Dr. Daniel Araya

 Dr. Daniel Araya is senior partner with the World Legal Summit and senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). His current work supports research on artificial intelligence and autonomous systems with a particular focus on global governance. He is a regular contributor to various media outlets and organizations including Forbes, the Brookings Institution, Futurism and Singularity Hub. Dr. Araya has been invited to speak at a number of universities and research centres, including the US Naval Postgraduate School; the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND); Harvard University; the American Enterprise Institute; the Center for Global Policy Solutions; Stanford University; the University of Toronto; the University of California, Santa Cruz; and Microsoft Research. His most recent books include Augmented Intelligence: Smart Systems and the Future of Work and Learning (2018) and Smart Cities as Democratic Ecologies (2015). He has a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.