Nikki Pope

Nikki Pope (she/her) is the head of AI and Legal Ethics at NVIDIA. In this role, Nikki works closely with business units and product teams to integrate NVIDIA’s Trustworthy AI Principles into the company’s AI models and systems. Nikki is an advocate for the wrongfully convicted. She co-authored “Pruno, Ramen, and a Side of Hope: Stories of Surviving Wrongful Conviction” and co-founded The Pruno Fund, a nonprofit organization that helps exonerated people after their release from prison. Although she was a bit of a nomad in the past, Nikki has spent nearly two decades living in Silicon Valley. She earned a BA in economics, an MBA in marketing and management, a JD, and an LLM in intellectual property law . . . at three different schools. Whew!