Renée Cummings to Speak at Davos with Four Events
Renée Cummings speaking at All Tech Is Human’s AI Governance gathering in NYC in 2024, alongside Noah Broestl, Rumman Chowdhury, and Gemma Galdon Clavell.
Acclaimed Responsible AI expert Renée Cummings will be appearing at this year’s World Economic Forum gathering in Davos. Renée has been a long-time collaborator with All Tech Is Human, serving most recently as our Senior Fellow of AI, Data, and Public Policy.
Will you be at Davos? If so, do stop by and say hello to Renée! You can find her speaking at the four engagements mentioned below, with potentially more to be confirmed.
🗓 Monday, January 19, 2026 | 11:30 am – 12:00 pm CET
The Algorithmic C-Suite: Leading Together in the Age of AI
Hosted by The Female Quotient | Promenade 40
A leadership-focused session examining how cross-functional executive teams are governing AI collaboratively, responsibly, and strategically. The Female Quotient is among the most visible and influential platforms at Davos, convening standing-room-only audiences and engaging a global community of millions of leaders.
🗓 Monday, January 19, 2026 | 4:00 pm CET
The Future of Childhood: How AI Is Shaping the Next Generation
Human Change House | Davos Promenade 63
A forward-looking discussion on the social, psychological, and governance implications of AI on children, education, and human development.
🗓 Wednesday, January 21, 2026 | Time TBD
MIT’s Imagination in Action — Davos Dome AI Summit
A featured session at the iconic Davos Dome exploring intelligence, imagination, and responsible leadership in shaping the future of AI.
🗓 Thursday, January 22, 2026 | 1:30 pm CET
Monetizing Attachment: Is the Race for Artificial Intimacy Changing How We Relate to Each Other?
Human Change House | Davos Promenade 63
An examination of emotional economies, artificial intimacy, and the societal consequences of AI-mediated relationships.
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Professor Renée Cummings, a 2023 VentureBeat AI Innovator Award winner, is an artificial intelligence (AI), data and tech ethicist, and the first data activist-in-residence at the University of Virginia’s (UVA) School of Data Science where she was named professor of Practice in Data Science. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and a distinguished member of the World Economic Forum’s Data Equity Council. She is also a criminologist, criminal psychologist, therapeutic jurisprudence specialist, and a community scholar at Columbia University. She also serves as co-director of the Public Interest Technology (PIT) University Network, at UVA, and is on the board of advisors of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
Committed to stretching the imagination of data science, reimagining the relationship between data and society, and redefining the data power structure, Renée works at the intersection of technology, power, and society. She examines the ethical implications of data on society, exploring the impact of AI on duty of care and due process, expanding our understanding of the ethical risks of AI and how to build ethically resilient, rewarding, responsible, sustainable, justice-oriented, and trauma-informed AI for the benefit of all. At the School of Data Science, her research focuses on data justice, data trauma, algorithmic policing, surveillance technology, and AI for criminal justice reform; using data to enhance police accountability and transparency and improve police practices, fairness, and decision-making accuracy through community engagement and public interest technology. Justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion are critical aspects of her work as she promotes inclusive innovation and ethical AI.
Her work extends to include data, democracy, representation, identity, and governance, critically examining data rights, algorithmic justice, social justice, and design justice through a criminal justice lens. Renée also specializes in AI leadership, AI policy development, AI governance, public sector AI, AI risk management, AI crisis communication, building ethical AI and using AI to save lives. Renée is committed to using AI to empower and transform, helping governments and organizations navigate the AI landscape and develop future AI leaders. Committed to justice, equality, empowerment, and democracy, Renée is a champion for the voices of the historically underrepresented in STEM and technological advancement and increases the visibility and amplifies the voices of vulnerable communities in AI and new and emerging technologies, forcing us to stretch the ethical imagination of AI.
Through her activism and research, Renée is creating space for people without power to participate meaningfully in the process of designing, developing, deploying, and adopting AI. Through rigorous thinking, meaningful participation, and scholarship, Renée advocates for AI we can trust. Renée is on the frontline of ethical AI, generating real time justice-oriented solutions to the consequences of AI and the impacts of data and technology on society. A thought-leader, motivational speaker, and mentor, Renée has given a multitude of talks to conferences, groups, and policymakers, and is a recognized expert who lectures, nationally and internationally on ethical data science and ethical AI. Renée has mastered the art of creative storytelling, science communication and deconstructing complex topics into critical everyday conversations that inform and inspire.