Microsoft at AMLD EPFL 2022

Mitigation of (digital) supply chain vulnerabilities has become an urgent cybersecurity priority following the discovery of the intrusion to the supply chain of SolarWinds in December 2020, and the consequential issuance of a U.S. President’s Executive Order in February 2021.

In terms of Humanitarian Action, global digital transformation powered by AI systems and cloud-based solutions shows great promise in aiding vulnerable populations in armed conflict and other situations of violence. Unfortunately, even a single exploitable supply chain vulnerability in these systems can be devastating and life-threatening for humanitarian actors and the population they assist. In this Track, we discussed the issue of supply chain vulnerability and its impact on global digital transformation in the humanitarian sector.

Talk: Welcome
Moderator: Scarlet Schwiderski Grosche, Microsoft

Talk: Must Digital Trust Rely on Conventional Trust (or is it the Other Way Around)?
Speaker: Edouard Bugnion, EPFL

Talk: Digital Sovereignty and Neutrality in Humanitarian Action
Speaker: Balthasar Staehelin, ICRC

Talk: Supply Chain Security and Transparency for AI Systems
Speaker: Cédric Fournet, Microsoft

Talk: Better Foundations for Secure Software Systems
Speaker: Shweta Shinde, ETHZ

Panel Discussion: Securing AI Systems for Humanitarian Action
Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Edouard Bugnion, Balthasar Staehelin, Shweta Shinde & Cédric Fournet

This two-day Open Track brought together the PhD students and postdocs working on collaborative research projects between academia and Microsoft via the Swiss Joint Research Center, MixedReality & AI Zurich Lab, Mixed Reality & AI Cambridge Lab, and Inria Joint Center, their academic and Microsoft supervisors, as well as the wider research community. This Open Track continues in the tradition of the annual Swiss JRC Workshops where researchers provided project updates and discussed their research with their supervisors and other attendants. The agenda was complemented by guest talks from industry on relevant product developments and technologies.

AI & Industry

Speaker: Marc Pollefeys, Microsoft

This two-day Open Track brought together the PhD students and postdocs working on collaborative research projects between academia and Microsoft via the Swiss Joint Research Center, MixedReality & AI Zurich Lab, Mixed Reality & AI Cambridge Lab, and Inria Joint Center, their academic and Microsoft supervisors, as well as the wider research community. This Open Track continues in the tradition of the annual Swiss JRC Workshops where researchers provided project updates and discussed their research with their supervisors and other attendants. The agenda was complemented by guest talks from industry on relevant product developments and technologies.

AI & Manufacturing

Speaker: William Heurdier, Microsoft

By combining machine teaching with industrial simulation, we can solve complex scenarios in existing manufacturing environments, providing AI-driven control loops trained on simulation and deployed at the edge. During this talk, we go through this approach and share a few real-life applications.