The AI Data Real Talk
Join us for a conversation on bringing inclusive, representative data into AI — exploring data sovereignty, openness, and equity. We’ll talk about actual case studies that represent those values and what it really takes to build datasets for fair, representative systems. A Mozilla Festival-style deep dive: bold, curious, and unapologetically honest.
Moderator - EM Lewis-Jong
Panelists:
- Keoni Mahelona - Te Hiku Media
- Pedro Ortiz Suarez - Common Crawl Foundation
- Dr. Gina Moape - University of South Africa
- Rashel Moritz - Meta
- Johann Diedrick - Mozilla Data Collective
- Sarah Pearson - Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Founder & VP, Mozilla Data Collective
Keoni (kanaka ʻōiwi / native Hawaiian) is the CTO at Te Hiku Media and a leading practitioner of indigenous data sovereignty. Originally from Anahola on the island of Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi, Keoni has been living and working in Te Hiku o Te Ika for over 10 years having first arrived in Aotearoa as a Fulbright Scholar. As a driving force behind the development of digital innovation projects that seek to secure the future of te reo Māori and other indigenous languages, Keoni makes decisions every day to protect the sovereignty of Māori data and technologies.
Principal Research Scientist, Common Crawl Foundation
University of South Africa
Meta