Book launch Inclusive AI

On Tuesday, October 8th, the Inclusive AI Group will host a book launch. This book launch will also serve as the official launch of the Inclusive AI group. Join us in welcoming this innovative global public and private sector consortium.

Prof. Payal Arora’s new book ‘From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech’ published with MIT Press and Harper Collins is now out in print. It proposes a radical paradigm shift in the way we think about AI tech, taking hope and inspiration from the aspirational users of new technologies around the world. It has received endorsements from both academia and industry, including from Prof. Gina Neff at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge, Don Norman, the author of ‘Design of Everyday things,’ Charles Hayes, Executive Managing Director, Asia & Partner at IDEO, Leyla Acaroglu, Founder of Disrupt Design, and Arundhati Bhattacharya , Chairperson & CEO, Salesforce India. The book has received positive coverage from several international media outlets including with the Financial Times, BBC Tech Decoded, and Breitband.

Program

13:30-14:00 Walk-in with coffee, tea, water and cookies
14:00-14:05 Introduction by Prof. Annette Markham
14:05-14:30 Book presentation by Prof. Payal Arora
14:30-15:30 In conversation with Panel members (Bruce Mutsvairo, Erik Stam, and Laura Herman), moderated by Prof. Annette Markham and Q&A 
15:30-15:45 break
15:45-16:30 Inclusive AI team panel (PhD/Postdocs in team): Marianna Capasso (cross-cultural AI Ethics), Weijie Huang (AI, Gender and Gaming in China) and Wakanyi Hoffman (Ubuntu based AI apps), moderated by Prof. Payal Arora
16:30-17:30 drinks