188. How Can IT Leaders Prepare for What’s to Come with AI? Matthew B. Parks Sr. Tells Us

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Matthew B. Parks Sr. Matthew B. Parks Sr. is the Vice President of Information Technology and Security at the Pace Center for Girls. He’s been working for this non-profit organization for over ten years, and has been involved with IT since 1995. Additionally, he is an IT consultant, instructor, and presenter. How Can IT Leaders Prepare for What’s to Come with AI? Matthew B. Parks Sr. Tells Us As a leader, Matthew is passionate about bringing diversity into IT. He believes that bringing people of different backgrounds together for a common cause allows you to leverage the wisdom of the group. We hear about his views on AI, including where it started to where it’s going. He shares the current flaws in our utilization of AI, how the next levels of technology will influence our children, along with the importance of preparing them for it.

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0:00.0	Hi, nerds. I'm Michael Moore, hosting this podcast for dissecting popular IT nerds. I'm
0:14.3	Matthew B. Park, Senior, Vice President of Information Technology and Security at the Pace Center for
0:20.0	Girls. Hey, Matthew, how's going?
0:23.1	Hey, I'm doing well. Good to have you on the program for a second time. I think you were on a couple
0:29.2	years back with Phil. Enjoy that time. I actually did. It was kind of threw me a curveball.
0:36.7	We did some prep before and we worked through
0:39.3	some, you know, question and answer type of things. And then he came in and freelanced and
0:44.4	it made for a lively topic, but it was one of those things where, I don't know, I like me. It put me
0:51.5	on my heels, but it didn't bother me. So it was pretty cool. Well, that is my aim today is to put you on your heels.
0:57.0	So be prepared.
0:59.0	We're going to start off with our icebreaker segment.
1:01.0	We call Random Access Memories.
1:03.0	I ask a question, you respond with an answer that comes to your head first.
1:07.0	Your first question is, what did your favorite mouse pad look like? My favorite mouse pad.
1:14.6	Oh, man, my favorite mouse pad actually was a Darth Vader shaped helmet-shaped mouse pad. That was what it was
1:24.6	shaped as. And it was pretty cool. It was, I guess, before they were gaming pads. That's kind of what it was shaped as and it was pretty cool uh it was uh i guess before they
1:29.8	with gaming pads that's kind of what it was kind of had a hard surface and that type of thing um but yeah
1:35.4	uh yeah that takes me back so i had to go back a long ways but it for the it fell apart after a couple
1:41.8	you know months or whatever because back to when I've been in this game a long time.
1:46.4	That surprises me that it would fall apart because you would think that you could put as much force and stuff as necessary and possible.
1:53.4	It would use the force.
1:55.1	Force, I got you. Yeah, nice. I like that.
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