Houlin Zhao Secretary General,
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
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Director-General,
United Nations Office at Geneva | Director General, World Health Organization (WHO) | Secretary General,
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) |
H.E. Dr. Ahmed Al Theneyan
Deputy Minister of the Technology Industry and Digital Capabilities,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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President,
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Director of Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
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Chief of Strategic Planning & Membership, ITU
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Member & Chair of Management, XPRIZE Foundation
Board of Directors, Space Ambassador; first female private space explorer | Permanent Representative of India to the Conference on Disarmament; Taskforce on AI for India's Economic Transformation |
Partner, Innovation and Sustainability, PwC UK | ![Al Olama.jpg](/en/ITU-T/AI/2018/PublishingImages/Pages/Speakers/Al%20Olama.jpg) Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates |
UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth
| Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC-Berkeley, and Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery, UC-San Francisco
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Roger Penrose
Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics,
University of Oxford | Co-Founder and Co-Director, Foundation for Responsible Robotics
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Partner - Risk Advisory Services, EY
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Anja Kaspersen Director, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
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Executive Vice President of Global Good and Research, Intellectual Ventures |
Executive Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University | CTIO, Barcelona City Council; Project Lead, DECODE
| VP of Artificial Intelligence, Sage |
Mayor, City of Pittsburgh, USA |
Head of AI Foundations, IBM Research; Co-Director, IBM Science for Social Good
| Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
| Research Scientist at IBM Research and Professor at the University of Padova
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Executive Director,
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at
the University of Cambridge
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Einar Bjørgo Manager, UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) | Senior Principal of AI, Accenture
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Marcel Salathé Associate Professor and Head of Digital Epidemiology Lab, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | |
Founding Chair, Board of Directors, The Zero Abuse Project | Professor of Bioethics, Health Ethics and Policy Lab, ETH Zurich
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Programme Leader - Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Investment, PwC UK |
Chief of Section, Bioethics and Ethics of Science, UNESCO
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CEO, Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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Principle Advisor on Innovation, Lead,
UNICEF Ventures
| Head of SDG Accelerator, GSMA | ![Giussani.jpg](/en/ITU-T/AI/2018/PublishingImages/Pages/experts/GiussaniB.jpg)
Global Curator, TED |
Director, UN Global Pulse
| President, IEEE Computer Society, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Waseda University | ![Tomuta.jpg](/en/ITU-T/AI/2018/PublishingImages/Pages/Invitedexperts/Tomuta.jpg) Elena Tomuta Chief of Software Applications Section, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) |
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Giorgio Metta
Vice Scientific Director and Director of the iCub Facility Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)
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![Hsu.jpg](/en/ITU-T/AI/2018/PublishingImages/Pages/experts/Hsu.jpg) Edward Hsu Senior Adviser to the President, World Bank
| Astronaut and Pilot; first Chinese woman in space | ![Cristoforetti.jpg](/en/ITU-T/AI/2018/PublishingImages/Pages/Invitedexperts/Cristoforetti.jpg) Astronaut and Pilot; first Italian woman in space
| Programme Director for Artificial Intelligence, Alan Turing Institute
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Head of Innovation Accelerator,
WFP
| Applied Research Lead for Public Interest AI Projects, MIT
| Miguel Luengo-Oroz Chief Data Scientist, UN Global Pulse
| Consultant, Ethicist, and Scholar at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and Senior Advisor tothe Hastings Center, and the World Economic Forum |
Thomas Wiegand Professor at TU Berlin, and Executive Director of Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute |
Marshall Burke Assistant Professor, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University; Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research | Professor of Economics,The American University in Cairo; Founding Director, Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D)
| Wolfram Burgard Professor of Computer Science and Head of Autonomous Intelligent Systems Lab, University of Freiburg |
Head of Department, Health Analytics,Norwegian Centre for E-health Research |
Andrew Zolli VP of Global Impact Initiatives, Planet Labs Inc. |
GM, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
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Smart City Expert - International Investment Attraction |
Chief Scientist, UNICEF Innovation |
Head of Machine Learning Group, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute
| Magda Biesiada Information and Knowledge Management Officer, UNICEF Malawi | Professor in the School of Culture, Media and Society, Waseda University |
Co-Founder, President and CEO, Element Inc | Founding Member, Board of Directors, The Zero Abuse Project |
Chief of Unit for ICT in Education, UNESCO
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ARC Future Fellow, Professor and Director of the Wellbeing Technology Lab at the University of Sydney | Manager of Pulse Lab Kamapala, UN Global Pulse
