, lecture at final conference Thinker Program Digitalization, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium KVAB, Brussels
Dec 3, Roundtables on AI Ethics, UNESCO Paris
Nov 21, presentation winner Spinoza Lens 2019-2020, Amsterdam
Nov 20, keynote lecture, opening ceremony World Science Forum 2019, Budapest.
Nov 15, lecture and workshop, Aalborg University
Nov 14, presentation of Practical Framework for the Ethics of Digital Technology, ECP conference The Hague
Nov 13, PhD defence Ching Hung: Design For Green – Ethics and Politics for Behavior-Steering Technology
Nov 8, lecture and workshop, Aalborg University, campus Copenhagen
Nov 7, keynote lecture, conference Autonomy in a Digital Society, Stockholm
Nov 4, talk at Brave New World festival, Leiden
Oct 28 – Nov 1, panel on AI Ethics at Global Forum on AI for Humanity, Paris.
Oct 17: PhD Defence Bas de Boer, How Scientific Instruments Speak: A Hermeneutics of Technological Mediations in (Neuro-)Scientific Practice.
Oct 10: PhD Defense Theo Wobbes, ‘Mens of geen mens? Een filosofie van de posthuman’.
Oct 4, talk at the Night of Science (Nacht van de Wetenschap), Nijmegen
Sept 26, lecture Privacy and Beyond: Inclusive Digitalisation and the Dynamics of Privacy, conference Mind Your Data: Privacy and Legal Matters in e-Health. Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden.
Sept 23, research meeting, Umea Institute of Design: Design Philosophy for Things that Change
Sept 4-7, postphenomenology sessions at the 4S conference in New Orleans, including a paper presentation with Sabrina Hauser on human-animal relations and human-technology relations:
July 6, presentation Ethics of the Internet of Things. Presentation of concept note, UNESCO-COMEST, conference Ethics of Science, Technology, and Sustainable Develpment, Bangkok (Thailand).
July 5, lecture Being Human in the Digital Age: Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and the Ethics of Technology. Conference Ethics of Science, Technology, and Sustainable Develpment, Bangkok (Thailand).
July 2-8, 11th Ordinary session of UNESCO COMEST, Bangkok (Thailand), incl conference on Ethics of Science and Technology and Sustainable Development
June 21, Bioethics Institute Yale: lectures on Bioethics and Philosophy of Technology, Yale Summer Institute on Bioethics
June 14, lecture ‘Ethics of the Digital Transition’ plus stakeholder meeting ‘Denkersprogramma Digitale Innovatie’ (‘Thinker Program Digital Innovation’) KVAB – Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium.
June 13, lecture ‘Drone ethiek’, workshop ‘Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Ontwerpen van Drones’, Space53 & Universiteit Twente
June 7, 11th session of UNESCO-IGBC: theÂ Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee: presentation of the preliminary study on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence by the World Commission for the Ethics of Science and Technology (COMEST)
May 17, PhD Defence Olya Kudina: The Technological Mediation of Morality (University of Twente, Waaier 4, 14h30)
Apr 11 (Dutch), lezing en interview over de ethiek van mensverbetering, Talkshow De Idee (#24), Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam
Apr 11 (Dutch), lezing over de ethiek van algoritmes bij NRC Live event Winnen met AI, Boom Chicago Amsterdam
Apr 10, panelist at WSIS Forum 2019 on the ethics of artificial intelligence (Geneva)
Apr 5, opening keynote Wellbeing by Design conference TU Delft
Apr 4 (Dutch), Blended care en de ethiek van zorgtechnologie. Ambiq Symposium Zwolle
Mar 14 (Dutch), De ethiek van medische technologie. Executive session, Health Valley Event 2019, Nijmegen.
Feb 8, The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, presentation of UNESCO-COMEST preliminary study on the ethics of AI, World Government Summit, Dubai.
Feb 6 (Dutch),lezing ‘Technofencing: meegaan of weerstand bieden aan de machine?’. TETEM Enschede, in interaction with the artwork Compass, by Lawrence Malstaf.
Feb 1, A responsible future for AI? Panel contribution at NIAS Lorentz Center workshop on the future of AI.
Jan 30 (Dutch), ‘Zorg en Technologie en Tijden van Digitalisering’: inaugurele rede CrossTalks project ‘Shake the Disease’, VUB (Free University of Brussels)
Jan 21, De ethiek van technologische gedragsbeinvloeding. Paradiso Event ‘Distraction by Design’, Amsterdam.

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