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

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DAVID HUGHES

Associate Prof, Penn State University and UN Fellow, FAO

Director of PlantVillage

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MAURIZIO VECCHIONE

Executive Vice President of Global Good and Research, Intellectual Ventures

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MADELINE ASHBY

Futurist and science fiction writer

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RAMESH KRISHNAMURTHY

Senior Advisor, Department of Information, Evidence and Research, WHO

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RICARDO BAEZA-YATES

CTO, NTENT & Director of Data Science, Northeastern Univ. at SV, USA

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T. RUSSEL SHIELDS

Chairman, Ygomi

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FRANCOIS GREY

Director of the Geneva Tsinghua Initiative, University of Geneva

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ARTURO ROBLES

Comissioner of IFT

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JIM STOLZE

Tech Entrepreneur at Amsterdam Science Park

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DAVAR ARDALAN

Founder and Storyteller in Chief at IVOW

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INGMAR WEBER

Research Director, Social Computing, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

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ALEX JAIMES

SVP of AI & Data Science at Dataminr

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CHRISTINA COLCLOUGH

Director of Platform and Agency Workers, Digitalisation and Trade at UNI Global Union

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SCOTT SANDLAND

Founder & CEO of Cyrano.AI

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JO FLOTO

Editor, Newshour & The World Tonight, BBC News

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EVERT HAASDIJK

Senior Manager and AI expert, Deloitte

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THOMAS WIEGAND 

FG-AI4H Chair, Professor at TU Berlin, and Executive Director of Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute

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TEE GANBOLD

Technology Executive, Intrepid Capital Partners

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SANDRA CORTESI

Director of Youth and Media, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University

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NEIL SAHOTA 

World Wide Business Development Leader, IBM Watson

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IRAKLI BERIDZE

Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, UNICRI

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DANISH CONTRACTOR

Co-founder RAIL & Senior Researcher, IBM Research AI

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REBECA MORENO JIMENEZ

Innovation Officer – Data Scientist, UNHCR

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FRANCIS BACH

Research faculty at INRIA – ENS

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JIAN TANG

Assistant Professor at HEC Montreal and Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA)

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MORITZ HELMSTAEDTER

Director at the Max Planck Society for Brain Research, Frankfurt Germany

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ALEX TKATCHENKO

Professor and Head of Theoretical Chemical Physics Group, University of Luxembourg

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MARK JACKSON

Scientific Lead of Business Development at Cambridge Quantum Computing

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SEPP HOCHREITER

Computer Scientist and head of Institute of Machine Learning, Johannes Kepler University of Linz

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MASASHI SUGIYAMA

Professor in Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, University of Tokyo


Director RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project

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ALEXANDRE CADAIN

CEO, Anima

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FRITS BUSSEMAKER

Chairman, Institute for Accountability in the Digital Age

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MHD YAMEN SARAIJI

Professor, Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University

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PATRICK MEIER

Executive Director and Co-Founder, WeRobotics

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MATTHIAS SCHEUTZ

Professor of cognitive and computer science, Director of the Human-Robot Interaction Laboratory, Tufts University

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ERWIN FISSER

Campaign manager at Aidsfonds, CCO at deRealiseerders

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NICOLAS MIAILHE

Co-founder & President, The Future Society

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MANJU GEORGE

Head of Platform Services, Digital Economy and Society,

World Economic Forum

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STEVEN VOSLOO

Digital Policy Specialist, UNICEF

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XIANHONG HU

Program Specialist in Communication and Information, UNESCO

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MARC WARNER

CEO, Faculty

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JOHN GIBSON

Director of Data Science, Faculty

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BERNARDO MARIANO

CIO of WHO

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DORIN COMANICIU

Siemens Healthineers SVP AI

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JONATHAN CARR-BROWN

Advisor, YourMD

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MASSIMO BANZI

Co-founder at Adruino

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BILL RYERSON

Founder and President of Population Media

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NICK BRADSHAW

Head of Cortex Ventures- Africa’s first AI only focused VC Fund

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ADAM RUSSELL

Defense Sciences Office (DSO), DARPA

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ROBERT KIRKPATRICK

Director of UN Global Pulse

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EMELE UGAVULE

Creative Director of Talanoa Fiji

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HADAS BITRAN

Head of Microsoft Healthcare Israel

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RAFAEL PEREZ Y PEREZ

AI scientist, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana at Cuajimalpa, México

Chair of the Association for Computational Creativity.

