MozFest's signature speaker series will explore how AI intersects with power, labor, truth, and other issues.
Dialogues & Debates is MozFest's speakers series — a place for fiery conversations and compelling panels.
As this year's festival moves online, so will our Dialogues & Debates programming. Between March 8 and March 18, we'll broadcast deep discussions about biased algorithms; how AI is upending labor rights; how to build better data stewardship models; and much more. Festival participants will hear from 25 speakers from 10 countries.
Below, learn more about our Dialogues & Debates speakers and the schedule:
Cierra Robson, Associate Director, Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab at Princeton University
Dr. Sarah Roberts, Co-Director, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry
Nighat Dad, Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation
Julie Owono, Executive Director, Internet Sans Frontières
And moderator J. Bob Alotta, Mozilla's VP of Global Programs
Touria Meliani, Deputy Mayor, City of Amsterdam
Marleen Stikker, Founder, Waag Futurelab
Neema Iyer, Founder and Director, Pollicy
Alexander Fefegha, Co-Founder and Director, COMUZI
Rida Qadri, PhD Candidate in Urban Information Systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Lilly Irani, Associate Professor, Communication, Science Studies, Computer Science, Critical Gender Studies at UC San Diego
Sherry Stanley, Lead Organizer, Turkopticon
and moderator Becca Ricks, Mozilla Researcher
Deb Raji, Mozilla Fellow
Camille François, Mozilla Fellow
AI & Truth | Monday, March 15 @ 11am ET / 4pm CET
The AI powering our most influential communications platforms has a critical vulnerability: it rewards engagement, not truth or civility. Can AI be designed differently to avoid this pitfall? And if so, what conditions and incentives must be changed for this to be the case? A panel featuring:
Jacquelyn Mason, Senior Investigative Researcher, First Draft News
Dr. Peaks Krafft, Lead, Creative Computing Institute at UAL
Mutale Nkonde, CEO, AI for the People
Rasha Abdul-Rahim, Acting Director, Amnesty Tech
and moderator Brandi Geurkink, Senior Campaigner, Mozilla
Briana Marbury, Executive Director, Interledger Foundation
Harriet Kingaby, Co-Founder, The Conscious Advertising Network
Anouk Ruhaak, Mozilla Fellow
Dr. Funda Üstek-Špilda, Researcher and Project Manager, Fairwork
Astha Kapoor, Co-Founder, Aapti Institute
and moderator Solana Larsen, Editor, Mozilla's Internet Health Report
Dr. Melissa Haendel, Director of Translational Data Science, Oregon State University. And, Director of the Center for Data to Health (CD2H) at Oregon Health & Science University
Ricardo Ruiz Freire, Supervisory Board Member, Global Innovation Gathering
Dr. Netha Hussain, medical doctor, researcher, and 10-year Wikipedia volunteer
And moderator Abby Cabunoc Mayes, Program Manager, MozFest Technical Relationships