Event - The Cutting Edge of Artificial Intelligence - PARC, a Xerox company

She also cofounded Robot Garden, a robotics makerspace, and teaches Interaction Design and Theory. Andra has a particular interest in understanding diversity and representation in robotics and AI, and started the Women in Robotics community. Tolga Kurtoglu is CEO of PARC, a Xerox company, which is in "the business of breakthroughs." Practicing open innovation since being incorporated in 2002, PARC provides custom R&D services, technology, specialized expertise, best practices, and intellectual property to Xerox's business groups, Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, startups, and government. Dr. Kurtoglu oversees PARC's R&D investments for Xerox and its innovation portfolio for commercial clients and government agencies in a diverse set of focus areas and competencies including human-centered innovation services, intelligent agents and systems, clean energy, smart packaging, machine learning and analytics, security and privacy, printed electronics and digital manufacturing. Piero Scaruffi is an amateur human being and professional free thinker. He graduated in Mathematics (summa cum laude) in 1982 from University of Turin, where he did work in General Theory of Relativity. For a number of years he was the founding director of the Artificial Intelligence Center at Olivetti, based in Cupertino, California, and later joined IntelliCorp, one of the earliest companies specializing in Artificial Intelligence. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and Stanford University conducting research on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, has lectured in three continents on "The Nature of Mind", and "History of Knowledge" (most recently at U.C. Berkeley), and has published a number of books, including "History of Silicon Valley" -- his bestseller in China, as well as hundreds of articles for magazines both in Italy and the U.S. Allen Saakyan is a polymath and science communicator hosting the worlds most thought-provoking conversations with global leaders.