This is Part II of my conversation with Dr. Genevieve Bell. If you have not listened to Part I, you may want to listen to Ep23 first before listening to this episode.

Dr. Bell holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and spent more than two decades in Silicon Valley helping guide Intel's product development and social science and design research capabilities. She is best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development and she is an important voice in the global debates around artificial intelligence and human society. In 2017, Genevieve returned to beloved Australia and established the 3A Institute at Australian National University, in collaboration with CSIRO's Data61, with the mission of building a new branch of engineering to take AI-enabled cyber-physical systems safely, sustainably and responsibly to scale. In 2021, she helped found and became the inaugural Director of the Australian National University’s School of Cybernetics, which builds on the foundational work of the 3A Institute and seeks to establish cybernetics as an important tool for navigating major societal transformations, through capability building, policy development and safe, sustainable and responsible approaches to new systems. In January of 2024, Dr. Bell became the Vice-Chancellor and President of Australian National University where she provides executive leadership to the University, is responsible for delivering the ANU Strategy and is the primary representative to government and wider society, and to national and international organizations. In addition to her role at the ANU, Dr. Bell is currently a Member of the Prime Minister's National Science and Technology Council, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE), Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH), Florence Violet McKenzie Chair, SRI International Engelbart Distinguished Fellow, a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) AI Council and an Officer of the Order of Australia. I have to pinch myself! Let’s go talk to renowned anthropologist, technologist, futurist and my friend and colleague, Dr. Genevieve Bell.

I am beyond excited to tell you about my guest on this episode because she is someone who has had a profound impact on how I think about technology, its place in the world and my moral obligation to act in a way that ensures technology innovation is sustainable, ethical and inclusive. Her name is Dr. Genevieve Bell. Dr. Bell holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and spent more than two decades in Silicon Valley helping guide Intel's product development and social science and design research capabilities. She is best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development and she is an important voice in the global debates around artificial intelligence and human society. In 2017, Genevieve returned to beloved Australia and established the 3A Institute at Australian National University, in collaboration with CSIRO's Data61, with the mission of building a new branch of engineering to take AI-enabled cyber-physical systems safely, sustainably and responsibly to scale. In 2021, she helped found and became the inaugural Director of the Australian National University’s School of Cybernetics, which builds on the foundational work of the 3A Institute and seeks to establish cybernetics as an important tool for navigating major societal transformations, through capability building, policy development and safe, sustainable and responsible approaches to new systems. In January of 2024, Dr. Bell became the Vice-Chancellor and President of Australian National University where she provides executive leadership to the University, is responsible for delivering the ANU Strategy and is the primary representative to government and wider society, and to national and international organizations. In addition to her role at the ANU, Dr. Bell is currently a Member of the Prime Minister's National Science and Technology Council, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE), Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH), Florence Violet McKenzie Chair, SRI International Engelbart Distinguished Fellow, a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) AI Council and an Officer of the Order of Australia. I have to pinch myself! Let’s go talk to renowned anthropologist, technologist, futurist and my friend and colleague, Dr. Genevieve Bell.

What is quantum mechanics and how is it applicable to our current digital infrastructure? The answer to that question is what I have in store for you in this episode. I’m speaking to Dr. Sristy Agrawal, the pioneering inventor, co-founder and CEO of Mesa Quantum, a company that is breaking ground in the area of #quantumsensing at chip scale, essentially miniaturizing and securing the capabilities of global positioning satellites (GPS) to the size of a chip for use in portable electronics, infrastructure monitoring, off-shore wind construction, military and many other applications. We dig deep in this out of the world conversation – think H.G. Wells and Dr. Who! We talk about the current state of the quantum ecosystem, the value of quantum sensing, particularly in the area of GPS vulnerability, and the promising future of quantum sensing at chip scale. She also shares her journey as a female founder and CEO, and the lessons she’s learned along the way. I hope you’ll join me for a fun and fascinating conversation with a woman leader who is breaking ground in the realm of quantum sensing.

