Innovation For All - Diversity in Tech and Business
Innovation for All explores how diversity and inclusion are impacted by innovation and technology. Long form interviews with experts in tech, design, AI, and business.
Is Facebook really a monopoly? How can remote work get more diversity in tech? What’s in the terms of service we usually ignore? How can we build inclusive, human-centered AI?
Host Sheana Ahlqvist created Innovation For All to help technologists and entrepreneurs make more inclusive products and businesses and think more critically about the societal impact of their work. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/innovation-for-all/support
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2022
From homeless to fashion-tech entrepreneur: Cassie Betts
Cassie Betts is the founder of District2.Co, a technology company that connects brands/designers with factories to streamline the manufacturing process, and Made In South LA (MISLA),
a DevShop Acade…
Starting a business at age 66 with Paul Tasner
Paul Tasner, Co-founder and CEO of PulpWorks and more recently, Co-founder of Sort, has more than 40 years of operations experience. He has held leadership positions in ventures ranging from start-up…
Battling poverty with Propel and the Fresh EBT app
Jimmy Chen is the Founder and CEO of Propel, a software company that aims to fight poverty through technology. They are the creators of the Fresh EBT mobile app, which enables EBT cardholders to mana…
How McDonald's empowered black America (but it's complicated) with Dr. Marcia Chatelain
In this episode you will learn:
- How the civil rights movement impacted the growth of McDonald’s in black America
- How McDonald’s utilized black-centered marketing strategies to fuel advertisements
- The pr…
Placing the Displaced: Running a Refugee Staffing Company
In this episode you will learn:
- How the CEO started Amplio Recruiting and why?
- What were some of the challenges in starting the business?
- How are companies vetted to ensure that the refugees are protect…
When bad data leads to social injustice, featuring David Robinson
Can AI really change the world? Or are its developing algorithms formalizing social injustice? When these highly-technical systems derive patterns from existing datasets, their models can perpetuate …
Revenge Porn Is Really A Tech Problem with Darieth Chisolm
Two years after her revenge porn nightmare began, Darieth Chisolm won the case against her ex-boyfriend. Should tech companies make it harder to weaponize their platforms against women?
In this episod…
It's illegal for Uber workers to strike. Marshall Steinbaum explains why. (Really though, WHY?)
"Set the market and work when and how you like. You have complete control." At least that is what gig economy companies like Uber would have you believe. In this episode of the Innovation For All pod…
The Ghost Workers Behind the Tech Industry, feat. Mary Gray
You'll learn
- How contract workers are essential in aiding AIs and search engines
- Examples of a ghost work in everyday technology
- How the tech industry often devalues contract employees
- What data labeling…
Be My Eyes: Mobile micro-volunteering for the blind with Hans Wiberg
Google and Facebook are monopolies. Does it matter? feat. Sally Hubbard
Sally Hubbard is Director of Enforcement Strategy at Open Markets Institute. Learn whether giant tech companies are building monopolies (spoiler alert: they are) and why that unfair advantage matters…
Placing the Displaced: Running a Refugee Staffing Company
In this episode you will learn:
- How the CEO started Amplio Recruiting and why?
- What were some of the challenges in starting the business?
- How are companies vetted to ensure that the refugees are protect…
Disability Advocacy for Self-Driving Cars with Henry Claypool
In this episode you will learn:
- About the immense diversity of need within the disability community
- How ride share services can either be beneficial or challenging depending on different disabilities
- Ex…
Gig Work is Different Undocumented Immigrants and Women, with Julia Ticona
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Please note: this episode was recorded before the COVID-19 Pandemic and the George Floyd protests.
Revenge Porn Is Really A Tech Problem with Darieth Chisolm
Two years after her revenge porn nightmare began, Darieth Chisolm won the case against her ex-boyfriend. Should tech companies make it harder to weaponize their platforms against women?
In this episod…
The Ghost Workers Behind the Tech Industry, feat. Mary Gray
You'll learn
- How contract workers are essential in aiding AIs and search engines
- Examples of a ghost work in everyday technology
- How the tech industry often devalues contract employees
- What data labeling…
How McDonald's empowered black America (but it's complicated) with Dr. Marcia Chatelain
In this episode you will learn:
- How the civil rights movement impacted the growth of McDonald’s in black America
- How McDonald’s utilized black-centered marketing strategies to fuel advertisements
- The pr…
Invisible women: data bias in a world designed for men with Caroline Criado Perez
Caroline Criado Perez is a writer, journalist and feminist campaigner. She has written two books: Do It Like A Woman and Invisible Women. In her most recent book Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias i…
It's illegal for Uber workers to strike. Marshall Steinbaum explains why. (Really though, WHY?)
"Set the market and work when and how you like. You have complete control." At least that is what gig economy companies like Uber would have you believe. In this episode of the Innovation For All pod…
Be My Eyes: Mobile micro-volunteering for the blind with Hans Wiberg
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. W…