Professor Renée Cummings is a global intelligence innovator, AI governance leader, AI and data ethicist, and Professor of Practice at the University of Virginia’s School of Data Science. As UVA’s inaugural Data Activist-in-Residence and Co-Director of the AI Equity Lab at Brookings, she brings the lens of a therapeutic jurisprudence specialist, criminologist and criminal psychologist to advancing justice-oriented, trauma-informed, and responsible AI acceleration. A fearless futurist and sought-after keynote speaker, Professor Cummings advises governments, industry, and academia worldwide, working to ensure AI empowers rather than exploits. As an intelligence innovator, Professor Cummings pioneers new approaches to aligning human insight with machine intelligence, guiding emerging technologies toward ethical purpose alongside technical power. Her work examines the future of imagination, superintelligence and decision-making systems, developing frameworks in which creativity, justice, and human dignity remain central to progress. She redefines innovation not as speed alone, but as the deliberate integration of values into every algorithm, shaping intelligent systems that expand possibility without erasing humanity, and advancing a future of intelligence innovation that is empathetic, human-centered, and just.