Episode IV: WorldSummit AI @ Inspired AI

GLOBAL GAME CHANGERS

GETTING THE FUTURE RIGHT

WEDNESDAY 14th OCTOBER 2020 10:45 – 19:30 PM CEST

 

Event running in Central European Summer Time
All sessions are followed by extended Q&A with the speakers. Your chance to get 1-2-1 time with them for 15 minutes, diving deep into anything you want to have answered! 

CYBERSPACE AGENDA AND NETWORKING

10:45 – 11:15


Limited availability. Book early to avoid disappointment.

Fancy 5 with Deloitte, a private consultation with Artificial Solutions, a startup mentor session with Oracle for startups, a virtual hug on bias in data from ETIQ, a pow wow on AI with Radix, a super session with SAS, a meeting of minds with the endless startups via StartupAmsterdam, a supersonic meeting with Invest in Canada | Investir au Canada, a chat on data with ScaleOps.AI, a 121 direct with the brains at KPMG, a voice convo live with Cognigy, a personal mtg with Pluralsight, a zig zag with Xilinx, a brainstorm with Brainpool AI, a discussion with Aligned Research Group LLC.

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HEADLINER STAGE

11:15 – 11:35

WELCOME InspiredMinds!

Sarah Porter, CEO and Founder, InspiredMinds!

WELCOME and chairperson’s opening remarks

Amelia Kallman, Speaker, Author, Futurist


11:35 – 11:55

HEADLINER Living up to the hype: How data and AI are ruling the world

Sanjeev Vohra, Global Lead, Accenture Applied Intelligence


12:05 – 12:15

CURTAIN RAISER: START UP SHOWCASE: How to improve Diversity and Inclusion through artificial human models

Michael Musandu, Co-Founder & CEO, Lalaland


12:25 – 12:55

CURTAIN RAISER: Making sense of data: how to tackle the data problem today and improve standards for the future

Vishal Chatrath, CEO & Co-Founder, Secondmind

Paul Clarke, CTO, Ocado

Mark Buckle, Head of LogTech Innovation Centre, Kuehne+Nagel

Moderator: Anushka Sharma, Founder, Naaut


13:05 – 13:25

HEADLINER The role of human error in AI – preventing algorithmic bias

Timnit Gebru, Research Scientist and Co-Lead Ethical AI, Google


13:35 – 13:50

HEADLINER  Decision Intelligence: Making Better Decisions About AI’s Decisions

Kimberly Nevala, Strategic Advisor, SAS


13:55 – 14:30

HEADLINER PANEL  Who owns data? International governance in a complex ecosystem

Wendell Wallach, Senior Advisor, The Hastings Centre & Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University

Anja Kaspersen, Former Head of Geopolitics and International Security, World Economic Forum

Professor Dame Wendy Hall, Regius Professor of Computer Science, Director, Web Science Institute, University of Southampton

Moderator: Ana Alecsandru, International Security Programme, Chatham House


14:35 – 14:55

PRESENTATION The Age of With – Human’s working with AI

Evert Haasdijk, Senior Manager, Deloitte


15:00 – 15:20

Technequality:Winners and losers of technology in the workplace

Dr Carl Benedikt Frey, Director Future of Work, Oxford Martin Citi Fellow, Oxford Martin School


15:25 – 15:45

PRESENTATION AI in the time of Covid-19

Marc Warner, CEO & Co-Founder, Faculty


15:50 – 16:25

HEADLINER PANEL  Making diversity & inclusion a business imperative

Nazareen Ebrahim, CEO, Socially Acceptable

Renee Cummings, Founder & CEO, Urban AI, Columbia University Community Scholar

Sennay Ghebreab, Professor & Director of Civic AI Lab, University of Amsterdam

Dr. Natalie R, SA Ambassador, Women in AI 

Moderator: Lavina Ramkissoon, All things AI


16:30 – 16:50

KEYNOTE Invite yourself to the party: Why non data stretch the imagination of AI

Renee Cummings, Founder & CEO, Urban AI, Columbia University Community Scholar


16:55 – 17:10 

HEADLINER How open machine learnings services can inspire your life

Xingshi Zhang, HMS Core Senior Product Expert, Huawei


17:15 – 17:30

PRESENTATION How can AI design a fair future?

