Speakers
Joanna Bryson is an academic recognised for broad expertise on intelligence, its nature, and its consequences. Holding two degrees each in psychology and AI (BA Chicago, MSc & MPhil Edinburgh, PhD MIT), she is since 2020 the Professor of Ethics and Technology in the Centre for Digital Governance at Hertie School, in Berlin. Bryson advises governments, corporations, and other agencies globally, particularly on AI policy.
Her work has appeared in venues ranging from reddit to the journal Science. From 2002-2019 she was Computer Science faculty at the University of Bath; she has also been affiliated with Harvard Psychology, Oxford Anthropology, The Mannheim Centre for Social Science Research, The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy.
Bryson first observed the confusion generated by anthropomorphised AI during her PhD, leading to her first AI ethics publication “Just Another Artifact” in 1998. She is now a leader in AI ethics, having since coauthored the first national-level AI ethics policy, the UK’s (2011) Principles of Robotics, and contributed to efforts by the OECD, EU, UN, OSCE, Red Cross and Google among others.
In June 2020, she was one of nine experts nominated by Germany to the founding cohort of experts for the Global Partnership for AI. Bryson continues to research the systems engineering of AI and the cognitive science of intelligence. Her present focus is on the impacts of communication and computation technology on human societies, and new models of governance for AI and digital technology, particularly given the transnational nature of many of the institutions providing AI infrastructure.
Ivana Bartoletti is the Global Data Privacy and AI Governance Officer at Wipro, the leading international information technology, consulting, and business process services company. She is an internationally recognised thought leader in the fields of privacy, data protection and responsible technology. A Council of Europe expert on AI and human rights, she has recently authored a study on the impact of artificial intelligence on gender equality.
In February 2023, Ivana was appointed as the inaugural visiting cybersecurity and privacy executive fellow at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business, where she collaborates closely with Pamplin faculty and Ph.D. students on privacy, data protection and new technologies.
Ivana is co-editor of ‘The AI Book; a handbook for investors, entrepreneurs, and fintech visionaries’, and is author of ‘An Artificial Revolution, on Power, Politics and AI’.
Bartoletti is founder of the influential Women Leading in AI network that brings together female thinkers, scientists, academics, business women, and politicians to influence the future of artificial intelligence on a global scale.
From 2020 to 2022, Bartoletti was visiting policy fellow at the University of Oxford, where she focused on furthering global sharing of information through the context of privacy, security, data protection, and human rights.
In 2022, Ivana received the Privacy Leader of the Year, Technology award at the PICCASO Awards in London for her work at the intersection between privacy, equality and Artificial Intelligence.