Women in AI - NYC
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KATIE BOFSHEVER

Design Partner, GV

As VP of Digital Media at GV, Katie Bofshever crafts innovative and creative solutions for the digital space, specializing in minority consumers.

2:00pm

Understand

Lightning Talks on Business Goals

Learn to understand and tackle problems from many different points of view. Discussions should highlight business goals, success metrics, technical capabilities and potential challenges, and relevant user research.

2:00pm

Understand

Lightning Talks on Business Goals

Learn to understand and tackle problems from many different points of view. Discussions should highlight business goals, success metrics, technical capabilities and potential challenges, and relevant user research.

KATIE BOFSHEVER

Design Partner, GV

As VP of Digital Media at GV, Katie Bofshever crafts innovative and creative solutions for the digital space, specializing in minority consumers.

Women in AI - NYC

Meta and Women in AI (#WAI) are hosting an evening of talks and networking as part of the Road to the AI Action Summit. We’ll be welcoming women from across the AI ecosystem – founders, developers, researchers, policymakers, and investors to Meta’s NY Farley Office from 5pm –8:30pm on Wednesday January 22nd.

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About the Event

Join us for an evening of panel discussions and networking. Throughout the evening you’ll hear from women who are researching, building, and investing in AI. Our three talk tracks – Research, Build, Invest – will showcase leading figures in these areas who will share insights on their work and experiences of being at the forefront of the AI ecosystem.


Agenda

5pm-5:10pm



Opening Remarks: Polina Zvyagina

Polina Zvyagina is currently the global AI policy and governance director at Meta. She’s also a privacy and product lawyer who has supported product and AI-ML teams at Airbnb, Uber, and Apple.

 


5:10pm-5:45pm

Research

Fireside Chat: Melanie Kambadur, Claire Leibowicz, and Anna Gressel in conversation

Moderator: Chloe Autio is a technology policy expert with nearly a decade of experience advising organizations on AI policy and governance. She helps her clients articulate policy positions and shape their approach to governance and engagement. 


Melanie Kambadur is a Senior Manager on the Llama team at Meta leading research in LLM post-training. Her teams helped train Llama 1, 2, and 3, as well as earlier LLMs and generative dialog models. Before Meta, Melanie worked on NLP in health and media startups and completed a PhD in Computer Science at Columbia University.


Claire Leibowicz leads the AI and Media Integrity program at the Partnership on AI. She is an expert on AI and society, generative media, and multistakeholder strategies that inform technology practices and policies

 

Anna R. Gressel is a partner in the Paul, Weiss Litigation Department and a member of the firm’s Digital Technology Group.  Anna is a sought-after advisor to leading global businesses on a wide range of complex and high-impact matters related to artificial intelligence and other innovative technologies. A pioneer in AI law, she was named by Re-Work as one of the “Top 100+ Women Leading AI in 2023”—one of only three lawyers in private practice listed.

 

5:45pm-6:20pm

Build

Building with Llama: Chloe Burke, Rebekkah Hogan and Victoria Montanez

Moderator: Aisha Iqbal is an AI Policy Lead at Meta, providing product guidance on the company's Llama models and open source strategy. She works directly with Product and Engineering leads to identify high impact risks and apply appropriate policy mitigations. 


Chloe Burke leads on the AI/Data and Privacy Policy team at Meta. She is at the helm of several of Meta's AI workstreams primarily focused on data privacy and AI Evals. Chloe’s portfolio focuses on a wide range of issues on a global scale to support the ongoing growth and viability of the business. 


Rebekkah Hogan is an AI Program Management Lead at Meta building and scaling global programs that accelerate research and product development. With over 15 years of experience in research and program management, she is passionate about advancing the frontiers of AI and fostering collaboration and innovation across diverse stakeholders. 

 

Victoria Montanez is Product Manager at Meta working on Foundational GenAI Model safety evaluations. She leads human and automatic evaluations prior to the depoloyment of all Llama models, ensuring each model meets appropriate launch benchmarks. 

6:30pm-7pm

Invest

Future of AI Investing and Business: Chloe Autio,  Joyce Shen and Kriti Krishna

Moderator: Jayeeta Putatunda is an award-winning Lead Data Scientist and Director at Fitch Group, specializing in NLP and Generative AI. Jayeeta is also one of the 33 advisors worldwide for the NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor program. Her work has earned her significant recognition, including the AI100 award in Generative AI category 2024, and being named among the 25 visionary women in FinTech AI by Data Science Salon NYC 2024.


