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It's today! 🌟 Don't miss out on this exciting webinar: "Intersectional Fairness in AI"! 🌟 Join us at 15:00 CET for a deep dive into the critical topic of fairness and inclusivity in AI systems. Hosted by the DIVERSIFAIR Project and BIAS Project, this session will cover legal frameworks, practical tools, and learning opportunities to help organisations promote equality in AI. 🗓️ Date: Today, Tuesday 10 December 2024 🕒 Time: 15:00–16:45 CET 🌐 Online event Whether you're a researcher, policymaker, HR professional, educator, or advocate, this event is perfect for anyone passionate about fostering inclusivity in AI. 💡 👉 You can still register: https://lnkd.in/e7SE-HPA We look forward to seeing you there! Women in AI is a proud partner in the DIVERSIFAIR Project, funded by the Erasmus+ programme. #AI #Fairness #Inclusion #Intersectionality #Webinar #DIVERSIFAIR #WomenInAI #BIASProject

🤖 New WAI Legal Insights Blog post: “AI Continues to Impact and Challenge the Legal Framework Worldwide.” Our latest WAI Legal Insights post - written by Silvia A. Carretta and Dina Blikshteyn - reflects on the biggest AI legal developments of 2024 and looks ahead to what 2025 might bring. As artificial intelligence continues to reshape our society, it brings along complex legal challenges - from data privacy and transparency, liability of and for AI systems, risk to intellectual property rights and rise of political misinformation deepfakes. 📖 Read more about these challenges here: https://lnkd.in/erTnc5aV 🌟 Happy Holidays from WAI Global Legal Team! 🎄❄️☃️✨ With this post, we round up an exciting year of insights into AI law and wish our Women in AI community a brilliant start to the new year! Stay tuned: we already have great content lined up for 2025, including news, legislative discussions, and updates on AI regulations. The WAI Legal Insights blog is led by WAI Chief Legal Officer Silvia A. Carretta and Dina Blikshteyn. Stay tuned for more updates, and reach out if you’d like to contribute your expertise! #WAILegalInsights #AI #AIRegulation Dr. Alessandra Sala | Vinutha Magal Shreenath, PhD  | Bhuva Shakti | Lisel Engelbrecht | Silvia A. Carretta | Aalya Dhawan | Nebahat Arslan | Bhagi Agrawal

✨𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 & 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚✨  🚀 After the phenomenal success of the 2023 edition, the Women in AI 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 is back for its 𝟑𝐫𝐝 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓! 🌟 Join us as we continue to celebrate, empower, and elevate the incredible women driving innovation and change in Artificial Intelligence across Canada, the USA, and Mexico.  This prestigious awards platform recognises 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 who are transforming the AI landscape and daring to shape the future. Whether you're pioneering groundbreaking research, leading impactful startups, or championing diversity in tech, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞!   🎉 𝟏𝟐 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐈:   🏆𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑧𝑒𝑟 𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 - 𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝐼 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 🏆𝐸𝑥𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 - 𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝐸𝑥𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 🏆𝑅𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝐼 𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 - 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑅𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 🏆𝐴𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 - 𝐴𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐴𝐼 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 🏆𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝐼 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 - 𝐷𝐸𝐼 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 🏆𝐴𝐼 𝑖𝑛 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑝 𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 - 𝐴𝐼 𝐸𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 🏆𝐴𝐼 𝑖𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 - 𝐴𝐼 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 🏆𝐴𝐼 𝑖𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 - 𝐴𝐼 𝐼𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 🏆𝐴𝐼 𝑖𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 - 𝐴𝐼 𝐼𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 🏆𝐴𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 - 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐴𝐼 𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 🏆𝐴𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 - 𝐴𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 🏆𝑊𝐴𝐼 𝑉𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑟 𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 - 𝑊𝐴𝐼 𝑉𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 🌐 Ready to spotlight your achievements or nominate an inspiring leader?   ✨ 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐋𝐘 𝐍𝐎𝐖 and let’s celebrate those shaping the future of AI!  👉 Submit Your Nomination Today: https://lnkd.in/d-xVxZaD #WomenInAI #ArtificialIntelligence #WomenInTech #AIInnovation #DiversityInTech Women in AI Canada | Women in AI Mexico | Women in AI USA | Frincy Clement | Susanna R. | Suparna P. | Dr. Alessandra Sala | Alex Ramirez |  Eloísa del Carmen García Canseco | Janet Lin | Jean Turnbull CFE, CAMS, CTPRP, CFCI |  Julie Hansen, GCB.D CCB.D | Nasheen Liu | Orchid Jahanshahi, MBA | Paul Lewis | Sharifah Amirah | Camille Eddy | Sunny Shuoyang Zhang, PhD | Baljit S.

✨ WAI in the World - Top News of the Last Week ✨ Congratulations to our #Ambassadors and #Community! Explore the key highlights and upcoming events from Women in AI: 🎉 Exciting News 🎉 🔹Women in AI Benelux: The Top 3 Nominees for AI Diversity Leader Award 2025 https://lnkd.in/e88qwUed 🔹Women in AI Benelux: Wrapping Up the Accelerate Programme https://lnkd.in/eQZYm73S 🔹Women in AI Canada, Women in AI Mexico and Women in AI USA: Nominate Yourself for the WAI Summit & Awards North America 2025 https://lnkd.in/eqmKztUx 🔹Women in AI Canada: Volunteer opportunity: Contracts Specialist https://lnkd.in/eFpsH9pW 🔹Welcoming Adebola Olomo Appointed as Ambassador for Women in AI Ireland https://lnkd.in/efxwaRhD 🔹Thank You to Judges, Sponsors, Speakers & Mentors at Women in AI Canada Hackathon 2024 https://lnkd.in/e7iMARNk https://lnkd.in/eFJ6dK8X https://lnkd.in/eRaN2Ynn https://lnkd.in/ea5jyEiP https://lnkd.in/eVirwkZN 📚 Worth Reading 📚 🔹Women in AI Scientist Spotlight https://lnkd.in/e8aD5yqF 🔹Women in AI Spain: Using AI as a means, not an end https://lnkd.in/eSgfCz3T 🔹Women in AI Austria: Wrapping up their final Stammtisch of the year https://lnkd.in/eWTZ_785 🔹Women in AI Ireland: Learn a new language with AI at your own pace https://lnkd.in/e-wyaeFa, Explore Low-Code Python for Explainable AI (XAI) https://lnkd.in/eVzCnXUA 🔹Women in AI Italy virtual lunch and programme launch https://lnkd.in/ehHjk_kf 🔹Women in AI Sweden: Christmas Meetup – Unwrap the Future of AI https://lnkd.in/exvTsPNk 🔹Women in AI Canada: Reflecting on Canada’s AI Landscape at Halifax Convention Center https://lnkd.in/e-wpNKuv and Inspiring Evening in Toronto https://lnkd.in/ehYCEgHi 🔹Women in AI Austria: Highlights from Our First Network Meeting in Carinthia https://lnkd.in/eg-imyZk 📅Upcoming events📅 🔹Women in AI: Addressing Bias & Discrimination in AI – 6 Dec (Online) https://lnkd.in/eVBWfbZY 🔹Women in AI Poland: HumanTechSummit2024 at Uniwersytet SWPS – 7-8 Dec https://lnkd.in/ew8JTSmU 🔹DIVERSIFAIR Project Webinar on intersectional fairness in AI - 10 Dec. https://lnkd.in/edkWxf5q  🔹Women in AI Asia Pacific (APAC): Breaking Barriers in Career Path – Cloud/DevOps – 10 Dec. https://lnkd.in/eP-3SukN 🔹Women in AI Germany, Austria & Switzerland: Speaker Series – 11 Dec. https://lnkd.in/eFNxsj49 🔹Women in AI: Building Your Career Roadmap in AI – 12 Dec (online) https://lnkd.in/ehifchpj 🔹Women in AI Canada: Vancouver End-of-Year Meetup – 18 Dec https://lnkd.in/eh9fNK2M 🔹Women in AI Canada: Summer School on Responsible AI – Deadline 6 Jan https://lnkd.in/ehx3qQhq Stay tuned for more insights and updates next week! 🙌 In the meantime, join the Women in AI community and keep the momentum going: https://lnkd.in/dvr-Q5S2

