Humantech Meetings: Technological and Ethical Aspects of AI

Dr. Sebastian Szymański – Philosopher specializing in ethics and practical ethics. His research interests focus on justice and ethical problems related to new technologies, in particular robotization and Artificial Intelligence. He teaches roboethics and ethics of new technologies at the Faculty of Artes Liberales and is a member of Laboratorium Techno-Humanistyki [Techno-Humanities Laboratory], at the University of Warsaw. He leads an ethics group in the expert team by the Ministry of Digital Affairs of the Republic of Poland, which is responsible for the development of the Polish Artificial Intelligence strategy. Additionally, he sits on the Digitization Council at the Ministry of Digital Affairs, where he heads its Artificial Intelligence team. His most recent publication is entitled Uzasadnienia teorii sprawiedliwości. Dziedzictwo Johna Rawlsa [Justification of the Theory of Justice. The Legacy of John Rawls] (published by Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar: 2018). Dr. Szymański is currently working on a book about AI ethics, which is scheduled for publication by Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN in 2020.

Vince Madai, M.D., Ph.D. – Vince Madai is a senior medical AI researcher at Charité University Hospital Berlin and CSO at ai4medicine. He holds an M.D., a Ph.D. in Medical Neuroscience and an M.A. degree in Medical Ethics. Additionally, he has completed an Udacity Nanodegree in data science and analysis. His professional interests include AI-research, AI-ethics, data science, post-processing of neuroimaging and clinical research. He has been the scientific lead of the “Predictive Modelling in Medicine” research group at Charité as well as the Prediction2020 and the PRECISE4Q projects for the last two years. He is an expert in AI ethics, specializing in bias and upcoming regulations for AI products. Moreover, he is on the expert council of the Good Technology Collective (GTC) and Associate Editor of an interdisciplinary publication Delphi Journal. Since November 2017, he has been the main organizer of the “Machine Learning in Healthcare” meetup in Berlin.

Judy Krysik, Ph.D., M.S.W. – is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Child Well-Being, in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. She is the recipient of the 2019 Council on Social Work Education Award for Innovative Teaching in Social Work, and in 2017 was named Fellow of the Society for Social Work and Research. She is a member of the Executive Board of the African Institute of Child Studies with headquarters in Kenya, the National Association of Social Workers Ethics Committee, and Chair of the Governance Committee for the Children’s Museum of Phoenix. Her research interests include the prevention of child maltreatment among infants and toddlers, the efficacy of specialized court programs directed at children and families, and the practice of child protective services. The Center for Child Well-Being develops high-quality, customized training resources and is host of the National Children of Incarcerated Parents annual conference. She is the author of Research for Effective Social Work Practice (4th edition), and co-editor of the forthcoming book Children of Incarcerated Parents: Integrating Research into Best Practices and Policy.

Kamil Galicki, Ph.D. – Holds a doctorate in security science, in the discipline of social sciences. He specializes in the management of companies and issues of entrepreneurship, public funds law, security, systems, business continuity management, crisis management, and critical infrastructure. In 2003, he completed postgraduate studies in Internal Auditing of Public Administration. He is internal auditor certified by the commission appointed by the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Poland and a leading auditor of business continuity management systems BS 25999. He completed numerous seminars and training sessions on practical aspects of entity budget management, control and auditing. In 1996 he became a policeman and since 1998 he has been working for the Office for State Protection of the Republic of Poland (UOP). Recipient of numerous awards for his contributions to the service. From 2006 to 2010, he held various posts, including Director of Auxiliary Unit at the Internal Security Agency (ABW) and Deputy Director, and subsequently Director of Administration and Economic Office of the Internal Security Agency (ABW). From 2010 to 2014, he held the position of Deputy Director of the Government Centre for Security, where he supervised Divisions of Critical Infrastructure, Strategic Planning, Administration and Finance. Up to 2018, he was Rector’s Representative for Classified Information at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University.

