Abhishek Gupta
Founder and Principal Researcher
Abhishek Gupta is the Founder and Principal Researcher at the Montreal AI Ethics Institute. His work focuses on applied technical and policy measures for building ethical, safe, and inclusive AI systems, specializing in the operationalization of AI ethics and its deployments in organizations and assessing and mitigating the environmental impact of these systems. He is the author of the widely read State of AI Ethics Reports and The AI Ethics Brief.
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Agnis Stibe
Artificial Intelligence Program Director
Agnis Stibe is the Artificial Intelligence Program Director and Professor of Transformation at EM Normandie Business School and a globally recognized corporate consultant and scientific advisor at AgnisStibe.com. Provides the authentic science-driven STIBE method and practical tools for hyper-performance. 4x TEDx speaker, MIT alum.
Find out more on https://agnisstibe.com and on YouTube https://youtube.com/agnisstibe
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Anand Ranganathan
Chief AI Officer
Anand Ranganathan is a co-founder and the Chief AI Officer at Unscrambl. He is leading Unscrambl’s product development in several cutting-edge areas, including natural language processing, automated insights, data story-telling, real-time optimization and decision-making, and marketing optimization. Before joining Unscrambl, he was a Global Technical Ambassador, Master Inventor, and Research Scientist at IBM. He received his PhD in Computer Science from UIUC, and his BTech from the IIT-Madras. He also has over 70 academic journal and conference publications and 30 patent filings in his name.
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Angeliki Dedopoulou
Public Policy Manager, AI & Fintech
Angeliki Dedopoulou is Public Policy Manager for AI & Fintech at Meta (formerly known as Facebook). Before joining Meta's EU Public Affairs team, she was a Senior Manager of EU Public Affairs at Huawei, responsible for the policy area of AI, Blockchain, Digital Skills, and Green-related policy topics. She was also an adviser for the European Commission for over 5 years on DG Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion.
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Anthony Mills
Founder & CEO, Executive Director
Anthony Mills is a globally sought-after thought leader on emerging markets, proactive growth strategies, corporate innovation, workplace experience, entrepreneurship, product design, and Design Thinking. His work has had a profound and lasting impact on businesses all over the world.
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Arathi Sethumadhavan
Principal Research Manager, Ethics & Society
Arathi Sethumadhavan is the Head of Research for Ethics & Society at Microsoft, where she works at the intersection of research, ethics, and product innovation. She focuses on AI and emerging technologies such as computer vision, natural language processing, mixed reality, and intelligent agents. She is also a recent Fellow at the World Economic Forum, where she worked on unlocking opportunities for positive impact with AI.
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Aruna Kolluru
Chief Technologist, AI, APJ
Aruna Kolluru is passionate about business, technology, and emerging technologies. She helps organizations to visualize the art of possible, architect, and build solutions with emerging technologies. Before joining EMC & Dell Technologies, Aruna held various senior roles for IBM & Oracle. She has over 21 years of experience in the industry on varying technologies including AI, Blockchain, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, IOT Big Data & Analytics, and Enterprise Architecture.
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Aruna Pattam
Head of AI & Data Science - Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Japan
Aruna Pattam is a Global AI Thought Leader with 22+ years of experience in data analytics, AI, and ML. Also, a speaker, mentor, blogger, vlogger, and women advocate with the goal of educating and providing awareness on AI to the business and the wider community. The views expressed are personal.
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Badr Boussabat
President, AI TOGETHER
Badr Boussabat is the President of AI TOGETHER, a serial entrepreneur, AI Speaker, Author of "L'intelligence artificielle: notre meilleur espoir" (2020) and "L'intelli-gence artificielle dans le monde d'aujourd'hui" (2021). Badr gave 80+ conferences to major financial institutions, Gulf Cooperation Council, World Economic Forum, banks, public authorities, SME's and Universities. He is the most quoted AI specialist in the Belgian press and has participated in 30+ TV shows to talk about the inclusive use of AI.
