Embark on a journey alongside Alina Bassi, the co-founder of Kleiderly, a Berlin-based startup dedicated to textile recycling. This innovative company has developed a pioneering method for transforming textiles into a robust plastic alternative. Transitioning from a chemical engineer to a noteworthy entrepreneur, Alina is not only recognized as an Obama Leader, a TEDx speaker, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree but is also an alumna of the Thousand Faces Female Founders Program. Recently acknowledged with the Thousand Faces Awards 2023, Alina shares valuable insights into sustainability, sheds light on the unique challenges faced by women of color, and unveils the cutting-edge technology driving Kleiderly's mission to curb carbon emissions in the fashion industry. Join us for a swift exploration of conscious entrepreneurship and innovative sustainability guided by the experiences and vision of Alina Bassi.

Learn more about - https://www.kleiderly.com/

Learn more about Alina: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alinabassi/

 

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Xann Schwinn, the founder and CEO of Biiah is a trailblazing force in the realm of employee wellness. As a finalist of the Thousand Faces Female Founders program, Xann's journey is just the beginning of an extraordinary story.

Biiah's innovative approach harnesses the healing power of music to support mental health. Through a unique blend of hybrid programming and cutting-edge mobile technology, they are reshaping how we view well-being in the workplace.

Join us as we explore Xann's personal journey and the origins of Biiah. Discover how her passion for music and well-being led to the creation of this groundbreaking platform, with a mission to bring harmony and solace to individuals and employees through the enchanting medium of music.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, a well-being enthusiast, or someone seeking fresh perspectives on mental health, this episode offers an inspiring look at how music can transform lives and create a harmonious space within companies.

Learn more about Biiah: https://biiah.com/

Learn more about Xann: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xann-schwinn/

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Dr Suhina Singh is a physician, chronic disease warrior and former pharma medical director that has experienced the challenges of health data fragmentation first hand. Born in South africa and based in singapore, she has not only lost a family member to cancer but suffers from autoimmune conditions herself. Suhina is determined to help address these health data challenges through Jonda Health, a health tech company she co-founded and leads. The company aims to unlock the power of health data to improve health outcomes and advance medicine with privacy and security by default, through its secure AI health data harmonization and management solution.

Having grown up during apartheid South Africa and studied medicine in Afrikaans (a language she could barely speak), Suhina is always up for a challenge and prides herself in being resilient in the toughest of times. Her curious nature, has led to over 15 years of experience in different roles ranging from clinical practice, medical advisory and operations to data-driven marketing and digital innovation.

Suhina was one of the top 30 participants of the Thousand Faces Female Founders Accelerator Program, and was among the top 6 finalist of the Thousand Faces Awards in 2023.

More about Jonda Health: https://linktr.ee/jonda.health

More about Suhina : https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-suhina-singh/

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Beth Koigi is the CEO and founder of Majik Water, a Kenyan social enterprise whose vision is to increase access to clean drinking water in arid and semi arid regions through the air to water.

She is a member of the African Union High-Level Panel on Emerging Technologies, an associate fellow of the Royal commonwealth society nordic-baltic hub, and a fellow of the Young Water Solutions from Zurich.

She is passionate about safe water access across Africa, mostly involved in Water Management and Climate action advocacy. Prior to Majik Water, she created her own water filtration company.

beth won first place in the Thousand Faces Female Founders Awards 2023 out of +200 candidates.

She has a master's degree in Project planning and management from the University of Nairobi

In this episode, we talk about one of the most difficult issues of our world: how to create more fair professional opportunities for immigrants and minorities?

Laura Jardine Paterson is the founder of CONCAT, a company on a mission to code a more inclusive tech sector, one that encourages more marginalized talents to find long-term, sustainable employment. CONCAT is the first web design and development company to be led solely by marginalized communities and women. CONCAT works with international corporates looking for high-quality yet affordable websites.
Laura has a bachelor’s in fine Art from Edinburgh is trained at WPP, a global advertising company, and has volunteered for various NGOs in Lebanon where she is based now. She is also an advocate and activist for promoting more women in tech.

Laura was one of the winners of the Thousand Faces Female Founders Awards 2023.

