2019 SPEAKERS

ORGANIZING COMMITTEES
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RAY KURZWEIL

*virtual presentation

Best-selling author, futurist, inventor

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HOULIN ZHAO

Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

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MALCOLM JOHNSON

Deputy Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

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DOREEN BOGDAN-MARTIN

Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau

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CHAESUB LEE

Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau

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ANOUSHEH ANSARI

CEO, XPRIZE, Space Ambassador; first female private space explorer

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VICKI HANSON

CEO, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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JIM HAGEMANN SNABE

Chairman of the Board, Siemens

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CÉCILE CABANIS

EVP, CFO, Information Systems, Procurement and Strategic Resources Cycles, Member of the Board of Directors of Danone

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JEAN-PHILIPPE COURTOIS

Executive VP and President, Microsoft Global Sales, Marketing and Operations

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CEDRIC VILLANI

AI Strategic Advisor to President Macron, Mathematics Field Medal Winner

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JOANN STONIER

Chief Data Officer Mastercard

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YAN HUANG

Director of AI Innovation, Baidu

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VLADIMIR KRAMNIK

World Chess Champion

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TIMNIT GEBRU 

Computer Scientist and the technical co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team at Google

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YVES DACCORD

Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

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AMIR BANIFATEMI

General Manager Innovation, XPRIZE, Chairman of the AI for Good Programme Committee

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LJ RICH

Inventor, BBC Click Presenter

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FRANCIS GURRY

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Director General

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ALPNA J DOSHI

Group CIO, Philips

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YOSHUA BENGIO

Founder and Scientific Director of Mila

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H.E. KHALIL AMIRI

Secretary of State for Scientific Research, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Republic of Tunisia

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NATHALIE SMUHA

Lawyer and Coordinator of the High-Level Expert Group on AI of the European Commission and researcher at KU Leuven

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SEBNEM RUSITSCHKA

CTO of EnergiMine and Founding Researcher Freeelio

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HUGO THIBAULT

Vice President Marketing, Stradigi.AI

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ALEJANDRO ROCA CAMPANA

Senior Director, WIPO

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MARTIAL HEBERT

Head of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University

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PETTERI TAALAS

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Secretary-General

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ANTONY TAUBMAN

Director, Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division of the World Trade Organization

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ANNA BETHKE

Head of AI4Good,

Intel Artificial Intelligence Products Group

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YASIR KHOKHAR

CEO at Connecterra

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PHIL MITSOPOULOS

Head of Partnerships at Stradigi AI

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VIRGINIA DIGNUM

Professor, Umeå University, Chair of Social and Ethical Artificial Intelligence

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CHRISTOPH PEYLO 

Global Head of Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI)

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STEPHEN IBARAKI

Managing partner, REDDS.

Co-Chairman

ACM Practitioner Board

Founding Chairman, IFIP Global Industry Council

Chairman of the AI for Good Outreach Committee

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TRENT MCCONAGHY

​​Founder, Ocean Protocol

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FRANCESCA ROSSI

Professor of Computer Science at University of Padova, Italy and IBM AI Ethics Global Leader

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KLAUS-ROBERT MÜLLER

Head of the Intelligent Data Analysis group and Professor, TU Berlin

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DEREK LONG

Head of Telecoms and Mobile at Cambridge Consultants

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CHARLES-EDOUARD BOUÉE

CEO, Roland Berger

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BRYN BALCOMBE

Chief Strategy Officer, Roborace & Autonomous Driving Alliance

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TARA CHKLOVSKI

​​Founder & CEO, Iridescent

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ANJA KASPERSEN

Director, UN Disarmament Affairs

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ANDY CHEN

President 2020-2021, IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society

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KRISTIINA KERGE

CEO at Things Foundation, Technology Manager at Let’s Do It Foundation

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WENDEL WALLACH 

Consultant, Ethicist, and Scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and Senior Advisor tothe Hastings Center, and the World Economic Forum

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EILEEN DONAHOE

Executive Director, Global Digital Policy Incubator at Stanford University 

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HARRY ‘DOC’ KLOOR

Scientist, film producer, inventor and CEO of Beyond Imagination

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MARK MINEVICH

Advisor/Digital Fellow to CEO at IPSoft

Sr Fellow on AI and Emerging Tech on the US Council of Competiveness 

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NOAM SLONIM

Principal Investigator, Project Debater, IBM Research – Haifa

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LAURIANNE KRID

Director General for FIA Region I (Europe, Africa and Middle East)

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WANGAY DORJI

CHIEF, Market and Competition

Bhutan InfoComm and Media Authority

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JOJO MAYER

Musician & educator,

drummer of Nerve

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AIMEE VAN WYNSBERGHE

Foundation for Responsible Robotics, President & Co-Founder;


Assistant Professor, Technical University of Delft

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DHRUV GHULATI

CEO, Factmata

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LYDIA KOSTOPOULOS

Founder and Artist at #ArtAboutAI

Founder of Sapien21

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EVANS WOHEREM

Founder, Chairman, Digital Africa

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DEIRDRE QUARNSTROM

General Manager, Minecraft

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JANE ZAVALISHINA

CEO Mechanica AI

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MAREK KAMIŃSKI

Polish explorer, philosopher, businessman and writer

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MARCEL SALATHÉ

Associate Professor and Head of Digital Epidemiology Lab, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Co-founder, AIcrowd

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KIRSTY LLOYD-JUKES

CEO of Latent Logic

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SAMY BENGIO

Research scientist in the Google Brain Team

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JENNIFER MARSMAN

Principal Engineer, Microsoft

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NAOMI LEE

FG-AI4H Vice-Chair, Executive Editor, The Lancet Journal

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JEANNA MATTHEWS

Associate Professor of Computer Science at Clarkson University

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HARRY YEFF (AKA REEPS ONE)

Vocal, Visual and Concept Artist 

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ANDREW BROWN

EMEA Director for Quid

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ANNA LEWIS

Chief Strategic Officer, XPRIZE

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JULIA HAINES

Co-founder, RAIL

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NANCY NEMES

Founder & Chief Enthusiasm Officer of Ms. AI – Artificial Intelligence for and with women

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CHRISTIAN “MIO” LOCLAIR

Media artist and choreographer, creative director at Waltz Binaire

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OLIVER GILBERT

Managing Director,

Next Billion

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MANUELA PAPADOPOL

CEO, Designated Driver

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CORDELIA SCHMID

Research Director, National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA)

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DANIEL MCDUFF

Researcher, Microsoft Research