Dr. Aneta Ivanovska on technology and its impact on contemporary society / talk
About the talk
There is an old saying that knowledge is power. And more knowledge means more power. It's no longer a secret that our devices know more about us than our friends and family. So what if I have nothing to hide.
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But there's a new saying that if you don't pay anything for a product, then you are the product.
In the third and final discussion, which will take place on 25 November in Glejo, we are tackling the issue of technology with our interlocutor, Aneta Ivanovska, a scientist and expert in the field of artificial intelligence. With her qualified and insider perspective, we will discuss the existential dependence on technology, the impact of technology on society and social systems, and the use of the product - the human being.
About the speaker
Prof. Aneta Ivanovska, PhD, is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Informatics at the University of Nova Gorica, Director of the Master's degree programme in Economic Engineering and an expert in the field of artificial intelligence. She received her PhD in Machine Learning in 2010 from the Jožef Stefan International Graduate School. From 2005 to 2022, she worked as a researcher at the Knowledge Technologies Unit of the Jožef Stefan Institute. She completed her postdoctoral studies at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb in 2015-2016. She has participated in several European and national projects in the field of agro-ecology, where she has used different machine learning methods to analyse (agro)ecological data. She is the author of several papers in scientific journals in the field of artificial intelligence. Since November 2022, she has been working as Head of Artificial Intelligence at MarineXchange, an Austrian company dedicated to software development in the cruise industry.
The event is part of a series of talks that serve as an introduction to the themes of the play, premiered in spring 2025, by Tatjana Peršuh and Boštjan Narat.