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Secretary-General
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António Guterres, the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations, took office on 1st January 2017.Having witnessed the suffering of the most vulnerable people on earth, from refugee camps to war zones, the Secretary-General has centered his efforts on ensuring human dignity for all. In a period of unprecedented global challenges, he has drawn on his commitment to the UN Charter to mobilize people and launch action to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, address the climate emergency, advance gender equality, and achieve ambitious 21st century reforms to enhance the Organization’s vital efforts to secure peace, sustainable development, human rights and humanitarian aid.
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Prior to his appointment as Secretary-General, Mr. Guterres served as <a href="http://www.unhcr.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</a> from June 2005 to December 2015, heading one of the world’s foremost humanitarian organizations during some of the most serious displacement crises in decades. The conflicts in Syria and Iraq, and the crises in South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Yemen, led to a huge rise in UNHCR’s activities as the number of people displaced by conflict and persecution rose from 38 million in 2005 to over 60 million in 2015.
Before joining UNHCR, Mr. Guterres spent more than 20 years in government and public service. He served as prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002, during which time he was heavily involved in the international effort to resolve the crisis in East Timor.
As president of the European Council in early 2000, he led the adoption of the Lisbon Agenda for growth and jobs, and co-chaired the first European Union-Africa summit. He was a member of the Portuguese Council of State from 1991 to 2002.
Mr. Guterres was elected to the Portuguese Parliament in 1976 where he served as a member for 17 years. During that time, he chaired the Parliamentary Committee for Economy, Finance and Planning, and later the Parliamentary Committee for Territorial Administration, Municipalities and Environment. He was also leader of his party’s parliamentary group.
From 1981 to 1983, Mr. Guterres was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where he chaired the Committee on Demography, Migration and Refugees.
For many years Mr. Guterres was active in the Socialist International, a worldwide organization of social democratic political parties. He was the group’s vice-president from 1992 to 1999, co-chairing the African Committee and later the Development Committee. He served as President from 1999 until mid-2005. In addition, he founded the Portuguese Refugee Council as well as the Portuguese Consumers Association DECO, and served as president of the Centro de Acção Social Universitário, an association carrying out social development projects in poor neighbourhoods of Lisbon, in the early 1970s.
Mr. Guterres is a member of the Club of Madrid, a leadership alliance of democratic former presidents and prime ministers from around the world.
Mr. Guterres was born in Lisbon in 1949 and graduated from the Instituto Superior Técnico with a degree in engineering. He is fluent in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish. He is married to Catarina de Almeida Vaz Pinto and has two children, a stepson and three grandchildren.
Secretary-General
, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Doreen Bogdan-Martin took office as Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on 1 January 2023. Ms Bogdan-Martin was elected as ITU’s first-ever female Secretary-General by Member States at the Union’s Plenipotentiary Conference in Bucharest, Romania.
Ms Bogdan-Martin was previously the Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau. She took office on 1 January 2019, becoming the first woman in ITU history to hold one of the organization’s top elected management positions.
