Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith

Germany Ambassador

Andy is founder and managing partner of Mobivise, a creative advisory based in Germany and leads Enterprise Business for RebelDot, a European agency delivering software experiences powered by the latest advances in AI. He is also the founder of healthcare startup carecircle.org which empowers users to take charge of their own health journey.

Andy previously spent 29 years in Accenture and its joint venture with Microsoft, Avanade, where he was, amongst other things, a member of the Global Technology Council (Accenture), Global Operating Committee (Avanade), General Manager of Germany, Switzerland and Austria (Avanade) and Head of Industry X (Accenture) and was a global leader in the Applied Intelligence practice.

Andy has also worked in two startups during the dotcom era as CTO, led 5 acquisitions with Accenture and Avanade and has a first-class degree in mathematics from Trinity College, University of Cambridge and a master’s degree in AI at UCL where he graduated in first place and was awarded the Peter Williams prize by Prof Peter Kirstein, one of the founders of the Internet.

Andy is a dual German-British citizen based in Frankfurt, Germany and speaks and writes German, English and French.

1. Which of our Initiatives do you resonate the most with?

Mindful AI Professionals come together to write The Mindful AI Manifesto. This will include our understanding, agreed guidelines and best practices around ethics and human values to be adopted while enforced governance model is not available.

2. What Mindful AI means to you?

Putting the “human” into the application of artificial intelligence

3. Why do you think The Mindful AI movement is important? In other words why have you accepted to become an Ambassador of this community?

If AI is adopted based solely on the basis of profit generation, the outcomes will not serve society as a whole, and may undermine the freedoms and rights we have been fought for over the past hundred years and which we take for granted. This is nothing short of standing up for a fair and equitable society which serves the interests of all humanity.