Wednesday
Room 1 - Level 3
11:40 - 12:40
(UTC±00)
Talk (60 min)
We are the Guardians of our Future
We wake up one day in the middle of a real episode of Person of Interest, Black Mirror or George Orwell's 1984.
How did this happen? Who created these AI systems? Surely they should have understood...
As software engineers and data scientists we’re creating software where mistakes have a very high price.
If we’re not careful, it can cost people their jobs, their money, their privacy, or even their lives.
It's time to look at the impact we have, how our software will be used, and how we can avoid creating unfair, biased and dangerous software.
Tess Ferrandez-Norlander
Tess is a developer/data scientist working at Microsoft. Over the past 20 years she has changed the way we do .net debugging, developed a large number of mobile apps. As of a couple of years ago she moved into the world of data science and machine learning working with a lot of the largest companies in Europe and beyond on really tough ML problems.
She has has spoken at lots and lots of conferences around the world on a wide variety of topics including deep .net debugging, UX, web development and Machine Learning. You can also find her on twitter at @TessFerrandez