AI and Ethics in the Data Revolution

Featuring: Neta Iser

Event Sponsor: Ascendum

Event Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87823161210

SUMMARY:

Artificial Intelligence is touching almost every industry and vertical in our lives. We are part of the data revolution: the technology to collect, store, process and analyze all of the data we want to.

But oversight and laws will never move as fast as technology. It’s our responsibility to understand proper ethics and the ethics of data. The discussion will explore the importance of data ethics in the rapidly accelerating technology revolution.

Key takeaways include:

• Learn the concepts of ethics and how it applies to data
• Understanding bias: human biases, biases of machines and bias in data processing
• Best practices to remove/handle bias

BIO:

Recognized as a 2020 top Data Power Woman by CDO magazine and 2020 Forty-Under-40 honoree by the Cincinnati Business Courier, Neta Iser has served as the global Chief Data Officer (CDO) for Ascendum Solutions since 2019. She currently leads the data science teams in the US and India.

Neta has vast experience and a deep love of everything data: data architecture, artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning (ML), DBA, BI, data engineering, and data science. She is an expert in data design and implementation, with an emphasis on performance.

In high school, Neta built her first software program to assist her mother, a principal at her school, in automating class scheduling for the students. At 18, Neta joined the Israeli Air Force as a database developer focusing on data integration from multiple applications, as well as data warehouse implementations.

She was promoted to Air Force Team Leader and a Senior Professional Member where she led the Business Intelligence team. In her role, she worked directly with the executive management and a two-star general.

In 2016, Neta left Israel and moved to Dayton, Ohio where she joined Krush Technologies in a leadership role as the head of the Data Systems Team (DBAs and Data Engineers). She was later promoted to the Director of Data Services and Business Intelligence where she ensured the data infrastructure was stable and performing, while providing critical, in-depth insights to the executive management.

In 2017, Neta joined Ascendum Solutions as the Director of Data Science and Business Intelligence. She was promoted to Chief Data Officer in January 2019. She oversees global data engineering projects for some of the largest Fortune 500 companies.