Elena Yunusov is a Founder and Executive Director for the Human Feedback Foundation, fostering a more open, human-centred and transparent future for AI. Human Feedback Foundation team also runs a popular the LLM Reading Group on Discord with 1,200+ members hosting AI researchers from OpenAI, Cohere, Google DeepMind & various universities.

Elena’s innovation-driven career spans emerging technology, the public sector, and journalism. Elena has led marketing at Borealis AI, an AI research institute founded by RBC, and Highline Beta, collaborating with AB InBev, Aviva, and Intuit, and working with startups to help drive corporate innovation. She also led marketing and brand at Shyft Network, a blockchain credentials verification protocol, and founded CryptoCamp, an unconference focused on showcasing enterprises and startups building blockchain products. Through her firm, Communicable Inc., Elena has served a wide range of startups and corporate clients, including Ritual, Deloitte, MaRS, DMZ, Wealthsimple, Influitive, City of Toronto, Design Exchange, TWG, and others. In her journalism days, she covered innovation and tech as a senior editor for BetaKit, a leading startup and technology news publication.

In addition to this work, Elena played a pivotal role in growing Maker Festival, a showcase of science, 3D printing, tech, and hardware innovation, into one of the largest annual events held at the Toronto Public Library. And as a co-founder for #hohoto, she helped raise over $350,000 for Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank by creating a hyper-connected social media movement that demonstrated the power of self-organizing online groups.

She has been nominated for RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards and named among ‘Top Women in Canadian Tech’ by BetaKit.