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A JOINT SESSION WITH WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD)
The use of artificial intelligence is growing in many areas: hiring, healthcare, travel, household functions. These AI examples rely heavily on deep learning and natural language processing, but its use has sparked a debate about bias and fairness. Human decision making can be shaped by unconscious individual and societal biases. Will AI’s decisions be less biased than human ones? How are companies addressing this potential AI bias with regards to hiring, data crunching, and other critical business functions? What information should boards of directors be armed with as they bring their companies into the newest age of artificial intelligence?
SPEAKERS
CHEEMIN BO-LINN
Dr. Cheemin Bo-Linn, CEO of Peritus Partners and former IBM Vice-President, serves as independent Board of Director of public and private companies. Inducted into the "Hall of Fame for Women in Tech" supported by U.S. Presidents Bush through Obama, she is recognized for her expertise in scaling growth by leveraging AI/ML insight, monetizing data analytics, cybersecurity resolution, and SaaS deployments.
ELLEN CAMPANA
Dr. Ellen Campana is Director of AI and NLP Platforms at KPMG. She has been developing and delivering Artificial Intelligence software for 20 years, ranging from a conversational AI system for the International Space Station to a predictive analytics for omnichannel customer experience for top 5 banks. Before joining KPMG, Ellen was a technical leader at Intel and healthcare based startup Apixio. She was also a tenure-track professor in Art, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University.
GLENN GOW
Glenn Gow is a former CEO and has been a board member of four companies. In his role as a Partner at Clear Ventures, he also coaches CEOs. His specialty is working as a board member to help guide companies through technology disruptions, especially AI. He has advised numerous leading tech companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and many more, on strategy.
Presently, he serves as a Partner at Clear Ventures – a VC firm whose partners have produced 34 exits yielding $52 billion from 8 IPOs and 24 acquisitions. As a board observer for Clear Ventures portfolio companies, he is responsible for helping management teams accelerate growth by leveraging technology.
Glenn brings extensive technology domain expertise at the board level, helping companies take advantage of the digital transformations happening in their industries, with a special focus on AI.
Glenn is a respected thought leader on a variety of technology marketing and AI. His articles have been published in Forbes, Fortune, CIO Magazine, Inc., and InfoWorld. He is a sought-after speaker on the topic of technology-enabled growth and has spoken at the National Association of Corporate Directors, MIT/Stanford Venture Lab, Harvard Business School, Northern California Venture Capital Association.
Glenn’s board experience includes:
Member Board of Directors, Soteria Intelligence. Glenn contributes to corporate strategy, risk, and governance. Soteria is an AI-based company delivering the next generation of social media and digital customer experience solutions.
Chairman of the Board and CEO, Crimson Consulting Group. Glenn ran this highly successful strategy consulting firm, while serving as Chairman of the Board. The company helped Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle, SAP, Seagate, VMware and many start-ups become even more successful through strategic and technical marketing consultation. The company was sold.
Member Board of Directors, acuteIQ. Glenn advised the CEO on strategy, corporate structure, product roadmap, market adoption, and positioning. acuteIQ is a customer acquisition platform that uses artificial intelligence and first-party data to deliver a 4X improvement in performance. The company was acquired.
Member Board of Directors, Ventra Systems. Glenn contributed to strategy, governance and compensation issues. Ventra is a revolutionary water processing system to remove toxins from groundwater. The company was acquired.
Advisory Board Member, Checkd.in. Glenn advised the CEO on the transition from a professional services firm to a subscription-based revenue company. Checkd.in is a company collects consumer data from celebrity fans to enable pinpoint targeting, resulting in massive improvement in revenue across multiple venues and channels. The company was acquired.
Glenn holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSBA in Quantitative Management from the University of Florida. Glenn advises Stanford Engineering and Computer Science students on digital transformation and business.
Glenn is an avid sportsman and adventurer including skiing, mountain biking, scuba diving, rock climbing, skydiving, kayaking, paddleboarding, kiteboarding, and surfing with friends and family.
JAY MANDAL
Jay Mandal is an entrepreneur, executive and lawyer. He is currently VP of Product Strategy at SAP Ariba, and Fellow and Guest Lecturer at Stanford Law School Center for Legal Informatics. He was co-founder and CEO of LawPivot, an online legal Q&A solution, which the team sold to Rocket Lawyer. At Rocket Lawyer, he then served as GM of the Legal Advice Business, in charge of products that connected users to lawyers and also managed the nation-wide network of lawyers.
Prior to that, he was the lead mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Apple. He began his career as a corporate and securities lawyer at Brobeck and Pillsbury. Most recently, he was Vice President of Product Partnerships and Corporate Development at Optimizely, a marketing technology company.
Jay received his J.D. from U.C. Berkeley and B.A in Economics from Stanford, and was a Fulbright Scholar to India.
Entrepreneurial and results-driven product executive, general manager and dealmaker. 20+ years of experience with B2B and B2C technology companies, with wide range of leadership roles from startups to SAP and Apple. Innovative business leader and builder of world class product development and cross-functional teams. Proven track record of success as a dealmaker – negotiated and built partnerships with Fortune 500 tech companies, and led company acquisitions for talent, technology and business lines.
DAN SICILIANO (moderator)
F. Daniel Siciliano is a successful technology entrepreneur, Chairman of the board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and a recognized expert in corporate strategy and governance, capital financial markets, technological disruption (including fintech, AI and cybersecurity), and executive compensation.
Siciliano is a Fellow at Stanford Law School (CodeX), Emeritus Co-Director of Stanford’s Directors’ College, prior Co-Chair of the We Robot Conference on AI/Robotics, Law, and Policy, and is the immediate past faculty director of the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University. Siciliano is a co-founder, board member, and Chairman of the Silicon Valley Directors’ Exchange (SVDX), Chairman of the national non-partisan American Immigration Council, past-President of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Council #1057, and an active member of the Latino Corporate Directors’ Association and board member of the Latino Corporate Directors’ Education Foundation.
In 2017, Siciliano founded Optemy, a new type of technology consultancy that trains and advises boards and executives on topics of disruption/change management, the impact of autonomous (AI/ML/robotic) systems and innovations, related executive compensation and multi-generational talent management strategies, corporate compliance, and technological competitiveness and security. He is a native Spanish speaker and his personal interests include general aviation and space sciences, the culinary specialties of the Oaxaca region of Mexico, and marine biology. He lives in Los Altos, California with his family.
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