Algorithms For Hope

Alessandro Curioni

Switzerland

IBM Fellow, Vice President Europe & Africa and Director of the IBM Research Lab, Zurich. Curioni is an internationally recognized leader in the area of high-performance computing and computational science. He was a member of the winning team recognized with the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize in 2013 and 2015. His research interests include AI, Big Data and quantum computing.

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Kate Darling

USA

Research Specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. Dr. Kate Darling is a leading expert in Robot Ethics and investigates social robotics and conducts experimental studies on human-robot interaction. Kate Darling explores the emotional connection between people and life-like machines, seeking to influence technology design and policy direction. Her writing and research anticipate difficult questions that lawmakers, engineers, and the wider public will need to address as human-robot relationships evolve in the coming decades. In 2017, the American Bar Association honored her legal work with the Mark T. Banner award in Intellectual Property.

Christoph Nabholz

Switzerland

Chief Research Officer, Swiss Re Institute. Nabholz manages Swiss Re's Strategic Council to deliver executive advice and foresight on risks across a broad and rapidly evolving business landscape. His research team enhances Swiss Re's market intelligence and contributes to thought leadership on major industry topics. 

Cathy O'Neil

USA

Founder of ORCAA, an algorithmic auditing company. She helps companies understand and mitigate their risks around the algorithms they employ and that are used against them. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling "Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy." Starting as a professor at Barnard College, where she published a number of research papers in arithmetic algebraic geometry, Cathy later switched over to the private sector.

Frida Polli

USA

CEO and co-founder of Pymetrics, a talent matching platform that uses behavioral science and AI to make workforce decisions more accurate, fair, and efficient. Dr. Frida Polli is an award-winning Harvard and MIT neuroscientist turned entrepreneur.

David Dao

USA

Founder of GainForest, a non-profit grantee of Microsoft’s AI for Earth program, aiming to reverse the deterioration of nature by combining decentralized finance with intelligent ecosystem monitoring. Dao is a Ph.D. student at ETH Zurich building AI and Data Systems for Sustainable Development and is leading the Climate + AI initiative at DS3Lab, mapping the ethical use of AI, and directing the Kara research project with Stanford and UC Berkeley.

Patrick Schwab

Switzerland

Director of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at GSK AI/ML. Schwab's work aims to advance personalised medicine by utilising machine learning methods and large-scale health data to better understand and treat complex diseases. Prior to joining GSK, he was a Principal Architect working on Machine Learning for Personalised Medicine at Roche in Basel, Switzerland.

Lukas Jezler

Switzerland

CEO of the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for consumption, economic and social studies, Rüschlikon/Zurich.

Florian Inhauser

Switzerland

Journalist and moderator. Florian Inhauser presents the main newscast at Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, SRF and he is also the anchor of the foreign news magazine «#SRFglobal». With a master in history and anglistics he speaks English fluently. He has also an excellent reputation as an international correspondent, covering conflicts and crises around the globe.