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Recap Day 3: Innovate!

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 Recap: Amazing!

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 […]

Recap: How Power and Privilege Show Up at Work

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 […]

Day 1 Recap: What a Day

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 […]

Recap: Our Own Worst Enemy: Why Women Keep Each Other Down

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 […]

Preview: Bias in, Bias Out: Building Better AI

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 […]

John Zimmerman is a professor at Carnegie Mellon in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Institute, teaching courses on Design of AI products and Services, Services Design and Design of Digital Startups. Research at the intersection of user experience design and artificial intelligence has produced innovations that improve on the human experience. His research specialties include user-centered […]