LF AI Foundation Outreach Committee

a) The Outreach Committee will include one appointed voting representative from each Premier Member. Each General Member may appoint a non-voting representative to observe and contribute ideas to the Outreach Committee.

b) The Outreach Committee will be responsible for the design, development and execution of community outreach efforts on behalf of the Governing Board. The Outreach Committee is expected to coordinate closely with the Governing Board and technical communities to maximize the outreach and visibility of the Technical Project throughout the industry.

c) The Governing Board may appoint a chairperson of the Outreach Committee or delegate responsibility for selecting a chairperson to the Outreach Committee. The Outreach Committee chairperson will be responsible for reporting progress back to the Governing Board. The Outreach Committee chairperson may attend meetings of the Governing Board, but, unless the Outreach Committee chairperson is a member of the Governing Board, the Outreach Committee chairperson will not attend as a voting member of the Governing Board.

Member Representatives

CompanyCountryMembershipRepresentativeAlternate
AmdocsUSAPremierOfer Hermoni
AT&TUSAPremierTaylor Chapman
B.yondUSAGeneralPaul-André Raymond
BaiduChinaPremierVarun Arora
DiDiChinaGeneralYungbo Wang
EricssonSwedenPremierNimish Radia
Gemini Open Cloud ComputingROC (Taiwan)GeneralYoyo Chiang
HuaweiChinaPremier*Jessica Kim
IBMUSAGeneralRosie Pongracz

International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP) 

USAAssociateYassi Moghaddam
The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine LearningUKAssociateAlejandro Saucedo
inwinSTACKROC (Taiwan)GeneralJoseph Wang
NokiaFinlandPremierTommy Lindgren
Orange SAFranceGeneralJamil Chawki
Red HatUSAGeneralAmber Lynum
RStudioUSAGeneral Rob Hewardt
SylabsUSAGeneralIan LumbErin Fong
Tech MahindraIndiaPremierNat Subramanian
TencentChinaPremierLudy Wang
ZillizChinaPremierJun Gu
ZTEChinaPremierWei Meng

*Chair elected September 24, 2019

Note: Graduate projects are set to have representation on the Outreach Committee as well. 

Mail List

Join the LF AI mail lists here. Contact the Outreach Committee via email at outreach-committee@lists.lfai.foundation.

Voting

In various situations, the LF AI Outreach Committee shall hold a vote. These votes can happen on the phone, email, or via a voting service, when appropriate. Outreach Committee voting members can either respond "agree, yes, +1", "disagree, no, -1", or "abstain". 

a) Quorum for Governing Board and Committee meetings will require fifty percent of the voting representatives. If advance notice of the meeting has been given per normal means and timing, the Governing Board may continue to meet even if quorum is not met, but will be prevented from making any decisions at the meeting.

b) Ideally decisions will be made based on consensus. If, however, any decision requires a vote to move forward, the representatives of the Governing Board or Committee, as applicable, will vote on a one vote per voting representative basis.

c) Except as provided in Section 16.a., decisions by vote at a meeting will require a simple majority vote, provided quorum is met. Except as provided in Section 16.a., decisions by electronic vote without a meeting will require a majority of all voting representatives.

d) In the event of a tied vote with respect to an action that cannot be resolved by the Governing Board, the Chair may refer the matter to the LF for assistance in reaching a decision. If there is a tied vote in any Committee that cannot be resolved, the matter may be referred to the Governing Board.

Additional information is available in the LF AI Charter.

Meeting Details

The Outreach Committee meets on the first Wednesday of each month. The Outreach Committee meetings currently only include the designated member representatives but if you have a topic you would like to request to be added to the agenda please email outreach-committee@lists.lfai.foundation.

Events 

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