<div>Ms Bogdan-Martin is a strategic leader with more than 30 years’ high-level experience in international and inter-governmental relations and a long history of success advising governments around the world on policy and regulatory issues.</div>
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<div>From 2008-2018, she led ITU’s Strategic Planning & Membership Department. She was instrumental in establishing the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, on which she has served as Executive Director for more than a decade, and was an architect of the annual Global Symposium for Regulators, the pre-eminent global event for digital policymakers, as well as director of ITU’s first global youth summit, #BYND. She pioneered and oversees ITU’s ongoing contribution to the EQUALS Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age, and is leading ITU’s collaboration with UNICEF on the Giga project to connect all the world’s schools.</div>
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<div>She is an affiliate of the Harvard University Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, a Generation Unlimited Champion, and a Champion of the EDISON Alliance led by the World Economic Forum. She serves on a number of advisory bodies, including the Geneva-Tsinghua Initiative, the SDG Lab Advisory Board, the UN Technology Innovation Labs, and the Alumni Expert Council of the Internet Governance Lab of American University in Washington D.C. She is also a qualified amateur radio operator.</div>
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CEO
, OpenAI
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Sam Altman has experienced a meteoric rise through the pantheon of American software engineers, and became one of the most well-known entrepreneurs in the world in 2022 with the emergence of ChatGPT, an Artificial Intelligence chatbot that was a vast improvement on previous chatbots and had a free interface that anyone could sample.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, US in 1985, Altman grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and received his first computer at the age of eight. He was hooked on them from then and headed to Stanford University in 2004 to study computer science. But after just one year, he dropped out to start his life as a software engineer and entrepreneur, forming Loopt, a social network mobile app that was location based. He was a hit with Silicon Valley investors, who dropped more than $30 million into the idea, but it couldn’t seem to acquire enough users. He sold it when he was 26 in 2012 for $43.4 million, though.
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In 2011, he went to work for Y Combinator, a startup accelerator that has launched more than 4,000 companies including heavy hitters like Reddit, Twitch, Stripe, DoorDash, Airbnb, and Dropbox. He was named president of Y Combinator in 2014 and expanded his role to president of the YC Group in 2016. He kept expanding the group with an equity fund and a non-profit research lab, but eventually took a move from president to Chairman of the Board as he began to focus on OpenAI, which he had been a founding member of in 2015 along with the likes of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Amazon Web Services.
After four years of only doing research, OpenAI switched to a for-profit mentality, announcing it would start licensing its technologies to harness the power of Artificial Intelligence. That started in 2020 with GPT-3, a natural language model that could translate between languages. In 2021, OpenAI added DALL-E, which could generate digital images from natural language descriptions.
The company came into the public eye at the end of 2022 when it debuted the free preview of ChatGPT, its latest AI-powered chatbot. The following month, Microsoft invested $10 billion in OpenAI and ChatGPT was integrated into the Bing search engine. In 2023, he was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people. He was previously named Forbes’ top investor under 30 in 2015.
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Professor, Computer Science Department and Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute
, Stanford University
Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute. She served as the Director of Stanford’s AI Lab from 2013 to 2018. And during her sabbatical from Stanford from January 2017 to September 2018, she was Vice President at Google and served as Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud. Dr. Fei-Fei Li obtained her B.A. degree in physics from Princeton in 1999 with High Honors, and her PhD degree in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2005. She joined Stanford in 2009 as an assistant professor. Prior to that, she was on faculty at Princeton University (2007-2009) and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2005-2006).
Dr. Fei-Fei Li’s current research interests include cognitively inspired AI, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and AI+healthcare especially ambient intelligent systems for healthcare delivery. In the past she has also worked on cognitive and computational neuroscience. Dr. Li has published more than 200 scientific articles in top-tier journals and conferences, including Nature, PNAS, Journal of Neuroscience, CVPR, ICCV, NIPS, ECCV, ICRA, IROS, RSS, IJCV, IEEE-PAMI, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Digital Medicine, etc. Dr. Li is the inventor of ImageNet and the ImageNet Challenge, a critical large-scale dataset and benchmarking effort that has contributed to the latest developments in deep learning and AI. In addition to her technical contributions, she is a national leading voice for advocating diversity in STEM and AI. She is co-founder and chairperson of the national non-profit AI4ALL aimed at increasing inclusion and diversity in AI education.
