Women in Tech & Allies Panel: Careers & Inclusion in AI

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Panel names concrete wins: a company study with GAP shows teams trained to treat AI as a thought partner produce significantly more and better outcomes (two training arms compared), and product teams are using GitHub Copilot to auto-propose PRs that fix longstanding UX “death by a thousand paper cuts,” speeding fixes to engineer approval. Advice includes using co-pilot to generate a career profile and paycheck check, asking out loud for sponsorship, and cultivating adaptability and humility as core skills.

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1. 0:00Welcome back to the luncheon
2. 1:03The favorite question: superhero origin stories
3. 1:15Kate Faaland: West Point, engineering, and male-dominated worlds
4. 2:17Vasu Jakkal: Captain Marvel, Intel, and finding security
5. 3:07Sumi Singh: 27 years at Microsoft and every division but gaming
6. 4:47Jaime Teevan: from liberal arts to an MIT PhD in AI
7. 6:36Lan Ye: Shanghai to Middlebury and a studio art and CS double major
8. 9:30The ally who changed the trajectory
9. 10:01Vasu on Christine Heckert and her first VP stripes
10. 12:24A surprise seat: Karuana Gatimu joins the panel
11. 12:57Jaime on advocates who speak when you're not in the room
12. 14:42Sumi on "you have the job, you can exhale"
13. 16:03The biggest skill for the age of AI
14. 16:29Lan Ye on adaptability and change as the norm
15. 17:31Sumi on humility and bringing people along
16. 19:09Jaime on the New Future of Work report and AI as a thought partner
17. 21:19Mentorship vs sponsorship at the highest level
18. 23:21How AI is already changing knowledge work
19. 26:00Lightning round: one thing in the next 30 days
20. 26:21Karuana on career profiles, pay checks, and talking about money
21. 27:38Kate on seeing people as human beings
22. 28:17Sumi on drowning out the noise
23. 29:13Jaime on "I see you" and seeing each other
24. 30:40Closing: connection, community, and getting to the next room

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