Talks

A list of speaking engagements by Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo. Links to recordings/event webpages/articles have been provided as available.

Please follow the guidance in my Speaker Rider if you are interested in booking me for an event.

2024

November 2024: Technology Transfer and Culture in Africa: Large Scale Models in Focus at the University of Johannesburg — Johannesburg, South Africa
November 2024: AI in Africa Workshop at the ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF ‘24) — Remote
October 2024: “AI, Bias, and Ethics for Tech Diplomacy” Lecture at the Foreign Service Institute — Washington, D.C.
October 2024: Georgia Tech Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society — Atlanta, GA
October 2024: Wharton Lauder Institute Africa Regional Seminar — Philadelphia, PA
October 2024: Segment on Voice of America “Straight Talk Africa” Program — Washington, D.C.
October 2024: Global Action Forum — Washington, D.C.
October 2024: University of Kansas African Studies Center Symposium on the Ethics of AI in Africa — Remote
October 2024: “AI Governance: Navigating the Ethics and Regulation of Emerging Technologies in Media & Communication” panel at Johns Hopkins — Washington, D.C.
October 2024: MacArthur Foundation “Technology, Media, and Democracy” Panel — Remote
October 2024: American Women for International Understanding (AWIU) COIR Symposium — Washington, D.C.
October 2024: Charting an AI Roadmap for the Emerging World on the Siliconsciousness podcast — Remote
October 2024: Michigan AI Seminar — Ann Arbor, MI
October 2024: Fundraising.AI Summit — Remote
September 2024: Wilson Center Science and Technology Innovation Program (STIP) Roundtable on AI in the Global South — New York, NY
September 2024: “The State of AI Governance in the African Union” panel at The Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC) — Washington, D.C.
September 2024: “The Transformative Power of AI” panel at the TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Shaping the Future of AI — San Francisco, CA
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, GA
September 2024: “Empowering African Voices in AI: Data, Models, and Innovation” workshop at Deep Learning Indaba — Dakar, Senegal
September 2024: “Examining the Datafication of African Consumers through Digital Microlending”, Data Power Conference — Remote
September 2024: BBC “Focus on Africa” podcast — Remote
August 2024: “The Realities of Women in Artificial Intelligence” segment on Voice of America “Our Voices” Program — Washington, D.C.
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: Salesforce Global AI Leadership Summit — New York, 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: 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.
June 2024: FII PRIORITY Summit Rio de Janeiro Conclave: Accelerating Responsible AI in Emerging Markets — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
May 2024: AI Research Group Seminar, Georgia Tech School of Public Policy — Remote
May 2024: “An African Perspective on AI Governance” Roundtable, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — Washington, D.C.
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: “The AI Revolution for Health in Africa” Podcast Episode for the African Institute for Development Policy — Virtual
April 2024: Stanford HAI AI+Policy Symposium: A Global Stocktaking — Stanford, CA
April 2024: I-GMAP Frontiers of Prevention Conference — Binghamton, NY
April 2024: CRPE Think Forward AI Learning Forum, “Anchoring AI in Policy and Politics of Change” Session — Albuquerque, NM
March 2024: Inclusive AI Governance Guest Lecture, Global AI Governance (SEST 6735), Georgetown University — Washington, D.C.
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: University of Maryland Values-Centered AI Seminar — College Park, MD
March 2024: CEPS Ideas Lab Plenary Session on the Future Governance of AI — Brussels, Belgium
February 2024: University of Florida Center for African Studies Seminar Series — Gainesville, FL
February 2024: Digital & AI: The Power of New Technology in Africa Panel at the Harvard Africa Health Conference (Recording) — Cambridge, MA
February 2024: UT Austin Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis (IUPRA) Seminar Series on Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy — Austin, TX
February 2024: BEYA STEM Conference Panel on Inclusive Tech — Baltimore, MD
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

2023

December 2023: DZGENAI’23, Algeria AI — Beni Abbes, 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
October 2023: Georgetown Hoyalytics Seminar, Georgetown University — Washington, D.C.
September 2023: Pomona College Computer Science Colloquium — Claremont, CA
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

2022

October 2022: Change Seminar, University of Washington — Virtual
August 2022: AI4PAN Artificial Intelligence for Pandemics Seminar Series, University of Queensland — Virtual
July 2022: Microsoft Research Technology & Empowerment (TEM) Seminar, Microsoft Research India — Bangalore, India
July 2022: AI for Social Good Group Seminar, Google Research India — Bangalore, India
June 2022: Big Data & AI in the Global South CRAFT Session, ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) — Seoul, Korea
April 2022: Technology for Underserved Communities (INFO 6600), Cornell University — Ithaca, NY

2021

November 2021: Computing for the Socio-Techno Web (CS CS115), Wellesley College — Virtual
June 2021: Science Research Mentoring Program (SRMP), American Museum of Natural History — Virtual
May 2021: 2nd ELLIS Workshop on Human-Centric Machine Learning — Virtual
May 2021: Keynote Talk, Practical Machine Learning for Developing Countries Workshop @ ICLR — Virtual
April 2021: Technology for Underserved Communities (INFO 6600), Cornell University — Virtual
April 2021: Try AI Speaker Series — Virtual
March 2021: Blackathon - A Virtual Hackathon for the Diaspora — Virtual

2020

December 2020: Navigating the Broader Impacts of AI Research Workshop, NeurIPS — Virtual
December 2020: Black in AI Workshop, NeurIPS — Virtual
November 2020: Data Science for Social Good Workshop, Georgia Tech — Virtual
October 2020: Michigan AI Symposium: AI and Health — Virtual
July 2020: Harvard CRCS Workshop on AI for Social Good — Virtual
July 2020: WiML Un-Workshop, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) — Virtual
June 2020: OHUB365 Webinar — Virtual
July 2020: Women in Computer Vision Workshop, IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) — Virtual
March 2020: SWE Local Buffalo — Virtual
March 2020: GWiS Empowerment Month Roundtable Discussion, Cornell University — Ithaca, NY

2019

December 2019: Women in AI Ignite Session, NeurIPS — Vancouver, BC
December 2019: Black in AI Workshop, NeurIPS — Vancouver, BC
December 2019: Issues in African Development Seminar Series, Cornell University — Ithaca, NY
April 2019: Computing Research Association Graduate Cohort Workshop for Women, — Chicago, IL
March 2019: Computing Research Association Graduate Cohort Workshop for URMD, — Waikoloa, HI

2018

October 2018: Microsoft Research PhD Summit, Microsoft — Redmond, WA
April 2018: Celebration of Women in Computing in Southern California, UC Irvine — Irvine, CA