Clara Higuera Cabañes
Responsible AI Program Lead BBVA
Clara Higuera Cabañes is a Responsible AI leader with over 15 years of experience across academia and industry, building and deploying AI systems in finance, media, and biomedical domains. She holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and has led data science and multidisciplinary teams delivering real-world AI products. Clara currently works at BBVA, where she drives the bank's Responsible AI strategy—developing governance frameworks, tools, training, and applied research to embed ethical principles into AI systems at scale. She has contributed to the EU's first General Purpose AI Code of Practice and has published research in top-tier conferences such as NeurIPS and KDD. Her work focuses on translating AI ethics into practical engineering approaches, with particular expertise in algorithmic fairness, explainability, and trustworthy AI. A regular international speaker, Clara is passionate about helping organizations design AI systems that are both innovative and responsible.
Responsible AI Summit Main Conference Day 2 - Tuesday 22 September
3:00 PM Panel Discussion– When Bias Becomes Infrastructure: Governing Generative AI at Scale
As generative AI embeds across enterprise systems, bias becomes structural: shaping decisions, communications, and customer outcomes at scale. What begins as a model limitation can quickly become a systemic risk, reinforced by data provenance, prompt design, feedback loops, and organisational incentives. This panel takes a critical look at bias as a socio-technical challenge spanning the full AI lifecycle. Moving beyond surface-level fairness claims, panellists will examine how to measure structural and emergent bias in production, define meaningful accountability, and govern generative systems that continuously adapt and influence behaviour.
• Examining bias across the AI lifecycle.
• Measuring structural and emergent bias in production.
• Embedding accountability beyond technical fixes.
Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Clara.
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