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AI Literate Citizen
by Melissa Drew
AI technologies are more accessible, enabling us to achieve more and do more. This can be empowering. These technologies are as powerful as the data that shapes them and the people who use them. To understand, we must never stop asking questions. This podcast interviews women worldwide, combined with investigative research & videos, to share how AI & Emerging technologies are impacting us every day, both professionally and personally.
Episodes
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(78) Ewa Kleczyk, PhD - AI Is Always On...Now What?
Here’s the truth we don’t say out loud enough: AI isn’t something you can simply opt out of anymore. Even if you really wanted to turn it off, you can’t, not in any meaningful way. It’s in your phone every time you unlock it, in your fitness tracker counting your steps and monitoring your sleep…
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(77) Jacklynn Morgan - AI Improving Nutrition
I’m excited to share a brand-new episode where I sit down with CEO Jacklynn Morgan from Wellfed, a company using AI to fundamentally transform how we approach personal nutrition. WellFed’s platform combines advanced algorithms with personal preference data to suggest recipes, build meal plans…
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(76) Paulina Dubas - The Rise of Platform Engineering
Today, we’re diving into one of the most transformative shifts happening in technology right now — the rise of platform engineering and its intersection with AI-powered DevOps. For years, organizations have struggled with fragmented tooling, slow software delivery cycles, and growing…
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(75) How UBI is Changing Auto Insurance - Part 2
This is a continuation of Part 1. This episode dives deeper into how the AI algorithms are built and how the risk is assessed. Other topics include how your data is collected and stored, as well as the risks you may not be aware of that are buried in the terms and conditions. What does the future...
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(74) Adapt or Fall Behind: AI Literacy Evolving in the Workplace
This episodes explore how AI adoption is accelerating inside organizations—from meeting summaries to marketing campaigns and gamified cost-saving challenges. Our guest, a logistics director for a manufacturing plant in central France, shares how the organization has changed how employees interact...
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(73) How UBI is Changing Auto Insurance - Part 1
Welcome back to another season! Auto insurance is undergoing one of its most significant transformations in decades — and it’s all powered by data. Usage-Based Insurance, or UBI, promises fairer pricing by tracking how, when, and where we drive. For some, that means lower premiums and safer…
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(72) Unlocking Spend Analytics with Data Governance
We talk a lot about AI, dashboards, and savings targets, but here's the truth: none work without clean, consistent, and trusted data. In this episode, we dig into: ✔️ How data governance powers accurate spend visibility ✔️ Why supplier duplication and inconsistent categorization kill strategic...
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(71) Gisele Thompson - Exploring Technology Based Anxiety
In this episode, we explore the growing phenomenon of technology-based anxiety — the fear, stress, and uncertainty people experience in response to the rapid advancements in technology, particularly artificial intelligence. We dive into how the speed of innovation is fueling anxiety. Joined by a...
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(70) Top 10 AI Use Cases in Procurement & Supply Management
Discover how AI revolutionizes procurement in our latest video, "Top 10 AI Use Cases on Procurement: Transforming the Future!" 🚀 We dive into AI's transformative power, showcasing its incredible impact. Learn how AI enhances efficiency, mitigates risks, and drives sustainability, ensuring your...
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(69) AI Agents - Your New Sidekicks
A quick overview of AI Agents, what they are, examples of where we interact with them today, and how they work. This content was created with my two daughters in 9th grade. They are experiencing AI from their local county school board, who are developing policies on using AI in school and…
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(68) Devadharshinin Murugan - Conversation with an Associate (Python) Developer
AI technologies impact all of us, no matter where we are in our life journey. From high school students to full-time retirement on the beach, we each have a different perspective. How we navigate forward depends on our own experiences with AI technologies.Meet Devadharshinin in her first…
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(67) Melissa Drew - AI 101, What is AI, Really?
'AI technologies' is a generic phrase that combines 7 different types of AI technologies in a broader group. If you are new to AI or interested in a refresher, this is a good use of 15 minutes. This episode is a debrief and definition of key terms: - AI compared to AI Model - Narrow AI compared…
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(66) Susan Walsh - The Human Touch of Automating Spend
This episode discusses an often overlooked area of data cleansing and its enduring value, even in the age of AI technologies. In our data-driven world, companies are racing to adopt AI to automate processes at the expense of pausing longer to evaluate potential adverse side effects. This is why…
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(65) Julienne Ryan - Communication in a World of Technology
Julienne B. Ryan shares valuable insights on the importance of effective communication in a digital world post-COVID. She highlights the impact of AI technologies on communication, including the limitations and potential inaccuracies of AI language models like ChatGPT. Ms. Ryan emphasizes the…
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(64) Adita Karkera - Shaping the Future of the Public Sector Through Data
Adita Karkera, "..motivated and inspired in how the public sector can cater to the needs of our citizens. My heart lies in the public sector." Data.gov was launched in 2009 and is the United States government's open data website. It provides access to datasets published by agencies across the...