Professor Flora Salim from sydney Australia, is an award winning researcher, and respected professor.

She is a Professor in the School of Computing Technologies, the co-Deputy Director of RMIT Centre for Information Discovery and Data Analytics, and an Associate Investigator of ARC Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision Making and Society.

She is the inaugural CISCO Chair of Digital Transport, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney. She serves as a member of various boards of very highly recognized institutions such as the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts.

Her research sits in the cross-cutting areas of ubiquitous computing, machine learning, and data science, with specific interests on time-series and spatio-temporal data; representation learning of spatio-temporal and mobility behaviours; and data-efficient learning with multimodal sensor data.

She received the Women in AI Awards 2022 Australia New Zealand in the Defence and Intelligence category.

Rochelle Eim is Professor of Sport Science, and a behavioural epidemiologist researcher focusing on community sport participation. She is the Director of PASI (the Physical Activity and Sport Insights) research team at Federation University and Victoria University. Rochelle has a bachelors of applied science in human movement and sport sciences, and a phd in philosophy of sports injury epidemiology.

She is the winner of the AI for sport award of the Women in AIawards 2022 Australi/NZ.

Ramona Vijeyarasa is a lecturer, author, and human rights activist. She is the Chief Investigator behind the Gender Legislative Index. She is also a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and the Juris Doctor Program Head at the University of Technology Sydney.

Her international human rights activism has included, advancing anti-trafficking victim reintegration networks in Vietnam and Ukraine, filing briefs before the European Court of Human Rights, the Supreme Court of Moldova, and the Supreme Court of the Philippines, and managing multi-country programs to advance women’s reproductive rights and freedom from violence.

Ramona was the 2020 Women’s Leadership Institute Australia Research Fellow. She was the winner of the Women in AI Law Awards, and the 2nd Runner-up for the Innovator of the Year for the Women in AI AWARDS 2022 Australia NZ.

Originally from Georgia, Elena Sitnikova is an award-winning academic and researcher, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity and Networking, at the College of Science and Engineering, at Flinders University.

Elena is a global leader in Critical Infrastructure protection and cybersecurity. She is recognized as a national contributor to Australia’s ongoing defence. Her contribution to the field is demonstrated through multiple competitive grants she has received from industry, State and Federal Government partners in Australia.

For her educational achievements she has been awarded the internationally recognised Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy and an Australian Award for University Teaching.
She is also the winner of the AI in cybersecurity for the Women in AI awards 2022 australi and NZ.

Dr Cori Stewart is Founder and CEO of the ARM Hub, a not-for-profit company on a mission to digitally transform industry. The ARM Hub specialises in AI, robotics and manufacturing, collaborating with industry and universities to modernise manufacturing practises, commercialise R&D, and build workforce capability.

Cori has had a distinguished career and is a recognised leader in developing large-scale partnerships between industry, research institutions, governments and the community. Cori has previously held senior university appointments and government policy roles in industry development, the digital economy, creative industries and innovation.

Associate Professor Cori Stewart was awarded Women in AI Australia NZ- AI for Manufacturing Winner in 2022 and Women in Technology's Professional Technology Leader of 2020.

In this episode we discuss AI and Robotics applications in manufacturing and infrastructures, policies and regulations for AI, collaboration between nonprofits and governments for funding AI innovations, and challenges to face as a leader.

Additional links:
Thousand Faces investment club: www.thousandfaces.art
Discord Community: https://discord.gg/Ss7dhyNpmM
Arm hub: www.armhub.com.au/made-with-artificial-intelligence/

Camille Goldstone-Henry is a wildlife scientist, and the Founder and CEO of Xylo systems, a tech biodiversity startup. She is a descendent of Kamilaroi, which is the second largest nation on the eastern coast of Australia, indigenious tribes.

As an experienced wildlife conservation manager, she has worked with the world's most endangered species, including the Tasmanian devil and Sumatran tiger.

In 2020 she built a cloud-based platform to connect, track and manage conservation projects. The platform aggregates data from various sources and provides insights into some of these conservation projects so that decision makers can optimize resources. Camille is on a mission to turbocharge wildlife conservation globally.

