International Conference
Pontifical Urbaniana University
21st May 2026
>> The Program <<
• Dr. Paolo Ruffini, Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication
• Card. José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education
Session 1. AI reshaping journalism, society and community?
Moderator: Alessandro Gisotti, Vice Editorial Director, Dicastery for Communication
Discussants
• Marijana Grbeša, Professor at the University of Zagreb,
• Vineet Khosla, Chief Technology Officer, The Washington Post.
• Kashmir Hill, Tech reporter, The New York Times.
• Eli Pariser, Co-director, New_ Public.
Moderators: Fr. Paolo Benanti, Professor, Luiss–Guido Carli University
and Sr. Nina Krapić, Vice Director, Holy See Press Office, Dicastery
for Communication
Discussants
• Tristan Harris, Co-Founder of the Center for Human Technology.
• Andrew Jenks, Director of Media Provenance of Microsoft,
Chairperson of Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).
• Neil Lawrence, DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning,
University of Cambridge; Chief Scientist for Trent.AI.
• Winifred Mitchell Baker, Co-founder of the Mozilla Project and
the Mozilla Foundation.
Session 2. Are AI models intensifying social inequalities and injustices?
Moderator: Nataša Govekar, Theological–Pastoral Director, Dicastery for Communication
Discussants
• Joy Buolamwini, PhD, Founder of the Algorithmic Justice league, Inaugural Accelerator Fellow at the Oxford University Institute for Ethics in AI.
• Paola Ricaurte Quijano, Full professor, Department of Media and Digital Culture, Tecnológico de Monterrey.
• Benjamin Rosman, Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Moderator: Mons. Paul Tighe, Secretary, Dicastery for Culture and Education
Discussants
• Rayén Condeza Dall’Orso, Ph.D, Professor at the Faculty of Communications, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
• Divina Frau–Meigs, Professor Emerita, Media Sociologist, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France; UNESCO CHAIR Savoir Devenir.
• Adeline Hulin, Head of Unit for Media and Information Literacy and Digital Competencies at UNESCO.
• Justin Kings, Head of EBU Academy (European Broadcasting Union).