Thousand Voices

Dr. Priya Ponnapalli is a senior manager and principal scientist at the Amazon Machine Learning (ML) Solutions Lab, where she leads a global team that helps AWS customers accelerate their ML and cloud adoption across industries, from healthcare and finance to sports.

As leader for Amazon ML Solutions Lab’s sports business, she works with customers including the National Football League (NFL), Formula 1 (F1), Six Nations Rugby, and sports organizations worldwide to enhance the fan experience and transform sports using ML. Viewers love seeing her team’s work integrated into game broadcasts.

Previously, Ponnapalli was the founding data science lead at JPMorgan Chase, where she created the first implicit feedback recommender system for Chase Ultimate Rewards. Before that, as a senior software engineer on the machine learning team at Bloomberg L.P., she developed and deployed the first social media analytics tool in finance, Bloomberg Social Velocity.

Svetha Venkatesh is an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow, Alfred Deakin Professor and Co-Director of the Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute (A2I2) at Deakin University. She was elected a Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition in 2004 for contributions to formulation and extraction of semantics in multimedia data, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2006, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2021 for ground-breaking research and contributions that have had clear impact.

In 2017, Professor Venkatesh was appointed an Australian Laureate Fellow, the highest individual award the Australian Research Council can bestow.

Dr. Cécile Paris is a Chief Research Scientist and the Director of the Collaborative Intelligence Research Program (Future Science Platform) at CSIRO. She holds an Honorary Professorship at Macquarie University and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney and RMIT.

She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales.

Professor Batstone is a leading global expert on AI, data analytics and technology. She has more than 20 years’ experience in senior executive roles across the United States of America, Europe, and Australia, helping organisations use technology to meet their goals.

She is currently the inaugural Director of Monash Data Futures Institute at Monash University and passionate about the benefits of AI driving major change for social good.

Dr Anino Emuwa is the founder and managing director of Avandis consulting, a strategy and financial advisory firm. She is an international public speaker on entrepreneurship, fintech, emerging technologies, and diversity and inclusion. Dr Anino has also received the 2020 Global Award for Women in Tech ally by WomenTech Network and was named one of the top 125 ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ experts to follow on LinkedIn. In this episode, she talks to us about the journey of African women.

Joanna is a PR strategist, founder of JKPR, advisor and community builder working alongside international ecosystem builders, VC funds, fast-growth companies and startups in tech and creative industries. As a diversity advocate in Tech, she ran a nonprofit organisation called Starther supporting women in technology and entrepreneurship. She also heads up the French chapter of Techfugees, an impact-driven organisation empowering displaced people with technology. Joanna has also co-founded Startup Sesame, a network of tech events connecting different actors of the tech ecosystem.

“What you do has far greater impact than what you say” - Stephen Covey. Being a leader is not an easy journey, the responsibilities are huge. Setting an example and ensuring that your actions speak louder than words are important. Many of us are really good managers but not necessarily good leaders. In this episode with Bhuvana Subramanyan, the Chief Marketing Officer of Randstad, we talk about leadership and some of the challenges faced by leaders. Bhuvana has held key leadership roles in IBM, and TNT with expertise in domains such as Product Management, Integrated Marketing, Internal Communications, Corporate Communications and Crisis Communications.

Cecilia MoSze Tham is an Entrepreneur, speaker, technologist, Futurist, and diversity advocate. Cecilia is the principal at Futurity Studio, and advisor to the United Nations world food program. She creates technological solutions for global impact, with a special interest in responsible consumption and climate change. In this episode, we explore how the craft of sewing led to the art of being a creator that resulted in her various startups and much more.

Gender pay gap is a real issue that needs to be addressed and resolved. This episode explores how we can put an end to the gender pay gap with Jonquil Hackenberg. Jonquil Hackenberg is a partner of PA consulting leading on sustainability, ex global Head of Sustainable Business at Infosys, member of global future council on SDG investment at World Economic Forum, and a regular contributor to Forbes. She has extensive cross industry experience with expertise in circular supply chain management, employee experience, digitalization, and sustainable workplaces.

Raluca Crisan is the CTO and co-founder of ETIQ AI, a London based startup, providing a software solution that aims to eradicate bias from AI and ML systems. She has over 10 years experience in data science, working with large clients such as Sony and Vodafone. Raluca has built the global analytics team for a mobile marketing company which was successfully listed on NASDAQ. Bias not only exist among humans, it's also present in AI systems. In this episode, we explore the bias present not only in systems but also in the real world.