Fotis Fitsilis

Hellenic Parliament, Greece

Head of Department for Scientific Documentation and Supervision

Biography

Dr. Fotis Fitsilis has over 20 years of professional experience in science positions within both the private and the public sectors. Since 2009, he is Head of the Department for Scientific Documentation and Supervision and Lead Researcher at the Scientific Service of the Hellenic Parliament. While operating on a global scale, he has been active in fields ranging from telecommunications and logistics to management and good governance, which has included recent papers on e-governance and institutional development including improvements to parliamentary oversight committees. He has been Visiting Professor for parliamentary procedures and legislative drafting at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In 2017, he founded the Hellenic OCR Team, a crowdsourcing initiative for the study of parliamentary data. He has an academic background in law (LL.M. in International Law), economics (Diploma in Financial Engineering), and engineering (Diploma in Electrical Engineering), while also holding a doctoral degree in electrical engineering.

Organisation

Hellenic Parliament, Greece

zOther

Speaker session

(UTC+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris

17/10 - Pre-conference workshops

14:30 - 18:30

1. AI in digital-ready policy design and legal drafting

Closed

Aula 1.5 at Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública

The workshop on “AI in digital-ready policy design and legal drafting” will explore how tools powered by AI technologies can support policymakers in their digital-ready policy journey. The workshop will highlight potential tools and features, such as the Policy Screening Prototype (SeTA) and smart functionalities for legal drafting (LEOS). It is targeted at professionals from the public sector, academia and industry working on policy design and legal drafting, and interested in identifying the role that AI technologies can play in these processes.

Moderated by Carlos Torrecilla, Head of Unit, Digital Economy, Joint Research Centre

Enrico Francesconi

Administrator

European Parliament

Martin Gritsch

Head of Unit

European Commission / Secretariat-General

Kristoffer Olsen

Chief adviser

Agency for Digital Government, Denmark

Christine Kormann

Director

Publications Office of the European Union

Cecile GUASCH

system architect

European Commission

Fotis Fitsilis

Head of Department for Scientific Documentation and Supervision

Hellenic Parliament, Greece

Monica Palmirani

Full professor

University of Bologna

Edyta Posel-Czescik

Head of Data and Format Standardisation Services Unit

Publications Office of the EU

Zsofia Sziranyi

Team leader & Programme manager, DG DIGIT, European Commission

European Commission

Thomas Hildebrandt

Professor

University of Copenhagen

Sven Schade

Scientific Project Leader

European Commission

Javier Hernández Díez

Subdirector General de Impulso e Innovación de los Servicios Digitales

Ministerio de Justicia, Spain

Willy Van Puymbroeck

Active senior

European Commission

Vidas Daudaravicius

IT Project Officer - Researcher on information and knowledge extraction

European Commission Joint Research Centre

Enrico Francesconi

European Parliament

Administrator

Biography

Enrico Francesconi is a Research Director at IGSG-CNR, the Institute for Legal Informatics and Judicial Studies of the National Research Council of Italy and Policy Officer of the European Parliament. His main research interests include Semantic Web technologies for the legal domain, legal ontologies and knowledge representation, AI techniques for legal document classification and knowledge extraction, legal reasoning, e-Government, e-Participation, semantic models for the document collections of the EU. He has been Policy Officer of the European Commission - DG Publications Office. He is President of the Nominating Committee of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL) and Member of the Steering Committee of Jurix Foundation. He was IAAIL President for the period 2020-2021 and Member of the IAAIL Executive Committee (2014-2021). He is Section Editor on Ontology and Knowledge Representation of the Artificial Intelligence and Law journal (Springer), co-Editor in Chief of the Journal on Open Access to Law (Cornell University, Law School), Scientific Advisory Board Member of Law, Governance and Technology Series (Springer). He was Conference Chair of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2013, Rome), Program Chair of the 34th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (Jurix 2022), Program co-Chair of the International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective (EGOVIS).

Organisation

European Parliament

EU institution

Speaker session

(UTC+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris

17/10 - Pre-conference workshops

14:30 - 18:30

1. AI in digital-ready policy design and legal drafting

Closed

Aula 1.5 at Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública

The workshop on “AI in digital-ready policy design and legal drafting” will explore how tools powered by AI technologies can support policymakers in their digital-ready policy journey. The workshop will highlight potential tools and features, such as the Policy Screening Prototype (SeTA) and smart functionalities for legal drafting (LEOS). It is targeted at professionals from the public sector, academia and industry working on policy design and legal drafting, and interested in identifying the role that AI technologies can play in these processes.

