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The AI Forward Alliance Launch Event

Topic: The AI Forward Alliance Launch Event
Date: Sep 28, 2023

Technovation, the Grameen Foundation, Google, the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and other key partners gathered on September 20, 2023 to share how we can break barriers to unleash young women’s disruptive potential with tech-entrepreneurship to empower them as future-shapers.

Technovation Alumnae Career Workshop:Build your network, build your future! Learn how to make connections that count

Topic: Career Panel: Learning how to build your professional network with local tech experts
Date: Mar 22, 2022
Time: 5-6pm West Africa Time

Build your network, build your future!

Have you ever wondered how people find jobs and opportunities through their professional networks?

Technovation is here to help! Sign up today for our Alumnae event on professional networking, Tuesday, March 22nd, from 5 to 6 PM West African Time, and learn all about how to build your own professional network, one step at a time!

You’ll have a chance to hear from women tech professionals in Nigeria on how they built their careers, and learn strategies from them on how to achieve your own goals.

Who can register?

  • Alumnae 18 years of age or older
  • *Alumnae from any country may register; please note that the event will provide guidance best suited for Alumnae in Nigeria

Technovation Alumnae Career Workshop: Build your network, build your future! Learn how to make connections that count

Topic: How to build your network, when you are first starting out in your career
Date: Feb 28, 2022
Time: 7:00-8:15 PM Indian Standard Time

This workshop will be focused around how to build one’s professional network when first starting out. We’ll cover how to:

  • Determine your networking goal
  • Research and identify networking leads
  • Craft an effective networking message/conversation
  • Leverage and maintain your network

Who can register?
Technovation Alumnae ages 18+ from any country may register; please note though that the workshop will provide guidance best suited for Alumnae in India.

Technovation Alumnae Career Workshop: How to navigate interviews and secure meaningful internships and jobs

Topic: Interviewing effectively to get what you want, in your next role
Date: Jan 26, 2022
Time: 6:00 to 7:15 PM ET

Sign up today for our first Alumnae Career Development workshop on how to interview effectively! Karissa Justice, Founder of Work Can Be Better, and Deb Boyer, experienced tech industry interviewer and current Technovation Senior Product Manager, will cover:

  • How to share your unique skills and experiences in an interview, with relevant examples
  • How can you use an interview to discover if a job will give you the experiences you want from your next role

Who can register?
Alumnae 18 years of age or older
Alumnae from any country may register; please note though that the workshop will provide guidance best suited for interviewing in the United States and Canada.

Technovation Talks: AI, Youth, and Health Equity

Topic: Technovation Talks: AI, Youth, and Health Equity
Date: Dec 10, 2021
Time: 10:00am PST

Join us for a conversation on AI, Health Equity and the role youth–especially young women–can play in driving progress and innovation around the world.

You’ll hear from:

  • Heather Knight, General Manager/President at Baxter International inc.
  • Deena Shakir, Partner at Lux Capital
  • Fatou Kourouma, Technovation Alumna & mobile app creator
  • Lindsey Baab, Technovation Alumna & Software Engineer at Color

 

AI’s Future Success Depends on Women: A conversation with Deepmind and the UK Government Office for Artificial Intelligence

Topic: The future of AI and how to support girls and women (A virtual event)
Date: Oct 11, 2021
Time: 11:00am EDT

Technovation Girls alumnae Michelle Muchilwa (who developed an app to fight plastic pollution in Lake Victoria) will moderate a conversation between Lila Ibrahim, the Chief Operating Officer of DeepMind, and Sana Khareghani, Head of the UK Government Office for Artificial Intelligence.

IJCAI 2021: Technology, Girls, & Sustainable Development

Topic: Technology, Girls, & Sustainable Development (Virtual Event)
Date: Aug 23, 2021
Time: 7:00 AM PST - 11:40 AM PST

On August 23rd, Technovation hosted a virtual workshop for girls, women, and industry professionals who want to use technology for social good! Together, we learned about powerful technology tools like artificial intelligence and space data (which includes big data sets collected by satellites).

Learn more and see a video replay

Girls + Space + AI: Technovation and UNOOSA

Topic: Girls + Space + AI: Technovation and UNOOSA
Date: May 18, 2021

A panel conversation about how we can empower girls to use Space and AI tools for sustainable development

Global Parent Group

Topic: Global Parent Group
Date: Mar 04, 2021
Time: 2:30pm UTC

Let’s explore ways to support children as STEM learners through small changes in our language and conversations. Parents, grandparents, aunts or uncles, or mentors are welcome!

SXSWEDU 2020 – Panel Conversation

Topic: Creativity vs Coding: The Skill Set of Tomorrow

In the past 20 years, a breathtaking number of technological innovations have changed the way we live and work. To build a world where we thrive in partnership with automation and technology, we need to identify, preserve, and cultivate the skills that make us uniquely human: agency, collaboration, and creative problem-solving.

Watch the recording

Technovation Families AI Launch Event, Santa Clara

We kicked the Technovation Families season off with a launch event in Santa Clara. Hosted by NVIDIA and in partnership with UNIVISION, children and their parents played, learned about, and explored Artificial Intelligence.

Technovation World Pitch 2019

Meet Technovation Girls’ finalists and hear how their apps remove invasive plants on farms, tackle opioid addiction, save dying languages, and more.

Read more about the event