“Humanity is at a turning point with AI”

So said Geoffrey Hinton, widely considered the godfather of AI, speaking in a recent episode of 60 Minutes. While our industry is focused on developing and delivering AI innovations to transform our lives and businesses, Hinton and others fear the “darkside” of AI.

EE Times and Silicon Catalyst invite you to join our webinar as we look to examine the broader implications of our industry’s activities using the critical lenses of:

  • Social Impact

  • Regulatory Oversight

  • Investment Strategies

The live broadcast of this webinar will be moderated by Nitin Dahad, EE Times Correspondent, with his esteemed panelists:

Moderator: Nitin Dahad - EE Times Correspondent

Panel Members:

Nitin Dahad - EE Times Correspondent

Nitin Dahad is Editor in Chief of embedded.com, as well as a correspondent for EE Times. An electronic engineering graduate from City University, he’s been an engineer, journalist and entrepreneur. He was part of ARC International’s startup team and took it public, and he co-founded a publication called The Chilli in the early 2000s. Nitin has also worked with National Semiconductor, GEC Plessey Semiconductors, Dialog Semiconductor, Marconi Instruments, Coresonic, Center for Integrated Photonics, IDENT Technology and Jennic. Nitin also held a role with government promoting U.K. technology globally in the U.S., Brazil, Middle East and Africa, and India.

Jama Adams - COO of Responsible Innovation Labs

Jama Adams is COO of a coalition of leading startup founders and investors creating the next generation of high growth technology companies with responsible innovation at their core. Jama was the first hire on Bill & Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge and took the pledge from zero to $1 trillion in three years, growing the ranks to nearly 100 billionaires (today it stands at $3 trillion from 236 signers). She raised $1.8 billion in Series B funding in 12 weeks for Commonwealth Fusion Systems. In other roles – as founder of a consulting firm, on the Omidyar impact investing team, as Communications Director for the City of New York, on political campaigns, on Capitol Hill, and at Harvard Kennedy School, Jama has brought together elite influencers, frontline organizers, business executives, and created new organizations and industries to make change.

Navin Chaddha - Managing Partner, Mayfield

Navin leads Mayfield as Managing Partner. Under his leadership, Mayfield has raised eight U.S. funds and guided over 80 companies to positive outcomes. He has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and has ranked on the Forbes Midas List of Top 100 Tech Investors fifteen times, including being named in the Top Five in 2020, 2022 and 2023. Navin’s investments have created over $120 billion in equity value and over 40,000 jobs. During his venture capital career, Navin has invested in over 60 companies, of which 18 have gone public and 27 have been acquired. Navin was one of the earliest Silicon Valley investors to leverage the promise of tech in India. As an entrepreneur, Navin has co-founded or led three startups including VXtreme: a streaming media platform, acquired by Microsoft to become Windows Media; Rivio/CPA.com: a SaaS provider for small businesses, and iBeam Broadcasting (NASDAQ:IBEM): a streaming media content delivery network. Navin holds an MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi, where he was honored with the distinguished IIT Alumni Award. Navin is an active philanthropist who supports education, diversity, equity, inclusion, and food scarcity groups.

Rohit Israni - Chair AI Standards, US (INCITS/ANSI)

Rohit is the founder and CEO of CertientAI. He is also the Chair AI Standards for the US national body responsible for developing US positions and contributions to international AI standards being developed by ISO/IEC (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42). He is also the liaison for SC 42 with Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Prior to founding CertientAI, he led Intel’s global scale ecosystem enabling programs in the Developer Relations Division for AI, Datacenter and Network, of which he co-founded the AI partnership program (Intel AI Builders). Here, he built and led a large global team of business development professionals and application engineers chartered with developing partnerships with AI ISVs, SIs, OEMs, CSPs and AI university programs world-wide. Rohit earned a Masters’ degree in Engineering with a specialization in Robotics and AI from Tulane University. He also holds a Master’s degree in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University where he was a part of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.