An AI Ethics Workshop — IEEE TENCON 2026 Special Program

Why this workshop

Generative AI made content free to fabricate. Trust now has to be engineered.

As generative AI makes content creation trivially easy, seeing is no longer believing — and manipulative AI content and AI-driven targeted advertising are raising urgent ethical questions across finance, media, social networks, and commerce.

This special program brings together leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers for four keynote talks and a moderated panel: from agentic payments and deepfake detection to watermarking, provenance marking, professional integrity, and the policy debate — combining talks, interactive Q&A, and networking.

Deepfake detection

Transformer networks that read high-frequency noise artifacts to separate AI-generated images and video from camera-captured ones.

Watermarking & provenance

C2PA credentials and watermarking such as SynthID — marking that survives compression so provenance persists through a content's life.

Agentic payments

Agents already initiate, authorize, and settle payments. A global view of protocols, identity, fraud, and regulation across 10+ live standards.

Ethics needs law

When duties to clients and the public collide: bylaws, notice, withdrawal — and rehearsing the right response before the fact.

Program · Tuesday 13 October 2026

One hundred five minutes, five sessions

8:00–8:15

Keynote

Agentic Payments: A Global Landscape of Protocols, Identity, Fraud and Regulation

Ms. Yoon Hyeyoung · Convenor, ISO/TC Financial AI Advisory Group · KFTC

Agents are already paying — 120 million agent-initiated transactions in a single week on Alipay, 165 million via Coinbase's x402 in its first months, and a dozen non-interoperable protocols. A six-layer stack and a proposal: a neutral, standards-based substrate for identity, messaging, and consequence.

8:15–8:30

Keynote

Ethics Awareness and Ethics Problems in AI-Generated Content: Framing the Problem

Dr. Bo Peng · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

From a fabricated "dam collapse" that chased traffic after a real flood disaster to the governance picture: labelling mandates in China, the EU AI Act, and the US TAKE IT DOWN Act — and why marking technology like C2PA and SynthID is a necessary component.

8:30–8:45

Keynote

Ethics Awareness and Ethics Problems in AI-Generated Content: Detection

Prof. Jing Dong · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ten years of work in one view: transformer detectors specialised for image noise, robust watermarking that survives recompression, unlearning unsafe concepts inside large models, protective makeup for facial privacy, and fairness testing across races and generations.

8:45–9:00

Keynote

When Integrity and Responsibility Collide: Why Ethics Needs Law, Bylaws, and Rehearsal Before the Fact

Prof. Jong Chang Yi · Hongik University · IEEE R10 EAAC Chair

Two duties that can pull apart, and the codes that resolve them: name the duty, give notice, withdraw. Applied to AI in education and research — where detectors are "neither accurate nor reliable" and the evidentiary rule must be written, local, and published in advance.

9:00–9:45

Moderated panel

Seeing Is No Longer Believing: Governing Manipulative AI Content Through Technology, Policy, and Responsible Practice

Moderator: Warunika Hippola · Sri Lanka Technological Campus · Panelist: Ir Dr Bernard Lim · COO, Appscard Group AS — with chairs, keynote speakers, and invited commentators

Landmark AIGC incidents and what went wrong; how policy (EU AI Act, China's labelling rules, the US TAKE IT DOWN Act) and technology (C2PA, SynthID) can work together; whether AI-generated content can ever be reliably detected; and responsible practice and careers in AI ethics.

Keynote speakers

Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers

8:00 · Keynote

Ms. Yoon Hyeyoung

Deputy General Manager, KFTC · Convenor, ISO/TC Financial AI Advisory Group

20+ years advancing the global competitiveness of Korean fintech; led the world’s first international biometric-authentication standard (ISO 19092) driven by a Korean. Director General of the AI Policy Enforcement Support Group, KAPIE.

Agentic Payments: A Global Landscape of Protocols, Identity, Fraud and Regulation

8:15 · Keynote

Dr. Bo Peng

Associate Professor, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Works on detection of tampered or generated images, multimedia security, and AI security. 60+ papers in IEEE TPAMI, TIFS, CVPR, AAAI; Secretary of the IEEE Beijing Biometrics Council Chapter.

Ethics Awareness and Ethics Problems in AI-Generated Content: Framing the Problem

8:30 · Keynote

Prof. Jing Dong

Researcher & doctoral supervisor, Institute of Automation, CAS

AI security and adversarial learning, computer vision, and multimedia content forensics. 100+ papers and 30 patents (3 US); multiple national research projects and best-paper awards; guest editor of Machine Intelligence Research on generative-AI security and ethics.

Ethics Awareness and Ethics Problems in AI-Generated Content: Detection

8:45 · Keynote · Presider

Prof. Jong Chang Yi

Professor, Hongik University · IEEE R10 EAAC Chair

At Hongik since 1994 (former Head, School of Electronics & Electrical Engineering); LEDs, solar cells, photonic and smart sensors. Chair of the IEEE Seoul Section and R10 Conference & Technical Committee; R10 Outstanding Volunteer Award 2019.

When Integrity and Responsibility Collide: Why Ethics Needs Law, Bylaws, and Rehearsal Before the Fact

9:00–9:45 · Moderated panel

Seeing is no longer believing: governing manipulative AI content through technology, policy, and responsible practice

Chairs, keynote speakers, and invited commentators join the debate — in person and online, with interactive Q&A throughout.

Moderator

Ms. Warunika Hippola

Lecturer, Sri Lanka Technological Campus

Represents IEEE Young Professionals on the IEEE Publications Services & Products Board (2025); Chair of the IEEE R10 Women in Engineering Committee (South Asia & the Pacific) 2025–2026; former R10 Regional Student Representative. Nearly a decade as an IEEE volunteer.

Panelist

Ir Dr Bernard Lim

COO & co-founder, Appscard Group AS · Appscard Global Research & Innovation Center

30 years in electronics manufacturing; four startups across Malaysia, Singapore, and Norway. Chairs the IEEE Malaysia Section (2025–2026), elected IEEE Electron Devices Society BoG member (2025–2027); Vice President, Institution of Engineers, Malaysia.

Landmark AIGC incidentsDeepfakes, synthetic fraud, and manipulative advertising that shook public trust — what went wrong, and why?

Countering manipulative AIGCHow can policy and regulation (EU AI Act, China’s labelling rules, US TAKE IT DOWN Act) and technology (C2PA, SynthID) work together?

The detection arms raceAI detectors are neither accurate nor reliable — can AI-generated content ever be reliably detected, and how should detection evidence be used in classrooms and research?

Responsible AI practice and careersWhat safeguards should engineers, educators, advertisers, and platforms adopt today — and how can early-career professionals build a career in AI ethics?

Plan your morning

Who it is for, and how it runs

When

Tue, 13 Oct 2026

8:00–9:45 AM (GMT+8)

Where

Room Pandawa 2

Mezzanine Level, InterContinental Bali Resort, Jimbaran, Bali, Indonesia

Audience

Students, researchers, early-career professionals — anyone interested in a career in AI ethics.

Format

Four keynotes with interactive Q&A in person and online, closing with a moderated panel and networking.

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