8:30 – Opening speech
Introductory speech by Gérard Larcherpresident of the Senate
8:40 – Opening remarks
Introduction by Dominique Verienpresident of the Senate delegation for women’s rights
08:50 – First round table
Host Laura Darcossenator from Essonne
Why are there so few women in artificial intelligence professions?
- Elyes Jouiniuniversity professor of economics and mathematics, holder of the UNESCO Chair “Women and Science” at the University of Paris-Dauphine
- Sarah Cohen-Boulakiauniversity professor, researcher at LISN (Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Digital Sciences), deputy director of the DATAIA institute at the University of Paris-Saclay
- Hélène Deckx van Ruysdirector of CSR and co-pilot of the Women and Artificial Intelligence group at the Equality Laboratory
10:00 am – Second round table
Host Stéphane Piednoirpresident of OPECST
Is AI sexist?
- Tanja Perelmuterco-founder and director of strategy and partnerships at the Abeon Foundation (a collective for responsible and inclusive artificial intelligence), lead reporter of the report Algorithms: Bias Control SVP at the Montaigne Institute
- Jessica Hoffmannresearcher in the PAIR (People + AI Research) team at Google
- Marine Rabeyrinhead of the group for women and artificial intelligence at Cercle InterL, director of the education segment for Europe-Africa-Middle East at Lenovo
11:00 a.m. – Third round table
Host Christine Lavardechairman of the forecasting delegation
How to make artificial intelligence a tool for gender equality?
- Laura Lucchesipublic digital policy expert, former director of Etalab (prime minister’s chief data and artificial intelligence officer)
- Sasha Rubelhead of public policy in AI Europe-Africa-Middle East at Amazon, member of the OECD AI expert network
- Nozh Boujemaavice president of AI at Decathlon, member of the inter-ministerial committee for generative artificial intelligence