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The University of Southern California (USC) and the Centre for Digital Public Goods (CDPG), Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), are excited to present a focused mini conference addressing the critical themes of AI, data, and technology policy. In an era where artificial intelligence and data-driven technologies shape economies and societies, this event aims to explore their transformative potential while addressing challenges in ethical governance, privacy, accountability, and fostering innovation.

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Technologies like AI have permeated various sectors and aspects of businesses and personal lives in the past few years. Despite the widespread possibilities of these technologies, mass adoption has been varied. There are four major questions that organizations, societies, and countries are grappling with.

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Addressing the boundaries: Crafting technology policies and regulations that ensure fairness, accountability, and transparency to ensure ethical use of AI and related technologies.
Protecting privacy and security: As these models leverage large data, including some personal data of citizens and consumers, it is imperative that appropriate guardrails are drawn that balances the need for leveraging data with protection of privacy and security.
Algorithmic accountability and education: Ensuring that users and consumers of data are held accountable for the algorithms and models that they create/ seek to propagate is imperative to ensure fair use of data. User education (data providers) as well as the role of data fiduciaries (intermediaries between data providers and data consumers) are evolving in various ways.
Enabling innovation: With all these guardrails and securities in place, it is imperative that organizations that build these models have access to high quality datasets to build nuanced and sophisticated models.

This mini conference on AI, Data and Technology Policy jointly hosted by the University of Southern California (USC) and the Centre for Digital Public Goods (CDPG), Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) seeks to address following themes:

Possibilities and Boundaries of AI

Data Governance & Policy

Evolution of Indian Technology Policy

Expected Outcome

This conference provides a unique platform for experts from academia, industry, and policymaking to converge, deliberate, and define the future of AI and data governance.
It is an opportunity to explore how India has leveraged digital technologies for inclusive growth and sustainable development while fostering innovation.
You will have insightful discussions, diverse perspectives, and meaningful interactions that will shape the trajectory of technology policy in India and beyond.

Program Schedule

Time	Activity
2:00- 2:30 pm	Welcome remarks by Prof. R Srinivasan and Prof. Shantanu Dutta
2:30- 3:45 pm	Session 1 – AI: possibilities and boundaries
4:15- 5:45 pm	Session 2 – Data governance and policy
6:15- 7:30 pm	Session 3 – Fireside chat on the evolution of Indian technology policy