Semana de Metodologia

Alistair Nolan is a Senior Policy Analyst in the OECD’s Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation. Mr.Nolan leads various streams of OECD substantive work on artificial intelligence. He is co-leading the upcoming OECD-BCG-Insead survey of AI in business. In recent years Mr.Nolan has also managed research and projects on robotics, and on the impacts of emerging technologies on production, the latter leading to the 2017 book The Next Production Revolution: Implications for Governments and Business (referenced at the start of the G7 Action Plan, at the 2017 meeting of the G7 in Taormina). Mr.Nolan authored the chapter on Artificial Intelligence in the Next Production Revolution in the 2018 edition of the OECD’s Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook. He is the editor and co-author of the recently published book The Digitalisation of Science, Technology and Innovation : Key Developments and Policies. In a previous role at the OECD he was a co-developer of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).

Clara Langevin is the Manager of the Center's Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Platform for the 4th. Industrial Revolution of Brazil (C4IR), an initiative of the World Economic Forum. She holds a master's degree in Public Administration (MPA) from Columbia University (USA) and is one of the authors of the study "The future of AI in the Brazilian judicial system" published by ITS-Rio in 2020.

Cédric Wachholz heads UNESCO’s Digital Innovation and Transformation Section (CI/DIT), which includes multiple Artificial Intelligence (AI) work streams. UNESCO’s AI work focuses on the the human-rights and ethical dimension of AI and on the use of frontier technologies for the UN Sustainable Development Goals, through advocacy, capacity- and public policy development. UNESCO harnesses AI-related opportunities in its field of competence (education, sciences, culture, communication and information) and serves as a platform for multi-stakeholder dialogue on AI innovations for development.

Previously, as Chief of the Executive Office of UNESCO’s Communication and Information (CI) Sector, Cédric provided strategic decision-making support to the Assistant Director-General for CI on the management of the Sector's activities, budget and staff (Jan. 2017 until Feb. 19). Before, he coordinated UNESCO’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) follow-up, covering a wide range of ICT issues in the fields of the Sciences, Culture, Education and Communication and Information, including also Internet Governance. Cédric is originally an e-learning specialist and headed before the ICT in Education Unit in UNESCO’s Education Sector. From 2006-8, he worked in the office of UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Education and from 2002-2006, as Chief of the ICT in Education Unit in the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education in Bangkok, Thailand. In the Regional Bureau, he led a team of 15 people on ICT projects in the areas of Policy-, SchoolNet- and indicator development, in teacher and non-formal education, curriculum and content development. From 2000-2002, Cédric Wachholz was the ICT in Education Focal Point in UNESCO HQ Educational Policies and Strategies Division. He started his UNESCO work in 1998 in the Education for All (EFA) Division.

Davor Orlic is an MA graduate in Digital Humanities from University College London. He co-founded VideoLectures.Net with 20.000 educational videos, launched the OpeningupSlovenia national education initiative, established the UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for OER and Open Learning, curated the 2nd UNESCO OER World Congress and worked on the delivery of the UNESCO Recommendation on OER. He is the Chief Operating Officer at the International Artificial Intelligence Research Centre (IRCAI) and Knowledge 4 All Foundation with 60 global members in machine learning. Active in Artificial Intelligence research, open education, policies and business innovation in education. Has managed portfolio of European and African research projects on AI from capacity building of communities, to applicative solutions and policy with 40+ partners and 150+ researchers across the board. He is currently working on two European Networks of Artificial Intelligence (HumaneAI, ELISE), one Network in Sub-Saharan Africa (AI4D) and in the European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education (ENCORE+).

Demi Getschko holds BSc, MSc, and PhD, degrees in Electronic Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. He is an advisor to the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), CEO of the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br) and an Associate Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) by the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO).
In April 2014 he was an inductee at the Internet Hall of Fame under the category "Global Connectors", in a ceremony held in Hong Kong. In July of the same year, he was awarded with the “Cristina Tavares" prize of the Brazilian Computer Society. In December, on the day of the Engineer, he received from the Engineers' Union, in the State of São Paulo, the "Personality of Technology 2014" award, under the category "Internet." In May 2016 he was admitted to the Order of Merit of Communications, at the "Officer's Degree" as a form of recognition of his services to Communications.

Denise Britz do N. Silva is Principal Researcher and former director of the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE) from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Has also worked as a Principal Methodologist for the Office for National Statistics (ONS-UK) and as a lecturer at the University of Southampton. She completed her PhD in Statistics at the University of Southampton and has an MSc and a BSc in Statistics. She has extensive experience in teaching at graduate and undergraduate levels as well as professional development courses, and has been working as a survey statistician at IBGE for more than 30 years. Her main areas of interest are survey methods, statistical modelling for the social sciences, small area estimation and time series analysis. She is president of the International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).

