In today’s edition: the future of food, the power of women’s soccer sponsorships, and the future of AI talent. – All about AI. Last week, I spent two days in Las Vegas at the biggest AI conference in North America. Ai4 was a classic, massive Vegas event with crowds of people everywhere eager to build careers in today’s hottest technology.
I was there to interview Margo Georgiadis, the former Google exec and CEO of Ancestry who now runs the biotech company Montai Therapeutics, using AI to combat chronic diseases. Our talk was titled as a fireside chat about women in AI leadership—and a few minutes before it was scheduled to begin, something remarkable happened. It seemed as if every woman at this male-dominated conference one-by-one walked into the room.
To me, the interest in hearing from Georgiadis about this topic revealed a few things. Women are eager to be part of the future of AI. Even if we’re outnumbered, we’re here. And women are hungry to meet and learn from other women in what can be a difficult field.
Georgiadis has been on all sides of AI—working with both AI-native startups building from scratch and legacy businesses figuring out how to integrate AI successfully. (She sits on the board of McDonald’s.)
