A list of prior speaking engagements from Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo. Links to recordings/event webpages/articles have been provided as available.
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- February 2026: AI Startups in Africa briefing presentation to the Harvard Business School Africa Research Center — Remote
- January 2026: Keynote address the Nsk.ai Exchange Workshop on AI Governance and Data Privacy — Remote
- December 2025: Expert Consultation for World Bank World Development Report (WDR) 2026 - Virtual
- November 2025: Keynote at the 8th Annual MIT Policy Hackathon — Virtual
- October 2025: blackcomputeHER Reimagining AI Summit — Atlanta, GA
- October 2025: UNA-NCA Young Professionals Career Dinner — Washington, D.C.
- September 2025: Keynote at the launch of the African Hub on AI Safety, Peace, and Security — Cape Town, South Africa
- October 2025: blackcomputeHER Reimagining AI Summit — Atlanta, GA
- October 2025: UNA-NCA Young Professionals Career Dinner — Washington, D.C.
- September 2025: Keynote at the launch of the African Hub on AI Safety, Peace, and Security — Cape Town, South Africa
- August 2025: Keynote at the 1st CoCrea Forum on Generative AI — Medellín, Colombia
- July 2025: Keynote for the World Bank Group "DRIVE for People" AI Training Workshop — Washington, D.C.
- June 2025: "Large Models and Small Players: Leveraging AI in Small States and Startups" session at the Internet Governance Forum — Oslo, Norway
- June 2025: Fireside chat with Joseph Gordon-Levitt at the Internet Governance Forum — Oslo, Norway
- June 2025: "AI Explainability in the Global Majority: Development and Policy Perspectives" talk at the 4th Explainable AI for Computer Vision (XAI4CV) Workshop at CVPR 2025 — Remote
- May 2025: "Ethical Dimensions of AI in Storytelling" session for the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development AI & Tech Accountability Reporting Fellowship — Remote
- April 2025: "AI and Society" seminar for the Tunisian National Defense Institute — Arlington, VA
- March 2025: Tech Governance Project (TGov) Seminar on AI Governance — Remote
- February 2025: Alma Mater Europaea University AI Research Development Roundtable — Remote
- January 2025: Autonomous Innovation Summit — Remote
- December 2024: Keynote at the VII Brazilian Meeting on Research Integrity, Science and Publication Ethics — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- November 2024: Technology Transfer and Culture in Africa: Large Scale Models in Focus at the University of Johannesburg — Johannesburg, South Africa
- November 2024: AI in Africa Workshop at the ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF ‘24) — Remote
- November 2024: 27th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) — San José, Costa Rica
- October 2024: Georgia Tech Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society — Atlanta, GA
- October 2024: Global Action Forum — Washington, D.C.
- October 2024: Fundraising.AI Summit — Remote
- September 2024: Data Power Conference — Remote
- July 2024: Deep Learning IndabaX Uganda — Virtual
- July 2024: SSRC Workshop on “Drilling Down to the Data: Navigating Data Politics at the Heart of AI Policy — Brooklyn, NY
- July 2024: Design Justice AI Global Humanities Institute — Pretoria, South Africa
- June 2024: University of Johannesburg "Artificial Intelligence, Elections, and the Future of Democracy and Leadership: Global Experiences and Directions" — Virtual
- June 2024: “Building a Just AI Ecosystem in Africa” Just AI Conference — Cape Town, South Africa
- June 2024: FII PRIORITY Summit Rio de Janeiro Conclave: Accelerating Responsible AI in Emerging Markets — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- May 2024: Keynote in the AI, Digital & Data Solutions for Health Session at UNDP’s HIV and Health Community of Practice Meeting — Virtual/Istanbul, Turkey
- April 2024: Mozilla Seminar: Incorporating Trustworthiness as a Grounding Principle for AI in Africa — Virtual
- April 2024: I-GMAP Frontiers of Prevention Conference — Binghamton, NY
- March 2024: "AI in Africa: From Innovation to Governance", Equiano Institute AI Fellowship — Virtual
- March 2024: CEMRI Roundtable on the Implications of ChatGPT and Other AI Tools for Education in Africa — Virtual
- March 2024: CEPS Ideas Lab Plenary Session on the Future Governance of AI — Brussels, Belgium
- February 2024: German Federal Foreign Office Data Innovation Lab Webinar — Virtual
- February 2024: Forum for Cooperation on AI (FCAI) Roundtable on AI Development and Inclusion of the Global South — Virtual
- January 2024: World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC '24) — Abu Dhabi, UAE
- December 2023: DZGENAI'23, Algeria AI — Béni Abbès, Algeria
- December 2023: AI for Africa Conference, in conjunction with the African Startup Conference — Algiers, Algeria
- December 2023: Policymaking for AI & Web3: Advancements in Global AI Policy, Getting Plurality Research Network (Harvard University Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation and MIT Connection Science) — Virtual
- November 2023: The Future of AI Governance Webinar, EquiAI Initiative at the University of Durham — Virtual
