RETHINK AI: ETHICAL AI TECH & TOOLS SUMMIT

Hear from an exceptional group of multi-disciplinary builders and creators designing a more diverse, inclusive, and ethical AI/tech future.

About this Event

Technologists working on ethical and responsible AI are often dismissed as pessimists and luddites when in reality they are the much-needed voices of reason in an increasingly dystopian world where our every action is surveilled, exploited, and weaponized against us. The only way to realize the true potential of AI is by shifting our talents, collective energy, and investments to AI solutions that benefit all of humanity and not just the privileged few. It’s time to move away from ‘feel-good’ conversations and move towards ‘do-good’ ethical solutions.

On May 25th, take a break from the hype over dancing robot dogs, ethics-washing speeches, and join us as we shine the spotlight on multi-disciplinary experts who are building ethical technologies and tools for more diverse, inclusive, and ethical AI/tech future. Discover new tool-kits for your next AI project, find products to help you implement AI responsibly, and discover career opportunities for meaningful work in a non-toxic environment. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to connect with others around the globe who are daring to rethink and reimagine AI as a force for good and not merely as means for maximizing power and wealth for a privileged few.

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WHO IS HOSTING THIS EVENT?

This event is hosted by Women in AI Ethics™ (WAIE), a fiscally sponsored project of Social Good Fund (Tax Id: 46-1323531), a California nonprofit corporation and registered 501(c)(3) organization, with a mission to increase recognition, representation, and empowerment of brilliant women in this space who are working hard to save humanity from the dark side of AI.

**You can support our activities by donating here! **

All our activities are funded by donations and ticket sales. Donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and used to fund mission-aligned activities, which includes but is not limited to providing free AI Ethics career resources, hosting community events, and funding other initiatives to support women in this space.

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VOICES

Our Speakers

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Chenai Chair
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Brandi Collins-Dexter
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Arielle Danzy
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Sarah Drinkwater
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Rosemary E. Musachio
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Willmary Escoto
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Triveni Gandhi
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Cate Huston
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Hessie Jones
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Peaks Krafft
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Jennifer Lee
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Kathy Pham
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Temi Popo
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Mary Reagan
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Anusha Sethuraman
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Mia Shah- Dand
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Wiebke Toussaint
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Xiaowei Wang
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Qianqian Ye

May 25

ETHICAL AI TECH & TOOLS SUMMIT

U.S. Pacific Standard Time

08:00AM to 08:30AM - Opening Remarks

Speaker Bio:

Mia Shah-Dand
Founder – Women in AI Ethics™, CEO – Lighthouse3™
Organization : Women in AI Ethics™

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiaD
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miadand

8:30AM to 8:45AM - "Before We Talk Peace"

Speaker Bio:

Arielle Danzy 
Organization : Poet & Spoken Word Artist

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Legendari16
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arielledc

Session Description:  Arielle will be reading a powerful piece calling for justice.

8:50AM to 9:30AM - Investing for a Diverse, Inclusive, and Ethical Tech Future

Speaker Bio:

Sarah Drinkwater
Director, Responsible Tech, Omidyar Network
Organization : Omidyar Network

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahdrinkwater

Audience: Ethical owners across tech, allies focused on equitable technology ecosystems.
Format: Fireside Chat

Short Description:    In this fireside chat, we will explore investment strategies with the head of Responsible Technology at Omidyar Network and discuss meaningful ways to encourage development of ethical technologies and diverse startups.

9:35AM to 10:30AM - Building Trustworthy AI with Mozilla

Speaker Bio:

Wiebke Toussaint
Organization : Delft University of Technology

Twitter: https://twitter.com/wiebketous
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wiebketoussaint

Audience: ML educators and self-learners
Format: Discussion

Session Description:    The Zen of Machine Learning (This talk is part of the Mozilla session.)


Chenai Chair
Mozilla, Special Advisor – Africa Innovation

Twitter: https://twitter.com/chenaichair
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wiebketoussaint

Session Description:      Learn about the different ways Mozilla is building trustworthy AI globally.


Kathy Pham
Co-Director, Responsible Computing, Mozilla

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kathytpham


Temi Popo (Moderator)
Program Manager, Trustworthy AI, Mozilla Foundation

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eyitemipopo

Audience:    AI ethicists, ML educators, and self-learners

 

10:30AM to 10:45AM - BREAK

15 Min Break

10:45AM to 11:15AM - AI Policy Toolkit for Technology Audits

Speaker Bio:

Peaks Krafft
Senior Lecturer, University of the Arts London
Organization : University of the Arts London

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_pmkr

Audience: Data scientists, AI ethicists, product managers, policy advocates, members of the public concerned about harms of information technology

Session Description:     Many recent practitioner-facing reflective tools have been created to promote responsible AI development. However, the use of such tools internally by tech firms addresses responsible AI as a closed-door compliance issue rather than a matter of public concern. The Algorithmic Equity Toolkit is a set of reflective tools intended to increase public participation in technology advocacy for AI policy action. https://www.aclu-wa.org/AEKit

11:20AM to 11:50AM - Building Inclusive AI

Speaker Bio:

Rosemary E. Musachio
Chief Accessibility Officer for Ruh Global Impact
Organization : Ruh Global

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoseMusachio

Audience: Anyone with interest in designing accessible technologies

Session Description:    Communicating with doctors, nurses, and nurses can be difficult, especially if you have a speech, hearing, or cognitive impairment. Learn how AI and some non-AI methods can break down communication barriers for medical professionals as well as patients.

