MKAI February 2022 Inclusive AI Forum: Cultural Representation in Artificial Intelligence
With:
Joanna Bryson, Professor of Ethics and Technology and Co-Founder of the Hertie School Centre for Digital Governance
Patricia Shaw, AI and Data Ethics Consultant, CEO and Founder at Beyond Reach Consulting Limited
Chris McClean, Global Lead, Digital Ethics at Avanade
Cansu Canca, Director and Founder at AI Ethics Lab; Research Associate Professor & Ethics Lead at Institute for Experiential AI | Northeastern University
Animesh Jain, Research Manager at MKAI
Mafunase Ngosa Malenga, Founder & Managing Director at Southern Africa Institute of Aviation, Science & Technology
Vibhav Mithal, Managing Associate at ANAND AND ANAND
MKAI May 2021 Inclusive AI Forum: Rethinking Data Monetization
With:
– Gema F.B. Martín, Scientist, Psychologist & Digital Artist and Director at metaverse42.com - Jack Nikogosian, CEO at ARYZE - Debbie Reynolds, Global Data Privacy & Protection Expert Strategist
With:
– Thom Ives Ph.D, Lead Data Scientist at UL Prospector – Greg Coquillo, Amazon Program Manager –Dr Cindy Gordon, CEO and Founder at SalesChoice Inc. – Ghaith Sankari, DeepLearning Practitioner – Manpreet Budhraja, Founder at A.I.M Learning – Ammar Mohanna, Professional PhD candidate at Knowhedge
MKAI March 2021 Inclusive Forum: Trust in the age of AI - Part 3: Data Disclosure
With: Nikita Lukianets, Founder at Open Ethics Matthew Bailey, Founder at AIEthics.World Pamela Michelle Jasper, AI Ethicist Matt Eustace, Head of Content at Aiimi
MKAI March 2021 Technical Forum: AI and Environmental Sustainability - Part 3: AI For Smarter Energy Management
With:
Dr. Ritula Thakur, Associate Professor at NITTTR Chandigarh, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India Sergio Zambrano Perilla, PhD Researcher at Universiteit Gent Gargya Gokhale, PhD Student at IDLab UGent Giancarlo Marzano, Project Development Specialist at SMA Sunbelt Energy GmbH Rosana de Oliveira Gomes, Lead Machine Learning Engineer & Project Manager at Omdena
MKAI February 2021 Inclusive Forum: Trust in the age of AI - Part 2: AI Understandability
With Renée Cummings, AI Ethicist, Aleksandra Przegalinska, Vice Rector at Kozminski University and AIER Research Fellow, Reid Blackman, CEO at Virtue and EY AI Advisory Board Member, Paul Sliwinski, Consultant Team Lead at Aiimi
MKAI February 2021 Technical Forum: AI and Environmental Sustainability - Part 2: AI & Sustainable Cities
With:
Dr. Zhuangfang (NaNa) Yi, GeoAI Team Lead & Machine Learning Engineer at Development Seed, LeaAnne Ross, Director at Evergreen Canada, Shravan Kumar A, Client Success at Gramener, Dr. Monika Kuffer, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC, University of Twente)
MKAI January 2021 Inclusive Forum: Trust in the age of AI - Part 1: AI Fairness
With Jon Thor Sigurleifsson, Corporate Punk & Creative Nerd, Lavina Ramkissoon, African trend influencer & AI strategist, Dr. Eva-Marie Muller-Stuler, Chief Data Scientist, Advanced Analytics & AI Practice leader, GBS at IBM, Tulsee Doshi, Google Product Lead – ML Fairness and Responsible AI.
