You'll walk away with more knowledge and new connections gained over a good meal! Artificial Intelligence (AI) is applied to many areas of human life – across major verticals such as education, health care, and government– influencing significant decisions that will impact us. At its best, AI can be used to augment human judgment and reduce both conscious and unconscious biases. However, training data, algorithms, and other design choices that shape AI systems may reflect and amplify existing cultural prejudices and inequalities. Sarah Myers West is a postdoctoral researcher at the AI Now Institute and an affiliate researcher at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society.

New York state has invested more than $40 million into developing the area between Syracuse and Rome into a drone testing corridor for high-tech companies developing new uses for unmanned aerial technology.

David Kurtz is the chief product officer of Opera Mediaworks. At nearly every major technology event for the past five years we've been given at least one "wow" moment -- when one of the big players would unveil some sort of product or service that no one had ever seen before. The bar was set high for innovation, because there were wide-open spaces to be filled. Technology was revolutionary, not evolutionary. But so far in 2016, technology events have been disappointing.