Schedule for October 17th Forum:
AI for Culturally Relevant Interactions
#AIandCulture

Welcome
Martha Russell
Executive Director, mediaX at Stanford University

Our Cultures, Our Selves: Their Relevance for Humans and Artificial Agents
Hazel Markus
Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

Panel: Insights from Embodied and Non-embodied AI
Elizabeth Wilsey Moderator
Community Network Specialist, mediaX at Stanford University
Annabell Ho
PhD Candidate, Department of Communication, Stanford University
Mariana Lin
Consultant, Character Designer for Sophia, Hanson Robotics
Cory Kidd
Founder & CEO, Catalia Health
John Ostrem
Co-founder & CEO, AvatarMind

Break

Lightening Talks: Expressions of Culture and Identity – Language, Images, Perception
Ethan Watters
Author, Crazy Like Us
Davar Ardalan
Founder & Storyteller in Chief, IVOW
Antero Garcia
Assistant Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education
Albert Boyang Li
Senior Research Scientist, Baidu Research

The Politics of Algorithms
Angèle Christin
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Stanford University

Lunch

Culture on Demand
Jordanne Pavao
Product Manager, Flybits

Fireside Chat: Translating Code in Culture for Brand Meaning
Jason Wilmot Moderator
Director of Communications & Events, mediaX at Stanford University
Elodie Mailliet Storm
Senior Director, Strategic Development, Getty Images
Andrea Gagliano
Data Scientist, Visual Intelligence, Getty Images

Break

Culture and Context
Workshop Activities

Break

Dealing with Errors, Fairness, Explainability and Testing of Machine Learnt Models
Rama Akkiraju
Director, Distinguished Engineer, Master Inventor, IBM’s Watson Division

Closing Remarks
Martha Russell
Executive Director, mediaX at Stanford University

#AIandCulture