Designing An Effective AI Literacy Strategy: A How to Guide for Leaders

Alex is a leader in AI and has built products used by millions of people (real-time event detection/emergency response, healthcare, self-driving cars, media, telecomm, etc.) at companies such as Yahoo, Telefónica, IBM, Fuji Xerox, Siemens, AT&T Bell Labs, DigitalOcean, etc. An early voice in Human-Centered AI (Computing), he has over 100 patents and publications in top-tier conferences and journals in AI. He has been featured widely in the press (MIT Tech review, CNBC, Vice, TechCrunch, Yahoo! Finance, etc.). He is a mentor at Endeavor and Techstars, and was a member of the advisory board of Digital Divide Data (a non-for-profit that creates sustainable tech opportunities for underserved youth, their families, and their communities in Asia and Africa). He was an expert in the Colombian Government’s Artificial Intelligence Expert Mission which advised the President on AI policies.

Doug Laney consults with business, data, and analytics leaders on conceiving and implementing new data-driven value streams. Previously, Doug was a Distinguished Analyst with Gartner’s Chief Data Officer research and advisory team and was a three-time Gartner annual thought leadership award recipient. He launched and managed the Deloitte Analytics Institute, is a Forbes contributing writer, and has been published in the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. He originated the field of infonomics and authored the best-selling book, Infonomics. He was listed in the dataIQ Top 100 Most Influential People in Data.