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Phaedra Boinodiris

Award-Winning Technologist, Leader of IBM Consulting’s Trustworthy AI Practice

An award-winning technologist who empowers business leaders to harness the power of AI across industry to build stronger companies
Serves on the AI ethics board for one of the largest tech giants in the world
Leads one of the largest global Trustworthy AI Centers of Excellence where she actively gives applied training to practitioners on AI. Her YouTube videos are used to train thousands of AI practitioners!
Offers a rare blend of technical background, humor via her own hand drawn comic illustrations, and inspirational storytelling to share valuable insights on the implications of AI on business and leadership

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A fellow with the London-based Royal Society of Arts, Boinodiris has focused on inclusion in technology since 1999. She currently leads IBM Consulting’s Trustworthy AI Practice, she is the AI ethics board focal for all of consulting, and leads IBM’s Trustworthy AI Center of Excellence. She is the co-author of the book ‘AI for the Rest of Us’. Boinodiris is a co-founder of the Future World Alliance, a 501c3 dedicated to curating K-12 education in AI ethics.

In 2019, she won the United Nations Woman of Influence in STEM and Inclusivity Award and was recognized by Women in Games International as one of the Top 100 Women in the Games Industry as she began one of the first scholarship programs in the United States for women to pursue degrees in game design and development.

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What is AI Ethics?

AI Ethics for All of Us

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AI for the Rest of Us

AI is a way for us to understand and grasp knowledge, information and put data into context. It is being used globally to make all kinds of decisions that directly impact our lives and yet most understand very little about it. We start with the definition that data is an artifact of human experience. We need the widest variance of humans, irrespective of your role and skillset, developing AI so that everyone's story is a part of the models we are building. Join IBM’s own Phaedra Boinodiris as she uses her own hand-drawn comics to illustrate what she has learned in the space of AI ethics and governance, along with stories and examples of AI's and Gen AI's impact in industry and government.

How to seed Responsible AI Ambassadors in an Organization

To practice trustworthy or responsible AI (AI that is truly fair, explainable, accountable, and robust), a number of organizations are creating in-house centers of excellence. These are groups of trustworthy AI stewards from across the business that can understand, anticipate, and mitigate any potential problems. The intent is not to necessarily create subject matter experts but rather a pool of ambassadors who act as point people. In this talk, we will walk you through a set f best practices for establishing an effective center of excellence in your own organization.

What Archaeology can teach us about Responsible AI

What we know of human history is either gleaned from the written word, spoken word, or the evidence that is left behind for us to find. What we think of as history is oftentimes informed by the bias of the observers themselves this deeply influencing what we think of as ground truth. Join Phaedra Boinodiris as she takes you on a journey from the ancient Minoan palaces of Knossos to the desks of today’s data scientists as they explain how Human factors are everything when studying the complete experience and context of both history and artificial intelligence. Leave this talk learning what you can do in your organizations to foster a culture that prioritizes data lineage and provenance, human factors, and more in order to be truly responsible curators of AI.