AI and B Corps: Balancing Innovation with Responsibility - A Panel Discussion

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Join us for a panel discussion to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and B Corps. AI's popularity is growing rapidly, and so is the amount of content about it. Join Hugh Walcott founder of Silverlining, Kath Dewar co-founder of GoodSense and Richard Clark co-founder of Sharesies as they talk about whether AI can be leveraged to have a positive impact and if so, what are the risks and rewards for B Corps. 

Date: 18th September, 2024
Time: 11 am NZST 
Platform: Google Meet

More about our speakers: 

Hugh Walcott - Founder of Silverlining

Hugh has over 30 years experience in technology systems, starting his career as a power systems engineer working on some of the largest data centres in the world, before moving to software engineering, solution architecture, and CTO and CIO. The last few years have been more entrepreneurial, having started several SaaS businesses that focus on the intersection between technology and our environmental crisis. His most recent, SilverLining.eco, is a platform set up to help clients with big cloud compute investments start their digital decarbonisation journey.

Richard Clark - Co-founder and Technical Director of Sharesies 

Richard is a 25-year industry veteran with extensive experience working with large corporates and start-ups around the globe, both as a builder and leader in the technology space. Richard is an avid reader with a poor memory, which has led to him enjoying the same books several times over—feature or bug?

Katherine Dewar - Founder and MD at GoodSense

Kath’s tech sector experience began as a child, learning how to solder printed circuit Boards for her Dad’s robotics startup, in 1981.  Her early exposure to computing warmed the pot for a career that has unfolded in parallel with marketing tech. Kath was an award-winning marketer for data segmentation and personalisation campaigns, in the UK and then here in Aotearoa. She managed her first email campaign in 1996, led complex web projects from 1998, and in 2000 was Marketing Manager at an eVentures dotcom.  She’s worked with SaaS clients since founding her marketing consultancy in 2001 and GoodSense, the B Corp Certified ethical marketing team she leads, has a strong history supporting ‘tech for good’ companies.  GoodSense belong to the Science Communicators Association of New Zealand and Kath is an elected Board Member of the Sustainable Business Network and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.