Reshaping the Future with Women in AI
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🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Today, women represent approximately 22% of the AI workforce. But IBM is out to change that by increasing diversity not just in hiring but through programs such as Women Leaders in AI that celebrate diversity in the field. In this episode of Smart Talks, Malcolm Gladwell talks to IBM’s new SVP & CMO, Carla Piñeyro Sublett, and Chimka Munkhbayar, co-founder of Agrolly, about their challenges, achievements, and the steps they’re taking to create a more inclusive tech world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Hello. Hello. This is Smart Talks with IBM, a podcast from Pushkin Industries, I-Heart Media, and IBM about what it means to look at today's |
| 0:16.2 | most challenging problems in a new way. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm Mountain Glabo. Today I'm chatting with IBM's new senior vice president and chief |
| 0:26.3 | marketing officer Carla Piniero Sublet. Though Carla is new to IBM she's a marketing industry veteran who has helped other tech companies launch and transform their brands. |
| 0:40.0 | I'll also be chatting with Chimka Monkbier, co-founder of Agrilly. |
| 0:45.0 | Chimka was recently named one of IBM's women leaders in AI for her work with |
| 0:50.0 | Agrilly, a digital platform that helps farmers make smart decisions about their crops |
| 0:55.9 | using IBM technology. |
| 1:01.4 | Right now, women make up an estimated 22% of the AI workforce globally. |
| 1:06.0 | In their work, both Carla and Chimka break down barriers in the field and help make it more inclusive. Let's a pleasure to meet you all, the two of you. |
| 1:28.6 | Carla, you're new to IBM, I'm told. Tell me where you came from and what brought you to IBM? |
| 1:36.0 | I'm a 21-year veteran of the tech industry that put myself through architecture school, |
| 1:41.5 | running restaurants and bars and I say that |
| 1:43.8 | because that's really informed who I am and how I operate in the world. |
| 1:47.8 | I came to IBM for a very specific reason. |
| 1:51.6 | For starters, what an iconic brand. It's not just any tech company. It's the |
| 1:56.8 | foundation of a whole industry. But secondly, the values of the company really resonated with me and the |
| 2:05.0 | the values of the company really resonated with me and the heritage of the company as it stands with respect to diversity inclusion was in particular very appealing to me. |
| 2:11.0 | So that's a big reason why I'm here. |
| 2:13.8 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 2:14.8 | Chimka, what brought you into this world of AI and associated things? |
| 2:20.7 | How I started it, I was abright master student from 2018 to 2020 and then in the final year of my masters I |
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