AI Community Meetings

Guest Speaker: Liam Wilkinson, Head of AI Incubation, Incubator for AI in the Government Digital Service in DSIT
Topic: How the UK is Building AI for the Public Good

Guest Speaker: Hemant Bhargava, Distinguished Professor of Management, UC Davis, + Suran Chair in Technology Management, Director, Center for Analytics & Technology in Society

Topic: Making AI Work for You

Guest Speaker: Dr. Radha Iyengar Plumb, Former Chief Digital and AI Officer at the United States Department of Defense

Topic: From the Pentagon Playbook – Scaling AI in Practice

Guest Speakers:

• Vera Zakem, State Chief Technology Innovation Officer
• Deirdre Mulligan, Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley and former Principal Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Topic: Fireside Chat on AI

Guest Speaker: Ed Clark, Chief Information Officer, California State University
Topic: The AI-Empowered CSU

Guest Speaker: Anirban Sen, Senior Product Manager, California Department of Technology and Yiannis Theodorou, Senior Advisor & Global Lead – Digital Identity, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Guest Speaker: Fernando Pérez, Associate Professor of Statistics at UC Berkeley, a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the current Faculty Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science at UC Berkeley (BIDS)

Guest Speaker: Dr. Safiya Noble, David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences at UCLA; Professor of Gender Studies, Information Studies, African American Studies; Director of the Center on Race & Digital Justice; Interim Director of the UCLA DataX Initiative
Topics: Algorithmic Discrimination and Technology Bias in the World of AI

Guest Speaker: Bob Kasenchak, Information Architect at Factor
Topics: Uses, Abuses, and Risks: an Information Science Perspective on GenAI

Guest Speaker: Dr. Lauren Sanders – Project Scientist for the NASA Open Science Data Repository and the Lead of the Artificial Intelligence for Life in Space working group
Topics: NASA real-world use cases that cover the full spectrum of AI

Guest Speaker: Brandie Nonnecke, PhD – Director, CITRIS Policy Lab; Associate Research Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley; Host of TecHype
Topics: Primer on AI and what it is, e.g. traditional AI vs. generative AI; A look at what goes into developing AI strategies using CA, WA, and the UC system as case studies

Guest Speaker: Lake Dai – Founder of Sancus Ventures, Adjunct Professor of Applied AI at Carnegie Mellon University
Topics: AI Use Cases, Risks, Governance, and Collaborative Development

Guest Speakers:

• Jonathan Porat – State Chief Technology Officer, Department of Technology
• James Regan – Deputy Secretary Workforce Development, Government Operations Agency
• Jeffery Marino – Director, Office of Data and Innovation
• Anne Crew-Renzo – CalAcademy Training Program Manager, Office of Data and Innovation

Topics: AI Community Overview, Training Resources, GenAI Executive Order Walkthrough

Guest Speaker: Aaron Shum – Vice President, Research – Security & Privacy, Info-Tech
Topic: Privacy-proof your AI Technology

• • Recorded Session
  • Privacy-Proof your AI Technology (PDF)

Guest Speaker: Micah Musser, Research Analyst, Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Topic: Vulnerabilities and Applications

• Recorded Session
• AI and Security – Vulnerabilities and Applications (PDF)

Guest Speaker: Joy Bonaguro – Statewide Chief Data Officer, Government Operations Agency

Topic: Introducing Data Science in Legacy Organizations

• Recorded Session
• Introducing Data Science in Legacy Organizations Slide Deck (PDF)

Guest Speaker: Frank Buytendijk – Gartner Research Fellow, co-lead Gartner Maverick Program and Gartner Global Scenarios Program

Topic: Digital Ethics and AI Design Principles

• This meeting was not recorded
• Digital Ethics and AI Design Principles Slide Deck (PDF)

Guest Speaker: Ashley Casovan
Topic: Adopting Responsible AI Practices in Government

• Recorded Session
• Adopting Responsible AI Practices in Government Slide Deck

Guest Speaker: Noel Corriveau – Senior Counsel at INQ Data Law
Topic: Regulating AI

• Recorded Session
• Regulating AI Slide Deck

Guest Speaker: Natalia Modjeska – Director, Research and Advisory at InfoTech Research Group
Topic: Machine Bias

• Recorded Session 
• Identify and Mitigate AI Bias Slide Deck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikfkA_hgonw

Guest Speaker: Natalia Modjeska – Director, Research and Advisory at InfoTech Research Group
Topic: What is Artificial Intelligence

• Recorded Session 
• Artificial Intelligence Slide Deck (PDF) – Updated on 12/22/2020
• Blueprint – “Get Started with AI”
• Blueprint – “Beyond Survival”
• Book – “Rebooting AI”
• Book – “Artificial Unintelligence”