In this episode of Work and the Future, economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth talks to Tara Chklovski, founder and CEO of Technovation. They discuss:

• Why it is a matter of  ‘death by a thousand cuts’ when it comes to girls being discouraged from entering the tech sector
• Why young girls need to think of tech as rewarding – and fun as well.
• Tara’s work in helping young people work in teams to build technology prototypes to solve problems they see in their own communities
• Why skills in innovation will be key as we face the future
• How AI will disrupt the need for workers and which workers will be most vulnerable

Guest:

Tara Chklovski, founder and CEO of Technovation, is reshaping opportunities for young women in technology. Inspired by her experiences growing up in India and working as an aerospace engineer, she developed a widely-adopted education model that combines mentorship, hands-on learning, and entrepreneurship to prepare girls to thrive in tech. Named by Techcrunch as “teaching the next generation of AI innovators,” she has built Technovation into a movement reaching 400,000+ people across 160+ countries. Her research shows that AI education for girls could unlock a $200 billion opportunity for the world economy. Through Technovation and The AI Forward Alliance (TAIFA), she’s preparing 25 million young women to lead in AI innovation and tackle global challenges.

Linda’s Take:

I enjoyed this conversation with Tara, particularly her take on why she started Technovation. Coming as she did from a low-income country, she was intrigued by the fact that in a high-income country like the U.S. young girls were being discouraged, in her view, from gaining skills in tech and in math. She started Technovation to give young women a fun way to gain technical skills and in the process get them excited about working in the sector.

I also asked Tara her views about how the AI will change work (a standard question for all my guests these days) and she answered honestly that she saw a huge disruption ahead. Service workers, in her view, might be protected but knowledge workers will be very vulnerable. She also noted that women are not learning about AI as quickly as men, and that that puts them particularly at risk as organizations change how they get work done.

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