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I recently earned a certificate in Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.. The course covered three AI technologies — machine learning, natural language processing, and robotics. Then, it taught students how to implement those technologies within businesses. My final project involved building a roadmap to implement NLP and robotics into a multinational enterprise. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn more about the business side of AI. I started using my new knowledge right away and recently spoke about AI on two panels at the 2018 Women in Technology International Summit in Silicon Valley. This August, I’m excited to speak at the Millennial Summit in Wilmington, Delaware, and Drupal GovCon at the National Institutes of Health.

My backstory is that I love to write and express myself best through the written word. I grew up thinking I’d become a journalist and oriented everything from my college major to internships around that goal. The global recession coincided with a decline in ad spend — and jobs — in the news business; both events coincided with my college graduation. After studying in college at the University of Oxford, I applied for a Fulbright Scholarship to earn a Master’s degree in England. I didn’t get the scholarship, but realized that I wanted to make the Master’s happen. So, the September following my college graduation, I moved to London and earned my MSc from The London School of Economics. The same summer that I wrote my dissertation, I went to a networking event at General Assemly’s London campus. In that sense, tech found me when I wasn’t searching for it. I got networked into London’s small but growing tech scene and balanced consulting for digital startups with freelance tech reporting for The Guardian and The Next Web. I eventually moved back to the States and transitioned from reporting on the global tech sector to working within it. Today, I’m a senior content analyst at GetApp, where I write about the ways that new tech trends like AI and blockchain impact small and midsize business owners.