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Data Science & Law Forum 3.0 has now taken place.
if you are interested in Data Science & Law Forum 4.0, taking place in May 2022, please visit the event website.
Since 2018, the Data Science & Law Forum has provided a space for collective reflection and learning on developing principles for responsible AI. In 2021, the discussions moved to the operationalization of AI – artificial intelligence in practice – and the necessary adoption of rules that guardrail AI systems.
The 3rd edition of the Data Science & Law Forum aimed to advance discussions around developing robust and trustworthy AI and
convene experts from the research community, civil society, policymaking, and legal practice.
All times listed are in local Brussels time (CEST).
International sign interpretation is provided for all open sessions.
Recordings of the public sessions will also be available on-demand during the plenary week, kicking off 26 April.
Kate Crawford
Author of "Atlas of AI"
Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Lorena Jaume-Palasí
Founder, The Ethical Tech Society
Dr. Jean-François Bonnefon
Senior Director, Toulouse School of Economics
Hanna Wallach
Senior principal researcher, Microsoft Research
Tonje Hessen Schei
Director and Producer of iHuman Documentary
Eric Horvitz
Technical Fellow and Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft
Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President, European Commission Margrethe Vestager, age 52, is Executive Vice president for a Europe fit for the digital age. She previously served as Commissioner for Competition (2014-19). She was Minister for Economic Affairs and the Interior (2011-14) and Minister for Education (1998-2001) of Denmark. She was Political leader of the Danish Social Liberal Party (2007-14), and has worked for the Danish Ministry of Finance (1993-95). Ms. Vestager holds an MSc in Economics (University of Copenhagen).
Executive Vice-President, European Commission
Irina Orssich, Team Leader AI, DG CONNECT, European Commission Irina Orssich is working for the European Commission, in the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT). She is team leader for Artificial Intelligence Policy. Her responsibilities include ethical and regulatory aspects of Artificial Intelligence. A German national, she has a law degree and a postgraduate degree in European law. Previous responsibilities have included posts in the audiovisual sector and as legal adviser for competition and state aid law.
Team Leader AI, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Natasha Crampton, Chief Responsible AI Officer, Office of Responsible AI, Microsoft Natasha Crampton leads Microsoft’s Office of Responsible AI as the company’s first Chief Responsible AI Officer. The Office of Responsible AI puts Microsoft’s AI principles into practice by defining, enabling, and governing the company’s approach to responsible AI. The Office of Responsible AI also collaborates with stakeholders within and outside the company to shape new laws, norms, and standards to help ensure that the promise of AI technology is realized for the benefit of all.
Prior to this role, Natasha served as lead counsel to the Aether Committee, Microsoft’s advisory committee on responsible AI. Natasha also spent seven years in Microsoft’s Australian and New Zealand subsidiaries helping Microsoft’s highly regulated customers move to the cloud.
Prior to Microsoft, Natasha worked in law firms in Australia and New Zealand, specializing in copyright, privacy, and internet safety and security issues. Natasha graduated from the University of Auckland in New Zealand with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Information Systems.
Chief Responsible AI Officer, Office of Responsible AI, Microsoft
Boštjan Koritnik, Minister, Ministry of Public Administration of Slovenia Boštjan Koritnik, born on 15 June 1979, graduated from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana in 2005, obtaining a university degree in law.
Before and after graduating, he worked part-time for the economy section of the Delo newspaper. From 2006 to 2010, he did a variety of work for the GV Založba publishing company, where he first excelled as a journalist and editor of the magazine Pravna praksa as well as an in-house lawyer and then, from 2010 to 2013, as the director and editor in chief. After the company’s merger with Ius Software d. o. o., he was a (co-)director and editor in chief until the beginning of 2015.
