International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) – How AI can level-up your career: new roles, new approaches, new opportunities
AI is quickly shifting and changing the jobs that professionals do. While many fear that roles may be replaced, the potential for those responsible for creating, training, monitoring and maintaining AI is very high.
This INWED our partners everywoman bring together a range of engineering and AI professionals to discuss:
- How engineering roles may change/adapt over the next 10 years
- What are the emerging skills required?
- Where are the opportunities with AI, both in career progression and use cases for women in tech?
- Where are the barriers?
- Overall tips for levelling up your career potential
Moderator: August Keating, Chief Business Officer, Capital Markets, FIS
Speakers:
- Dr. Kanta Dihal, Lecturer in Science Communication, Imperial College London
Dr Kanta Dihal is Lecturer in Science Communication at Imperial College London and Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. In her research, she focuses on the stories we tell about science and technology across cultures, and how they help us think about ethics and bias in new technologies. Kanta was Principal Investigator on the project Global AI Narratives from 2018-2022, in which she explored intercultural public understanding of artificial intelligence as constructed by fictional and nonfictional narratives. Kanta’s work intersects the fields of science communication, literature and science, and science fiction. She has a PhD in science communication from the University of Oxford: in her thesis, ‘The Stories of Quantum Physics,’ she investigated the communication of conflicting interpretations of quantum physics to adults and children. She is co-editor of the books AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking About Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2023) and has co-authored a series of papers on AI narratives with Dr Stephen Cave, including ‘The Whiteness of AI’ (Philosophy and Technology, 2020). She is currently writing the book Stories in Superposition. Kanta has advised organizations including the World Economic Forum, the UK House of Lords, the G20, and the United Nations on portrayals and perceptions of AI. She has been an invited speaker for national and international events, radio, and TV.
- Emily Barrett, AI Lead and Technical Architect, Lenovo
- Lorraine Lacey, Group Head of Analytics, SSE
- Denise Hill, Senior Manager Software Engineering, Discover Financial Services