The City of Prague, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic and the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU
held a panel discussion EUROPEAN AI ECOSYSTEM AND THE ROLE OF CITIES AND REGIONS on Tuesday 3 December at the Prague House in Bruxelles.

Europe could expand existing research capacities and reach critical teams and joining forces for more effective major scientific and technological challenges in artificial intelligence mass through networks of European centers of excellence, which are going to be introduced in Q1 2020. Encouraging collaboration between the best research in Europe could maintain its competitiveness.

The panel discussion supported the position of cities and regions in the developing the AI ecosystems.

 KEYNOTE SPEECHES:
Zdeněk Hřib – Mayor of Prague
Věra Jourová – EU Commissioner
Karel Havlíček – Deputy PM and Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Luboš Král – Researcher, Czech Technical University in Prague and PRG.AI
Panteleïmon Panagiotou – Head of Unit of ICT, Engineering & Natural Sciences, Bavarian Research Alliance (Munich)
Maxime Brivois – CEO, ALEEGO (Prague)
Clemens Wasner – CEO, EnliteAI (Vienna)
Moderated by Jan Klesla – Czech National Coordinator for European AI Centres