Join us for an online discussion on how to meet the ethical challenges we face in a world where businesses are ever more reliant on A.I. technologies.
Time: New York 2:00pm / London 7:00pm / Tel Aviv 9:00pm
Event Details
We will be joined by Booth alumni and entrepreneurs Onn Fenig, '08 (EXP-13) and Ben Ziomek, '19 who have to consider issues of automation of traditional jobs and privacy on a daily basis in their own ventures.
Join us for a discussion on the ethics of A.I.
Registration
Register Online
Zoom information will be provided after registration.
Deadline: 7/28/2020
Speaker Profiles
Onn Fenig, '08 (EXP-13) (Speaker)
CEO, Musashi AI
Onn is the CEO of Musashi AI, an Israeli-Japanese partnership and world's first employment agency for industrial robots. The company develops robotic quality control inspectors for manufacturing lines as well as a central brain for navigation and control of autonomous mobile robots.
Onn has over 15 years of highly diverse senior management and entrepreneurial experience. Prior to MusashiAI, he was the CEO of Rioglass Solar Systems, where he led it from inception to becoming world's largest developer and supplier of Receivers used in Solar Thermal power plants. Prior to Rioglass, Onn held various senior Finance management roles with Siemens and Cisco Systems, and earlier served as a Delivery Manager at Amdocs UK, delivering OSS services to British Telecom. Onn also co-founded Dutyfreebee, a price comparison platform for Duty Free goods, and Nigheye, a medical devices company fighting transmission of infectious diseases in hospitals. He began his career as a cyber security analyst for the Israeli government after his military service as a Captain in the IDF special forces.
He has extensive international experience, having lived and worked in Israel, Hong Kong, Nairobi and London, and holds a BSc. in Computer Science from IDC and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Ben Ziomek, '19 (Speaker)
CTO, Actuate
Ben is the CTO of Actuate, a NYC-based AI security startup that builds computer vision software to turn any camera into a smart camera.
He started his career at Microsoft, where he led teams of engineers and data scientists leveraging AI to identify high-potential startups globally, driving nine figures of cloud revenue. Ben also has experience working as an AI consultant in Chicago, San Francisco, and Tel Aviv, and as a VC investing in AI and gaming startups.
He was recognized on the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 List for his work at Actuate. Ben holds a BA from Bowdoin College and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.