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, entrepreneurships, private equity, venture capital. All of which intertwine to support her advocacy of others, helping startups expand sustainable innovation and championing women's financial inclusion with technology with a goal to eliminate exclusion.

With such purposeful engagement in her continuous learning, I had to ask, which is first the education or the experience? Bhuva, replied experience first, then focus on specific areas of education that empahsizes your interest.

This lead to the bulk of our conversation today, covered across the following four (4) questions:

1. How can we eliminate bias and integrate ethics into financial services industry?

2. 21st Century Skills are suppose to outline the grouping of skill sets our next generation needs as they enter the workforce. The phrase literacy tends to emphasis media, technology, and information literacy. There are so many other types of literacy the next generation should also focus on. How do we ensure the balance from those literacy skills while adding in others such as data literacy, data bias, financial literacy?

3. Do governments need to play a role in order to improve of gender equity? More specficially, a recent article was referenced that real gains in gender equity will require technical equity as well and the role of government agencies is another variable required in the larger equation.

4. Do you have recommendations to close that gap in the middle management of the workplace? More specifically, when we look at where women are in leadership roles today, we have improved at the level of VP and higher. We also see a lot of women leaving college and entering technical roles. There is a clear gap in recent studies in the middle section. If we don't have women throughout the oerganization do we risk our progression falling backward?

5. Generative AI - from a textual perspective (not generating art). Is this going to help or hinder the financial customer, specifically from the lens of women-owed startups and financial inclusion.

Finally, two (2) key takeaways for women-owned startups. What can they start doing after listening to this podcast to really change their financial equity?

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