Speakers

Katarzyna Szymielewicz

@szymielewicz

Katarzyna Szymielewicz is a lawyer and activist specializing in human rights and technology. She is Co-Founder and President of Panoptykon Foundation, a Polish NGO defending human rights in today’s surveillance society.

Guillaume Chaslot

@gchaslot

Founder of AlgoTransparency, former software engineer at Google/YouTube, and Mozilla Fellow

Cansu Canca

@ccansu

Founder and Director, AI Ethics Lab

Francesca Bria

@francesca_bria

Francesca Bria is Chief Technology and Digital Innovation Officer of Barcelona, and Founder of the Decode Project.

Kathy Pham

@kathytpham

Computer scientist and Mozilla Fellow co-leading the Responsible Computer Science Challenge. Kathy teaches Product Management and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School, co-leads the Ethical Tech Working Group at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center, and founded the Ethical Tech Collective.

Bitange Ndemo

@bantigito

ICT Specialist and Associate Professor at the University of Nairobi

Marietje Schaake

@MarietjeSchaake

Marietje Schaake has been named Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center’s international policy director, as well as international policy fellow at the University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (starting November 1). 

Between 2009 and 2019, Marietje served as a Member of European Parliament for the Dutch liberal democratic party where she focussed on trade, foreign affairs and technology policies. Marietje regularly speaks at conferences and in international media. She is affiliated with a number of non-profits including the European Council on Foreign Relations and the Observer Research Foundation in India, and writes a bi-weekly column for the Dutch NRC newspaper. 

Camille François

@camillefrancois

Chief Innovation Officer at Graphika and Mozilla Fellow

Claire Wardle

@cward1e

Co-Founder of First Draft and TED Fellow

Desmond Patton

@drdesmondpatton

Dr. Desmond Patton is a pioneer in the field of making AI empathetic, culturally sensitive, and less biased. He is Associate Dean for Innovation and Academic Affairs and co-director of the Justice, Equity and Technology lab at Columbia School of Social Work.

Hans Block

Director of “The Cleaners”

Gabi Ivens

Independent open source researcher and Mozilla Fellow

Moritz Riesewieck

Director of “The Cleaners”

Clara Tsao

@tweetclarita

Content moderation researcher and Mozilla Fellow

Gry Hasselbalch

@mediamocracy

Co-Founder of the think-do tank DataEthics.eu. Gry is a member of the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on AI and was a member of the data ethics expert group appointed to provide the Danish government with recommendations in 2018. Gry is also co-chair of the IEEE P7006 standard on personal data AI agents

Fanny Hidvegi

@infofannny

Access Now’s Europe Policy Manager based in Brussels. Fanny is appointed to the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, serves on the board of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU), and is a Marshall Memorial Fellow.

Matthias Spielkamp

@spielkamp

Co-Founder and Executive Director of AlgorithmWatch, and an award-winning journalist

Philip Dawson

@p__dawson

Public Policy Lead at Element AI

Cansu Canca

@ccansu

Cansu Canca is a philosopher and the founder/director of the AI Ethics Lab, where she leads teams of computer scientists, philosophers, and legal scholars to provide ethics analysis and guidance to researchers and practitioners.

Prabhat Agarwal

@prabprab

Deputy Head of Platforms Unit at European Commission

Guillermo Beltrà

@gbeltra

Guillermo Beltrà leads Access Now’s policy team globally, providing strategic vision, guiding and coordinating the operations of experts in Latin America, North America, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, and Asia-Pacific.

Xavier Harding

@iamxavier