11:55AM to 12:30PM - Algorithmic Censorship Resistance Tool kit

Speaker Bio:

Qianqian Ye
Adjunct Assistant Professor, USC
Organization : The Future of Memory

Twitter: https://twitter.com/4444ian

 

Audience: Data scientists, AI ethicists

Session Description:      The Algorithmic Censorship Resistance Toolkit is a constructed and collected toolkit of different tactics that obfuscate and encode text so that it becomes machine unreadable. These tools derive inspiration from existing online practices, as well as proposed ones through research.


Xiaowei Wang
Organization : The Future of Memory

Twitter: https://twitter.com/xrw

 

Audience: General audience — Future of Memory is a public art project

Session Description:    Our capacity for change is shaped by our capacity for language: new phrases, words and revolutions are created by our ability to imagine new worlds and vocabularies. From hashtags and political slogans, words serve as reminders and provocations of where we’ve been and where we are headed. The Future of Memory is a place of provocation: a collected toolkit and a text-based adventure. The project highlights the tensions that emerge when corporate platforms around the world have centralized power over speech online, and deploy automated moderation systems that prioritize profit over care.

12:30PM to 12:45PM - BREAK

15 Min Break

12:45PM to 01:15PM - Building Fair and Explainable AI

Speaker Bio:

Triveni Gandhi
Senior Industry Data Scientist Life Sciences and Responsible AI, Dataiku
Organization : Dataiku

Twitter: https://twitter.com/triveni_gandhi
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/trivenigandhi

Audience: Anyone with an interest in data and ML Fairness

Session Description:    This session covers a set of key tools available in Dataiku to support ML Fairness and Explainable AI. Dataiku’s collaborative platform makes it easy for users from all backgrounds to probe their data and models for potential sources of bias, explore row level explanations of a model, calculate fairness metrics and much more.

01:20PM to 02:15PM - Legislating for Diverse, Inclusive, and Ethical AI

Speaker Bio:

Brandi Collins-Dexter
Visiting fellow at the Harvard Shorenstein Center
Organization : Harvard Shorenstein Center

Twitter: https://twitter.com/brandingbrandi

Session Description:      The increasing use of AI in a variety of uses in the public domain necessitates a discussion about options to stem the unethical uses and reduce harms to communities. This expert panel from ACLU, Access Now, and Shorenstein Center will share the latest developments in legislation and other effective challenges to counter the unethical uses of AI.

 

Willmary Escoto
Policy Analyst, Access Now
Organization : Access Now

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mixedintech
Audience: AI ethicists, advocates, lawmakers, educators, etc


Jennifer Lee
Tech and Liberty Manager, ACLU of Washington
Organization : ACLU of Washington

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jennifer_e_lee
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifereunjilee

Format: Panel Discussion
Audience: AI ethicists, advocates, lawmakers, educators, etc

02:15PM to 02:45PM - Building Responsible AI

Speaker Bio:

Anusha Sethuraman
VP, Marketing, Fiddler AI
Organization : Fiddler AI

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nushsethu
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anushasethuraman


Mary Reagan
Data Scientist, Fiddler AI
Organization : Fiddler AI

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dr_Mary_Reagan
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-m-reagan

 

Audience: Data Scientists

Session Description:    As AI is used in business-critical scenarios across industries, the importance of deploying AI responsibly has reached a crescendo. From data drift & integrity to model bias, there’s a new way to ensure high-quality model performance with a centralized ML Model Performance Management framework powered by Explainable AI. Explainability is the most effective way to ensure AI solutions are transparent, accountable, responsible, fair, and ethical across use cases and industries.

02:45PM to 03:00PM - Break

15 Min Break

03:00PM to 03:40PM - Building for Privacy

Speaker Bio:

Cate Huston
Engineering director, DuckDuckGo

Twitter: https://twitter.com/catehstn
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catehuston


Hessie Jones (Moderator)
COO, Beacon Trust Network

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hessiejones
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hessiejones1

Format: Fireside Chat

03:45PM to 04:00PM - Closing Remarks

Speaker Bio:

Mia Shah-Dand
Founder – Women in AI Ethics™, CEO – Lighthouse3™
Organization : Women in AI Ethics™

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiaD
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miadand

OUR BACKBONE

Event Organizing Team & Volunteers

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TESTIMONIALS

Feedback from Past Events

“Can’t wait for next year. Wonderful conference!”

– Lauren A.

“This was an amazing and extremely rich day!”

– Ryann M.

“I really loved all of it! I wish I could have attended every session.”

– Attendee at WAIE2020

“There isn’t a session that I did not like. This is the first time I attended an online-conference and I was very impressed.”

– Jenn K.

“Fantastic speakers! Loved the tone and openness with which people shared their expertise.”

– Attendee at WAIE2020

“Thank you so much for letting me be a part of this. It was nice to really feel the sense of community within the event despite it being virtual!”

– Preetha S.