Day three was full of amazing ideas and innovations! Kai Wright guided us in understanding branding and how the future of branding will involve the incorporation of more senses, not only sight. Benevolent AI shared how they are using Big Data and AI to assist scientists in bringing treatments and cures to diseases that have […]
Day 2 turned out to be easier to navigate as I got used to Austin’s downtown landscape. I started by geeking out on 50 years of Apollo, how the space program’s journey has informed our future direction. Then I really geeked with the She Geeks Out panel on power and privilege in the workplace. Chris […]
Rachel Murray and Felicia Jadczak of She Geeks Out were joined by Thomas Harwell of Google and Chris Haigh of True Change Associates to discuss recognising the many different forms of power and unconscious privilege in the workplace and how to have the difficult conversations that bring authentic diversity and inclusion into the workplace. khey […]
What a day. They all say that. I think every new attendee thinks they will come up with something different and more clever to say, but it all comes back to those three words. What a day. I pursued free coffee, practiced a bit of self-care to get through the crowds, snagged a free book […]
A fitting panel for National Women’s Day is to examine ways in which women have kept others down and how to counter such behaviors in the workplace. Julie Koepsell, Managing Director at Mirum moderated a panel with three other successful women in advertising to explore the various ways women sabotage their own efforts at success […]
Kasia Chmielinski will moderate and participate in a panel discussing ways to eliminate bias in machine learning. They areproject lead of the Data Nutrition Project, a part of the Assembly program at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University & MIT Media Lab. Tackling bias in the datasets used to build AI is key to […]
Second patient cured of HIV A London patient is the second to be considered cured of HIV. In may, 2016 he received a stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare CCR5 mutation that allows for HIV resistance. He also underwent chemotherapy and until September 2017 took antiretroviral medication. Luke Perry dead at 52 […]