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Be brave, get paid: How women can earn more $ through negotiation - Kathlyn Hart Oct 31, 2018

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Does the thought of negotiating terrify you? It could be costing you tens of thousands of dollars. In this episode of Innovation For All, Sheana speaks with Kathlyn Hart, salary negotiation coach and founder of the Be Brave Get Paid salary boot camp for millennial women.

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When Are "Fair" Algorithms Better Than Accurate Ones? with Osonde Osoba Oct 24, 2018

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Osonde Osoba, an engineer at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, joins us in today’s episode of Innovation For All Podcast to talk about Fairness in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Most AI’s today and in the future could have consequential impacts on the people, which is why Osonde is pushing for systems that are accurate, unbiased, and flexible.

Discover what areas should we be wary when handing over the decision-making to AI’s, why this isn’t just a technical issue, but also political, and who should we put in charge of these systems. Learn also the importance of accountability, ethics, privacy, and regulation in AI systems. Visit innovationforallcast.com for shownotes and links to Osonde's TEDX talk: Making AI Fair.

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Black Hair is Big (Business) feat. Delali Kpodzo Oct 11, 2018

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In today’s episode of the Innovation For All Podcast, we’re joined by Delali Kpodzo, the Co-Founder of We Are Onyx, a popular beauty destination for Black women and women of color. We dive into her entrepreneurial journey, why women of color need specific personal care solutions, and the state of the current beauty market.
Discover how a hair salon mishap led Delali to start We Are Onyx, which has reached more than $2 million in sales. Delali thinks that’s just the beginning in a vastly untapped market.

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Voting with your wallet, entrepreneur-style Oct 03, 2018

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How can conscious consumers help women-owned businesses? Stella McShera explains why she launched equallet (@equallet), a local search-platform to help you connect with Women-Owned Businesses. Discover how equallet supports the growth of every female founder, consumer, or investor, and helps bridge the gender gap in business.

We also discuss how her experience as a mixed-race person has varied from place to place, and how that ultimately led her to get a science degree.

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The 80/20 rule hurts everything from education to self-driving cars with Jutta Treviranus Sep 26, 2018

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In this episode of Innovation for All, host Sheana Ahlqvist talks to Dr. Jutta Treviranus, Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre at OCAD University in Toronto. Dr. Treviranus explains how traditional approaches to business, design practices, and research can results in suboptimal or unfair systems. They discuss what inclusive design is, why it is so important, and how we can design systems that accommodate everyone. Dr. Treviranus also reimagines the future of education. They cover her efforts to incorporate inclusivity into the current change-resistant educational system, her “Unlearning and Questioning” course, and her most recent project: developing a lab school for inclusive life-long learning. YOU’LL LEARN: • How to use AR to combine real data with simulated data to create and experience new, imagined futures • What is the Pareto Principle (80/20 Principle)? • What are the real world consequences of ignoring the “20%”? • What is the Cobra Effect?

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Be My Eyes: Mobile micro-volunteering for the blind with Hans Wiberg Sep 26, 2018

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Host Sheana Ahlqvist speaks with Hans Jørgen Wiberg, founder of Be My Eyes, a free mobile app that connects blind and visually impaired individuals with sighted volunteers through live video calls. Wiberg explains how Be My Eyes works, how he monetized an app while keeping it free for both sides of the marketplace, and how important it is to consider how blind people interact with the world around them when designing products and services

You’ll learn:

What is microvolunteering?
What is Be My Eyes and how does it work?
How can we design products so that they are more accessible to the blind?
How can one monetize and keep sustainable a product or service, especially one that is designed for a low-income population, without charging users?
What are some challenges facing Be My Eyes and similar apps in their efforts to support specific populations worldwide?

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Implicit Bias: Everything You're Afraid to Ask - Jordan Axt Sep 26, 2018

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Discover how you can learn about and reduce implicit bias in this conversation with Dr. Jordan Axt (@jordanaxt).
Learn: How can we reduce or change an individual’s level of implicit bias? What's the IAT? Does it work? Where do we go from here?

Have you ever wondered why you always like people a little more if they’re fans of the same baseball team as you, and like them a little less if they’re fans of your team’s archrivals? Or wondered if your sex, gender, sexual orientation, or even physical appearance had something to do with why you did or didn’t get that job you interviewed for?
These thoughts all relate to the concept of implicit bias. Implicit bias is related to thoughts, feelings, attitudes outside our conscious control that contribute to gender, race, and social status implications.

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