2025 ICPHSO Annual Meeting and Training Symposium: Full Schedule

2:30pm EST

Keynote 1: Alejandra Barcelo, Manager, Global Affairs and Public Policy, AI, Google LLC

Monday February 17, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm EST

Title: Making AI helpful for everyone

Summary: AI has an immense potential to benefit people and society everywhere. For AI to achieve its full potential, it is imperative to develop and use it responsibly. At Google, we are fully committed to making AI helpful for everyone, while building it responsibly. We know it must be a collective effort involving researchers, social scientists, industry experts, governments, creators, publishers, and people using AI in their daily lives.

Speakers

John McNulty

Director of Product Safety and Compliance Engineering for Hardware, Google LLC

John McNulty is the Director of Product Safety and Compliance Engineering for Hardware at Google LLC. He is an engineer with a Materials Science background with 35 years of experience in most end-use markets, covering Materials characterization, Fracture and fatigue testing, Failure... Read More →

Alejandra Barcelo

Manager, Global Affairs and Public Policy, AI, Google LLC

Alejandra Barceló is a specialist in political risk, international affairs, and public policy. Currently leading Google's AI policy portfolio for Platforms and Devices (including Chrome, Android, Play, and Pixel). Her career spans the private sector and international organizations... Read More →

Monday February 17, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Grand Cypress D-I (Ballroom Level)

Keynote

8:10am EST

Keynote Speaker 4: Hanane Taidi, Director-General, TIC Council

Thursday February 20, 2025 8:10am - 8:40am EST

Grand Cypress D-I (Ballroom Level)

Hanane Taidi joined IFIA (The International Federation of Inspection Agencies) as Director General in July 2016. IFIA has since then merged with CEOC International, forming a new entity called TIC Council. Hanane Taidi was appointed Director General of TIC Council in June 2019. In this role, Ms. Taidi represents the Testing, Inspection and Certification Industry, a sector that provides independent conformity assessment around the world with a combined revenue of over €30 billion euros and over 400,000 employees.

Previously, Ms. Taidi worked at DuPont de Nemours International based in Geneva as Marketing Communications Director for the Performance Polymers business. During this time, Ms Taidi led, developed and directed integrated marketing communications strategies and was a member of the regional leadership team. Before joining DuPont in Geneva, Ms. Taidi was Director of Communications at Plastics Europe, based in the headquarters in Brussels, from where she led Plastics Europe's communications efforts in Europe together with a team of regional Communications Managers. In addition to her role as Director of Communications, in 2014,

Speakers

Richard O'Brien

Executive Director, TIC Council Americas

Rich is the trade association executive for the leading testing, inspection, and certification companies in the Americas. He draws from a diverse government and private sector background as he represents the TIC industry to government and public stakeholders. Immediately prior to... Read More →

Hanane Taidi

Director-General, TIC Council

Hanane Taidi joined IFIA (The International Federation of Inspection Agencies) as Director General in July 2016. IFIA has since then merged with CEOC International, forming a new entity called TIC Council. Hanane Taidi was appointed Director General of TIC Council in June 2019. In... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 8:10am - 8:40am EST
Grand Cypress D-I (Ballroom Level)

Keynote