WOMEN IN AI DAY CELEBRATION

Join us for the celebration of Women in AI International Day!

EVENT PROGRAM
6:30 - 7:30 pm ET
Feature Presentation From Prototype to Patient Impact: Building Responsible AI at the Intersection of Hardware, Computer Vision & Healthcare
Speaker: Arewa Ojelade, AI-Robotics Engineer

7:30 - 8:30 pm ET
Fireside Chat Who Gets to Build the Future? AI, Innovation, and Human Agency
with Noor Aftatb, hosted by Inessa Pawson

Noor Aftab is a multi-award-winning AI technologist, data scientist, and global technology leader with 16+ years of experience across AI, data, cloud, finance, and enterprise transformation. She is President of Skilium AI, the AI Skills Company, helping professionals and teams get AI-ready by Monday through practical AI skills, agentic workflows, and enterprise-scale AI solutions.

For the last four years, Noor led global cloud, data, and AI programs at Amazon Web Services across North America, EMEA, and APJ. She serves as Chair of the NumFOCUS Board of Directors, helping steward 60+ open-source projects that power modern data science and AI, and is an IBM Champion and leader of the IBM Women in AI user group.
Noor also created She Ships AI, helping women move from learning AI to building careers and income with AI. She has delivered 100+ talks and programs, trained 1,000+ professionals, spoken across PyData, SciPy, IEEE, IBM TechXchange, TEDx, and global technology forums, and served as a NASA Space Apps Navigator. BBC, Hindustan Times, and Martha’s Vineyard Times have covered her work and leadership.