Mr Koritnik has been employed at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana as a teaching assistant and secretary since 2015. Since 2016, he has also worked as the director of the Faculty of Law Publishing House and the managing director and member of the Založba Audiobook d.o.o. start-up company. He worked with three crypto companies as a lawyer and co-founder, and was the director of the GLEDOS (Global Education System) project. He participated in numerous studies – including for the European Commission and different ministries –, authored or co-authored legal opinions and other scholarly texts (242 entries in the Cobiss system) and lectured about blockchain technology and entrepreneurship in both Slovenia and abroad. Mr Koritnik has performed different roles in societies since 2008: he is the Secretary-General of the Association of Slovenian Lawyers Societies (ZDPS), treasurer of the Association of Slovenian Corporate Law Societies (ZDGPS) and president of the Sports Law Association. He is also the vice-president of the Tivoli Ljubljana Lions Club and president of the ABA Basketball League Appeals Board. In 2019, he received a special recognition from the Rector of the University of Ljubljana for professionals and – with two other colleagues – the 2019 Lawyer of the Year title awarded by the Association of Slovenian Lawyers Societies (ZDPS).
Minister, Ministry of Public Administration of Slovenia
Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow and Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft Eric Horvitz is a technical fellow at Microsoft, where he serves as the company’s first Chief Scientific Officer. Dr. Horvitz provides cross-company leadership and perspectives on advances and trends on scientific matters, and on issues and opportunities rising at the intersection of technology, people, and society. He is recognized for his research on challenges and opportunities with uses of AI technologies amidst the complexities of the open world. Dr. Horvitz serves as a commissioner for the National Security Commission on AI and chairs the line of effort on ethical and responsible AI.
Technical Fellow and Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft
Tonje Hessen Schei, Director and Producer of iHuman Documentary Tonje Hessen Schei is an award-winning Norwegian independent filmmaker. Tonje is the director of iHuman (2019), Drone (2014), Play Again (2010) and Independent Intervention (2005). Her films have received international awards including Most Valuable Documentary of the Year at Cinema for Peace, the Golden Nymph, and the Norwegian equivalent Oscar and Emmy for Best Documentary. Tonje’s films have screened at the UN and EU, Netflix and major film festivals worldwide. Tonje was a Chicken & Egg Award grantee in 2020, and she is a co-founder and director at UpNorth Film.
Director and Producer of iHuman Documentary
Dr. Joshua Paul Meltzer, Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development program, Brookings Institution Dr. Meltzer is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., where he is an expert on international trade law and policy issues, including digital trade, and leads the Digital Economy and Trade Project . Meltzer has testified before the U.S. Congress, the U.S. International Trade Commission and the European Parliament on trade issues. He has been an expert witness in litigation on data flows and privacy issues in the EU and a consultant to the World Bank on trade and privacy matters. He is also a member of Australia’s National Data Advisory Council. Meltzer teaches digital trade law at Melbourne University Law School and at the University of Toronto Law School, where he is an adjunct professor. Meltzer also teaches ecommerce and digital trade at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office diplomatic academy. Before joining Brookings, Meltzer was posted as a diplomat at the Australian Embassy in Washington D.C. and prior to that was an international trade negotiator in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Meltzer has appeared in print and news media, including the Economist, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Bloomberg, MSNBC, CBS, Fox, the Asahi Shimbun and China Daily. Meltzer holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor and law and commerce degrees from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development program, Brookings Institution
Lorena Jaume-Palasí, Founder, The Ethical Tech Society Lorena Jaume-Palasí is the founder of The Ethical Tech Society, a fact- and theory based non-profit organization focused on automation and digitization processes with regards to their social relevance. Lorena’s work centers on ethics and legal philosophy. 2017 she was appointed by the Spanish government to the High Level Expert Council on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data and is a former member of the EU High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. She is one of the 100 experts of the Cotec Foundation for her work on ethics in AI and digitization. 2018 she was awarded the Theodor Heuss Medal “for her contribution to a differentiated view of algorithms and their mechanisms of action” with the AlgorithmWatch initiative.
Founder, The Ethical Tech Society
Eva Kaili, Member, European Parliament Eva Kaili is a Member of the European Parliament, part of the Hellenic S&D Delegation since 2014. She is the Chair of the Future of Science and Technology Panel in the European Parliament (STOA) and the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (C4AI), Member of the Committees on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), Budgets (BUDG), and the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA).
Eva is a member of the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (DACP), the delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula (DARP), and the delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (DNAT).
In her capacity, she has been working intensively on promoting innovation as a driving force of the establishment of the European Digital Single Market. She has been the draftsperson of multiple pieces of legislation in the fields of blockchain technology, online platforms, big data, fintech, AI and cybersecurity, as well as the ITRE draftsperson on Juncker plan EFSI2 and more recently the InvestEU program.
