RAID THE FRIDGE: Safe and Responsible AI

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[This month's Raid The Fridge is a hybrid execution: in-person and online! If you're suddenly unable to join us in person, we are also streaming the talk via Zoom.]

Come for the learning, stay for the company!

Knowledge exchange plays a significant role in developing responsible AI policies and technologies. In this context, we welcome HM Ambassador Laure Beaufils as our featured speaker in the 125th edition of “Raid The Fridge." Details are as follows:

• What: Raid The Fridge: Safe and Responsible AI -- What's At Stake and the UK Initiatives on This?

• When: Tuesday, December 5th

       > 5:00 PM, Doors open, networking and raiding our fridge begins
       > 7:30 PM, Program starts with our guest speaker
       > 8:30 PM, Program ends, networking resumes
       > 10:00 PM, End of Raid The Fridge session
  

• Where: Kickstart Ventures Investment Office, 55 Paseo de Roxas, Makati City (view map)

Why Join?
AI can and should be a force for good. Global cooperation is vital to ensure both AI technologies and the rules governing their use are developed in the right way. At Raid The Fridge, hear from Ambassador Laure Beaufils what the UK has to offer internationally for developing and utilizing AI responsibly and discovering potential areas of collaboration with the Philippine startup community.

Who Should Join?
If your startup, business organization, and role will benefit from a conversation on the responsible use of AI, this session is for you!

Together, let's work to develop and utilize AI to its fullest potential as a force of good -- see you!

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ABOUT OUR SPEAKER

HM The Ambassador Laure Beaufils
British Embassy Manila

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Laure Beaufils is currently the British Ambassador to the Philippines and Palau. She was the Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa of the Department of International Development from 2019 to 2021 and the Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria from 2017 to 2019.

Previously, she was the head of the UK Department of International Development in Rwanda from August 2014 to February 2017. In this capacity, she managed a $100 million portfolio of programmes focusing on economic development, governance, and social sectors.

Before holding this position, she worked in various positions in the UK government. She was the lead strategic adviser working for the British Prime Minister in his role as co-chair of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on the post-2015 development agenda. She ran the Department for International Development’s department for Overseas Territories. She led a team working on climate change. She worked for the UK mission to the UN as the first secretary responsible for development. Before joining the UK Civil Service, she worked with the UN and civil society organizations. She also worked with the private sector as a financial auditor. She has lived and worked in Rwanda, Ethiopia, India, Cambodia, France, the UK and the USA.

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