Machine Learning and Data Ethics: A Fireside Chat with Yoshua Bengio & David Lennie

Katie Boothby
Shopify Data
Published in
1 min readAug 7, 2018
Yoshua Bengio & Shopify’s David Lennie

As the digital economy continues to grow, new advancements in analyzing, applying, and driving insights from data will be critical to an organization’s success. That’s why we need to ensure data scientists, engineers and developers are identifying opportunities for positive change when building sophisticated techniques.

On June 18th, 2018, Shopify welcomed Professor Yoshua Bengio for a Q&A discussing machine learning and data ethics. Moderated by David Lennie, SVP of Data Science and Engineering at Shopify, the fireside explored the importance of machine learning and algorithm fairness, how to build ethics in data organizations, trends in AI, Professor Bengio’s current work in the field, and many more exciting topics.

Full fireside chat with Yoshua Bengio and David Lennie

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Katie Boothby
Shopify Data

Founder of Soap2Hope // Executive Advisor @ Shopify