Perfect for Techonomy’s “The AI Paradigm: Balancing Innovation with Ethics” topic (and fresh off her recent Collison panels), Dr. Gemma Galdon-Clavell is a pioneer and global force in AI safety and auditing, ensuring that machine learning tools truly serve society. She is the founder and CEO of Eticas.ai, a venture-backed organization that identifies, measures and corrects algorithmic vulnerabilities, bias and inefficiencies in predictive and LLM tools. Eticas’ software, the ITACA platform, is the first solution to automate impact analysis and monitoring, ensuring that AI systems are high performing and safe, explainable, fair and trustworthy.
Dr. Galdon-Clavell’s impactful work – and passion for disrupting the status quo – earned her recognition as a Mozilla Rise25 honoree in 2024, Hispanic Star Awardee at the United Nations in 2023, an Ashoka Fellow in 2020 and a finalist at the EU Prize for Women Innovators awarded by the European Commission in 2017. In 2023 the BBC acknowledged her as one of the “people changing the world” and in 2024 she was honored by Forbes Women as one of the “35 Leading Spanish Women in Technology”, praised as “a pioneer in algorithmic auditing software”.
Dr. Galdon-Clavell is an active advisor to international and regional institutions such as the United Nations (UN), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), European Institue of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and the European Commission, among others. She is also a sought-after speaker, with recent engagements at high-level fora like the US-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC), re:publica or TEDx. Her comments on AI developments have been captured in Wired, Business Insider, Forbes and Computer Weekly.