Join Women in AI: Career Pathways in Artificial Intelligence: Building your Roadmap, hosted by the Global Ethics & Culture Office on Dec 12th at 1:00 PM EST. Hear from our AI-mazing global panelists and ethical experts as we explore the rapidly evolving fields of emerging technologies, like AI/ML, and how to build a new career pathway, or reskill your current career pathway, to find success in these disciplines. ➡ Karen Jensen, Senior AI Ethics Architect, Women in AI ➡ Branislava Lovre, AI Ethics Consultant & Co-Founder, AImpactful ➡ Giulia Solinas, Ph.D., Data Science & AI Consultant, CROZ ➡ Sahaj Vaidya, AI Ethics & Policy Expert, SuperAlign Our distinguished panelists will share their personal journeys, discussing how they entered the field, the skills they developed, and the challenges they overcame. We’ll also be talking about career planning tools and strategies. Key Discussion Points: 🔸Career Entry/Transitioning Strategies: There are multiple entry points for careers in emerging technologies. We’ll be talking about strategies for new applicants and for applicants looking to transition their careers to these technologies. 🔸Skill Development: Summaries of technical and soft skills for emerging technology disciplines. 🔸Industry-Specific Qualifiers: How do AI careers differ across industries, and what unique challenges or opportunities exist in these industries? 🔸Career Planning Tools: Even if you are not in the U.S., we will discuss some tools that can be helpful in career planning around the World. By the end of this session, attendees will have a clearer understanding of the various AI career paths available, the skills required to succeed, and the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. 📌 Register at the LinkedIn event below, and join the Zoom meeting link that will be sent to your emails separately. Many thanks to our organizing team 🙌 Bhuva Shakti, Damita Snow, CAE, ENV SP, Karen Jensen, Charlotte Tao, Zuhra Matkurbanova. #ethicalai #culturalai #artificialintelligence #ai #ethics #culture #technology

🌟 Weekly Scientist Spotlight Series! 🌟 Creating digital systems for children is wonderful and challenging. One needs to account for their openness, their vulnerability, how the digital and online world can be made safe for them - especially as most times they cannot advocate for themselves. Building AI technology for children involves teaching them about what they should expect from technology, make it safe for them, and most importantly make sure it works for their benefit. Today we spotlight researchers conducting this kind of research. 📊 Meet this week’s featured researchers, all of them from the University of Oulu: 🔹 Heidi Hartikainen works on empowering children through technology. Learn more about her work here: https://lnkd.in/eghHbSgN 🔹 Marianne Kinnula works on digital technology design for children. Learn more about her work here: https://lnkd.in/eX6rh2vP 🔹 Sumita Sharma works on critical AI Literacy for children through hands-on workshops in Finland, India, USA, and Japan. Learn more about her work here: https://lnkd.in/enUVzS7k Find out more about their research in the carousel! 📝 To participate in this series fill this form: https://lnkd.in/etdJ-Z6G For opportunities to work on such initiatives, contact Women in AI’s Chief Research Officer: Vinutha Magal Shreenath, PhD #WomeninAI #ai #ScientistSpotlight #DiversityInTech #WomenInSTEM #DiversityMatters #WomenInScience Dr. Alessandra Sala | Angela Kim |Bhuva Shakti| Lisel Engelbrecht | Silvia A. Carretta | Aalya Dhawan | Nebahat Arslan | Bhagi Agrawal | Women in AI Finland

We are excited to invite you to the AI Fairness Event: Adressing Bias, Stereotypes, and Discrimination in AI systems, an insightful event co-organised by the AEQUITAS Project and the Fair Project, that brings together leading experts in AI, ethics, and policy to tackle the critical challenges of fairness in AI technologies.  This multidisciplinary event will explore key issues such as bias, stereotypes, and discrimination in AI systems, offering valuable perspectives from computational fairness, linguistics, and social and legal frameworks. 📅 6 December 2024 📍 ONLINE - Link to join: https://lnkd.in/eF76BNkd  🔗 More information: https://lnkd.in/eWFsVa36 Don't miss this opportunity and mark your calendars! #Bias #Stereotypes #DiscriminationinAI #ethics #policy

📢 Announcement: Welcoming Adebola Olomo as Women in AI’s new Ambassador for Ireland! 🇮🇪 Adebola Olomo brings over 15 years of expertise as a thought leader in marketing technology, where she has been instrumental in driving business growth and communication strategies. As the CEO of Deefrent Media Agency, she spearheads innovative initiatives across Europe and Africa, fostering technology adoption—particularly in AI and CRM—through training and strategic implementation for medium-sized and large corporations. Her passion for advancing the AI landscape, coupled with her dedication to empowering women in technology, makes her the perfect fit to lead the Women in AI Ireland community. We are confident her leadership will inspire, connect, and elevate women in AI across Ireland and beyond. 🌟 Please join us in welcoming Adebola Olomo to this exciting role! 🌟 #WomeninAI #AILeadership #DiversityInTech #AIInnovation #WomenInTech #MarketingTech💡🤖💪 Dr. Alessandra Sala | Vinutha Magal Shreenath, PhD | Bhuva Shakti | Lisel Engelbrecht | Silvia A. Carretta | Aalya Dhawan | Nebahat Arslan | Bhagi Agrawal | Claudia Ramly | Angela Kim | Frincy Clement | Women in AI Ireland

