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2022 Ethics of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Conference November 3, 2022

About the Event

The Ethics of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Conference will take place on November 3, 2022. The featured speaker is JoAnn Stonier, from Mastercard, who will provide a high-level overview of ethical issues and challenges she faces in her industry. Scholars from the MSU community will deliver five-minute flash talks to provide a quick overview of their work in big data and artificial intelligence.

Flash talks have been organized into five thematic panels, with an integrative discussion closing out each panel, which will explore a variety of topics ranging from “Bias and Data Sourcing of AI” to “Societal Applications of AI and STEM.”

Keynote

JoAnn Stonier

Mastercard

JoAnn C. Stonier serves as Chief Data Officer for Mastercard, leading the organization’s data innovation efforts while navigating current and future data risks. She oversees the curation, quality, governance and management of the company’s extensive data assets. JoAnn and her team design and operationalize Mastercard’s global data strategy, guiding enterprise deployment of cutting-edge data solutions, including advanced analytics and AI, and the development of enterprise data platforms. Her leadership is integral to Mastercard’s push to deepen the strategic value it can provide its merchant, banking and government customers and cardholders through its expanding data-driven products and capabilities.

JoAnn previously served as the company’s Chief Information Governance & Privacy Officer, responsible for global privacy and information governance, and leading regulatory engagement for data compliance.

JoAnn is a recognized and highly sought-after thought leader in emergent data and privacy issues. She has advised industry executives, governments, intergovernmental organizations and NGOs. Currently, she serves on the United Nations Expert Group on Governance and Artificial Intelligence and is Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Data Policy. JoAnn also serves as a Board Advisor for Truata, a data trust co-founded by Mastercard and IBM, on the Board of Directors and Governance Committee for Hope For The Warriors, a non-profit Veteran service organization, and on the Board of Trustees and Executive & Finance Committees for Academy of Mount St. Ursula, where she attended high school in Bronx, New York.

JoAnn received her Juris Doctorate from St. John’s University and her Bachelor of Science degree from St. Francis College. She holds memberships in the Bar of the State of New York and the Bar of the State of New Jersey. She is based in Purchase, N.Y.

Featured MSU Speakers

Provost Teresa K. Woodruff, Ph.D.

Dean Linda Sheryl Greene, J.D

College of Law

Dean Christopher P. Long, Ph.D.

College of Arts & Letters

Honors College

Interim Dean Judith Whipple, Ph.D.

Broad College of Business

Ethics Conference Committee

Deans

Phillip M. Duxbury, Dean for College of Natural Science, duxbury@msu.edu

Leo Kempel, Dean for College of Engineering, kempel@egr.msu.edu

Co-chairs

Jenny Carter Johnson, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Law, jcj@law@msu.edu

Matt McKeon, Chair, Department of Philosophy, College of Arts & Letters, mckeon@msu.edu

Sriram Narayanan, Kesseler Family Endowed Faculty, narayanan@broad.msu.edu

Members

Johannes M. Bauer, Faculty, Department of Media & Information, Quello Chair in Media and Information Policy, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, bauerj@msu.edu

Robyn Bluhm, Associate Professor, College of Arts & Letters and Lyman Briggs College, rbluhm@msu.edu

Robert Brathwaite, Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor, James Madison College, brathwal@msu.edu

Andrew Christlieb, Professor, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, MSU Foundation Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Science, christli@msu.edu

Zachary Dyme, Faculty, College of Osteopathic Medicine, dyme@msu.edu

Andrey Guber, Professor, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, akguber@msu.edu

Devin Higgins, Digital Library Programmer, MSU Libraries, higgi35@msu.edu

Linda Keilman, Associate Professor, Gerontology Content Expert, College of Nursing, keilman@msu.edu

Dennis Kennedy, Interim Director of the Center for Law, Technology & Innovation, College of Law, kenne514@law.msu.edu

Annette O'Connor, Chairperson of the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Professor of Epidemiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, oconn445@msu.edu

Dean Rehberger, Director of MATRIX, Associate Professor, College of Social Science, rehberge@msu.edu

Ann Sheehan, Assistant Professor, Interim Director of Faculty Practice, College of Nursing, sheeha49@msu.edu

Ashton M. Shortridge, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, College of Social Science, ashton@msu.edu

Anjana Susarla, Omura-Saxena Professor in Responsible AI, Broad College of Business, asusarla@broad.msu.edu

Jiliang Tang, University Foundation Professor, College of Engineering, tangjili@msu.edu

Volodymyr Tarabara, Director, Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, International Studies and Programs, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, tarabara@msu.edu

Eric Torng, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Research and Faculty Development, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, torng@cse.msu.edu

Sean Valles, Director, Center for Bioethics & Social Justice, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Arts & Letters, Lyman Briggs College, valles@msu.edu

Scot Yoder, Associate Professor, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, yodersco@msu.edu