
Mr. Yonah Welker is a public technologist with work encompassing algorithms, emerging technologies, and policies, addressing society, human capacity, designated groups and spectrums such as social, expressive and human-centered AI, robotics, emerging learning, work, health, public and economic solutions. It includes the co-creation of emerging technologies and algorithms, screening, evaluating and cooperating with national, public and private projects, cohorts, ecosystems and funds, contributing suggestions to repositories and frameworks. Prior to it, Yonah Welker was co-founder of Hardwaretech think tank (2006<), cocreated and screened tech ventures, projects and cohorts (including large and mass-scale, cross-states), served as an evaluator and expert for technology transfer and innovation ecosystems, including funds, authorities, EU-Commission funded projects, curated initiatives of AI for humanity, humanitarian and cross-national initiatives. Yonah Welker has provided over a hundred appearances and commentary, contributed to reports and working groups, including WH and UN-related institutions, initiatives and calls, national AI offices, institutes and frameworks. Recent groups: AI Office's Code of Practice, DG-AI/Robotics and Critical Infrastructure, ITU-DPI. UNU Recent appearances: AI Act Summit, Korea AI Summit, Sorbonne AI Action Summit, Responsible AI Forum, Gov Summit, Unesco Week, OECD AI, Forum Europe, Delphi Economic Forum, ML Con, World Humanitarian Forum, Times Higher Education, Copenhagen Forum, ML Innovation, AWE US, FWD 50, Horasis Summit AI US, MozFest UK, LEAP/Deepfest, Spark Fest Australia, Datalift, Pondering AI, Way Davos, RightsCon, London Tech Advocates, Formwelt Institute, etc Jury: MIT, Masschallenge, Neurips etc
unit.network
womeninai.co
mit.edu
su.org
europa.eu
insead.edu
forbestechcouncil.com
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Public Technologist, Visiting Lecturer (prev. tech envoy, ministry of AI)
Confidential
Jan 2022 - Present
Board, Evaluator - social tech, ai, robotics, learning, accessibility
European Commission
• www.linkedin.com/company/european-commission
Apr 2018 - Present
Board, Evaluator - social tech, ai, robotics, learning, accessibility
EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology
• www.linkedin.com/company/european-institute-of-innovation-and-technology---eit
Apr 2022 - Present
Board, Evaluator - various initiatives
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• www.linkedin.com/company/mit
Jun 2014 - Present
Advisor, Program & Curator
Global AI Summit
• www.linkedin.com/company/globalaisummit
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
EIR, Explorer
Various Ecosystems
May 2014 - Dec 2021
Founder
Confidential
Aug 2012 - Mar 2014
Founder
HardwareTech
Jan 2005 - Jul 2010
Worldwide
500.co
weforum.org