Crystal Good
West Virginia's Crystal Good is the founder of Black Appalachia Council
BLAC West Virginia
West Virginia is one of the vulnerable states that Data Center buildouts are underway
Esosa Osa
Esosa Osa, Founder and CEO - Onyx Impact
Onyx Impact is a nonprofit research, media, and technology organization dedicated to amplifying Black voices and protecting Black communities in an era of propaganda. Bad actors have made the digital world a battleground. Black communities are targeted by their lies, digital manipulation, and online harm at alarming rates. To change this, we turn data-driven research into innovative strategies that create resilient digital spaces—where Black people are empowered, protected, and heard.
https://onyximpact.org/
POCIT
POCIT is the world’s leading platform for the underrepresented in tech to share, grow, and get hired.
https://peopleofcolorintech.com/
Dr. Ayanna Howard
Spelman College President,
Dr. Ayanna Howard
Dr Ayanna Howard is THE Leading Thought Leader on AI in our and many others estimation given her work and standing in the industry.
Dr. Howard acknowledges that AI will take away jobs and opportunities, but she also wants people to understand how to utilise AI to the best of its ability. The future of AI cannot depend on engineers in Silicon Valley; she argues it should come from all of us. With more Black people being pushed out of the workforce due to the increase in AI, how can we build with AI?
Black in AI
Timnit Gebru - the first Black woman to be hired as a research scientist at Google in the United States—brainstormed a solution with fellow history-maker Rediet Abebe, the first Black woman to earn a PhD in computer science from Cornell University and the first Black woman to become a tenure-track professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Timnit W. Gebru (Amharic and Tigrinya: ትምኒት ገብሩ; 1982/1983) is an Eritrean Ethiopian-born computer scientist who works in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithmic bias and data mining.[5] She is a co-founder of Black in AI, an advocacy group that has pushed for more Black roles in AI development and research.
Timnit Gebru
The Distributed AI Research Institute is an independent organization conducting community-rooted research. We are a globally distributed group of academics, activists, and engineers who believe in technology that benefits everyone.
Failing Smell Test
Foul, Out of Bounds, Off Road