EPISODE IX
GLOBAL GAME CHANGERS
AI FOR GOOD: CAN TECH SAVE US?
24th NOVEMBER 2020 13:10 – 18:00 PM CET
What are the environmental applications of AI?
How can humans and machines work together for a better future?
How can we drive AI4good?
Event running in Central European 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
13:10 – 13:40
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.
HEADLINER STAGE
13:40 – 14:00
WELCOME InspiredMinds!
Sarah Porter, CEO & Founder, Inspired Minds!
WELCOME and chairperson’s opening remarks
Dr Kate Devlin, Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence, King’s College London
14:00 – 14:10
CURTAIN RAISER: START UP SHOWCASE
AI for Good: can tech save us
Kelvin Aongola, Co-Founder & CEO, Labelfuse
14:20 – 14:30
CURTAIN RAISER: START UP SHOWCASE
Protecting forests with AI & satellite data
Indra den Bakker, CEO & Co-Founder, Overstory
14:40 – 14:50
CURTAIN RAISER: START UP SHOWCASE
AI to empower Job Seekers: Turning Skills into Careers
Ulrich Scharf, Managing Director and Founder, SkillLab
15:00 – 15:40
HEADLINER PANEL
Ten years to 2030 – what is the global starting point for the climate countdown?
Dr. Kim Cobb, Georgia Power Chair and Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Farhana Sultana, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, Syracuse University
Thomas Peacock-Nazil, Founder, Seven Clean Seas
Nanda Piersma, Scientific Director, HvA Expertise Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence
Moderator:
Dr. Adam Levy, Science Journalist and Climate Change Communicator
15:45 – 16:10
HEADLINER
Design justice – community-led practices to build the Worlds we need
Sasha Costanza-Chock, Author, Design Justice, and Senior Research Fellow, Algorithmic Justice League
16:15 – 16:30
HEADLINER
Privacy and AI for health
Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab
16:35 – 16:50
HEADLINER
Responsible AI
Linda Leopold, Head of AI Policy, H&M Group
16:55 – 17:10
FIRESIDE CHAT
AI for the global public good
Professor Mmantsetsa Marope, Executive Director, World Heritage Group and Honorary President, Indian Ocean Comparative and International Education Societies
Interviewer:
Joel Myhre, Senior Disaster Management Specialist, Pacific Disaster Center
17:15 – 17:30
AI4Cities – 6 European cities want your solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality!
Guido Hobeijn, Manager & AI Translator, City of Amsterdam
Jan Duffhues, Innovation Manager, Sustainability and City Development, City of Amsterdam
17:35 – 17:50
HEADLINER
Reimagining healthcare through AI: The roadmap to AI maturity
Natasha Sunderji, Global Health Lead, Accenture
17:50 -18:00
Chair’s closing remarks
Dr Kate Devlin, Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence, King’s College London
18:00 – 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.
LINE-UP
SASHA COSTANZA-CHOCK
Author, Design Justice, and Senior Research Fellow
Algorithmic Justice League
SASHA COSTANZA-CHOCK
Author, Design Justice, and Senior Research Fellow
Algorithmic Justice League
Sasha Costanza-Chock (they/them or she/her) is a researcher and designer who works to support community-led processes that build shared power, move towards collective liberation, and advance ecological survival. They are known for their work on networked social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice. Sasha is a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a joint appointment in the MIT Media Lab and the Department of Urban Studies+Planning. They are a Senior Research Fellow at the Algorithmic Justice League (http://ajlunited.org) and a Faculty Affiliate with the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Sasha is the author of two books and numerous journal articles, book chapters, and other research publications. Their new book, Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, was published by the MIT Press in 2020. Sasha is a board member of Allied Media Projects (http://alliedmedia.org) and a member of the Steering Committee of the Design Justice Network (http://designjustice.org).
LINDA LEOPOLD
Head of AI Policy
H&M Group
LINDA LEOPOLD
Head of AI Policy
H&M Group
Linda Leopold is a Swedish journalist, author, and innovation strategist. She is a former Editor-in-Chief at the fashion magazine Bon, the author of two non-fiction books, and is now working with clients on innovation at the intersection of fashion and technology.
Born in 1979, Linda Leopold studied journalism and theatre history at Stockholm University before being appointed Editor-in-Chief of the fashion and culture magazine Odd at large in her mid-twenties. A few years later she was recruited to Bon. Founded in 2001, Bon has been honored with several awards over the years for its journalism and design.
In 2007 her first book, “Faghag”, was published – a literary reportage about the special relationship between straight women and gay men, taking the reader along to New York City Pride, Liza Minnelli concerts, girls rooms and old people’s homes, and clubs in Berlin. Critics described it as “a thorough and interesting voyage into a previously unexplored women’s world” and “among the best, most well-written and entertaining non-fiction books I’ve read this year.”
