Women in AI Ethics™ Asia-Pacific Summit

Join the Women in AI Ethics™ Collective - Australia on November 11 at 10a AEDT for our first Asia Pacific summit as as we bring together women and allies around the world to discuss the current state of diversity + ethics in AI and build meaningful action plans for progress through inspiring panel discussions, workshops, and lightning talks.

Pervasive bias in algorithms and flawed Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems pose significant risks to humanity. These problems require urgent discussion, concrete action to reduce harm, increase accountability, and collectively shape the types of outcomes we want to see from AI. However, we cannot have a meaningful discussion about the consequences and ethics of AI without including marginalized and underrepresented groups around the world in these critical conversations.

Women in AI Ethics (WAIE)™ is a global initiative by Lighthouse3, a strategic research and advisory firm based in California 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.

This initiative started as a list created by Mia Shah-Dand, CEO of Lighthouse3, to recognize talented women in this space and is now a global online directory. The 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ list is published annually to highlight rising stars as well as aspiring women from non-technical fields as part of our continuing effort to make AI more diverse and accessible for everyone. You can read more about our intersectional approach to diversity here.

**Event link will be emailed to all registered attendees 3 days before the event**

AGENDA:

Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM OPENING REMARKS: Morning Session – Mia Shah-Dand https://www.linkedin.com/in/miadand/

10:20 AM - 10:30 AM WAIE 2020 APAC Program Overview – Chelle Adams, Bec Johnson and Angela Kim

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-chelle-adamson-10398055/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/becjohnson/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-kim-b3203a6b/

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM Keynote: Diversity & Inclusion in Tech: Dr. Huntington https://www.linkedin.com/in/elanor-huntington/

10:50 AM – 11:20 AM Panel discussion: Ethically Aligned Design of AI – Kay-Firth-Butterfield & John C Havens

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kay-firth-butterfield-b5b3853a/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnchavens/

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM Disinformation, content moderation and harm – Marianna Ganapini

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marianna-ganapini-phd-769624116/

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM Keynote: Democracy, Social Justice, and Technological Governance –Renee Cummings https://www.linkedin.com/in/marianna-ganapini-phd-769624116/

12:00 PM -12:30 PM – AI ethics groups are repeating one of society’s classic mistakes – Victoria Heath & Abhishek Gupta

https://www.linkedin.com/in/heathvictoria/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhishekguptamcgill/

12:30 PM -12:45 PM BREAK

12:45 PM -1:15 PM AI Ethics at Salesforce: Creating AI our customers and society can trust – Kathy Baxter https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathykbaxter/

1:15 PM -2:15 PM Anticipating Human Impacts: A Workshop for Tech Builders - Harmony Mabrey + Danielle Cass

https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmonymabrey/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassdanielle/

2:15 PM -2:40 PM AI beyond Data Science - Bora Arslan

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bora-arslan-7677843/

2:40 PM -2:50 PM BREAK

2:50 AM - 3:05 AM Program update – Chelle Adamson, and Angela Kim

3:05 PM -3:25 PM Tech needs you just as you are – Lynn Dang

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynndang/

3:25 PM -3:55 PM Panel Discussion: Anticipating Human Impacts: A Narrative for Tech Builders - Peace Mitchell, Yemi Penn and Rebecca Kingford

https://www.linkedin.com/in/peacemitchell/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yemipenn/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccakingsford-createcareers/

3:55 PM -4:15 PM REGIONAL SPOTLIGHT: South Africa – Stella Bvuma

4:15 PM -4:25 PM BREAK

4:25 PM - 4:55 PM AI for Gender Equality - Gwenda Phillips and Angela Priestley https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwendaphillips/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-priestley/

5:05 PM -5:25 PM Building Ethical & Inclusive AI: Diversity Challenges – Gandhi Sivakumar https://www.linkedin.com/in/gandhi-sivakumar-b4843b42/

5:25 PM -5:45 PM REGIONAL SPOTLIGHT: New Zealand – Karla Taboada https://www.linkedin.com/in/karla-taboada-ph-d-67575728/

5:45 PM -6:15 PM Responsible AI: Assessing & Mitigating Fairness issues in ML Models – Bia Adib and Adnan Akram

6:15 PM - 6:30 PM BREAK

6:30 PM - 7:00 PM REGIONAL SPOTLIGHT: France – Self-disclosure 101 and a path towards the Data Passport Nikita Lukianets

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikiluk/

EVENING SESSION CONTINUES

7:00 PM -7:10 PM OPENING REMARKS Angela Kim, Bec Johnson and Chelle Adams

7:10 PM -7:20 PM Program Update Chelle Adamson, and Angela Kim

7:20 PM -7:40 PM Responsible AI: Co-creating together for a better future - highlights from Sweden - Elena Kell https://www.linkedin.com/in/elenakell/

7:40 PM -8:10 PM BOOK CHAT: An Artificial Revolution: on Power, Politics and AI - Ivana Bartoletti with Angela Kim https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivana-bartoletti-77b2b29/

8:10 PM - 8:20 PM BREAK

8:20 PM -8:40 PM Diversity in AI – Are we there yet? – Dr. Fairoza Amira Binti Hamzah (Malaysia) https://www.linkedin.com/in/fairoza-amira-binti-hamzah/

8:40 PM -9:00 PM Women empowerment in Myanmar – Tracy Cosgrove https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracy-cosgrove/

9:00 PM -9:25 PM Ethics and Human Interaction with AI: Dr. Arisa Ema Tokyo University

9:25 PM -9:50 PM REGIONAL SPOTLIGHT: Taiwan - Audrey Tang, Linien Yen and https://www.linkedin.com/in/tangaudrey/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/linienyen/

9:50PM-10.00PM Closing remarks