Artificial Intelligence is transforming our work, our organisations, entire industries and our society as a whole. Despite the many potential benefits of this general-purpose technology, there are significant challenges and risks, ranging from privacy, security, ethics, transparency and regulation.

SANDOR ALBRECHT

Sandor Albrecht is a community builder and change driver. He is passionate about innovation and technology incubation. Currently, he is at the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and RISE Computer Science, which means he works with people that explore new ways of connecting human beings, industries and technologies, all in the pursuit of making it more secure and enjoyable to work and live in a sustainable world.   He worked at Ericsson for twenty years in Hungary and Sweden as a leader in product development and corporate research. He was the founder and head of Ericsson Garage, Ericsson’s global innovation and incubation platform.  He received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1993, and his PhD from the same institution in 2004. He also holds a Master of Applied Science from the University of British Columbia in Canada and holds a Master of Business Administration from Central European University Business School, Budapest, Hungary.  

GALINA ESTHER SHUBINA

Galina Esther Shubina is a co-founder of Gradient Descent, a strategy consultancy focused on  helping companies become data-driven and AI-enabled with focus on actionable strategy and helping organisations transform, grow and learn to speak data as a native language. She helped multiple small startups as well as bigger companies like Spotify with their data and AI strategy and organisational transformations. Prior to that, Galina Esther spent 10 years at Google as a manager, software engineer, and data scientist working on everything from machine learning advertising products to highly scalable distributed systems, over four years of it in the Silicon Valley. She also built  the data and analytics team at Schibsted, as Trinity Mirror (now Reach Plc), and again at an electrical battery manufacturer, Northvolt. She is a­ co-founder of Women in Data Science ­Sweden, a community of over a thousand women in the field of data science, machine learning, AI and data analytics in Sweden.

ANDREAS THEODOROU

Dr. Andreas Theodorou is a postdoctoral researcher in the Responsible AI Group at Umeå University and the CEO and co-founder of VeRAI AB. His research interests include the development of software engineering methods of artificial intelligence, the verification and validation of ethical values in intelligent systems, the development means to provide transparency and explainability, and the study of the public’s perception of intelligent systems. In parallel to his research activities, Dr. Theodorou has been a contributing member of AI policy initiatives, e.g. IEEE SA’ P7001 series, ISO JTC1/42, UK’s AI APPG, EU’s AI Alliance, and others. He was part of the research team to evaluate the ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI suggested by the High-Level Expert Group on AI of European Commission. Dr. Theodorou has previously held research, visiting research, and teaching positions in the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), University of Bath (UK), and University of Surrey (UK).