Emanuela Girardi

President

Adra

Emanuela Girardi is the President of Adra, the European Association for AI, Data, and Robotics, which collaborates with the European Commission in the AI, Data, and Robotics Public-Private Partnership. She is the founder and president of Pop AI, a non-profit organization dedicated to making artificial intelligence accessible and understandable to everyone. Emanuela is an expert in international AI policy and she has been a member of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development's expert group on AI, contributing to the drafting Italy’s first national AI strategy. She serves on the industrial board of AIxIA, the Italian association for artificial intelligence, and the Advisory Board of CAIRNE, the confederation of AI laboratories in Europe. She also brings her expertise to academia, teaching AI and sustainable development at the HumanAIze Master's program at the Politecnico University of Turin and sits on the board of Fondazione per la Scuola of Compagnia di San Paolo. Recognized as one of the 50 most influential women in technology in Italy, Emanuela is also the vice president of IGF Italy, the UN-promoted Internet Governance Forum and a co-founder and board member of EquALL, an initiative promoting gender equality.