Dr. Li is an elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). She is also a Fellow of ACM, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a recipient of the 2019 IEEE PAMI Longuet-Higgins Prize, 2019 National Geographic Society Further Award, 2017 Athena Award for Academic Leadership, IAPR 2016 J.K. Aggarwal Prize, the 2016 IEEE PAMI Mark Everingham Award, the 2016 nVidia Pioneer in AI Award, 2014 IBM Faculty Fellow Award, 2011 Alfred Sloan Faculty Award, 2012 Yahoo Labs FREP award, 2009 NSF CAREER award, the 2006 Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship, among others. Dr. Li is a keynote speaker at many academic or influential conferences, including the World Economics Forum (Davos), the Grace Hopper Conference 2017 and the TED2015 main conference. Work from Dr. Li's lab have been featured in a variety of magazines and newspapers including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, Science, Wired Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Financial Times, and more. She was selected as a 2017 Women in Tech by the ELLE Magazine, a 2017 Awesome Women Award by Good Housekeeping, a Global Thinker of 2015 by Foreign Policy, and one of the “Great Immigrants: The Pride of America” in 2016 by the Carnegie Foundation, past winners include Albert Einstein, Yoyo Ma, Sergey Brin, et al.
Historian, philosopher, and best-selling author of 'Sapiens' and 'Homo Deus'
, Sapienship
Prof. Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of <em>Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and the series Sapiens: A Graphic History and Unstoppable Us</em>. His books have sold 40 Million copies in 65 languages, and he is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals today.
Born in Israel in 1976, Harari received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2002, and is currently a lecturer at the Department of History in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2019, following the international success of his books, Yuval Noah Harari co-founded <a href="https://www.sapienship.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sapienship</a> with his husband and original agent, Itzik Yahav. Sapienship is a social impact company with projects in the fields of entertainment and education, whose main goal is to focus the public conversation on the most important global challenges facing the world today.
Yuval Noah Harari gave keynote speeches on the future of humanity in Davos 2020 and 2018, on the World Economic Forum’s main Congress Hall stage. He regularly discusses global issues with heads of state, and has had public conversations with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Harari has also met with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Argentine President Mauricio Macri, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and Shanghai’s Mayor Ying Yong. In 2019, Harari sat down for a filmed discussion on technology and the future of society with Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and in 2018 he presented the first ever TED talk delivered by a digital avatar.
Harari originally specialized in world history, medieval history and military history. His current research focuses on macro-historical questions such as: What is the relationship between history and biology? What is the essential difference between Homo sapiens and other animals? Is there justice in history? Does history have a direction? Did people become happier as history unfolded? What ethical questions do science and technology raise in the 21st century?
Published in 2014, Harari’s <a href="https://www.ynharari.com/book/sapiens-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind</a> has become an international hit, with 23 Million copies sold. It is a New York Times top 10 bestseller, which has stayed on the paper’s bestseller list for over half the time it has been available in the US, over a six year period. The book held positions #1-#3 on the Sunday Times’ bestseller list for 96 consecutive weeks. Sapiens was recommended by Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Natalie Portman, Janelle Monáe, Chris Evans and many others. The Guardian has credited Sapiens with revolutionizing the non-fiction market and popularizing ‘brainy books’.
In 2016 Prof. Harari returned with <a href="https://www.ynharari.com/book/homo-deus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow</a>, a critically acclaimed book that examines the big future projects facing humanity in the 21st century. Homo Deus warns of the threats introduced by new and unprecedented technological powers, which could allow some Homo sapiens to artificially upgrade their bodies and minds while other members of society are left far behind. Since its publication, over 10 Million copies of the book have been sold worldwide.
After venturing deep into the past and then the future, Yuval Noah Harari published <a href="https://www.ynharari.com/book/21-lessons-book/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">21 Lessons for the 21st Century</a> in 2018. Here he stopped to take the pulse of our current global climate, focusing on the biggest questions of the
present moment: What is really happening right now? What are today’s greatest challenges and choices? What should we pay attention to? 6 Million copies of 21 Lessons have been sold worldwide.
In 2020 Harari (as creator and co-writer) joined forces with renowned comics artists David Vandermeulen (co-writer) and Daniel Casanave ( illustrator). Together, they created <a href="https://www.ynharari.com/book/graphicnovelsapiens/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sapiens: A Graphic History</a> – a radical adaptation of the original Sapiens into a graphic novel series that is bursting with wit, humor and color. These illustrated books cast Yuval Noah Harari in the role of guide, who takes the reader through the entire history of the human species, accompanied by a range of fictional characters and traveling through time, space and popular culture references. The series will be published in four volumes, and the first two books are already available – with over 1 Million copies sold.
