Workshop | Sept 14-18, 2026
Adapting AI Governance to Sector-Specific Challenges: Comparing Perspectives
Location: HEC Montréal Downtown Campus, Room C.403 Louis-R Chênevert, 501 De la Gauchetière Street West
This workshop aims to explore the specificities, convergences and divergences of the issues raised by the development of AI in different sectors of activity. Over and above general approaches and levels of governance, it is important to grasp the issues raised by the use of AI in activities and professions of particular importance for the well-being of individuals, the weaving of social bonds, the construction of collective imaginations, and the functioning of institutions. The workshop will bring together researchers from several disciplines. Although AI is likely to have an impact on almost all economic and social sectors, the research seminar will focus on 4 sectors that have already been identified as having a significant AI presence and the importance of the questions and debates they raise:
Media and Information in Democracies
Artistic creation and cultural practices
Justice and social services
Health and medicine
During this 5-day workshop, each sector will be the subject of a working day organised around 3-4 presentations and a round-table discussion.
Following this workshop, on Friday, September 18th, the one day conference “Bringing disciplines together to improve governance: a cross-section of best practices “ will examine the challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration and identify concrete levers to strengthen dialogue across fields.
This activity is part of the Thematic Semester `¨“The Governance of AI”, organized under the partnership between IVADO and the AI center for Science and Science for AI (AISSAI-CNRS).
Your registration for the workshop also gives you access to the conference on September 18, 2026.
Members of the committee responsible for this Workshop
Speakers:
Véronique Guèvremont (Université Laval), Flavien Bazenet (Institut Mines-Télécom Business School), Nick Bryan-Kinns (University of the Arts London), Destiny Tchéhouali ( Université de Montréal), Nadia Seraiocco (Université Laval), Philippe Useille (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France), Aengus Bridgman (McGill University), Laurence Dierickx (Université Libre de Bruxelles, University of Bergen), Bahareh Heravi (University of Surrey), Alejandro Moya Riveros (Universidad de los Andes/ Harvard University/ Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice - University of Oxford), Géraldine Vial (Université Grenoble-Alpes), Vincent Gautrais (Université de Montréal), Anna Capella i Ricart (UAB Barcelona), Simone Penasa (Università Di Trento), Roberto Andorno (Universität Zürich), Paul Quinn (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Marta Tomasi (Università Di Trento), Alexandre Mathieu-Fritz (Université Gustave Eiffel, LATTS).
Monday, September 14th, 2026
Artistic Creation and Cultural Practices
Moderator : Véronique Guèvremont
The first day of the workshop will explore AI governance through the lens of artistic creation and cultural practices. The morning session of this thematic week will focus on the challenges and opportunities that AI presents for artistic and cultural creation, while the afternoon session will examine in greater depth the governance of generative artificial intelligence in the cultural sectors, addressing issues of discoverability, cultural sovereignty, and institutional responses.
9:30 — 9:50 AM: Welcome and Registration
9:50 — 10:00 AM: Welcome Address
Colette Brin and Sonia Desmoulin, Organizers of the Workshop
10:00 — 10:45 AM: New conditions of Generative AI for creativity
Flavien Bazenet (Institut Mines-Télécom Business School)
10:45 — 11:30 AM: Responsible AI and Music: Challenges and Opportunities
Nick Bryan-Kinns (University of the Arts London)
11:30 AM — 12:15 PM: Recap. Discussion Audience
12:15 — 1`:45 PM: Lunch (not provided)
1:45 — 2:30 PM: From discoverability to cultural sovereignty, in the age of generative AI
Destiny Tchéhouali ( Université de Montréal)
2:30 — 3:15 PM: Educate, regulate or ban? Discourses of Quebec’s cultural organisations on artificial intelligence
Nadia Seraiocco (Université Laval),
3:15 — 4:30 PM: Recap. Discussion Audience
4:30 — 5:30 PM: Social Hour / Mixer
Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Media, Information and Democracy
Moderator : Colette Brin
This day is dedicated to the challenges that artificial intelligence poses to the media and journalism. The sessions will address AI governance, public trust in information, the quality of news content, and the development of AI literacy within newsrooms.
