Samo Zorc

Samo Zorc is a senior policy advisor for AI at the Slovenian Ministry of Digital Transformation, where he has been instrumental in shaping Slovenian approach to AI at national and international level.  His background  is in a computer science (AI) with experience in research, software engineering and government strategic planning and execution.

He has been working in different government configurations on information society policy area for more than 20 years where he led different programmes for support of ICT and internet uptake in cultural sector,  support of ICT innovation and support of uptake of e-business, with close cooperation with Slovenian ICT industry. He has participated in preparation of several national strategic documents, notably Slovenian information society strategy – si2010 (2008) and led preparation of National programme for AI – NpUI (2021). He is leading inter- ministerial working group responsible for Slovenian positions in negotiations of EU AI Act  and participates in EU AI related working groups. He has been active in EU ICT policy by participating in several Management Committees of EU community programs related to ICT such as eContent, Competitiveness and Innovation – ICT policy support programme, FP7, Horizon 2020, Digital Europe, etc.  He has been active in ICT standardization activities in EU ICT multi-stakeholder platform and he leads the Technical Committee for AI at the national standardization body Slovenian Institute for Standardization. He represents Slovenia in international organizations such as AIGO at OECD, CAI at Council of Europe and Global partnership for AI – GPAI.

Before joining the government, he has been working as researcher and in software  engineering  companies in Slovenia and USA.