✨ WAI in the World - Top News of the Last Week ✨ Congratulations to our #Ambassadors and #Community! Explore the key highlights and upcoming events from Women in AI: 🎉 Exciting News 🎉 🔹Women in AI Sweden Ambassador Jonna Hillblom Tegnér on a panel https://lnkd.in/eHmJDnks 🔹Women in AI Benelux: Top 3 nominees for AI Awards 2025 https://lnkd.in/eyR5caEz 🔹Women in AI President Dr. Alessandra Sala Sala featured by UNESCO https://lnkd.in/eNFuMuPj 🔹Women in AI Spain: New Graphic Designer, Micaela Lipowicz, joins team https://lnkd.in/e8UBziFC 🔹Women in AI USA, Women in AI Mexico: Call for nominations for the North America Awards https://lnkd.in/eF2Fdwx8 🔹Women in AI Benelux: Applause for AI Diversity Leader nominees https://lnkd.in/eNTQ4E33 🔹Women in AI France: Huge success of "Women in AI" panel https://lnkd.in/esBGmg-Q 🔹Women in AI Spain: AI Workshop: Neural networks with PyTorch https://lnkd.in/e3xExJqb 🔹Women in AI: Call for submissions for the Diversity & Inclusion workshop at Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) https://lnkd.in/e7pdivvz 📚 Worth Reading 📚 🔹Women in AI Spain: AI literacy critical for companies https://lnkd.in/ejnmQPVp 🔹Women in AI Poland: Demystifying deep learning's buzz and role https://lnkd.in/ecGANSwb 🔹Women in AI Ireland: AI in storytelling enhances digital creativity https://lnkd.in/emGcvPWw 🔹Women in AI Italy: AI's role in tackling gender-based violence https://lnkd.in/ebVe4u75 🔹Women in AI: Weekly Scientist Spotlight: https://lnkd.in/e6m8tGbn 🔹Women in AI: Legal Insight on “Trade unions and AI regulation" by Giulia T.: https://lnkd.in/eDKDmKdW 📅Upcoming events📅 🔹Women in AI Austria: Kärnten network meetup, (1 Dec.) https://lnkd.in/eV4PqeDb 🔹Women in AI Ireland: Free XAI Low-Code Python tutorial, (4 Dec.) https://lnkd.in/erHyXRFV 🔹Women in AI Sweden: Christmas Meetup with Annie Lindmark (5. Dec) https://lnkd.in/eqXhnfw8 🔹Women in AI Poland: HumanTech Summit 2024 (7-8 Dec.) https://lnkd.in/eHrvU7Wg 🔹Women in AI Austria: IT-Tag event (9 Dec) https://lnkd.in/e2iBsQzk 🔹DIVERSIFAIR Project Webinar on fairness in AI (10 Dec.) https://lnkd.in/eSpMJ6AZ 🔹Women in AI Benelux: Early Bird tickets for Awards 2025 https://lnkd.in/efnZpCpQ 🔹Women in AI Benelux: Den Haag Circle (12 Dec.) https://lnkd.in/eCcM56u3 🔹Women in AI Benelux: Amsterdam Circle on AI in business, (12 Dec.) https://lnkd.in/eRUEYHGg Stay tuned for more insights and updates next week! 🙌 In the meantime, join the Women in AI community and keep the momentum going: https://lnkd.in/dvr-Q5S2

🌟 Weekly Scientist Spotlight Series! 🌟 Reasoning is a fundamental capacity in humans, to come to conclusions about the world around us , using more than sensory input - and is considered an essential part of intelligence. AI systems seeking to navigate a world that is undefined and unpredictable need to be able to reason. Today we spotlight researchers who are working on parts of this endeavor. 📊 Meet this week’s featured researchers: 🔹 Aissatou Diallo from UCL, works to bridge the gap between human commonsense reasoning and AI. Learn more about her work here: https://lnkd.in/eEzqVx8b  🔹 Jingying Gao from UNSW is the lead creator of the LoRA dataset, a Logic Reasoning Augmented Visual Question Answering(VQA) dataset. Learn more about her work here: https://lnkd.in/e-83URqi Find out more about their research in the carousel! 📝 To participate in this series fill this form: https://lnkd.in/etdJ-Z6G For opportunities to work on such initiatives, contact Women in AI’s Chief Research Officer: Vinutha Magal Shreenath, PhD #WomeninAI #ai #ScientistSpotlight #DiversityInTech #WomenInSTEM #DiversityMatters #WomenInScience Dr. Alessandra Sala | Vinutha Magal Shreenath, PhD  | Angela Kim | Bhuva Shakti | Lisel Engelbrecht | Silvia A. Carretta | Aalya Dhawan | Nebahat Arslan | Bhagi Agrawal | Women in AI UK | Women in AI Australia