She has also been the Chair of the Delegation to the NATO PA in the European Parliament, focusing on Defence and Security of Europe.
Prior to that, she has been elected as a Member of the Hellenic Parliament 2007-2012, with the PanHellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK).
She also worked as a journalist and newscaster prior to her political career.
She holds a Bachelor degree in Architecture and Civil Engineering, and Postgraduate degree in European Politics.
Member, European Parliament
Steve Sweetman, Principal Program Manager, Ethics & Society at Microsoft Steve is a leader at Microsoft with over 20 years’ experience focused on the growth and development of innovation practices, incorporate human-centered design and ethics into architecture, which results in novel and innovative experiences, delighting customers, increasing engagement and ultimately build trust. Steve currently leads the Responsible AI Strategy in Engineering initiative and engineering team developing the systems, tools and practices to enable responsible AI in engineering at Microsoft.
Principal Program Manager, Ethics & Society, Microsoft
Theodore Christakis, Professor of International and European Law, Université Grenoble Alpes Théodore Christakis is Professor of International and European Law at the Université Grenoble Alpes. Additionally, he is the Director of the Centre for International Security and European Studies (CESICE) and Co-Director of the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute. Professor Christakis’ research and teaching interests include international security law, international protection of human rights, cyber security law and data protection, and artificial intelligence.
Professor Christakis is a Member of the Institut Universitaire de France and of the French National Digital Council. He is also a Senior Fellow with the Cross-Border Data Forum. Since September 2019 he also holds a Chair on the Legal and Regulatory Implications of Artificial Intelligence with the Multidisciplinary Institute on Artificial Intelligence (MIAI@Grenoble Alpes).
Professor Christakis has published or co-edited 9 books and is the author or co-author of more than 65 articles and book chapters that focus on public international law, international security law, international and European protection of human rights, cyber security law and data protection. He has served as Legal Counsel for governments, international organizations, and the private sector.
Professor of International and European Law, Université Grenoble Alpes
Dr Jean-François Bonnefon, Senior Director, Toulouse School of Economics Dr Bonnefon is a Research Director at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, affiliated to the Toulouse School of Economics, the Toulouse School of Management, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. He holds the Moral AI chair at the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute. He conducts research on decisions which have a moral component, especially in the context of machine ethics and human-AI cooperation. He is the author of 100+ scientific publications, including influential articles in outlets such as Nature, Science, and PNAS. He chaired the European Commission independent expert group on the ethics of driverless mobility whose report was released in September 2020.
Senior Director, Toulouse School of Economics
Justin Nogarede, Digital Policy Advisor, Foundation for European Progressive Studies Justin joined FEPS in summer 2018 to lead the digital policy portfolio. He previously worked as policy officer in the Secretariat-General of the European Commission. He started in the Directorate for Better Regulation, and then proceeded to take on the digital policy portfolio in the President’s and Vice-President’s Briefing Unit. After that, he became a policy coordinator working on digital and single market policy files.
Digital Policy Advisor, Foundation for European Progressive Studies
Kate Crawford, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Kate Crawford is a leading international scholar of the social implications of artificial intelligence. She is a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR-NYC, a Research Professor with USC Annenberg, and the inaugural Visiting Chair for AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Kate co-founded the AI Now Institute at New York University and the FATE group at MSR. She has advised policy makers in the United Nations, the Federal Trade Commission, the European Parliament, and the White House. Her latest book is Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (Yale, 2021).
Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Daniel Kluttz, Sensitive Uses Lead, Office of Responsible AI, Microsoft Daniel Kluttz leads the Sensitive Uses program in Microsoft’s Office of Responsible AI (ORA). In that role, he leads the team responsible for reviewing and providing guidance to engineering and sales teams for Microsoft’s most sensitive and complex use cases involving AI systems. More broadly, he leads efforts to advance company-wide responsible AI strategy, governance programs, and corporate policy around sensitive AI-driven technologies. Prior to joining Microsoft, Daniel was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley’s School of Information, where he helped manage and lead the Algorithmic Fairness & Opacity Working Group (AFOG), a multidisciplinary collaboration between researchers from academia and industry working on ethics, policy, and social impacts of AI. Prior to obtaining his PhD in sociology from UC Berkeley, he practiced law as an attorney, focusing on commercial litigation.
