Eurecat and the Maresme Foundation , with the collaboration of the Mataró City Council, will co-organize the conference 'Intellectual disability in the era of artificial intelligence: technology as a driver of a more inclusive society'. The event will take place on Thursday, October 1, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme Park Congress Center, located at Ernest Lluch Street, number 32, in the town of Mataró. As part of the sixtieth anniversary of the Maresme Foundation and the initiative 'Mataró, Spanish Capital of the Social Economy 2026', the event will delve into the needs of the group of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their environments: family, social and professional, as well as share the technological innovations that can respond to them. The two central lines will be the impact of artificial intelligence and the complementarity of the actions of agents in the public and private ecosystem to improve the care of the collective. Among others, there will be the presentation 'Living with disability in the age of artificial intelligence: opportunity or new gap?' by Albert Cuesta, a journalist specializing in new technologies and family member of a person with intellectual disability. There will also be the round table 'Technologies at the service of people: inspiring cases' which will show eight entities, eight examples and eight references of how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies can improve the lives of people with intellectual disabilities and their families, such as, for example, the 'RAPNIC' initiatives of the iSocial Foundation, 'AI Assistant with the Red Cross: how to co-design with and for people' or 'Arawrite' from ARASAAC.
Interested people can register online through this link .