HR leaders will share strategies on how to position HR as a driving force in the strategic implementation of AI. Learn how to foster a workforce culture that embraces AI not as a disruptor, but as a tool for growth, innovation, and future-readiness.
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Emily M. Dickens, J.D.
Chief of Staff, Head of Government Affairs & Corporate Secretary
SHRM
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Emily M. Dickens, J.D., serves as SHRM Chief of Staff, Head of Government Affairs & Corporate Secretary. She is the executive responsible for coordinating staff to implement the CEO's vision, serving as corporate secretary for the SHRM Board and subsidiary boards, as well as managing external partnerships and providing oversight for the Government Affairs division.
Dickens is an attorney with significant and progressive experience in government, higher education and the non-profit sector. She has served as a member of the leadership team at the University of North Carolina system, the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Her prior roles include general counsel, chief relationship officer, senior vice president, vice president for public policy and assistant vice president for federal relations. Dickens has also worked at Duke University and Fayetteville State University in administrative and external affairs roles.
Emily is actively engaged in board service. She formerly served on the Fayetteville/Cumberland (NC) Chamber of Commerce (Secretary of the Board), the Cumberland County Workforce Development Board, the North Carolina Partnership for Defense Innovation Board, and the Educational Advancement Foundation. She is currently a member of the Advisory Council of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), the Advisory Board of the College of Arts and Sciences at North Carolina Central University, and chairs the International HBCU Task Force for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.
She is a graduate of North Carolina Central University and North Carolina Central University School of Law.
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Roy Bahat
Head of Bloomberg Beta
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Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta, the early-stage venture firm backed by Bloomberg L.P. that invests in startups making work better. Bloomberg Beta treats founders as its customers and was the first venture capital firm to focus on the future of work and the first to focus on artificial intelligence. The firm sees Bloomberg L.P. as an inspiration for startups: founded on a powerful idea, led by its founders for decades, reaching global scale, and embracing technology as part of a strong, transparent company culture. Bloomberg Beta has invested in Replit, MasterClass, Slack, Flexport, Campus, and Weights & Biases, among other companies.
Before starting Bloomberg Beta more than a decade ago, Roy started a venture-backed company, was a corporate executive (at News Corp.), in government (at New York's City Hall), in media, and in academia. He was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business.
Roy chairs the Aspen Business Roundtable on Organized Labor, convening "labor open" business leaders to explore new ways of relating to organized labor and worker power. Following work he did with New America to understand the long-term effect of technology on work in America, Roy was a commissioner on the California Governor’s Future of Work Commission. He also created #thisisnotadvice, a community-edited guide on how to work, and hosts the [Going to Work] conference.
Roy teaches at U.C. Berkeley, at the Haas School of Business, including a first-of-its-kind course on organized labor and another on the media industry. He was named one of the favorite MBA professors.
Roy served on the board or as an advisor to several non-profits including the Abundance Network, Stanford's Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, the Economic Security Project, and the Center for Investigative Reporting. Roy is also a senior fellow (non-resident) at the Brookings Institution, where he writes about AI.
Roy graduated from Harvard College and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.
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Danielle Abril
Washington Post
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Danielle Abril covers technology and its impact on workers across industries for The Washington Post. Before joining The Post, she covered Big Tech companies at Fortune including Google and Facebook. She previously was a reporter and editor for more than 10 years in Dallas.