Chloe Autio is a technology policy expert with nearly a decade of experience advising organizations on AI policy and governance. She helps her clients articulate policy positions and shape their approach to governance and engagement.

 

Joyce Shen is a venture capital/private equity investor and business builder. Joyce's technical expertise centers around emerging technologies, machine learning & AI, data economy, and cybersecurity.

Kriti Krishna is a Venture Associate at HearstLab, a venture arm backed by Hearst Corporation that invests in early-stage, female-founded startups. She focuses on sourcing and evaluating B2B software companies in the US, Europe, Japan, and Middle East. Kriti also provides strategic support to portfolio companies, including financial analysis, fundraising guidance, and exit planning.

7pm-8:30pm

 

Music and Networking


Speakers

Polina Zvyagina 

AI Policy Director, Meta

Polina Zvyagina is currently the global AI policy and governance director at Meta. She’s also a privacy and product lawyer who has supported product and AI-ML teams at Airbnb, Uber, and Apple.

Chloe Autio

CEO, Autio Strategies, AI Advisor

Chloe Autio is a technology policy expert with nearly a decade of experience advising organizations on AI policy and governance. She helps her clients articulate policy positions and shape their approach to governance and engagement. Chloe consults for organizations at the forefront of AI policy and regulation including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Fortune 50 companies, startups, leading trade associations, and intergovernmental orgs.

Claire Leibowicz,

Head of AI and Media Integrity, PAI

Claire Leibowicz is the Head of the AI and Media Integrity Program at The Partnership on AI (PAI), where she has worked since the organization's inception. With over a decade of experience in AI and society, she has developed multistakeholder AI governance strategies, researched responsible AI, and informed technology policies. At PAI, she leads efforts to create best practices for AI technologies impacting digital media and online information, focusing on generative AI, trustworthy information, and local news sustainability.

Claire oversees PAI’s AI and Media Integrity Steering Committee and led the development of PAI’s Responsible Practices for Synthetic Media Framework. She launched PAI's work on AI safety, human-AI collaboration, and fairness challenges, and has been a Journalism Fellow at Tablet Magazine and a Bellagio Fellow at The Rockefeller Foundation. Claire's insights have appeared in publications such as Axios, CNN, Consumer Reports, The New York Times, NPR, MIT Tech Review, WIRED, The Hill, TechTarget, and the Wall Street Journal. She has presented the work she leads at PAI at conferences such as NeurIPS, CHI, ICA, RightsCon, and Trust and Truth Online, and advised companies, governments, and nonprofits on generative media and responsible AI. Claire holds a BA from Harvard, and a Master's degree from Oxford, where she studied as a Clarendon Scholar and is currently pursuing her doctorate part-time.

Melanie KAmBadur

Research Engineering Manager, Meta

Melanie Kambadur is a Senior Manager on the Llama team at Meta leading research in LLM post-training. Her teams helped train Llama 1, 2, and 3, as well as earlier LLMs and generative dialog models. Before Meta, Melanie worked on NLP in health and media startups and completed a PhD in Computer Science at Columbia University.

Anna Gressel

Partner, Paul, Weiss

 

Anna R. Gressel is a partner in the Paul, Weiss Litigation Department and a member of the firm’s Digital Technology Group.  Anna is a sought-after advisor to leading global businesses on a wide range of complex and high-impact matters related to artificial intelligence and other innovative technologies. A pioneer in AI law, she was named by Re-Work as one of the “Top 100+ Women Leading AI in 2023”—one of only three lawyers in private practice listed.

 

Anna leverages her extensive knowledge of emerging regulations and industry best practices to counsel companies on their most complex and cutting-edge AI issues, including AI safety, integrity, intellectual property, testing and red-teaming, governance, compliance, risk management, national security, privacy, data governance, regulatory compliance and consumer protection. Given her broad experience and up-to-the-minute knowledge of AI policy and legal developments worldwide, Anna often also serves as global AI policy counsel to major companies. Her clients have included leading public and private companies in the technology, asset management, banking, insurance and life sciences sectors, among others.

Tammy Haddad 

CEO, Haddad Media

Tammy Haddad is the founder of the bipartisan forum, the Washington AI Network, and host of the Washington AI Network Podcast to educate and facilitate progress on AI - from innovation to governance. She is a veteran communications and television executive with more than 30 years of experience as an award-winning executive producer of some of the most successful cable and network news programs. She is the founder and CEO of Haddad Media, an innovative production and communications consulting firm that provides customized strategies and creative programming opportunities for some of the world’s top media brands, technology disruptors, innovative startups, and nonprofit organizations. 


