
Juha Heikkilä
Head of UnitDG CNECT A1. Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, EC
Since 2014 Juha Heikkilä has been the Head of the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence unit in the European Commission Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, which develops the Commission policy and activities in Artificial Intelligence. The Commission has been funding a multidisciplinary programme on Cognitive Systems, Robotics and AI since 2004, focusing on smart robots and artificial systems, and in 2014 it set up a Public-Private Partnership in Robotics. Previously, Juha Heikkilä was involved in computational and corpus linguistic research at the University of Helsinki, and he has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge.
EDITIONS
SPEAKER SESSIONS
2019 EDITION
Towards a European AI, Data and Robotics Partnership
Monday Oct 14, 2019  15:45-16:45
Trustworthy AI – Towards Actionable AI Ethics and “Better” AI Regulation
Monday Oct 14, 2019  16:45-18:30