Promoting Social Equality through AI since 2010: The Case of Baobab

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Promoting Social Equality through AI since 2010: The Case of Baobab

Thursday, April 11, 2024 | 12:45 — 1:45 PM (Lunch will be provided)

Room 640 (NEW ROOM), Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School (Map)

(645 West 130th Street, New York, NY 10027)

Featuring:

Miori Sagara

President & CEO, Baobab Inc.

Moderator:

Dr. Yumiko Shimabukuro

Faculty, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Co-Founder, Japanese Management Leadership Program, CJEB

What you will learn:

• Baobab’s business model and how it became a pioneer in the provision of high-quality annotation services
• How Baobab ignites confidence and inspiration for leadership in the embattled
• How companies like Baobab can support the socially excluded and disadvantaged, helping them become contributing agents to Japan’s economy
• Ms. Sagara’s views on what true leadership looks like

About the speaker:

Miori Sagara has been spearheading Baobab Inc. as President and CEO since she founded the company in 2010. She has been active in the Machine Learning sphere for nearly 15 years and has written numerous papers regarding the subject, one of which has been accepted at CVPR 2022 (The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference), the world’s leading conference on computer vision. Her liberal upbringing brought social awareness to the constraints of the Japanese workforce, where rules and norms were built around the able-bodied, middle-aged, college-educated male persona. Combined with her work with NICT, the largest research center in Japan that focuses on Universal Communication, including machine learning research, where she developed an application that supports communication between the hearing impaired and able-bodied, she has been vocal on an “anyone-inclusive” work environment. Her November 2022 paper on “Visualising Corporate Social Value” was published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Ms. Sagara is also a delegate of the Association for Natural Language Processing and a member of the Global Communications Development Promotion Council (part of NICT), among other roles. Baobab Inc. was selected for first place in the Corporate Category at the 2022 Forbes Japan Women Awards.

Admission and Contact:

You must register to attend this in-person-only event.

This event is part of CJEB’s Japanese Management Leadership Program (JMLP).

If you have questions about the event, please contact us at cjeb@gsb.columbia.edu.

Special Notes:

● This in-person-only event is open to the public and will not be live-streamed. Please note registration does not guarantee a seat.

● Please bring a government-issued ID or Columbia University ID to access Geffen Hall.

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