Marcin Detyniecki, Head of Research and Development & Group Chief Data Scientist, AXA


17:30 – 18:15

IN-CONVERSATION Aftermath: The Social Dilemma

Meredith Whittaker, Co-Founder, AI Now Institute

Interviewer: Alex Kantrowitz, Founder, Big Technology and On-air Contributor, CNBC


18:15 – 18:55

FIRESIDE CHAT

Professor Gary Marcus, Founder & CEO, Robust.AI


18:55 – 19:00

Chair’s closing remarks

Amelia Kallman, Speaker, Author, Futurist


19:00 – 19:30

INSPIRED AI MEET UP
Network and connect with our global community of multi-disciplinary experts, business leaders, heads of government, policy makers, startups, investors, academics and media worldwide! With automated 1-2-1 chat roulette, our Networking Lounge on the platform, visiting our Cyberspace area to find virtual booths hosted by our sponsors and partners or connecting with specific contacts in a private meeting as an Inspired Citizen – cyber networking made easy.

STREAM 1

WELCOME and chairperson’s opening remarks

Joel Mhyre, Senior Disaster Management Specialist, Pacific Disaster Center


14:30 – 15:00

FOCUS SESSION Cultivating Bold Partnerships in the Pandemic Paradigm

Focusses on the combination of Cooperation and utilizing Exponential Technologies to Rise out of the Corona Pandemic. Including the influence of AI and Space Technologies for youngsters, thereby also considering the role and the importance of Cross-Level Partnerships to organize, facilitate and manage Projects between various bodies in Governments, Businesses, and Communities towards a sustainable future, on Earth and in Outer Space.

Igor Beuker, Speaker, Futurist, Social Entrepreneur

Malak Trabelsi Loeb, Futurist & Lawyer

Hassan Al Hilou, Strategic Advisor

Moderator: Ramon Rahangmetan, Co-Founder, World Space Week


15:20 – 15:55

PANEL SESSION Responsible AI & Corona

AI can play an important role during this crisis. AI applications can contribute to the understanding of the spread of the virus, to the search for a vaccine and to treatment of COVID-19. AI can also guide policy measures and gain insight in their long-term impact on society and the economy.  Specifically in times of crisis, it is important that AI is developed and deployed in a responsible manner. Robustness, effectiveness, transparency and explicability, but also fundamental rights, inclusion and ethics are adamant to ensure that AI finds its place in society in a responsible manner. This is exactly what ALLAI will work towards through the Responsible AI & Corona project. Join us for the official project launch where we speak with experts from various fields on how AI can help us tackle this crisis in a responsible manner.

Professor Virginia Dignum, Co-Founder and Board Member, ALLAI & Professor, Ethical and Social Artificial IntelligenceUmea University 

Frank Dignum, Wallenberg Chair in AI, Umeå University 

Nathalie Smuha, Researcher, KU Leuven Faculty of Law

Dr. Bart Geerts, CEO, Healthplus AI

Moderator:
Catelijne Muller, President, ALLAI


16:00 – 17:00

FOCUS SESSION AI for Enterprise requires unique tools to meets the needs of teams within business

Attributes and real-world examples of the next-generation of software for machine learning in enterprise: a better means to collaborate, work smarter and get buy-in for your AI projects.

Previous software tools first designed to develop AI in academic research contexts are less-than-ideal for developing applied AI solutions for enterprise today. Here we present core attributes required for the next generation of software tools needed to expedite the application of machine learning in business and industry. We begin with an overview of our research where we assessed the needs of hundreds of AI professionals as well as completed prototypes and simulations of various applied machine learning projects. These findings guided our development of a novel ‘software engine’ (or digital work environment) for advanced machine learning projects that is visual and less abstract. Our discussion will focus on why features of our software help better meet the needs of AI professionals in enterprise, focusing on issues related to:

  • Better debugging of models and streamlined workflows;
  • Facilitating collaboration and input from non-technical members within the business as well as oversight by domain experts such as clinicians for health-related projects;
  • Strengthened abilities to simulate outputs and renderings from machine-learning models in order to better demonstrate AI innovations to clients and regulators.

Guillaume Herve, CEO & Co-Founder, Zetane Systems

 

 

 

 

 

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TIMNIT GEBRU
Research Scientist & CoLead Ethical Artificial Intelligence
Google
TIMNIT GEBRU
Research Scientist & CoLead Ethical Artificial Intelligence
Google

Timnit is currently a research scientist at Google in the ethical AI team. Prior to that Timnit did a postdoc at Microsoft Research, New York City in the FATE (Fairness Transparency Accountability and Ethics in AI) group, where she studied algorithmic bias and the ethical implications underlying any data mining project (see this New York Times article for an example of my work).

