Security and Privacy in an Artificially Intelligent World
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Security and privacy in an artificially intelligent world Wednesday 27 March 2019, 12.00pm to 2.00pm Qt Hotel, Canberra MAJOR SPONSOR www.ceda.com.au agenda 11.45am Registrations 12.05pm Welcome Lee Kelly State Director, NSW/ACT, CEDA 12.10pm Introduction Genevieve Bell Distinguished Professor and Director, 3A Institute Australian National University 12.15pm Presentation Brad Smith President Microsoft 12.45pm Lunch 1.15pm In-conversation Brad Smith and Genevieve Bell 1.40pm Moderated discussion and questions 1.55pm Vote of Thanks Genevieve Bell 2.00pm Close . sponsor Event major sponsor Microsoft Human ingenuity amplified by intelligent technology You don’t have to be a technology expert – or even more than a casual observer of the field – to know that the hottest topic in technology today is artificial intelligence. AI combined with human ingenuity is already helping people to do amazing things. Thanks to AI advances, we can communicate more easily across multiple languages and even discover more personalized cancer treatments. And that’s just the beginning. We are in the nascent stage of AI breakthroughs, and we can only imagine the possibilities of what people and technology will be able to do together. Despite all this potential, AI is probably one of the least understood technological breakthroughs in modern times. That makes sense. After all, anyone can tap on a smart phone screen, pick up a gaming controller or slip on a HoloLens and immediately understand why it is something people will use, love and come to rely on. By contrast, AI isn’t something you can see or touch, and you may not even realize you are using it. In fact, most of us are probably relying on technology that uses AI every day, without even knowing it. Microsoft also uses AI to help doctors and biochemists better understand, prevent and treat the world’s deadliest and most confounding diseases, by analyzing vast amounts of medical data to look for useful patterns. CEDA will be tweeting from this event using #AI Those breakthroughs wouldn’t be possible without the combination of data, the Join the conversation and follow us AI algorithms that can analyze data, the cloud computing to process it -- and on Twitter @ceda_news the human experts who can apply those results to make medical breakthroughs. We use AI to help people break down cultural barriers and understand each other better, by providing real-time translation and speech recognition through Microsoft Translator. And we call on AI to assist in making people’s busy days easier and more productive, by building technology such as Cortana that reminds us of upcoming appointments, recognizes the words that we say and finds facts in a pinch. Because it uses AI, Cortana learns your preferences and can personalize your experience based on past behavior to help get things done. As AI begins to augment human understanding and decision-making in fields like education, healthcare, transportation, agriculture, energy, and manufacturing, it will raise new societal questions. How can we ensure that AI treats everyone fairly? How can we best ensure that AI is safe and reliable? How can we attain the benefits of AI while protecting privacy? How do we not lose control of our machines as they become increasingly intelligent and powerful? Business leaders, policymakers, researchers, academics and representatives of civil society must work together to ensure AI based technologies are designed and deployed in a manner that will earn the trust of the people who use them and the individuals whose data is being collected. The Partnership on AI, an organisation co-founded by Microsoft, is one vehicle for advancing these discussions. www.partnershiponai.org . keynote speaker Brad Smith President, Microsoft Twitter: @bradsmi Brad Smith is Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer. In this role Smith is responsible for the company’s corporate, external, and legal affairs. He leads a team of more than 1,400 business, legal and corporate affairs professionals working in 55 countries. These teams are responsible for the company’s legal work, its intellectual property portfolio, patent licensing business, corporate philanthropy, government affairs, public policy, corporate governance, and social responsibility work. He is also Microsoft’s chief compliance officer. Smith plays a key role in representing the company externally and in leading the company’s work on a number of critical issues including privacy, security, accessibility, environmental sustainability and digital inclusion, among others. Smith joined Microsoft in 1993, and before becoming general counsel in 2002 he spent three years leading the Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA) team in Europe, then five years serving as the deputy general counsel responsible for LCA’s teams outside the United States. Smith has overseen numerous negotiations leading to competition law and intellectual property agreements with governments around the world and with companies across the IT sector. He has played a leading role within Microsoft and in the IT sector on government CEDA will be tweeting from this surveillance, privacy, intellectual property, immigration and computer science event using #AI education policy issues. He has played a leadership role locally and nationally on Join the conversation and follow us numerous charitable, business and legal initiatives. In 2013 he was named by on Twitter @ceda_news the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the United States. In 2014, the New York Times called Smith “a de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large.” In addition to his work at Microsoft, Smith is active in several civic and legal organizations and in the broader technology industry. In March 2015, Smith joined the Netflix board of directors. He also works to advance several significant diversity and pro bono initiatives, serving as chair of the board of directors of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and as chair of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD). In addition, Smith chairs the board of the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship program, at the appointment of the governor. Smith grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, where Green Bay was the big city next door. He attended Princeton University, where he met his wife, Kathy (also a lawyer), and graduated summa cum laude with a concentration in international relations and economics. He earned his J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law and studied international law and economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was an associate and then partner at the Washington, D.C.-based firm of Covington and Burling, where he is still remembered as the first attorney in the long history of the firm to insist (in 1986) on having a personal computer on his desk as a condition for accepting a job offer. facilitator Genevieve Bell Distinguished Professor and Director, 3A Institute, Australian National University Genevieve is the Director of the Autonomy, Agency and Assurance (3A) Institute, Florence Violet McKenzie Chair, and a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University (ANU) as well as a Vice President and Senior Fellow at Intel Corporation. She is a cultural anthropologist, technologist and futurist best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development. Genevieve joined the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science in February 2017, after having spent the past 18 years in Silicon Valley helping guide Intel’s product development by developing the company’s social science and design research capabilities. Genevieve established the 3A Institute in September 2017 at the ANU in collaboration with CSIRO's Data61, with the mission of building a new applied science around the management of artificial intelligence, data, technology and their impact on humanity. Genevieve is the inaugural appointee to the Florence Violet McKenzie Chair at the ANU, named in honour Australia’s first female electrical engineer, which promotes the inclusive use of technology in society. She also presented the highly acclaimed ABC Boyer Lectures for 2017, in which she investigated what it means to be human, and Australian, in a digital world. CEDA will be tweeting from this In 2018, Genevieve was appointed Non-Executive Director of the event using #AI Commonwealth Bank of Australia Board, she became a member of the Prime Join the conversation and follow us Minister’s National Science and Technology Council, and a Fellow of the on Twitter @ceda_news Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE). Genevieve completed her PhD in cultural anthropology at Stanford University in 1998. corporate tables CEDA would like to thank the following members for hosting a corporate table at today’s event. Ashurst Federal Department of Industry, Microsoft QUT Innovation and Science Randstad attendees Daniel Abbas Transformation Julian Butler Sarah Cullens Consultant ACT Education Directorate Principal, Product Strategy & Principal Consultant Futureye Innovation Nexus Dr Leanne Blackley Telstra Peter Alexander Assistant Secretary, People Andrew Cullens Chief Digital Officer Strategy Branch Stephen Calder Director Digital Transformation Agency Federal Department of Home Senior Manager IT Audit and Forge Advisory Affairs Assurance Rebecca Armstrong RSM Tom Daemen Deputy Directory, Projects and Greg Boorer Director, Corporate, External & Innovation Chief Executive Officer Trish Cattell