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Boyka Simeonova
Assistant Professor in Information Management
Boyka Simeonova is an Assistant Professor in Information Management at Loughborough University. Boyka is the Director of the Knowledge and the Digital Economy Research Network at the university and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Information Management.
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Christian Guttmann
Executive Director, Senior Researcher
Dr. Christian Guttmann is an Artificial Intelligence scientist and global AI executive with a strong track record in creating high-impact business and research with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science. Christian was recently named a Top 100 AI global leader by Deep Knowledge Ventures, based on my achievements in science, technology, and business.
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Cynthia Rudin
Professor of Computer Science
Cynthia Rudin is a professor at Duke University. Her goal is to design predictive models that are understandable to humans. She is the recipient of the 2022 Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity (the "Nobel Prize of AI").
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David Pereira
Head of Data & Intelligence
David Pereira is a telecommunications engineer from the University of Vigo and PDD from IESE Business School. Partner of the NTT DATA Technology Area, David leads NTT DATA’s Data and Intelligence in EMEAL as well as the global Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence for the group.
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Dima Turchyn
AI Product Marketing Lead, CEE Region
Dima Turchyn is working with analytical technologies and Machine Learning for 20+ years and has a broad background in Business Development, IT and Marketing. Most recently, he leads Microsoft’s AI product marketing for CEE region covering 30+ countries.
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Edward Pyzer-Knapp
WW Research Lead, AI Enriched Modelling and Simulation
Edward Pyzer-Knapp is the Worldwide Lead for AI Enriched Modelling and Simulation at IBM, Visiting Professor of Industrially Applied AI at the University of Liverpool, and the Editor in Chief for Applied AI Letters. He specializes in the interface between AI, HPC, and Scientific Discovery, and has extensive experience in developing best-in-class solutions and deploying them into real-world environments.
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Eleanor Watson
Tech Ethicist, Researcher, Reformer
Eleanor ‘Nell’ Watson is an interdisciplinary researcher in emerging technologies such as machine vision and A.I. ethics. Her work primarily focuses on protecting human rights and putting ethics, safety, and the values of the human spirit into technologies such as Artificial Intelligence.
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Emma Duckworth
Director of Data Science
Emma Duckworth leads the global Data Science team at GSK Consumer Healthcare. She is passionate about AI ethics, diversity in data science and uses AI to solve big, strategic problems such as accessibility & sustainability of everyday healthcare. Ex-cited by innovation, she pulls on her startup experience to build and scale AI prod-ucts.
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Enrico Panai
AI and Data Ethicist
Enrico Panai is an Information and Data Ethicist and a Human Information Interaction Specialist. He is the founder of the French consultancies “Éthiciens du numérique” and BeEthical.be and a member of the French Standardisation Committee for AI, and ForHumanity’s Fellow.
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Gertjan Boulet
Advisor Cyber & AI
Gertjan Boulet is an Advisor on Cyber and AI at the Cabinet of Belgium’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Telecommunication. He has taught graduate courses in International Cyber Law and International Relations at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, Belgium), Korea University (South Korea), and the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea). At the European External Action Service, he integrated expertise into policymaking on EU-Asia security cooperation and EU strategic autonomy. He also served as an advisor at the Belgian Data Protection Authority, which he co-represented at the EU in the field of AI and security.
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Golestan Radwan
AI Researcher and Strategist
Golestan (Sally) Radwan is the former AI Advisor to the Minister of ICT in Egypt, where she led the development and implementation of the country's national AI strategy from 2019-2022. She also participated in drafting global recommendations on AI ethics at UNESCO and the OECD.
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Harry Mamangakis
Chief Technology & Operations Officer
Harry Mamangakis is a Technology Executive for over two decades, balancing between fluency in technological breakthroughs and having a business mindset. He has led and participated in several transformation engagements for leading brands in industries such as Telcos and Retail.
