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Rise25 - 2024 Honorees - Meet the Entrepreneurs
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They’re crafting businesses and solutions with AI to meet societal needs, improve everyday life and forge new technological paths. They embody innovation, steering startups and projects with a commitment to ethical standards, inclusiveness and enhancing human welfare through technology. </p> <p class="r25-hero-back"><a href="/">Back to categories</a></p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="r25-honorees"> <div class="mzp-l-content r25-honorees-gallery"> <article id="daniel-beutel" data-id="daniel-beutel" data-person-name="Daniel Beutel" class="r25-c-person vcard" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <h3 class="fn r25-c-person-name" itemprop="name">Daniel Beutel</h3> <div class="r25-c-person-bio"> <p>Daniel Beutel is one of the creators of <a href="https://flower.ai" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Flower</a>, an open-source framework for training AI on distributed data using federated learning. Flower is one of the leading federated AI ecosystems with a large and growing community and users at many Fortune 500 companies and most top universities worldwide. Daniel previously held roles as Head of AI and CTO and has considerable experience in running and scaling engineering teams. He is a CS PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and co-founder of Flower Labs, a startup backed by Y Combinator, First Spark Ventures, Felicis Ventures, and Mozilla Ventures (among others).</p> </div> <p class="r25-c-person-link"><a class="r25-js-person" href="#daniel-beutel">Read on</a></p> <img class="r25-c-person-img" src="/media/img/people/daniel-beutel.0251def5.jpg" alt="Daniel Beutel" width="400" height="400" loading="lazy"> <div class="r25-c-social-share"> <p class="social-share-title">Share</p> <ul class="social-share-list"> <li> <button class="copy-text" data-cta-type="button" data-cta-text="Copy link" data-person-id="daniel-beutel"> <svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M9.28906 8.64457C8.73118 9.3904 7.87686 9.85715 6.94784 9.92369C6.01882 9.99022 5.10671 9.64998 4.44823 8.99126L2.52217 7.0652C1.30563 5.80562 1.32303 3.80346 2.56127 2.56522C3.79952 1.32697 5.80168 1.30957 7.06125 2.52611L8.16553 3.62397" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.28115" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" /> <path d="M6.71871 7.36057C7.2766 6.61474 8.13092 6.14799 9.05993 6.08145C9.98895 6.01492 10.9011 6.35516 11.5595 7.01388L13.4856 8.93994C14.7021 10.1995 14.6847 12.2017 13.4465 13.4399C12.2083 14.6782 10.2061 14.6956 8.94652 13.479L7.84867 12.3812" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.28115" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" /> </svg> <span class="social-share-copy" role="tooltip">Copy to clipboard</span> <span class="social-share-copied" role="tooltip" aria-live="polite">Link copied!</span> </button> </li> <li> <a class="twitter" href="#" target="_blank" role="external noopener noreferrer" data-cta-type="link" data-cta-text="Share on X"> <svg title="Share on X" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path fill="currentColor" d="M12.6009 1h2.4535L9.69434 7.31003 16 15.8966h-4.9373l-3.86704-5.2077-4.42479 5.2077H.315951L6.04904 9.14727 0 1h5.06262l3.49549 4.76002L12.6009 1Zm-.861 13.384h1.3594L4.32392 2.43312H2.86506L11.7399 14.384Z"/> </svg> <span class="visually-hidden">Share on X (formerly Twitter)</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="facebook" href="#" target="_blank" role="external noopener noreferrer" data-cta-type="link" data-cta-text="Share on Facebook"> <svg title="Share on Facebook" width="9" height="16" viewBox="0 0 9 16" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M2.72851 15.7063V8.67785H0.363281V5.93867H2.72851V3.91863C2.72851 1.57434 4.16032 0.297852 6.25156 0.297852C7.25325 0.297852 8.11424 0.372451 8.36511 0.405773V2.85566L6.91473 2.85634C5.77737 2.85634 5.55718 3.39677 5.55718 4.18982V5.93867H8.26963L7.91642 8.67785H5.55718V15.7063H2.72851Z" fill="currentColor" /> </svg> <span class="visually-hidden">Share on Facebook</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="email" href="#" data-cta-type="link" data-cta-text="Share with email"> <svg title="Share with email" width="17" height="16" viewBox="0 0 17 16" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M3.1942 2.86523H13.4665C14.1727 2.86523 14.7506 3.44305 14.7506 4.14927V11.8535C14.7506 12.5597 14.1727 13.1376 13.4665 13.1376H3.1942C2.48797 13.1376 1.91016 12.5597 1.91016 11.8535V4.14927C1.91016 3.44305 2.48797 2.86523 3.1942 2.86523Z" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.28115" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" /> <path d="M14.7506 4.14941L8.33036 8.64356L1.91016 4.14941" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.28115" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" /> </svg> <span class="visually-hidden">Share with Email</span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> </article> <article id="ali-farhadi" data-id="ali-farhadi" data-person-name="Ali Farhadi" class="r25-c-person vcard" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <h3 class="fn r25-c-person-name" itemprop="name">Ali Farhadi</h3> <div class="r25-c-person-bio"> <p>Ali Farhadi is the CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and a Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Ali has been a professor at the UW Allen School since 2012. He first joined AI2 in 2015 to lead the institute’s computer vision research team with a focus on visual common-sense reasoning and the role of actions and interactions in visual understanding. While at AI2, he co-founded Xnor.ai, the first on-device deep learning startup that was acquired by Apple in 2020. Ali led Apple’s next-generation machine learning efforts until 2023 when he rejoined AI2 as CEO in July. Ali’s research impact has been globally recognized with several best paper awards at CVPR, NeruIPS, AAAI, NSF Career Award, and the Sloan Fellowship, and he was named one of Forbes’s Top 5 AI Entrepreneurs in 2018.