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MozFest starts on Monday — it’s not too late to get your (free) MozFest Live ticket and participate in the premiere gathering for developers and other technologists in diverse global movements building a more humane digital world.
Your ticket provides you with access to live, immersive sessions that teach privacy best practices, develop solutions for online misinformation and harassment, build open-source tools, support Trustworthy AI innovations, and more — plus 90 day on-demand access to all recordings and exhibits.
Below are my top three picks for this year’s big name Dialogue & Debates speakers this year. You can view the entire Dialogues & Debates line up on the MozFest Plaza.
AI Reckoning | March 7 
How do we refocus and realign AI as a mechanism for systems thinking and manifestation — revealing the correlation and connectedness of all things? Can AI ever be the people’s tool? Can AI hold the intelligence of abolition or are these machines beholden to learning from existing systematic structures? Is it time for an AI reckoning?
Speakers: - Adam Bly, CEO of Systems
- Anasuya Sengupta, Co-Founder & Co-Director of Whose Knowledge?
- Sasha Costanza-Chock, Director of Research at Algorithmic Justice League
Venture Capital, Digital Rights, and the Future of Responsible Tech Investing | March 8 
Ownership and promotion of responsible tech among the most influential Venture Capitals (VCs) has the potential to change the entire future tech landscape for the better. This solutions-oriented session seeks to foster collaborative discussion among advocates working for the public good and tech executives that sometimes straddle the divide between doing what is right for their broader community of stakeholders and doing what will maximize returns for their VC investors.
Speakers: - Shu Dar Yao, Environmental, Social and Governance Advisor
- Jon Zieger, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Responsible Innovation Labs
- Michael Kleinman, Director, Technology and Human Rights, Amnesty International USA
Building Ancestral AI | March 8 
If we lay down the burden of a future-only presumption of what technology is and can be, are we more likely to center people and the environment and develop technologies through which we can survive and thrive? How do we develop strategies for the futures we desire?
Speakers: - Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Associate Professor of AI & Arts @uflorida
- Toshi Reagon, Singer, Composer, Musician, Curator, Producer
- Céline Semaan, Co-Founder & CEO, Slow Factory Labs
- L. Franklin Gilliam, Artist, researcher, Board Chair at Out in Tech
Hope to see you at MozFest on Monday,
Temi Popo
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