She is the Women in AI trailblazer 2022 and Winner of the women of the future 2021 awards.

In this episode we talk about indigenious wisdoms, the climate change and conservation projects, and how AI contributes to saving biodiversity.

Adriana Simona Mihaita is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology in Sydney, where she leads the Future Mobility Lab. She is an industry-focused academic, aiming to improve people's movement via artificial intelligence in a smart city context.

She is an award winning scientist , including winner of the 2022 Women in AI Infrastructure award in Australia and New Zealand, a triple finalist in the 2022 Women in AI awards,

In this episode, we talk about digital twins, AI in transportation and traffic management, sustainability, self-driving vehicles and much more.

For more information about Simona’s Digital Twin platform Demo: http://digital-twin.datasci.institute/
And her personal publications:
http://www.simonamihaita.com/publications.html

In this episode we talk about AI and its applications linked to bioinformatics, genome sequencing, diseases and how AI is helping scientists study and analyze the human genome and diseases, and the effects of climate change. You will hear the story of an inspiring AI expert who shares her incredible journey of becoming an award winning woman in AI.

Dr Denis Bauer is an internationally recognised expert in artificial intelligence, who is passionate about improving health by understanding the secrets in our genome using cloud-computing technology. She is CSIRO’s Principal Research Scientist in transformational bioinformatics and adjunct associate professor at Macquarie University.

She keynotes international IT, LifeScience and Medical conferences and is an AWS Data Hero.
Her achievements include developing open-source bioinformatics software to detect new disease genes and developing computational tools to track, monitor and diagnose emerging diseases, such as COVID-19.

She was the winner of the AI in Innovation Category for Women in AI Awards 2022.

Prof Karin is an Executive Dean, School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University. She is a senior academic leader, with a strong desire to create inclusive, cohesive, and productive collaborative research and educational environments. She is also passionate about supporting #WomenInSTEM and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Prof Karin is a computer scientist by training, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence and cognitive science, particularly focused on language representation and processing in the biomedical domain. Her research focuses on the use of computational techniques, particularly natural language processing, machine learning, text mining and knowledge integration, primarily in the context of biomedical data analysis.
Prof Karin is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health. She has been applying her AI skills in the biomedical domain since 2003, addressing problems ranging from information extraction of biological concepts and events, to the use of text mining to support interpretation of biological data, to detection and prediction of disease from clinical data.

Malliga is the Vice President, Head of Insights & Data at Capgemini, ANZ. She is an experienced data and analytics leader who builds market leading AI capability and drives long term sustainable business growth.
Malliga advises executive stakeholders, designs and delivers innovative and fit-for-purpose data and AI solutions at scale. Malliga’s professional experience spans Consulting (Capgemini, EY, PwC, IBM) and industry (Mercer Investments).
Malliga is a commercially astute business leader who leads by example. She has a professional reputation for fostering and inspiring high performing teams through strong workplace relationships and collaboration.

Sonja Griegoschewski is a regional director for Goethe-Institut Central Eastern Europe. She is a Cultural strategist, international networker, and art lover with over 20 years of experience in leadership and intercultural exchange.
Expert on contemporary (German) art and culture with an international network of cultural leaders, artists, curators, academics, facilitators, experts, and stakeholders. At ease with independent, not-for-profit organizations as well as major festivals, museums, universities, and within the corporate world.
Strong interest in exploring digitalization and artificial intelligence to find ways for enhancing collaboration, society, and creative life, while ensuring that human rights, diversity, and ethical standards are met.
Alumni of Freie Universität Berlin (Dipl.-Bibl.) and the University of Wales (MSc Econ) with a passion for life-long learning. Most recently ‘Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy’, an online program at MIT Sloan Management.
Proud member of the ‘Goethe Family’ with postings to Croatia, South Africa, Canada, Belgium, Australia, and currently Prague, Czech Republic.
Leading role in the development and global implementation of our Internet strategy, global internal evaluation concept, and strategic management tools while based at the Goethe-Institut head office in Munich, Germany.
A strong advocate of the European Union and its cultural values, heading the national clusters of ‚European Union International Institutes for Culture‘ (EUNIC) in Canada and Australia.
Passionate about sharing my knowledge and experience through tutoring as well as supporting local communities, e.g. through my role as a ‘cultural ambassador’ at the Rotary Club of Sydney Cove.

Dr Yun Sing Koh is an associate professor at the School of Computer Science, The University of Auckland. Her main research area is Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Specifically, she focuses on three major research strands: continual learning and adaptation, anomaly detection, and data stream mining. She is passionate about using machine learning for social good, and her research has been applied to interdisciplinary applications in environment and health domains.
To date, she has published 100+ peer-reviewed publications in top conferences and journals, including IJCAI, IEEE ICDE, IEEE ICDM, Machine Learning Journal and Journal of Artificial Intelligence. She won the New Zealand Royal Society of Fast-Start Marsden funding (2018) and the United States Office of Naval Research Grant (2019).
She has been active in the research community, including serving as the General Co-Chair at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2021, Workshop Co-Chair at the ECML 2021, Program Co-Chair of the Australasian Data Mining Conference 2018 and as the Workshop CO-Chair for the 15th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

Amy is the Chief Data Scientist at the Australia National Bank (NAB), leading the acceleration of advanced analytics, AI/ML at scale. Prior to NAB, Amy held various leadership positions, including the Global Head of Analytics and Data Science at HSBC, General Manager of Group Data Science at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and the Founding member and Chief Data Scientist at DataSpark, Singtel’s pioneering data monetization spin-off. Amy has extensive expertise in large scale AI/ML ecosystem and end-to-end value chain, with proven commercial success and is recognised as a global leader in AI and data-driven innovation.
She is a member of the Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authorities AI Public-Private Forum, a Data Board member at MIT Center for Information Systems Research, and an Advisory Board member at Melbourne Business School Center for Business Analytics. Amy also serves as a Trustee at Mental Health Innovations (UK's largest digital mental health charity) and a Founding Editorial Board member of Springer’s Journal of AI & Ethics.
Amy is a champion for diversity and inclusion, a frequent public speaker, a co-inventor and co-author of multiple Patents and Publications. She is actively involved in promoting industry-academic collaboration and contributing to industry and scientific standards. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for her leadership and contributions in the fields of data science, and named as one of the global top 100 innovators in data and analytics in 2021 and 2022.
Amy has a Ph.D in Data Mining, a MSc in AI, a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA.

Elisha Harrington is an Evangelist on the Innovation team at ServiceNow. In her role, Elisha is laser focused on the future of work, digital transformation, and the power of intelligent systems.
As a thought leader in operational improvement and innovation, she is responsible for all efforts to evangelize the transformative world of work for enterprise customers in the Asian-Pacific region. Elisha is helping customers re-imagine the possible and solve important problems to create stunning change.
Prior to ServiceNow, Elisha worked for a number of top tier professional services firms, consulting with the largest global and Australian local enterprises across banking, telecommunications and more. From running large Digital transformations (both technical and business). Elisha worked for PwC across technology solutions which included fraud detection, risk sentiment, automation, and advanced analytics as well as blockchain and other leading technology cloud SaaS solutions.
Working within C-suite agendas and large impactful programs impacting employee and customer experience, Elisha aims to supercharge productivity scaling across the organization whilst cultivating a culture of innovation at its core.

Dr. Priya Ponnapalli is a senior manager and principal scientist at the Amazon Machine Learning (ML) Solutions Lab, where she leads a global team that helps AWS customers accelerate their ML and cloud adoption across industries, from healthcare and finance to sports.
As leader for Amazon ML Solutions Lab’s sports business, she works with customers including the National Football League (NFL), Formula 1 (F1), Six Nations Rugby, and sports organizations worldwide to enhance the fan experience and transform sports using ML. Viewers love seeing her team’s work integrated into game broadcasts.
Previously, Ponnapalli was the founding data science lead at JPMorgan Chase, where she created the first implicit feedback recommender system for Chase Ultimate Rewards. Before that, as a senior software engineer on the machine learning team at Bloomberg L.P., she developed and deployed the first social media analytics tool in finance, Bloomberg Social Velocity.