Catriona Wallace
Global Authority on Responsible AI & the Ethics of Emerging Technology | Founder of Flamingo AI & the Responsible Metaverse Alliance | Shark on Shark Tank Australia
Cansu Canca
AI Ethics Expert & Philosopher | Founder & Director, AI Ethics Lab | Director of Responsible AI, Northeastern University | AI Ethics Advisor to the UN, WEF & INTERPOL
Cansu Canca is a leading expert on AI ethics, a philosopher who helps organizations build AI they can trust. Founder of the AI Ethics Lab and Director of Responsible AI Practice at Northeastern University, she advises the UN, the World Economic Forum, INTERPOL, and Fortune 500 companies on turning ethical principles into practice. A two-time TEDx speaker, she gives audiences a clear, actionable way to work through the hardest questions AI raises.
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Cansu Canca biography
AI speaker Dr. Cansu Canca is one of the world’s foremost authorities on AI ethics, a philosopher who helps organizations build artificial intelligence they, and the public, can trust. As the founder and director of the AI Ethics Lab, one of the first initiatives devoted exclusively to the ethics of AI, and the Director of Responsible AI Practice at Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI, she leads teams of philosophers, computer scientists, and legal scholars translating high-level ethical principles into practical, real-world guidance.
Trained as a philosopher with a doctorate in applied ethics, Canca brings rare rigor to a field crowded with good intentions and vague principles. Her expertise is sought at the highest levels: she serves as an AI ethics and governance consultant to the United Nations and INTERPOL, where she helped build a toolkit for responsible AI in law enforcement, sits on the World Economic Forum’s AI Governance Alliance, advises Fortune 500 companies, is the founding editor of the journal AI & Ethics, and chairs the IEEE’s AI Experts Network Criteria Committee.
From Principles to Practice
What sets Canca apart is her insistence that ethics must be actionable. She developed the “Puzzle-solving in Ethics” model, which reframes ethical dilemmas as problems to be solved rather than rules to be followed, now the backbone of her institute’s Responsible AI framework. A two-time TEDx speaker, she has delivered more than 100 talks on AI ethics, including keynotes at Harvard Business School, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the United Nations. She has been named a Mozilla Rise25 “Change Agent” and recognized among the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics.”
As a speaker, Cansu Canca is clear, rigorous, and refreshingly practical, turning the most complex ethical questions in AI into memorable ideas and concrete, usable solutions. She speaks on responsible AI strategy and governance, the ethics of AI in healthcare and law enforcement, operationalizing AI principles, and what it takes to innovate ethically. Audiences leave not with abstract warnings but with a clear framework for building and deploying AI responsibly, and a real competitive advantage in doing so.
Cansu Canca Speaking Videos
Integrating ethics into AI research & development | Cansu Canca
How To Solve AI's Ethical Puzzles | Cansu Canca | TEDxCambridgeSalon
Cansu Canca Keynote Topics
Most organizations now have AI principles; far fewer know how to live by them. In her signature keynote, Dr. Cansu Canca shows leaders how to build a responsible AI strategy that actually works, one that is clear, actionable, and tailored to their priorities and values. Drawing on her AI Ethics Lab’s research and her “three pillars” framework of process, playbook, and people, she demonstrates how to embed ethical decision-making across the innovation lifecycle, so that responsible AI becomes a genuine competitive advantage rather than a compliance checkbox.
AI governance has moved from the IT department to the board agenda. In this keynote, Dr. Cansu Canca equips executives and directors with the strategic tools to oversee ethical AI from the top. She lays out the critical questions boards should be asking, how to align AI strategy with organizational values, how to anticipate and mitigate risk, and how strong governance builds the long-term trust that underpins innovation. A clear-eyed, practical session for senior leaders accountable for getting AI right.
As AI becomes integral to clinical decisions, diagnosis, and personal health, the ethical stakes rise sharply. Drawing on her deep background at the intersection of ethics, health, and technology, and her earlier career in bioethics, Dr. Cansu Canca illuminates the distinct ethical risks of AI in healthcare and gives audiences practical strategies to address them. She shows how to deploy powerful health technologies responsibly, protecting patients and trust while unlocking AI’s genuine benefits. Essential for healthcare, life sciences, and public health audiences.
From facial recognition to financial-crime detection, AI promises more effective policing, but also real risks of bias, surveillance, and injustice. Drawing on her work building a responsible-AI toolkit for the United Nations and INTERPOL, Dr. Cansu Canca explores how public-safety technologies can be developed and deployed ethically. She offers a grounded path between uncritical adoption and outright rejection, showing how to harness AI’s benefits for security while safeguarding rights and public trust. A vital talk for government, public-sector, and security audiences.
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FAQs on Booking Cansu Canca
Why Cansu Canca?
Booking Dr. Cansu Canca brings audiences one of the world’s foremost experts on AI ethics, and, crucially, one who makes ethics practical. A philosopher by training and the founder of the AI Ethics Lab, she advises the UN, INTERPOL, the World Economic Forum, and Fortune 500 companies, and she is known for turning complex ethical questions into clear, actionable frameworks rather than abstract warnings. Rigorous, credible, and refreshingly down-to-earth, she helps leaders build AI they can trust and defend, treating responsible AI as a source of advantage, not a constraint. She is ideal for events on AI, technology, ethics and governance, healthcare, and leadership. To bring Dr. Cansu Canca to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Cansu Canca?
Dr. Cansu Canca is a philosopher and one of the world’s leading experts on AI ethics. She is the founder and director of the AI Ethics Lab, one of the first initiatives dedicated exclusively to the ethics of artificial intelligence, and the Director of Responsible AI Practice at the Institute for Experiential AI and a Research Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University. She holds a doctorate in philosophy specializing in applied ethics and, before her work in technology, spent over a decade in bioethics. She serves as an AI ethics and governance consultant to the United Nations and INTERPOL, sits on the World Economic Forum’s AI Governance Alliance, is the founding editor of the journal AI & Ethics, and chairs the IEEE’s AI Experts Network Criteria Committee. A two-time TEDx speaker, she has given more than 100 talks on AI ethics and has been recognized as a Mozilla Rise25 “Change Agent” and among the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics.”
What is Cansu Canca’s approach to AI ethics?
Dr. Cansu Canca’s central conviction is that ethics must be practical, not just principled. She observes that while organizations around the world have published lofty AI principles, far fewer know how to act on them, and that gap between stated values and daily decisions is where real harm occurs. Her answer is a model she developed called “Puzzle-solving in Ethics,” which reframes ethical challenges not as a rigid checklist of rules to obey, but as genuine puzzles to be worked through using tools from applied ethics, the same way organizations already reason through tough business, legal, or public-health decisions. Drawing on her philosophy background and her AI Ethics Lab’s research into the global landscape of AI principles, she helps organizations operationalize ethics: embedding it horizontally across the innovation process (from design to deployment) and vertically through the organization (from engineers to the boardroom). Her “three pillars” framework, process, playbook, and people, gives leaders a concrete way to turn ethical goals into action. The result is an approach that treats responsible AI not as a brake on innovation but as a driver of trust, resilience, and lasting competitive advantage.
What topics does AI speaker Cansu Canca cover?
Dr. Cansu Canca speaks on responsible AI strategy and operationalizing AI principles, AI governance in the boardroom, the ethics of AI in healthcare, and the ethics of AI in law enforcement and public safety. Her keynotes suit events on AI, technology, ethics and governance, healthcare, leadership, and innovation, for corporate, government, and academic audiences. To book Dr. Cansu Canca as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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