Recognised as one of the top women in AI, Toju is a popular speaker, author, thought leader , advisor, and entrepreneur with over 18 years experience spanning across Advertising, Retail, Not-For Profit and Tech. Toju worked at Google for 10 years where she spent the last couple of years as a Programme Manager on Responsible AI leading various Responsible AI programmes across Google’s product and research teams with a primary focus on large-scale models and Responsible AI processes. Prior to her time on Google’s research organisation, Toju was the EMEA product lead for Google Travel and worked as a specialist across Google Travel and Shopping.

Toju is the founder and CEO of Bedrock AI, an AI product and services company focused on AI research, model and product development using the underlying principles of Responsible AI. Bedrock AI’s mission is to democratise and develop responsible AI through community participatory research, AI development and responsible AI tooling and infrastructure, making AI technologies accessible, safe, trustworthy and beneficial.

Toju is also the founder of Diverse AI, a community interest organisation with a mission to support and champion underrepresented groups to build a diverse and inclusive AI future. Her passion to improve Artificial Intelligence and representation in the field, led to the birth of Diverse AI which is focused on 3 main activities: Education, Research and Events targeted at people who identify with underrepresented groups and either want to up skill, join the field or have a sense of belonging and community with like-minded people. Toju was previously the UK lead for “Women in AI”, a non-profit global organisation with a mission to drive gender diversity in AI.

Toju’s dedication and commitment to the development and deployment of Responsible AI practices led to the writing of her book “Building Responsible AI Algorithms”. The book introduces a Responsible AI framework and guides readers through processes to apply at each stage of the machine learning (ML) life cycle, from problem definition to deployment, in order to reduce and mitigate the risks and harms found in AI technologies. It provides practical tips and guidance on how to develop models that are fair, transparent, safe, secure, robust, and ethical. “Building Responsible AI Algorithms” can be ordered from bookstores across the world. “Building Responsible AI Algorithms has been adopted by several international universities and is currently used as a reading lecture in the University of Pavia, Italy.

Building on the work introduced in Toju’s first book, her second book “Responsible AI in Practice” is now published. “Responsible AI in Practice” is the first practical book on AI risk assessment and management. It provides details on how to evaluate and implement safe and accurate AI models and applications featuring risk assessment frameworks, statistical metrics and code, insights on AI regulation and policy, AI governance, and a real-world case study. Co-authored with Prof Paolo Giudici, “Responsible AI in Practice” provides in-depth guidance on ML model and application evaluation for ML practitioners.

Toju also leads new novel research on responsible AI practices for Generative AI amongst others, working with academia and industry professionals.

Toju provides consultation and advice on Responsible AI practices to organisations interested in developing Responsible AI processes and has been featured across several national and international media outlets such as the BBC, Sky News, Al Jazeera, CGTN America, El Pais, La Nacion, La Vanguardia, Sifted etc,. Toju has been recognised as one of the top women in AI by several media outlets, such as Daily AI, Xantage and the AI Speaker agency. Toju also participates in high level AI policy dialogues and engages in major governmental events and advises governments across the world on responsible AI strategies.