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Vansa Chatikavanij

Vansa is an angel and impact investor residing in Singapore. Vansa has enjoyed an excellent career working in fintech since her graduate studies in space research for NASA and is probably best known for her time as CEO of OmiseGo. Joining OmiseGo in 2017 as Managing Director, Vansa was one of the first team members […]

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Irina Berkon

Irina is a businesswoman who has demonstrated her ability to lead in finance and accounting.  Irina is a CPA with over 15 years of practical expertise in corporate finance, including a strong history in IPOs, startups, mergers, and acquisitions, financial audits, international accounting, and tax structure (U.S., R.U., E.U.), company strategy planning, and development, and

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Leila Andrews

Leila is a graphic artist by training that successfully transitioned to product management and operations management in the tech industry.  Her design skill background provided a foundation for managing complex project deliverables for well-known tech firms like Fandom and Strava.  Leila cut her teeth in the tech industry at Fandom, the ‘world’s largest fan platform

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Himani Agrawal

Himani is a Data Scientist at AT&T and one of the numerous women who promote diversity and women in STEM disciplines via their work. Himani is engaged in the Women in Machine Learning and Women Engineers Society of Anita Borg Institute. Himani’s doctorate, accompanied by Microsoft traineeships, Simpatica medicine, Augment Solutions, and Galvanize Fellowship laid

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Lucia Specia

Lucia is a Natural Language Development Professor at Imperial College of London and Sheffield University. Previously, she was a senior lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton. Lucia obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Sao Paul, Brazil, where her research focused on elements of data-driven language processing techniques and multimodal and multilingual context models. Lucia’s

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Allie Miller

Allie is the Global Head of Machine Learning and Business Development for startups and Venture capital at A.W.S. Allie has a deep history in A.I. and was once the youngest ever woman to build an A.I. project at I.B.M. Allie is recognized as one of the best-known A.I. experts in the field.

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Joy Buolamwini

Joy is a worldwide pioneer in algorithmic prejudice concerning racial and gender discrimination in facial recognition algorithms. Her work has had a far-reaching impact forcing Amazon, Microsoft, and I.B.M. to stop services related to face recognition, acknowledging the technology is not yet suitable for public consumption. In her documentary film Coded Bias, Joy speaks about

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Elizabeth Adams

Elizabeth works as a technological integrator and focuses on ethical technology design at the crossroads of cyber safety, A.I. ethics, and A.I. governance. She also teaches, advises, consults, and talks about crucial topics like race prejudice in facial recognition technology, video surveillance, predictive analysis, child rights, and diversity & inclusion within artificial intelligence. Elizabeth is

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Kate Crawford

Kate is a distinguished research professor and co-founder at AI NOW Institute in N.Y.C., recognized for her vital insights on the political, social, and planetary effects of technology advancements on society. Kate is also the inaugural Visiting Chair for A.I. and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Kate’s background is widely documented and

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Daniela Rus

Daniela is one of M.I.T.’s top robotics scientists and Head of CSAIL, one of the world’s largest and most prominent. A.I. research laboratories, M.I.T.’s computer science and artificial intelligence labs. Daniela’s groundbreaking research has promoted collaborative networked, self-configurable, and soft robots. In particular, Daniela’s work has helped build artificial understanding in factories is assisting in

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Dr. Renata Afi Rawlings-Goss

Renata is a professional biophysicist focusing on the data-based study of the diversity of genetic/expression in global human populations. Renata previously worked for the Obama administration to develop comprehensive national data policies and priorities for the big inter-agency data senior management group of the White House Office for Science and Technology Policy. In addition to

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Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke

Mounia is Director of Research at Spotify and Head of User Engagement Tech Research, where she oversees the interdisciplinary team of personalization and discovery researchers. Mounia’s work focuses on the involvement of users in native advertising, digital media, social media, search, and even music utilizing I.T. technology. Mounia formerly served as Yahoo Research Director and

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