Laura Gomez (Atipica) - The Need for Inclusive AI

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Concerned with the ways that AI and machine learning often display biases against already marginalized groups, Laura Gomez created Atipica, a platform that uses those same tools to remove rather than exacerbate bias in the hiring process. Gomez is also a founding member of Project Include, a non-profit that aims to accelerate diversity and inclusion in the tech industry, and a member of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, as well as Code.org’s Diversity Council. She describes the trends that have contributed to her company’s growth and encourages founders from diverse backgrounds to engage with tech, build confidence, and drive change.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:05.0	This is the Entrepreneurals Thought Leaders series.
0:09.0	Brought to you by Stanford E. Corner.
0:13.0	On this episode, we're joined by Laura Gomez, founder and CEO of Atypica,
0:20.0	an AI platform that seeks to remove bias from the hiring process
0:24.1	through applicant tracking, recruitment, and visual diversity dashboards.
0:28.7	Laura is a founding member of Project Include, a nonprofit working to accelerate diversity inclusion in the tech industry.
0:35.8	Here's Laura.
0:45.0	First, I want to talk about my path to entrepreneurship. When I was an undergrad at Berkeley, I wasn't really thinking that I could ever be a founder. I
0:50.1	didn't see founders like me, I didn't hear about entrepreneurship. Although
0:53.8	entrepreneurship has been very key in almost my family.
0:57.8	My mom is an entrepreneur, a small business owner, yet I didn't see myself to actually be on this side.
1:04.2	Other things I will share with you are my journey on building a typica, being a Latina
1:08.2	founder today's Latina equal pay day.
1:11.0	And Latinas only make 50 cents per one dollar that men do.
1:15.4	And so we really, and we're severely underfunded as well, not only in Silicon Valley,
1:20.2	but across all the tech and entrepreneurship ecosystems around the world.
1:27.0	So what is atypica?
1:28.6	We basically power analytics for teams to understand really how they're doing on diversity.
1:36.4	We do things outside of self-reporting because not everyone will self-report, I'll go into it,
1:41.3	but we really believe that this is the most key and pressing business issue out there.
1:47.0	Inclusion, belonging, diversity, employee activism, ethical tech, all of those things I will touch upon during my chat today.
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