She received her PhD from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, studying computer vision under Fei-Fei Li. Timnit’s thesis pertains to data mining large scale publicly available images to gain sociological insight, and working on computer vision problems that arise as a result. The EconomistThe New York Times and others have covered part of this work. Some of the computer vision areas Timnit is interested in include fine-grained image recognition, scalable annotation of images, and domain adaptation.

Prior to joining Fei-Fei’s lab she worked at Apple designing circuits and signal processing algorithms for various Apple products including the first iPad. Timnit also spent an obligatory year as an entrepreneur (as all Stanford undergrads seem to do). Her research was supported by the NSF foundation GRFP fellowship and the Stanford DARE fellowship

WENDELL WALLACH
Senior Advisor, The Hastings Center & Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
Yale University
WENDELL WALLACH
Senior Advisor, The Hastings Center & Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
Yale University
RENEE CUMMINGS
Founder & CEO | Urban AI
Columbia University Community Scholar 
RENEE CUMMINGS
Founder & CEO | Urban AI
Columbia University Community Scholar 
ANJA KASPERSEN
Former Head of Geopolitics and International Security
World Economic Forum
ANJA KASPERSEN
Former Head of Geopolitics and International Security
World Economic Forum

Anya Kaspersen is a strategy professional, geopolitics and international security expert and practitioner. Her former positions include a career with the Norwegian Government and the UN (peacekeeping), research and academia, serving in different capacities in the private sector and for various multilateral organizations in the field and at headquarters. She joined the the World Economic Forum in 2014, spearheading the Forum’s work on geopolitics and international security and how to catalyse responses to global, regional and industry challenges.

She has published widely on geopolitics, international security affairs and global governance issues. Regular commentator and lecturer. Visiting Scholar, Law of Armed Conflict, Harvard University.

Bachelor’s in Strategic Studies, International Law, South East Asia, International Business and Anthropology, University of Oslo/University of Indonesia and London School of Economics; MSc in International Politics, International Security and International Law, University of Copenhagen (China) and London School of Economics and Political Science.

PROFESSOR DAME WENDY HALL
Regius Professor of Computer Science, Director
Web Science Institute, University of Southampton
PROFESSOR DAME WENDY HALL
Regius Professor of Computer Science, Director
Web Science Institute, University of Southampton

Dame Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng is Regius Professor of Computer Science, Associate Vice President (International), and is the Executive Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton. Dame Wendy was co-Chair of the UK government’s AI Review, which was published in October 2017, and has recently been announced by the UK government as the first Skills Champion for AI in the UK.

With Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt she co-founded the Web Science Research Initiative in 2006 and is the Managing Director of the Web Science Trust, which has a global mission to support the development of research, education and thought leadership in Web Science.

She became a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2009 UK New Year’s Honours list, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

She has previously been President of the ACM, Senior Vice President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a member of the UK Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, was a founding member of the European Research Council and Chair of the European Commission’s ISTAG 2010-2012, was a member of the Global Commission on Internet Governance, and until June 2018, was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on the Digital Economy.

 

ANA ALECSANDRU
International Security Programme
Chatham House
ANA ALECSANDRU
International Security Programme
Chatham House
AMELIA KALLMAN
Speaker, Author, Futurist
         
AMELIA KALLMAN
Speaker, Author, Futurist
         

Amelia Kallman is a leading London futurist, speaker and author. As an innovation and technology communicator, Amelia regularly consults brands, agencies, and governments on the impact of new technologies on the future of business and our lives. She forecasts global trends and behaviours, helping clients navigate innovation, build strategies and deliver industry leading initiatives. She specialises in the emerging opportunities – as well as the risks – of machine learning and AI, big data, IOT, and the New Realities (XR: VR-AR-MR), and is currently speaking on Security, Health & Experience Tech in the Aftermath of COVID-19, as well as the Future of Social Interaction & Social Media.

Originally from a theatrical background, Amelia started her tech career by chance in 2013 at a creative technology agency where she worked her way up to become their Global Head of Innovation. She’s opened, operated and curated pop-up and permanent tech labs in London, Scotland and Dubai, working with clients including Accenture, PWC, WIRED, and EY.

DR. CARL BENEDIKT FREY
Director, Future of Work
Oxford Martin School
DR. CARL BENEDIKT FREY
Director, Future of Work
Oxford Martin School

Carl Benedikt Frey is Oxford Martin Citi Fellow at the University of Oxford where he directs the programme on the Future of Work at the Oxford Martin School.