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UILI LOUSI

Cultural Ambassador and artist, Kingdom of Tonga

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MARIANA LIN

AI Writer, former Creative Director at Apple

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CINDY GUIJOSA

AI enthusiast, Computer Science student at the University of Maryland

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DAVID DANKS

L.L. Thurstone Professor of Philosophy & Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

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INZAMAM MALIK

IVOW Consultant and AI Chatbot and VUI Developer

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JUANISA J. MCCOY

Senior UI/UX Designer, IVOW

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WOLFGANG VICTOR YARLOTT

AI Researcher, Florida International University

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KEE MALESKY

Director of Research at IVOW and former NPR News Librarian

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ROBERT MALESKY

Director of Content at IVOW and former Executive Producer at NPR News

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NICOLA MCLAY

Creative Director

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ANIRUDH KOUL

Head of AI & Research, Aira, Founder, Seeing AI App for the blind

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STEFAN GERMANN

CEO, Botnar Foundation

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JUSTIN GONG

Co-Founder & Vice President of XAG

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CYRUS HODES

Partner, FoundersX;

Co-founder, AI Initiative

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ABHI NAHA

Chief Commercial Officer CW (Cambridge Wireless Limited)

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WILHELMINA WELSCH

Head of Information Management and Innovation Unit, JIPS, Project Manager, DEEP

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NAVID REKABSAZ

Post-doctoral researcher at the Idiap Research Institute

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WOLFGANG LAUER

Head of the division “Medical Devices” of the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices

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ANTOINE GEISSBUHLER

Professor, Director, Digital Transformation, University of Geneva;

Director, Innovation Center,

Geneva University Hospitals

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NATASA MILIC-FRAYLING

Chair, ACM Women Europe, Chair of Data Science, University of Nottingham, CEO, Intact Digital ltd

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AUBRA ANTHONY

Strategy & Research Lead, Center for Digital Development, USAID

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LEILA TOPLIC

Lead for the Emerging Technologies at NetHope

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BO PERCIVAL

Innovations Lead, Skills and Opportunities for Youth Employment & Entrepreneurship, Plan International

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FEI FANG

Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

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TANAY MAHINDRU

Young Professional, National Institution for Transforming India – NITI Aayog

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STEFAN WINKLER

Senior Deputy Director & Associate Professor, AI Singapore

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MAYA ACKERMAN

WaveAI CEO/Co-Founder and Santa Clara University Professor

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KUSH VARSHNEY

Founding Co-Director, IBM Science for Social Good Initiative, IBM

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JONNIE PENN

Technologist, historian of science, and #1 New York Times bestselling author

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KSHITIZ RIMAL

Head of Research and Co-Founder, Artificial Intelligence for Development (AID)

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KATHY BAXTER

Architect, Ethicom AI Practice, Salesforce

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CHANDA GONZALES

Vice President of Prize Operations AT XPRIZE, former Executive Director Google Lunar XPRIZE

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RICHARD EVANS

Senior Lecturer in Human Factors for Design Brunel University

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PAMELA MAR

Director, Supply Chain Futures – Fung Academy, Fung Group

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STEPHANIE MARTINEZ

Four-time Emmy-nominated news reporter at Univision

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JOELLE CASTEIX

Zero Abuse

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SHAMIKA SIRIMANNE

Director, Division on Technology and Logistics (DTL), UNCTAD

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BEN COMBES

PwC UK Assistant Director, Sustainability & Climate Change

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ILANA GOLBIN

PwC US Manager, AI Accelerator

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IRENE MASANJA

Senior Scientist, Ifakara Health Institute

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KARL MORTEO

IT Officer, FAO

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ANAND RAO

Global & US Artificial Intelligence and US Data & Analytics Leader, PwC US

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CELINE HERWEIJER

Partner, Innovation and Sustainability, PwC UK

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MARIA AXENTE

Artificial Intelligence Programme Driver and AI for Good Lead, PwC UK

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ROB MCCARGOW

Director of Artificial Intelligence, PwC UK

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CHRIS RAKE

Vice President of Programs at FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science & Technology)

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PETER BAILEY

Chief Strategy Officer at Dataminr

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SAM MOLYNEUX

GM, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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DERVAL USHER

Head of UNGP’s Lab, Jakarta

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MAKHTAR DIOP

Vice President, Infrastructure, The World Bank

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BRANDIE NONNECKE

Founding Director of the CITRIS Policy Lab at UC Berkeley

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CYRILL GLOCKNER

Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

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STEPHEN HELLEN

Director for ICT4D & GIS, Catholic Relief Services

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ARTHUR W. DUBRAWSKI

Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

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JOAQUIN VANSCHOREN

Assistant Professor of Machine Learning at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)