Kia tangata whenua: AI that grows from the land and people

Suzanne Duncan is the Chief Operating Officer at Te Reo Irirangi o Te Hiku o Te Ika (Te Hiku Media), a community-owned tribal media hub in Kaitāia, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is part of the leadership team for Papa Reo, a groundbreaking multilingual natural language processing platform for te reo Māori. Suzanne's expertise spans the entire AI development pipeline, from curating high-quality training data to addressing failure modes in automatic speech recognition models. She was previously a researcher at the University of Otago, serving as a Lecturer in Te Tumu: School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies. Her research and teaching interests focused on indigenous economic development and contemporary applications of tikanga Māori.Suzanne also serves in governance roles, currently as Chair of Northland Inc, the regional economic development agency for Te Tai Tokerau, and previously as Chair of KPH, a construction subsidiary of her iwi, Te Rarawa. -----For more information about the eResearch NZ / eRangahau Aotearoa conference, visit: https://eresearchnz.co.nz/