After studying economics, history and management at Lund University, Frey completed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in 2011. He subsequently joined the Oxford Martin School where he founded the programme on the Future of Work with support from Citigroup. Between 2012 and 2014, he taught at the Department of Economic History at Lund University.

In 2012, Frey became an Economics Associate of Nuffield College and Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, both at the University of Oxford. He remains a Senior Fellow of the Department of Economic History at Lund University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). In 2019, he joined the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the New Economic Agenda, as well as the Bretton Woods Committee.

In 2013, Frey co-authored “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerization?”, estimating that 47% of jobs are at risk of automation. With over 5000 academic citations, the study’s methodology has been used by President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, the Bank of England, the World Bank, as well as a popular risk-prediction tool by the BBC. In 2019, the paper was debated on the Last Week Tonight Show with John Oliver.

Frey has served as an advisor and consultant to international organisations, think tanks, government and business, including the G20, the OECD, the European Commission, the United Nations, and several Fortune 500 companies. He is also an op-ed contributor to the Financial Times, Scientific American, and the Wall Street Journal, where he has written on the economics of artificial intelligence, the history of technology, and the future of work.

His academic work has featured in over 100 media outlets, including The Economist, Foreign Affairs, New York Times, Time Magazine, Le Monde, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In addition, he has frequently appeared international broadcast media such as CNN, BBC, PBS News Hour, Al Jazeera, and Sky News.

His most recent book, The Technology Trap, was selected a Financial Times Best Books of the Year in 2019.

 

NAZAREEN EBRAHIM
CEO
Socially Acceptable
NAZAREEN EBRAHIM
CEO
Socially Acceptable

As a Media and Communications Specialist, Nazareen Ebrahim has consulted on, experienced and directed the workings of online and corporate communications and marketing across a variety of industries over the last 15 years. Clients have been predominantly within the technology, education, agriculture and retail spaces. Consulting services are provided under Naz Consulting – Corporate.Media.Academia founded in 2010. This is a Level 1 BEE, Woman-owned South African business.

As of March 2020, her journey of training as an AI Ethics Officer began. This is in preparation to strengthen the AI Africa Report research team at tech social enterprise Socially Acceptable, of which she is the CEO and Founder.

In addition to her extensive portfolio of consulting work, Nazareen provides face-to-face training and entrepreneurial mentorship on projects with institutions like Johannesburg’s Tshimologong Precinct, Durban’s Innovate Durban and business incubator Black Umbrellas. The team that Nazareen mentored last year on the Conlog project with Tshimologong was awarded their first contract with the company at the start of 2020. Proud mentor parent!

Having an acute and intuitive sense of communications has certainly helped the television and radio business shows Nazareen has produced and anchored in the last few years. Over the last decade, her broadcast portfolio has grown with interviews across local and national radio stations in South Africa. Currently, Nazareen has a weekly guest tech slot with Lester Kiewet on Cape Talk.

EVERT HAASDIJK
Senior Manager
Deloitte
EVERT HAASDIJK
Senior Manager
Deloitte

Evert is a senior manager with a keen focus on the development of AI-enabled solutions, and a member of Deloitte’s AI Center of Excellence. He has extensive experience applying AI techniques in a variety of public and private sector domains. Evert has been active as researcher, consultant and entrepreneur in artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining for over 25 years. He was one of the founders of the data mining practice in Cap Gemini in the 1990s and was CTO of a successful AI startup. Evert also was an assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and he holds a PhD in AI from that institution.

DR. NATALIE R.
Ambassador
Women in AI SA
       
DR. NATALIE R.
Ambassador
Women in AI SA
       
LAVINA RAMKISSOON
All things AI
     
LAVINA RAMKISSOON
All things AI
     

Lavina is passionate about humanity,  technology, economics and dance. Besides the 20 years experience in technology, she holds added knowledge in fields of psychology and artificial intelligence.

 

AIEthics mentor and supporter of Africa’s artificial intelligence potential. Mission includes creating meaningful innovative solutions to help shape the african continent. Huge supporter of technology for good in under developed countries.

 

She plays in sunny fields of across Africa’s landscape. In emerging technology spaces which includes agritech, fintech, healthtech, lawtech, retailtech and growing.

 

MARC WARNER
CEO & Co-Founder
Faculty
             
MARC WARNER
CEO & Co-Founder
Faculty
             
PROF MARCIN DETYNIECKI
Group Chief Data Scientist and Global Head of Research and Development
AXA
PROF MARCIN DETYNIECKI
Group Chief Data Scientist and Global Head of Research and Development
AXA

Marcin Detyniecki is Head of Research and Group Chief Data Scientist at AXA Group. He leads innovation projects – with a strong focus on advanced analytics – in conjunction with AXA’s operational business entities while providing strong technical insights. Marcin also plays a key role in animating and leveraging the academic community as well as defining the research strategy for AXA.

 

Additionally, he is a professor at the Polish Academy of Science (IBS PAN) and associate researcher at the computer science laboratory LIP6 of Sorbonne University.

 

Currently, his research focuses on humanizing Artificial Intelligence to foster technology adoption. On Machine Learning interpretability, his work has been to propose better interpretability approaches and to provide actionable tools such as library and tutorials to bring transparency to Machine Learning models. On developing a fair and regulated Machine Learning, he has investigated the mitigation of the usage of sensitive information in ML models for bias-free predictions. This will lead to developing fairness measures useful in AXA’s operational context.

 

Marcin Detyniecki studied mathematics, physics and computer science at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC) in Paris. In 2000 he obtained his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the same university. Between 2001 and 2014, he was a research scientist of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He has been a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley and at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He has been visiting researcher at the University of Florence and at British Telecom Research Labs. He was a member of the research and academic council of UPMC University, member of the executive board of laboratory SMART, an elected member of the LIP6 laboratory council, and member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems (IJFUKS). Dr. Detyniecki has over 100 publications in journals and conference proceedings.

SANJEEV VOHRA
Global Lead
Accenture Applied Intelligence
   
SANJEEV VOHRA
Global Lead
Accenture Applied Intelligence
   
MICHAEL MUSANDU
Co-Founder & CEO
Lalaland
                               
MICHAEL MUSANDU
Co-Founder & CEO
Lalaland
                               

Michael Musandu holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and BSc in Computer Science. A science communicator whose research won Utrecht Universities Breaking Science 2019. He is the Co-Founder & CEO of Lalaland, an Amsterdam based start-up that uses generative adversarial networks to generate artificial human models, photorealistic yet nonexisting people. Helping fashion brands appeal to customers with virtual models that represent the incredible diversity of humankind.

 

VISHAL CHATRATH
CEO & Co-Founder
Secondmind
           
VISHAL CHATRATH
CEO & Co-Founder
Secondmind
           

Vishal Chatrath is CEO and Co-Founder of Secondmind, a decision making platform (DMP) that will simplify the future. Secondminds’s team of Cambridge-based, world-class researchers creates Machine Learning technologies to help you understand, guide and optimise the millions of micro-decisions that occur in complex, dynamic environments. Its platform will transform fields like systems engineering, autonomous vehicles, game design and smart city planning. Vishal was previously head of automotive at Nokia, founder of Chleon Automotive and Chief Business Officer of VocalIQ, which was acquired by Apple in 2015.

 

PAUL CLARKE
CTO
Ocado
           
PAUL CLARKE
CTO
Ocado
           
MARK BUCKLE
Head of LogTech Innovation Centre
Kuehne+Nagel
 
MARK BUCKLE
Head of LogTech Innovation Centre
Kuehne+Nagel
 
ANUSHKA SHARMA
Founder
Naaut
   
ANUSHKA SHARMA
Founder
Naaut
   

Nush founded Naaut which provides a 360 approach to innovation strategy to space agencies, startups, academia, AI accelerators, primes, and tech companies. As well as Naaut, Nush co-founded the London Space Network (LSN) in Jan 2019, the London Space Network organises monthly networking events across London to build and strengthen the UK space community. Recognised as one of the Top 100 most influential BAME tech leaders in the UK. – Financial Times. Nush has been active in the tech ecosystem across the UK, Europe, and the USA. Nush has championed diversity across the global space and tech ecosystem. She was appointed POC tech community ambassador for Google for Startup Campus and has been a key figure across the ecosystem connecting people to networks. She champions diversity of perspectives to drive and foster collaboration to drive innovation as we take our steps to go back to the Moon, Mars and beyond. Nush is and Advisory Board member of YSYS -Your Startup, Your Story is a startup community for founders, developers, creatives, investors and more on a mission to make a difference.

