Heather Frase
Founder
VerAItech
Heather Frase is the head of Veraitech, LLC, and a Senior Advisor for Testing & Evaluation of AI at Virginia Tech’s National Security Insitute. Her diverse career has spanned significant roles in defense, intelligence, and policy, involving projects ranging from AI assurance and policy to missile defense, drug trafficking prevention, and financial crime analysis. She also serves as a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Network of Experts on AI, as lead scientist for MLCommons’ AI Risk and Responsibility working group, and on the board of the Responsible AI Collaborative, which research and documents AI incidents.