Celebrating Black History Month in AI

The AI Centre, UCL

Please come and join us as we celebrate black voices in AI.

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In the meantime, if you have any questions please feel free to contact sharon.betts.12@ucl.ac.uk

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We are delighted to be hosting an afternoon of talks focussed around the black community in AI. Please join us and our panelists who will discuss everything from networking and mentoring to current research and how to cope with bias in machine learning.Our keynote speaker will be Chris Jackson, who will be providing a talk on his journey to being the first black scientist to give a Christmas lecture. We are delighted to announce that the following individuals will be speaking at our event:Prof. Christopher Jackson - Imperial CollegeChantelle Lewis - Leading RoutesDanielle Belgrave - DeepmindAdrian Joseph OBE - BTDayne Beccano-Kelly - UK Dementia Research InstituteMavis Machiviori - Ada Lovelace InstituteShamima Nabuula Kaliisa - Chil AI LabShakir Mohammed - DeepmindJerone Andrews - Sony AISchedule13:00 - Welcome and Introduction - Prof Lourdes de Agapito Vicente13:15 - Panel 1 - Mentoring and Networking - How to find a mentor/be a mentor and network so that the communty can benefit and grow.Chair - Temitayo Olugbade - UCL14:15 - Break14:25 - Keynote Speaker - Christopher Jackson - My journey so far - Making history as the first black scientist to give a Christmas Lecture14:50 - Break15:00 - Panel 2 - How to use AI to benefit the black community - discussing how AI helps the black community and what obstacles need to be overcome to make greater progressChair - Anjali Mazumder (Alan Turing Institute)16:00 - Breakout rooms - Each room will have a theme/challenge to consider:Climate ChangeAgricultureAI and SocietyEducation. Each room will have 10-15 minutes to come up with an AI solution around their theme and then come back to present to the rest of the audience their ideas. 17:00 - Closing remarks17:05 - Gathertown networking opportunity - please stop by and say hello to one another virtually. This event will be held over Zoom -details of which will be sent closer to the day.

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