Moderated by Carlos Torrecilla, Head of Unit, Digital Economy, Joint Research Centre

Enrico Francesconi

Administrator

European Parliament

Martin Gritsch

Head of Unit

European Commission / Secretariat-General

Kristoffer Olsen

Chief adviser

Agency for Digital Government, Denmark

Christine Kormann

Director

Publications Office of the European Union

Cecile GUASCH

system architect

European Commission

Fotis Fitsilis

Head of Department for Scientific Documentation and Supervision

Hellenic Parliament, Greece

Monica Palmirani

Full professor

University of Bologna

Edyta Posel-Czescik

Head of Data and Format Standardisation Services Unit

Publications Office of the EU

Zsofia Sziranyi

Team leader & Programme manager, DG DIGIT, European Commission

European Commission

Thomas Hildebrandt

Professor

University of Copenhagen

Sven Schade

Scientific Project Leader

European Commission

Javier Hernández Díez

Subdirector General de Impulso e Innovación de los Servicios Digitales

Ministerio de Justicia, Spain

Willy Van Puymbroeck

Active senior

European Commission

Vidas Daudaravicius

IT Project Officer - Researcher on information and knowledge extraction

European Commission Joint Research Centre

Eileen Fuchs

Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Community, Germany

Head of Division

Biography

Eileen Fuchs is Head of Division for Data Policy, Data Strategy and Open Data at the Federal Ministry of Interior and for Community. She and her team work on general data policy issues, i.a. data strategy and data governance, regulation on access to and re-use of government data, but have also set up a data laboratory for the Ministry and its agencies and are working on building an overarching data catalogue of the Federal Government. In addition, her division develops policy, regulation and practice of open data provision of Federal government data. Previously, Eileen was in charge of general digital policy issues, also on EU and international level, and developing digital skills. She has been working in government since 2008 in various positions and had the opportunity to experience its many facets: security, administrative modernization, better regulation as well as general policy coordination and strategy development. She is a trained lawyer and has a strong background in European Law, having worked as lecturer at the Europa-Institut of the University of Saarland, Germany before entering the civil service.

Organisation

Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Community, Germany

National Competent Authority

Speaker session

(UTC+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris

17/10 - Pre-conference workshops

14:30 - 18:30

1. AI in digital-ready policy design and legal drafting

Closed

Aula 1.5 at Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública

The workshop on “AI in digital-ready policy design and legal drafting” will explore how tools powered by AI technologies can support policymakers in their digital-ready policy journey. The workshop will highlight potential tools and features, such as the Policy Screening Prototype (SeTA) and smart functionalities for legal drafting (LEOS). It is targeted at professionals from the public sector, academia and industry working on policy design and legal drafting, and interested in identifying the role that AI technologies can play in these processes.

Moderated by Carlos Torrecilla, Head of Unit, Digital Economy, Joint Research Centre

Enrico Francesconi

Administrator

European Parliament

Martin Gritsch

Head of Unit

European Commission / Secretariat-General

Kristoffer Olsen

Chief adviser

Agency for Digital Government, Denmark

Christine Kormann

Director

Publications Office of the European Union

Cecile GUASCH

system architect

European Commission

Fotis Fitsilis

Head of Department for Scientific Documentation and Supervision

Hellenic Parliament, Greece

Monica Palmirani

Full professor

University of Bologna

Edyta Posel-Czescik

Head of Data and Format Standardisation Services Unit

Publications Office of the EU

Zsofia Sziranyi

Team leader & Programme manager, DG DIGIT, European Commission

European Commission

Thomas Hildebrandt

Professor

University of Copenhagen

Sven Schade

Scientific Project Leader

European Commission

Javier Hernández Díez

Subdirector General de Impulso e Innovación de los Servicios Digitales

Ministerio de Justicia, Spain

Willy Van Puymbroeck

Active senior

European Commission

Vidas Daudaravicius

IT Project Officer - Researcher on information and knowledge extraction

European Commission Joint Research Centre