Sensitive Uses Lead, Office of Responsible AI, Microsoft
Jenn Wortman Vaughan, Sr. Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Jenn Wortman Vaughan is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, New York City. Her research background is in machine learning and algorithmic economics. She is especially interested in the interaction between people and AI, and has often studied this interaction in the context of prediction markets and other crowdsourcing systems. In recent years, she has turned her attention to human-centered approaches to transparency, interpretability, and fairness in machine learning as part of MSR’s FATE group and co-chair of Microsoft’s Aether Working Group on Transparency. Jenn came to MSR in 2012 from UCLA, where she was an assistant professor in the computer science department. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, and subsequently spent a year as a Computing Innovation Fellow at Harvard. She is the recipient of Penn’s 2009 Rubinoff dissertation award for innovative applications of computer technology, a National Science Foundation CAREER award, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and a handful of best paper awards. In her “spare” time, Jenn is involved in a variety of efforts to provide support for women in computer science; most notably, she co-founded the Annual Workshop for Women in Machine Learning, which has been held each year since 2006. She is currently serving as Program Co-chair for NeurIPS 2021.
Sr. Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Dr. Melinda Crane, Chief political correspondent, DW Dr. Melinda Crane has given speeches and moderated events and discussions for a wide range of international organizations and firms. She is a frequent guest and commentator on German television and radio and regularly analyzes US policy for the news broadcaster n-tv. An experienced TV anchor, she is chief political correspondent at DW TV and also hosts the DW talk show “To the Point”. In 2014 she was awarded the Steuben-Schurz Media Award for her service to transatlantic understanding. Dr. Crane studied history and political science at Brown University and law at Harvard. She wrote her dissertation on the political economy of development assistance at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. As International Affairs Consultant to the discussion show “Sabine Christiansen” she produced interviews with Kofi Annan, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and George Bush, among others. Her journalistic experience includes work for the “New York Times Magazine,” ”The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine,” “The Boston Globe,” the “Christian Science Monitor” and German newspapers and magazines.
Chief political correspondent, DW
Dr Junaid Bajwa, Chief Medical Scientist, Microsoft Research Junaid is the Chief Medical Scientist at Microsoft Research and a practising physician in the NHS (the UK’s National Health Service). He was previously the Global Lead for Strategic Alliances and Solutions for the Global Digital Centre of Excellence at Merck Sharp & Dohme, where he led a range of strategic initiatives to improve patient care, including establishment of internal partnerships across the enterprise and external partnerships across the health care ecosystem. He cofounded “VelocityHealth” as Europe’s first prevention focused digital-health accelerator, in partnership with Telefonica, and led his team to deliver the “NHS Testbed” in partnership with Verily Life Sciences (part of Alphabet), which the Health Service Journal recognized as the “Best Pharmaceutical Partnership with the NHS” in 2018.
Previously, Junaid has worked across primary care, secondary care, and public health settings in addition to acting as a payer, and policy maker within the UK, where he specialized in informatics, digital transformation, and leadership. He has consulted for health care systems across the US, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Europe, in addition to being seconded by the NHS to work with IBM. Junaid completed his MBA at the Imperial College Business School in London and has studied health strategy and quality improvement at both Harvard and the Institute of Healthcare Improvement in Boston. Academically, he is a Clinical Associate Professor at UCL (University College London), and Visiting Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Junaid hopes to bring his clinical, life sciences, and academic experiences together in this new role. He hopes to help healthcare focused teams across Microsoft, unlock the power of technology to help solve the healthcare challenges of today, whilst reimagining a better future for tomorrow.
Chief Medical Scientist, Microsoft Research
Mehrnoosh Sameki, Senior technical program manager, Microsoft Mehrnoosh Sameki is a senior technical program manager at Microsoft, responsible for leading the product efforts on machine learning interpretability and fairness within the Open Source and Azure Machine Learning platform. She has cofounded Fairlearn and Responsible-AI-widgets and has been a contributor to the InterpretML offering. She earned her PhD degree in computer science at Boston University, where she currently serves as an adjunct assistant professor and lecturer, offering courses in responsible AI. Previously, she was a data scientist in the retail space, incorporating data science and machine learning to enhance customers’ personalized shopping experiences.
