Great Minds, Brave Spaces: Raising Inclusive Artificial Intelligence (AI) - How to Keep Bias Out
2Lolita Taub is the chief of staff at Catalyte, a workforce data science company that uses artificial intelligence to identify individuals, regardless of background, who have the innate potential and cognitive ability to be great software developers. Lolita’s interests lie at the intersection of AI and business. She has interviewed investors, founders and experts in the field, written an Enterprise AI series on Huffington Post, given a TEDx talk on Raising AI and was featured in Forbes' article Why We Need More Women Taking Part In The AI Revolution.
Outside of Catalyte, she is a current Venture Partner at NexGen and LP at Portfolia’s Enterprise Fund; and a former VC at Backstage Capital and K Fund. Prior to her venture career, Lolita spent nearly a decade in B2B tech, consulting and selling solutions to enterprises cross-industry at IBM, Cisco Systems, Silicon Valley and NYC startups.
Lolita holds a BA in International Relations (Global Business, Finance) from the University of Southern California and an MBA with an emphasis in Tech and Venture Capital from the IE Business School. She lives with her husband in Baltimore, enjoys matcha lattes and long walks in nature.
Lolita will be discussing how AI can help us address our human challenges but it can also amplify them. During this interactive talk, Lolita will cover the basics of AI and then focus on how to keep bias out and raise AI to be inclusive.