E.M. Lewis-Jong is a Founder, Impact Entrepreneur and HCI researcher working at the intersection of community technology, open data, and inclusive AI. They are the Founder and CEO of the Mozilla Data Collective, a community-led platform for ethical creation, curation, and control of AI training datasets; built on the principle that people should be able to share their data on their own terms. They previously served as a VP at Mozilla Foundation, and the Director for Mozilla's Common Voice, an open-source platform enabling communities worldwide to preserve, revitalise, and contribute their languages to the future of speech tech.
E.M. holds an MA in Modern History from the University of Oxford and is expecting a PhD in Informatics and Engineering at the University of Sussex, with research focused on controllability in conversational and voice AI for adolescents. They're a published researcher, product mentor, and a passionate advocate for a multilingual, multicultural, and community-centred tech future.
Caitlin Kraft-Buchman is CEO/Founder Women at the Table – a gender equality & systems change CSO based in Switzerland and Co-Founder/Leader <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms – a global multidisciplinary coalition of academics, activists, technologists prototyping the future of artificial intelligence and automated decision-making to accelerate gender equality with technology and innovation
<A+> Alliance is a leader of the UN’s Generation Equality Action Coalition Technology & Innovation for Gender Equality. Caitlin was co-chair of the Expert Group for the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) in 2023 with its first ever priority theme of Technology & Innovation.
Caitlin leads the <AI & Equality> Human Rights Toolbox initiative, an educational platform that supports a global community working for a human rights-based approach to AI - with equity & inclusion at the core of the code.
Women at the Table are a leader of the f<a+i>r feminist AI research Network, with Hubs in Latin America & the Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa, SouthEastAsia, and sister network in Africa, and serves as Civil Society lead for the World Benchmarking Alliance's Collective Impact Coalition for Ethical AI.
Caitlin is co-founder of the International Gender Champions (IGC) - with hubs in Geneva, New York, Vienna, Nairobi, The Hague & Paris bringing together female & male heads of organizations, including the UN Secretary-General, to break down gender barriers; she serves on the IGC Global Board, and co-leads the new IGC Impact Group on Digital and New Emerging Technologies with Doreen Bogdan Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union. Caitlin is a one of the Network of Experts for UN Secretary General’s AI Advisory Body; a member of UNESCO’s WomenForEthicalAI working group; member of the Gender Advisory Group for the AI Action Summit to be held by the government of France, February 2025 and Co-Chair of the UN Commission on Science & Technology for Development (CSTD)'s Gender Advisory Board.
