STI Hybrid Seminar: Wednesday, 23 July 2025 at 3 pm (CEST)

[ICTP/STI - Monica Baschiera]

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STI  seminar
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You are most cordially invited to a seminar organized by the ICTP 
Science Technology and Innovation Unit (STI Unit)

** * * Wednesday, 23 July 2025 at 15:00 (Rome/CEST time)* * * *

In person:**SciFabLab, Enrico Fermi Building

Zoom credentials:

https://zoom.us/j/91681297141?pwd=9QORiEHr5aa3ZUVhWhjGQs8z6QFtjy.1

Meeting ID: 916 8129 7141

Passcode: 023030

Speaker: *Dr. João Pita Costa* (IRCAI - International Research Institute 
on Artificial Intelligence under the Auspices of UNESCO, Ljubljana, 
Slovenia)

Title: *AI-powered data-driven and bias-aware approach for governments, 
analysts and researchers to identify and react to SDG challenges*

Abstract: Entering the age of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence is 
feeding the data-driven digital transformation across industries and 
evidence-based decision-making by the leadership across companies and 
local authorities. It is essential to highlight the meaningfulness of 
those approaches, transferring them to opportunities that are coming to 
the water sector as well. The amount and heterogeneity of data generated 
allied to the rapid progress of scientific research and consequent 
technological development allow for a new reality in regards to 
sustainability. While the frequency of the data ingested and the dynamic 
of what is being observed can dictate the different pace that real-time 
observation can take, the usefulness of the insightful information 
digested from that data in the context of priorities within the workflow 
and ethics concerns of governments, professionals and communities will 
dictate its meaningfulness. This talk will discuss the work done by 
IRCAI acting as a centrepiece to global change from research to 
corporate supporting UNESCO's guidelines in regards to an ethical and 
responsible AI to advance the Sustainable Development Goals.

Short bio: João Pita Costa is a PhD in Mathematics from the University 
of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and he is a senior researcher at the 
International Research Center for Artificial Intelligence under the 
auspices of UNESCO - IRCAI - where he is leading the development of an 
AI-driven SDG observatory, including the focus on the ethics of AI. He 
worked as a researcher in topological data analysis at the Institute 
Jozef Stefan, extending this collaboration as senior researcher in the 
spin-off Quintelligence, where he took a key role in the MIDAS project 
using Big Data to support policy making in public health and 
contributing to the effort against COVID19 through AI. He is also a 
lecturer on AI-related topics at the Barcelona Business School, ENEB. He 
was head of marketing at the bioinformatics SME Genialis.

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Monica Baschiera (Ms.)
Secretariat, STI - Science, Technology and Innovation Unit
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
tel. +39-040-22404624