Nov 2021

• Transition From Labor-intensive to Tech-intensive Surveillance in China
  Nov 16, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Minxin Pei talks about of the effectiveness of the Chinese surveillance state.
• Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values: What is the Path Forward?
  Nov 9, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Marc Rotenberg talks about how effectively new policy frameworks address AI-related challenges in the areas of human rights and democratic values.

Oct 2021

• Digitalization in Health & Care
  Oct 20, 2021 Digital Humanism, Event, Social Responsibility Researchers from TU Wien and Viennese companies present work in Digital Humanism and Digitalization in Health and Care.
• Human-Centered AI
  Oct 12, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Ben Shneiderman talks about Human-Centered AI (HCAI), an emerging new synthesis of AI technologies and HCI approaches.

Jun 2021

• Should we preserve the world’s software history, and can we?
  Jun 29, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Roberto Di Cosmo (INRIA, France) and Edward A. Lee (UC Berkeley, USA) discuss the role of software in cultural heritage.
• Digital Humanism and Democracy in Geopolitical Context
  Jun 15, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility What are the effects of corporate surveillance in either autocracies or liberal democracies?
• The New EU Proposal for AI Regulation
  Jun 8, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Irina Orssich (European Commission) aims at contributing to the public debate of how AI should be regulated in the future.

May 2021

• Technology Is Driving the Future, But Who Is Steering?
  May 27, 2021 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility In this year’s Gödel lecture, Moshe Vardi will explain why the ethical lens is too narrow for dealing with technology’s impact on society.
• The Platform Economy and Europe: Between Regulation and Digital Geopolitics
  May 18, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility Cristiano Codagnone explains why platforms are not simply technological corporations but a form of quasi-infrastructure.
• International B2B Software Days 2021
  May 10, 2021 Digital Humanism, Event, FFG TU Wien Informatics is part of the biggest industrial B2B event for software and digital business in Europe.
• Ethics in AI: A Challenging Task
  May 4, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, AI, Social Responsibility Different biases affect all of us on the Web. Ricardo Baeza-Yates explains how we can become aware of them and safeguard a concept of ethics in AI.

Apr 2021

• Vaccination Passports—a Tool for Liberation or the Opposite?
  Apr 20, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility How can apps like the “Green Passport” be made reliable and privacy-preserving? And can they pave the way back to normality?
• (Gender) Diversity and Inclusion in Digital Humanism
  Apr 13, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Women in Informatics, Social Responsibility This panel focuses on how different voices and interests can be included in the development and application of digital technologies.

Mar 2021

• Digital Society, Social Justice and Academic Education
  Mar 23, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility This panel focuses on how digital technologies’ ethical and social aspects can be handled adequately in academic research.

Feb 2021

• Preventing Data Colonialism without Resorting to Protectionism
  Feb 23, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Panel Discussion, Social Responsibility This panel discussion will focus on the processing and exploitation of European citizens’ data by non-European companies.
• Freedom of Expression in the Digital Public Sphere
  Feb 2, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility This lecture will focus on how social media platforms can shape public discourse by their algorithmic content moderation.

Jan 2021

• Digital Superpowers and Geopolitics
  Jan 26, 2021 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, News, Panel Discussion, Social Responsibility This panel will focus on the modern colonial powers in cyberspace—global concerns controlling digital platforms and social networks.