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2018
May
May 16-18 (New York City): Uehiro Foundation of Japan, Carnegie Council of New York and Oxford University’s Centre for Practical Ethics conference on “ethics and the future of artificial intelligence – session on “drones and killer robots” with ICRAC’s Peter Asaro.
June
Jun. 12 (Helsinki): Parliamentary seminar on autonomous weapons systems
Jun. 29–30 (Belfast, Northern Ireland) Queen’s University Belfast Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice conference on Security and Justice in the Age of Killer Robots
July
Jul. 13-19 (Stockholm): International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
August
Aug. 27-31 (Geneva): CCW meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems
September
Oct. (New York City): Opening of the annual session of the UN General Assembly.
October
Oct. (New York City): UNGA First Committee on Disarmament and International Security (all month-long), 2018 Humanitarian Disarmament Forum (13-14 October).
November
Nov. 21-23 (Geneva): Annual meeting of the Convention on Conventional Weapons chaired by Ambassador Jānis Kārkliņš of Latvia
December
Nothing scheduled yet
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Please help overcome the all-male panels or “manpanels” that have dominated the international debate on fully autonomous weapons to date by suggesting female experts to speak at events.