Our Women in DevOps community came together for our recent in-person event, 'Ethical AI: Cracking the Code' in collaboration with Houseful. We discussed the existing biases that prevail within AI, as well as the required governance and regulation policies to combat this. We also touched on job displacements and explored the rich career opportunities that AI can provide.
Thank you to our fabulous audience for joining us, and to our exceptional panel Sandy Lacey-Aberdein, Violet Snell, Lukasz Kopec and Zainab Ottun for their sharp and meaningful insights throughout the discussion.
Violet Snell
Violet is currently Head of Platform AI at iProov, leading efforts to build ever more accurate models that distinguish real people from scammer impersonations in online transactions. She has been building image-processing algorithms and related software for over three decades. She is a recovering academic, and now directs her teaching skills towards mentoring and coaching her younger colleagues in industry as well as educating broader audiences on the mysteries of AI.
Winna Bridgewater
Winna is a founding principal engineer at Syntasso doing some of everything to help deliver Kratix, an open-source framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Previously, Winna worked in engineering management where she helped teams build platform components for Cloud Foundry and back-office retail tools at the online startup Cazoo. Outside of work, Winna mostly tries to keep up with her two young girls whilst maintaining her sanity.
Zainab Ottun
Zainab is currently a DevEx Engineer at FC helping Software Engineers to deliver faster. She was previously a Technology Consultant at Accenture for almost 4 years. She first worked as a Systems Integration Manager and secondly as an Operation Model Analyst for a Major Telecoms company, helping them to shape and launch a new Migration Programme. She then took the plunge and made the switch to be a DevOps Engineer at a Major Financial Institution. She enjoys singing and acting in her spare time, as well as discovering delicious new places to eat with loved ones.
Łukasz Kopeć
Łukasz works as a Senior Data Scientist at Hometrack, a Houseful company, where he applies Machine Learning to problems of property valuation and risk modelling. In the past, he has applied NLP techniques to improve customer service outcomes at Chase, helped creators monetise at Instagram, trained privacy-preserving Computer Vision models to automate user journeys at Popsa, and led the Data Insights team at BBOXX. Outside of work, Łukasz has mentored LGBT+ youth as part of Out In Tech U, he is part of a choral ensemble and takes pictures on film.
Looking for your next in-person networking event? Look no further. Our sister brand, Pride in Tech, will be hosting a fascinating conversation on 'Building an Inclusive Workplace: Supporting LGBT Employees Across Borders' in collaboration with Indeed Flex.
Interested in speaking at one of our upcoming events? Contact our Commercial Director, Viki Dowthwaite at viki@trinnovo.com to learn more.
