establishing new norms, now

'At The Table' chosen by EY as a sustainable enterprise begins work with EY Ripples to model our sustainable 'At The Table' Business Model + Plan.

With a full-time EY consultant in-house for January, February, March.

Women at the Table convenes 1st Algorithms 101 meeting for a new International Gender Champions AI Impact Group

Women at the Table will be at the House of Switzerland during Davos 2020

Women at the Table will be at WUF10

the biennial World Urban Forum being held this year in Abu Dhabi

moderating the Women's Roundtable

(+ proud to be on UN-Habitat's Gender Assembly Steering Committee)

Women at the Table's pilot Workshop in collaboration with

EPFL's Digital Humanities Institute, the EPFL

Equalities Office, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' OHCHR Women's Rights & Gender Section on

<AI & Gender>: A Human Rights Approach

EPFL Computer Science Masters Student begins

full- time on launch version of

open source software - g-app -

our gender gap application, going from beta June 2019 at WMO to launch at IUCN June 2020

to measure women's participation & influence in international assemblies

Women at the Table speak at Plenary

  Revolution 4.0: A new paradigm for the workforce 

at the Global Women's Forum 20:

The Power of Influence

speaking about AI, inclusive algorithms & the 4th Industrial Revolution

Women at the Table outreach luncheon with the Digital Society Initiative, University of Zürich on the <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms

#FEMALE PLEASURE five courageous, self-determined women breaking the silence imposed by their societies and religious communities from Japan and India and the Somali Muslim diaspora to the Hasidic community in Brooklyn and Catholic clergy in Europe.

The feature documentary by Swiss filmmaker Barbara Miller followed by panel discussion with:

• Ruben Escalante Hasbun, UNFPA Geneva Office
• Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, Founder/CEO, Women at the Table (moderator)
• Dr Leyla Hussein OBE, Founder , Dahlia Project  featured in the film
• Claire Somerville, Executive Director  Gender Centre, Graduate Institute, Geneva 

Breakfast Briefing with Dr. Leyla Hussein OBE, anti-FGM activist

An intimate breakfast briefing

(after the screening of #FEMALE PLEASURE the evening before at the Graduate Institute Pictet Auditorium)

which will allow Dr Leyla Hussein OBE featured in the award winning film to share her personal journey as well as the day-to-day work she undertakes to shine a spotlight on the human rights challenges women and girls face daily in the context of FGM.

In light of the 25th anniversary of the BDPfA and focus on FGM, this briefing seeks to consider the current challenges and ways forward in achieving the BDPfA and SDGs as well as in the context of anticipated June/July 2020 HRC discussions.

The discussion will be held under Chatham House Rules. Invitation Only.

Breakfast will be served.

International Women’s Day

Climate Justice / Gender Justice

in the run-up to The Generation Equality Forum

Feminist action for climate justice is one of the six Action Coalitions that will develop a set of concrete, ambitious, and transformative actions that Coalition members will take between 2020 and 2025 to achieve immediate and irreversible progress towards gender equality.

• Critical role of women in response to leading and driving solutions for climate change
• Lessons learnt across the feminist movement that can be applied to the climate movement   
• Gender equality and gender justice in the Climate agenda

Briefing with the EU Delegation to the UN

In this crucial moment when AI is transforming every aspect of our lives and the very fabric of our society - potentially the greatest global paradigm shift yet - it is crystal clear that AI and ADM must be grounded in human rights. Similarly, inclusion and gender equality - the very heart of human rights - must be at the centre of AI and ADM. Affirmative Action for Algorithms (<A+>) is needed in order to correct real life bias and barriers that prevent women from achieving full participation and rights in the present, and in the future, we invent.

<Coding Gender Equality>

Open Feminist Forum

In this critical year for women’s rights – 25 years since the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action and 5 years until the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goal we must look towards an inclusive future, and tackle bias in ICTs and the accompanying data gender gap, place it and keep it firmly at the top of the multilateral agenda. This is particularly urgent given the scale at which Automated Decision-Making (ADM) systems are being deployed.

