Keynote: Rumman Chowdhury
Dr. Rumman Chowdhury
We’re thrilled to announce our second keynote panel for A BETTER TECH! Rumman Chowdhury, PhD. Her talk will take place on October 14. Stay tuned for more information and a full schedule, coming soon!
Dr. Rumman Chowdhury’s passion lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and humanity. She is a pioneer in the field of applied algorithmic ethics, creating cutting-edge socio-technical solutions for ethical, explainable and transparent AI.
She is currently the Director of META (ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability) team at Twitter, leading a team of applied researchers and engineers to identify and mitigate algorithmic harms on the platform. Previously, she was CEO and founder of Parity, an enterprise algorithmic audit platform company. She formerly served as Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence. In her work as Accenture’s Responsible AI lead, she led the design of the Fairness Tool, a first-in-industry algorithmic tool to identify and mitigate bias in AI systems. Dr. Chowdhury co-authored a Harvard Business Review piece on it’s influences and impact.
Dr. Chowdhury is dedicated to cultivating and growing the next wave of technology-forward companies enabling the responsible use of emerging technologies. She is a General Partner (and founder) of the Parity Responsible Innovation venture capital fund. She also serves as a mentor for the Creative Destruction Lab and as a board member of Startups and Society.
Dr. Chowdhury in The Wall Street Journal: AI Ethics Teams Bulk Up in Size, Influence at Tech Firms
Dr. Chowdhury in The Verge :Twitter’s photo-cropping algorithm prefers young, beautiful, and light-skinned faces