Kuba Piwowar (panel moderator) –  sociologist, analyst, member of the Polskiego Towarzystwa Badaczy Rynku i Opinii [Polish Association of Market and Opinion Researchers] (PTBRIO), co-organizer of conferences bridging business and technology. He holds a degree in Sociology form SWPS University and completed post-graduate Gender Studies at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Art History at the Collegium Civitas and the Marketing Academy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, he is a doctoral student at the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School at SWPS University, where at the Department of Cultural Studies, he is working on his doctorate on algorithmic exclusion. Since 2008, as a Google employee, Kuba has been helping Polish entrepreneurs to implement digital transformation in their companies.

Łukasz Bargiełowski – holds a Master’s degree in management from the Warsaw Management University. He also completed postgraduate studies in cybersecurity at the Warsaw School of Computer Science. He also is a certified Agile Service Manager/SCRUM Master. For over 14 years, he has been leading teams of engineers in technology companies. He helped to establish and develop Technical Centers in Warsaw, employing programmers and help desk engineers for clients such as Symantec and F5 Networks. In his professional career, he specializes in teaching communication skills for engineers, focusing on relationships with external clients. He often gets involved personally in solving client-related crisis situations. This allows him to closely observe the work of highly skilled technical experts, representing a cool and collected technical approach in confrontation with emotional clients dealing with a technical breakdown. His other interests include organizational culture in technology companies and its impact on employees and on the job market.

Malte Pietsch – is Co-founder of deepset, where he bridges the gap between Natural Language Processing (NLP) research and industry, by providing open-source software and developing custom NLP models. He has developed NLP systems for diverse clients, such as Siemens, Airbus and Springer Nature. He is an active open-source contributor and creator of the NLP packages FARM and haystack, which are in line with his biggest interests these days, such as: Transfer Learning, Language Models and the application to Question Answering. He graduated with honors from the Technical University of Munich with a M.Sc. degree and conducted research at Carnegie Mellon University. Before founding deepset he worked as a data scientist for multiple startups.

Kamila Stepniowska – Owner at Ginger Tech, which is a boutique consultancy focusing on Business Development, Machine Learning & AI, and Education. Public speaker, former Training Program Manager at deepsense.io, former COO at Geek Girls Carrots (GGC), former Women Who Code Seattle Evangelist, Advisor at She’s Coding, and SheWorx Steering Committee member.

Rafał Małanyj – Creative and open-minded leader and manager with business development skills and technological background. His experience includes service and project management in corporate environments, business development, consulting, as well as pre-sales and management in IT professional services. Currently, he focuses on Big Data, Cloud technologies and HealthTech.

Leon Ciechanowski (panel moderator) – Lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and collaborator of the HumanTech Center for Social and Technological Innovation at SWPS University in Warsaw. Assistant at the Department of Management in Networked and Digital Societies at the Kozminski University. Graduate of Philosophy Studies in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Warsaw and an inter-university program in Cognitive Sciences at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” provided in cooperation with Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. His professional interests include human-computer interaction, phenomenology, as well as agency and control. In cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he researchers chatbots, robots and wearable technology. He is a business consultant providing expertise to various industries, including banking, data analysis, telecommunication, and pharmaceutical industry. He also writes expert articles on financial technology (fintech), Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and other innovative technologies. In his spare time, as a member of the “Mózg!” Foundation (Brain Foundation), he promotes neuroscience. He regularly publishes articles in professional journals, such as Focus.

Konrad Maj, Ph.D. – Social psychologist, Head of the HumanTech Meetings project, initiator and Head of the HumanTech Center for Social and Technological Innovations. In his research and teaching he focuses on social influence, media psychology and innovations. Recently, he has been working on a Human-Robot-Interaction (HRI) project. From 2013 to 2016 he held the post of Rector’s Representative for Research, focusing on practical application of research results and social innovations. He visited numerous innovation centers, including the Institute for Social Innovation (ISI) at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, the ID+ Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture at the University of Averio, Portugal, and Design Factory at Aalto University, in Finland.