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
- 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: “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 Lecture, 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