Building a human-centric future with AI

• How we got to this moment in AI and why it matters for organizations
• What it means to build human-centered AI interactions with customers
• How AI will impact the employee experience

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  Dr. Fei Fei Li

  Professor and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-centered AI

Dr. Fei Fei Li
Professor and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-centered AI
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EXPERT, SEQUOIA CAPITAL PROFESSOR,
CO-DIRECTOR OF THE STANFORD INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN-CENTERED
AI, AND PROFESSOR, OPERATIONS, INFORMATION, AND TECHNOLOGY
AT THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Wired Magazine called Dr. Fei-Fei Li, “one of a tiny group of scientists—a
group perhaps small enough to ft around a kitchen table — who are
responsible for AI’s recent remarkable advances.”
Artifcial Intelligence Expert Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the inaugural Sequoia Professor

in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and Co-
Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute. Dr. Li is the inventor of

ImageNet and the ImageNet Challenge, a critical large- scale dataset and
benchmarking efort that has contributed to the latest developments in
deep learning and AI. In addition to her technical contributions, she is a
national leading voice for advocating diversity in STEM and AI. She is the
founder and chairperson of the board of the nonproft AI4ALL, aimed at
increasing inclusion and diversity in AI education.
Li, who joined Stanford University's faculty in 2009, served as the Director of
Stanford’s AI Lab from 2013 to 2018. And during her sabbatical from
Stanford from January 2017 to September 2018, she was Vice President at
Google and served as Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud.
Dr. Li has been working with policymakers nationally and locally to ensure
the responsible use of technologies, including a congressional testimony on
the responsibility of AI in 2018, her service as a member of the California
Future of Work Commission for the Governor of California in 2019 - 2020,
and a member of the National Artifcial Intelligence Research Resource Task
Force (NAIRR) for the White House Ofce of Science and Technology Policy
(OSTP) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2021-2022.

Her memoir The Worlds I See will be published in November 2023 and tells her story of a girl coming of age as an immigrant in America who fnds her
calling as a scientist at the forefront of the AI Revolution.
More About Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Dr. Fei- Fei Li’s current research interests include cognitively inspired AI,
machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and AI+healthcare,
especially ambient intelligent systems for healthcare delivery. In the past,
she has also worked on cognitive and computational neuroscience. Dr. Li
has published more than 200 scientifc articles in top- tier journals and
conferences, including Nature, PNAS, Journal of Neuroscience, CVPR, ICCV,
NIPS, ECCV, ICRA, IROS, RSS, IJCV, IEEE- PAMI, New England Journal of
Medicine, Nature Digital Medicine, etc.
Dr. Li is an elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE),
the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), and the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences (AAAS). She is also a Fellow of ACM, a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a recipient of the 2022 IEEE PAMI
Thomas Huang Memorial Prize, the 2019 IEEE PAMI Longuet-Higgins Prize,
the 2019 National Geographic Society Further Award, the 2017 Athena
Award for Academic Leadership, IAPR 2016 J.K. Aggarwal Prize, the 2016
IEEE PAMI Mark Everingham Award, the 2016 nVidia Pioneer in AI Award,
2014 IBM Faculty Fellow Award, 2011 Alfred Sloan Faculty Award, 2012
Yahoo Labs FREP award, 2009 NSF CAREER award, the 2006 Microsoft
Research New Faculty Fellowship, among others. Dr. Li is a keynote speaker
at many academic or infuential conferences, including the World Economics
Forum (Davos), the Grace Hopper Conference 2017, and the TED2015 main
conference. Work from Dr. Li's lab has been featured in a variety of
magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, Fortune Magazine, Science, Wired Magazine, MIT Technology
Review, Financial Times, and more. She was selected as a 2017 Women in
Tech by the ELLE Magazine, a 2017 Awesome Women Award by Good
Housekeeping, a Global Thinker of 2015 by Foreign Policy, and one of the
“Great Immigrants: The Pride of America” in 2016 by the Carnegie
Foundation; past winners include Albert Einstein, Yoyo Ma, Sergey Brin, et al.
Dr. Fei-Fei Li obtained her B.A. degree in physics from Princeton in 1999 with
High Honors and her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from California
Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2005. She also holds a Doctorate Degree
(Honorary) from Harvey Mudd College. Dr. Li joined Stanford in 2009 as an
assistant professor. Prior to that, she was on faculty at Princeton University
(2007-2009) and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2005-2006).
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  Christy Lake

  Chief People Officer, Twilio

Christy Lake
Chief People Officer, Twilio
Christy is Chief People Officer at Twilio where she leads the company's global People team. She is responsible for driving the talent development and acquisition strategy, and building infrastructure to support a thriving culture of belonging, diversity and inclusion across the company. Previously, Christy was Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer at Box, which she joined with 20 years of experience in culture development, talent strategy and learning and development. Prior to Box, she held human resources leadership positions at Medallia, HP Software and The Home Depot. Christy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Connecticut.