KIMBERLY NEVALA
Strategic Advisor
SAS
             
KIMBERLY NEVALA
Strategic Advisor
SAS
             
SENNAY GHEBREAB
Professor & Director
Civic AI Lab, University of Amsterdam
         
SENNAY GHEBREAB
Professor & Director
Civic AI Lab, University of Amsterdam
         

Sennay Ghebreab received his M.Sc. degree in Information systems in 1996, and PhD degree in Medical Imaging in 2001, both from the University of Amsterdam, where he currently is an associate professor. He investigates mechanisms of information processing in artificial, neural and social systems. Ghebreab is also chairman of BOOST, a foundation that helps refugees integrate into Amsterdam, and a board member of the Civic foundation, which is committed to a better integration policy in the Netherlands. His scientific work and social engagement come together in his Civic AI Lab, a lab for civic-centered and community-minded AI design development and deployment.

MEREDITH WHITTAKER
Co-Founder
AI Now Institute
MEREDITH WHITTAKER
Co-Founder
AI Now Institute

Meredith Whittaker is the Minderoo Research Professor at New York University and the founder of Google’s Open Research group.

Her research and advocacy focus on the social implications of artificial intelligence and the tech industry responsible for it, with a particular emphasis on power and the political economy driving the commercialization of computational technology. Prior to NYU, she worked at Google for over a decade, where she led product and engineering teams, founded Google’s Open Research Group, and co-founded M-Lab, a globally distributed network measurement platform that now provides the world’s largest source of open data on internet performance. She also worked extensively on issues of privacy and security, helping provide funding, strategy, and support for efforts dedicated to providing privacy from governments and large tech corporations. As a long-time tech worker, she also helped lead labor organizing at Google. She was one of the core organizers pushing back against Google’s military contracts, the company’s insufficient response to concerns about AI and its harms, and was a central organizer of the Google Walkout. She continues to work in solidarity with organizers in tech, driven by the belief that worker power and collective action are necessary to ensure meaningful tech accountability, especially in the context of concentrated industrial power. She has advised the White House, the FCC, the City of New York, the European Parliament, and many other governments and civil society organizations on artificial intelligence, internet policy, measurement, privacy, and security.

 

ALEX KANTROWITZ
Founder | Big Technology
On-air Contributor | CNBC
ALEX KANTROWITZ
Founder | Big Technology
On-air Contributor | CNBC

Alex is the founder of Big Technology, an independent publication that covers the inner workings of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. His email newsletter goes out to thousands of Silicon Valley decision-makers each week.

Alex’s first book, Always Day One, debuted in 2020. The book is a reported deep dive on the tech giants’ work cultures, featuring more than 130 interviews with insiders from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to front line workers. Inc. named Always Day One a Business Book You Have to Read in 2020.

Prior to founding Big Technology, Alex was a Senior Technology Reporter at BuzzFeed News. In 2019, he won a Mirror Award as part of a BuzzFeed team recognized for reporting on “Social Media in the Crosshairs.” Before BuzzFeed, Alex was a staff reporter at Advertising Age. He began his career buying ads and selling ad-tech software in New York.

Alex lives in San Francisco. He is a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

 

PROFESSOR GARY MARCUS
Founder & CEO
Robust.AI
PROFESSOR GARY MARCUS
Founder & CEO
Robust.AI

Gary Marcus, scientist, bestselling author, and entrepreneur, was CEO and Founder of the machine-learning startup Geometric Intelligence, recently acquired by Uber, and is known for his provocative and bold claims in artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Trained by Steven Pinker, he received his PhD at MIT at age 23. His professional research, published in leading journals such as Science, Nature, Cognition, and Artificial Intelligence, has focused on the foundations of cognition in humans, animals and machines, spanning fields from developmental psychology to neuroscience to genetics to artificial intelligence. A special interest has been on the challenge of endowing machines with common sense.

 

He is also well-known for his writing for the general public, including frequent essays and op-eds for The New Yorker and The New York Times. His books include The Algebraic Mind, The Birth of the Mind, Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind, The New York Times Bestseller, Guitar Zero and The Future of the Brain: Essays By The World’s Leading Neuroscientists.

 

In a 2012 essay for The New Yorker, he was perhaps the first person to publicly criticize deep learning, drawing on arguments he developed in his 2001 technical book The Algebraic Mind. More recently, in a 2018 arXiv article, Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal, he asked whether deep learning might be “approaching a wall.” The challenges he laid out there were covered everywhere from The
New York Times to Wired to The Financial Times and Wall Street Journal.

