Beyond Numbers: Integrating Expert Insights and Structured & Unstructured Data for Enhanced AI and Ml Predictive Models (PID055)

1.45pm – 2.20pm EDT, 22 April 2024 ‐ 35 mins

Room: Meeting Room 10

Parallel Workshop Session

AI offers unprecedented opportunities for improving the existing OMS. The efficacy of AI models is contingent on the quality and structure of the data they process. We will address the limitations of recidivism prediction methodologies (based on data stored in OMS). Traditional approaches largely focus on data and statistics collected during incarceration, overlooking the insights available from post-release data. This gap in data utilization hampers the accuracy and effectiveness of recidivism predictions, a cornerstone for informed decision-making in corrections. Our discussion will pivot towards the need for innovative data-driven strategies in digitization processes and will emphasize the integration of diverse digital systems, which can provide a more comprehensive data landscape. By integrating expert inputs and utilizing both structured and unstructured data from a myriad of sources, these systems can leverage advanced AI and ML algorithms to enhance decision-making processes.

Moderator

Jan Kleijssen

Representative, Committee on Artificial Intelligence, Council of Europe, France

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Speakers

Pedro das Neves

Board Member, ICPA, Canada

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Ricardo Adonis

Chief Technology Officer, IPS Innovative Prison Systems, Portugal

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Jan Kleijssen

Representative, Committee on Artificial Intelligence, Council of Europe, France

Jan Kleijssen firmly believes in promoting and protecting our shared values of Human Rights, Rule of Law and Democracy. He brings with him 40 years of accumulated institutional knowledge in all main sectors of international co-operation : Judicial, Parliamentary and Intergovernmental.

Having obtained Master’s Degrees in International Law (Utrecht) and in International Affairs (Ottawa) and performed military service as an officer in the Royal Netherlands Navy, Jan joined the Council of Europe in 1983 as a Lawyer with the European Commission of Human Rights. Subsequently he served for some 9 years as Secretary to the Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly, playing a major role in the accession procedure for new member states.

Moreover, as Director of the Private Office, from 1999 until 2004, he was responsible for major reforms, political initiatives and crisis management.

Fluency in English, French, German and Italian alongside his native Dutch, reinforce Jan’s multicultural outlook. A strong awareness of different cultures, their traditions, behaviour, values and beliefs has provided him with invaluable insights into the multiple layers of human identity, indispensable to skilled, empathic communication and worldwide networking.

Until February 2023 as Director of Information Society -Action against Crime he led some 200 highly qualified and motivated international staff staff, responsible for standard-setting, monitoring and co-operation activities on a wide variety of issues, such as : Freedom of Expression, Data Protection, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Governance, Cybercrime, Terrorism, Criminal Law, Prison Management, Fighting Corruption and Money Laundering.

He served as the Council of Europe Internet Governance coordinator since 2018. On his initiative, the Council of Europe gave a partnership status to a still growing number of major global and regional private companies and associations. The marketing software platform, Onalytica, included Jan among the 2019 Top 100 influencers on the regulation of new technologies.

Since his retirement from the Council of Europe in February 2023, Jan has been working as an independent consultant . He was appointed member of the Advisory Board of ALLAI, a Foundation for Responsible AI. The Center for AI and Digital Policy awarded Jan the 2023 AI Policy Award Government in Washington DC. He regularly speaks at high-level conferences and at universities worldwide.

Throughout his career, Jan has been acknowledged for his ability to deal impartially with highly sensitive issues, and for clarity on procedural matters. He deviates from the trodden path to find creative and acceptable solutions and obtain concrete results.

As a keen marathon runner, Jan has a strong grasp of the need for preparation, resilience, commitment and endurance in achieving success.

Pedro das Neves

Board Member, ICPA, Canada

Pedro is the CEO of IPS_Innovative Prison Systems and founder and editor of the JUSTICE TRENDS Magazine. Holding a Sociology degree from UBI and a MA in public policy from the College of Europe in Bruges, throughout his career, he pursued education in Leadership Development, Public Administration Reform and Public Policy, but also in Organizational Design, Digital Transformation, and Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (Univ. of Virginia, the MIT, and the Univ. of Chicago). With more than 2 decades working in Criminal Justice Innovation, he coordinated and worked in 75 projects involving 51 countries, many focusing the development of digital strategies or the use of digital technologies in corrections, having several publications and numerous participations as speaker in international events. Since 2020, Pedro leads the multidisciplinary R&D team that developed the HORUS 360 iOMS Intelligent Offender/Jail Management System.

He is board member of the “BSAFE Research LAB”, board director of the “ICPA International Corrections and Prisons Association”, VP of “Health through Walls”, Inc., board advisor of the “Connecting Hearts Foundation for the Children of Inmates”, founder and ambassador of the “All4Integrity against corruption NGO”, and founder and chair of the board of “EaSI, the European Association for Social Innovation”, among other participations in several non-governmental organisations. He is member of the European Commission expert group on the EU Judicial Training, and of the expert group on the implementation of the European Arrest Warrant. Recently was invited by the UNICRI to join the expert working Group on Technologies for Prisoner Rehabilitation. He participated in multiple initiatives as senior consultant for the UNODC in Vienna, Central Asia, and the Middle East. In LATAM works with the InterAmerican Development Bank (BID) in citizen security projects in more than 10 countries. In 2017 he was awarded the ICPA Correctional Excellence Award.

Ricardo Adonis

Chief Technology Officer, IPS Innovative Prison Systems, Portugal

Ricardo Adónis holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Beira Interior, Portugal. He is a member of the NetGNA Investigation - Next Generation Networks and Applications Group, Telecommunications Institute.