The Future is Now: AI in Public Policy and Public Good

The Future is Now: AI in Public Policy and Public Good, DCP’s 8th annual Cross-Cultural Communication Symposium will bring together experts in academia, research, application, and responsible AI, as well as those who believe in unfettered innovation and those who believe that we need to develop strong regulatory systems and scaffolding.

Are you mystified, terrified, or just curious?

The evolution of the technology is moving at warp speed, and we need to begin to understand how it can be applied to our work in state agencies, nonprofits, education, law enforcement, faith-based organizations, community outreach, communications, policy making, and civic knowledge and engagement.

Hopefully we will discover new ways to collaborate in order to move our communities and constituencies forward, bearing in mind those who are already marginalized and hardest to reach.

Our goal, every year, is to educate and empower participants. We hope to do so this year by demystifying what lies ahead, and recognize the ways in which it can be used for public good.

The 2024 Symposium will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on October 25, 2024 at the Connecticut Convention Center located at 200 Columbus Boulevard in Hartford, Connecticut.

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Keynote Speaker: Professor Luciano Floridi

Professor Floridi is the Founding Director of the Digital Ethics Center at Yale. His areas of research include the philosophy of information, digital ethics, the ethics of AI, and the philosophy of technology.

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Cody Venzke

Cody Venzke is a Senior Policy Counsel in the ACLU's National Political Advocacy Department, working on issues in surveillance, privacy, and technology. Cody focuses on comprehensive consumer privacy legislation, safe and nondiscriminatory AI, children's privacy, and civic uses of data. He is an author of a treatise published by LexisNexis on education data and student privacy.

Theodora Skeadas

Theodora (Theo) Skeadas

Theodora (Theo) Skeadas is the Chief of Staff at Humane Intelligence, a nonprofit focused on algorithmic assessments. She is also the CEO of Tech Policy Consulting, where she works on AI governance and online safety issues, and she is a Community Policy Manager at DoorDash, where she builds company-wide trust and safety policies.

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Diya Wynn

Diya Wynn is a technology leader who has been on the cutting edge of every major digital transformation. With over 25 years of experience spanning the internet, ecommerce, social media, mobile, cloud and now AI, she brings that breadth of expertise to her approach to the intersection of emerging technology and humanity. As Responsible AI Lead at AWS who started and led customer engagement globally on Responsible AI.

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Symposium Agenda

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8:30 a.m. - Registration and continental breakfast

9 a.m. – Welcoming Remarks

9:45 a.m. - Keynote Address: The Future of AI and Its Regulation

Professor Floridi is the Founding Director of the Digital Ethics Center at Yale University and Professor in the Practice in the Cognitive Science Program.

10:30 a.m. - Panel: Innovation v Regulation, Keeping Machine Learning Human Centered in Government

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12 p.m. - Lunch

12:45 p.m. - Panel: Ethics: Responsibility, Representation, and Rogue Robots

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2:15 p.m. - Panel: Equity in Adoption: Public Policy, Education, and Healthcare

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3:45 p.m. - Closing Remarks