Royal Danish Library's Business Forum

• Members are invited at least three times a year to learning and networking events with a selection of the world's leading experts.
• Member companies can request up to eight tickets per event.
• Exclusive events only for members with the opportunity to network and debate directly with the presenters after the performance.
• Member companies can book meeting facilities in The Black Diamond with a 15% discount .
• Special discounts at concerts and the International Authors' Scene .
• Price DKK 25,000 excluding VAT per company annually (you subscribe to an annual membership).

Dr. Rumman Chowdhury (US)

Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM in the Queen's Hall, The Black Diamond, Copenhagen

If the bottom line is to show black numbers in the long run, companies must act with people at the centre - even when it comes to technology. That's the message from Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, one of the world's leading experts in AI and applied algorithm ethics. With a background that spans both research and business, Dr. Chowdhury has had a huge impact on how we think about and develop AI.

As a pioneer in the field, Dr. Chowdhury creates groundbreaking solutions that promote ethical, transparent, and responsible technology for businesses. As founder of the organisation Parity, she has been behind tools to reduce bias in AI, including in her work as Responsible AI Lead at Accenture, where she was responsible for the design of their Fairness Tool, a groundbreaking algorithmic tool in the industry that can identify and remediate bias in AI systems. In addition, as founder of the Parity Responsible Innovation Fund, Chowdhury works to support the next generation of technology companies by focusing on corporate ethics and responsibility. She is also a researcher and mentor at prestigious institutions such as Harvard University and Cambridge University. Her work combines deep technical understanding with a humanistic approach that places people at the centre of technology.

Dr. Chowdhury has been recognised worldwide for her work. She was selected as one of the BBC's "100 Women" of the 100 most influential women in the world, Forbes has recognised her as one of the "Five Who Are Shaping AI," and her insights have been shared in leading media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Harvard Business Review. She is deeply engaged in global AI policy and serves on the boards of Oxford University's Commission on AI and Governance, the UK's Center for Data Ethics and Governance, and UNESCO's Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, as well as being an advisor to the UK House of Lords Parliamentary group on AI, and to multilateral organisations such as the UN, OECD, and others.

Jeremy Rifkin (US)

Tuesday 13 May, 2025 at 7:30 PM in the Queen's Hall, The Black Diamond, Copenhagen

How do you turn the biggest nightmare scenario into the biggest opportunity? Economist and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin has a suggestion for that. He is one of those who can give a qualified answer to how the climate crisis, AI, water shortages, refugee flows and biodiversity crisis can create a revolution for the better - and what that future can look like. Political leaders in the United States and Europe as well as in China know this, and so do the readers of Rifkin's more than 20 bestsellers about the impact of scientific and technological change on the economy, business, society and the environment.

According to Rifkin, the industrial era of the last 250 years has ended now, when our relationship with communication, energy, water and mobility has been radically changed in a short time. In his latest book, The Age of Resilience – Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth, Rifkin argues that we are now entering a resilient revolution, and in his forthcoming book, Planet Aqua, he focuses his thesis on one of the future's really big challenges: water.

When Rifkin looks to the future, it looks bright. Because humanity has proven throughout its long history that it has all the best prerequisites to turn a nightmare scenario into a revolution for the better. In November, he shows the way live from the stage in the Queen's Hall.