Celeste Kidd is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, where her lab investigates learning and belief formation.

The Kidd Lab is one of few in the world that combine technologically sophisticated behavioral experiments with computational models in order to broadly understand knowledge acquisition. Her lab employs a range of methods, including eye-tracking and touchscreen testing with human infants, in order to show how learners sample information from their environment and build knowledge gradually over time.

Her work has been published in PNAS,Neuron, Psychological Science, Developmental Science, and elsewhere. Her lab has received funding from NSF, DARPA, Google, the Jacobs Foundation, the Human Frontiers Science Program, and the Templeton Foundation.

She is a recipient of the American Psychological Science Rising Star designation, the Glushko Dissertation Prize in Cognitive Science, and the Cognitive Science Society Computational Modeling Prize in Perception/Action. Kidd was also named as one of TIME Magazines 2017 Persons of the Year as one of the “Silence Breakers” for her advocacy for better protections for students against sexual misconduct.

Chandra Khatri is a Senior AI Scientist at Uber AI driving Conversational AI efforts at Uber. Prior to Uber, he was the Lead AI Scientist at Alexa and was driving the Science for the Alexa Prize Competition, which is a $3.5 Million university competition for advancing the state of Conversational AI. Some of his recent work involves Open-domain Dialog Planning and Evaluation, Conversational Speech Recognition, Conversational Natural Language Understanding, and Sequential Modeling.

Prior to Alexa, Chandra was a Research Scientist at eBay, wherein he led various Deep Learning and NLP initiatives such as Automatic Text Summarization and Automatic Content Generation within the eCommerce domain, which has lead to significant gains for eBay. He holds degrees in Machine Learning and Computational Science & Engineering from Georgia Tech and BITS Pilani.

Ana-Andreea is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Columbia University, working with Prof. Augustin Chaintreau on social networks and algorithmic fairness.

Since Fall 2019 she has been co-organizing the Mechanism Design for Social Good initiative with Rediet Abebe, Irene Lo, and Francisco Marmolejo Cossío.

Her work focuses on mathematical models, data analysis, and policy implications for algorithm design in social networks. She is particularly interested in studying the network structure effects on algorithmic bias through a graph theoretical lens.

Ana-Andreea graduated from Princeton in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and certificates in Computing and Applied Mathematics. Outside of academia she loves skiing and modern art.

Nick Ni is the Director of Product Marketing for AI, software and ecosystem at Xilinx. His team’s responsibilities include product go-to-market, business development and the alliance ecosystem program management.  His team’s scope covers all Xilinx horizontal development tools and solutions including Vitis AI, Vitis, Vivado, hardware accelerated libraries and AI solutions.

Ni earned a master’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto and holds over 10 patents and publications.

Jeremy is a Martech pioneer and is working on its next big thing.

He is the co-founder of Index, an international AI company focusing on marketing, where he leads the development of solutions. He was recently recognized Top 30 Under 30 most influential in the Industry (Infopresse 2019).

As a result of 7 years of data and innovation at Index, he created ALYA : the first consumer brain platform. The tool empowers brands to understand omnichannel traffic and user experience through content, location, weather and device.

During his career, he’s worked with brands such as New Balance, Government of Canada, Globo Brazil, McGill University and Minto. Jeremy was a speaker in Amsterdam, Istanbul, Brazil and Seoul about AI and marketing.

Andrew Schroeder leads humanitarian research and analysis at Direct Relief, a medical response NGO based in California, focused on connecting the world’s most vulnerable communities with access to essential medicines and medical supplies. He is also the co-founder of WeRobotics, an NGO building partnerships in nearly 30 countries to support localized robotics and AI applications. During the COVID-19 pandemic he co-founded the Covid-19 Mobility Data Network along with Harvard School of Public Health to improve the use of large-scale data on human mobility for infectious disease epidemiology and public health response.

Fedor co-founded Brainial with the vision to create an environment where knowledge workers are able to excel and stand out. Simply put, automating basic duties and tedious tasks leaves more time for human interaction, where true value can be created. Freeing them from simple, repetitive work and enabling them to be creative again and use their expertise & knowledge to the fullest. Brainial provides a B2B SaaS solution to help organizations to reduce the time and money spent responding to tenders and to gain a higher quality, win rate and profitability.

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.

Maarten Sukel is the AI lead of the City of Amsterdam and a researcher at the University of Amsterdam.

Examples of projects he has been working on are a system that automatically routes services requests and the urban Object Detection Kit(www.odk.ai), a system capable of detecting issues on the streets of the city.

The City of Amsterdam AI team works on researching and developing new AI technology, working alongside academic partners to build and deploy ethical and sustainable AI solutions for urban environments.

Tim Bartz is Presales Consultant at Artificial Solutions, an international business that “Makes Technology Think,” believing people should be able to interact with technology intelligently, using their own voice, in their own terminology and across whatever channel they choose. Using a form of AI called  ‘Conversational AI’, Artificial Solutions allow people to talk to applications, websites and devices in a human-like, intelligent and conversational way. Its Teneo platform enables non-specialists to rapidly build, deploy, optimise and extend enterprise-strength, conversational applications and deliver customer insight and personalisation using conversational data. Tim has over 20 years’ experience within the IT and AI sector, successfully helping build innovative solutions.

Raunaq Bose is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Humanising Autonomy, a predictive AI company creating the global standard for human interaction with automated systems.

Raunaq brings his background in Mechanical Engineering and Innovation Design Engineering from Imperial College London to his role at Humanising Autonomy, having previously worked as Mechanical Engineer at Elvie and Studio XO and Design Engineer at Takram Design Engineering. Raunaq ultimately shifted from his work at a number of innovative startups to focus on his passion for creating a natural synergy between humans and machines.

As CTO, Raunaq oversees a team of engineers working to expand Humanising Autonomy’s product offering, ensuring that automated systems are designed around human beings, and not the other way around.

Raunaq is an international speaker and winner of the Forbes 30 Under 30 for Manufacturing, MIT Technology Review European Innovator Under 35, Progress 1000: London’s Most Influential People and is an active member of the World Economic Forum and European AI Alliance.

Camiel is the Founder and CEO of Birds.ai. Camiel is passionate about bridging technology and society to tackle the challenges of humanity. At Birds.ai, he drives insights for clients, by converting images into meaningful figures and numbers. The use cases for this service are many such as finding broken solar panels, monitoring the quality of steel, and counting inventory. This enables production managers and asset owners to reduce revenue loss due to errors and degradation.

Sarah Porter has launched 21 b2b and b2c technology products in 11 countries since 1996 and has a renowned reputation for taking ideas from concept to market with subsequent significant growth globally.

Emerging tech / AI / Medtech / Singularity / existentialism is where her core experience lies and she has over 20 years of commercial experience.

As a board executive for i2i events (parent company The Guardian Media Group / Apax – Ascential – previously Top Right Group) with the specific remit to rapidly grow the business whilst leveraging operational costs and prepare pre IPO. She sat on the i2i mergers and acquisitions committee identifying, analysing and approaching target businesses and accelerated growth by 22% within 12 months.

Achievements include the launch and acquisition of Money2020 – a leading fintech product. This included negotiation, 3 stage due diligence, its subsequent integration, and the long term geo-adaption into a global portfolio worth over $40m. The launch of World Retail Congress in 10 countries, the re-launch of Cannes Lions festival.

Sarah is a regular keynote speaker on start-ups, business and women / equality related issues and is an ambassador for the Royal Marsden where she champions the use of AI tech in oncology advances.

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.