We are delighted to announce that Pilar Manchón PhD. Director of Engineering and AI Research Strategy at Google, will be speaking in Working Group 3: Navigating a World Transformed by AI.
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Dr. Pilar Manchón is a senior leader in artificial intelligence with over two decades of experience in research, entrepreneurship, and executive leadership. Since 2019, she has served as Senior Director of Engineering for AI Research Strategy at Google, where she leads global initiatives on responsible and ethical AI. Alongside her role at Google, she holds multiple board and advisory positions with organisations such as Eventbrite, Universal Diagnostics, and the California-Spain Chamber of Commerce.
Before joining Google, Dr. Manchón held leadership positions at Roku as Vice President of Conversational AI, and at Amazon as Director of Cognitive Interfaces. At Intel, she served as Senior Director of Intelligent Digital Assistance and Voice. Indisys, the AI and natural language processing company she founded and led for a decade in Seville, Spain, developed conversational technologies that achieved international recognition.
Her career began in computational linguistics and dialogue systems research at the University of Seville and Stanford University, where she contributed to several European and U.S. AI research projects.
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The Best Practices for Evaluating Rapidly Advancing AI session focuses on how evaluation methods can keep pace with fast-moving AI systems—covering continuous, real-time assessment, international harmonisation of benchmarks, scrutiny of models’ reasoning and decision-making, and the role of human oversight.