During her television career, Haddad served as vice president and political director of MSNBC, vice president of CNN and executive producer of Larry King Live, senior broadcast producer of NBC’s The Today Show and CBS’s The Late Late Show. She is the recipient of two John Foster Peabody Awards and a Gracie for news producer.

Aisha Iqbal

AI Policy Manager, Meta

Aisha Iqbal is an AI Policy Lead at Meta, providing product guidance on the company's Llama models and open source strategy. She works directly with Product and Engineering leads to identify high impact risks and apply appropriate policy mitigations. Aisha leads on external engagement work with regulators and civil society on internationalization and multilingual support. Prior to joining Meta, Aisha supported Google's Play Policy team with security and privacy concerns. 

Rebekkah Hogan

AI Program Manager, Meta

Rebekkah Hogan is an AI Program Management Lead at Meta building and scaling global programs that accelerate research and product development. With over 15 years of experience in research and program management, she is passionate about advancing the frontiers of AI and fostering collaboration and innovation across diverse stakeholders. 

 

 

Victoria Montanez

AI Product Manager, Meta

Victoria Montanez is Product Manager at Meta working on Foundational GenAI Model safety evaluations. She leads human and automatic evaluations prior to the depoloyment of all Llama models, ensuring each model meets appropriate launch benchmarks.

Chloe Burke

AI Policy Manager, Meta

Chloe M. Burke leads on the AI/Data and Privacy Policy team at Meta. She is at the helm of several of Meta's AI workstreams primarily focused on data privacy and AI Evals. Chloe’s portfolio focuses on a wide range of issues on a global scale to support the ongoing growth and viability of the business. She is an expert in: working with regulators around the world, leading on data privacy issues, internet safety, business and creator experiences, ads, content moderation, and youth and child safety internet protections. Chloe has honed an expertise in nascent technology like AI Evals. Chloe also leads on Meta’s external engagement work with regulators and industry groups on Evals and their corresponding benchmarks which are fundamental to building responsible AI.

Joyce Shen

AI Investor, Author, and Machine Learning , UC Berkeley

Joyce Shen is a seasoned venture capitalist and business builder with deep expertise in emerging technologies, data, AI/ML, and cybersecurity for enterprise applications. She also serves as adjunct faculty in data science at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, Joyce was the Global Managing Director in the Office of the CTO at Thomson Reuters (Reuters News, Refinitiv, and Thomson Reuters), where she founded the corporate venture fund. Before that, she was the founding Global CFO and COO of IBM Cloud Platform and began her career in M&A and Corporate Development at IBM.

Joyce holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Statistics and Economics and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She also pursued graduate studies in economics and M&A law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kriti Krishna

Venture Associate at HearstLab

Kriti Krishna is a Venture Associate at HearstLab, a venture arm backed by Hearst Corporation that invests in early-stage, female-founded startups. She focuses on sourcing and evaluating B2B software companies in the US, Europe, Japan, and Middle East. Kriti also provides strategic support to portfolio companies, including financial analysis, fundraising guidance, and exit planning.

Jayeeta Putatunda

Women in AI NYC Chapter Lead, Director - AI CoE @ Fitch Group

 Jayeeta is an award-winning Lead Data Scientist and Director at Fitch Group, specializing in NLP and Generative AI. Jayeeta is also one of the 33 advisors worldwide for the NVIDIA Enterprise Platform Advisor program. Her work has earned her significant recognition, including the AI100 award in Generative AI category 2024, and being named among the 25 visionary women in FinTech AI by Data Science Salon NYC 2024.

Jayeeta is a passionate advocate for women in tech. As NYC Chapter Lead for Women in AI and an ambassador for Stanford's Women in Data Science, she has conducted over 40+ tech talks and workshops. Her mentorship impact earned her a Times Square Billboard feature by Topmate, recognizing her as among the Top 1% of mentors in North America. Jayeeta is also a published author at prestigious venues like Association of Computing Machinery, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) etc. At Fitch, she's also engaged with 100 Women in Finance and was selected as a Shadow Board Member at Fitch Women's Network.

Run of show:

5pm-5:15pm


Understand

Opening Remarks


5:15pm- 5:45pm

Research

Fireside chat with thought leaders in AI Research & Policy



5:45-6:20pm

Build

‘Building with Llama’ Presentation by Partner Engineer


6:20pm – 7pm

Invest

Attracting investment keynote speech (Speaker announced soon)


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The Minimal NYC

Architect

Women in AI - NYC

Join us for a dynamic discussion highlighting the work of Women in AI!

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