The Conference will explore how sustainability challenges impact all forms of social and economic development. It will emphasise how sustainability should be seen not as a limit to technological development, but as an opportunity to shape it in ways that promote human rights and civil society, in the interest of current and future generations. Artificial Intelligence (AI), and especially generative AI, blockchain and other smart technologies are linked with high environmental costs, in particular relating to energy and water consumption, causing a disproportionate environmental footprint.

The Conference will also explore how  aligning digitisation with the sustainability presents a dual knowledge challenge: on the one hand, the uncertainty regarding technical developments in the field of digitisation; and, on the other hand uncertainty regarding the potential for achieving sustainable development. The law can counter these future-oriented uncertainties, at least to a certain extent, by selecting suitable regulatory instruments.

Agenda, registration and list of speakers for the event here.