Interview with Strategic Program Leader at IBM Miriam Oglesby
Miriam Oglesby is yet another inspiring woman in AI who is using her knowledge and skills to create new innovations. She is creating diverse ecosystems for developers, where everyone is able to be their full selves to engage the skills and potentials. Miriam is also part of the Women Who Code in Berlin, which is engaging a world where women are proportionally represented as technical leaders, executives, founders, VCs, board members, and software engineers.
In her interview she is especially talking about the importance of diversity in developer teams. She is reflecting the issue on her studies and thesis which is focusing on how the gender and diversity gaps in companies are effecting the outcome. Miriam is also talking about how to improve this issue and how to start tackling it, as well as what is happening already.
Again another interview with an eyeopening view and very motivational and inspiring to listen to Miriam.
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Interview with research scientist Anupama Ray
Anupama Ray is using AI to make the world a better place. Working from the IBM Indian research Lab in Bangalore, she is using Speech Services paired with Machine Learning and complex Natural Language Processes to create a tool that helps children who are recovering from child trafficking.
In her interview she is not only talking abut her inventions and AI but also about the current situation of women in India and how the “guilty“ question is quite present, especially among her fellow PhD colleagues.
An overall very learning and educational interview with a lot of insights for the understanding and usage of AI focusing on mental diseases.
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Book recommendation: Invisible Women, Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Written by Caroline Criado Perez, a British author, journalist, and activist, the book is a fascinating and infuriating read about the "gender data gaps" across a wide range of domains including medicine, technology, politics, health and safety, transport, and more. Criado Perez illuminates the deep biases in much of the data that major societal, business, and health decisions are built on. With this systemically skewed data, we are essentially discounting half the population, and as a result, we all suffer.
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Interview with managing director Anja Hendel
Anja Hendel is an inspiration for everyone looking for a real power woman with a very successful career. In her interview she reflects on her own career path, her studies in computer science, and how she became the managing director for diconium.
Anja refelcts about typical stereotypes and why some people and companies are afraid of AI. She is also giving advise on how to handle those critics and what she thinks is necessary to make sure AI is healthy implemented in our daily life, for example early education in schools.
Anja overall is a full Woman in AI, her view and her positioning on AI is important and also inspiring.
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Interview with Business Psychologist and AI Consultant Sophie Richter-Mendau
Sophie Richter-Mendau, with a master’s degree in business psychology, talks about how she has created the personality of the first AI companion in space. She is an aspiring AI developer in natural language understanding on her way to an IT architects’ career and loves the diversity of AI use cases.
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Interview with Research Staff Member and Senior Research Manager Yunyao Li
Yunyao Li is changing the world of AI. From reading books in her local library to becoming a leading AI developer in visualising and exploring natural language as well as semantic extraction and abstraction.
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Interview with Co-Founder of SwissCognitive Dalith Steiger
Dalith Steiger is what you would call an inspiration for everyone. She started studying Mathematics because she wanted to speak a language the world speaks. Based on this fascination she kept growing into the mathematic and technical direction and believed always in herself. This is also very important to her and in the education of her kids.
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Interview with Researcher and Ambassador Marisa Tschopp
Marisa Tschopp is a power woman. She started her career in a non technical environment, but got inspired to change her career path and follow her passion after listening to an AI Keynote. Now she is a Researcher at SKIP especially focusing on the psychological side of AI and how humans interact with machines.
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Interview with CEO and author Katie King
Katie King has an extraordinary career, she started in a non technical role and found her way up to be now a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Task Force in UK on Artificial Intelligence and a book author for the book “Using Artificial Intelligence in Marketing“.
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Interview with Technical Executive Annette Opalka
Annette Opalka’s career is outstanding. She started in the IBM Laboratory developing the first text mining tools which later became the Watson core fundamentals and since then achieved so many more great things and also being the Diversity Executive Sponsor for People with Diverse Abilities in DACH.
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Interview with Watson Center Leader Andrea Martin
Andrea Martin was fascinated by numbers from the beginning of her career. Starting with being a student in Applied Mathematics all the way up of becoming a Distinguished Engineer, one of IBM’s highest technical ranks, and being the Leader of the Watson IoT Center in Munich.
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