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# WSAI community's top 50 Innovators in 2020

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Who left us shook? Who blew our as-yet-unblown minds?

Here is the World Summit AI community's top 50 Innovators in 2020! 

 

1. **Corinne Vigreux**, Co-Founder, **TomTom**
2. **Celeste Kidd,** Assistant Professor of Psychology, **University of California, Berkeley**
3. Anja Kaspersen, Former Head of Geopolitics and International Security, **World Economic Forum**
4. **Wendell Wallach**, Senior Advisor, **The Hastings Centre & Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University**
5. **Roya Mahboob**, CEO, **Digital Citizen Fund**
6. **Professor Teemu Rooselsinki** , Leader of AI Education, Finnish Centre for AI, Department of Computer Science, **University of Helsinki**
7. **Professor Francesca Rossi**, IBM Fellow & AI Ethics Global Leader,  **IBM Research**
8. **Marcin Detyniecki** , Group Chief Data Scientist and Global Head of R&D, **AXA Group Operation**
9. **Dr. Ben Goertzel**, CEO & Founder, SingularityNET, Chairman, OpenCog Foundation
10. **Timnit Gebru,** Research Scientist & CoLead Ethical Artificial Intelligence, **Google **
11. **Thibault de ASSI**, GM- Global Head of Digitalization and Automation in Digital Industries- Factory Automation, **Siemens**
12. **César A. Hidalgo** ANITI Chair, **University of Toulouse**, Honorary Professor, **University of Manchester,** Visiting Professor, **Harvard University**
13. Ivana Bartoletti, Co-Founder, **Women Leading in AI Network  **
14. Rediet Abebe, Junior Fellow, **Harvard Society of Fellows**, Co-Founder, **Black in AI**
15. **Elissa Stromme**, ED Pan Canadian AI Strategy, **CIFAR**
16. **Renée Cummings**, Founder & CEO, **Urban AI**, Columbia University Community Scholar
17. **Professor Dagmar Monett Diaz**, AI Software Engineering, **HMW Berlin**
18. **Sasha Constanza-Chock**, Research Scientist, MIT & Senior Research Fellow, **Algorithmic Justice League **   
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19. **Amelia Kallman**, Speaker, Author, Futurist 
20. **Anushka Sharma**, Founder, **Naaut**
21. **Lars Vestergaard**, Head of Market Connect, **Oracle for Start Ups**
22. **Dr Kate Devlin**, Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence, Department of Digital Humanities, **King's College London**
23. **Thijs Waanders**, Technical Consulting Manager, **Cognigy **
24. **Rudy van Belkom**, Futures Researcher, **Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends **
25. **Dr Mmantsetsa Marope**, Executive Director, **World Heritage Group**, Honorary President, **Indian Ocean Comparative and International Education Societies**
26. **Ajay Bhalla**, President, Cyber and Intelligence Solutions, **Mastercard **  
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27. **Professor Gary Marcus**, Founder & CEO, **Robust.AI **
28. **Grady Booch** - **IBM Fellow**
29. **Ramon Rahangmetan**, Co-Founder, **World Space Week**
30. **Virginia Dignum**, Co-Founder and Board Member, ALLAI & Professor of Ethical and Social Artificial Intelligence at **Umea University**
31. **Sanjeev Vohra**, Global Lead, **Accenture Applied Intelligence**
32. **Meredith Whittaker**, Co-Founder, **AI Now Institute **
33. **Dr. Kim Cobb**,  Georgia Power Chair and Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, **Georgia Institute of Technology**
34. **Dr. Farhana Sultana**, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, **Syracuse University**
35. **Natasha Sunderji**, Global Health Lead, **Accenture**
36. **Danielle Ralic**, Co-Founder, **Ancora.ai**
37. **Jason Behrmann**, Director of Marketing and Communications, **Zetane Systems**
38. **Jonathan Siddharth**, CEO, **Turing**
39. **Deepak Agarwal**, VP of Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, **LinkedIn **
40. **Samy Bengio**, Distinguished Research Scientist, **Google Research**, Brain Team
41. **Steve Astorino**, VP of Development, Data and AI and Canada Lab Director, **IBM**
42. **Mina J Hanna**, Co-Chair, **IEEE-SA** Global Initiative on Ethics of AI Systems' Policy Cmte; Chair IEEE-USA AI & AS Policy Cmte 
43. **Yossi Matias**, Vice President, Engineering, **Google**
44. **Jana Novohradska**, AI Consultant to Deputy Prime Minister`s Office of Slovakia & Gender Equality Rapporteur CAHAI **Council of Europe**
45. **Artash Nat**h, Co-Founder, **HotPopRobot.com**
46. **Andrew Schroeder**, Vice President Research & Analysis, **Direct Relief**
47. **Kimberely Nevala,** Strategic Advisor, **SAS**
48. Amandeep Gill, CEO & Project Director, **The International Digital Health & AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR)**
49. **Dr. Ian Norton**, Founder and Managing Director,** Respond Global**
50. **Reece Clifford**, Business Solutions Manager, **SAS**

 

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