The side event sets out the landscape for gender bias in ADM, highlighting the alarming prevalence of real-world examples of gender bias in ADM and machine learning, and aims to deepen individual awareness and knowledge of the relevance of gender in ADM and the real-life constraints that hinder gender equality in ADM including the data gender gap. The side event seeks to create a space for the international and civil society communities to fuel creativity and invigorate focus on gender equality in ADM.

• Algorithms in the Making                     Swiss Jura  What are the programming practices behind gender biases? A female perspective for society. Retreat run by EPFL Doctoral Students, in collaboration with Women at the Table, funded by the USZ Digital Society Initiative via the SNSF

• Swiss Data Science   Lucerne           Roundtable on Gender Data in collaboration with USZ & Digital Society Initiative
• Women in Big Data   Zürich             a cross-cutting activity of the Swiss National Research Program NRP 75 “Big Data” with the goal to bring together women working on Big Data research.

a biweekly multidisciplinary series in April to set the landscape of gender bias in ADM (highlighting real world examples) and share best practices and innovative tools and practices not only to mitigate,
but to correct for gender and racial bias in AI & ADM.

Why and where can algorithms be gender biased? What practical tools and solutions can be used to mitigate and proactively correct for real life gender biases in AI? With the explosion of new technologies and the data revolution, what happens next? How can we use a human rights framework to ensure inclusion and gender equality in algorithms in the future we create? What is a feminist vision for an inclusive digital future?

With <A+> Alliance, Gender at Work, and IDRC:

A weekly global & multi-disciplinary exploration from Vancouver to Buenos Aires, Geneva to Rio, Nairobi to Delhi, Mumbai to Santiago, on potential Feminist AI research agenda going forward. With initial focus on:

Feminist Research Methodology

Inclusive Data Collection

Social Protections

Social Norms Change

As a follow on to the Gender Responsive Standards Declaration BSI has formed a Diversity & Inclusivity Panel to

•create a more diverse and inclusive community of BSI standards-makers

•create an inclusive standards-making environment and process

•create more inclusive standards which responsively address different human and stakeholder needs

Women at the Table is proud to Chair this panel.

Join the transnational Policy Kitchen challenge and develop your proposals for a Feminist Foreign Policy in this workshop!

This workshop is part of the Policy Kitchen challenge on Feminist Foreign Policy by the Open Think Tank Network and is organized by the foraus regional group Geneva.

An expert input will be provided by:

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, Founder/ CEO, Women at the Table

Gabriella Irsten, Policy & Advocacy Officer, WILPF

Find out more about the challenge and 6 additional workshops here.

Now is a pivotal moment for mapping the future development of a feminist foreign policy agenda.

Using the collaborative online platform Policy Kitchen, as well as a series of online workshops , the Open Think Tank Network - Agora (UK), Argo (FR), foraus (CH), Polis180 (DE) and Ponto (AT) - invites experts and the public to address this question From April to May, submit your proposals online here or join one of the interactive ideation workshops.

Join <A+> Alliance co-founders:

Renata Avila, of ciudadania inteligente &

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, Women at the Table

as they celebrate their <A+> Alliance inclusion in Fast Company's 2020 World Changing Ideas: AI & Data

and talk about plans for advocacy for an inclusive, feminist, democratic, accountable future.

REGISTER HERE

with ITU &

the X Prize

Andy Coravos, CEO / Co-Founder, Elektra Labs

Kishau Rogers, CEO/Founder Time Study Inc.

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman CEO/Founder Women at the Table

Ida Tin CEO/Co-Founder Clue

Neama Dadkhahnikoo, XPRIZE

Register Here

AI for Democracy & Women's Rights

Let's build a new world

<A+ Global Directory> from <A+ Alliance> and Gender at Work suppoted by the IDRC, a multidisciplinary cohort of global experts from around the globe working to lift gender & racial bias from Artificial Intelligence + Automated Decision-Making Systems

Meet them here!

Hardwiring Equity into Health through AI:

Women Leading in Global Health

Rachel Sibande, Program Director, Data for Development, Digital Impact Alliance, UN Foundation

Gratiana Fu,

Associate Data Scientist, Center for Digital Acceleration, DAI Global Health

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, CEO/Founder, Women At The Table

Moderator: Roopa Dhatt, Executive Director, Women in Global Health

Gender Breakthrough Track

As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning replace manual design and human oversight, society gains efficiency. However, the inputs used to determine these machine-made choices rely on flawed data that lacks critical information about female preferences, behaviours, and needs.

