Kay Firth-Butterfield

Kay Firth-Butterfield is the CEO of Good Tech Advisory and has been leading work on Responsible design, development and use of AI from the beginning. In 2024 Kay received the TIME 100 Impact Award, was listed as a Who’s Who Emerging Innovator and in Who’s Who in America, Forbes 50 over 50. In 2014 she became the world’s first Chief AI Ethics Officer and became Vice-Chair of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems in 2015 and the founding head of AI at the World Economic Forum in 2017 where she also served on the Executive Committee. She is frequently cited as a leading woman in AI and was featured in the New York Times as a woman changing the landscape of leadership.