An AI Ethics Workshop — IEEE TENCON 2026 Special Program

Seeing is no longer believing

TENCON 2026 · IEEE Region 10 Conference
10–13 October 2026 · InterContinental Bali Resort, Indonesia
Theme: Intelligent Systems for a Resilient and Sustainable Society

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.

Topics

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Plan your morning

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.

Conference context

IEEE Region 10 Conference 2026 (TENCON 2026) · 10–13 October 2026 · InterContinental Bali Resort, Jimbaran, Bali, Indonesia
Theme: Intelligent Systems for a Resilient and Sustainable Society.

Special Program — An AI Ethics Workshop, sponsored by the IEEE Region 10 Ethics Awareness and Advancement Committee.
Presider: Prof. Jong Chang Yi (Hongik University, Seoul, Korea).

Inquiries: [email protected]
IEEE TENCON 2026 Special Program on AI Ethics · Program details subject to confirmation in the official conference program.