Online Panel: Harnessing AI For Good

How can we harness AI for good? Join us for a conversation on creating AI that is inclusive, personalised, and fit-for-purpose.

Artificial intelligence (AI) already powers many systems and tools in our daily lives. But existing biases and lack of inclusion are being embedded into these tools.

What needs to happen as we design and develop these tools to ensure they are beneficial, accessible, and useful for as many people as possible?

Dona Sakar (Microsoft), Ed Santow (UTS Human Technology Institute), and Wayne Hawkins (ACCAN) join Manisha Amin (Centre for Inclusive Design) to discuss how to make AI inclusive by design, and why accessible tech is an opportunity for innovation.

This event is part of the City of Sydney’s Visiting Entrepreneurs Program, and is run in partnership with the UTS Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion.

About Dona Sarkar – City of Sydney Visiting Entrepreneur (USA)

By day, Dona leads the Accessibility tech program at Microsoft, her latest focus is using OpenAI inclusively in their work to make sure the thousands of products they ship are usable by people with disabilities, neurodiversity and mental health concerns. By night, Dona runs her own fashion business, Prima Dona Studios. She also coaches professionals on how to build non-boring corporate careers, writes both fiction and non-fiction and – as of this year — is also a restaurateur.

About the Visiting Entrepreneur Program

This online event is brought to you by the Centre for Inclusive Design in partnership with the University of Technology Sydney’s Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion.

This event is part of the Visiting Entrepreneur Program, an annual City of Sydney initiative that connects international entrepreneurs with our local startup ecosystem. The 21 – 28 June 2023 program will explore the current wave of ideas, trends, and technologies disrupting society and economies. Discover what will outlive the hype, how to discern the opportunities from the noise, and the considerations for equitable impact. See the full program at city.sydney/vep #VEPSyd

The Visiting Entrepreneur Program is produced by the City of Sydney with partner organisations from the local startup ecosystem. The 2023 edition is kindly supported by Tech Central and the Greater Cities Commission.