DataTalk

In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Justin Dawkins, Managing Partner at Collab Capital about ways organizations can help support Black startups and entrepreneurs.

Justin is a successful entrepreneur and full stack developer with nearly 20 years of experience. As co-founder of Goodie Nation, he has helped over 30 entrepreneurs launch their tech-enabled social impact businesses.

Check out Collab Capital: https://collab.capital/

EPISODE 137: We talk with Dr. Wendy Ng about her work fighting biological viruses at Oxford University and later moving into cybersecurity and fighting computer viruses at Experian.

Dr. Wendy Ng is Head of IT Strategy, Planning and Operating Model, where she works with the business to ensure the corporate roadmap aligns with organisation strategy and objectives. Previously, she was Experian's DevSecOps Security Managing Advisor, where she is an SME for the company's global DevSecOps transformation initiative. She has honed her technical consulting skills through a number of industries, including aerospace, healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, transport logistics, and critical national infrastructure.

EPISODE 136: In this episode, we learn how Marcelo Pimenta led his data science teams in São Paolo, Brazil to quickly launch a COVID Radar -- a data platform to help health care organizations, universities and other global organization track and fight COVID-19. This innovative project led Experian to partner with BCG, EY, Edelman, Microsoft, United Nations, World Observatory of Human Affairs, The World Business Organization, Porter Novelli, Pacto Global, and many others.

EPISODE 135: In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Morgan Klaus Scheuerman about his research focused on the way transgender individuals' experience safety and bias when interacting with digital technologies and ways computers determine gender identities.

Morgan Klaus Scheuerman is an Information Science PhD student interested in exploring the ways individuals with diverse gender identities interact with technology. He is also a research intern focused on ethical artificial intelligence at Google.

EPISODE 134: In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Olivier Devaux at the Experian DataLabs in São Paulo, Brazil about their role in building COVID Radar to help fight the pandemic and help with the recovery of Brazil's economic recovery. This data project includes a collective of organizations such as the United Nations, SAP, Amazon, Acts, University of Sao Paulo (USP), among others.

Covid Radar is used by the University of Sao Paulo (USP), State University of Sao Paulo (Unesp), State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Federal University of ABC (UFABC), University of Brasilia (UNB), Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB), Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Federal of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).

EPISODE 133: In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Dylan Doyle-Burke and Jessie J. Smith, Founders of the Radical AI Podcast, about ways they are supporting under-represented voices and marginalized communities in their podcast conversations on ethical artificial intelligence. Follow their work on Twitter & YouTube and support them on Patreon.

EPISODE 132: In this week's #DataTalk, we chat with Nicole Johnson, Managing Editor at GovLoop, about the ways tech leaders can create space at work to have honest conversations about race — and questions that all leaders need to ask themselves to improve racial equity in the workplace.

EPISODE 131: David Kopec is an assistant professor of computer science and innovation at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. He is the author of Dart for Absolute Beginners (Apress, 2014), Classic Computer Science Problems in Swift (Manning, 2018), and Classic Computer Science Problems in Python (Manning, 2019).

Check out his books:

http://classicproblems.com/#books

Check out the video: http://www.experian.com/blogs/news/datatalk/david-kopec/

EPISODE 130: 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.