Sarah Downey
Founder
Sarah Downey Consulting
October 28–30 · Vancouver
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Sarah Downey, founder of Sarah Downey Consulting, works on AI strategy, policy, and readiness for nonprofits that can’t afford to lose their values in the rush to adopt.
Sarah teaches the separate Responsible AI Professional course on October 27–28. She has no talk in the festival’s main program.
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Nonprofits Could Lead on AI Governance. Here's Why They Should.
Her op-ed on SFU's survey of BC residents: people don't trust government or tech to govern AI. Nonprofits still hold that trust.
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Intro to AI for Nonprofits
Her plain intro to AI for nonprofit leaders, the talk her homepage sends you to first. Start here if AI still smells like hype.
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When Builders Show Up for Nonprofits
She judged five days of builders taking on Victoria's social services problems. One team cut 52 minutes of calls and emails to three.
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About Sarah Downey
Sarah Downey is the founder of Sarah Downey Consulting, a Victoria practice that helps Canadian nonprofit leaders adopt AI to support the people, values, and missions that matter most. She led three charities as executive director over 20 years in the sector, then almost walked away. She came to AI without a technology background, so she built one, starting with an Executive MBA that taught AI policy from day one. Now she does AI policy and governance work for boards and teams, and she helped build BC + AI's Responsible AI Professional certification. Her argument: nonprofits still hold the public trust on AI that governments and tech companies have lost, so they could lead on governance instead of following.