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SUMMARY:The Implications of the EU’s AI Act:  A View from Germany
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG will host a discussion and reception with Paula Cipierre\, Head of Privacy and Public Policy for Palantir Technologies and 2023 ACG McCloy Fellow on Global Trends. \n\nPaula Cipierre is the Head of Privacy and Public Policy at Palantir Technologies. She advises the company and its customers on strategic and ethical questions about developing and deploying Palantir software. She has researched and worked at the intersection of data protection\, data ethics\, and the digital world for over a decade. A vocal proponent of interdisciplinary thinking and lifelong learning\, she holds several humanities and social sciences degrees from universities in Europe and the United States\, including an LLM in Information Technology Law from the University of Edinburgh. She recently co-wrote a book about what we can learn from art to shape the future with software.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/the-implications-of-the-eus-ai-act-a-view-from-germany/
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SUMMARY:Science Diplomacy\, Academic Freedom\, and the New Role of Universities
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On October 5\, the ACG\, the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation\, and the German Center for Research and Innovation will host a breakfast briefing with Prof. Dr. Julia von Blumenthal\, President of the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. \n\nProf. Dr. Julia von Blumenthal has been the President of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since October 1\, 2022. From 1989 to 1996\, she studied Political Sciences\, Law\, and Slavonic Studies (Russian Studies) in Heidelberg and Hamburg. She received her Doctorate in 2001 and her Habilitation in Political Sciences in 2007 from the University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (today the Helmut Schmidt University). \nAfter a visiting fellowship in Canberra and a deputy professorship at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg\, she held a fixed-term professorship for German and comparative politics at the Justus Liebig University Giessen. Prof. Dr. von Blumenthal has been a Professor of German Politics at the Department of Social Sciences of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2009. She has served as Dean of Studies and afterwards as Dean of the Faculty of Arts III. In 2014\, she became the Founding Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. From October 2018 to October 2022\, she was President of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). As a political scientist\, she has researched German politics\, especially on federalism and parliaments and on the role of higher education institutions in integrating refugees.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/science-diplomacy-academic-freedom-and-the-new-role-of-universities/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T120000
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SUMMARY:How has the War in Ukraine Changed Germany’s  Energy and Climate Policy?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ACG and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung\, Washington DC will host a discussion and luncheon with Sascha Müller-Kraenner\, Executive Director/CEO of Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V. (Environmental Action Germany). \nSascha Müller-Kraenner has served as Executive Director/CEO of Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V.\, DUH (Environmental Action Germany) since January 2015. Environmental Action Germany is an independent non-profit organization that was founded in 1975 and is focused on environmental and consumer protection. It is a leading environment and consumer advocacy organization that works mostly at the German state and national and on the European level. \nMr. Müller-Kraenner is also a founding partner and board member of Ecologic Institute\, a non-profit applied environmental policy research institute with offices in Berlin\, Brussels\, and Washington\, DC. Before assuming his current role\, he held various positions with The Nature Conservancy between 2007 and 2014\, and earlier in his career\, he worked for the Heinrich-Böll Foundation. \nMr. Müller-Kraenner studied Philosophy in Munich and graduated with honors in Biology and Public Law from the University of Bayreuth.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.acgusa.org/event/how-has-the-war-in-ukraine-changed-germanys-energy-and-climate-policy/
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