- October 2023: AI + Society Forum, Wellcome Collection — London, UK
- August 2023: Yale Digital Humanities Lab Seminar Series, Yale University — Virtual
- May 2023: Stanford Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) Rising Stars Workshop, Stanford University — Stanford, CA
- April 2023: Many Worlds of AI Conference, University of Cambridge — Cambridge, UK
- April 2023: MIDAS Future Leaders Summit, University of Michigan — Ann Arbor, MI
- March 2023: Microsoft Africa Research Institute (MARI) Seminar — Virtual
- February 2023: CSRAI Young Achievers Symposium, Penn State — Virtual
- August 2022: AI4PAN Artificial Intelligence for Pandemics Seminar Series, University of Queensland — Virtual
- June 2021: Science Research Mentoring Program (SRMP), American Museum of Natural History — Virtual
- May 2021: 2nd ELLIS Workshop on Human-Centric Machine Learning
- May 2021: Keynote Talk, Practical Machine Learning for Developing Countries Workshop @ ICLR
- March 2021: Blackathon - A Virtual Hackathon for the Diaspora
- November 2020: Data Science for Social Good Workshop, Georgia Tech — Virtual
- March 2020: Speaker at the Empowerment Month Roundtable Discussion hosted by Cornell Graduate Women in Science & 500 Women Scientists
- October 2020: Spotlight Talk at the Michigan AI Symposium: AI and Health — Virtual
- December 2019: Women in AI Ignite Session, NeurIPS — Vancouver, BC
- March 2026: Guest lecture within the “AI: Policy, Law, and Ethics” course, Cornell University — Ithaca, NY
- March 2026: Guest lecture within the “Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society" course, Yale University — New Haven, CT
- February 2026: "Anticolonial AI: Reclaiming Power Against Systems of Algorithmic Extraction" talk at the Decolonial Perspectives Symposium, All Souls College — Oxford, UK
- January 2026: Lecture at the Data Privacy & Protection Masterclass by Privacy Hub Africa — Remote
- September 2025: Guest lecture in the Shock Lab, University of Cape Town — Remote
- April 2025: Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s AI4Society Seminar Series — Cambridge, MA
- April 2025: BPIA Colin Powell Leadership Institute Lecture on Artificial Intelligence & International Security — Remote
- March 2024: Inclusive AI Governance Guest Lecture, Global AI Governance (SEST 6735), Georgetown University — Washington, D.C.
- February 2025: Artificial Intelligence Strategy in the Security Domain Development Seminar for the Africa Center for Strategic Studies — Remote
- February 2025: "AI and the Global Majority" Lecture for the EUI Florence School of Transnational Governance AI and Governance: Embracing and Harnessing AI for the Public Good Course — Remote
- January 2025: Harvard Kennedy School Center for International Development Speaker Series — Cambridge, MA
- October 2024: "AI, Bias, and Ethics for Tech Diplomacy" Lecture, Foreign Service Institute
- October 2024: Africa Regional Seminar at Wharton’s Lauder Institute for Management and International Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- October 2024: African Studies Center on Ethics of AI in Africa Symposium, University of Kansas
- October 2024: Michigan AI Seminar, University of Michigan
- May 2024: AI Research Group Seminar, Georgia Tech School of Public Policy
- March 2024: Global AI Governance (SEST 6735), Georgetown University
- March 2024: University of Maryland Values-Centered AI Seminar, University of Maryland
- February 2024: University of Florida Center for African Studies Seminar Series, University of Florida
- February 2024: UT Austin Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis (IUPRA) Seminar Series on Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy, UT Austin
- October 2023: Georgetown Hoyalytics Seminar, Georgetown University
- September 2023: Pomona College Computer Science Colloquium, Pomona College
- October 2022: Change Seminar, University of Washington
- July 2022: Microsoft Research Technology & Empowerment (TEM) Seminar, Microsoft Research India
- July 2022: AI for Social Good Group Seminar, Google Research India
- November 2021: Computing for the Socio-Techno Web (CS CS115), Wellesley College
- April 2021: Technology for Underserved Communities (INFO 6600), Cornell University
- February 2026: "International Co-ordination for Inclusive Technology" Panel at the Tech for Good Conference, UChicago — Remote
- February 2026: "Toward Collective Action: A Roundtable on Safe & Trusted AI" Panel at the AI Impact Summit — New Delhi, India
- February 2026: "Advancing Multilingual AI: Global South Governance of Non-English Model Development and Deployment" Panel at the AI Impact Summit — New Delhi, India
- February 2026: "Data Governance at the Intersection of Digital Public Infrastructure and Artificial Intelligence" Panel at the AI Impact Summit — New Delhi, India
- January 2026: "Regulating AI Across Borders" Panel at Penn Carey Law Journal of International Law Symposium — Philadelphia, PA
- January 2026: Panel at "Benchmarking Beyond Borders: Making AI Testing Truly Global" hosted by the Center for Democracy and Technology — Washington, D.C.
