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Professor Mary-Anne Williams is the Michael J Crouch Chair in Innovation at UNSW where she collaborates with business, government and societal organisations to grow entrepreneurship and accelerate innovation in Australia. Mary-Anne has a PhD in Computer Science (University of Sydney) and Master of Laws (University of Edinburgh). She is a Fellow at Stanford University, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Australian Computer Society and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Mary-Anne is a leading authority on AI with transdisciplinary strengths in AI for Business, Disruptive Innovation, Entrepreneurship, AI Ethics and Law. She has received multiple awards including the 2019 Australasian Distinguished Artificial Intelligence Contribution Award from the Australian Computer Society; two Google Faculty Machine Learning Awards in 2019 and 2021; and an IBM Faculty Award in 2008. She is a member of the Editorial Boards for AAAI/MIT Press; the Information Systems Journal; and the International Journal of Social Robotics. She was Chair of the International Conference on Social Robotics in 2014; Review Editor for Artificial Intelligence Journal; and served on the ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award Committee for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics. Mary-Anne was Conference Chair for the 2021 Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and invited speaker for the Australian government at World Expo in Dubai in 2022.