April 3, 2025 - Workshop @Art Windsor Essex (401 Riverside Dr)

*please note that this event has limited participation. The workshop is now full and registration is closed.

9:30-10am: Check-in, coffee, tea, and light food

10-11am: Museums, Mirrors, and Machine Learning 101 with Nadja Pelkey (AWE)

11-noon: Law 101 with Suzie Dunn (Dalhousie University), Marina Pavlovic (UOttawa), and Katie Szilagyi (University of Manitoba)

Noon-1pm: Lunch catered by Thyme Kitchen

1-2pm: Robots 101 with Jason Millar (UOttawa) and AJung Moon (McGill University)

2-3:15pm: Organizing 101: Resisting Technofascism panel and conversation with Sara Ghebremusse (Western University), Luke Stark (Western University), Vasanthi Venkatesh (Windsor Law) and Bianca Wylie (Digital Public), moderated by Cynthia Khoo (The Citizen Lab)

3:15-4:30: Snacks, Chance Coffee, and the World’s Best Robot Trivia, Jason Millar (UOttawa) & Peter Asaro (The New School)

4:30-5pm: departure and head to nearby downtown robot art party.

5pm onward: Join us at Terribly Good Studios (510 Pelissier St) for “A Community Powered Paint by Numbers Mixed Reality Experience” with art, robots, music, and mingling. Artists Scott McDonald (@scottanddestroy) and Jonah Lewis (@looselywired).

Light food will be available while it lasts, and robot-themed drinks will be available for purchase. Open to all We Robot registrants and community members. (Please note some parts of this event are accessed by stairs)

Art from this event will be exhibited at Dry Goods Gallery in Ford City!

April 4, 2025 - Conference at Windsor Law (401 Sunset Ave)

8:15am: Shuttle departs from Double Tree Hotel downtown, to Windsor Law

8:30-8:50: Check-in, mingling, and breakfast with coffee/tea

8:50-9:15: Land Acknowledgement, Welcome Remarks and Opening - Elder Myrna Kicknosway, Dean Reem Bahdi, and Prof. Kristen Thomasen

9:15-10:15: The Racialized Treadmill of Robotic Agriculture - Vasanthi Venkatesh (Windsor Law)

Discussant: Cynthia Khoo (The Citizen Lab)

10:15-11:15: Unbundling AI Openness - Parth Nobel (Stanford), Alan Rozenshtein (University of Minnesota), Chinmayi Sharma (Fordham)

Discussant: Bianca Wylie (Digital Public)

11:15-11:30: Coffee Break

11:30-12:30: To Smile or Not to Smile? What Policymakers Need to Know About the Interplay between Expressive Robots and Public Perception - Adeline Schneider, Naomi Fitter, Waseq Billah (Oregon State University)

Discussant: AJung Moon (McGill University)

12:30-1:30: Lunch

Watch out for the Mars Rover: UWindsor Engineering’s Rover Team will be in the building to demonstrate their award-winning robot.

1:30-3:00: Panel Session on AI Governance

Against AI Half-Measures - Jordan Francis (WashU), Woodrow Hartzog (Boston University), Ryan Durrie (WashU), Neil Richards (WashU)

Beyond Algorithmic Disgorgement: Remedying Algorithmic Harms - Christina Lee (GW Law)

Interoperable AI Regulation - Jennifer Raso (McGill University)

Discussant: Teresa Scassa (University of Ottawa)

3:00-3:15: Break

3:15-4:15: AI Companions and Family Law - Clare Huntington (Columbia)

Discussant: Vance Ricks (Northeastern University) 

4:15-5:30: Poster Session & Mingling & Snacks

5:30pm: Shuttle departs from Windsor Law to Double Tree Hotel downtown (walking distance to Holiday Inn and other downtown hotels)

6:30: Conference Dinner @ Vito’s Downtown - 375 Ouellette Ave (registration required, dinner starts at 7pm)

April 5, 2025 - Conference at Windsor Law

8:30am: Shuttle departs Double Tree Hotel downtown, to Windsor Law

8:45-9:15: Check in and breakfast

9:15-10:15: Robot-Facilitated Crime - Beatrice Panattoni (University of Verona)

Discussant: Elizabeth Joh (UC Davis School of Law)

10:15-10:30: Break

10:30-11:45: Panel Session on Generated Data

R-AI-sing the Questions: Exploring the Ethical and Legal Landscape of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Media of Medicalized Children - David Lysecki (McMaster University), Gregorio Zúñiga-Villaneuva (McMaster University), Muhammed Mukadam (McMaster University), Kristen Thomasen (Windsor Law) 

The Concept of Generated Personal Data - Hideyuki Matsumi (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Discussant: Sarita Schoenebeck (University of Michigan) 

11:45-12:45: Lunch

12:45-1:45: Consensus ad artificialis - Marina Pavlovic (University of Ottawa) & Katie Szilagyi (University of Manitoba) 

Discussant: Pascale Chapdelaine (Windsor Law)

1:45-2:00 Break

2:00-3:15: AI Fairness & Discrimination Panel 

The Fairness-Accuracy Tradeoff Myth in AI - Ignacio Cofone (University of Oxford)

Artificial Intelligence and the Discrimination Injury - Andrew Selbst (UCLA)

Discussant: Carys Craig (Osgoode Hall Law) 

3:15-4:15: Game Face: Legal Tackle on Facial Recognition and Privacy Rights in the NFL - Shanthi Senthe (Windsor Law) 

Discussant: Luke Stark (University of Western Ontario) 

4:15-4:30: Closing Remarks & Announcement of the Ian R Kerr Memorial Conference Paper Award, generously supported by the AI + Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa

5pm: Shuttle from Windsor Law to Double Tree Hotel downtown