Senior technical program manager, Microsoft
Raouf Kerkouche, final year PhD student at Inria and University of Grenoble-Alps (UGA) Raouf Kerkouche is a final year PhD student at Inria Grenoble center in the Privatics team. His research interests are at the intersection of privacy, security and machine learning. His thesis is supervised by Dr. Claude Castelluccia (Privatics team-Inria) and Dr. Pierre Genevès (LIG and Tyrex team-Inria) and funded by the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute in the framework of the WP5 “Data Governance, Data Protection and Privacy”. He is also affiliated with the Chair on the Legal and Regulatory Implications of Artificial Intelligence.” Most of his work is done in collaboration with Dr. Gergely Acs (Crysys Lab, BME).
Final year PhD student at Inria and University of Grenoble-Alps (UGA)
Cornelia Kutterer, Senior Director, Rule of Law & Responsible Tech, Microsoft Cornelia leads Microsoft’s European Rule of Law & Responsible Tech team which focuses on the impact of new technologies and regulatory frameworks that meet expectation of society. Her team covers policies such as responsible/ethical/trustworthy AI, digital safety and content regulation, privacy, lawful access, human rights and competition. In her role, she works hand in hand with Microsoft’s Office of Responsible AI, Microsoft Research and members of the AI, Ethics, and Effects in Engineering and Research (Aether) Committee. She regularly engages with leading European scholars in these fields to advance academic thinking. Cornelia has long standing experience in Information Society & Internet policies and speaks regularly at regional and international conferences. Before joining Microsoft, she headed the legal department of BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation. She has also gained experience in a top 10 law firm and started her professional career in the European Parliament as a political advisor to an MEP. Cornelia is a qualified German lawyer, and holds a master’s degree in information technology and telecommunication laws. She studied law at the Universities of Passau, Porto, Hamburg and Glasgow/Strathclyde.
Senior Director, Rule of Law & Responsible Tech, Microsoft
Patrick Bezombes, Co-chair of the AI Focus Group, CEN and CENELEC Co-chair of the AI Focus Group, CEN and CENELEC
Jason Matusow, General Manager, Global Standards, Microsoft Jason Matusow leads a group of technical diplomats responsible for Microsoft’s strategy and engagement in international standards organizations. The Corporate Standards Group is engaged in improving the trustworthiness of information technology through international standards and has members based in approximately a dozen countries. Success comes through collaboration with government, academia and industry to develop a mix of policy and technology approaches that advances concepts related to privacy, security, data and artificial intelligence.
Since 2005, Matusow has been a strategist on the broad spectrum of issues that make up Microsoft’s global commitment to standards and interoperability. He works closely with product teams and the executive staff of Microsoft as the company continues to address challenges in the domains of artificial intelligence, privacy, data and cybersecurity standardization. He maintains extensive contacts throughout the software industry and academia to facilitate the flow of ideas and information between Microsoft and others as the global community continues to wrestle with the implications of new technology, business, development, and legal models.
In addition, Matusow has a portfolio of responsibilities directly related to Microsoft’s business in China. His organization is responsible for the coordination of development, testing and reporting necessary for all products and services delivered in the Chinese market to be compliant with compulsory standards. He also oversees Microsoft’s policy and strategy work related to standardization activities both in China and related to Chinese engagements in the international standards arena.
Matusow has presented at hundreds of industry events and has been published in academic journals and curated collections of essays. He authored an industry blog that reached tens of thousands of monthly readers over a five-year period and represented Microsoft in thousands of media and industry analyst engagements during his career. Matusow has represented Microsoft in cross-industry groups and associations and currently chairs the ITI Standardization Policy Committee.
Matusow has been in the software industry since the early 1990s. During his early tenure at Microsoft, he held roles involved in enterprise infrastructure software, the Year 2000 date change, and information security. For five years, Matusow was responsible for Microsoft’s Shared Source initiative and was the public spokesman on open source software-related issues. Before joining Microsoft in 1995, he co-founded a PC and networking business. Matusow is a graduate of Boston University. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and two children.
