We Robot - Conference Agenda
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 provided 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)
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)
Discussant: Bianca Wylie (Digital Public)
11:15-11:30: Coffee Break
Discussant: AJung Moon (McGill University)
12:30-1:30: Lunch
1:30-3:00: Panel Session on AI Governance
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
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)
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