 

In another provocative 2012 essay, Moral Machines, Marcus was the first to adapt “trolley problems” to driverless cars, anticipating much recent research on the ethics of AI. His next book, REBOOT: Getting to AI We Can Trust, to be published by Pantheon in Fall 2019, co-authored with Ernie Davis, calls for a fundamental rethinking of current approaches to artificial intelligence.

 

JOEL MYHRE
Senior Disaster Management Specialist
Pacific Disaster Center
                           
JOEL MYHRE
Senior Disaster Management Specialist
Pacific Disaster Center
                           

From Kabul to Geneva to Palo Alto, Joel K. Myhre has been honoured over his two decades of public policy and advanced ICT experience to help bring advanced humanitarian technology innovations to civil society actors across the Pacific Rim, Europe, North America, Africa, & Central Asia. He has worked with a broad swath of Public Health, Counter-terrorism, Humanitarian and Disaster Response entities, in addition to UN and US DoD engagements throughout the Pacific Rim and Europe.

Having implemented UN, ISO, & US geospatial standards globally. Mr. Myhre’s technical geospatial endeavours include Membership in the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS), co-founder of the California Homeland Security GIS Working Group (now HIFLD), participant in the Global Healthcare Facility Database Initiative, and GEOINT subject matter expert for both the LA FBI’s WMD effort and the ad hoc WHO Advisory Group on Mass Gatherings.

Recent endeavours have focused on global public health alerting and response (WHO Geneva), EOC interoperability in Afghanistan, and use of satellite / mobile / UAV data sources for crisis response. He currently serves as the Geneva engagement lead for the Pacific Disaster Center to liaise with UN, WHO, NGO partners globally v a v COVID19 and all-hazards / DRR.

IGOR BEUKER
Speaker, Futurist, Social Entrepreneur
           
IGOR BEUKER
Speaker, Futurist, Social Entrepreneur
           

Notorious for his energetic, bold, witty and purposeful personality, driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges through social innovation. Igor Beuker is known for his radical vision on trends and technologies that impact business, economy, and society. In the spotlights, Igor delivered 2,500+ international talks in 20 years live on stage, being a headliner act speaker or host. Behind the scenes, Igor is a social entrepreneur with 5 exits and an angel investor in 24 social start-ups, and a futurist for Fortune 500s, WEF and the EU. Meet a misfit on a mission www.igorbeuker.com

 

MALAK TRABELSI LOEB
Futurist & Lawyer
             
MALAK TRABELSI LOEB
Futurist & Lawyer
             

Malak Trabelsi Loeb is an entrepreneur, futurist, strategist, and senior legal associate specializing in International Business Law and International Space Law, and International Commercial Arbitrator. Mrs. Loeb is a Lecturer in International Relations and Diplomacy, a multidisciplinary academic researcher, a writer and public speaker, and a Ph.D. Candidate in International Space Law.

Mrs. Loeb is advocating for Sustainable Space For Humanity, addressing the complex Space socioeconomic and environmental interrelated dimensions. “Sustainable Space For Humanity” advocacy aims to keep the peaceful use of outer space while ensuring socioeconomic development for the present and future generations without deteriorating the outer space environment.

HASSAN AL HILOU
Strategic Advisor
                     
HASSAN AL HILOU
Strategic Advisor
                     

Hassan Al Hilou is a strategic advisor, keynote speaker and author, Hassan is one of the sought-after leaders on radical diversity, inclusive innovation and society (public sector) transformation and the impact of it in different sectors, his strongest focus is people experiences, communication and service/product development and HR.

 

RAMON RAHANGMETAN
Co-Founder
World Space Week
RAMON RAHANGMETAN
Co-Founder
World Space Week

Ramon Rahangmetan began his career in the hospitality service industry at the age of 12 years old, few years later he studied Hospitality Management and Entrepreneurship in Wageningen, where he was the Chairman of the Student Council Board for two years, after this accomplishment he studied Sustainable Urban Development part e-learning at Wageningen University and Delft University of Technology.

 

Ramon has a broad interest in lifelong-learning, world-history, youth-empowerment and upcoming future technological trends. He uses this approach in his writing, working in a team, moderating a roundtable, speaking engagements, moderating, and speaking with people from various backgrounds. Adaptive learning, networking and cultural understanding are his driving principles.

