Editor’s List: Authority Magazine’s Favorite ‘Five Things Videos’ About The Future Of Work (Part Two)
Caroline Vrauwdeunt
Caroline Vrauwdeunt is an experienced project manager and daring entrepreneur. She started her career in law and today she is a leader in tech. As founder and CEO of ANDRS Projects Europe B.V. (Amsterdam (NL)) and ANDRS Projects NA Inc. (Waterloo (CAN)), she leads ANDRS’ remote global team of rockstars that work on ANDRS’ innovative software brands. Caroline is a smart creative that combines her skills and experience from leading large complex urban projects with her creative entrepreneurial talents. An innovator who believes innovation can only arise from collaboration. Her life’s motto is “Collaborate or Die ‘’.
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Samir Diwan
Samir Diwan is the co-founder of Polly. Samir was born and raised in Montreal and holds degrees from McGill University and the University of Washington. He spent 8 years at Microsoft as a Software Engineer before launching Polly with his cofounder in 2015.
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Dr. Allessandria Polizzi, Verdant Consulting
“Dr. Al” is a former HR executive and a top 100 HR Professional of 2020 who has served as Chief People Officer and head of talent and organizational development for companies in a variety of industries, from Silicon Valley FinTech to Global Retail to Craft Beer to Veterinary Care. After experiencing burnout herself and seeing how confusing the market was for those in need, she decided to apply her 30 years of human development experience to create resiliency, burnout prevention and psychological safety program for companies to implement in support of their teams and their business. Dr. Al also hosts the “Be Verdant” podcast, where she facilitates weekly reviews of the latest resilience and stress management research and interviews with experts in the field of mental health, emotional wellbeing, psychological health, and safety. She also volunteers as a foster for 2 dog rescue organizations, serves on the board of a pet-health non-profit, and enjoys time traveling in her vintage motorhome with her husband, teens, and pug.
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Dr. Nisha Talagala
Dr. Talagala is the CEO and founder of AIClub. A world that is bringing AI Literacy to K-12 students and individuals worldwide. Nisha has significant experience in introducing technologies like Artificial Intelligence to new learners from students to professionals. Previously, Nisha co-founded ParallelM which pioneered the MLOps practice of managing Machine Learning in production for enterprises — acquired by DataRobot. Nisha is a recognized leader in the operational machine learning space, having also driven the USENIX Operational ML Conference, the first industry/academic conference on production AI/ML. Nisha was previously a Fellow at SanDisk and Fellow/Lead Architect at Fusion-io, where she worked on innovation in non-volatile memory technologies and applications. Nisha has more than 20 years of expertise in enterprise software development, distributed systems, technical strategy, and product leadership. She has worked as technology lead for server flash at Intel — where she led server platform non-volatile memory technology development, storage-memory convergence, and partnerships. Prior to Intel, Nisha was the CTO of Gear6, where she designed and built clustered computing caches for high-performance I/O environments. Nisha earned her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley where she did research on clusters and distributed systems. Nisha holds 73 patents in distributed systems and software, over 25 refereed research publications, is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events, and is a contributing writer to Forbes and other publications.
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