#5 Heidi Williams on NLP, AI and inclusivity

Heidi Williams of Grammarly shares thoughts on the differences between building a Grammarly for consumers versus businesses. She also shares how the company approached creating inclusivity in AI. Heidi’s Past podcast interviews:  How to Handle Hypergrowth w/ Grammarly's Heidi WilliamsShort Byte: Heidi WIlliams - Building a startup within a startupPast speaking:https://events.bizzabo.com/349632/agenda/speakers/1341894 Social Links:LinkedInTwitterHeidi Williams biographyHeidi Williams is Head of Engineering for Grammarly Business, our newest product offering for professional teams and organizations. At Grammarly, Heidi is inspired by the potential impact the product can have as a platform, with the opportunity to help reduce conflicts and misunderstandings in communication and educate people on how to be more inclusive and equitable.  Before coming to Grammarly, Heidi served as VP of Platform Engineering at Box, founded WEST Diversity and Inclusion, and was co-founder and CTO of tEQuitable, a confidential platform addressing issues of bias, discrimination, and harassment in the workplace. Heidi was at Adobe for 17 years and most notably was a founding engineer on Dreamweaver, which democratized web development in the late 1990s.  Heidi volunteers as a technical advisor for PaymentWorks, Raise For Good, and CaregivingHQ and is a mentor for FastForward.org’s tech nonprofit accelerator program. Her expertise and perspective have been featured in Built In SF and the podcasts Stayin’ alive in Technology, Dev Interrupted, and CTO Connection.  As a lifelong soccer player, Heidi’s often on the pitch; she’s also an avid hiker, bicyclist, and kayaker. She once hiked with her husband across England, 192 miles coast to coast (with B&Bs and pub stops along the way).  Heidi studied at Brown University, where she earned a BS in computer science. She also attended Stanford University’s Executive Institute. STAY CONNECTEDSubscribe to the AI with Maribel Lopez audio podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1947446Subscribe to my LinkedIn newsletter — AI Decoded with Maribel Lopez: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/ai-decoded-with-maribel-lopez-7312533413582827520/Lopez Research blog: https://www.lopezresearch.com/research/Follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maribellopez/Follow me on X: https://x.com/MaribelLopez