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(63) Isabella Richard - Marketing Strategy for Emerging AI Products
The strategy and executive of marketing is not commonly considered in the early part of the product development and lifecycle. The most common reasons include, but not limited to: 1. to ensure the product and service works before taking it commercial (internally or external) and 2. the product or...
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(62) Laura Ellis - 'Little Miss Data' & the Evolution of Data Over Time
From housing data on a single server to global, distributed storage with zettabytes of available data. Over the past 20 years we have continued to modify the underlying architecture to match our desire to store more data. We use this data in consumer hyper personalization, detect vulnerabilities...
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(61) Himali Kumar - Reoccurring Data (Quality) Audits
We hear and understand that step 1 in developing a #dataorganization is to clean up the data. This often includes data harmonization from multiples sources, classification, mapping, labeling, etc. Most often it usually stops there. We cleaned it... we are done, right? No, not really. In my...
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(60) Melissa Drew - Reducing Risk with Project Intelligence
Lloyd Skinner , CEO Greyfly.ai interviews Melissa to discuss how AI technologies are impacting project management. Specifically providing 'project intelligence' to the organization and reducing project risks before the project even starts.
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(59) Bhuva Shakti - Championing Women's Financial Inclusion in Technology
Bhuva Shaki is the Chief Sustainable Innovation Officer of Bhuva's Impact Global and Global Chief Ethics & Culture Officer (CECO) | Director of the Americas (Not-for-Profit), Women in AI. She embraces the concept of continuous learning and opportunities for personal growth: sustainability,...
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(58) Kamal Distell (Part 1) - Minimal Viable Data is the Future of Data Intelligence
Data is a rich asset. As we push the boundaries of available data beyond Zettabytes and into Bronobytes and Geobytes, how will we achieve accurate data intelligence? According to Forbes, 90% of the world's data was generated in the last two years with 2.5 quintillion bytes data being created each...
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(57) Rehka McCarthy - Clear Outcomes Lead to Sucessful (AI) Proof of Concepts
We talk about challenges in moving AI solutions from testing into production or commercialising AI solution for all users internall / externally. We haven't really focused a lot of attention on the other extreme: the data collection and developing the proof of concept. Where do you start ? Ask...
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(56) Sneha Kumari - Circular Supply Chains (the line in the sand is constantly moving)
My podcast recordings are usually under 30 minutes, but sometimes there is topic that is so fundemental and foundational to how we live our lives every day, the clock is just thrown out. This is one of those topics. While there were many 'Ah ha' moments, one moment of enlightenment was just how...
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(55) Aruna Pattam - Top 5 AI Trends to Watch for in 2023
AI technologies are not new. They only became popular after some time. They have been around for decades. As a result of supporting components such as cloud architecture and semiconductor chips, using AI technologies has become more accessible. This accessibility brings this topic into the...
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(54) Laura Miller - Ethics Professor 'It is time to do business right, ethically'
This interview, our discussion, and our views are now a part of the global data set. According to Laura, data is impartial. It doesn't have human-like qualities. The unclean data, the unstructured data is the best mirror to ourselves. Ultimately, we are responsible for the data-sets that are…
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(53) Lisa Palmer - 'Doing the Right Thing' AI Governance
AI-related projects are not typical IT projects with a traditional waterfall approach. My conversation with Lisa Palmer, Chief AI Strategist & Ethicist, AI Leaders focused around her recent doctorial thesis and research on 'Artifical Intelligence: Are For-Profit Entities using the "Do the right...
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(52) Skyla Wesolowski - From an Accounting to an Automation Degree & Career
A recent graduate from Nichols College in Boston, MA and now working as an Automation Engineer at Paragus IT, Skyla started her educational journey with an Accounting degree, but later changed that concentration to technology and automation. In a conversation with her advisor, it was suggested...
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(51) Shiran Somech - 'Listen to my Voice'...stories of women who can no longer speak
AI4Good. We talk about this often but haven't focused a lot of time on understanding the 'good' part of this phrase. It is women like Shiran Somech who are using AI technologies that truly have a global social impact. She has found the perfect blend of her two (2) primary passions of AI...
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(50) Michelle Dunivan - Data Transforms the Animal Welfare Industry
"Best Friends is transforming the animal welfare industry and data is transforming Best Friends", Michelle Dunivan, PhD Dunivan, Analytics Director of Best Friends Animal Society. As we approach the 2022 holidays in the United States, the adoption of kittens & puppies increases as gifts to family...
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(49) Marcia William - Project Intelligence for the 21st Century
"There is no such thing as a bad project, only poor project planning." Personally, this has been my quote for 15+ years. Executing a good project plan is a balance between decisions and data. The decisions we make before and during the project and data availability facilitate those decisions. We...
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(48) Debbie Botha - Inclusive AI Benefits a Multi-Cultural Global Society
According to a World Economic Forum study, it would take 152 years to close the gender gap if we did nothing more than what we do today. This was just one insight during my discussion with Debbie Botha, Global Chief Partnership Officer, who further describes the Women in AI organization as a...
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(47) Donna Forsdyke - Reducing Bias in Customer & Call Center Operations
Is customer service really servicing the customer if the priority is capturing data rather than understanding the customer? Think about the last time you called customer service and spoke with someone who spent more time on data entry than really helping you, or what about a non-profit…
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(46) Erin McFarlane - Farimarkit is Solving Procurement Challenges with AI Technologies
TBDWith the increase of AI technologies and, at the same time, a decrease in the cost of using those technologies, we are seeing a rise in startups and small businesses that can focus attention on solving specific business challenges. In this episode, Erin McFarlane, VP of Product Innovation at…
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(45) Kerry Calnan: The Future of Talent Acquisition (1st US Undergrad 'Intelligent Automation Degree)
As older generations (last of the baby boomers) are expected to be fully out of the workforce in the next 5-8 years, the organization will be left with a void of resources with deep expertise expanding over a career of 25 years. Their replacements? A new wave of resources leveraging data and AI...
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(44) Mara Pometti: Purposeful AI Strategy (across the AI lifecycle)
Our guest today is Mara Pometti. She outlines her professional journey from Journalist to AI Strategist and covers topics: - Predictive maintenance solutions in the energy sector. Specifically, failures in high voltage cables routing energy from the wind farm to the mainland - Translating data...
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(43) Laura Dohle: Prioritizing User-Centric (UX) Design in AI Projects
User experience (UX) design defines a user's experience when interacting with a digital product, application, or website. It is the primary layer between the user and the technology. Design decisions in UX design are often driven by research, data analysis, and test results rather than aesthetic...
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(42) Andrew Yip: Future of Food with AI Technologies
I love food & I have embraced AI Technologies. Therefore, I was excited to discover Andrew Yip, Head of Future Foods at Monde Nissan Singapore. In this conversation with Andrew, we take a discovery perspective of breaking down food to its chemical components, understanding taste and texture…
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(41) Adriano Garibotto: Using AI to Eliminate Human Bias in Spend Analytics
What if using AI technologies could remove the unconscious human bias when evaluating & segmenting unstructured data? What if we are no longer required to store petabytes (1 petabyte = 1 million gigabytes) of historical, industry-specific data to reference and compare? That is the focus of the...
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(40) Divya Dwivedi: Fluidity of AI in the Legal System in India
Discussion today focuses on how AI is slowly started to making its way into the legal system in India, as well as, trends Divya is observing as a practising advocate (lawyer / attorney). A constant learner, she has recently has focused on AI policy and auditing for AI processes. Divya also talks...
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(39) Samta Kapoor: Using Data to Link Executive Goals to Focus on Valuable Outcomes
This episode explores from point in time when an executive leader say 'This is our goal for this year' to understanding how to identify & 'right size' the enterprise data to support those strategic goals. I 1st heard the term 'right-size' when I worked in waste management. The goal of...
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(38) Anna Prouse: International Challenges & Value of Deploying AI Weather Technologies Worldwide
In this episode, we explore the obstacles & value of deploying AI-infused (in-country) weather solutions with a goal to impact 195 countries worldwide. Anna Prouse is an internationally recognized foreign correspondent with expertise in Middle Eastern, African, European, and Indonesian culture,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
AI technologies are more accessible, enabling us to achieve more and do more. This can be empowering. These technologies are as powerful as the data that shapes them and the people who use them. To understand, we must never stop asking questions. This podcast interviews women worldwide, combined with investigative research & videos, to share how AI & Emerging technologies are impacting us every day, both professionally and personally.
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Melissa Drew
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