Speaking & Coverage

Jump to talks, interviews, panels, press, publications, events, judging, or fun stuff.

Keynotes & Talks

• NeurIPS - 2025
  "Benchmarks 101"
• 4D European Conference - 2025
  "The Public AI International Action Network"
• Funding the Commons - 2025
  "Futures Worth Building"
• Lesbians Who Tech #PrideSummit - 2023
  "How to Win at AI"
• Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna - 2022
  "The Future of AI"
• IBM THINK - 2020
  "Making AI Trustworthy and Transparent"
• Harvard-MIT Assembly - 2019
  "Surveillance State of the Union"

Interviews

• Mother Jones - 2026
  "What AI Regulation and Ownership Could Be"
• AI: Tools or Gods? - 2026
  "The words we write into law"
• Impact Entrepreneur - 2025
  "Building Trust in the Age of AI — Safeguarding the Impact Economy with B Cavello"
• Union Base - 2025
  "The Future of AI and The Workplace"
• Reinvented Magazine - 2024
  "Be the Hero in Your Own Story: Rewriting the AI Narrative with B Cavello "
• Aspen Digital: Talk Better About AI - 2023
  "Fireside Chat with Sisi Wei"
• Horizon Institute for Public Service - 2023
  "Career Profile: B Cavello (AI Policy)"
• Siegel Family Endowment - 2023
  "Raising the Bar on AI Reporting"
• TechCongress - 2021
  "Fellow Series: B Cavello"
• HumAIn Podcast - 2020
  "How to Ensure Worker Well-Being in Artificial Intelligence"
• Human Centered AI (Podcast) - 2020
  "AI's impact on labor and the economy, with B Cavello"
• Humans Now and Then (Podcast) - 2020
  "B Cavello: Shaping the Future of Artificial Intelligence"

Panels

• NeurIPS - 2025
  "Responsible AI Research & Unlearning: From Consent to Compliance to Critique"
• Siegel Family Endowment - 2025
  "Tech Together 2025: Unlocking Improbably Good Futures"
• National Council on Independent Living Annual Conference - 2025
  "AI for Access - Expanding Possibilities Through Innovation"
• The Tech People Want Summit - 2025
  "How to Use AI Without Selling Your Soul (or Data)"
• UKHOUSE @ SXSW - 2025
  "The Future of AI: Who wins, who loses and how do we shape it?"
• Digital Governance for Democratic Renewal initiative - 2025
  "Interventions - Not Solutions - In an Era of AI Policymaking."
• Metagov Seminar - 2025
  "Rowan Wingham: Digital public infrastructure to unlock each person’s economic potential"
• Geena Davis Institute - 2024
  "AI Awareness – Increasing Cyber Safety and Opportunity in Our Schools, Screens, and Society"
• NATO Youth Summit - 2024
  "The (Digital) Elephant in the Room"
• Adapting to the Age of AI - 2024
  "AI Policy Nexus: Navigating the Intersection of Technology and Governance"
• New America Foundation - 2023
  "Ensuring Workplace Technologies are a "Win-win" for Workers and Employers"
• Public Knowledge: Emerging Tech - 2023
  "Demystifying Generative AI: Understanding the Technology to Make Better Policy"
• Emerging Tech - 2023
  "Demystifying Generative AI: Understanding the Technology to Make Better Policy"
• Georgetown Law - 2023
  "Tech for the Public Interest: How Tech Jobs Can Launch Careers in Civil Rights, Social Justice, and Public Service"
• Metagov Seminar - 2022
  "Jonathan Stray: On Democratic Governance of Recommender Systems"
• DWeb Camp - 2022
  "Decentralization + Public Policy = Future of Data Integrity"
• Our Connected Future - 2022
  "All Tech Is Human panel featuring Afua Bruce, Cori Zarek and B Cavello"
• Mozilla Festival - 2022
  "From Insights to Impact"
• Science and Entertainment Exchange - 2022
  "After Yang: Special Talk-Back Event"
• RadicalxChange - 2020
  "Better Metrics, Shared Prosperity"

Press

•  Inc. Magazine - 2026
  "Your Congressperson Is Getting Smarter About Tech. Inside the Secret Corps That Made It Happen"
• The Preamble from Sharon McMahon - 2025
  "AI Is Lying to You"
• KALW 91.7 FM - 2023
  "AI, Art, & Jobs: How Can We Adapt in the New Age of Automation?"

Publications

• Aspen Digital - 2026
  "Defining Technologies of Our Time: Artificial Intelligence"
• Aspen Digital - 2026
  "Feeding the Future"
• Aspen Digital - 2025
  "Benchmarks 101"
• Aspen Digital - 2025
  "Reimagining AI in the Wake of USAID"
• Aspen Digital - 2025
  "Intelligence in the Public Interest"
• United Nations - 2025
  "Making the Most of the Global Digital Compact"
• Aspen Digital - 2025
  "Strategic Reorientation on AI Competition with China"
• Tech Policy Press - 2024
  "We Can’t Wait For Media Literacy Education in the Age of AI"
• Aspen Digital - 2024
  "Interpreting AI in the News"
• The Public AI Network - 2024
  "Public AI: Infrastructure for the Common Good"
• Aspen Digital - 2024
  "Frontline AI"
• Aspen Digital - 2023
  "Finding Experts in AI"
• Aspen Digital - 2023
  "Intro to Generative AI"
• Aspen Digital - 2023
  "AI 101"
• Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good - 2020
  "What's the responsibility of the AI industry in ensuring that AI serves to create an inclusive global economy?"

Events

• DWEB Camp - 2026
  "Public AI Track"
• Public AI Network - 2025
  "Public AI Community Call"
• Public AI Network - 2025
  "Public AI Seminars"
• Aspen Digital - 2025
  "Feeding the Future: Shaping AI Benchmarks for Better Food Systems"
• Château du Feÿ - 2025
  "Small is Beautiful Workshop"
• AI Action Summit - 2025
  "Public AI House"
• Chatham House / Aspen Digital - 2025
  "Grand Strategy in the Age of AI"
• Making AI Work for the American People - 2025
  "The Ashby Workshops (Fathom)"
• Aspen Digital - 2024
  "AI x DEI CDO Roundtable"
• Benevolent AI Futures / Aspen Digital - 2024
  "Salon Dinner on the Future of AI Infrastructure"
• Siegel Family Endowment - 2024
  "Doing Tech Together"
• Library of Congress - 2024
  "Building a More Public AI Ecosystem"
• DWEB Camp - 2024
  "AI Track"
• AI Renaissance - 2024
  "AI Renaissance Gathering"
• Aspen Digital - 2023
  "Talk Better About AI"
• Aspen Digital - 2023
  "Frontline AI Workshops and Roundtable"
• Aspen Digital - 2023
  "Working With AI"
• Aspen Digital - 2023
  "AI Media Briefings"

Judging

• WIN Challenge - 2026
  "AI Challenge"
• AI Objectives Institute - 2023
  "AI Supply Chain Hackathon"
• International Telecommunication Union - 2021
  "AI for Climate Hackathon"

Fun Stuff

• M3GAN - 2021
  "AI Consultant"