Ansgar Koene

  • Global AI Ethics and Regulatory Leader
  • EY
  • https://www.ey.com/en_gl

Dr. Ansgar Koene is Global AI Ethics and Regulatory Leader at EY (Ernst & Young) where he leads the AI related public policy team and contributes to the work on AI governance and EY’s Trusted AI framework. As part of this work, he represents EY at the OECD Working Party on AI Governance and the Business at OECD Committee on Digital Economic Policy (BIAC CDEP).

Ansgar chaired the IEEE P7003 Standard for Algorithmic Bias Considerations working group and is a co-convener for the European standards body (CEN-CENELEC JTC21) “AI” committee’s work on AI conformity assessment. He is a trustee for the 5Rights foundation for the Rights of Young People Online and advises on AI and Data Ethics for the pan-African NGO AfroLeadership.

Ansgar has a multi-disciplinary research background, having worked and published on topics ranging from Policy and Governance of Algorithmic Systems (AI), data-privacy, AI Ethics, AI Standards, bio-inspired Robotics, AI and Computational Neuroscience to experimental Human ehaviour/Perception studies. He holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Computational Neuroscience.

Sessions

  • Global trends in AI regulation and associated technology standards (EN)

    A review of the regulatory approaches to AI across eight key jurisdictions in Europe, North-America and Asia. Based on this review we identify five key trends that are likely to define the governance requirements for AI systems in the near future as well as related actions for companies to take. On the practical implementation side […]