Want to know more about a new EU law that will affect people with disabilities and artificial intelligence (AI)?
Join our online workshop on 15 October 2024 from 10:00 to 12:00 CEST. The European Disability Forum (EDF) will present a guide that we created for our members, we call it a toolkit. The toolkit will help you engage in the work needed to make your EU country ready for this new law, the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act.
Civil society organisations, including EDF members, have a very important role to play in the work that every EU country needs to do to be ready. You will learn about which issues that may be the most important and meaningful for EDF-members to focus on and learn about resources you can access.
We will also talk about the importance of building alliances and establishing good relationships with key stakeholders such as other human rights organisations, equality bodies and supervisory authorities.
Agenda
| Time | Event | Speaker |
| 10:00 – 10:05 | Opening | Catherine Naughton, EDF |
| 10:05 – 10:10 | Opening remarks | Maureen Piggot, EDF |
| 10:10 – 10:25 | Overview of the AI Act and the Implementation Toolkit | Kave Noori, EDF |
| 10:25 – 10:35 | Areas with potential for national advocacy and timeline showing deadlines for member states implementation decisions | Karolina Iwańska, European Centre for Not for Profit Law (ECNL) |
| 10:35-10:50 | Questions / discussion | |
| 10:50 – 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00 – 11:10 | Presentation from Equinet on national governance structure, including enforcement mechanisms under the AI Act and the role of national agencies protecting fundamental rights under Article 77 in the AI Act | Milla Vidina, Equinet, European Network of Equality Bodies |
| 11:10 – 11:20 | Building alliances on national level | Ella Jakubowska, EDRi |
| 11:20-11:35 | Examples of national implementation and monitoring in Sweden and Netherlands | Mia Ahlgren, policy officer at Swedish Disability Rights Federation
Wouter Bolier, policy officer at the Dutch Disability Platform |
| 11:35 – 12:00 | Questions and closing | Catherine Naughton (moderator) |
This event will provide International sign interpretation and real-time captioning in English.