 

VIRGINIA DIGNUM
Co-Founder and Board Member | ALLAI 
Professor of Ethical and Social Artificial Intelligence | Umea University 
VIRGINIA DIGNUM
Co-Founder and Board Member | ALLAI 
Professor of Ethical and Social Artificial Intelligence | Umea University 

Virginia Dignum is co-founder and board member of ALLAI. Virginia Dignum is Professor of Ethical and Social Artificial Intelligence at Umea University in Sweden, where she is scientific lead of the WASP-HS program. She was a member of the High Level Expert Group on AI. She is a member of the Global Partnership on AI and expert advisor on AI & Children for UNICEF. Virginia is the scientific lead of the Responsible AI & Corona project.

 
FRANK DIGNUM
Wallenberg chair in AI
Umeå University
 
FRANK DIGNUM
Wallenberg chair in AI
Umeå University

Frank Dignum is Wallenberg chair in AI at Umeå University in Sweden, has an affiliation to Utrecht University and he is an honorary principal research fellow of the University of Melbourne. He is well known for his theory of social agents and social simulations to support policymaking. He presented the results of a social simulation of the effects of the Dutch Corona-app during an expert session of the Dutch Healthcouncil. Frank is a member of the expert pool of the Responsible AI & Corona project.

NATHALIE SMUHA
Researcher
KU Leuven Faculty of Law
NATHALIE SMUHA
Researcher
KU Leuven Faculty of Law

Nathalie Smuha is a researcher at the KU Leuven Faculty of Law and the Leuven.AI Institute, where she examines ethical and legal questions around Artificial Intelligence and other technologies. In the context of her research, Nathalie also worked at the European Commission (DG Connect) where she coordinated the work of the High-Level Expert Group on AI and contributed to EU policy-making on AI. Nathalie is a member of the expert pool of the Responsible AI & Corona Project.

 
BART GEERTS
CEO
Healthplus AI
 
BART GEERTS
CEO
Healthplus AI

Bart Geerts is anaesthetist and CEO and founder of Healthplus AI, a company that builds, validates and scales machine-learning alogritms to transform data into insights for patients and health care providers to be better informed and proactive in their decision making. Bart is a member of the expert pool of the Responsible AI & Corona Project.

CATELIJNE MULLER
President
ALLAI
CATELIJNE MULLER
President
ALLAI

Catelijne Muller is President of ALLAI, a foundation that promotes Responsible AI, and a member of the High-Level Expert Group on AI for the European Commission. The spearhead of her work is the impact of artificial intelligence on society. She is the author of the Artificial Intelligence & Society report of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) of 31 May 2017 and Chair of the EESC Permanent Study Group on AI. Catelijne studied Dutch Law and worked as a lawyer at Allen & Overy (a.o.) from 1997-2012, after which she switched to “Europe”.

GUILLAUME HERVE
CEO & Co-Founder
Systems
       
GUILLAUME HERVE
CEO & Co-Founder
Systems
       

Guillaume has an extensive background in technology companies. In the past six years, he has been a business consultant in strategy and innovation-driven growth, having consulted for large and medium-sized companies in various sectors. He is the Chairman of the Board of CTS Santé, the most active accelerator for medical technologies and devices in Canada and the Chairman of the Board of CM Labs, a Montreal high-tech software company offering simulators and simulation software for vehicles, the defense industry, robotics, construction and port operations around the globe. He is an active mentor and coach with tech start-ups at FounderFuel, TechStars, District 3, CTS Santé, and the Business Families Foundation. Previously, Mr. Hervé was a senior executive at CAE Inc. where he held several key positions. He was the founder and CEO of CAE Healthcare which leveraged simulation, haptics and virtual reality technologies and best practices in aviation simulation to offer surgical simulators, integrated simulation-based training solutions, and patient simulators to medical schools, hospitals and defence organizations worldwide. The company grew to $50M in revenues by year 3. He was also President & CEO of Presagis, specializing in delivering high fidelity, physics-based simulation and graphics software to defense and aeronautics organizations worldwide. Prior to this, he was an Executive VP in CAE Inc.’s core business. Some of his responsibilities included VP Global Operations and Technology for Commercial Aviation Training, VP Aviation for Americas and Asia, and Head of Engineering. Prior to CAE, Mr. Hervé was an officer in the Canadian Air Force. He completed an M.Sc. degree in business from the State University of New York, a Bachelor of Engineering in aerospace from the Royal Military College of Canada, and a Master degree in Program Management from the Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Studies.

XINGSHI ZHANG
HMS Core Senior Product Expert
Huawei
         
XINGSHI ZHANG
HMS Core Senior Product Expert
Huawei
         

Master of Computer Science from Sydney University, lecturer at Huawei HDD Conference, and years of experience in AI projects as senior product expert.