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Himanshi Allahabadi
AI Ethicist
Himanshi Allahabadi is a data scientist focusing on AI engineering and ethics. She is experienced in the development of large-scale cloud platforms for data-driven applications. She researches areas of trustworthy AI and machine learning best practices for collaborative open-source initiatives.
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Jaroslav Bláha
CIO/CTO • AI Evangelist
Jaroslav Bláha is CIO/CTO of trivago. He has 30 years of experience in global innovation leadership; amongst others for NATO, ThalesRaytheonSystems, DB Schenker, Swissgrid, Solera, PAYBACK. He developed his first AI in 1995; his startup CellmatiQ provides AI-based medical image analysis.
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Jennifer Victoria Scurrell
PhD Candidate in AI Politics
Jennifer Victoria Scurrell is a political scientist and pursues her PhD at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. In her dissertation, she examines the influence of bots on political opinion formation in online social networks and the resulting implications for political campaigning.
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Jon Skirnir Agustsson
VP Artificial Intelligence and Data Research
Jon S. Agustsson is an experienced AI and Research leader working in the medical device and medical research industry-leading an interdisciplinary team in Data Sci-ence, Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Research. Passionate engineering, invent-ing, and building new things, with multiple patents and scientific publications.
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Jordi Guitart
VP of Artificial Intelligence
Jordi Guitart, PhD has been recently appointed CEO of the Barcelona-based healthtech startup Science4Tech Solutions, coming from Aizon where he served as VP of AI. He is concurrently Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management at ESIC Business & Marketing School.
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Joseph Yun
AI Architect and Research Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Joseph Yun is an AI Architect and Research Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering research. He is primarily focused on novel data science algorithms, user-centric analytics systems, and societal considerations of AI-based advertising and marketing. Yun is the founder of the Social Media Macroscope, which is an open research environment for social media analytics.
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Jyotirmay Gadewadikar
Chief Engineer (Enterprise AI – Systems and Mission Analysis)
Jyotirmay Gadewadikar received the Scientific Leadership award from the US De-partment of Homeland Security and is an Artificial Intelligence, Decision Science pro-fessional engaged in Strategy, Business, People Development, and Thought Leader-ship. He was previously Chief Product Officer of Deloitte's Conversational AI Practice and System Design and Management Fellow at MIT.
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Kashyap Kompella
CEO, AI PROFS / RPA2AI Research
Kashyap Kompella is an award-winning industry analyst, best-selling author, educator, and AI advisor to leading companies and start-ups in US, Europe, and Asia-Pac. Thinkers 360 has ranked Kashyap as the #1 thought leader on AI globally (Oct 2021).
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Luca Sambucci
Senior Director, Strategic Solutions
Luca Sambucci is a Senior Director, Strategic Solutions at a leading US software company for Enterprise AI. Former Head of Artificial Intelligence for a Swiss consulting group specializing in exponential technologies, he holds a Business Analytics specialization from Wharton and an Artificial Intelligence Professional certification from IBM. He was also engaged as AI & cybersecurity advisor for EU organizations such as the Joint Research Centre and the European Defence Agency. The opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of his employer or affiliates.
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Marily Nika
AI Product Leader
Marily Nika is an AI Product Leader based in San Francisco working for Google, previously for Meta (Facebook). She holds a Ph.D. in Computing Science from Imperial College London and is currently an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. Outside of her day role, Marily acts as an advisor to early-stage startups and also empowers the women in the tech community in various ways.
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Mathew Hughes
Schulze Distinguished Professor, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Mathew (Mat) Hughes is Schulze Distinguished Professor and Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Loughborough University. His expertise lies in entrepreneurial management and strategy. Mat has published in world-leading journals and served as an advisor to a variety of businesses and organizations. Mat is also Senior Editor of FamilyBusiness.org
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Mayte Hidalgo
Head of Data & AI Center
Mayte Hidalgo has 20+ years in the Digital ecosystem, with a career spanning multinational organizations, startups, consulting, and entrepreneurship. She is Fulbright, Intercampus and Erasmus Scholar. Mayte started a data career in 2002 with the data-centric worldwide pioneer program IMC by Don Schultz and the school of Kellog on Integrated Marketing @Northwestern University.