This week I am speaking with a rock star in the technology industry. Alexis Black Bjorlin is Vice President and General Manager for DGX Cloud at Nvidia. Prior to Nvidia, Alexis was vice president for Infrastructure at Meta where her team was responsible for Infrastructure hardware and software co-designed systems, including AI Systems, compute and storage platforms, and custom silicon. Prior to Meta, she served as senior vice president and general manager of the Optical Systems Division at Broadcom, and as Corporate Vice President of the Data Center Group and General Manager of the Connectivity Group at Intel where she oversaw three business units: Ethernet and Networking, High Performance Computing fabrics, and Silicon Photonics. Prior to Intel, she spent eight years as President of Source Photonics, where she also served on the board of directors. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Semiconductor Alliance.0 She earned a B.S. in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in materials science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. We talk about her professional journey, her leadership philosophy, her thoughts on the future of AI innovation, her experience as a working mom and her advice to women navigating their careers in the technology industry. I hope you enjoy this far-reaching conversation with a great woman leader.

This is the first Revealing Li roundtable conversation on a timely topic. The opportunities and challenges of AI adoption in the healthcare industry. Joining me for this conversation is Marcus Grindstaff, Principal at Bridge HLS, Laney Preheim, operations strategy consultant at Anonymous Health, and Kathleen Perley, Professor of AI at @Rice University’s Jones School of Business.

My guest on this episode is an amazing woman entrepreneur. Her name is Dr. Kalen Hall and she is the the co-founder and CEO of Informuta. During her PhD work on mutagenesis and antibiotic resistance at Tulane University School of Medicine, she was the first to pioneer the use of machine learning to forecasts future resistance acquisition in bacterial infections. While completing her PhD, she co-founded Informuta in 2023 with her doctorial colleague and now Informuta’s CTO, Leo Williams. In our conversation, we talk about her vision for Informuta and the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in medical applications, her experience as an entrepreneur and female founder and her thoughts on the future of the intersection of AI and medicine. Let’s go talk to my friend Kalen Hall.

Dr. Hall recommends the program from Equalize Startups for women academic inventors. You can learn more at: https://equalizestartups.org/

My guest for this episode is Kathleen Perley, Professor of AI at Rice University's Jones School of Business and a thought leader in the nascent field of the intersection of artificial intelligence with business strategy, marketing and advertising. Prior to joining Rice, she was the founder and CEO of DECODE, a healthcare-focused digital agency that was recognized as a company building the future on the Inc. 5000 list four years in a row. As CEO, she drove DECODE to impressive heights, achieving over $17 million in annual revenue and negotiating a high-profile exit via acquisition by private equity.

Prior to founding DECODE, Kathleen served as Vice President of Business Development at Local Search Group where she boosted revenue by more than 300+%. Post acquisition of DECODE, she served on the executive staff of the newly formed Unlock Health and implemented cutting edge AI solutions that resulted in increased efficiency and bottom line growth.

Kathleen was recently recognized by Medical Marketing & Media as one of the Women to Watch in 2024. She is an active member of the Agency Management Institute where she focuses on helping advertising executives integrate advanced technology into their operations. She also serves on MD Anderson's advisory committee and supports Ncourage, an investment fund aiding women-owned businesses. Her commitment to innovation spans her professional endeavors and community contributions, making her a dynamic force in the industry and in her community.

In our conversation, we talk about her professional journey, her thoughts on the future of AI and the intersectionality of AI with the healthcare and she shares her advice on navigating career and life. Let’s go talk to my friend Kathleen Perley.

My guest this week is a woman who is breaking new ground at the intersection of healthcare, marketing and technology. Her name is Shannon Hooper and she is the President of Unlock Health, a company she helped form through a targeted acquisition strategy that she financed with support from Amulet Capital and Athyrium Capital. Today, Unlock Health is the largest provider-focused marketing, technology, and managed care company in the United States. From designing global go-to-market strategies for telehealth in the 2000’s, to growing one of the most recognized and awarded marketing agencies in history in the 2010’s, to building and launching scalable digital therapeutic products in the 2020’s, to now acquiring and integrating best of breed companies into Unlock Health — Shannon has worked closely with some of the industry’s most visionary leaders within technology, provider, and payer organizations. Shannon and I talk about how she made her way into the healthcare and technology industries, her leadership philosophy and the challenges and opportunities that new technologies such as AI mean for the healthcare industry. Let’s go talk to my friend, Shannon Hooper.

Shannon recommends the following great reads based on our conversation:

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius adapted for the contemporary reader by James Harris available on Amazon

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain available on Amazon and Audible