General Manager, Global Standards, Microsoft
Maximilian Poretschkin, Senior Data Scientist, Fraunhofer IAIS Senior Data Scientist, Fraunhofer IAIS
Geraldine Larkin, CEO, National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) CEO, National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI)
Casper Klynge, Vice President, European Government Affairs, Microsoft Casper Klynge is Microsoft’s Vice President for European Government Affairs with responsibility for all of Microsoft’s government affairs and public policy work across the continent. He serves on the senior leadership team of Microsoft’s CELA group. Prior to joining Microsoft, Casper most recently served as Denmark’s (& the world’s first) Ambassador to the global tech industry. Previous posts include: Ambassador to Indonesia, Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea & ASEAN (2014-2017), Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus (2013-2014), Deputy Head of NATO’s Provincial Reconstruction Team in Helmand Province, Afghanistan & Head of Mission of the EU’s civilian crisis management planning mission in Kosovo (2006-2008). Casper holds a M.Sc. in Political Science and is a 2009 Marshall Memorial Fellow.
Vice President, European Government Affairs, Microsoft
Dr Salil Gunashekar, Research Leader, RAND Europe Dr Salil Gunashekar is a Research Leader at RAND Europe. His primary focus is on leading research and analysis studies in the areas of science and technology policy. He has a particular interest in exploring the impact of digitalisation and emerging technologies, and in examining research systems policy. Salil has been involved in projects for several public, private and third sector clients in the UK, Europe and Australia. These include the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Research Council of Norway, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the English Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the English Department of Health and Social Care, the British Standards Institution, Wellcome, the Digital Catapult, Research England, NHMRC Australia, and various UK universities. His projects cut across multiple sectors and have covered topics ranging from technology foresight, robotics and automation, FinTech, artificial intelligence, blockchain, virtual and augmented reality, the Internet of Things, and autonomous transport to open science, mission-oriented research and innovation, grand challenges, science and technology oversight, public engagement, and research impact.
With a technical background in wireless communications, Salil previously worked as a research associate at the University of Leicester within the Departments of Engineering and Computer Science. He completed his Ph.D. from the University of Leicester where he also obtained an M.Sc. in information and communications engineering. Before attending Leicester, he obtained an honours degree in physics and M.Sc. in informatics from the University of Delhi.
Research Leader, RAND Europe
Hanna Wallach, Senior principal researcher, Microsoft Research Hanna Wallach is a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research New York City. Her research focuses on issues of fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics as they relate to AI and machine learning. She collaborates with researchers from machine learning, natural language processing, human–computer interaction, and science and technology studies, as well as lawyers and policy makers; her research integrates both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. Previously, she developed machine learning and natural language processing methods for analyzing the structure, content, and dynamics of social processes. She collaborated with political scientists, sociologists, journalists, and others to understand how organizations function by analyzing publicly available interaction data, including email networks, document collections, press releases, meeting transcripts, and news articles. This work was supported by several NSF grants, an IARPA grant, and a grant from the OJJDP. The impact of Hanna’s work has been widely recognized. She has won best paper awards at AISTATS, CHI, and NAACL. In 2014, she was named one of Glamour magazine’s “35 Women Under 35 Who Are Changing the Tech Industry.” In 2016, she was named co-winner of the Borg Early Career Award. She served as the senior program chair for the NeurIPS 2018 conference and as the general chair for the NeurIPS 2019 conference. She currently serves on the NeurIPS Executive Board, the ICML Board, the FAccT Steering Committee, the WiML Senior Advisory Council, and the WiNLP Advisory Board. Hanna is committed to increasing diversity in computing and has worked for almost two decades to address the underrepresentation of women, in particular. To that end, she co-founded two projects—the first of their kind—to increase women’s involvement in free and open source software development: Debian Women and the GNOME Women’s Summer Outreach Program (now Outreachy). She also co-founded the WiML Workshop. Hanna holds a BA in computer science from the University of Cambridge, an MSc in cognitive science and machine learning from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD in machine learning from the University of Cambridge.
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Senior principal researcher, Microsoft Research
Jayant Narayan, Lead - Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, World Economic Forum ayant Narayan is currently managing the World Economic Forum’s Global AI Action Alliance – a collaborative platform to accelerate benefits of AI while mitigating its risks by accelerating and amplifying projects, pilots and initiatives and disseminating tools and best-practices. He works with leaders from across the public and private sector on issues related to AI strategy, AI governance and deployment and scale-up.
