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Seminar: AI and Civic Machines — Governance, Security, and Society

Date
6 October 2025 (Monday)

Time
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm (GMT+8)

Venue
#11-01, ARC 380, 380 Jalan Besar, Singapore 209000

Format In-person

How can we harness AI agents not as disruptors, but as partners shaping the future of work?

Co-organised by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), TUM Think Tank’s Civic Machines Lab and TUM Asia, this seminar brings together leading voices from academia, industry, and policy to explore how AI agents are transforming workplaces and societies.

With a focus on society-centered research and innovation, the discussions span the future of work, the role of agentic AI in shaping people-centered cities, and experimental approaches such as persona-driven probes to surface risks and opportunities in AI design. Together, these perspectives highlight practical ways to integrate AI systems that are not only technologically advanced, but also trustworthy, inclusive, and responsive to societal needs.

Join us for an engaging exchange of insights, dialogue, and collaboration as we reimagine the role of AI in building a more equitable and sustainable future of work and innovation

Time	Activity
5:00 PM	报名参加
5:05 PM	Welcome Remarks Mr. Fabian Wagener Director, Media Program Asia, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Singapore)
5:10 PM	Presentation I: AI Agents & the Future of Work Prof. Dr. Orestis Papakyriakopoulos Professor of Societal Computing, TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology
5:25 PM	Presentation II: Harnessing Agentic AI for Urban Transformation: From Smart Cities to Cognitive Cities Mr. Ajaz Munsiff Chief Digital Officer, AI and Digital Transformation, Dell, Asia-Pacific
5:40 PM	Presentation III: Using Persona to Bully an AI Model Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli Provost’s Chair Professor, National University of Singapore (NUS), Department of Computer Science, School of Computing Director, NUS Artificial Intelligence Institute (NAII) Deputy Executive Chairman, AI Singapore
5:55 PM	Panel Discussion Moderator: Anish Mishra Project Manager/Research Fellow, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Singapore)
6:10 PM	Audience Q&A
6:25 PM	Closing Remarks Dr. Markus Wächter Vice President TUM Asia, TUM and Executive Director, TUM Asia
6:30 PM	Networking Reception

Speakers

Prof. Dr. Orestis Papakyriakopoulos‘ research provides ideas, frameworks, and practical solutions towards just, inclusive and participatory socio-algorithmic ecosystems. He builds tools and performs foundational research on platforms and artificial intelligence. Orestis analyzes new and old media by the application of data-intensive algorithms, as well as the political and social impact of the use of data-intensive algorithms themselves. Orestis studied civil engineering (Dipl. Ing.) at the National Technical University of Athens and Philosophy of Science and Technology (M.A.) at TUM, institution where he also obtained his PhD in Computer Science. He was visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab and conducted his Postdoc at Princeton University. He also worked as an AI Research Scientist at Sony. Since 2024 Orestis is Professor of Societal Computing at the School of Social Science and Technology at the Technical University of Munich.

Mr. Ajaz Munsiff, Chief Digital Officer, AI and Transformation, Dell, Asia-Pacific, where he leads Dell’s Smart Cities practice. He believes that a sustainable and resilient urban future requires breakthrough technology transformation. Under his leadership, Dell helps cities build a modern digital foundation powered by cloud, data, and AI, supporting their journey to becoming smart, cognitive cities. Ajaz brings more than 30 years of broad technology experience to this role.

Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli, Director of NUS AI Institute, currently holds the distinguished position of Provost’s Chair Professor of Computer Science. He is also the Deputy Executive Chairman of AI Singapore, which is Singapore’s national AI program. He was formerly the Dean of NUS School of Computing during 2016-2022. Before becoming the Dean, he was the NUS Vice Provost (Graduate Education) during 2014-2016 and Associate Provost (Graduate Education) during 2011-2013. Earlier, he was the Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs & Graduate Studies at the NUS School of Computing during 2008-2010 and Vice-Dean for Research during 2001-2007.

Prof. Kankanhalli’s research interests are in Multimodal Computing, Computer Vision and Trustworthy AI. He has made many contributions in the areas image and video understanding, visual saliency as well as in content authentication and privacy. He is on the editorial boards of several journals including ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, Springer Multimedia Systems, IEEE Multimedia, and Springer Journal on Big Data.

Prof. Kankanhalli is a member of World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Artificial Intelligence.

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