Girls In AI hackathon in San Francisco

Previously on LicenceToCode:

Quick recap, I won the 2 weeks accelerator course run by Acorn Aspirations back in the end of August and because of that, my team and I got to San Francisco from the 11th to the 16th of October. Our trip was sponsored by Mastercard and a company specializing in artificial intelligence they bought called Brighterion. 

The next day, we were given a tour around the Brighterion offices and the area where the hack (run over Saturday and Sunday) would be held. After, we got lunch (paid for by Mastercard) with Akli Adjaoute, the CEO of Brighterion.

After our tour, we wanted to get some sightseeing in before the hack over the weekend, so we walked to Pier 39 (a popular tourist attraction for its shops and sea lions), then went to see the Golden Gate Bridge at night.

The GirlsInAI hack was a girls only event and sold out, with over 50 girls from a range of ages attending. Girls were split into teams of around 4 and were challenged to come up with a solution (to pitch on Sunday) to one of the problems proposed to them. On the first day, as well as mentoring, I also ran a python workshop for beginners, which taught me how to approach teaching large groups.

World AI Summit 2018

I was invited to speak at the World AI Summit 2018 as part of Inspiring Juniors celebrating International Day of the Girl. This year it ran from the 10th to the 11th of October at the Gashouder in Amsterdam. The conference was over two days, but I was only able to attend for the first day as I had a flight the next day.

Sara and I at the airport

The World AI Summit is the world’s leading artificial intelligence summit. World Summit AI was founded and is run by Sarah Porter, who also founded InspiredMinds and several other companies. She is an amazing role model for women and such a nice person! I would recommend anyone to check out her LinkedIn so see all the cool stuff she is also involved with.

I was really nervous to speak as a) we were on the main stage and b) World Summit AI had 6000+ attendees this year.

As part of our performance on the main stage, all of the Inspiring Juniors were to finish the sentence ‘In my future AI will…’ with their own personal thoughts and beliefs. Mine went as follows:

“In my future AI will change the landscape of the modern working world. Aspects of all jobs will be changed, shaped, influenced by the rise of artificial intelligence in the workforce. The disappearance of the jobs we know and the creation of new and exciting jobs not yet even thought of will be distinctive changes for my future ahead- and this is why I believe that the future of work is with AI.”

Poetic, I know.