Autumn 2022 saw Harari venturing into the world of children’s books for the first time, with the middle-grade series <a href="https://www.ynharari.com/book/unstoppable_us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unstoppable Us</a>. Here, he tells the unbelievable true story of humans – our all-conquering and insatiable species – in a way that is accessible to kids. The series will be published in four immersive volumes, featuring full-color illustrations by Ricard Zaplana Ruiz, starting with Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World. This book quickly became a New York Times bestseller, was listed among the paper’s best children’s books of 2022, and was warmly recommended by Jeff Kinney, Kristen Bell, and Kirkus.
Prof. Harari’s writings have received several accolades. In 2021 he was presented with a US Association of Foreign Press Correspondents Honorary Award. In 2020, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from VUB (the Free University of Brussels), and received the CITIC Author of the Year prize in China, for Sapiens: A Graphic History. In 2019, 21 Lessons was honored as ‘Knowledge Book of the Year’ by the German magazine Bild der Wissenschaft, Homo Deus was recognized as the ’Wise Book of the Year’ by Krakow’s Jagiellonian University, and Sapiens won the ‘Academic Book of the Year’ prize at the UK’s Academic Book Trade Awards. In 2017 Homo Deus received Handelsblatt’s German Economic Book Award for “the most thoughtful and influential economic book of the year”, and in 2015 Sapiens won China’s Wenjin Book Award.
Yuval Noah Harari lectures around the world on the topics explored in his books, and offers his knowledge and time to various audiences on a voluntary basis. He writes articles for publications such as The Guardian, The Financial Times, The New York Times, TIME and The Economist. In 2020 Harari wrote and interviewed extensively on the global
COVID-19 crisis – discussing the pandemic’s implications on major news channels, including CNN and the BBC – and in 2022 he commented publicly on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with his <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/28/vladimir-putin-war-russia-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> on this topic becoming The Guardian Opinion’s most-read opinion piece of all time. Harari was featured in a profile piece on CBS’ 60 Minutes programme in 2021.
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Chief Operating Officer
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Lila Ibrahim is the COO of Google DeepMind, a world leading AI research company that aims to solve intelligence to advance science and benefit humanity. She leads a broad range of functions, including Operations, Governance and Ethics, Policy, Communications, and People & Culture. She plays a key role spearheading the company’s work on critical issues involving the intersection of AI and society, which includes chairing DeepMind’s cross-functional responsibility and AI for Good initiatives.
Lila has helped grow some of the world's leading technology companies during her 30 year career including Intel, where she held a series of global engineering, technology, and management roles; venture firm Kleiner Perkins; and Coursera, where she was the President, CBO and COO and helped bring education to millions of people around the world. She is the co-founder and Chair of education technology non-profit Team4Tech and previously served on the Board of Gannett, helping it become the largest US print media company. Lila is a 2007 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a 2011 Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, and a recipient of the Anita Borg Institute’s award for Social Impact. She holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University and was honored by the university as a 2021 Distinguished Engineering Alumnae.
Turing Award & Nobel Laureate | AI Pioneer & Deep Learning Visionary
Geoffrey Hinton received his BA in Experimental Psychology from Cambridge in 1970 and his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh in 1978. He did postdoctoral work at Sussex University and the University of California San Diego and spent five years as a faculty member in the Computer Science department at Carnegie-Mellon University. He then became a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and moved to the <a href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/">Department of Computer Science</a> at the University of Toronto. He spent three years from 1998 until 2001 setting up the <a href="http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/">Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit</a> at University College London and then returned to the University of Toronto where he is now an emeritus distinguished professor. From 2004 until 2013 he was the director of the program on "Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception" which is funded by the <a href="http://www.ciar.ca/">Canadian Institute for Advanced Research</a>. From 2013 to 2023 he worked half-time at Google where he became a Vice President and Engineering Fellow.
