DC Decoded: AI in the Capital

Ep. 10: Subtracting zombie resources and adding responsible AI with Jessica Hall


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Jessica Hall joins to talk about her work as Chief Growth Officer at OpsCanvas, her experience navigating the DC tech scene for most of her life, and the most transferrable skill from her ski instructor certification to tech leader.

Jess’ work at OpsCanvas was one of the inspirations for my latest piece on startups creating Responsible AI products. Read that piece here.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

01:18 Journalism to tech career

02:48 TEDx speaker experience

05:05 What is OpsCanvas?

08:40 The growth of DC tech startups

14:10 Eliminating “zombie resources”

19:29 Responsible AI integration

26:42 Rapid-fire segment

32:32 Outro

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DC Decoded: AI in the CapitalBy Hosted by Sam Li, of the GenAI DC chapter.