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On November 9, 2024, Francisco Andrade (CitDig key staff member) participated, as a speaker and debater, in the round table on the theme "Artificial Intelligence and Notarial Certification of Authenticity", held within the scope of the World Meeting of Notaries, which took place in Lisbon, at the Hotel Myriad Cristal Center, between November 6th and 9th, 2024.

On Novembrer 9, 2024, Francisco Andrade, CitDig key staff member,…

In January 2024, Francisco Andrade (CitDig key staff member) began his duties as a member of the Executive Committee of IAAIL (International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law).

Francisco Andrade, CitDig key staff member, began this duties…

Alessandra Silveira, CitDig Coordinator, spoke at the “XII Congress of Portuguese Judges – Democracy, Rights, Development”, organised by the Trade Union Association of Portuguese Judges (ASJP)

Alessandra Silveira, CitDig Coordinator, spoke at the “XII Congress of…

Paulo Novais, CitDig key staff member, spoke at the colloquium "Courts and artificial intelligence – an odyssey in the 21st century", organised by the Portuguese Supreme Court of Justice on 11 May 2023, and integrated in the cycle of colloquia of that Court. Paulo Novais is the Head of the PhD Programme in Informatics at UMinho, co-director of the Master's in Law & Informatics at UMinho and chaired the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA) between 2016-2019.

The School of Law of the University of Minho hosted the proceedings of ICAIL [International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law 2023 (ICAIL 20239)] which took place from 19 to 23 June 2023. Since 1987 ICAIL has been the leading international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, being organised biannually under the auspices of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL), in collaboration with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). In this year, 2023 ICAIL had Francisco Andrade as local Chair and Paulo Novais as local co-Chair, both CitDig key staff members.