TDS2018

Adrian Brown

Session: How to make AI work in governments and for the people?

Adrian is the Executive Director of the Centre for Public Impact which he helped to found in 2015. He is a regular commentator on public policy and government effectiveness and has 20 years experience working with governments, NGOs and social sector organisations around the world.

Prior to CPI, Adrian was a Principal in the London office of the Boston Consulting Group where he specialised in a range of topics including commissioning strategies, organisational design, cost reduction and digital transformation. He is a global expert on impact investing and is the author of several influential reports on the topic including The First Billion, a forecast of social investment demand in the UK.

Prior to joining BCG, Adrian was a Fellow at the Institute for Government where he led a wide range of high profile projects. For example, he co-authored System Error, the Institute’s report on Government IT many of the recommendations of which have subsequently been incorporated into the UK Government ICT strategy. Adrian remains an Associate at the Institute.

Adrian has also worked in the UK Cabinet Office, including two years in the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit (PMDU). He also spent just over a year in 10 Downing Street reporting to Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair’s Chief of Staff.

Adrian holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. He also holds an MA in Management Studies from Cambridge University.

Danny Buerkli

Session: (1) AI-driven Government

Danny is the Programme Director at the Centre for Public Impact (CPI), a not-for-profit foundation funded by The Boston Consulting Group. CPI is dedicated to improving the positive impact of governments around the world. In his role, Danny oversees the foundation’s research activities and many of its government engagements. He has written and published on numerous topics of government and public administration, including on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on policymaking, on the use of service design in government and on government effectiveness.

Danny has been with the Centre for Public Impact since its launch. Prior to joining CPI he worked in think tanks and as a strategy consultant in BCG’s Berlin office where he focused on digital innovation. Danny holds an MA in international policy studies from Stanford, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Graduate Fellow at the Center for International Conflict and Negotiation. He also holds a Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

Danny enjoys reading, playing improv theatre and trail running in the Alps.

Greg Corrado

Session: Anatomy of an AI revolution

Greg Corrado is a Principal Scientist and the Director of Augmented Intelligence Research at Google, and the co-founder of the Google Brain Team.  He works at the nexus of artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience, and scalable machine learning, and has published in fields ranging from behavioral economics, to particle physics, to deep learning.  In his time at Google he has worked to put AI directly into the hands of users via products like RankBrain and SmartReply, and into the hands of developers via opensource software releases like TensorFlow and word2vec.  He currently leads several research efforts in advanced applications of machine learning, ranging from natural human communication to expanded healthcare availability. Before coming to Google, he worked at IBM Research on neuromorphic silicon devices and large-scale neural simulations.  He did his graduate studies in both Neuroscience and in Computer Science at Stanford University, and his undergraduate work in Physics at Princeton University.

Hosuk Lee-Makiyama

Session: Working lunch for Heads of Delegations on Data&Trade

Hosuk Lee-Makiyama is Director of ECIPE (European Centre for International Political Economy), a Brussels-based think tank on global economic issues.

He is regularly consulted by the G7 governments and all the principal international organisations on trade, including WTO, World Bank and OECD. He has appeared as an expert witness in the US Congress, European Parliament, UK House of Commons and other assemblies, and comments regularly in Financial Times, BBC, Reuters, CCTV and other international media.

He is a regular commentator on EU trade policy, and has successfully advocated several “impossible” trade negotiations across Asia-Pacific. He has been working on digitalisation since 2008 on issues relating to surveillance, privacy and online platforms long before they became public topics. In 2012, he was named “one of the 20 most influential people for an open internet” by the readers of the Guardian (UK) for challenging China’s internet censorship under international trade law.

Lee-Makiyama is also a Senior Fellow of London School of Economics in International Relations. Prior to ECIPE, he served briefly in the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representing the EU Presidency of 2009 towards the EU, WTO and the UN. He tweets sardonically (and not very well) as @leemakiyama.

Jack Clark

Session: AI: where we are, where we’re going and what policy makers can do to ensure that where we’re going is good

Jack Clark is the strategy and communications director for OpenAI, an AI research and development organization. At OpenAI, Jack leads the organization’s efforts around AI policy and regularly meets with politicians and VIPs across the world. He also sits on the steering committee of the AI Index, an initiative from the Stanford One Hundred Year Study on AI to track and analyze AI progress. Additionally, Jack is a member of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Task Force on AI and National Security. This year he participated in the 2018 ‘Assembly’ program on ethics and governance in AI at the MIT Media Lab and Berkman Klein Center at Harvard. Jack spends a lot of time thinking about the potentially destabilizing effects of rapid technological progression and is one of the co-authors of ‘The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation.” He writes a weekly newsletter about cutting-edge AI research and applications called Import AI , which is read by more than fifteen thousand experts worldwide.