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Michael Wu
Chief AI Strategist
Dr. Michael Wu is the Chief AI Strategist at PROS (NYSE: PRO). He’s been appointed as a Senior Research Fellow at the Ecole des Ponts Business School for his work in Data Science, and he serves as an advisor and lecturer for UC Berkeley Extension’s AI programs. Prior to PROS, Michael was the Chief Scientist at Lithium for a decade. His R&D won him recognition as an Influential Leader by CRM Magazine. Michael has served as a DOE fellow at the Los Alamos National Lab. Prior to industry, Michael re-ceived his triple major undergraduate degree in Applied Math, Physics, and Molecular & Cell Biology; and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley’s Biophysics program.
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Mike Tamir
Chief ML Scientist, Head of ML/AI
Mike Tamir, PhD is a data science leader, specializing in deep learning, NLP, and dis-tributed scalable machine learning. Mike is experienced in delivering data products for use cases including text comprehension, image recognition, recommender sys-tems, targeted advertising, forecasting, user understanding, and customer analytics. He is a pioneer in developing training programs in industry-focused machine learning and data science techniques.
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Nazar Zaki
Professor and Director
Nazar Zaki is a Professor of Computer Science and founder and Director of the Big Data Analytics Center with a mission to ingrain a sustained impact through groundbreaking Data analytics research and services. Nazar’s research focuses on data mining, machine learning, graph mining, and bioinformatics.
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Prakash Natarajan
Head of Sustainability, Tech Consumer Healthcare
Prakash Natarajan is a senior IT executive with 25+ years of extensive experience in driving multimillion dollar transformational initiatives of high complexity across MNCs. He has a strong track record of crafting strategies, and implementing innovative IT solutions that have increased business growth, reduced costs, fast-tracked benefits, and improved overall customer service.
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Professor Andy Pardoe
Founder & Group CEO, AGI Wisdom Group Ltd
Professor Andy Pardoe is an experienced CTO and CEO working across multiple industry sectors including Financial Services, Retail, and Media. Over 25 years expertise of global change programmes delivering complex technical transformations including Enterprise Scaled AI delivery and commercialisation. Also focused on AI Innovation.
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Professor Eleni Mangina
VP (International) Science at UCD, IEEE Senior Member
Professor Eleni Mangina carried out her PhD work at the University of Strathclyde (UK), Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, working on Agent-based applications for intelligent data interpretation. The research area focused on software analysis, design and development of multi-agent systems, that utilise AI techniques (Knowledge based systems, Artificial Neural Networks, Case and Model Based Reasoning systems).
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Raj Madan
Chief Digital and Information Technology Officer
Raj Madan has over 20 years of digital transformation and innovation experience and is currently the CDIO at Arcutis Biotherapeutics. Prior to joining Arcutis, Raj served as the Vice President of Digital, Data/Analytics and Innovation for Consumer Healthcare Technology at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), where, in partnership with the Chief Digital Officer, he was responsible for driving significant elements of their Digital and Tech transformation globally.
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Richard Benjamins
Chief AI & Data Strategist, Telefónica • Co-founder and VP of OdiseIA • Board Member of CDP Europe
Dr. Richard Benjamins is among the 100 most influential people in data-driven business (DataIQ 100, 2018). He advises the European Commission and Parliament as well as companies and start-ups. He has a passion for AI for Good and authored three books on AI.
