A list of prior speaking engagements from Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo. Links to recordings/event webpages/articles have been provided as available.
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- September 2024: Data Power Conference — Remote
- July 2024: Deep Learning IndabaX Uganda — Virtual
- July 2024: SSRC Workshop on “Drilling Down to the Data: Navigating Data Politics at the Heart of AI Policy — Brooklyn, NY
- July 2024: Design Justice AI Global Humanities Institute — Pretoria, South Africa
- June 2024: University of Johannesburg "Artificial Intelligence, Elections, and the Future of Democracy and Leadership: Global Experiences and Directions" — Virtual
- June 2024: “Building a Just AI Ecosystem in Africa” Just AI Conference — Cape Town, South Africa
- June 2024: FII PRIORITY Summit Rio de Janeiro Conclave: Accelerating Responsible AI in Emerging Markets — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- May 2024: Keynote in the AI, Digital & Data Solutions for Health Session at UNDP’s HIV and Health Community of Practice Meeting — Virtual/Istanbul, Turkey
- April 2024: Mozilla Seminar: Incorporating Trustworthiness as a Grounding Principle for AI in Africa — Virtual
- April 2024: I-GMAP Frontiers of Prevention Conference — Binghamton, NY
- March 2024: "AI in Africa: From Innovation to Governance", Equiano Institute AI Fellowship — Virtual
- March 2024: CEMRI Roundtable on the Implications of ChatGPT and Other AI Tools for Education in Africa — Virtual
- March 2024: CEPS Ideas Lab Plenary Session on the Future Governance of AI — Brussels, Belgium
- February 2024: German Federal Foreign Office Data Innovation Lab Webinar — Virtual
- February 2024: Forum for Cooperation on AI (FCAI) Roundtable on AI Development and Inclusion of the Global South — Virtual
- January 2024: World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC '24) — Abu Dhabi, UAE
- December 2023: DZGENAI'23, Algeria AI — Béni Abbès, Algeria
- December 2023: AI for Africa Conference, in conjunction with the African Startup Conference — Algiers, Algeria
- December 2023: Policymaking for AI & Web3: Advancements in Global AI Policy, Getting Plurality Research Network (Harvard University Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation and MIT Connection Science) — Virtual
- November 2023: The Future of AI Governance Webinar, EquiAI Initiative at the University of Durham — Virtual
- October 2023: AI + Society Forum, Wellcome Collection — London, UK
- August 2023: Yale Digital Humanities Lab Seminar Series, Yale University — Virtual
- May 2023: Stanford Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) Rising Stars Workshop, Stanford University — Stanford, CA
- April 2023: Many Worlds of AI Conference, University of Cambridge — Cambridge, UK
- April 2023: MIDAS Future Leaders Summit, University of Michigan — Ann Arbor, MI
- March 2023: Microsoft Africa Research Institute (MARI) Seminar — Virtual
- February 2023: CSRAI Young Achievers Symposium, Penn State — Virtual
- August 2022: AI4PAN Artificial Intelligence for Pandemics Seminar Series, University of Queensland — Virtual
- June 2021: Science Research Mentoring Program (SRMP), American Museum of Natural History — Virtual
- May 2021: 2nd ELLIS Workshop on Human-Centric Machine Learning
- May 2021: Keynote Talk, Practical Machine Learning for Developing Countries Workshop @ ICLR
- March 2021: Blackathon - A Virtual Hackathon for the Diaspora
- November 2020: Data Science for Social Good Workshop, Georgia Tech — Virtual
- October 2020: Spotlight Talk at the Michigan AI Symposium: AI and Health — Virtual
- December 2019: Women in AI Ignite Session, NeurIPS — Vancouver, BC
- October 2024: Africa Regional Seminar at Wharton’s Lauder Institute for Management and International Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- October 2024: African Studies Center on Ethics of AI in Africa Symposium, University of Kansas
- October 2024: Michigan AI Seminar, University of Michigan
- May 2024: AI Research Group Seminar, Georgia Tech School of Public Policy
- March 2024: Global AI Governance (SEST 6735), Georgetown University
- March 2024: University of Maryland Values-Centered AI Seminar — University of Maryland
- February 2024: University of Florida Center for African Studies Seminar Series — University of Florida
- February 2024: UT Austin Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis (IUPRA) Seminar Series on Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy — UT Austin
- October 2023: Georgetown Hoyalytics Seminar, Georgetown University
- September 2023: Pomona College Computer Science Colloquium, Pomona College
- October 2022: Change Seminar, University of Washington
- July 2022: Microsoft Research Technology & Empowerment (TEM) Seminar, Microsoft Research India
- July 2022: AI for Social Good Group Seminar, Google Research India
- November 2021: Computing for the Socio-Techno Web (CS CS115), Wellesley College
- April 2021: Technology for Underserved Communities (INFO 6600), Cornell University
- September 2024: "The Promise and Perils of AI: Issues at Stake in the 2024 Election" event in collaboration with The Brookings Institution and Spelman College — Atlanta, Georgia
- September 2024: "Empowering African Voices in AI: Data, Models, and Innovation" workshop at Deep Learning Indaba — Dakar, Senegal
- July 2024: Salesforce Global AI Leadership Summit — New York, NY
- June 2024: The Economics of AI in Africa with HoaQ Club — Remote
- June 2024: "Where does Society Stand on Responsible AI?" Panel at the Global Digital Development Forum — Washington, D.C.
- May 2024: "An African Perspective on AI Governance" Roundtable, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — Washington, D.C.
