Agenda
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⋅ Boost.ai - Camilla Gjetvik, Chief Operating Officer, on how Boost makes and markets chatbots in fierce competion with global players
⋅ Okra.ai - Loubna Bouarfa, CEO and founder, on how Okra works ethically with artificial intelligence in healthcare.
⋅ Calcabis - Kasper W Rost. CEO and founder on how you can work with AI without data and why this is the right approach to reach compliance and retain the ethics in AI and data management.
- Meet our cool sponsors (Mozilla and Eyeo)
- Discuss data ethics in practise. Share common pitfalls, view, tips and tricks with Piek Visser-Knijffl privacy and data-ethicist
⋅ Aarhus Municipality - Mikkel Højbjerg, digital site manager, on how the second largest municipality in Denmark is implementing data ethics
⋅ Solid. Mitzi László is the Community Manager of Solid, a Tim Berners-Lee led initiative with the goal to decentralise power on the web to ensure that it is used for the global public good
⋅ MAIF/MyData - Sarah Medjek from the University of Paris Nanterre will tell about how the French teachers' owned insurance company MAIF is giving back data to their customers, and how individual data control impact individuals' attitudes and behavior
Speakers bios
Mitzi László, Solid. Mitzi is the Community Manager of Solid, a Tim Berners-Lee led initiative with the goal to decentralise power on the web to ensure that it is used for the global public good. She's based in Amsterdam, has trained as a neuroscientist specialised in decision making and is a Data Ethics Auditor with The European Commission, where she is auditing EU funded research consortia from an ethics perspective. Find her here.
Loubna Bouarfa. Okra. Loubna is a machine learning scientist turned entrepreneur. Founder and CEO of OKRA Technologies - an artificial intelligence data analytics company for healthcare. OKRA allows healthcare professionals to combine all their data in one place and generate evidence-based insights in real time, to save and improve human lives. Loubna is currently a member of the European Union High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, where she is particularly focused on healthcare and achieving competitive business impact with AI. She was named an MIT Technology Review Top Innovator Under 35, and is featured on Forbes first-ever 50 Top Women In Tech list. On a personal level, she is a strong advocate for diversity, women and challenging the status quo.
Paul Nemitz. Paul is Principal Advisor in the EU Directorate General for Justice and Consumers. He was appointed by the European Commission on 12. April 2017, following a 6 year appointment as Director for Fundamental Rights and Citizen’s Rights in the same Directorate General. As Director, Nemitz led the reform of Data Protection legislation in the EU, the negotiations of the EU – US Privacy Shield and the negotiations with major US Internet Companies of the EU Code of Conduct against incitement to violence and hate speech on the Internet. He has represented the European Commission in numerous cases before the European Court of Justice and has published widely on EU law.
Gry Hasselbalch. Gry is member of the European Commission's high level group on AI and ethics developing ethics and policy guidelines for AI in Europe, and co-chair of the P7006 standard within the IEEE's Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in AI and Autonomous Systems. She is also co-founder of DataEthics.eu and co-author of DataEthics - the New Competitive Advantage.
Claus Kenberg. Claus is CCO and CDO in Saxo.com an online bookstore and platform for self-publishers. He drives the data-driven agenda, where data and tech convert to the best digital customer experience - whenever it is consumers, authors or partners. Before his job at Saxo, he has worked with business development - with data as a core - in companies like Staoil, Falck and many of the best know car manufacturers.
Mikkel Højbjerg. Mikkel is Digital Site Manager at Aarhus Municipality. Mikkel has a solid background in managing large government websites. He is project lead - responsible for development and technical updates to Aarhus Municipality's multisite solution. He is based in Aarhus, Denmark - has a Master of Arts, Multimedia from Aarhus University.
Camilla Gjetvik. Camilla is the Chief Operating Officer of boost.ai. Having risen through the ranks as one of the company’s first employees, she continues to use her willpower, ambition and determination to grow a company that’s ready for a future as a global tech powerhouse. She was recently nominated one of Norway’s top 50 females in Tech by the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO). Camilla specializes in business management and law, and has extensive experience from contract management and negotiations in the energy sector before entering the tech industry with boost.ai".
Kasper W. Rost has over 16 years of international experience in strategic business development and partner management. Kasper has made a carrier of parring the best teams with cutting edge technology in various industries and is often speaking on fairs and conferences across the globe. Kasper and his founding team created Calcabis in 2017, an AI company with focus on automating compliance processed based on real human expert knowledge and cognitive computing. The AI platform was build by a Calcabis co-founder and is spinoff from the medical sector, where the AI technology was tailored for a leading healthcare company.
Sarah Medjek is a researcher at the University of Paris Nanterre, her research focuses on the concept of Self Data/MyData and its impact on individuals' attitudes and behavior, particularly in terms of adoption, trust and privacy concerns. She has collaborated on various experiments such as the MesInfos Pilot, and since November 2018, she is MyData Global Board of Directors Chairwoman.
Rikke Hvilshøj is managing director of the Danish Association of IT Professionals (Dansk IT) who is partner organizer at this conference. She is a former minister and politician for the party Venstre and is member of the Danish governments Commission on Data Ethics, who started its work this year. Read more here.
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Among our earlier speakers are Margrethe Vestager (2016), Frank Pasquale (2016), Evelyn Rupert (2017), John C Havens IEEE (2017), Dieter Rasmussen LEGO (2017), Marit Hansen (2018), Laura Dornheim AdblockPlus (2018), Dan Shefet (2018), Cecile Wendling Axa (2018). And Edulab, Silo.ai, Tresorit, Clue, Playwall, Cliqz, Wire, Findx and Purism. See them all here.