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Samiran Ghosh
Senior Advisor
Samiran Ghosh is a recognized thought leader in the AI/Blockchain space. Has held leadership positions with McKinsey, IBM, Microsoft, and TCS. Is a Fellow of the Digital Euro Association and Royal Society of Arts. On the global panel of MIT Tech Review, a TEDx speaker, and a member of the Forbes Tech Council. Worked for a year on the world's largest identity program implemented in India - Aadhaar. A couple of books he co-authored were amongst the top 20 new fintech books to read in 2020. He also co-hosts a popular tech podcast called 3 Techies Banter.
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Sherin Mathew
AI Strategist, Ethicist, Advisor
Sherin Mathew is an AI Leader, Founder, Entrepreneur, Ethicist, and Chief AI advisor for ambitious SMEs and DeepTech Startups. Sherin is a former IBM AI Lead at Mi-crosoft Global Business Services UK, and specialises in transforming businesses into cognitive enterprises and building scalable startups with cutting-edge solutions. Sherin's Mission is to "Disrupt the AI Disruption" and is an untiring advocate for the creative, innovative, and ethical side of intelligent technologies.
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Siddha Ganju
Senior Artificial Intelligence Lead
Siddha Ganju is an AI researcher who Forbes featured in their 30 under 30 list, is a Self-Driving Architect at Nvidia. As an AI Advisor to NASA FDL, she helped build an automated meteor detection pipeline for the CAMS project at NASA, which ended up discovering a comet. Previously at Deep Vision, she developed deep learning models for resource constraint edge devices.
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Simon Greenman
Partner, Best Practice AI & Member of the WEF’s Global AI Council
Simon Greenman is a technology innovator. He is partner at AI management and governance consultancy Best Practice AI. He sits on the World Economic Forum’s Global AI Council. He co-founded the early internet brand and AI company MapQuest.com. He holds a BA in Computing & Artificial Intelligence from Sussex University and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Steve Shwartz
AI Author, Investor, and Serial Entrepreneur
Steve Shwartz is the author of ‘Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths: The Truth About AI and the Future of Humanity’. Steve is the founder or co-founder of three companies in the AI area including Esperant which became one of the leading business intelligence tools of the 1990s. Steve co-founded Device42 which is one of the fastest-growing software companies in the country and has been fortunate enough to participate in two IPOs and multiple M&A exits.
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Sunil Kumar
Director, Data Science
Sunil Kumar is a global thought leader in AI, IoT, and Analytics; Director – Data science; Top 10 Data Scientist in India; ACM Distinguished Speaker; Inventor of 40+ patents, Visiting Professor, Fellow of IETE, IEI; Technical Role Model and IEEE Engineering Manager of the Year awards winner.
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Veena Calambur
Data Scientist & AI Ethicist
Veena Calambur is a data scientist and AI ethicist. She has worked to research and adapt data analytics and machine learning capabilities. She will be starting a role in Workday's Machine Learning Trust Program. In the past Veena has worked as data scientist at Pfizer where she pioneered their enterprise-wide Responsible AI strategy and toolkit and as a decision analytics associate at ZS Associates. Veena has her bachelor's degree in Information Science and Statistics from Cornell University and is pursuing a PhD in Information Science at Drexel University.
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Yannis Kalfoglou
Head of AI
Yannis Kalfoglou, PhD is a seasoned professional with over 30 years of experience and exposure to AI. Technically, Yannis is well versed in the art and science of engineering AI and building cutting-edge systems. Professionally, he led the customer-driven innovation programme of Ricoh in Europe, and Invesco’s innovation programme. He consulted clients in Ethical uses of AI technology with PA Consulting and delivered an AI strategy for Samsung and BP. He currently leads Frontiers’ AI programme.
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Yasen Dimitrov
Co-founder & Chief Analytics Officer
Yasen Dimitrov is the Co-founder and CAO of Intelligence Node. Yasen has a proven track record of building BI and Predictive Analytics solutions across various industries and has experience in converting the ‘value’ of data into real, tangible business opportunities. In his current role, he manages operations, analytics architecture, and category expansion; including building and maintaining the largest database (1.2 billion unique retail products) in the industry.
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