Ciarán O'RIORDAN will be the official speaker at POSAIS 2025

PARIS OPEN SOURCE AI SUMMIT [POSAIS 2025]
22 january 2025Institut de France, 75006 Paris
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We are so glad to announce that :

Ciarán O'RIORDAN - Senior Policy Advisor - OpenForum Europe
Will speak at POSAIS 2025

Ciarán O’Riordan has been working on EU policy and legal issues of free and open source software since 2003. His current work focusses on artificial intelligence policy and the market regulation aspects of cybersecurity and liability.

A user of GNU/Linux since 1998, Ciarán worked as a software developer in Dublin before moving to Brussels in 2004. In Brussels he obtained a law degree from UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles and has also worked on EU policy for the automotive sector, GDPR, and corporate finance.

POSAIS is the 1st event dedicated to Open Source AI.

The aim of POSAIS is to bring together high-level decision-makers from the main international institutions, leading scientists and researchers from public and private laboratories, community leaders and entrepreneurs to discuss the opportunities, risks, regulations, governance and challenges associated with Open Source AI.

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• Through discussions and workshops, we aspire to make Open Source AI tangible and accessible to all, while demonstrating its recent successes. Participants will also exchange ideas on how Open Source AI can address global challenges, including providing AI solutions that benefit humanity, with a focus on the Global South, with the aim of finding a path towards building universal AI. The summit will focus on the public policies and actions needed to harness the positive potential of Open Source AI.
• As part of the ‘Road to the Summit’ initiative, POSAIS is a key precursor to the AI Action Summit to be held on 10 and 11 February 2025, under the French Presidency.
• By focusing on Open Source AI, we aim to pave the way for broader discussions on the societal, economic and governance impacts of AI.

The aim is to produce actionable and concrete recommendations to contribute to the success of the next Paris AI Action Summit.