</p> </div> <p class="r25-c-person-link"><a class="r25-js-person" href="#ali-farhadi">Read on</a></p> <img class="r25-c-person-img" src="/media/img/people/ali-farhadi.32b1d384.jpg" alt="Ali Farhadi" width="400" height="400" loading="lazy"> <div class="r25-c-social-share"> <p class="social-share-title">Share</p> <ul class="social-share-list"> <li> <button class="copy-text" data-cta-type="button" data-cta-text="Copy link" data-person-id="ali-farhadi"> <svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M9.28906 8.64457C8.73118 9.3904 7.87686 9.85715 6.94784 9.92369C6.01882 9.99022 5.10671 9.64998 4.44823 8.99126L2.52217 7.0652C1.30563 5.80562 1.32303 3.80346 2.56127 2.56522C3.79952 1.32697 5.80168 1.30957 7.06125 2.52611L8.16553 3.62397" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.28115" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" /> <path d="M6.71871 7.36057C7.2766 6.61474 8.13092 6.14799 9.05993 6.08145C9.98895 6.01492 10.9011 6.35516 11.5595 7.01388L13.4856 8.93994C14.7021 10.1995 14.6847 12.2017 13.4465 13.4399C12.2083 14.6782 10.2061 14.6956 8.94652 13.479L7.84867 12.3812" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.28115" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" /> </svg> <span class="social-share-copy" role="tooltip">Copy to clipboard</span> <span class="social-share-copied" role="tooltip" aria-live="polite">Link copied!</span> </button> </li> <li> <a class="twitter" href="#" target="_blank" role="external noopener noreferrer" data-cta-type="link" data-cta-text="Share on X"> <svg title="Share on X" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path fill="currentColor" d="M12.6009 1h2.4535L9.69434 7.31003 16 15.8966h-4.9373l-3.86704-5.2077-4.42479 5.2077H.315951L6.04904 9.14727 0 1h5.06262l3.49549 4.76002L12.6009 1Zm-.861 13.384h1.3594L4.32392 2.43312H2.86506L11.7399 14.384Z"/> </svg> <span class="visually-hidden">Share on X (formerly Twitter)</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="facebook" href="#" target="_blank" role="external noopener noreferrer" data-cta-type="link" data-cta-text="Share on Facebook"> <svg title="Share on Facebook" width="9" height="16" viewBox="0 0 9 16" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M2.72851 15.7063V8.67785H0.363281V5.93867H2.72851V3.91863C2.72851 1.57434 4.16032 0.297852 6.25156 0.297852C7.25325 0.297852 8.11424 0.372451 8.36511 0.405773V2.85566L6.91473 2.85634C5.77737 2.85634 5.55718 3.39677 5.55718 4.18982V5.93867H8.26963L7.91642 8.67785H5.55718V15.7063H2.72851Z" fill="currentColor" /> </svg> <span class="visually-hidden">Share on Facebook</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="email" href="#" data-cta-type="link" data-cta-text="Share with email"> <svg title="Share with email" width="17" height="16" viewBox="0 0 17 16" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M3.1942 2.86523H13.4665C14.1727 2.86523 14.7506 3.44305 14.7506 4.14927V11.8535C14.7506 12.5597 14.1727 13.1376 13.4665 13.1376H3.1942C2.48797 13.1376 1.91016 12.5597 1.91016 11.8535V4.14927C1.91016 3.44305 2.48797 2.86523 3.1942 2.86523Z" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.28115" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" /> <path d="M14.7506 4.14941L8.33036 8.64356L1.91016 4.14941" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.28115" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" /> </svg> <span class="visually-hidden">Share with Email</span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> </article> <article id="gemma-galdon-clavell" data-id="gemma-galdon-clavell" data-person-name="Gemma Galdon-Clavell" class="r25-c-person vcard" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <h3 class="fn r25-c-person-name" itemprop="name">Gemma Galdon-Clavell</h3> <div class="r25-c-person-bio"> <p>Dr. Gemma Galdon-Clavell is a pioneer and global force in AI safety and auditing, ensuring that machine learning tools truly serve society. She is the founder and CEO of Eticas.ai, a venture-backed organization that identifies, measures and corrects algorithmic vulnerabilities, bias and inefficiencies in predictive and LLM tools. Eticas’ software, the ITACA platform, is the first solution to automate impact analysis and monitoring, ensuring that AI systems are high performing and safe, explainable, fair and trustworthy.</p> <p>Dr. Galdon-Clavell’s impactful work – and passion for disrupting the status quo – earned her recognition as a Hispanic Star Awardee at the United Nations in 2023, an Ashoka Fellow in 2020 and a finalist at the EU Prize for Women Innovators awarded by the European Commission in 2017. In 2023 the BBC acknowledged her as one of the “people changing the world” and in 2024 she was honored by Forbes Women as one of the “35 Leading Spanish Women in Technology”, praised as “a pioneer in algorithmic auditing software”.</p> <p>Dr. Galdon-Clavell is an active advisor to international and regional institutions such as the United Nations (UN), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and the European Commission, among others. She is also a sought-after speaker, with recent engagements at high-level fora like the US-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC), re:publica or TEDx. 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