Programme

While reducing human oversight for applications such as driverless cars or trading stocks may increase efficiency, some are warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence systems that are becoming so complex that we no longer fully understand how they make decisions. In particular, new developments in medical applications, service machines in households, or weaponized robotics have caused concern for many technology luminaries. Is it possible for technologists or regulators to channel how machine learning will develop or is the ‘genie out of the bottle’?

Moderator:
Finian Tan , Chairman, Vickers Venture Partners

Panellists
Noah Goodhart , Founder, Moat Inc.
Ziyavudin Magomedov , Chairman of the Board of Directors, Summa Group
Shervin Pishevar , Co-Founder, Managing Director, Sherpa Capital; Executive Chairman, Co-Founder, Hyperloop One
Fraser Robinson , Head of Business Development, EMEA, Uber Technologies Inc.
Gustavo Sapoznik , Chief Executive Officer, ASAPP Inc.
Igor Shuvalov , First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Ziyavudin Magomedov

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Summa Group

From 1994-1998, he served as President of Interfinans Investments, and later served as Chairman of the Board of Directors. From 2002-2004, he headed the Board of Founders of the “Dialogue” Program Support Foundation. From 2004-2005, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Trans-Oil, then Chairman of the Board of Directors of First Mining Company. He is currently a partner of the Russian Olympians Foundation non-profit charitable organization, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bolshoi Theater, the State Institute of Cinematography, the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Foundation of the European University of St. Petersburg. In September 2013, he became a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Development and Support of the Valdai International Discussion Club. He has been awarded the Order of Friendship (2010), a Presidential Certificate of Merit for his contribution to the restoration of the Bolshoi Theatre (2012), and the Order of Merit (2012). On July 1, 2010, by an order of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Representative of the Russian Federation to the Business Advisory Council of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation for 2010-2012. In 2012, he served as Chairman of the APEC Business Advisory Council. Ziyavudin Magomedov graduated from the Economics Faculty of Moscow State University in 1994 with a degree in the Global Economy. In 2000, he earned a Candidate’s Degree in Economics.

Shervin Pishevar

Co-Founder, Managing Director, Sherpa Capital; Executive Chairman, Co-Founder, Hyperloop One

Shervin Pishevar is a Managing Director at Sherpa Capital, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm he co-founded with Scott Stanford in March 2013. Sherpa Capital is an investor in companies such as Uber, Airbnb, Munchery, ipsy, Shyp, Stance, Rent the Runway, Beepi, PillPack, Doctor on Demand, and Cue Health. Shervin is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Hyperloop Technologies. Shervin is a Strategic Advisor to Uber Technologies and served as a Board Observer at Uber from 2011-2015. Previously he was a Managing Director at Menlo Ventures, a venture capital fund with over $4 billion under management. Shervin joined Menlo Ventures in 2011 and led investments such as Uber (Series B), Machine Zone, Warby Parker, Tumblr and Getaround. As an angel investor he personally seeded over 60 companies. Shervin founded and operated technology-enabled companies, including Webs.com (acquired by VistaPrint), Social Gaming Network (SGN), WebOS and HyperOffice. Companies he founded have reached an aggregate of over 100 million users. In 2016, Shervin was selected as an Ellis Island Medal of Honor award winner. Shervin was appointed by the President of the United States to serve on the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FFSB) in 2015. He was also chosen by the U.S. Government as an Outstanding American by Choice, one of the only 100 naturalized Americans to be chosen since the beginning of the award.

Fraser Robinson

Head of Business Development, EMEA, Uber Technologies Inc.

Fraser is the Head of Business EMEA at Uber. His responsibilities include building partnerships that ensure a scalable and reliable supply infrastructure, grow consumer demand for the service, as well as corporate development across the region. He has spent 18 years in the technology industry, with roles that include Founder and CEO of Taggstar (B2B SaaS), Managing Director of lastminute.com (formerly Europe’s leading online travel and lifestyle business, sold to Sabre Corp), and an investment banker in the M&A department of Morgan Stanley & Co. Fraser attended Princeton University.

Gustavo Sapoznik

Chief Executive Officer, ASAPP Inc.

Gustavo Sapoznik is the founder and CEO of ASAPP, a leading artificial intelligence company based in New York. ASAPP's mission is to build tools that leverage the power of machine learning and natural language processing and use them to solve large problems by augmenting human capabilities and automation. ASAPP's team includes some of the leading researchers and engineers in the field of artificial intelligence and it's clients include Fortune 100 companies. Prior to founding ASAPP, Gustavo was a partner at PRT, a high-frequency trading firm he started with classmates from the University of Chicago. Gustavo is an avid pilot and competitive skier.

Igor Shuvalov

First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Born January 4, 1967, in Bilibino, Magadan Region. 1993: graduated from the Law Faculty of Moscow State University with a degree in jurisprudence. 1984–1985: laboratory assistant at the EKOS Scientific Research Institute. 1985–1987: served in the Soviet Army. 1993: attaché of the Law Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. 1993–1995: senior legal adviser at ALM Consulting. 1995: Director, ALM Law Office. 1997: Head of Department of the State Register of Federal Property, State Committee of the Russian Federation for State Property Management. 1998: Deputy Minister for State Property of the Russian Federation. 1998–2000: Chairman, Russian Federal Property Fund. 2000–2003: Chief of the Government Staff in the rank of Minister. 2003: Aide to the President of the Russian Federation. 2003–2004:Deputy Head of Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. 2004: Aide to the President of the Russian Federation. 2005: Russian Sherpa in the G8. 2008: First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Married with two sons and two daughters.