James Manyika

Session: The promise and challenge of the age of artificial intelligence

James Manyika is a senior partner at McKinsey and chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute. Based in Silicon Valley, James has worked with the chief executives and founders of many of the world’s leading technology companies. He has also led research on the digital economy, future of work, as well as inclusive growth and productivity.  James was appointed by President Obama as vice chair of the Global Development Council at the White House and by US Commerce Secretaries to the Digital Economy Board and National Innovation Board. He serves on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations, MacArthur Foundation, and Hewlett Foundation. He is also on the advisory boards of the Oxford Internet Institute, MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy and the Stanford-based 100-Year Study on AI and a fellow at DeepMind. James was a member of the Robotics Research Lab at Oxford, a visiting scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Labs, a faculty exchange fellow at MIT. A Rhodes Scholar, James received his DPhil. MSc. MA. from Oxford in Robotics, Mathematics and Computer Science.

Jüri Ratas

Session: Summit opening

Prime Minister Jüri Ratas, leader of the Estonian Centre Party, is the head of the Government of the Republic of Estonia since 23 November 2016.

Kai Härmand

Session: Do we need to regulate algorithms?

Ms Kai Härmand is  the Deputy Secretary General at the Estonian Ministry of Justice. Previously she has worked at the court of first instance as a civil judge, specialising on intellectual property rights and obligation law. It is her task to ensure that Government’s Action Plan in her area of responsibility is fulfilled. Legislative Policy Department drafts bills for the government and supports their subsequent proceedings in parliament on private and public law, coordinates EU law harmonization process and is responsible for the quality of legislative drafting.

She is also a frequent lecturer of civil procedure for practitioners from various fields – patent attorneys, lawyers, court experts. She has supervised students participating in EU Moot Court competition. She is also conducting a curriculum directed to young judges and judge candidates by the Training Department of Supreme Court of Estonia.

Karen K Burns

Karen is one of the stage hosts of Tallinn Digital Summit 2018. To make the attending of the summit as smooth as possible, together with Pärtel Peeter Pere she will guide you through the day, stage highlights and practical stuff. Karen is the Director of Business Development and CGI Estonia.

Karmen Turk

Session: Do we need to regulate algorithms?

Karmen Turk is an attorney-at-law in TRINITI Law Firm with legal expertise in human rights, intellectual property, media and international and EU trade law. She also participates in resolving private law issues arising from the everyday economic activities of clients. During her law practise Karmen has advised on many notable media and IP-related court proceedings in Estonia. Karmen is one of the people behind the #krattlaw initiative.

Luukas Ilves

Session: (1) Safety and security in the age of artificial intelligence

Luukas Ilves is Deputy Director and Senior Fellow at the Lisbon Council, a Brussels-based think tank and policy network engaged in research and thought leadership addressing the economic and social challenges of the 21st century. Luukas’ work covers cyber security, e-government, Artificial Intelligence and the European digital agenda. He also chairs the Council of Europe’s work on the human rights and ethical dimensions of Artificial Intelligence.

Luukas has served in various policy positions, most recently as coordinator for digital and cyber policy during Estonia’s 2017 Presidency of the EU Council. Previously, he worked on the team of European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes, as head of international relations for RIA, Estonia’s cybersecurity and e-government agency, and for the Estonian Ministry of Defence.

Luukas is a member of the Estonian Cyber Defense League (the cyber unit of Estonia’s nation guard) and a reserve officer in the Estonian Defense Forces. He is a graduate of Stanford University.

Marten Kaevats

Session: Do we need to regulate algorithms?

Marten Kaevats, is the national digital advisor in the Goverment Office of Estonia who studies the impact of various scalable technologies on the spatial behaviour of individual people and communities, as he believes that the third industrial revolution and the hyperlocal model of life will create reformatory changes to the spatial and social behaviour of people.

Marten has graduated from governmental talent management programme in 2017. He is educated as architect and city planner and in 2015 curated the Tallinn Architectural Biennale on Self Driven City.

Marten is also an active member of several civil society organisations; having among other things led the team that won second place at the design competition for the Monument to the Estonian War of Independence, he was also one of the founding members of the Uue Maailma Selts (New World Society) in 2007 and contributed to the creation of freeware community web platform Community Tools, established in 2008.

Miguel Carrasco

Session: How to make AI work in governments and for the people?

Miguel focuses on public sector and technology advantage, specialising in areas such as digital transformation, service delivery and government efficiency and effectiveness. He joined BCG in May 2000 and has also worked in the Sydney, Melbourne and Paris offices.

Pärtel Peeter Pere

Pärtel Peeter is one of the stage hosts of Tallinn Digital Summit 2018. To make the attending of the summit as smooth as possible, together with Karen K Burns he will guide you through the day, stage highlights and practical stuff.

Pärtel Peeter is the CEO and partner of  Future Place Leadership, a Nordic management consultancy for the development, innovation and marketing of places.