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Now for our next conversation, please welcome back Ali Jackson Jolly and

panelists Erica J. Bolden, head of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and People Analytics, Mercedes-Benz USA, and Ryan Williams,

founder and CEO, Kaudh. Yeah, so those of you who were there this morning know that we started the day off talking

about DEI, the attack on

on DEI and we had some powerhouses up here,

Stacey Abrams, Dr Joy Moon, Iana Parsons talking about what's the plan? What can we do

individually to push back against that attack on DEI when it comes to government, when it comes to legal.

But part two of that, we wanted to have some different powerhouses up here to talk about from a corporate business

perspective what's going on with the EI what are the who what are the business leaders who are driving equity through innovation doing and that we wanted to

provide a roadmap for other business leaders thinking about how they could be improving equity, access, inclusiveness

in this current landscape.

So that being said, I just wanted to set the stage.

Before we get into what's working, though,

I just want to ask really quickly.

You know, in 2020, there are a lot of folks that thought that in a few years people would

forget about DEI, forget about their commitment, but the reality is actually a lot worse than that.

And so I just want to start with this question.

For you, in 2024, what's the path forward?

Yeah, so for me, I would say nothing has really changed.

The one thing that, and I've been doing DEI work for quite some time when it was just the D, no equity, no inclusion, the focus was just diversity.

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