Speaker on AI, blockchain, and international development

Mark Weber delivers a keynote address for the inaugural Harambean Global Summit. In 2008, spurred by some personal advice from then Senator Obama, Okendo Lewis-Gayle founded the Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance to cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit on the African continent. Piloted by the Swahili message, “Let’s all put together,” the alliance has become the largest and most powerful network of African ventures, collectively valued at over $1 billion, with over $400 million in investment and support from Y Combinator, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, CISCO, and others.

Mark Weber presents at the Disruptive Tech Virtual Summit, an invite-only event for corporate board members seeking deeper knowledge of artificial intelligence and other cutting edge technologies. In this talk, Mark puts a spotlight on scalability as a key challenge in execution of AI for enterprise-scale applications, highlighting cutting edge work coming out of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.

We've seen a rapid and exciting acceleration of work on graph convolutional networks, or GCN's. With GCNs, we begin with certain attributes to describe the nodes and edges, and we use convolutions over the graph to pull out the hidden properties and patterns. In this talk at the ShiftAI conference, Mark Weber explains how GCN’s work and how they can be used in real-world applications like anti-money laundering.

Mark Weber presents on blockchain technology and the MIT Digital Currency Initiative at Ciudad de Las Ideas in Puebla, Mexico.

Mark Weber presents on AI, COVID-19, and the Future of Work for a global virtual audience organized by the Impact Foundation in Poland. We’ve known for a while now that the Future of Work in an increasingly digital economy requires us to make significant, rapid changes to the way we educate our people and conduct our affairs in business, government, and society. But COVID-19 has dramatically accelerated the timeline.

Mark Weber of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab speaks at the AI in Finance Summit in New York City. Here he shares his motivation for working on financial applications of artificial intelligence to make positive social impact.

Graph deep learning could be a powerful tool in anti-money laundering because it can capture hidden information in complex networks. In this presentation at the KDD Anomaly Detection in Finance Workshop, Mark Weber presents a tutorial paper, "Anti-Money Laundering in Bitcoin: Experimenting with Graph Convolutional Networks for Financial Forensics."

"Scalable Graph Learning for Anti-Money Laundering: A First Look." Organized crime inflicts human suffering on a genocidal scale: the Mexican drug cartels have murdered 150,000 people since 2006, upwards of 700,000 people per year are "exported" in a human trafficking industry enslaving an estimated 40 million people. Mark Weber presents a "first look" at graph convolutional networks (GCN) for finance and anti-money laundering at the Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).

NYU's Development Research Institute hosted a public screening of the new hit documentary film, Poverty, Inc. The screening was followed by an in-depth question and answer session between DRI Director William Easterly, film-makers Michael Matheson Miller and Mark Weber, and the audience.

NYU's Development Research Institute hosted a public screening of the new hit documentary film, Poverty, Inc. The screening was followed by an in-depth question and answer session between DRI Director William Easterly, film-makers Michael Matheson Miller and Mark Weber, and the audience.

NYU's Development Research Institute hosted a public screening of the new hit documentary film, Poverty, Inc. The screening was followed by an in-depth question and answer session between DRI Director William Easterly, film-makers Michael Matheson Miller and Mark Weber, and the audience.

NYU's Development Research Institute hosted a public screening of the new hit documentary film, Poverty, Inc. The screening was followed by an in-depth question and answer session between DRI Director William Easterly, film-makers Michael Matheson Miller and Mark Weber, and the audience.

NYU's Development Research Institute hosted a public screening of the new hit documentary film, Poverty, Inc. The screening was followed by an in-depth question and answer session between DRI Director William Easterly, film-makers Michael Matheson Miller and Mark Weber, and the audience.