- April 2024: Stanford HAI AI+Policy Symposium: A Global Stocktaking — Stanford, CA
- April 2024: CRPE Think Forward AI Learning Forum, Anchoring AI in Policy and Politics of Change Session — Albuquerque, NM
- February 2024: Digital & AI: The Power of New Technology in Africa Panel at the Harvard Africa Health Conference (Recording) — Cambridge, MA
- February 2024: BEYA STEM Conference Panel on Inclusive Tech — Baltimore, MD
- December 2023: AI-Powered Innovation: Exploring the Impact of Generative AI on African Startups, African Startup Conference
- November 2023: “AI safety beyond the UK Summit: A conversation with Secretary Michelle Donelan”
- October 2023: “Why the Global South has a stake in dialogues on AI governance”
- March 2022: URMC Graduate School & Research Panel
- October 2021: AI in Society Workshop, Cornell University
- May 2021: Stockholm Internet Forum
- March 2021: Grad Student Workshop Series, Cornell Undergraduate Research Board (CURB)
- February 2021: ColorStack Sprout Research/Academia Panel
- February 2021: "Industry vs. Grad School”, Black and Brown in CS @ Pomona College
- December 2020: Global Black Youth Fest
- December 2020: Cornell New Visions Engineering Program
- November 2020: National Society of Black Engineers Post-Undergrad Panel, Johns Hopkins
- October 2020: "Voices from the Field" Panel, GEM Grad Lab @ SUNY Albany
- September 2020: "How Can Ph.D. and Postdocs Pursue Entrepreneurship?", Women Entrepreneurs Cornell
- June 2020: CS Rising SophoMore (CSMore) Summer Program PhD Panel
- October 2019: Entrepreneurship & Technology Panel, Cornell African Development Conference
- August 2019: "Mastering Your Transition Into and Progression Through Graduate School", Cornell Summer Success Symposium
- August 2024: "The Realities of Women in Artificial Intelligence" — Voice of America "Our Voices"
- July 2024: “When A.I. Fails the Language Test, Who Is Left Out of the Conversation?” in the New York Times
- June 2024: “World leaders discuss AI as China’s digital influence in Latin America grows” in Voice of America
- June 2024: “A little-known AI startup is behind Nigeria’s first government-backed LLM” in Rest of World
- June 2024: “Once a Red Line, Connecticut Reps Press for Regulating Tech Sector” in CT Examiner
- May 2024: “AI becomes latest frontier in China-US race for Africa” in Voice of America - Africa
- April 2024: “Is this AI? See if you can spot the technology in your everyday life” in The Washington Post
- March 2024: “Africa’s push to regulate AI starts now” in MIT Technology Review
- January 2024: “The dangers of AI in global development” in Devex
- November 2023: “AI Needs Rules, but Who Will Get to Make Them?” in Scientific American
- November 2023: “Civil society groups issue a surprise open letter to the U.K.’s AI Safety Summit” in Fast Company
- September 2023: “Artificial Intelligence Experts envision a transformative future for Africa” in African Union Development Agency News
- December 2022: “AI Isn’t Artificial or Intelligent” in VICE
- August 2020: “Big Tech Curbs Police Use of Facial Recognition Systems Due to Racial Biases” in Cornell Daily Sun
- August 2020: “Is There a Right to ‘Facial Anonymity’?” in The Crime Report
- May 2024: “Women in AI: Chinasa T. Okolo researches AI’s impact on the Global South” in TechCrunch
- May 2022: “Global labor chains of the western AI” in Netzpolitik
- April 2022: “This is why the developing world is far behind – and that’s a problem for all of us” in World Economic Forum
- April 2022: “Developing countries are being left behind in the AI race – and that's a problem for all of us” in Yahoo! News
- January 2022: “Is AI fast becoming a technology built on worker exploitation from Global South?” in Analytics India Magazine
- October 2021: “Much ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Is Still People Behind a Screen” in Bloomberg and The Washington Post
- August 2021: “How a Ph.D. student thinks about artificial intelligence, VC” in Dorm Room Fund
- July 2021: “2021 DPE Awards recognize outstanding students, faculty, staff” in Cornell Engineering News
- March 2021: “Is AI Deepening the Divide Between the Global North and South?” in Newsweek
- March 2021: “Underpaid Workers Are Being Forced to Train Biased AI on Mechanical Turk” in VICE
- February 2021: “The AI industry is built on geographic and social inequality, research shows” by VentureBeat
- June 2019: Cornell Graduate School Student Spotlight
- September 2023: Equitable AI Development in the Global South with Chinasa Okolo ’18, Pomona College Sagecast
- August 2022: How to Craft Your Pitch, Startup School by Ajim Capital
- January 2022: #28: Talking AI, AI ethics, and microinvesting ft. Chinasa T. Okolo, The Black Enterprise Network
- February 2021: You Belong in AI! S2E2 - Chinasa T. Okolo, UCLA ACM AI Outreach
- October 2020: TechGal Diaries
- April 2018: #NewFaceofTech 2018: Q&A with 2017 Winner Chinasa Okolo, HARMAN
- October 2018: Kauffman Scholars Program Impact, Kauffman Foundation
- July 2014: 2014 Graduate Highlight: Chinasa T. Okolo, Kansas City Public Schools
- November 2023: Moderator for “AI safety beyond the UK Summit: A conversation with Secretary Michelle Donelan”, The Brookings Institution
- February 2021: Moderator for “Navigating Venture Capital Investments: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”, Doing Good Work in Africa (DOWA)
- November 2020: Moderator for “Black Entrepreneurship: Overcoming Adversity and Staying Focused”, eCornell
- March 2020: Speaker at the Empowerment Month Roundtable Discussion hosted by Cornell Graduate Women in Science & 500 Women Scientists