2025 Programme

Welcome to the Opportunity, Responsibility + Accountability in Data + AI (ORADA) Conference, where we've brought together global leaders, organizations and experts to explore the potential of data and AI solutions while prioritizing ethical and responsible practices. We're excited to bring you the following insights-filled, interactive and hands-on programme.

ORADA will take place from Thursday, 3 April to Friday 4 April 2025

Day 1: Thursday, 3 April 2025

09:00 - 09:15 Welcome and Opening

09:15 - 10:00 Keynote - Balancing the Opportunity, Responsibility and Accountability in Data and AI

10:00 - 10:45 The Business Case for Responsible and Accountable Data and AI

10:45 - 11:00 Break & Networking

11:00 - 12:00 PAM: Founderland’s AI platform for underrepresented founders, designed with inclusivity at its core

12:00 - 13:30 From AI Opportunities to AI Responsibility and Compliance: Unpacking the EU AI Act (Mini-Workshop)

13:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:15 Cyber Influence in the Age of AI: Hostile, Digital Influence Perpetrators, Methods and What lies Ahead of Us

15:15 - 15:30 Outtro to Workshops & Networking Break

15:30 - 17:30 Workshop Break-aways

Workshop 2: Practical Machine Learning Modelling (Mini-Workshop)

Workshop 3: The Turing Institute - AI Ethics Governance in Practice

Day 2: Friday, 4 April 2025

09:00 - 09:15 Welcome Back

09:15 - 10:00 Enabling a Responsible AI Ecosystem

10:00 - 11:00 Achieving Social and Economic Inclusion in the Age of Data & A.I

11:00 - 11:15 Break & Networking

11:15 - 12:00 Panel: Cybersecurity in the Age of Data & AI: Challenges and Opportunities

12:00 - 13:00 AI Adoption at the Edge to Process Data locally

13:00 - 13:15 Vote of Thanks and Closing

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Our Vision for the Future

At ORADA, we are dedicated to fostering a community that embraces the transformative power of technology while ensuring inclusivity and sustainability. Our platform is designed to facilitate meaningful connections and knowledge sharing among professionals from diverse backgrounds.

Technology powered Business Leadership: Access business, tech and academic perspectives grounded in experience and science
Inspiring, Global Use Cases: Bringing together perspectives from leaders and practitioners from around the world to facilitate diverse use cases
Practical and Actionable Take-aways: strategic imperatives, leading practices + practical, actionable methods and take-aways

Product

What Sets Us Apart

Discover a seamless virtual experience that enables real-time interactions, customizable event workflows, and immersive content delivery.

Immersive Networking

Engage in productive discussions and build valuable connections during and after ORADA.

AI-Powered Insights

Gain valuable insights on which responsible data and AI practices are practical and effective and learn how to apply them for your use.

Interactive Sessions

Experience dynamic and interactive sessions including keynotes, panels and workshops, to elevate engagement and give you the takeaways you're looking for.

Topics of Interest

This year's theme focuses on Balancing the Opportunity, Responsibility and Accountability in Data and AI.

The Business Case for Responsible and Accountable Data and AI
AI Value Case and Case Studies
Data and AI Explainability
Debiasing Data and AI solutions
Data, Digital Trust and AI Trustworthiness
Getting to Trustworthy AI
Building Trust with Customers when Deploying Data and AI Solutions
Regulatory Considerations when Implementing Data and AI Solutions
Rethinking Implementation Plans and Stage Gates in the Age of Data and AI
Ethics in the Data and AI field
Privacy in the Data and AI field
Embedding Data and AI Ethics into the Organisation
Governance and Brand Protection in the age of AI
Getting Training Data Accountability Ready
Managing Organisational Risk when Implementing Data and AI Solutions
Managing Personal Risk when using Data and AI Solutions
Cybersecurity in the Age of AI
Workforce Evolution for the Age of Data & AI
Augmenting Human Capital - Success Cases
Rethinking the Human Capital Development Plan for the Age of Data & AI

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Our 2024 Speakers

Executive Director

Timnit Gebru

The Distributed AI Research Institute, USA

Country Manager

Monica Rubombora

Uganda Airlines, South Africa

Director

Florian Frank

Cyfluence Research Center gGmbH, Germany

Vice President of Customer Analytics

Amy Russ

Synchrony, USA

Chief Executive

Lesiba Mothatha

Benguela Global Fund Managers, South Africa

Responsible AI Lead

Triveni Gandhi

Dataiku, USA/France

Global Health Informaticist

Adrienne T. Brown

Cultivatics, LLC, USA

Global Data & AI for CFO & Enterprise Value Lead

Andrea G. Francis

Accenture, USA

Managing Director

Deborah Choi

Founderland, Germany

Executive Director

Kortney Ziegler

WellMoney, USA

Transdisciplinary Designer and Managing Partner

Rashid Owoyele

transekt.agency, Germany

Common Pillars of Responsible Data and AI

Explainability

How easily AI outcomes and the methodology that produces them can be explained for a business-oriented understanding

Bias and Fairness

How to mitigate bias from the start of predictive and generative AI project design to increase fairness, accuracy, and trustworthiness

Reproducibility

How consistently AI applications function as intended, even in unexpected situations, while prioritizing user safety

Sustainability

How consistently AI tools, systems and platforms are developed and used in a way that aligns with ethical and responsible principles

Transparency

How well people can understand and explain the inner workings and decision-making processes of AI tools, systems and platforms

Become an ORADA Sponsor

ORADA is proud to partner with organizations that are committed to implementing and executing inclusive people-first data and AI practices. If you’re interested in becoming an event sponsor, don’t hesitate to contact us today!

Sponsor Information

About The Organizers

Inno Yolo and DataedX Group created the Opportunity, Responsibility + Accountability in Data + AI (ORADA) Conference to help fill a key gap within the data and AI ecosystems: a global showcase of practical solutions and best practices that are anchored by use cases. We're reaching beyond frameworks and blueprints to help ease the adoption of responsible data and AI across the globe. Join us for inspiration-filled keynotes, panels, workshops and more!

CEO and Founder, Inno Yolo

Avela Gronemeyer

Avela Gronemeyer is an entrepreneur, a former Managing Director at Accenture and a 2023 Women-In-Tech Africa Lifetime Achievement Award nominee. In 2024 she was named among the Top 20 Most Influential Women in Tech in Africa. Her areas of specialisation include digital transformation, technology innovation, data and AI ethics (with a special focus on AI privacy).

About Inno Yolo

Inno Yolo is a learning and advisory company focused on digital and technology strategy development, technology innovation as well as shaping the responsible, strategic and practical use of new technologies with a special focus on artificial intelligence. As part of the founder’s commitment to building leadership skills, enabling learning and supporting career growth in the technology field, Inno Yolo runs a Leadership, Tech and Career Conversation Event Series.

CEO and Founder, DataedX Group

Brandeis Marshall, PhD

Brandeis Marshall is an entrepreneur, author and data equity strategist. Formerly a college professor, she brings her instructional design and delivery expertise to help leaders, across sectors and industries, clarify their data strategy in order to align people, processes, practices and policies. Dr. Marshall speaks, writes and consults on how to move slower and build better people-first tech. Her areas of interest include data literacy/fluency, data and AI ethics, and computing

About DataedX Group

DataedX Group is a learning and development training company that assists professionals and practitioners on integrating equity in their data operations and practices. We lay out how discrimination in data is made and identify coping and intervention strategies to be more just. Intent on crafting an ethical data future, DataedX Group runs data equity workshops, offers data leadership coaching and advises inclusive-centric groups.