In this episode, The Gateway was thrilled Mélissa M'Raidi-Kechichian (they/them,) a Research and Advocacy Fellow at the Center for AI and Digital Policy. Mélissa is a social entrepreneur and civic tech practitioner working at the intersection of technology, AI regulation, and advocacy. As the founder of Activists Of Tomorrow, they focus on how digital spaces can be used by everyday people to bring meaningful and lasting change to their community. Mélissa is an expert in AI policy, frameworks, and regulation, and has previously worked in the field of AI and digital policy, civic technology, and digital identity. They held several consulting positions in the private sector and is part of the AI ethics Advisory Panel of the Canadian Digital Governance Council. During their free time, Mélissa hosts the podcast they created called Activists of Tech — The Responsible Tech podcast, exploring the intersection of technology and social justice.

You can follow it here: https://rss.com/podcasts/activistsoftech/

For this episode, the three discuss computer literacy and competency when utilizing such powerful tools.

For this episode The Gateway is proud to have Ansel Robateau, a software engineer who has been a full-stack developer with 25 years experience in the industry. Ansel has extensive experience with server-side software development and data processing. Projects Ansel has worked on include performance tuning, user interface design, web application development and database administration.

Ansel also administered projects using AWS services and Google Cloud service, Ansel is well versed in containerized application development and distributed computing solutions.

Ansel is constantly in pursuit of knowledge and look beyond programming languages for solutions that give results.

Happy New Year and happy new season! We discuss AI and how open-source models are impacting the tech landscape.

For this episode, we look back at 2024 and all of the wonderful guests we talked with. Thank you to everyone who listens and thank you to each of our guests:

Jalal Sarabadani

Kolina Koltai

Raffaelle Ciriello

Aidan Walker

Adam Hood

Doga Kurcuoglu

Thomas Smith

Joey Avraham

Denis Sitailo

Karl Swanson

Anna Klis

David Gunkel

Pete Pachal

Thomas Higgins

Happy New year to everyone!

For this episode, The Gateway is excited to speak with Thomas Higgins! Thomas is currently the supply chain optimization manager at Winland Foods. His professional background involves experience related to supply chain and inventory management, production and manufacturing planning, data analytics, data engineering, and machine learning applications. He has been working in the supply chain management and analytics space for the last 8 years.

Amin and Biagio pull the curtains back on all things at the end of the semester.

For this episode, we explore the impact of social media and the consumption of information in academic spaces.