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Antonio Ortiz Barranon
Professor,
Tecnologico de Monterrey
Dr. Antonio Ortiz is a Business Intelligence Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey and entrepreneur leading a groundbreaking collaboration with The Scott-Morgan Foundation to ensure the world's most vulnerable voices shape global AI policy. With a PhD in Statistics from the University of Kent and a background in Actuarial Science, Dr. Ortiz brings over 20 years of data analysis expertise across banking, finance, market research, and logistics to ethical AI deployment.
As former Senior Director at Kantar, Dr. Ortiz led the Mexican Hub for Analytics, directing teams of data scientists and analysts who delivered over 200 analytics projects spanning from Canada to Japan. At Tecnológico de Monterrey, he oversees AI modules and projects across industries ranging from banking to ecommerce, making him uniquely positioned to understand both the technical possibilities and global implications of AI systems.
In partnership with The Scott-Morgan Foundation, Dr. Ortiz and his students are pioneering a revolutionary research model: identifying people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and severe communication disabilities, providing AI literacy education, then collaborating with them to co-design protections for a global AI Bill of Rights. While the research is conducted in Mexico, the goal is universal: ensuring that those who cannot speak for themselves help establish the ethical standards that will govern AI development worldwide.
This collaboration creates a replicable blueprint for ethical AI research globally, demonstrating how academic institutions and foundations can work together to ensure technology development serves those who need it most while honoring their agency in shaping the very systems designed to help them.
As former Senior Director at Kantar, Dr. Ortiz led the Mexican Hub for Analytics, directing teams of data scientists and analysts who delivered over 200 analytics projects spanning from Canada to Japan. At Tecnológico de Monterrey, he oversees AI modules and projects across industries ranging from banking to ecommerce, making him uniquely positioned to understand both the technical possibilities and global implications of AI systems.
In partnership with The Scott-Morgan Foundation, Dr. Ortiz and his students are pioneering a revolutionary research model: identifying people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and severe communication disabilities, providing AI literacy education, then collaborating with them to co-design protections for a global AI Bill of Rights. While the research is conducted in Mexico, the goal is universal: ensuring that those who cannot speak for themselves help establish the ethical standards that will govern AI development worldwide.
This collaboration creates a replicable blueprint for ethical AI research globally, demonstrating how academic institutions and foundations can work together to ensure technology development serves those who need it most while honoring their agency in shaping the very systems designed to help them.