Opportunity vs Responsibility - Youth and Technology
This session explores the opportunities and responsibilities that come with using and creating technology. Highlighting the need to equip youth with the skills to thrive in the tech sector, panelists discuss how designing must be done with dignity, ensuring that innovation advances equity and safety for all.
Speakers
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Emidio GranitoCo-founder
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Hannah TöplerCEO and Co-FounderHannah Töpler
Speaker
CEO and Co-Founder
intrareHannah Töpler is an Ashoka Fellow, Aurora Tech Award Winner, and the founder and CEO of Intrare, a startup that builds novel AI models for unbiased and highly precise recruitment. Their SaaS solution empowers companies to hire without bias and with a new level of efficiency. We have already supported over 15,000 marginalized candidates and 150 companies. Hannah advises AI based projects and speaks and writes for WIRED and other outlets about AI for Good, migration, bias, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), and leadership. Previously, she was in charge of developing new business and impact strategies with local and international teams for Oxfam Mexico and Oxfam International. She worked with the German Representation to the UN, as well as for think tanks and social impact organizations in Brussels and Geneva, working extensively on job market dynamics and innovative solutions. Hannah holds a master's degree from the London School of Economics.
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Faisal bin HassanCo-FounderFaisal bin Hassan
Co-Founder
BarmajonFaisal bin Hassan is a UCL Computer Science graduate and founder of Barmajon, a MiSK-backed nonprofit and human capital incubator empowering Saudi youth in technology, which raised 1M SAR in 2025. He previously launched an EdTech platform with 20k+ users (featured by Google Developers), co-led market expansion at SOUM (Series A), worked as a product analyst at fintech startup SiFi, and built AI agents for legal firms as an AI engineer at Avanade.
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Vilas DharPresident, Patrick J. McGovern FoundationVilas Dhar
Counsellor
President, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Vilas Dhar is recognized globally as a leading expert on the future of artificial intelligence and its role in shaping society. At the intersection of technology, governance, and human aspiration, he works to ensure that innovation serves the public good and strengthens the institutions that sustain democratic life. As President of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, a $1.5 billion global philanthropy, Dhar leads efforts to demonstrate how data and AI can be harnessed to advance equity, human dignity, and collective progress. Under his leadership, the Foundation has become one of the largest global funders of AI for public purpose, directing more than $500 million to organizations advancing climate action, public health, education, and democratic governance. Dhar’s expertise is acknowledged across international governance. He has served as a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, is the U.S. Government’s nominated expert to the Global Partnership on AI, and contributes to advisory councils at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, OECD.AI, and MIT Solve. In 2022, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader, honoring his contributions to global dialogue on responsible innovation. A widely regarded public intellectual, his essays and commentary have appeared in U.S. News & World Report, Nature, Indian Express, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe. His LinkedIn Learning course, Ethics in the Age of Generative AI, has been translated into six languages and reached over 500,000 learners worldwide.