Talks & Interviews

I have been selected, among almost 400 nominees, as a finalist in this year’s Nordic Women in Tech Awards – in “Rising Star of the Year” category.

Rising star of the year

Recognises an up-and-coming tech professional in the last five years that has demonstrated exceptional creativity or ability within the industry; who is recognised by others as having the potential to become a future leader in their industry and presents significant evidence of a promising future.

**Speaker at Wonderland AI**
Spoke about the road to carbon neutrality using Artificial Intelligence.

**NDSML Summit by Hyperight AB**
Spoke about the relationship between our minds and AI NDSML Summit in the Data and ML Engineering track. I also discussed how AI can help reduce the stigma around mental health disparities as well as some case studies regarding the same.

**Keynote Speaker: International Women Day Sweden 2021**
My talk inspired people to come out of their comfort zones and explore new opportunities and create new innovations.

**Interview with Smriti Mishra, head of AI at Earthbanc by Female Techleaders Magazine**
Want to know my take on inclusion and diversity, and the challenges women face in the world technology? (And some tips that may help)

**Startup Mentor in Europe’s AI pre-accelerator**

I am mentoring 14 selected startups at Bucharest AI — Europe’s AI pre-accelerator.
I am mentoring the teams primarily on AI team skills and AI pitch, helping them understand how they can grow as a team, learn more AI skills, how to leverage MLOps for better performance, becoming better AI engineers as a team when from software engineering background, how to pitch in front of investors in order to maintain a balance between the technological innovation and the problem they are solving, managing to productionize ML models in cloud in a clean way, tips on looking for a technical co-founder, etc.

**Pie & AI by DeepLearning.ai**
Guest speaker at a PIE & AI meet-up organised by DeepLearning.AI.

Mentor at Moinworld

I shared my personal journey in technology, my work, mission and vision; please join the Mentors & Mentees Get-together organised by moinworld. Moinworld is a part of Google Women Techmakers Community.

I discussed my journey into AI and how Women in AI UK will be a big support to women on the road ahead whether upskilling, development, getting into AI, getting on in AI, moving up in AI- ensuring AI is representative of those it serves.

Discussed the role of AI in tackling climate change. How can AI help in achieving SDGs? And why your mental health can be a superpower?

**Guest Speaker: KTH Royal Institute of Technology & The Swedish Institute network**
Spoke about how technology (Green AI) in combination with finance and investment to create a meaningful social and green impact.

**Speaker at NLP Zurich**
Spoke about the relationship between the human brain and AI. Also, discussed the findings from my thesis in Computational Neuroscience at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Another thing I discussed was the role of AI & tech in destigmatising mental health issues.

**Berry Professionals : North Europe AI, Data Analytics Summit**

I spoke about green finance and how AI could be incorporated into the banking sector in a sustainable, transparent and reliable manner.
During the event we have over 200 senior participants, a lot of panel discussions, break out rooms, Q&A and a lot more.

An expert in the Big Innovation Centre India along with many esteemed individuals, including Lord Tim Clement-Jones (Innovation Governor UK Parliament)

In this event, we examined what progress we are making to reduce or eliminate human biases from AI models and autonomous decision making and what still needs to happen in the industry to make AI fairer, more representative of the people it is intended to serve and more inclusive.

**Role of AI: From Vaccine Development to Distribution : Speaker**
1. Has Artificial Intelligence helped Medical Science to prosper & will it continue in the future?
2. How is the Human-Machine partnership working to overcome this Covid-19?
3. Is AI an enabler to help in preliminary diagnosis, drug discovery, vaccine development & even distribution? Analysing the situation, now are we willing to take chances that Artificial Intelligence will bring along with its contribution.

**Interview : How AI can help understand our minds by Hyperight AB**
I talk about how AI can help us understand our mysterious minds, how AI can be a benefactor and a beneficiary of neuroscience, and my take on the AI challenges and trends from a broader perspective.
Link to the interview: https://hyperight.com/how-ai-can-help-understand-our-minds-interview-with-smriti-mishra/

**Speaker at FruitPunch AI**
The relationship between consciousness and AI.
An extremely intriguing topic, something that helps us understand the beautiful complexities of our mind using biologically plausible artificial neural networks.
Want to learn more? Tune in to my talk on June 3 about it organised by FruitPunch AI.

Talk on 17th and 18th July at 18:00 hours IST, for this event at the IEEE chapter at Chandigarh University, India.

July 17th I spoke about use case of AI in climate change (followed by Q&A). Link to watch : https://youtu.be/sJ3SNB1RaCQ

July 18th I spoke about use case of AI in neuroscience and mental health (followed by Q&A). Link to watch : https://youtu.be/LH654Qaeyc4

Interviews with BOECK and XOXO

Discussed use case of AI for sustainability and good.
In this edition of “The Tech Leader Portrait” aka “The Oprah for Techies”, I shared my journey into tech, how I deal with mental health, and what drives me.
In this talk we discuss challenges in our tech field from a different perspective.

Technology for good : Speaker

* Sustainable urbanism with the help of 5G and mixed reality.
* Improving and tailoring counselling for children through Data Science algorithms & NLP.
* An mHealth app that will drastically impact a person’s ability to prevent and treat their cancer and chronic diseases on a daily basis.
* How AI can be used to fight the stigma surrounding mental health.

**Hack the Mountains 2.0 : Hackathon Judge**
Sudan’s Tech is rolling down the second installment of Hack the Mountain. This a 36 hour long virtual hackathon that could be the first step in a guided technical journey for some whereas a perfect practice and polishing platform for others.
I am in judging panel/jury for this hackathon that with 3500+ registrations.

**Workshop: Machine Learning 101**

The key takeaways from my talk will be the following :
1. What is Machine Learning?
2. Data Science, ML, and AI – Correlation and Importance
3. Career Growth/Roadmap in Data Science/ML/AI
4. Future of Jobs
5. Use Case to understand the cycle of Data Science

**Interview with Smriti Mishra, head of AI at Earthbanc by EXTEND**
I talk about my mission to battle the climate crisis with Artificial Intelligence (AI). I had been using neural networks for research and applications in healthcare and mental health, in the industry, and as part of research at KTH. I also spoke about my work and research, ethics in AI, and how my growth mindset and attitude helped her to develop meaningful connections.
Link to the podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0DiRjpSr53POndov4VFO0o

**GCPIT Summit Speaker**
Gave a talk during the Global Sustainable Development Summit 2021, where I spoke on SDGs 13 & 15 (Climate Action & Life on Land) and the role of AI towards the same.

Spoke about the problems I have worked on in the past years in the climate change AI space. Shared our patent pending innovation and how it is helping 500 million small landholders globally.