BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Data::ICal 0.24 BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION: 'Title: AI Caramba! A DC <> DEF CON interface on machine lea rning\n When: Saturday\, Aug 12\, 11:00 - 11:50 PDT\n Where: Caesars F orum - Summit - 218-219 - Policy Rotunda - [1]Map\n Speakers:Austin Cars on\,Erick Galinkin\,Kellee Wicker\,Rumman\n Chowdhury\,Tim Ryder\n\n S peakerBio:Austin Carson \, Founder & President at SeedAI\n Austin Carson is the Founder and President of SeedAI\, a nonprofit\n established to w ork with a diverse group of policymakers\, academics\,\n and private sec tor experts to help communities across the United\n States access the re sources they need to engage with AI.\n\n Previously\, Austin established and led the DC government affairs\n operation for NVIDIA\, translating NVIDIA’s expertise in artificial\n intelligence and high performance c omputing for policymakers. Prior to\n joining NVIDIA\, Austin held a num ber of public sector and NGO\n positions\, including serving as Legislat ive Director for Chairman\n Michael McCaul and Executive Director for th e Technology Freedom\n Institute. Austin co-founded the Congressional Te ch Staff Association\,\n co-led the Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus a nd the Congressional\n High Tech Caucus\, and is a founding fellow of th e Internet Law and\n Policy Foundry.\n\n\n SpeakerBio:Erick Galinkin \ , Principal researcher at Rapid7\n Erick Galinkin is a hacker and comput er scientist working as principal\n researcher in Rapid7's Office of the CTO. Presently\, Erick leads R&D\n supporting Rapid7's Managed Detectio n and Response service. Widely\n renowned for his equestrian abilities\, Erick is a man of several\n talents. An alumnus of Johns Hopkins Univer sity\, he has also published\n and given talks on security\, decision th eory\, information geometry\,\n and artificial intelligence at conferenc es from AAAI and GameSec to\n DEF CON's AI and Cloud Villages.\n\n Spe akerBio:Kellee Wicker \, Director of the Science and Technology\n Innova tion Program at Wilson Center\n Kellee Wicker leads the Science and Tech nology Innovation Program\n (STIP) at the Wilson Center\, a Congressiona lly chartered think tank\n that provides nonpartisan counsel and insight s on global affairs to\n policymakers through deep research\, impartial analysis\, and\n independent scholarship. The STIP team provides researc h and insight\n to Congress\, global policymakers\, and the general publ ic on a number\n of emerging technologies and scientific advances\, with special\n emphasis on artificial intelligence\, cybersecurity\, space i n the\n commercial age\, and more. Through games\, experiential learning \, and\n educational opportunities\, STIP also works beyond traditional research\n to directly provide policymakers and their staff with the fou ndational\n knowledge they need to devise smart legislation and regulati on that\n protects individuals and workers while continuing to bolster\n flourishing technological innovation.\n\n SpeakerBio:Rumman Chowdhury \, Co-Founder and CEO at Humane\n Intelligence\n Dr. Rumman Chowdhury ’s passion lies at the intersection of\n artificial intelligence and h umanity. She is a pioneer in the field of\n applied algorithmic ethics\, creating cutting-edge socio-technical\n solutions for ethical\, explain able and transparent AI. Dr. Chowdhury\n currently runs the nonprofit Hu mane Intelligence and is a Responsible\n AI Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at\n Harvard University.\n\n Previously\ , Dr. Chowdhury was the Director of META (ML Ethics\,\n Transparency\, a nd Accountability) team at Twitter\, leading a team of\n applied researc hers and engineers to identify and mitigate algorithmic\n harms on the p latform. Prior to Twitter\, she was CEO and founder of\n Parity\, an ent erprise algorithmic audit platform company. She formerly\n served as Glo bal Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture Applied\n Intelligence. In her work as Accenture’s Responsible AI lead\, she\n led the design of the Fairness Tool\, a first-in-industry algorithmic\n tool to identify and m itigate bias in AI systems.\n\n Dr. Chowdhury is dedicated to cultivatin g and growing the next wave of\n technology-forward companies enabling t he responsible use of emerging\n technologies.\n\n\n SpeakerBio:Tim Ry der \, Legislative Assistant at Office of U.S. Senate\n Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer\n Tim joined U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. S chumer’s office\n in May 2019 and currently serves as a Legislative As sistant. Tim is\n spearheading the Leader’s work on artificial intelli gence\, while\n overseeing the disaster policy portfolio. He is also a m ember of the\n Schumer Climate Team\, where he helped formulate\, negoti ate\, and pass\n the Inflation Reduction Act\, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act\,\n and a number of other bills last Congress.\n\n Prior to his time on the Hill\, Tim worked for The Climate Reality\n Project – former Vice President Al Gore’s non-profit – on\n Gore’s famou s slideshow featured in An Inconvenient Truth. Tim is\n active in a numb er of young professional organizations and runs a\n small business in th e district – Green Drinks DC – with his\n longtime friend. Tim is a graduate of Stetson University\, where he\n studied Environmental Scienc e and Philosophy\, and is an alumnus of\n American University’s Washin gton Semester Program. In what little\n spare time there is these days\, Tim loves to garden\, cook\, and make\n music.\n\n\n Description:\n AI is a huge focus for multiple governments and they are keen to get\n input from the DEF CON community on what they should be considering\n fo r policy interventions.\n\n This session will be led by Austin Carson\, exploring how we can\n combine the expertise of DEF CON attendees with t he political will and\n specialized knowledge networks in the Administra tion and around DC to\n create wise policy for AI. Topics covered will i nclude how the two\n communities can support each other and create a vir tuous cycle of\n information conveyance and policy progress? What should the next steps\n of this work be - how do we move beyond the Biden EO? In this session\n we'll have top experts in policy and the hacker commun ity come\n together to discuss what that can look like and how to be mut ually\n conscientious of what our experiences and priorities may be.\n\n '\n\n 1. #CaesarsSummitBR\n\n\n DTEND:20230812T185000Z DTSTART:20230812T180000Z LOCATION:PLV - Caesars Forum - Summit - 218-219 - Policy Rotunda SUMMARY:AI Caramba! A DC <\;> DEF CON interface on machine learning END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR