Talks/events

For speaking engagements in in either English or Dutch, please start with a message via LinkedIn.

Example panels and talks

• Music, podcasting & AI; the amplification of UX, “Bigger Picture” Talk Series @ Google, Oct 2022
• Co-moderator Panel Dutch/US AI, Seminar on Artificial Intelligence in Mobility & Life Sciences, Royal visit to California, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, Stanford, Sept 7th, 2022.
• Algorithmic Impact Assessments at Organizational Scale, FAccT Workshop: Responsible Innovation “On the Ground”: Lessons Learned from Accountable ML Efforts within Industry, Feb 2022
• Getting organized around Algorithmic Impact & Amplification
  • Twitch, Dec 2021
  • Univ Amsterdam MBA @ Dutch Consulate, July 2022
  • Dutch Broadcasters & Media Exec Study Tour @ Berkeley, March 2023
  • Newton lecture series, Berkeley, Feb 2023
• Decisions and Algorithmic Impact in practice, RTL/Bertelsmann Keynote & AI Expert fireside chat, Nov 2021
• Fairness in eCommerce Search and Recommenders, Panel @ SIGIR eCom’21
• Women Leaders in ML Ethics Panel @ Twitter, March 2021
• Music, Algorithmic Responsibilities & Practical Data Science challenges. Women in Data Science, Stockholm, May 2020
• What we (don’t) know. Algorithmic Responsibilities in practice. Keynote Amsterdam Data Science 5yr anniversary, 12 Dec 2019.
• Panelist AI & Responsible Design: Perspectives from Practitioners. Berkeley School of Information, Nov 25, 2019.
• Music & Algorithmic responsibilities. Plenary keynote at ISMIR 2019, Delft, Nov 2019

• Plenary Panel: Responsible Recommendation, RecSys 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Invited talk: Pinterest, Aug 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Tutorial. Computational Humanities Summer School 2019, Heidelberg, Germany, July 2019.
• Panel, addressing algorithmic bias. Figure8, TrainAI. May 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Tutorial: Algorithmic fairness challenges in practice. Jan 28, Atlanta, GA, FAT* 2019, Slides at algorithmicbiasinpractice.wordpress.com
• Speaker & Panelist ‘Trust and Transparency in Human/AI Collaborations’ May 30, 2018, MediaX, Stanford, Palo Alto, CA. Talk 17:00, panel 52:00

• ‘Pragmatic lessons learnt while teaching machines’, Netflix PRS’18, June 8, 2018, Los Gatos, CA
• Speaker IBM Index conference “Everything but the algo: practical decisions in building Machine Learning applications”, Feb 2018, SF, CA
• ‘Data as perspectives’, Spotify showcase, Crowdflower TrainAI 2017, May 2017
• ‘Very Human Decisions in Machine Learning Projects’, UC Santa Cruz, Nov 2016
• ‘Maintaining long-term relationships between people & personalized, adaptive services’, Jan 9, 2015, Cornell Tech, NYC
• Keynote CrowdRec workshop at RecSys’14 ‘A community-sourced view of people’s surroundings’, Sept 19, 2014, Foster City, CA
• Talk, Panelist & Jury, ‘Audi & CCA Workshop Beyond Mobility: Exploring The Future Car In A World Of Connected Devices’, June 2014, SF, CA
• ‘Leveraging check-ins: from emergent location-sharing practices to location mash-ups.’ Motorola Design & Research, Aug 10 & 11, 2011 Chicago, IL.
• ‘Understanding check-ins: from emergent location-sharing practices to location mash-ups.’ MIT, March 29, 2011, Boston, MA.

Older media examples

• Putting Responsible AI Into Practice, MIT Sloan, Oct 22, 2020
• Wrote: ‘Autonome systemen maken menselijk perspectief cruciaal […]’ (Dutch) NewScientist.nl, Jan 2016
• Interview, Dutch, Het Parool newspaper, Nov 14, 2015
• Interview, ‘Amsterdam Science Magazine’ #2, Nov 2015
• Why don’t we check in at more places we care about’, Buzzfeed, July 16, 2012.
• Phobot/mention BNR Radio (NL, national) Aug 4, 2014,
• Phobot/mention Paul & Witteman (NL, TV), April 3, 2014
• ‘Forskare vill ta reda på var du rör dig’, Metro Technik (SE), Oct 27, 2010.
• Selected mentions PhiSquare & Spotisquare: Mashable.com (May 21, 2010, 30M monthly pageviews), TechCrunch.com (May 29, 2010)
• Appearance ‘Klokhuis’ on robots, educational children’s tv, NL3, Sept 27, 2010
• Interview ‘Cappuccino’, Radio 2 (NL, national), June 20, 2009
• Mention ‘Making Robots Give the Right Glances’, MITTechnologyReview.com, March 11, 2009 Phobot, Selection March/April 2008: Nature (news sideline), AP, FOX News (print & US local TV), The Wired Campus, MSNBC, Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times, Der Spiegel Online, AT5 TV (local), Volkskrant TV (NL online).