Sebastian Hallensleben

CEN-CENELEC

 Dr. Sebastian Hallensleben is the Chair of CEN-CENELEC JTC 21 where European AI standards to underpin EU regulation are being developed, a member of the Expert Advisory Board of the EU StandICT programme, and led the Trusted Information working group. He co-chairs the AI Risk & Accountability work in OECD ONE.AI and is the Chair of the Digital Trust Convention. Sebastian Hallensleben heads Digital Trust and Artificial Intelligence at VDE Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies where he is responsible for new product and service development as well as for giving advice and developing frameworks for the German parliament and several federal ministries as well as the European Commission. He focusses in particular on AI ethics, on handling the impact of generative AI, building privacy-preserving trust infrastructures (including a Moonshot initiative at KI Park) as well as characterising AI quality with the launch of the AI Quality & Testing Hub and the international AI Quality Summit. –  Earlier, Sebastian Hallensleben worked on dialog facilitation between academia, industry and policymaking (e.g. in the context of federal research foresight) and in international infrastructure project development for waste, energy and drinking water. He holds a PhD in physics and began his professional life in IT development and solutions architecture in the financial and telecoms sectors.