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
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…
What’s in those terms of service we agree to? Featuring Nate Beard
What’s really in online terms of service that we agree to? Nate Beard joins Sheana to talk about where these terms of service come from and what’s in them. Find out what rights we may be sacrificing …
The hiring process wasn't built for women. Katharine Zaleski of PowerToFly is changing that.
How can we build a more inclusive and productive workforce? In this episode of the Innovation For All podcast, Sheana speaks with Katherine Zaleski, one of the founders of Power To Fly. Katherine sha…
What does human-centered AI even mean? A very meta conversation with Josh Lovejoy.
"When a system begins to remember us forever, and wherever we go.... we will not be our true selves. We will be the self we know it’s okay to remember."
-- Josh Lovejoy, Principal design manager, eth…
Making Products Inclusive, the Google Way feat. Reena Jana
How does Google make successful products when their users are infinitely diverse? Head of Product and Business Inclusion at Google, Reena Jana, shares the ways that this tech giant takes an inclusive…
The 80/20 rule hurts everything from education to self-driving cars with Jutta Treviranus
Traditional approaches to business, design practices, and research can result in suboptimal or uninclusive systems. In this episode of Innovation for All, host Sheana Ahlqvist talks to Dr. Jutta Trev…
VR-training against sexual harassment is not a gimmick, feat. Morgan Mercer of Vantage Point
Learn how Vantage Point is using VR to reduce sexual harassment at work through way, way better training. In this episode of Innovation For All, Sheana Ahlqvist speaks with Morgan Mercer, founder and…
How Meal Delivery Apps are Killing Your Favorite Restaurants feat. Chris Webb, CEO of ChowNow
Food delivery apps are putting mom and pop restaurants out of business. In this episode of Innovation For All, Chris Webb, CEO of ChowNow, shows the actual cost of meal delivery and how ChowNow is tr…
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 Acad…
What would ethical data practices look like? Feat. Amanda McGlothlin
"Tech should be built for good" says Amanda McGlothlin, co-founder and Chief Design Officer at HQ Network, a Los Angeles space start-up providing digital security products and services for individual…
How can technology help close early education gaps? feat. Cyrena Chih
Learn how Khan Academy Kids provides digital educational resources to support kindergarten-readiness and help close early achievement gaps. In this episode of the Innovation For All Podcast, Sheana c…
Why FinTech is failing the poor with Wendy De La Rosa of the Common Cents Lab
How can FinTech leverage behavioral economics to help people become more financially secure? Sheana Ahlqvist talks to Wendy De La Rosa, co-founder of Common Cents Lab, a research lab that launches an…
Stereotyping Appalachia: What tech gets wrong feat. Sherry Hamby
People in Appalachia are skeptical and cautious about technology. Dr. Sherry Hamby believes understanding how they think can be useful for living in a tech-centric world.
Dr. Sherry Hamby is a Resear…
What did you change your mind about in 2018? Answers on AI, data, work, and more.
In this special episode, Sheana asks some of her favorite guests two key questions: What is something you've changed your mind about in 2018? And what is something you'd like to see become a larger p…
Is Netflix a tech company or a media company? Amanda Lotz explains why it matters.
Dr. Amanda Lotz is a media studies professor at Queensland University of Technology.
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No one taught us how to work. Jake Kahana wants to change that with Caveday.
Technology can better serve humanity. In this episode of the Innovation For All Podcast, Sheana Ahlqvist speaks with Jake Kahana, founder of Bettvr With Age and Caveday. Jake shares these two project…
When bad data leads to social injustice, feat. 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 …
Facebook can do more for working parents feat. Eliza Khuner
Are the tech giants doing enough for working parents?
Eliza Khuner questions whether the 9-to-5 full-time work schedule is limiting companies and employees, especially working parents. Eliza is a dat…
VR-training against sexual harassment is not a gimmick, feat. Morgan Mercer of Vantage Point
Learn how Vantage Point is using VR to reduce sexual harassment at work through way, way better training. In this episode of Innovation For All, Sheana Ahlqvist speaks with Morgan Mercer, founder and…
Google and Facebook are monopolies. Does it matter? feat. Sally Hubbard
In this episode of Innovation For All, Sheana Ahlqvist speaks with Sally Hubbard, antitrust expert and investigative journalist at The Capitol Forum’s. Learn whether giant tech companies are building…