Today's edition: Future of Food, The Power of Women's Soccer Sponsurships, and the future of AI Talent.
– Everything about AI. Last week I spent two days in Las Vegas at the largest AI conference in North America. AI4 was a classic, massive Vegas event with lots of people everywhere trying to build a career with today's hottest technology.
I interviewed Margo Georgiadis, former Google Executive and CEO of Ancestry, who runs former biotechnology Montai Therapeutics. Our talk was entitled Fireside Chat on Women in AI Leadership. And then something amazing happened just minutes before it was scheduled to begin. It seemed that every woman in the meeting ruled by this man, each and every one of them had entered the room.
For me, I am interested in hearing from Georgiadis about this topic made some clear. Women want to be part of the future of AI. We are here, even if we are beyond the numbers. And women are hungry to meet and learn from other women that can become difficult fields.
Georgiadis is in all aspects of AI, working in both the legacy business where AI-Native startups are built from the ground up and come up with ways to successfully integrate AI. (She sits on the MacDonald's board of directors.)
She says that figuring out ways to better attract women's talent to these businesses will solve some of their problems. Instead of offering hundreds of millions of pay packages for AI talent, how about making their company work for women? “Women not only get big pay packages, but also disproportionately care about the impact where they feel they belong,” she told the crowd. “If we're going to bring more women's talent to those core AI companies, we have to think differently about how we can recruit, attract and promote talent.”
For some AI-Native companies, it is a difficult change to make. Some founders believe that we are “war” for those who win AI and that “we have to do whatever we can to stay ahead of these industries.” Women want to work hard, but these structures often don't work for women who are responsible for caregiving.
The “war” approach may be advantageous in the short term, but in the long term, she argues that those strategies cannot win. A truly generational company needs all kinds of talent. Women are included.
Emma Hinchliff
Emma.Hinchliffe@Fortune.com
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Also in the headline
The future of food. Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford gives a new opinion on the future of American agriculture. “Storms are gathering” for the American food system that people don't fully understand, she writes time.
Purchasing power. Women's soccer fans are most likely to buy based on sponsorship of a team or league brand. Compared to other female sports, soccer fans are 58% more likely to buy from sponsors.
Statistical status. This article on the future of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has previously been published. luck Journalist Beth Kowitt unearths trends: no longer measures of statistics related to women and work. The S&P 500 company shares disclose data on women in management compared to last year.
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Words of farewell
“I've never seen young girls who want to get into tech or business and that's reflected in the people they think they work. If this film can change that, it's going to be a huge achievement for me.”
– Lily James from her new film Swipe About the rise of Bumble
