DataTalk

In this week's #DataTalk, we welcome back Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, a consulting firm that empowers leaders and organizations to avoid business disasters. Dr. Tsipursky talks to us about the concept of adopting a hybrid model when returning to the office as COVID-19 comes to a gradual end. He also discusses the ways leaders should strategically address challenges related to working from home, and the different biases these leaders may face.

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is a best-selling author, internationally recognized thought leader, and CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts. He is a neuroscientist & behavioral economist who consults, coaches, and trains leaders on disaster avoidance, risk management, strategic planning, truth-seeking, and decision-making. Gleb is co-author of "Pro Truth: A Practical Plan for Putting Truth Back into Politics," published in 2020. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.

In this week's #DataTalk, we welcome back Dr. Wendy Ng, Cloud Security Architect Lead at OneWeb, as we chat about the importance of boosting Asian womens' representation in tech leadership. Wendy also discusses being bold in your career despite cultural barriers faced and being a woman of color of influence in the tech field.

Dr. Wendy Ng is the Cloud Security Architect Lead at OneWeb. She has honed her technical consulting skills through a number of industries, including aerospace, healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, transport logistics, and critical national infrastructure. She is a thought leader with over 60 articles and has a Ph.D. in Medical Genetics from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Having started her career as a technical consultant at Cisco, she also worked at PwC and Deloitte. Wendy completed her doctoral studies at the University of Oxford and has contributed to the scientific community through peer-reviewed publications. She has been sharing her experience and expertise and addressing key challenges in her blogs since 2016.

In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Dr. Wendy Ng at OneWeb about the importance of boosting Asian womens' representation in tech leadership. Wendy also discusses being bold in your career despite cultural barriers faced and being a woman of color of influence in the tech field.

Dr. Wendy Ng is the Cloud Security Architect Lead at OneWeb. She has honed her technical consulting skills through a number of industries, including aerospace, healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, transport logistics, and critical national infrastructure. She is a thought leader with over 60 articles and has a Ph.D. in Medical Genetics from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Having started her career as a technical consultant at Cisco, she also worked at PwC and Deloitte. Wendy completed her doctoral studies at the University of Oxford and has contributed to the scientific community through peer-reviewed publications. She has been sharing her experience and expertise and addressing key challenges in her blogs since 2016.

In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Jillian Kowalchuk, CEO & Founder of Safe & the City, about her app, safety & violence trends happening today against women, and how to be an active ally for vulnerable groups of people. She also discusses the latest bill passed in the U.K. that deems misogyny as a hate crime, and how this change has impacted her work on the app.

Jillian Kowalchuk, BA, MSc is an award-winning entrepreneur as the Founder & CEO of Safe & The City, technology designing safety in digital and physical spaces. She was given the Exceptional Talent in Technology by the U.K. Home Office, was listed as the Top 20 Women in Data in the U.K., sits on the Commonwealth Businesswomen Executive Team and the Department for International Trade's Global Entrepreneurial Programme Female Founders Advisory Board. Jillian is a TEDx speaker and business coach sharing her knowledge and experience of traveling to over 50 countries and breadth of knowledge on gender equality, tech4good, women in STEM to inspire and motivate others to take innovative action to solve meaningful problems. She holds an MSc in Public Health from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a BA in Psychology and currently resides in London.

In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Steve Shwartz, co-founder of Device42 and author of the book: "Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths: The Truth About AI and the Future of Humanity." We learn about Steve's new book, as he dispels myths and fears surrounding artificial intelligence. Steve also discusses A.I. trends in sports, ways data scientists can decrease bias in A.I. algorithms, and the future of self-driving vehicles.

Steve Shwartz is the Author of "Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths: The Truth About AI and the Future of Humanity." Steve runs a website that serves as a resource to educate individuals on artificial intelligence, as it contains a free 400-page A.I. 101 book. Steve started his Post-Doctoral career in the Yale University Computer Science Dept. of Artificial Intelligence program. He is the founder/co-founder of three companies in the A.I. field, including Esperant, which became one of the leading business intelligence tools of the 1990s, and Steve co-founded Device42, which is one of the fastest-growing software companies in the country.

In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Eric Haller, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Identity, Fraud & DataLabs at Experian, about the race to digital identification. We talk about how Eric's role has evolved at Experian, what Experian is doing to mitigate fraud and identity theft for consumers, and the meaning of digital identification. Eric also discusses the digital shift every industry is facing amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the future of digital identification, and recent innovations in deepfake technology.

In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Dr. Djamila Amimer, founder of Mind Senses Global, about trends in artificial intelligence during the age of COVID-19, challenges in the global supply chain, recommendations for data scientists, and recent achievements in A.I. During our conversation, Dr. Djamila Amimer also dispels common misconceptions, myths, and fears surrounding artificial intelligence.

Dr. Djamila Amimer is the founder and CEO of Mind Senses Global, a management consultancy that helps businesses and organizations integrate the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into their decision-making. She graduated from the University of Dundee with a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and Energy Economics. She is a business leader with a broad range of experiences across AI, machine learning, commercial deals, business strategy, energy, supply chain, shipping & trading, business resilience, and climate change. Djamila has developed frameworks and novel AI techniques in the area of investment decisions dealing with uncertainty in project evaluation. She is passionate about AI and would like to make AI accessible to everyone.

In this week's #DataTalk​, we chat with Serena King, Software Engineer at Altair, about the importance of diversity in the STEM field, ways companies can create an inclusive environment for employees, and what it is like being a Black woman in the field. Serena also discusses the importance of mentoring people of color and fostering those mentorship relationships.

Serena has worked for Altair for 5 years and graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Oakland University. She was also honored as a finalist for the WomenTech Global Awards.

We're celebrating International Women's Day with a powerful woman, Alana Karen, who is not only the Director of Search Platforms at Google, but also an award-winning tech leader, speaker, and author.

Alana discusses her latest book, "The Adventures of Women in Tech: How We Got Here and Why We Stay," which highlights the stories of women in the tech industry and provides advice to help women in their own careers.

Check out her book: https://www.alanakaren.com/adventures-of-women-tech-alana-karen

In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Amy Eddins Hughes, Sr. Director of Sales Enablement, Experian about automotive data and auto industry trends.

In this episode, Amy discusses:

• Auto Market Trends in 2021
• Economic Factors Impacting Auto Sales
• Finance Trends in Auto Market
• Impact of Credit Scores by State
• Auto Registration Trends During COVID-19

Amy Hughes is Experian's senior director of dealer intelligence and is focused on collaborating with dealers to transform their marketing operations through data.