Shaping the future of AI governance: Standards, risk management and responsible practices
These official side events of the AI Action Summit are co-organised by the UN Human Rights B-Tech Project, AI Standards Hub, SaferAI and the OECD.
Date: 11 February 2025
Venue: OECD Headquarters, Paris
✍️ Register here to attend the event online. This link will register you for all four panels.
This event is part of a broader half-day programme at the OECD Headquarters, which will bring together three official side events of the AI Action Summit under one roof.
Through a multi-stakeholder collaboration, the UN Human Rights B-Tech Project, OECD, AI Standards Hub, and Safer AI will join forces to advance critical discussions on AI governance and drive meaningful progress on issues that shape the future of AI.
In panel and roundtable discussions, participants will discuss key aspects of AI governance, including risk management frameworks, standardisation, responsible business conduct and human rights.
The event will be followed by at networking cocktail at the Château de la Muette.
The Harvard Carr Center and Partnership on AI are official event partners.
Draft agenda
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Opening Remarks Speakers: • Jerry Sheehan, OECD Director, Science, Technology and Innovation • Ambassador Christina Kokkinakis, Permanent Representative of the European Union to the OECD and UNESCO EU • Scott Campbell, United Nations Human Rights • Florian Ostmann, AI Standards Hub |
| 13:30 – 14:50 | Advancing responsible business conduct in AI: Strengthening Policy, Investor Engagement, and Corporate Practices This panel will explore how investors and policymakers can safeguard human rights within AI companies when designing, developing and deploying AI technologies. Specifically, the panel will examine the roles of oversight bodies and investors in promoting responsible AI. The panel aims to pinpoint the crucial role different types of investors play for incentivizing responsible AI development. This may also include conversation on the integration of human rights and responsible business conduct into AI policy discussions, and clarifying investors’ and policymakers’ roles and responsibilities in fostering rights-respecting AI practices. Speakers: • Oscar Hjelde, Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) • Ditte Bjerregaard, Acting Tech Ambassador of Denmark • Sebastian Hallensleben, CEN-CENELEC • Anna Mazgal, Wikimedia • Hannah Leach, Houghton Street Venture • Benjamin Chekroun, Candriam Moderator: Isabel Ebert, United Nations, B-Tech Project |
| 14:50 – 15:05 | Coffee break |
| 15:05 – 16:25 | Towards Auditable Risk Management Frameworks for Advanced AI Developers This high-level panel will identify good practices and key features for developers’ safety frameworks. By convening stakeholders in AI risk management, it seeks to promote a coordinated global approach to auditing and regulation of advanced AI systems. In doing so, the panel will advance conversations towards a coordinated global approach to AI risk management and auditing. Speakers: • Zaheed Kara, Frontier Model Forum • Henry Papadatos, SaferAI • Kilian Gross, AI Policy Development and Coordination, European Commission • Agnès Delaborde, LNE • Hamish Hobbs and Dana Choi, OECD Strategic Foresight Unit • Shameek Kundu, AI Verify Foundation, Moderator: Chloé Touzet, SaferAI |
| 16:25 – 16:40 | Coffee break |
| 16:40 – 17:20 | The current landscape of global AI standardisation This panel will explore the global state of AI standardisation and its relationship with governance tools like regulation, metrology, and certification to ensure the international development and deployment of trustworthy, safe, and secure AI internationally. Speakers: • Adam Leon Smith, AIQI Consortium • David Cuckow, British Standards Institution (BSI) • Karine Perset, OECD AI and Emerging Digital Technologies Division Moderator: Stacie Hoffmann, National Physical Laboratory (NPL) |
| 17:20 – 18:00 | Inclusive governance and human rights in global AI standardisation This panel will examine the intersection of human rights, technological innovation, and AI governance, focusing on strategies to promote stakeholder inclusion in AI standards development. It will explore ways for diverse stakeholders to contribute meaningfully to AI standards and highlight initiatives supporting these efforts. Speakers: • Dinah van der Geest, ARTICLE 19 • Olivier Alais, The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) • Sonam Jindal, Partnership on AI Moderator: Ana Alania, The Alan Turing Institute |
| 18:00 – 18:10 | Closing remarks Speakers: • Peggy Hicks, United Nations Human Rights • Siméon Campos, SaferAI |
| 18:10 – 19:30 | Networking event |