| Member of Working Group on IoT, World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology of UNESCO (COMEST); Professor of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University
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Director of Artificial Intelligence Unit & Chief Information Officer, King Khalid University
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Akihiro Nakao Professor in Applied Computer Science,
University of Tokyo |
Becky Inkster
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge |
| Mark Doherty Head of Earth Observation Exploitation Development Division, European Space Agency |
Andy Chen VP of Professional and Educational Activities, IEEE Computer Society; Partner, REDDS Venture Investment Partners; President, Catronic Enterprise | Research Fellow, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center |
Chief of Digital Government, Public Institutions and Digital Government Division, United Nations (remote) | ![Cadain.jpg](/en/ITU-T/AI/2018/PublishingImages/Pages/experts/Cadain.jpg) Co-Founder & CEO at ANIMA; XPRIZE Ambassador | Head of Networked Research Systems Group, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems | Director of Global Health Initiatives, Element Inc |
Applied AI Lead, UNICEF Innovation |
Research Director for Social Computing, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) |
Research Fellow on Emerging Cyber-Technologies,
United Nations University (UNU)
| Brian Markwalter Senior Vice President of Research and Standards, Consumer Technoloy Association (CTA)
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Silja Baller Practice Lead, Digital Economy and Innovation, World Economic Forum
| Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, UNICRI
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David Li Founder, Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab (SZOIL)
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Lars Bromley Principal Analyst and Research Advisor,
UNOSAT |
![Krishnamurthy.png](/en/ITU-T/AI/2018/PublishingImages/Pages/experts/Krishnamurthy.png) Senior Advisor, Department of Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization (WHO) | | ![Castaneda.jpg](/en/ITU-T/AI/2018/PublishingImages/Pages/experts/Castaneda.jpg) Researcher, Lecturer, and Co-lead of Precision One Health Unit, University of Geneva | ![Pujari.jpg](/en/ITU-T/AI/2018/PublishingImages/Pages/experts/Pujari.jpg) “Be Healthy, Be Mobile” Project Manager, World Health Organization (WHO) |
Secretary of Communication and Press, Diadema City Hall, Brazil |
Google Technology Policy Fellow;
Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge | Jeon Gue Park Principal Researcher and Project Leader, Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI) | Kathleen Siminyu Head of Data Science, Africa's Talking; Nairobi Team Lead, WIMLDS
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Andrejs Vasiļjevs
Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, Tilde | Kanta Dihal Research Project Coordinator, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at University of Cambridge | Director of Innovation and Change Management Division,
WFP | |
Department Head and Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University |
Assistant Director Of Research, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University |
Researcher, the Mobilize Center at Stanford University | Director of Partnerships, ADA Health |
ANA AVATAR Co-Director, ANA Holdings Inc. | ANA AVATAR Co-Director, ANA Holdings Inc. | Founder and CEO, Design for Social Change (d4Sc)
| Neil Sahota World Wide Business Development Leader, IBM Watson
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Jess Whittlestone Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at University of Cambridge | Zhe Liu Professor, Peking University
| Managing Director - Kenya Office, Kimetrica
| David Jensen Head of Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding and Co-Director of MapX, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) |
![Sinel.png](/en/ITU-T/AI/2018/PublishingImages/Pages/Invitedexperts/Sinel.png) Founder, Teens in AI; Founder, Acorn Aspirations
| Visiting Scholar, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at University of Cambridge | Arificial Intelligence Advisor, UN Global Pulse |
CEO & Co-Founder, Your.MD; Entrepreneur in Residence, ETH Zurich |
Social Entrepreneur and Futurist - Chair REDDS Capital
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Arun Shroff Co-founder & CTO at
Medindia; Director of Technology & Innovation,
STAR Associates, USA |
![Westby.jpg](/en/ITU-T/AI/2018/PublishingImages/Pages/experts/Westby.jpg) Joe Westby Researcher, Technology and Human Rights, Amnesty International |
Susan Oh Chair of AI, Blockchain For Impact UN GA |
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Matt Keller Senior Director Civil Society, XPRIZE Foundation | Mathilde Forslund External Engagement Consultant, Foundation Botnar |
AI Lead, XPRIZE Foundation
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Senior Strategy Advisor and Smart City Ambassador, Amsterdam Smart City | Project Coordinator on the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence initiative, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University | Founder, Ladder Education Group | ![Jochen.jpg](/en/ITU-T/AI/2018/PublishingImages/Pages/Invitedexperts/Jochen.jpg)
Head of Innovation,
Welthungerhilfe
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Jacques Ludik Founder & CEO, Cortex Logic; Founder & President, Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa
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Founder, Ocean Protocol and Founder & CTO, BigchainDB | Dominique Herman Project Manager, Tropical Deforestation Monitoring System, The Forest Trust (TFT)
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Founder and CEO, UMo – Urban Mobility |
John Enevoldsen Growth Lead, Ocean Protocol
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Toufi Saliba AI Decentralized
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Technical Staff, Syntiant Corp; Technical Lead of IBM Watson AI Prize,
XPRIZE
| Joaquin Rodriguez Alvarez Research and Professor, Escola de Prevenció i Seguretat Integral (EPSI); Barcelona Coordinator, Leading Cities; Ethical Advisor, The Social Coin | Boyd Cohen Deputy Director of Research,EADA Business School and a jointly appointed faculty at the Universitat de Vic, Co-founder,IoMob.net |