International Conference

Sustainability in the Artificial Intelligence Era

Bucharest

5–7 October 2025

Sunday, 5 October - Amf. 45

16:00–18:00 Welcome and Registration

Monday, 6 October - Amf. 45

(Hybrid meeting in presence and online participation)

10:30  Welcome and Introduction Professor Corina DUMITRESCU, PhD — President of DCCU

11:00  Professor Peter SCHLOSSER, PhD - Vice President and Vice Provost of Global Futures and University Global Futures Professor, Arizona State University, USA

11:30  Professor Radu GROSU, PhD - Professor of Cyber-Physical Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

12:00  Professor Michael MOLLS, PhD - The Institute for Advanced Study of the Technical University Munich - Modern Sciences and Technologies, Germany

12:30  Professor Klaus MAINZER, PhD - Technical University of Munich, President European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), Salzburg, Austria

13:00  Lunch

14:00  Professor Ileana ORLICH, PhD - Arizona State University, USA, Global Futures Laboratory, DCCU - Challenges in the Age of AI: Human Imagination and Technology in Inexorable Motion

14:30  Professor OKHWA LEE, PhD – Chungbuk National State University, South Korea - Higher education we need in the era of AI

15:00  Associate Professor ⁠Radu DANCIU, PhD - DCCU - Smart Universities for a Sustainable Future: The Role of AI in Higher Education Transformation

15:15  Professor Georgeta ILIE, PhD - DCCU, Lecturer Anda Nicoleta ONETIU, PhD - DCCU - Artificial Intelligence as a Central Field of Global Economic Power Dynamics

15:30  Associate Professor ⁠Alexandru STEFANESCU, PhD - DCCU - Philosophical Frameworks for Sustainability

15:45  Professor Nicoleta-Elena HEGHEȘ, PhD - DCCU -The Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Investigation and Prevention of Environmental Crimes – A Tool for Legal Sustainability

16:00  Associate Professor ⁠Ana Irina NICOLAU, PhD - DCCU - From Traditional to Artificial Intelligence - Augmented Corporate Governance: Implications for Sustainable Development

16:15  Lecturer ⁠Alexandru BURDA, PhD - DCCU - The long-term role of artificial intelligence-based technologies in the logistics performance of companies

16:30  Lecturer Ana Maria DINU, PhD - DCCU - The Development of Digital Sustainability under the Influence of Artificial Intelligence

16:45  Associate Professor Rodica Mariana ŢÎRLEA, PhD - DCCU - The relevance of Artificial Intelligence in sustainability reporting

17:00  Questions and Discussion

17:30  End of the day

Tuesday, 7 October - Amf. 45

(Hybrid meeting in presence and online participation)

10:30  Dr. Marja-Liisa Kristiina Tenhunen, PhD – Rector of DCCU - The Artificial Intelligence Education Revolution: Ethics and Sustainability

10:45  Professor Yuzo TASHIRO, PhD - Japan University of Economics, Japan, Yutaka YOKOYAMA, CEO, WHITE Inc., Japan - The use of Artificial Intelligence for Education in Japan online(remote)

11:15  Professor Anca Ligia GROSU, PhD - University of Freiburg, Germany - Artificial Intelligence in Radiation Oncology

11:45  Professor Corina DUMITRESCU, PhD - President of DCCU: Concluding remarks

12:00 End of the International Conference