Lucas Câmara is Executive Director of the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution of Brazil (C4IR) affiliated to the World Economic Forum.
BSc of Law and MSc in International Relations from the University of Bristol (England), Lucas has 20 years of experience in Institutional and Government Relations working in multinationals (Procter & Gamble, HEINEKEN), business associations (Amcham, MBC) and public sector (Government of the State of São Paulo).

Coordinator of Quantitative Methods, Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society, Brazilian Network Information Center
Responsible for the coordination of quantitative processes at Cetic.br, including large national sample design and selection, field data collection control and quality management, data processing, development of new methodologies including small area estimation projects and non-probability samples studies. Holds a master’s degree in Population Studies and Social Research and a bachelor’s degree in Statistics at the National School of Statistical Science (ENCE).

Dr. Marco Puts is methodologist and data scientist at Statistics Netherlands. His research focusses on the usability of big data and machine learning in official statistics.

Matej Kovačič, PhD, works at Jozef Stefan Institute. He is an expert in data analysis and open data. He is also working in the field of cybersecurity and has practical experience in digital forensics and investigation of cybercrime. He is an author of three monographs and several other original scientific, professional and other articles and presentations.

Matej Posinković has obtained a bachelor in physics from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in Ljubljana. After the studies he switched to the IT industry and been involved in various projects in different IT fields. His interest in mostly focused on the intersection of (open) education, technology (EdTech) and (social) entrepreneurship and as a result he founded OpenProf, one of the most influential and succesful educational project in Slovenia. Currently he is part of the AI lab at JSI and IRCAI where he continues his work in various (EU) projects involving AI, education and other UN's SDGs topics.

Maysa S. de Magalhães is Principal Researcher and Director of the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE) from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Has also worked as an Adjunct Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Guarda (Portugal). She holds a PhD degree in Production Engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She coordinated the Postgraduate Program in Population Studies and Social Research at ENCE from 2009 to 2011. She has experience in teaching at graduate and undergraduate levels. She has been acting as a reviewer for several journals. Her main areas of interest are statistical modeling for the social sciences, statistical quality control and improvement, including all aspects of control charting, profile monitoring, industrial applications of statistics. She has published several peer-reviewed journal articles. She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).

Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva was the President of the International Statistical Institute 2015-2017, and is Principal Researcher at the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE) of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). PhD. in Social Statistics (University of Southampton, 1996), Pedro’s main research interests are survey and sampling methodology applied to household and business surveys, as well as the analysis of survey data.

Prof. Dr. Piet Daas is a senior-methodologist at Statistics Netherlands where he leads the research on Big Data. He is a professor by special appointment on ‘Big Data in Official Statistics’ at the Eindhoven University of Technology where his work focuses on the development of Big Data methodology. Piet teaches Big Data (on-line) at Statistics Netherlands, the University of Utrecht, University of Maryland, and the University of Mannheim.

Prateek Sibal is programme specialist in the Digital Innovation and Transformation Section of the Communication and Information Sector at UNESCO. In this framework, he coordinates the Communication and Information Sector’s work on artificial intelligence, government digital transformation, and internet governance. His work spans research, advocacy for human centered AI, policy advice and development of human and institutional capacities for the governance of digital technologies. He teaches Digital Government at Sciences Po, Paris and is a PhD Scholar at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin.

Master in Economic Law and Doctoral Student in Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo. Attorney of the State of São Paulo and Coordinator of the Intellectual Property and Innovation Center of the "Procuradoria Geral do Estado de São Paulo - PGE/SP". He was an external consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank - IDB for public procurement of innovation and open innovation in Brazil (2020-2021) and is currently a fellow at the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco (USA), linked to the World Economic Forum.

Has background in statistics (B.S, 2008 - ENCE) and physics (PhD, 2014 - UFF). Has been working at IBGE's prices indices coordination (COINP) since 2010 where has started its activities at the sector of construction statistics. Since 2017 is the manager of the conceptual planning management which is responsible to give methodological support to the COINP's surveys which include the National System of Consumer Prices Indices (SNIPC) the National System of Costs Survey and Indexes of Construction (SINAPI) and the International Comparison Program (ICP). Has been interested and working on problems related to the use of alternative data sources for the modernization and improvement of the production of price statistics by official institutes. Some works produced in this field have been presented in specialized international forums. Since 2020 has been contributing to the works of the UN international task force whose emphasis is on the use of alternative data sources for the production of consumer prices indices. Among other recent works developed it can be highlighted the last update of the baskets of SNIPC indices derived at record time via use of data from the IBGE's Household Budged Survey POF 2017-2018.