Agnieszka Maria Walorska

Entrepreneur


Main focus: Fighting bureaucracy with AI

Twitter handle: @agaw

Websites/blogs: http://www.getmika.de , http://www.zurueckzurzukunft.de , http://www.walorska.net

Languages: German, English, Polish, Russian

City: Berlin

Country: Germany

Topics: entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, digital ethics, genai

Services: Talk, Moderation, Interview

  Willing to travel for an event.

  Willing to talk for nonprofit.

Bio:

Agnieszka M. Walorska is the founder of mika and aims to free small businesses from bureaucratic burdens with her startup. Her vision is to automate and optimize financial processes through the use of genAI-powered autonomous agents. In spring 2024, she completed a pre-seed funding round for mika.

Agnieszka began her career as one of the first employees at studiVZ and later founded, built, and sold the innovation consultancy CREATIVE CONSTRUCTION to Capco. Alongside her work at mika, she hosts the podcast "Zurück zur Zukunft" (back to the future) where she discusses the latest technology trends weekly. She also shares her knowledge as a lecturer and publishes (ir)regularly in the fields of artificial intelligence, digital ethics, and user experience. In her free time, she trains for marathons and triathlons.

Examples of previous talks / appearances:

Artificially Intelligent Designer
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Tech giants such as Google, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and Amazon not only proclaimed artificial intelligence as the strategic priority that will determine the future of their organizations, but have successively announced the achievement of new milestones.

What has made these milestones exceptional is that instead allowing these new advancements to influence only their own products, these companies have made their successful developments available to all other organizations for use and integration into their respective products. And as AI is being integrated into more and more products, it will also influence the way we think about customer experience and user interfaces. We are getting used to some early AI-enabled approaches involving predictive personalization and conversational interfaces. With Zero UI (or "no UI") we can go one step further.

Thanks to computer vision and voice recognition machines can understand our way of communicating: our words, mimics and gestures. Especially wearables such as smart watches or home automation systems like Google Nest clearly show that a graphic user interface (GUI) is a limiting factor for increasingly smaller computers. All tech giants followed Apple with their versions of voice activated assistants that contain a range of AI components and made pro-active experiences possible: Google Now, Microsoft Cortana, Facebook M, Amazon Echo, even Barbie – interact with human beings using natural language and carry out an ever increasing set of functions. While it may seem counterintuitive, AI combined with UX huge step into humanizing the human-machine-interaction.

A goal of great UX is to continually learn from its customers to increase usability and joy of use, to minimize errors and frustrations. AI can make efforts to reach it lot easier. But is there a flip side to this amazing development? What are the consequences of the artificially intelligent design for our privacy and self-determination? Will AI be the end of the design and designer as we know them?

This talk is in: English
Webinar: Building Up Banking
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Agnieszka M. Walorska spricht in diesem Webinar zusammen mit Michael Pierce von Mambu und Florian Redeker von Solarisbank über das Thema Embedded Finance, wie Finanzdienstleistungen nicht nur bei Banken, sondern über alle Branchen hinweg zunehmend integrale Bestandteile von Produkten und Services werden, wie die Kundenerfahrungen damit sind und welche Entwicklungen es in diesem Bereich aktuell gibt und in naher Zukunft geben wird. Der ganze Talk zum Nachsehen inklusive Q&A-Runde.
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In this webinar, Agnieszka M. Walorska, Michael Pierce from Mambu and Florian Redeker from Solarisbank talk about embedded finance, how financial services are increasingly becoming an integral part of products and services not only in banks but across all industries, what the customer experience is like and what developments are currently taking place and will take place in the near future. Watch the whole talk including a Q&A round.

This talk is in: English
Artificial Intelligence = Artificial Immortality? Life & Death in the Age of AI
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Vortrag während der Konferenz Digina 2017

This talk is in: German
KI - Wie künstliche Intelligenz Design-Berufe neu definiert

KI - Wie künstliche Intelligenz Design-Berufe neu definiert // Künstliche Intelligenz treffen wir heute überall an. Wie sich das auf Design-Berufe auswirken wird, wollte HAWK-TV schon heute wissen. Beim Design-Zoom, einer Tagung der Fakultät Gestaltung, standen Agnieszka Walorska, Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker und Georg Tiemann Rede und Antwort. Prof. Barbara Kotte von der Fakultät Gestaltung äußerte sich zur Zukunft der Design-Berufe.

This talk is in: German
The Future of Work is Female

Agnieszka discusses how AI is increasingly taking over jobs requiring physical strength and analytical skills, stereotypically attributed to men. But the way to automate social skills like empathy and caregiving, stereotypically attributed to women, is still quite long.

For example: three million truck drivers in the US (95% male) have a risk of obsolescence of 80-100%; three million secretaries (95% female) have a risk of obsolescence of about 10%. What does this development mean for our future social structure? What actions are needed to prevent negative consequences of such transition? Will the future of work be female?

Somehow you can easily get the impression that men are trying to automate females. When you look at Siri, Alexa – they all have female names, female appearance, the default voices are female and they are supposed to behave in a ‘female way’. But, to be honest, they are actually very male because they are not really empathetic.

This talk is in: English
Online-Präsentation: Deepfake und Desinformation

Politisch motivierte Desinformation ist kein neues Phänomen, jedoch macht technologischer Fortschritt die Erstellung und Verbreitung manipulierter Inhalte einfacher und effektiver als je zuvor. Mithilfe von Algorithmen künstlicher Intelligenz können Videos heute schnell und relativ kostengünstig gefälscht werden, ohne dass spezielle Kenntnisse erforderlich sind.
Die Akademie der Ukrainischen Presse (AUP) und die Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung Ukraine und Belarus laden Sie herzlich ein zur Präsentation der Publikation "Deepfake und Desinformation".

📅 29. Juli 10:00 (MESZ).

Sie werden erfahren, wie sich manipulierte Inhalte nicht nur schnell auf Plattformen wie Facebook oder YouTube verbreiten, sondern auch geeigneten Adressaten gezielt angezeigt werden. Sie haben Gelegenheit, direkt mit der Autorin der Publikation Agnieszka M. Walorska ins Gespräch zu kommen. Schließlich werden Sie einen Einblick in die konkrete Bedrohungslage durch Deepfakes in der Ukraine erhalten.

Diskussionsteilnehmer:
▪ Agnieszka M. Walorska, Digitalisierungsexpertin und Executive Director bei der Management- und Technologieberatung Capco.
▪ Andrii Yurichko, Medientrainer, Dozent an der Nationalen Taras-Schewtschenko-Universität Kyjiw

▪ Die Veranstaltung wird moderiert von Professor Valerij Ivanov, Präsident der Akademie der Ukrainischen Presse (AUP).

Die Arbeitssprachen sind Ukrainisch und Deutsch mit Simultandolmetschung.

This talk is in: German