Presentation: Sara Rendtorff-Smith, OECD
Followed by a discussion with:
Antoine-Alexandre André, European Commission
Jérôme Brouillet, French Embassy in Germany
Sarah Engel, Trumpf, Germany
Evelyn Grass, Ministry of Digitalisation and State Modernisation
Moderation: Nicola Brandt, OECD
While the transformative potential of AI is well recognized, uptake remains uneven across European manufacturing firms. A new OECD report on the European Union coordinated plan on implementing AI identifies key bottlenecks that would need to be addressed to fully reap the productivity potential of integrating AI in manufacturing production and processes. The most important factors include infrastructure for secure data exchange and high-performance computing, which could be addressed by the AI Gigafactories for which the EU Commission and the European Investment Bank have announced a joint financing initiative. They also include stronger research collaboration between academia and industry, as well as better AI skills across the workforce. Regulation should be efficient and effective, minimizing compliance costs while ensuring that AI and data are used safely and for the benefit of people and the economy. The panel will discuss how a set of interoperable systems, rules, standards and mechanisms to enable broader and more secure data exchange can be developed to foster AI adoption, particularly among SMEs. It will explore whether bringing together compute, data and talent in AI factories could help address simulation data, storage and processing needs of manufacturing enterprises and discuss how policies could promote the emergence of such ecosystems in the EU. And it will look into ways to make compliance with the European data and AI rules simpler to foster AI uptake.
The event language will be English.
