Usama Fayyad is the Founder and Chairman of Open Insights, Inaugural Executive Director of Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential AI, and co-founder of IADSS. He is well known for co-organizing the First International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Data (KDD-95), serving as the world’s first Chief Data Officer (CDO) at Yahoo!, and his more recent role of Global Chief Data Officer & Group Managing Director at Barclays Bank in London. Few have as comprehensive knowledge of Silicon Valley and the state of AI around the world.