Fei-Fei Li keynote speaker

Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the godmother of artificial intelligence. As the creator of ImageNet, the database that taught computers to “see,” she laid the groundwork for modern AI marvels such as Google Lens, DALL-E, self-driving cars, and facial recognition. In her current role as co-founder and CEO of World Labs, she’s building the foundation for AI’s next major breakthrough—Large World Models (LWMs) that can understand and interact with the physical world. A champion for AI that is safe and inclusive, Dr. Li is also the founding co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute (HAI) and the founder of AI4ALL.

Delivering depth and breadth on both the technical and human aspects of the technology, Dr. Li leaves audiences awestruck, informed, and empowered to leverage AI in their unique industries. Alongside mind-blowing presentations on the latest research, she discusses AI’s impact on society and the future of work, and offers practical applications in business, healthcare, and more. She is vocal about the risks of developing such powerful technology and the obligation we have to wield it responsibly and ethically.

Her critically acclaimed memoir, The Worlds I See, is a coming-of-age story of overcoming adversity, documenting Li’s journey from China’s middle class to American poverty to her position at the forefront of AI today. The book is at once a deeply moving immigrant tale and an inside look at the rise of AI from one of its most prominent creators. It was named a Financial Times Best Book of 2023 and one of Barack Obama’s recommended books on AI.

Dr. Li is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the computer science department at Stanford University and served as director of the Stanford AI Lab for five years. During a sabbatical from the University, she worked as Vice President and Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud. The founder of AI4ALL, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to AI education and research to underrepresented groups, Li is also a leading advocate for diversity in STEM seeking to combat the harmful unconscious bias built into AI models developed by homogenous teams.

Acknowledging the potential harm of AI in the wrong hands, Dr. Li has lent her expertise to policymakers nationally and locally to inform proper governance. She has testified before Congress, served as a member of the California Future of Work Commissioner under Gavin Newsom, and contributed to White House technology policy as a member of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force.

Dr. Li has published more than 300 scientific papers in industry-leading journals such as Nature, PNAS, Journal of Neuroscience, New England Journal of Medicine, among others. Work from her lab has been featured in numerous general audience publications including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Science, Wired, Financial Times, and more. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Among Dr. Li’s many awards are the Intel Lifetime Achievement Award, the Thomas Huang Memorial Prize, the National Geographic Society Further Award, and the NVIDIA Pioneer in AI Award. She was named a TIME100 in AI, one of ELLE’s Women in Tech, a Good Housekeeping Awesome Women awardee, a Foreign Policy Global Thinker, and one of the Carnegie Foundation’s “Great Immigrants: The Pride of America,” an honor previously bestowed to great minds such as Albert Einstein, Yo-Yo Ma, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin.