Noelle Silver is the VP of Digital Technology at National Public Radio (NPR), where she leads the engineering organization across initiatives ranging from the Alexa skills platform to mobile application development. Noelle has over 20 years of experience in tech. As a Principal Program Manager in the enterprise voice group at Microsoft AI, she led programs that empowered developers with AI algorithms that help applications see, hear, speak and understand user needs across the Microsoft application and tooling portfolios. Before NPR and Microsoft, Noelle was at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for 4 years, spending 3 of those years with the Alexa group as an evangelist and technical manager for the Alexa and Echo. Across her many other experiences, you will find that Noelle is surely an icon in the voice related AI space, as she has personally built a gambit of over 100 skills relating to all things enterprise voice, mental health, and self-development.

Amongst Noelle's interests both personally and professionally, she is the founder of the AI Institute, which empowers organizations to think more deeply about AI, and she's also a founder of Women in AI, focusing on the amazing work that women are doing in the AI field ranging from voice to augmented reality. Noelle's been on NBC news to talk about how robots can make meaningful contributions to the arts, and was recently identified across the online tech community to be the #1 in a top 10 lineup of the best key-note speakers to have at your AI events.

Key Topics in the discussion:

-Re-defining your life mission, your brand, your impact, and focusing on the things that you care about in your career. Noelle highlights how she took some steps back in her career to become the AI personality that she is today.

-Why Diverse & inclusive AI is so important to humanity, the organizational changes that need to happen at the top engineering ranks of tech organizations for more representative approaches to AI, and perspectives on building teams and publishing models in a far more representative way - from diverse user bases to diverse data sets.

-How to hire teams that fit your organizational culture. High level lessons from Amazon's hiring culture and the power of constructing a mindful behavioral interview.

-We talk about living a full-filling life, being ok with a strenuous work-life harmony, the never ending pursuit to being a whole person, and the lessons of how to navigate the day to day as a very busy executive, working mom, and people leader.

Thanks for listening!

Ways to contact Noelle:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindfulleadership/

Books:

Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark: https://amzn.to/3clpFw8

Resources:

Women in AI: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/happy-international-womens-day-noelle-silver/

AI Leadership Institute: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aileadership/

AI Leadership Institute Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmhC73n85xZfKXQ04XM05Yw

Noelle's Website: http://noellesilver.com/

Top AI keynote speakers: https://readwrite.com/2020/04/22/top-ai-speakers/

Robots can make art: https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/can-robots-make-art-1476825155783

Sam Harris Meditation App: https://wakingup.com/

Pre-trained AI models (Microsoft Cognitive Services): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/

Pre-trained AI models (Google Auto-ml): https://cloud.google.com/automl

AI Hiring: https://www.hirevue.com/

Statistics:

Using Artificial Intelligence to Promote Diversity: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/using-artificial-intelligence-to-promote-diversity/

5 eye-opening statistics about minorities in tech: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/5-eye-opening-statistics-about-minorities-in-tech/

Upcoming LIVE Broadcast Events:

Simply Tech LIVE: The Evolution of Diversity & Inclusion in Tech, featuring April Walker: https://www.linkedin.com/events/theevolutionofdiversity-inclusionintech-aprilwalke/

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