Name: Victoria Espinel
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: CEO, BSA | The Software Alliance and President, Software.org: the BSA Foundation; Member of the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC)
Past job: President Obama’s advisor on intellectual property; The first chief US trade negotiator for intellectual property and innovation at USTR
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Name: Jennifer Shieh
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Director of Ecosystem Development, Office of Investment & Innovation, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
Past job: Chief Scientist for America's Seed Fund, Assistant Director for Entrepreneurship at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), food scooper at Dragon Bowl
Name: Shubhansha Agrawal
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Head of Product, Contributions & Community at Yelp & Advisory Board Member for DevNetwork & Harvard Business Review
Past job: Product Lead, Core Experience at MyFitnessPal; Product Manager, Software EngineerProduct Manager, Software Engineer at Salesforce
Name: Alayna Kennedy
Current city: Washington, D.C.
Current job: Masters Student at The University of Edinburgh (Masters in in Science & Technology in Society)
Past job: AI Ethics Consultant at IBM; Machine Learning Researcher at Intelligent Information Systems Research Group
Name: Lisa Dyer
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Director of Policy, Partnership on AI
Past job: Director, Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement, U.S. Department of State
Name: Kay Firth-Butterfield
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Chief Head of AI at World Economic Forum
Past job: Chief AI Ethics Officer at World Economic Forum
Name: Congressman Jerry McNerney
Current city: Stockton, VA
Current job: United States Congressman & Co-Chair of the House AI Caucus
Past job: Wind Energy Engineer
Name: Merve Hickok
Current city: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Current job: AI Ethicist, www.aiEthicist.org and Management Analyst, High Sierra Industries
Past job: VP of HR for College Diversity Recruitment & HR Technologies at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Director of Sales for JW Marriott Ankara
Name: Fiona McEvoy
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Tech Ethics Researcher, Writer & Consultant, YouTheData.com
Past job: Head of Campaigns for the BBA, when I lived in the UK.
Name: Joshua New
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Senior Policy Analyst, ITIF's Center for Data Innovation
Name: Niki Christoff
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: CEO of Christoff & Co
Past job: SVP, Strategy & Government Relations, Salesforce; Senior Director, Public Policy at Uber and lawyer/pollster/McCainiac/Googler
Name: Martin Rauchbauer
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Tech Diplomacy Fellow with the DiploFoundation; Former Co-Director of Open Austria
Past job: Director Deutsches Haus at NYU