Young Women Leaders in AI

The WINNER of 2021 is 🥁... Gans team with 'My Care' solution! A wound monitoring app that uses and to support in the outgoing care of the patient in rural and remote communities. Congratulations!🎉👏

Coming to the end of an intensive 10-days , the teams were ready to pitch to our judges Kelvin Ross, Emma Whitty and Brent Richards last Sunday🎤. It was a difficult decision, given the exceptional display of talent. Polish to Pitch is now the next step on their journey facilitated by Amazon Web Services, as well as industry face to face sessions.

Thank you to all our participants, mentors, speakers, sponsors and the YWLiAI team for making it possible🙌. It was a remarkable event that showed the power of a truly global community of making their contribution to the future of .

Rohan Toll, Rachael Barritt, Morgan Goulding, Sonia Diaz Carrillo, Tara O'Kane, Naomi Teng, Emma Cooney, Stephanie Chaousis, Nazli Seghar, Ash Ghatpande, Steve Dalton, Pauline Kelly, Olena Tymchenko, Sylvia Choa, Rod Persky, Tina Nguyen, Meghan McConnell, Brent Lauder, Steve Woodyatt, Jessie-Lee F., Dominique MacDonald, Viktor Korsun, Paul McCarty, Mifrah M., Katie Speer

Will make humans redundant? With this provocative topic, we started the 2nd weekend of yesterday. An action-packed day left us inspired by Dinesh Palipana OAM's story, we were introduced to by Brent Lauder and learned how to design AI solutions with Sonya Close-DeBais. Our sponsor Datarwe shared how it feels to work as a and our participants experienced how their future could look like speed dating an employer!

The sessions today had a big focus on with Susie Jones and Brad Weeks to help participants pull together the final aspects of their pitch for tomorrow. Llew Jury added his valuable touch by giving us tips on . Super excited to see the solutions that our participants have come up with!

Day 3 is full of action! Kelvin Ross from KJR Australia opened the sessions introducing how allows the extension of human capability. He handed over to Steve Dalton who showed us how to build a (MVP).

Day 2 of the started making our entrepreneurial bug dancing in the belly after Steve Woodyatt talk! Our teams will keep that spirit through the day exploring the opportunities of their solution using , supported by Amazon Web Services and our mentors.

Natacha Fort is now on! tapping into problems worth solving with .

The afternoon will bring a leadership session with Eric Tachibana followed by an overview of the fundamentals with Tara O'Kane and Naomi Teng having the opportunity to deep dive into AI with Romina Sharifpour. Stay tuned!

Welcome everyone to this year’s ! Great start with Kelvin Ross and Brent Richards introducing the program and talking about .

Now we are on with Ella Kaaz explaining the topic of . We will continue with Wadiya (Diya) Wynn and the thought-provoking in AI topic before getting into an intro to pitching with Emma Whitty.

Have you registered to be part of this year’s Young Women Leaders in AI program? More information is coming your way soon about what you need to know to prepare for the . Keep an eye on your inbox! We are so excited for you all to join our community!

If you haven’t applied yet, don’t worry - applications are still open at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/140731255975

Young Women Leaders in AI - Virtual Camp 2021 Do you want to know how to succeed as a woman in the tech industry? This 2-weekend virtual camp and additional week workshops is for you!

We have a jam-packed program for our 2021 YWLIAI virtual camp including a workshop that will explore Amazon Web Services’s Cognitive Services and SageMaker. Participants will get a chance to interact with this and learn how these programs work. This is for all technical ability levels and so we encourage all young women, whether you have technology experience or not, to apply for the program. Applications are open at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/140731255975

Young Women Leaders in AI - Virtual Camp 2021 Do you want to know how to succeed as a woman in the tech industry? This 2-weekend virtual camp and additional week workshops is for you!

Do you want to meet the Australian of the Year 2021? Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM joins us as our guest speaker for this year’s . Just a few spots left! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/140731255975

Dinesh was the first quadriplegic medical intern in Queensland, and the second person to graduate Doctor of Medicine (MD) at Griffith University with quadriplegia in Australia.
Dinesh is currently a resident medical officer at the Gold Coast University Hospital - GCUH. He is a lecturer at Griffith University and an adjunct research fellow at the Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University. He has research interests in , particularly with novel rehabilitation techniques. He is a member of the scientific advisory committee of the Perry Cross Spinal Research Foundation, advisory council at Griffith University, the Ambassador Council at The Hopkins Centre and an ambassador for Physical Disability Australia Ltd (PDA). He is also a doctor for the Gold Coast Titans physical disability rugby team.

This is your last chance to apply for the 2021 Young Women Leaders in AI program! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to attend our and join a community of inspiring leaders passionate about equality within the industry. If you are interested in becoming part of this year’s cohort, apply at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/140731255975

Committed to driving the life , and discoveries of today and tomorrow, Lumina Gold Coast is proud to support the YWLiAI Virtual Bootcamp in 2021. Visit https://luminagoldcoast.com.au/

You still have time to register! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/140731255975