AI is learning gender bias from humans. Biased data leads to biased insights, biased algorithms, biased solutions and policies, and ultimately a biased world that is designed only to meet the needs of the few. However, if harnessed for good, AI and machine learning can create a future in which unbiased insights tell the story of all humanity —not just a subset of it.

Join the Gender Breakthrough Track

With <A+> Alliance, Gender at Work, and the IDRC we launch the second cohort of the Feminist AI Research Network gathering a multi-disciplinary array of technologists from Africa, Latin America and Asia to contemplate new systems and new structures for the times ahead.

"The Importance of diversity in AI in healthcare"

Una-May O'Reilly, MIT,

ALFA Group at MIT-CSAIL

Mylynn Tufte, North Dakota State Health Officer

Judy Wawira Gichoya,

Emory University School of Medicine

Katherine Heller, Duke University, School Statistical Science

Moderator:

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, CEO/Founder, Women at the Table

for policy makers

  on the sidelines of the UN Data Forum 

with special guests: Lauren Klein,

co-author,

Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020)

Nuria Oliver, Commissioner for the President of the Valencian Region in Spain on AI and Data Science against COVID-19, Co-Founder and Vice-President of ELLIS, European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems

  Emily Courey Pryor, Executive Director, Data 2x

  Katie Clancy, Networked Economies, International Development Research Centre

REGISTER AT:

bit.ly/FeministData 

Code gender & race equality into systems,

pilot affirmative action for algorithms!

If you are designing AI systems and interested in exploring how machine learning and artificial intelligence can impact the lives of women and girls for good, this fellowship is for you.

For six months you will work closely with the f<A+I>r Network and with Women at the Table to develop technology prototypes and pilots and test a different future for gender inclusion.

Join us!

More info at:

https://

is.good/techfellow

It is crystal clear that the design and deployment of Artificial Intelligence must be grounded in human rights. Similarly, gender equality — the very heart of human rights — must be included in Artificial Intelligence design and deployment. How can a human rights based approach be applied to computer science, engineering and innovation?

Panelists:

Surya Deva, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

Asako Hattori, Women’s Human Rights and Gender Section, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, <A+> Alliance, Women at the Table

for governments on the sidelines of the Internet Governance Forum

with special guests:

Nyalleng Moorosi,

Google AI

Elisa Celis,

Professor, Statistics & Data Science,

Yale University

Paola Villarreal,

Head, Data Science, National Council Science & Technology, Mexico

Climate Change Track:

Gender Justice / Climate Justice 101

with Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim,

Association of Peul Women and Autochthonous Peoples of Chad

Zainab Yunusa,

YOUNGO gender working group

Marie-Claire Graf,

co-focal point YOUNGO, Youth constituency at the UNFCCC

Climate Change Track:

Sustainable Africa – what would it look like?​

with Vanessa Erogbogbo, Head Sustainability, International Trade Centre

Climate Change Track curated by Women at the Table

In line with the actions for November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women,

Data + Feminism Lab (MIT), ILDA and Feminicidio Uruguay invite you to participate in

sessions + workshops designed for feminist activists, civil society organizations, international organizations, data journalists, policy makers, government officials or academics, whether they are considering or already working with feminicide data. The event aims to foster a community of practice:

• Thursday, November 5th - 11AM-1PM (EST)

• Thursday, November 12th - 11AM-1PM (EST)

• Week of November 16th - various workshops

• Tuesday, November 24th - 11AM-1PM (EST)

Register today and save the date!

For the public & private sector on the sidelines of the UN Business & Human Rights Forum

How can private and public sector AI be leveraged to ensure AI and ADM are unbiased? How can procurement be used to incentivise inclusion and influence of feminists in the conception, budgeting, design, deployment, and monitoring of AI & ADM systems?

with Helani Galpaya,

CEO, LIRNEAsia

Carina Lopes, Head, Digital Futures Society Think Tank

REGISTER HERE