Recent Activities
Speaking about the US AI research ecosystem and municipal regulatory sandboxes
In July, as part of a kick-off for my work as senior fellow at ITS Rio, I was honored to present at two AI conferences in Rio De Janeiro.
The first conference was “#AI20: Artificial Intelligence in the Global Context” hosted by ITS Rio in partnership with Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and DWIH São Paulo where I spoke on a panel about strategies for research and economic development. I outlined the current research ecosystem in the US and the need to start by defining goals and not the technological tools of the moment. Then at the Global Sandboxes Forum inaugural event, organized by The Datasphere Initiative, I spoke on a second panel on ‘Sandboxes in Municipalities’ in which I discussed why we need to define measures of success from the onset and how to evaluate throughout the sandbox process.