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Jacqueline Lu (she/her)

CEO & Founder, Helpful Places

Jacqueline helps organizations foster community understanding and trust in their use of emerging technologies like sensors and AI.

She leads Helpful Places, a social impact enterprise advancing Digital Trust for Places and Routines (DTPR), an open-source transparency standard that makes the use of data, sensors and AI legible to the public.

Helpful Places also builds Clarable, a platform that uses AI to translate regulatory and governance documents into DTPR disclosures - a visual AI register with straightforward descriptions of the systems and their uses.

DTPR has been deployed across 17 cities on 3 continents. Jacqueline also serves as Urbanist-in-Residence at the University of Toronto's School of Cities, and previously held roles at Mozilla Foundation, Sidewalk Labs, and the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation.