Davor Orlic Email & Phone Number

Ljubljana, Si

I oversee all activities and project delivery for our partners across industry, governments, EU/EC/EP and UN agencies, UNESCO, Government of Slovenia, Amazon AWS Global Impact Computing, international bodies like GPAI, law-making initiatives like CAHAI/CAI and network of 40 research groups and 200 companies.Responsibilities:● Strategy: Define the Centre’s long-term strategy and vision within the AI landscape● Planning: Develop the Centres product function’s mission, core principles and culture● Talent: Responsible for acquisition, working to attract, retain, and develop top talent● Organisation: Ensure optimisation between Legal, Strategy, Finance and People● Operations: Support CEO and other ELT members and Advisory Board ● Communications: Support the CEO in creating the right messages for the Centres objectives● Business Expansion: Ensure partnerships across industry, governments and UN● Workflow: Create structures that allow personnel to be most effectiveAchievements:● Developed Fellowship for Climate Tech Advanced Compute for start-ups with Amazon AWS● Developed Network of businesses solving Sustainable Development with AI with 200 companies● Developed award prize for researchers with outstanding work in Sustainable Development with AI● Developed Network of Centres of Excellence in AI and Sustainable Development with 40 partners● Setup a team to follow and map key policy issues and debates related to AI across the worldPolicy large-scale initiatives:● Involved in UNESCO standard-setting instrument of ethical principles for AI● Delivered consultation with 25 Governments on UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI● Commissioned an extensive portfolio of reports in AI topics (incl. policy, capacity, gender, business) ● Involved in UNESCO standard-setting instrument on open education ratified by 195 governments

London, Greater London, Gb

Working with talents at the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence in London.

London, Gb

I ensure that the non-profit's AI projects are well-managed, efficient, and aligned with the organization's mission, with partners such as European Commission, Hewlett and Rockefeller Foundation, development agencies like IDRC, SIDA, GIZ, and AI groups in Sub-Saharan Africa like Deep Learning Indaba and Masakhane.Responsibilities:● Strategy: Co-own the long-term strategy and roadmap, involved in acquisition of international projects● Business: Developed business plans/models for individual research and commercial exploitation ● Operations: Manage on-time delivery of projects, financial planning, forecasting of individual projects ● Portfolio: Developed and managed an active portfolio of current and prospective donors● Communications: Mobilise communities that are inclusive, ethical, gender and rights-basedEnabling Teams & Communicating research impact:● Directed synchronised research-to-market for AI funded projects exceeding 8 mill EUR● Enabled managers and research leads towards excellence and industry focused implementation● Supported teams to deliver on-time applications for funding from EU, VC, Int. development agencies● Mentored and initiated opportunities for researchers to take part in hackathons and launch start-ups ● Organized and delivered 40+ community events - conferences, workshops and hackathons● Contributed to winning the inaugural 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the YearPlanning & Leading Projects:● Managed portfolio of European research projects on AI from community capacity building, to applicative solutions with 40+ partners and 150+ researchers across Europe● Managed portfolio of African research projects on AI from autonomous vehicles to healthcare, agriculture, language, education, agriculture, and climate across 42 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa ● Developed international program for AI for Development with a total investment 20 mill CAD● Managed and funded micro-projects and datasets across Europe and Africa

Co-founded Credentify to address the following market problems:• Provide a robust solution for secure blockchain academic micro-credentials transfer• Assist Universities to unlock information hidden behind ECTS credentials • Equip Universities which have no technical means to exchange information about credentials • Facilitate third parties access to a breakdown of skills, competencies behind diploma degreesCertify is the first European issuer of blockchain-secured stackable micro-credentials for ECTS credentials that are university and student-owned, and verifiable anywhere, anytime. It is the first in the world to use the Ethereum standard ERC-721 that translates one-of-a-kind digital or real-world assets into non-fungible tokens (NFTs).• Launched MVP via an RRI model • Secured kick-off and integration with several universities• Part of the European Commission Erasmus+ research funding programme• Managed the building of robust API and online application• Scaled to offer business use cases

Co-founded Translexy to address the following market problems:• Provide missing solutions for Machine Translation specifically tailored for educational text• Break barriers for MT adoption due to low consumer trust, poor infrastructure, low-quality outputs • Despite the availability of tools, implementation into large CMS, LMS systems is problematic• Research-based solutions are rarely driven from the lab to the marketTranslexy is a state-of-the-art neural machine translation platform for edutech startups, growing education providers and publishers that facilitates the high-quality translation of educational content.• Launched MVP via an RRI model • Secured kick-off and integration with several large-scale MOOC providers• Part of the European Commission H2020 research funding programme• Built a robust API infrastructure and platform with 12 language-pair engines• Scaled to offer business use cases

Ljubljana, Si

Collaborate with a team of machine learning researchers and cross-disciplinary academics to explore opportunities for Artificial Intelligence applications such as:• Cross-modal: technologies for multimodal content understanding• Cross-site: technologies to transparently accompany and analyse users across sites• Cross-domain: technologies for cross-domain content analytics• Cross-language: technologies for cross-lingual content recommendation, translation• Cross-cultural: technologies for cross-cultural learning personalizationJSI is the leading Slovenian research organization. It is responsible for a broad spectrum of basic and applied research in the fields of natural sciences and technology with around 960 employees.• Working portfolio of European Commission funded projects FP7, Erasmus+, Horizon 2020• Carrying out top-level project management services from the kick-off stage until project's closure• Developed and launched "Opening up Slovenia" nation-size research initiative • Developed and launched “Opening up Balkans" unique regional pilot for Openness

London, Greater London, Gb

Collaborated with Vice Provost for Education, Digital Education Team and cross-disciplinary academics to explore learning technology, e-learning and distance learning opportunities across the whole of UCL resulting:• Open Education roadmap for wider strategic, policy, tech, community and educational components • Build a business case to ensure the initiative has institutional-wide impact and sustainability• Projection on project-to-service to implement roadmap appropriate to UCL business identity

Co-founded VideoLectures.Net to address the following market problems:• Provide open access to high-quality video academic talks in all branches of science• Expose young research talents via video on the Web• Build up the largest collection of video talks on Computer Science topics• Position academic video as first-class citizen of the WebVideoLectures.Net is a multiple awarded website with 25,000 peer-reviewed scientific video talks.• Directed the editorial framework, grammar and direction for presenting long form, uncut, unmediated academic video on the Web • Lead operations and team with all managerial aspects attached• Designed all editorial, operational, technical and global distribution features• Published more than 9000 lectures, at a rate of 1500 per year• Liaise with more than 200 conference organizers, labs, centers, Uni dept. and schools.