Geoffrey Hinton is a fellow of <a href="http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/">the Royal Society</a>, <a href="http://www.rsc.ca/">the Royal Society of Canada</a>, <a href="hhttp://www.aaai.org/">the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence</a> and a former president of <a href="http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/">the Cognitive Science Society</a>. He is an honorary foreign member of <a href="http://www.amacad.org/">the American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>, the US National Academy of Engineering and the US National Academy of Science. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Sussex, the University of Sherbrooke and the University of Toronto. His awards include the <a href="http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/derprize/announce2001.html">David E. Rumelhart prize</a>, the <a href="http://ijcai.org/awards/">IJCAI award for research excellence</a>, the <a href="http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/killam/">Killam prize for Engineering </a>, The <a href="http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Prizes-Prix/Index_eng.asp">NSERC Herzberg Gold Medal</a>, the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt medal, the IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Gold medal, the NEC C&C award, the BBVA award, the Honda Prize, the Princess of Asturias Award and the ACM Turing Award.
Geoffrey Hinton designs machine learning algorithms. His aim is to discover a learning procedure that is efficient at finding complex structure in large, high-dimensional datasets and to show that this is how the brain learns to see. He was one of the researchers who introduced the <a href="https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/backprop.html">back-propagation</a> algorithm and the first to use backpropagation for learning word embeddings. His other contributions to neural network research include <a href="https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/boltzmann.html">Boltzmann machines,</a> <a href="https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/distrep.html">distributed representations</a>, time-delay neural nets, <a href="https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/mixex.html">mixtures of experts</a>, <a href="https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/helmholtz.html">variational learning</a>, <a href="https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/poe.html">products of experts</a> and deep belief nets. His research group in Toronto made major breakthroughs in deep learning that have revolutionized speech recognition and object classification.
Founder & Executive Director
Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). Prior to that she was fired by Google in December 2020 for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace, where she was serving as co-lead of the Ethical AI research team. She received her PhD from Stanford University, and did a postdoc at Microsoft Research, New York City in the FATE (Fairness Accountability Transparency and Ethics in AI) group, where she studied algorithmic bias and the ethical implications underlying projects aiming to gain insights from data. Timnit also co-founded Black in AI, a nonprofit that works to increase the presence, inclusion, visibility and health of Black people in the field of AI, and is on the board of AddisCoder, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching algorithms and computer programming to Ethiopian highschool students, free of charge.
Co-Founder
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He regularly briefs heads of state, technology CEOs, and US Congress members, in addition to mobilizing millions of people around the world through mainstream media.
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Tristan has explored the influences that hijack human attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs, from his childhood as a magician to his coursework in Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab to his leadership as a Design Ethicist at Google. Today, he studies how major technology platforms wield dangerous power over our ability to make sense of the world and leads the call for systemic change.
In 2020, Tristan was featured in the two-time Emmy-winning Netflix documentary, <a href="https://www.humanetech.com/the-social-dilemma" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Social Dilemma</em></a>. The film unveiled how social media is dangerously reprogramming our brains and human civilization. It reached over 100 million people in 190 countries across 30 languages.
As a co-host of the top-rated technology podcast, <a href="https://humanetech.com/podcast/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Your Undivided Attention</em></a>, he explores the drivers behind social media’s race for attention, its destabilization of society, and potential solutions.
Learn more about Tristan’s work and get involved at the <a href="https://humanetech.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Humane Technology</a>.
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CEO
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<div>Dr. Kai-Fu Lee has spent more than three decades at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence research, development, and investment in both the US and China.
He’s the chairman and CEO of <a tabindex="-1" title="https://sinovationventures.com/" href="https://sinovationventures.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><u>Sinovation Ventures</u></a>, a leading venture capital firm focused on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies.
