Designing ethical AI systems: A hands-on workshop

Amir Feizpour is the founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Aggregate Intellect building a generative business brain for service and science based companies. Amir has built and grown a global community of 5000+ AI practitioners and researchers gathered around topics in AI research, engineering, product development, and responsibility. Prior to this, Amir was an NLP Product Lead at Royal Bank of Canada. Amir held a research position at University of Oxford conducting experiments on quantum computing resulting in high profile publications and patents. Amir holds a PhD in Physics from University of Toronto. Amir also serves the AI ecosystem as an advisor at MaRS Discovery District, works with several startups as fractional chief AI officer, and engages with a wide range of community audiences (

Lena Shakurova is the founder & CEO at ParsLabs, Conversational AI agency and Chatbotly, a no-code platform for building AI assistants trained on custom data. Since 2018+, her agency helped 100+ companies with their AI projects, from strategy to production. Prior to this, Lena worked as an NLP Research Engineer and Full-Stack Developer. Lena focuses on ethical, user-first AI, leveraging her expertise in Linguistics & AI to create responsible AI solutions that drive business results. She shares insights on AI innovation and human-centered design through her blog, LinkedIn and YouTube channel.