AI For Equity: a fireside chat with Jenny Garrett OBE and Leah Garrett.

Join us in Accra for the AI for Equity launch. Explore how AI can work for everyone, with leaders shaping it here. Join the waitlist to attend in-person or online . When AI makes a decision about someone in Accra, whose world is it drawing on? Most AI tools are trained on data from somewhere else. That means the systems now screening candidates, approving loans and answering customers may know very little about the people they’re serving here. The question for leaders isn’t whether to use AI. It’s how to use it without leaving people behind. 18 months ago, while the headlines insisted AI would deepen every divide, we asked the opposite question: what if AI could help solve some of the world’s hardest equity problems? That search became a podcast, then a book: AI for Equity: Creating a More Equitable Society for All (Emerald). This is its Accra launch, hosted at the Google Accra AI Community Center. Join co-authors Jenny Garrett OBE, leadership expert and author, and Leah- Sunshine Garrett, founder of Dawn Intelligence and co-host of the AI for Equity podcast, in conversation with Ernest Gavor, Founder and Lead Convener of the Africa EdTech Exchange and AI maturity adviser to institutions across the continent. An afternoon that’s practical, honest and built around your questions. On the day • An opening from the Google team on their work in AI • A hands-on workshop on the EQUITAS TM framework: seven commitments leaders can make so that AI works for people, not against them. You’ll leave with a clear view of what it means for your organisation • A fireside chat with Jenny and Leah-Sunshine, hosted by Ernest Gavor. Two generations, one stage, your questions answered live • Time to connect with other leaders over light refreshments Who should attend in person This is for leaders who are making decisions about AI now, or will be soon: • CEOs, founders and senior executives • Leaders responsible for AI, technology, data or digital strategy • HR, people and inclusion leaders shaping how AI affects their workforce • Education leaders, policymakers and edtech founders deciding how AI shows up in learning and skills • Board members and leaders of professional bodies You don’t need to be technical. You do need to care about getting AI right for the people your organisation serves. Seats are limited: apply to attend The room holds 48 people, so in-person places are by application via the Waiting List. Tell us a little about your role, and we’ll confirm your place by email. Can’t get a seat? Join us live online via Google Meet, free and open to everyone. Get your copy of AI for Equity Already have a copy of AI for Equity? Bring it along and we’ll sign it. Or purchase your copy here Join the waitlist to attend in-person or online event. 26th November 2026, 2pm to 5pm, Google Accra AI Community Center, Accra. Speakers JENNY GARRETT OBE Leadership consultant, coach & author Founder and CEO of Jenny Garrett Global, an award-winning leadership development consultancy supporting organisations worldwide since 2006. Her work focuses on inclusive leadership, gender balance and equity. Awarded an OBE in 2021 and holder of an MIT certification in AI Leadership & Strategy, she is a two-time TEDx speaker and author of Equality vs Equity and Rocking Your Role. LEAH-SUNSHINE GARRETT Founder & Technical Director, Dawn Intelligence Dawn Intelligence is an advisory institutional intelligence platform for the public sector. Leah builds tools that surface patterns in violence, exploitation and harm without crossing into surveillance, shaped by years of self-taught engineering and a background in politics and psychology. Ernest Gavor Ernest Gavor has spent over a decade building the infrastructure that connects Africa’s edtech innovators with policy, investment and global platforms. He founded the Africa EdTech Exchange, which works in partnership with AUDA-NEPAD, and created the Africa Pavilion at Bett UK, the world’s largest education technology show. He is Co-founder and Director of the Ghana Society for Education Technology, sits on the Board of the Global EdTech Alliance of Alliances, and advises institutions on AI maturity: where they really are with AI, and how to move forward with confidence.