Category: outreach

I’ll be part of a panel during a Digital Talk by the DDMA, to talk about the AI Act, and its potential implications for data-driven marketeers, alongside Peter van der Putten (PEGA / Leiden Universiteit) and Romar van der Leij (DDMA). See all the details (in Dutch) at the DDMA event page.

Excited to be participating in a panel at the “Computers, Privacy & Data Protection” (CPDP) conference in Brussels. The panel is organized by Mirko Schäfer (Utrecht University), and I’ll be engaging in a conversation with Iris Muis (Utrecht Data School), Paul Nemitz (European Commission) and Maria Koomen (Open Governance Network for Europe). I’ll be wearing […]

I look forward to giving a guest lecture on “Job Recommendation” alongside Mesut Kaya at the RecSys Summer School 2023 in Copenhagen 🇩🇰! It was only 4 years ago when I stood side-by-side with Daan Odijk for a lecture and hands-on workshop on “Recommender Systems in the Media Industry,” at the last RecSys Summer School in 2019, which was […]

It is now official, right? I am now a recommender system expert (by virtue of appearing on Marcel Kurovski‘s Recsperts podcast series). It was great fun to geek out with a knowledgeable host on anything recsys in HR, we touch on fairness, difficulties with delayed feedback signals, our RecSys in HR Workshop, and how I […]

Yesterday evening I was a guest next to Dasha Simons (IBM) and Oumaima Hajri (Hogeschool Rotterdam) in Felix Meritis at the invitation of Laurens Vreekamp to talk about — among other things — fair AI, ethics, and algorithmic bias. It was nice and important to be able to discuss these topics from an optimistic and […]

I’m excited to be joining a panel on “AI and Ethics” at the Reshaping Work 2022 Conference on October 14 at de Rode Hoed in Amsterdam, alongside Robert Seamans (New York University) and Anastasia Sergeeva (Vrije University Amsterdam). The panel will be chaired by Ting Li (Erasmus University Rotterdam).

On Friday, September 23 I am representing Randstad and giving a talk on “The future of work” at the DeLaMar theater, part of the UvA in DeLaMar seminar series.

At a conference in Utrecht I participated in a panel discussion alongside Hans de Zwart (HvA’s Centre of Expertise Applied AI), Rina Joosten-Rabou (Seedlink), Mildo van Staden (Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties) and Siri Beerends (SETUP). I summarized my takeaways on LinkedIn, which I share below (in Dutch)