Some years later she stumbled upon another subculture that would take her on a long journey around the world and into the human mind. “Smartast i världen: IQ-sällskapen från insidan” (“The World’s Smartest: The High IQ Societies from the Inside”) was published in 2013, the first book ever written about the global community of high IQ societies. Linda Leopold attends secret Mensa meetings in Europe and the US, recounts the history and controversies of IQ testing, and tells the astonishing life stories of the individuals with the world’s highest intelligence test scores.
With a passion for storytelling, Linda Leopold merges real-life stories with science in her writing, to make the reading both an emotional and intellectual experience.
After many years in the media industry, Linda Leopold started her consulting firm in 2015, working as a strategic adviser specialized in fashion tech. She has been a regular contributor to Dagens Industri – Scandinavia’s biggest financial newspaper – for several years, writing about the fashion industry. The last two years she has also been curating Fashion Tech Talks, a conference and global meeting place exploring how technology is reshaping the fashion industry.
DR. KATE DEVLIN
Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence
King’s College London
DR. KATE DEVLIN
Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence
King’s College London
Kate is Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence, King’s College London. Coming from an Arts and Humanities background (as an archaeologist) with a subsequent PhD in Computer Science, Kate has a demonstrable track record of combining diverse fields and methods of research. Her work investigates how people interact with and react to technology, to understand how emerging and future technologies will affect us and the society in which we live. Her recent research has focused on cognition, sexuality and intimacy and how these might be incorporated into cognitive systems. This formed the topic of her new book, Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Kate is a member of Ada-AI, an international non-profit organisation working to ensure that AI is developed and adopted in ways that are inclusive and equitable.
Kate is a campaigner for gender equality and is involved in initiatives to improve opportunities for women in tech. She is also a mental health campaigner and fundraiser.
PROF. MMANTSETSA MAROPE
Executive Director
World Heritage Group
Honorary President
Indian Ocean Comparative and International Education Societies
PROF. MMANTSETSA MAROPE
Executive Director
World Heritage Group
Honorary President
Indian Ocean Comparative and International Education Societies
Professor Mmantsetsa Marope is the Executive Director of the World Heritage Group and Honorary President of the Indian Ocean Comparative and International Education Societies. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Chicago, a Masters degree in Education from Pennsylvania State University, and a BA from the University of Botswana and Swaziland. Her professional career includes: 11 years university professorship; 10 years at the World Bank; and 10 years in the United Nations. Her extensive experience includes: advisory and consultancy services to governments, regional economic communities, regional research networks, ministries of education, bilateral and multilateral agencies; management of international research capacity development networks and global inter-agency groups on diverse themes on global education and on early childhood care and development; membership in boards of diverse intellectual and technical groups; editor in chief of one of the world’s most prestigious journal of education: PROSPECTS; as well as founder and editor in chief of one of the most prestigious education and learning magazines: IBE INFOCUS.
In recent years, she gained eminence as a global thought leader on futures education and learning; the future of education and work; and future competences all global citizens require to thrive in rapidly changing 21st century work and life contexts. She is an avid advocate for advancing the engagement of the public and private sectors, especially in technology and the sciences, in shaping the future of education and learning, and in shaping the future through education and learning. She continues to lead global intellectual dialogue on ensuring that education and learning systems attain and sustain: credible scientific underpinnings; future development-relevance; agility to adapt; equitable quality; resource efficiency; technology-savvy; and sustainability. She strongly holds that these parameters of education and learning systems are an inescapable foundation for broad-based and future-forward human resources development, and for the long-term human capital accumulation required to assure every global citizen holistic development, equity of opportunities, and ultimately, fulfillment.
Professor Marope calls for stronger private sector and foundation engagement in the transformation of education and learning systems into life-long-learning systems in their own right before they can be counted on to develop effective life-long-learners with agility to adapt and the resultant resilience for unpredictable futures. She holds that such transformation demands: 21st century education and learning systems to have capacity for better use of science, emerging technologies to address persisting challenges, and of big data to guide and even predict their futures; rigorous systemic diagnostics; research; foresight; and constant self-renewal. The transformation also demands normative and operational tools; financial, technical and political capital; as well as enabling institutional landscapes that currently do not exist.
Professor Marope works relentlessly to develop normative and operational tools as well to garner the political, financial and technical capital required to attain and sustain future-forward education and learning systems. In future, she seeks to intensify engagement with the private sector, and foundations in convening and mobilizing global talent and intellectual pool; as well as the political, technical, technological, moral, ethical, and financial capital required to create institutions that can enable future transformation of education and learning systems, as well as the world of work that can genuinely serve all.
