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: Miriam Vogel
Current city: Chevy Chase, MD
Current job: Executive Director, EqualAI and Chair of the National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC)
Past job: Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice
Name: Catherine Aiken
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Director of Data Science and Research, Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)
Past job: Survey Specialist, Center for Security and Emerging Technology; Lecturer, University of Maryland
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: 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: Michael Sellitto
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Head of Geopolitics and Security at Anthropic
Past job: Founding Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence ; Director for Cybersecurity Policy, National Security Council
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