- January 2026: Panel discussion at the inaugural Mila AI Policy Conference — Montreal, Canada
- November 2025: Expert Roundtable on Open Internet and Innovation at the European University Institute (EUI) — Florence, Italy
- November 2025: “Code of the Continent: Designing an African Future with AI” session at the Wharton Africa Business Forum — Philadelphia, PA
- October 2025: Panelist in the "African Youth and Women in AI" session at the G20 AI for Africa Conference — Cape Town, South Africa
- August 2025: "AI governance, ethics, and data sovereignty" panel at the Gates Foundation AI for Disease Modeling Convening — Dakar, Senegal
- June 2025: "Bridging the AI Language Divide: Safeguarding Linguistic Diversity" session at the UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of AI — Bangkok, Thailand
- June 2025: "Contextualizing AI Regulatory Approaches in Africa" session at 2nd Conference on the State of Artificial Intelligence in Africa — Nairobi, Kenya
- May 2025: "AI for all beings: Translating ethics into action" session at Web Summit — Vancouver, Canada
- May 2025: "The Human Equation: Balancing Act in AI Safety with Scale" panel at Vancity Innovation House — Vancouver, Canada
- May 2025: "AI for Sustainable Development in Africa" webinar for the Global Center on AI Governance and the African Observatory on Responsible AI — Remote
- May 2025: "The Global Impact of AI" event for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation — Washington, D.C.
- May 2025: "Global AI Governance - Balancing Innovation and Accountability" session at Deep Tech Summit — Benguerir, Morocco
- April 2025: "Building the Ecosystems: Preparing Africa for the Digital Future" panel at the George Washington University Africa’s Youth and the Technology Revolution Conference — Washington, D.C.
- April 2025: "AI for All: African Youth Voices Shaping the Future" session at the Global AI Summit on Africa — Kigali, Rwanda
- March 2025: "What Does AI Mean for Climate Change and Gender Equity?" panel for Black Professionals in International Affairs (BPIA) — Remote
- March 2025: "Emerging Technologies and the Global South" panel at the Georgetown Journal of International Law Symposium — Washington, D.C.
- March 2025: "Risks and rewards in the Al race" panel at EuroFinance Treasury & Cash Management Summit West Coast — Santa Clara, CA
- February 2025: “Green futures: AI, ecology, and policies for people and the planet” Session at RightsCon — Taipei, Taiwan
- February 2025: “Africa’s AI Strategy: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Path Forward” Panel at the Harvard Africa Business Conference — Cambridge, MA
- February 2025: United Nations Diplomats Briefing “AI Key Concepts and Recent Trends: Information Session for Member States" for the UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (ODET) — Remote
- February 2025: “Catalyzing AI Innovation Ecosystems Worldwide” Panel at Trustworthy Innovation for a Connected World AI Action Summit Side Event — Paris, France
- February 2025: Africa AI Village — Paris, France
- January 2025: Howard Law Ferguson Symposium, Howard University
- December 2024: "Transforming Nonprofit Engagement With AI: Insights from Early Adopters" Panel, Twilio
- October 2024: "AI Governance: Navigating the Ethics and Regulation of Emerging Technologies in Media & Communication" Panel, Johns Hopkins University
- October 2024: "Technology, Media, and Democracy" Panel, MacArthur Foundation
- October 2024: COIR Symposium, American Women for International Understanding (AWIU)
- October 2024: Fundraising.AI Summit
- September 2024: Roundtable on AI in the Global South, Wilson Center Science and Technology Innovation Program (STIP)
- September 2024: "The State of AI Governance in the African Union" Panel, The Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC)
- September 2024: "The Transformative Power of AI" Panel at the TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Shaping the Future of AI, TIME