Throughout her career, Professor Marope has built extensive experience at all levels and types of education, learning, and training systems. She is also highly experienced in the knowledge creation, brokerage and management required to underpin system transformation. Her publications cover a wide range of areas including: global norms and standard setting tools; system diagnostic tools; system prototypes; all sub-sectors of education, learning, and training systems; future global competences; education and development; capacity development; and award winning Setswana novels.
KELVIN AONGOLA
Co-Founder & CEO
Labelfuse
KELVIN AONGOLA
Co-Founder & CEO
Labelfuse
INDRA DEN BAKKER
CEO & Co-Founder
Overstory
INDRA DEN BAKKER
CEO & Co-Founder
Overstory
Indra has a background in Computational Intelligence. Before co-founding Overstory, he worked as a Data Scientist and he is the author of ‘Python Deep Learning Cookbook’. Indra is on a mission to enable better decision making about our planet by leveraging advancements in AI and satellite technology.
NANDA PIERSMA
Scientific Director
HvA Expertise Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence
NANDA PIERSMA
Scientific Director
HvA Expertise Center for Applied 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.
DR. KIM COBB
Georgia Power Chair and Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
DR. KIM COBB
Georgia Power Chair and Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
Kim Cobb, Ph.D. is the ADVANCE professor and Georgia Power faculty scholar in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech. Her research uses corals and cave stalagmites to probe the mechanisms of past, present, and future climate change.
Cobb received her B.A. from Yale University in 1996 and her Ph.D. in oceanography from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in 2002. She spent two years at Caltech in the Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences before joining the faculty at Georgia Tech in 2004. Cobb has sailed on oceanographic cruises to the deep tropics and led caving expeditions to the rainforests of Borneo in support of her research.
She has received numerous awards for her research, most notably a NSF CAREER Award in 2007 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2008. Cobb is an editor for Geophysical Research Letters, sits on the international CLIVAR Pacific Panel, and serves on the advisory council for the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Leshner Institute for Public Engagement.
As a mother to four, she is a strong advocate for women in science. Cobb is also devoted to the clear and frequent communication of climate change to the public through speaking engagements and social media.
DR. FARHANA SULTANA
Associate Professor
Department of Geography and the Environment, Syracuse University
DR. FARHANA SULTANA
Associate Professor
Department of Geography and the Environment, Syracuse University
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, where I have taught since 2008. I am also the Research Director for Environmental Collaboration and Conflicts in the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) at the Maxwell School. At Syracuse University, I am a faculty affiliate/associate across several programs and departments, such as Women’s and Gender Studies Department, International Relations Program, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration (CEPA), South Asia Center, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Tolley Humanities Faculty, Democratizing Knowledge Collective, and Asian/Asian-American Studies.
Prior to joining Syracuse University, I was a faculty member in the Department of Geography at King’s College London and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. Before becoming an academic, I was a Programme Officer at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for a $26M large environment-development program in Bangladesh. I obtained my M.A. and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Minnesota, where I was a John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow and International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Fellow. I obtained my A.B. (Cum Laude) in Geosciences and Environmental Studies from Princeton University.
As an internationally-recognized interdisciplinary scholar, I am broadly interested in nature-society relationships, political ecology, critical development studies, feminist theories, urban studies, climate change, water governance, social justice, human rights, citizenship, and South Asia. My work is informed by not only my background and training in the natural sciences, social sciences, and policy experience, but also from having lived and worked on three continents, being a post-colonial subject and scholar, and having a lifelong commitment to critical praxis and social justice. I am the recipient of the 2019 Glenda Laws award from the American Association of Geographers.
THOMAS PEACOCK-NAZIL
Founder
Seven Clean Seas
THOMAS PEACOCK-NAZIL
Founder
Seven Clean Seas
DR. ADAM LEVY
Science Journalist and Climate Change Communicator
DR. ADAM LEVY
Science Journalist and Climate Change Communicator
Dr Adam Levy is a science journalist and climate change communicator. They have produced award winning scientific films and podcasts for publications such as Nature, Scientific American and PBS. They have a doctorate in atmospheric physics, and created ClimateAdam, a YouTube channel that makes climate change engaging and accessible.
RAMESH RASKAR
Associate Professor
MIT Media Lab
RAMESH RASKAR
Associate Professor
MIT Media Lab
Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab and directs the Camera Culture research group. His focus is on AI and Imaging for health and sustainability. They span research in physical (e.g., sensors, health-tech), digital (e.g., automated and privacy-aware machine learning) and global (e.g., geomaps, autonomous mobility) domains. He received the Lemelson Award (2016), ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award (2017), DARPA Young Faculty Award (2009), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2009), TR100 Award from MIT Technology Review (2004) and Global Indus Technovator Award (2003). He has worked on special research projects at Google [X] and Facebook and co-founded/advised several companies.