Capacity-Building Activity | Switzerland — Second Round

📆 Date: 24.10.2025
🌍 Location: Biel (near the train station), Switzerland
👨🏻‍💻 Format: In-person
Time: 9 am – 4 pm (local time)
📢 Language: English
🏅 Certification: Certificate upon completion


Join a free, certified course on fair and inclusive recruitment practices with AI


As Artificial Intelligence increasingly drives recruitment decisions, both technical and human stakeholders play a vital role in ensuring fairness. Whether you’re designing AI systems or managing hiring processes, it’s time to rethink how technology shapes who gets hired — and who gets left out.

Join the BIAS Project’s free, hands-on session to explore how to detect and mitigate bias in recruitment algorithms, align with ethical and legal frameworks like the GDPR and AI Act, and strengthen collaboration between HR and AI teams to build inclusive and responsible hiring systems.

Why attend?

✅ Understand how bias manifests in AI-driven hiring — and what you can do about it

✅ Apply ethical design principles and fairness frameworks to recruitment tools

✅ Learn to evaluate and select AI systems responsibly

✅ Use tools like Value Sensitive Design to align AI outputs with human values

✅ Explore bias detection and mitigation strategies to improve equity and transparency

✅ Strengthen collaboration between HR and technical teams for shared accountability

✅ Exchange insights in a supportive, cross-disciplinary space — with lunch included

What’s included?

💠 Case studies of AI in recruitment: what worked, what failed, and why it matters
💠 Bias awareness and reflection: from coding choices to candidate evaluation
💠 Hands-on sessions: use tools, games, and exercises to explore fairness in practice
💠 Regulatory grounding: GDPR, AI Act, and what compliance looks like in the real world
💠 Peer learning: connect with professionals across sectors to shape better practices

Who should join?

  • AI developers, data scientists, and ML engineers
  • HR professionals, recruiters, and diversity & inclusion officers
  • Anyone working at the intersection of tech and hiring

Agenda

Content Duration
Welcoming and introduction 09:00-09:25
What is a bias? Psychological & sociological underpinnings and self-reflection exercise 09:25-09:55
Sociotechnical implications of AI and fairness approaches  09:55-10:55
Break 10:55-11:05
Mutual Learning Session 11:05-11:35
The policy framework & Conclusions of first session 11:35-12:05
Lunch break 12:05-13:05
Welcoming  of second session &

Operationalizing VSD and fairness approaches

13:05-13:35
The Value-Oriented Design Challenge: design your prototype — first part 13:35-14:10
Break 14:10-14:20
The Value-Oriented Design Challenge: design your prototype — second part 14:20-15:20
Plenary Session 15:20-15:50
Wrap up, ex post questionnaire, and conclusions 15:50-16:00

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Date - 24th October 2025

Time - from 09:00:00 to 16:00:00

Location - Biel

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