9:30 — 10:00 AM: Welcome and Registration / Coffee
10:00 — 10:45 AM: AI Literacy and Skills in News Organizations
Bahareh Heravi (University of Surrey)
10:45 — 11:30 AM: Regulating AI in the media: journalism, public trust and democracy
Philippe Useille (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France)
11:30 AM — 12:15 PM: Recap. Discussion Audience
12:15 — 1:45 PM: Lunch (not provided)
1:45 — 2:30 PM: Auditing AI in newsrooms: detection, prevalence and implications for trust
Aengus Bridgman (McGill University)
2:30 — 3:15 PM: From ethics to epistemology: Preserving information quality in the age of generative AI
Laurence Dierickx (Université Libre de Bruxelles, University of Bergen)
3`:15 — 4`:00 PM: Recap. Discussion Audience
4:00 — 5:00 PM: Coffee to go / Social Hour
Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
Justice and Social Services
Moderator : Pierre Larouche
This day will explore the transformations brought about by artificial intelligence for justice and fundamental rights. The sessions will examine AI-assisted judicial decision-making, the use of AI in the law of evidence, and the issues of equity, governance, and fundamental rights raised by the deployment of AI in the fields of justice and migration.
9:30 — 10:00 AM: Welcome and Registration / Coffee
10:00 — 10:45 AM: Can AI Make Judges Better Judges? AI, Hard Cases, and the Future of Judicial Discretion
Alejandro Moya Riveros (Universidad de los Andes/ Harvard University/ Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice - University of Oxford)
10:45 — 11:30 AM: Artificial Intelligence in the service of Justice : from the inadequacy of the general framework to sector-specific regulation - AI assisted drafting of judicial decisions as a revealing case study
Géraldine Vial (Université Grenoble-Alpes)
11:30 AM — 12:15 PM: AI and Evidence
Vincent Gautrais (Université de Montréal)
12:15 — 1:00 PM: Recap. Discussion Audience
1:00 — 2:30 PM: Lunch (not provided)
2:30 — 3:15 PM: Equality and AI in the justice system: opportunities and challenges
Anna Capella i Ricart (UAB Barcelona)
3:15 — 4:00 PM: Towards an “algorithmic migration law”? AI and migration governance from a European Union perspective
Simone Penasa (Università Di Trento)
4:00 — 4:45 PM: Recap. Discussion Audience
4:45 — 5:30 PM: Coffee to go / Social Hour
Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Health and Medicine
Moderator : Sonia Desmoulin
This day will focus on the challenges of artificial intelligence in the field of health, addressing its applications in medicine, genetics, and neuroscience. The presentations will examine, in particular, the issues raised by AI regarding the recognition of new fundamental rights, the specific nature of health data, inequalities in access to healthcare, and professional practices within medical services.
9:30 — 10:00 AM: Welcome and Coffee
10:00 — 10:45 AM: AI, neurotechnology, and new human rights challenges : the 2025 UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology
Roberto Andorno (Universität Zürich)
10:45 — 11:30 AM: Health Data Governance in Europe: From Data Protection to Data Sharing
Paul Quinn (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
11:30 AM — 12:15 PM: Coding Inequality, Regulating Health: AI, Gender, and the Governance of Difference
Marta Tomasi (Università Di Trento)
12:15 — 1:00 PM: Recap. Discussion Audience
1:00 — 2:30 PM: Lunch (not provided)
2:30 — 3:15 PM: The Genesis and Development of AI Applications in the Medical Field: The Case of Early Detection of Skin Cancer in Dermatology
Alexandre Mathieu-Fritz (Université Gustave Eiffel, LATTS)
3:15 — 4:00 PM: Recap. Discussion Audience
4:00 — 4:45 PM: Social Hour
Friday, September 18th, 2026
Conference: Cross-Cutting Issues and Sector-Specific Challenges: How Can Common Principles Be Identified Without Overlooking Particular Needs?
9:30 — 9:50 AM: Welcome and Coffee
9:50 — 10:00 AM: Welcome Address
10:00 — 10:45 AM: AI Governance and Preservation of Culture
Alexandra Bensamoun (Université Paris-Saclay)
10:45 — 11:15 AM: Researching AI Across Disciplines: From Boundary Object to Community at the Coalface
Malcolm Langford (Université d’Oslo)
12:00 — 12:15 PM: Closing Address
Colette Brin (Université Laval) and Sonia Desmoulin (CNRS, Université de Nantes)
12:15 — 1:45 PM: Lunch (not provided)