Jayant studied electrical engineering and started his career as a software engineer in the Indian IT industry working for clients in retail, pharma and automotive industry. He later transitioned to public policy, working on projects related to education and environment, including new and emerging policy areas like India’s law on electronic waste recycling.
He has a Master’s in Public Administration from Columbia University and in his previous roles at the World Economic Forum, has been instrumental in launching the Forum’s Global Lighthouse network – a network of factories leading on technology and innovation. In his most recent role, he also helped build the strategy and operations for the Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network.
Lead - Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, World Economic Forum
Wan Sie Lee, Director (Trusted AI & Data), IMDA Lee Wan Sie is Director for Trusted AI and Data at Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority. In the area of AI, her responsibilities include driving the development of Singapore’s approach to AI governance, growing trusted AI ecosystem in Singapore and establishing collaborations with international partners to further the development of responsible AI. In the area of data, she works with private and public sector organizations to enable trusted data flows as foundation for Singapore’s digital economy. Wan Sie has extensive experience in technology use in the public sector – prior to her current role, she developed Singapore’s strategies for Digital Economy and Smart Nation, enabled tech experimentation and innovation as head of IDA Labs, and implemented government digital services that helped Singapore become one of the easiest places in a world to do business. Outside of Singapore, she has worked with governments around the world in their national digitalisation efforts. Wan Sie is part of IMDA’s SG Women in Tech team, to encourage young women to take up a career in technology.
Director (Trusted AI & Data), IMDA
Audrey Plonk, Head of Digital Economy Policy Division - Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD Head of the Digital Economy Policy (DEP) Division of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) at the OECD As Head of Division, Ms. Plonk is responsible for implementing the programme of work of two committees: the Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP) and the Committee for Consumer Policy (CCP) as well as the management of STI’s Digital Economy Division. In particular, she contributes to the development of evidence-based policies through multi-stakeholder processes to i) stimulate the growth of an accessible, innovative, open, inclusive and trustworthy digital economy for sustained prosperity and well-being, and ii) provide policymakers with the tools needed to develop a forward-looking, whole-of-government policy response that leverages the potential of digitalisation for growth and well-being. In this role, she supports the strategic work of STI the advancement of the Office of the Secretary General’s Strategic Objectives. She will also lead and contribute to related horizontal work across the Organisation. Prior to re-joining STI, Ms Plonk was Senior Director, Global Security Policy at Intel Corporation where she was also a Senior Director for Public Policy based in Santa Clara, California. Over the course of her more than 10 years at Intel, Audrey led a global team of policy experts focused on connectivity, data, artificial intelligence and autonomous driving policy issues. She also specialized in China cyber policy and advised Intel business and product teams on China strategy. She chaired numerous industry committees including the Cybersecurity Committee at the Information Technology and Industry Council (ITI) and the Cybersecurity subcommittee of the Trans-Atlantic Business Council (TABC) and has provided testimony multiple times before the US Congress. In 2009, Ms. Plonk joined the board of The Privacy Projects and later took over Chairmanship of the not-for-profit organization focused on funding research in overlooked areas of privacy practice, policy and law. She has been a guest lecturer at The University of California Berkeley’s School of Information and has taught cyber policy courses at the US Technology Training Institute. Ms. Plonk is currently a member of the National Academies of Sciences Forum on Cyber Resilience. In 2007, Ms. Plonk worked on digital security issues in STI including malicious software and the protection of critical information infrastructure. This was preceded by four years as a consultant at the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security Division where she led work on international cooperation in cyberspace and cybersecurity. Ms. Plonk, an American national, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Affairs from The George Washington University (Washington, DC, United States).
Head of Digital Economy Policy Division - Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD
Allison Schwier, Acting Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State, United States Allison Schwier is currently serving as the Acting Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State. In this role, she helps to connect Department foreign policy priorities to research, development and discoveries emerging from academia and the private sector.
From 2019-2021, Allison served as a Senior Policy Adviser in the STAS office, focusing on issues including 5G, semiconductors, research integrity, Smart Cities, surveillance technologies, and science and technology programs and policies in the People’s Republic of China. From 2015-2019, Allison served as a Foreign Affairs Officer in the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, covering the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea and the energy, environment, science & technology and health portfolios.