MKAI January 2021 Technical Forum: AI and Environmental Sustainability - Part 1: AI and Earth Observations Data
With:
Prof. Dr. Gilberto Camara, Secretariat Director, GEO, Grega Milcinski, General Manager at Sinergise, Catherine Nakalembe (Ph.D.), Assistant Research Professor, University of Maryland
With Rudy van Belkom, Futures Researcher at Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends (STT), Dr. Danko Nikolic, Brain and Mind Scientist and Alison B. Lowndes, Artificial Intelligence DevRel, NVIDIA
With Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Machine Learning Solutions Lab at AWS, Jack Lawton, Data Science Principal at Aiimi and Marcin Brdyś, Freelance Data Scientist
With Dr. JT Kostman, AI Psychologist & CEO, ProtectedBy.AI, Nikhil Malhotra, Global head of innovation at Tech Mahindra, Hessie Jones, Digital Strategist and Privacy Technologist and Silvie Spreeuwenberg, AI Specialist
With Ghaith Sankari, Senior Consultant, AI-Hut, Giuseppe Bonaccorso, Head of Innovative Data Science at Major Pharma Corp, Josh Stanley, Visual Designer at Aiimi, Luke Rawlence, Data Scientist at Aiimi and Denis Rothman, Data Science Author, Instructor and Speaker
With Daniel Hulme, CEO of Satalia, Irene Phoebe Kiwia, Founder of eCOBbA and Twaa and Co-Founder of Ada Labs Africa, Heena Purohit, Lead Product Manager – Watson IoT at IBM and Geoff Keeling, AI Ethics Fellow at Stanford University
With Ulie Schnaithmann, ML Scientist at Arterys, Jan Jitse Venselaar, Data Scientist, Consultant, Architect, Jack Lawton, Data Science Principal at Aiimi and Paul Sliwinski, Consultant Team Lead at Aiimi
With Frits Bussemaker, Chairman, Institute for Accountability in the Digital Age (I4ADA), Anusua Trivedi, AI for Good Research Lab, Microsoft, Richard Fielding, Smart Water Systems Engineer at Anglian Water, Jack Lawton, Data Science Principal at Aiimi, James Robinson, Data Consultant and Tajhame Francis, Data Scientist at Aiimi and
With Melissa Sassi, Chief Penguin, IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator and CEO & Founder, MentorNations, Ali Serag, Co-Founder of Fostrum, Joaquin López Herraiz, Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Professor Christoph Lütge, Director of the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence at Technical University of Munich, Sharada Mohanty, Co-Founder at AIcrowd, Dr. Richard Benjamins, Chief AI & Data Strategist at Telefonica and Reece Cook, Data Scientist at Aiimi
With John Kamara, Director at Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa, David Troy, CEO at 410Labs, Alice Piterova, Managing Director at AI for Good UK, Rudradeb Mitra, Founder at Omdena and Luke Rawlence, Aiimi
With Ivana Bartoletti, Co Founder, Women Leading in AI Network, Arif Khan, UiPath, Dr Naeema Pasha, Henley Business School, Dr. Khaleelah Jones, DIME and Azim Zicar, Zicar Consultancy Ltd
With Stuart Leach, Technical Director – Cyber Consulting, Grant Thornton LLP, David Nordell, Cybersecurity & Financial Intelligence Thought Leader and Imtiaz Adam, Founder and Director of Machine Learning, Deep Learn Strategies
Professional interests: Karen is a communications professional that cares about people above all and has a strong interest in environmentally conscious practices and initiatives. Her top interests are diversity, inclusion, and sustainability; developing strategies for cross-cultural, inclusive and interpersonal communication is her devotion. Steering MKAI comms, Karen’s motivation is to empower people, especially women, to stand up and raise their voices to build a more equitable, ethical and fairer world.
Causes Karen cares about: Karen volunteered with several nonprofit organizations, including mentoring a young apprentice program as a Public Relations professional, coordinating a women’s empowerment program and fundraising for the Red Cross. In addition, helping people how to cope with their physical and mental health is something she does in her free time.
Personal interests and hobbies: Karen relies on a daily yoga practice to strengthen her body, mind and soul, ceramics to bring ideas to life and outdoor activities with her family, especially her baby, her son-shine.
Favourite quote or motto: “If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together”. African Proverb