- September 2024: "The Promise and Perils of AI: Issues at Stake in the 2024 Election", The Brookings Institution and Spelman College
- September 2024: "Empowering African Voices in AI: Data, Models, and Innovation" workshop, Deep Learning Indaba
- July 2024: Salesforce Global AI Leadership Summit
- June 2024: The Economics of AI in Africa, _HoaQ Club _
- June 2024: "Where does Society Stand on Responsible AI?" Panel, Global Digital Development Forum
- May 2024: "An African Perspective on AI Governance" Roundtable, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- April 2024: The African Union AI Continental Strategy: Examining the African AI Landscape for the Center for Strategic & International Studies — Virtual
- April 2024: Stanford HAI AI+Policy Symposium: A Global Stocktaking, Stanford University
- April 2024: Anchoring AI in Policy and Politics of Change Session, CRPE Think Forward AI Learning Forum
- February 2024: Digital & AI: The Power of New Technology in Africa Panel (Recording), Harvard Africa Health Conference
- February 2024: BEYA STEM Conference Panel on Inclusive Tech, Baltimore, MD
- December 2023: AI-Powered Innovation: Exploring the Impact of Generative AI on African Startups, African Startup Conference
- November 2023: “AI safety beyond the UK Summit: A conversation with Secretary Michelle Donelan”, The Brookings Institution
- October 2023: “Why the Global South has a stake in dialogues on AI governance”, The Brookings Institution
- March 2022: URMC Graduate School & Research Panel
- October 2021: AI in Society Workshop, Cornell University
- May 2021: Stockholm Internet Forum
- March 2021: Grad Student Workshop Series, Cornell Undergraduate Research Board (CURB)
- February 2021: “Navigating Venture Capital Investments: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”, Doing Good Work in Africa (DOWA)
- February 2021: ColorStack Sprout Research/Academia Panel
- February 2021: "Industry vs. Grad School”, Black and Brown in CS @ Pomona College
- December 2020: Global Black Youth Fest
- December 2020: Cornell New Visions Engineering Program, Cornell University
- November 2020: National Society of Black Engineers Post-Undergrad Panel, Johns Hopkins University
- November 2020: “Black Entrepreneurship: Overcoming Adversity and Staying Focused”, eCornell
- October 2020: "Voices from the Field" Panel, GEM Grad Lab @ SUNY Albany
- September 2020: "How Can Ph.D. and Postdocs Pursue Entrepreneurship?", Women Entrepreneurs Cornell
- June 2020: CS Rising SophoMore (CSMore) Summer Program PhD Panel, Cornell University
- October 2019: Entrepreneurship & Technology Panel, Cornell African Development Conference
- August 2019: "Mastering Your Transition Into and Progression Through Graduate School", Cornell Summer Success Symposium
- January 2025: "DeepSeek’s AI is cheap. Is this a game-changer for African startups?", CSIS The Afropolitan Podcast
- January 2025: "Realizing Africa’s Potential: A Conversation with Book Author, Landry Signé", Brookings TechTank Podcast
- October 2024: "Meet Nigerian-American Computer Scientist, Chinasa Okolo Named in TIME 100" with Channels TV
- October 2024: Charting an AI Roadmap for the Emerging World, Siliconsciousness
- September 2024: How Infrastructure, Education can Boost Africa’s Adoption of AI, Development, Africa Interviews
- September 2024: “Focus on Africa Podcast”, BBC
- April 2024: The AI Revolution for Health in Africa, Health Tech Africa
- September 2023: Equitable AI Development in the Global South with Chinasa Okolo ’18, Pomona College Sagecast
- August 2022: How to Craft Your Pitch, Startup School by Ajim Capital
- January 2022: #28: Talking AI, AI ethics, and microinvesting ft. Chinasa T. Okolo, The Black Enterprise Network
- February 2021: You Belong in AI! S2E2 - Chinasa T. Okolo, UCLA ACM AI Outreach
- October 2020: TechGal Diaries
- April 2018: #NewFaceofTech 2018: Q&A with 2017 Winner Chinasa Okolo, HARMAN
- October 2018: Kauffman Scholars Program Impact, Kauffman Foundation
- July 2014: 2014 Graduate Highlight: Chinasa T. Okolo, Kansas City Public Schools