Jack Clark is a director of OpenAI, an AI research organization that ensures that the benefits of general artificial intelligence are broadened and evenly distributed. Jack works primarily on political and security issues. He is also involved in the development of the AI ​​Index, an AI prediction and advancement initiative that is part of the Stanford One Hundred Year Study on AI. In his spare time, he writes an AI newsletter, Import AI (importai.net), which is read by over ten thousand experts. Jack thinks that in the next five years, with AI we will see systems that act on the culture that will be reinjected into humans spreading throughout the world.

“Yeshi” Milner is an American technologist and activist. She is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Data for Black Lives with whom she works to advance people of color in the fields of computing and artificial intelligence, in order to combat racial biases in technology. In 2018, she received a Roddenberry Foundation Fellowship, which honors and invests in amazing people who can change the world. Yeshi was among the speakers of FACCT21, her performance was greatly appreciated.

Julia Angwin is an American investigative journalist. She is a specialist in the study of algorithms. She was a reporter at ProPublica until April 2018. She has since founded The Markup, a media specializing in studying the effect of digital on society. She was invited to the FAccT Conference to discuss the link between algorithms, accountability and journalism. In particular, she criticizes the fact that most risk-calculating apps in the criminal justice system do not use race as an input variable, while large universities use risk-calculating apps that use race as an input variable. a “high impact predictor” to determine which students should be referred to easier majors. On the other hand Julia thinks that the level of coverage of the technology in the media reveals the situation our society on civil rights.

Vijay directs the University of Texas Systems and Storage Lab. His group aims to build the next generation of storage systems. This means building storage systems that deliver higher performance and reliability. His group builds both storage systems and the tools necessary to rigorously develop such systems, such as test frameworks. His group’s work involves innovation in both data structure and systems. It aims to have an impact both in academia and in industry. Following expert Luke Stark's refusal to receive the Google Award, he said that it takes a lot of strength and clarity to reject an award you just received. However, a few months ago Jeff Dean the expert at google forwarded his messages to his community.