Join us for this free webinar with Professor Gina Neff, Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge, in conversation with the ODI’s Director of Research Professor Elena Simperl.
Who is this webinar for?
Anyone who is interested in data, AI, and how their data is obtained and used from third-party websites and social media.
Level of difficulty
For everyone, it's an opportunity to hear from a renowned expert about the issues around data collection and AI.
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Speakers
Professor Gina Neff
Professor Gina Neff runs University of Cambridge’s Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy. Her award-winning research focuses on how digital information is changing our work and everyday lives. She led the team who won the 2021 Webby for the Internet’s best educational website, the A to Z of AI, which has reached over one million people in 17 different languages. Her books include Venture Labor (MIT Press 2012), Self-Tracking (MIT Press 2016) and Human-Centered Data Science (MIT Press 2022).
Elena Simperl, Director of Research, ODI
Elena Simperl is the ODI’s Director of Research and a Professor of Computer Science at King’s College London. She is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a senior member of the Society for the Study of AI and Simulation of Behaviour, and a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow.
Elena’s research is in human-centric AI, exploring socio-technical questions around the management, use, and governance of data in AI applications. According to AMiner, she is in the top 100 most influential scholars in knowledge engineering of the last decade. She also features in the Women in AI 2000 ranking.
In her 15-year career, she has led 14 national and international research projects, contributing to another 26. She leads the ODI’s programme of research on data-centric AI, which studies and designs the socio-technical data infrastructure of AI models and applications. Elena chaired several conferences in artificial intelligence, social computing, and data innovation. She is the president of the Semantic Web Science Association.
Elena is passionate about ensuring that AI technologies and applications allow everyone to take advantage of their opportunities, whether that is by making AI more participatory by design, investing in novel AI literacy interventions, or paying more attention to the stewardship and governance of data in AI.