State of AI for Humanity at Davos 2025
AI & Humanity
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Synopsis
As with World Economic Forum 2024, AI for Humanity, not just AI, will certainly be a key topic of discussion at Davos 2025.
As Davos offers a sense of community with a unique and intimate experience where scientists, dignitaries, world leaders, VCs, change-makers and a plethora of individuals with transformative ideas will converge to effect positive change for the world, James will share his finding on the current state of AI for Humanity from first hand experience at Davos 2025 and provide key insights on how we can take the advocacy of AI for Humanity to the next level in 2025 and beyond.
Dr James Ong
Founder and Managing Director, Artificial Intelligence International Institute (AIII)
He founded Artificial Intelligence International Institute (AIII), a think tank advocating Sustainable AI for Humanity and is co-author of “AI for Humanity: Building A Sustainable AI for the Future” (ISBN: 9781394180301) published by Wiley.
He is Adjunct Professor at SUTD and AI Mega Centre, a member of the National Supercomputing Centre Singapore (NSCC)’s new Strategic Resource Allocation Committee (SRAC) and Head of AI, Chair of AI Subcommittee and Professional Council Member at Global Fintech Institute (GFI). He is also CEO of Origami Frontiers, a venture building firm, Venture Partner at Delight Capital and Partner at Hashtaqs.
James is active in the AI ecosystem globally as co-founder of the inaugural AIMX world summit 2023 in Singapore advocating for AI4Good and AI Governance and also Tech4SDG Alliance for Asia, as International Advisor for World AI Conference (WAIC) and as Industry Co-Chair for IEEE CAI (Conference on AI) 2024 and has also participated and collaborated with UNIDO and UNU at Macau.
James started his career as an AI scientist in 1986 at leading US MCC research lab on advanced AI Fifth Generation Computer research and was one of the pioneer senior executives at Trilogy, an AI pioneer and enterprise software startup. He received his PhD from University of Texas at Austin specializing in AI for Governance and Business Process Automation.
Yen-Lu Chow
Founding Executive Chairman WholeTree Limited / Over-The-Rainbow; Asia Institute of Mentoring | Founding Partner Fatfish MediaLab | Executive Mentor YSI SEA | Founder of the Deep Human Movement
A former Apple Distinguished Technologist, Yen-Lu is an award-winning entrepreneur, technologist, venture catalyst & angel investor, mentor & advisor turned author and keynote speaker, mental wellbeing champion, social innovator & change-maker, ecosystem builder, philanthropist and humanist.
As an angel investor and venture catalyst in the tech ecosystem, Yen-Lu has mentored young entrepreneurs and businesses for many years. He has made significant contributions to the Singapore tech and entrepreneurship ecosystem, serving on countless startup business plan competitions internationally, government panels on innovation and entrepreneurship, and as mentor and advisor to the major universities. He co-founded a business angel fund in partnership with the Singapore government, served as a director of Business Angel Network SEA, executive mentor and adjunct professor to NUS Enterprise, mentor to INSEAD, plus numerous panels on entrepreneurship and innovation internationally. As an expert and practitioner in speech recognition and language processing (with 6 international patents and having worked in the field for over 20 years since early 1980’s while leading Apple’s initiative in this area in the early 1990’s), he was an early pioneer in the application of AI with a strong base in the tech space.
He is on a life mission to help bring about a kinder, gentler, more inclusive, more just, and sustainable world.
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