Prior to the State Department, Allison worked in the office of Senator Christopher Coons (D-DE) in the United States Senate, where she served as an energy/environment policy advisor. She co-wrote and introduced two pieces of legislation, to help combat wildlife trafficking and encourage the federal government to utilize citizen science and crowdsourcing, which were signed into law by then-President Obama. She also developed policy on issues such as climate change, sustainable chemistry, nuclear energy, and genetically modified organisms.
Allison received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University in the City of New York, and her B.S. in Chemical Engineering and B.A. in Music from the Pennsylvania State University. She also worked in Clermont-Ferrand, France for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, studying ocean acidification effects in the Mediterranean region.
Acting Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State, United States
Hanna Wallach, Senior principal researcher, Microsoft Research Hanna Wallach is a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research New York City. Her research focuses on issues of fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics as they relate to AI and machine learning. She collaborates with researchers from machine learning, natural language processing, human–computer interaction, and science and technology studies, as well as lawyers and policy makers; her research integrates both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. Previously, she developed machine learning and natural language processing methods for analyzing the structure, content, and dynamics of social processes. She collaborated with political scientists, sociologists, journalists, and others to understand how organizations function by analyzing publicly available interaction data, including email networks, document collections, press releases, meeting transcripts, and news articles. This work was supported by several NSF grants, an IARPA grant, and a grant from the OJJDP. The impact of Hanna’s work has been widely recognized. She has won best paper awards at AISTATS, CHI, and NAACL. In 2014, she was named one of Glamour magazine’s “35 Women Under 35 Who Are Changing the Tech Industry.” In 2016, she was named co-winner of the Borg Early Career Award. She served as the senior program chair for the NeurIPS 2018 conference and as the general chair for the NeurIPS 2019 conference. She currently serves on the NeurIPS Executive Board, the ICML Board, the FAccT Steering Committee, the WiML Senior Advisory Council, and the WiNLP Advisory Board. Hanna is committed to increasing diversity in computing and has worked for almost two decades to address the underrepresentation of women, in particular. To that end, she co-founded two projects—the first of their kind—to increase women’s involvement in free and open source software development: Debian Women and the GNOME Women’s Summer Outreach Program (now Outreachy). She also co-founded the WiML Workshop. Hanna holds a BA in computer science from the University of Cambridge, an MSc in cognitive science and machine learning from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD in machine learning from the University of Cambridge.
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Senior principal researcher, Microsoft Research
Jayant Narayan, Lead - Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, World Economic Forum ayant Narayan is currently managing the World Economic Forum’s Global AI Action Alliance – a collaborative platform to accelerate benefits of AI while mitigating its risks by accelerating and amplifying projects, pilots and initiatives and disseminating tools and best-practices. He works with leaders from across the public and private sector on issues related to AI strategy, AI governance and deployment and scale-up.
Jayant studied electrical engineering and started his career as a software engineer in the Indian IT industry working for clients in retail, pharma and automotive industry. He later transitioned to public policy, working on projects related to education and environment, including new and emerging policy areas like India’s law on electronic waste recycling.
He has a Master’s in Public Administration from Columbia University and in his previous roles at the World Economic Forum, has been instrumental in launching the Forum’s Global Lighthouse network – a network of factories leading on technology and innovation. In his most recent role, he also helped build the strategy and operations for the Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network.
Lead - Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, World Economic Forum
Wan Sie Lee, Director (Trusted AI & Data), IMDA Director (Trusted AI & Data), IMDA
This year’s Data Science & Law Forum 3.0 was held virtually, starting with regional chapters that took place from 13 to 21 April. The chapters included an Envision Workshop, a policy panel on challenges and opportunities of operationalizing AI, and inside-out learning keynotes that aimed to provide participants with practical insights into responsible AI governance.
This European journey was then brought to Brussels on 26 April for a full plenary week.
The plenary week included policy panels on regulating AI, accountability mechanisms and Transatlantic cooperation. Forward-leaning fire-side chats and BookTalks fostered discussions on the choices we need to make today for a human-centric AI future of tomorrow.
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