CONFERENZA INTERNAZIONALE 2024 ROMA E CITTA’ DEL VATICANO 20-22 GIUGNO 2024

Fondazione Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice

International Convention: 20-22 June 2024

Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation

Pontificio Istituto Patristico Augustinianum

Via Paolo VI, 25 – Rome

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2024 General Assembly

Centesimus in action for the application of Fratelli Tutti

THURSDAY, JUNE 20^th2024

14.00 Accreditation

14.45 Opening of the General Assembly

14.45 – 15.15 Introduction Prof. ssa Anna Maria Tarantola, CAPPF Chairwoman

15.15 -15.30 CAPPF 2023 Financial Statement and Mission Report presentation, Oliver Galea, CAPPF Secretary General

15.30 – 18.30 Presentation of initiatives by the CAPPF local Groups

Moderator Prof. Giovanni Marseguerra, Coordinator CAPPF Scientific Committee, Vice-Rector for Academic programs, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy

15.30 – 16.15 1^st Panel – Barcelona – Bergamo – Canada – France

16.15 – 17.00 2^nd Panel – Germany – Luxembourg – Madrid – Malta

17.00 – 17.45 3^rd Panel – Milan – Rome – Sardinia – Slovakia

17.45 – 18.30 4^th Panel – Turin – Trento – USA – Verona

18.30 – 18.40 Announcement of a new CAPPF Board Director elected by the CAPPF Members

18.45 – 19.30 A short musical interlude

2024 International Conference

21^st – 22^nd June 2024

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Technocratic paradigm:

how to promote the wellbeing of humanity, care for nature

and a world of peace

FRIDAY, JUNE 21^st 2024

9.00 Meditation by H.E. Archbishop Claudio M. Celli, CAPPF International Ecclesiastical Counsellor

9.20 – 10.00 Conference Opening

Addresses by:

Proff.ssa Anna Maria Tarantola, Chairwoman of CAPPF

H.E. Msgr. Giordano Piccinotti, S.D.B. President APSA

Prof. Giovanni Marseguerra, Coordinator CAPPF Scientific Committee, Vice-Rector for Academic programs, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy

10.00 – 11.40 SESSION 1 – The recent evolution of GenAI: benefits, risks, problems

10.00 – 10.20 Keynote speech – Roberto Viola, General Director DG Connect European Commission

10.20 – 11.10 ROUND TABLE

Jean Pierre Casey – Coordinator CAPPF UK (moderator)

Participants:

Xavier Vilasis-Cardona, Full Professor at La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull and Vice-Dean for the Doctoral School
Markus Schulte, Head of Cabinet – Cabinet of Commissioner Iliana Ivanova, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth
Sofia Ranchordas, Full Professor of Administrative Law at Tilburg Law and Professor of Law, Innovation, and Sustainability at LUISS Guido Carli
Katharina Schüller, Expert in statistics, data literacy and AI ethics, and CEO of Stat-up GmbH, Münich

11.10 – 11.40 Questions from the floor

11.40 – 12.10 Coffee break

12.10 – 13.50 SESSION 2 – The impact of GenAI on economy, environment, society and peace: CST

as a compass for our digitalized world

12.10 – 12.30 Keynote speech – Maximo Ibarra, CEO of Engineering Ingegneria Informatica

12.30 – 13.20 ROUND TABLE

Danielle Morin – Coordinator CAPPF Canada (moderator)

Participants:

Andrea Vicini, Chairperson of the Boston College Theology Department, Michael P. Walsh Professor of Bioethics, Professor of Theological Ethics, Professor Ordinarius
Valeria Sandei, Founder and Chief Executive Officer & Director at Almawave SpA, Chair at Almawave USA, Inc., Chair of Almawave do Brasil Ltda
Ivana Bartoletti, Global Chief Privacy & AI Governance Officer, Wipro and Visiting Cybersecurity & Privacy executive Fellow, Pamplin Business School, Virginia Tech
Oliver Roethig, Regional Secretary UNI Europa, The European Services Workers Union

13.20 – 13.50 Questions from the floor

13.50 – 15.00 Light lunch

15.00 – 17.00 SESSION 3 – Can innovation activities be limited? The links between technology and human development and the meaning of progress

15.00 – 15.20 Keynote speech – Prof. Gianmario Verona President of the Supervisory Board of the Human Technopole Foundation since July 2022. Rector of Bocconi University (2016-2022), Professor of Management Bocconi University

15.20 -15.40 Keynote speech – Paolo Benanti, Theologian, Professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome

15.40 – 16.30 ROUND TABLE

Rowena McNally – Coordinator CAPPF Australia (moderator)

Participants:

William Hasselberger, Associate Professor at the Institute for Political Studies (IEP) of the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP), and the Director of the Digital Ethics Laboratory (LED) at UCP
Vincenzo Valentini, Professor of Radiotherapy and Professor of the Department of Radiological and Hematological Sciences, UNICATT
Federico Suria, Europe, Middle East and Africa Telco & Media Regional Business Leader at Microsoft

16.30 – 17.00 Questions from the floor

17.00 – 17.20 Final remarks:

H.E. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Culture

17.30 End of Conference

20.00 Social Dinner at “Circolo Ufficiali delle Forze Armate d’Italia – Stato Maggiore della Difesa“– Via XX Settembre, 2, Roma

SATURDAY, JUNE 22^nd 2024 – VATICAN CITY

7.15 Meeting Point: Petriano Gate Entrance, Piazza Sant’Uffizio

8.00 Holy Mass, Altare della Cattedra, Basilica of St. Peter

Celebrated by H. E. Cardinal Mauro Gambetti O.F.M.

10.00 Private Audience with the Holy Father, Palazzo Apostolico.

11.30 Address by H. E. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State, Palazzo Apostolico