Previously, Dr. Lee was the president of Google China and a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Council at the World Economic Forum, he has a bachelor's degree from Columbia and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon.
Dr. Lee is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.aisuperpowers.com/" href="https://www.aisuperpowers.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><u>AI Superpowers</u></a>, which examines the role of the US and China in the future of artificial intelligence, as well as its impact on society. His latest book, co-authored with award-winning science-fiction writer Chen Quifan, is called <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.ai2041.com/" href="https://www.ai2041.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><u>AI2041: Ten Visions for Our Future</u></a>. It presents a roadmap to educate and explore the opportunities and challenges presented by AI over the coming decades.</div>
Founder and CEO
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Chair of the AI for Good Impact Initiative
Dr. Ebtesam Almazrouei is a pioneering force in artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced technology, with a wealth of experience spanning both government and the private sector. Her exceptional expertise in artificial intelligence, supercomputing, telecommunications, semiconductors, technology governance, advanced technology, and strategic innovation has positioned her at the forefront of AI leadership globally, earning recognition among <strong>H2o.ai's world's top 100 AI leaders</strong>. As a thought leader, entrepreneur, and patent inventor, Dr. Almazrouei has been instrumental in pioneering cutting-edge AI models and fostering global AI policy frameworks.
Dr. Ebtesam Almazrouei plays a key role in shaping AI strategies and frameworks, and building international collaborations on a global scale. She serves as <strong>Chairperson</strong> of the <strong>United Nations AI for Good Impact Initiative</strong> and as a <strong>Senior AI Consultant</strong> for the <strong>International Telecommunication Union (ITU)</strong>, playing a critical role in <strong>shaping global AI policies, technology governance, and regulation frameworks</strong>.
Dr. Almazrouei's exceptional contributions have garnered her notable honors, including the <strong>Leading AI Women in the World list</strong>, the <strong>Global Leadership Women in Tech® MENA Award</strong>, and a spot among the <strong>Top 100 Global Tech Speakers</strong>. She also holds various advisory roles and board memberships across various international organizations.
As the <strong>CEO and Founder of AIE3</strong>, Dr. Almazrouei continues to drive AI innovation, developing scalable AI solutions, building capacity, and leading industry-wide advancements. She previously held senior executive roles, including <strong>Executive Director, Acting Chief AI Researcher,</strong> and <strong>Founder of the AI Cross Center Unit (AICCU)</strong> at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII). She established and led the AI Cross Center, driving strategic planning and development. Dr. Ebtesam Almazrouei directed and spearheaded the development of the <strong>Falcon Large Language Models (LLMs)</strong>—Falcon 7B, 40B, and 180B. These AI models have made significant strides in AI research and development in the world, particularly in open-source generative AI models. Additionally, she developed NOOR, the first and the largest Arabic LLM in 2022.
Dr Ebtesam Almazrouei is the first Emirati woman to hold a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communication Engineering and Computer Science. Her vision is to leverage AI to address global challenges and drive meaningful societal impact.
Inventor, Futurist & Best-selling author of ‘The Singularity is Near’
Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, with a thirty-year track record of accurate predictions. Called "the restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes magazine, he was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison." PBS selected him as one of the "sixteen revolutionaries who made America."
Ray was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software.
Ray received a Grammy Award for outstanding achievements in music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, holds twenty-one honorary Doctorates, and honors from three U.S. presidents.
Ray has written five national best-selling books, including New York Times best sellers <em>The Singularity Is Near</em> (2005) and <em>How To Create A Mind</em> (2012).
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This Summit can help ensure that Artificial Intelligence charts the course that benefits humanity and bolsters our shared values. The United Nations stands ready to be a universal platform for discussion together let us make sure we use AI to enhance human dignity and serve the global goods.
António Guterres
Secretary-General, United Nations
28 March 2025
27 March 2025
