AI Underutilized in Education and Healthcare: Observing Bored Tips amid Board Tricks
Topics: Education, Leadership, Students, Artificial Intelligence, Workforce, Skills Training, Healthcare, Skateboarding, Community, Bluegrass Jam, Guitar, Harmonica
Two events in one day. The first, hard to tell. It’s promoted as (what sounds to me) like a networking event for talented people in education. Brah, am I ever? :) and then there’s a healthcare AI event I was suggested to go to by someone who learned a bit about my AI White House proposal. Both seem interesting, are offering meals, and are in the city. So, it’ll be a fun day filled with events, conversation, and innovation. Right? Right! Now let’s go.
Why Attend: I’m lately really more interested in networking… and ALWAYS interested in checking out events. I love to hear professionals talk about their industry, learn about trends, and see what I can catch onto. Especially when it’s industries I’m super interested in.
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Notes from the Event:
Upon arrival, I realize the food is sponsored by the company I gave 1/5 stars to on their app… last week? Like one or two blogs ago hahaha. Omg. So, that was surprising. But, I just told the truth of my experience and even said I’d be willing to update my review if they could host a better event next time, so let’s see.
I just was surprised to see, like, their entire staff there, but the lady annouced they were the food sponsors - and the founder was going to be a panelist, so I just buckled in.
Next, a woman was introduced to speak to everyone but she had the flu, so she spoke from zoom on the screen.
Education is a moving train and the students are the collision point
Students are navigating a maze of degrees and credentials.
The pathways which lead to jobs are inconsistent. Yet students are being asked to make these decisions every day.
The economy is growing faster than the talent pipeline
Aerospace, manufacturing, health tech
Our own young people aren’t accessing these opportunities at a rate we need.
Washington isn’t losing young people geographically, losing them economically.
Too many people are working hard, doing eveything asked of them, and not getting enough wages
This woman’s presentation is so distracting cause it just is full of gifs
They don’t lack ability, they lack the pathways. They’re unclear, inaccessibly.
Industry doesn’t trust that education can keep pace. Education doesn’t trust industry to stay consistent. Policy doesn’t trust either. Young people don’t know who to trust.
If this continues, we’ll have young adults living here but unable to thrive here.
It’s hard to keep up with her talking. I feel like she’s reading a speech off of paper, it’s super hard to write what she’s saying.
Content isn’t always what grows people. This isn’t about going backwards, it’s about rebuilding for today the parts of higher ed that were always essential for human development.
She’s online and definitely reading a script. I think it’s a chatgpt script cause the way it sounds is super like… we’re not just blah blah, but we’re blah blah. And the truth is, we can’t promise, no one can.
It’s hard too cause she pauses at the most random times. So its like a tiny zoom video and a tough to follow speech. This is the present: chat got speeches. Lol. Geeze. This happens all the time when people literally read their speeches instead of speak naturally. It’s super hard to take notes.
How can you be a learner in a space that is constantly changing?
We need to point towards creating jobs, especially with generative AI.
Entrepreneurship and innovation shouldn’t be niche for a select few areas, students, etc. They should be visible, vibrant possibilities, especially in a state where small businesses and innovation are a backbone of our economy.
Geeze, they ran out of food/ingredients. This happens all the time with this company. I’ve been to so many of their events now where they were in charge of food… one time they got mad at people for eating more than one slice of pizza, most recently they had only nasty/stinky cheese left, and now… ran out of ingredients for the bagel sandwiches.
Align prep work with real work. AI is changing the nature of work, how people gather evidence…
Really its so hard to take notes on what she says cause he pacing is so inconsistent
Students are learning answers while the world is rewarding people who can navigate questions. We have to build learning around real workflows, truth, real criteria.
Teach students how to think in an Ai-powered world.
Omg her speech is totally written by chat got cause it keeps like correcting itself saying “we’re not blah blah, we’re blah blah” and then all these crazy GIFs are so distracting. Every page is a gif on her presentation. Some loop, some don’t, but they all lag.
Employers used to prefer college degrees because of your development. IT signals that you’ve spent years in the ienvironment of managing diverse personalities and build the maturity required. But as these environments have flattened, employers are looking for talent who are capable but underpracticed. So we are in a new position.
If you can offer internships, apprenticeships, etc, you’re helping to build.
Not every team can do this
DUDE I’m so inspired. I want to do this. I want to have an intern.
Employers, if you can offer developmental environments, do! You’re shaping the talent pipeline.
OMG these crazy gifs are so distracting hahaha. Geeze.
You don’t need a finished plan to invite partners.
Let’s make sure the people in the room are the ones who shape the future.
Today is about listening to one another with humility and courage like our young people deserve. SO they’re not just on a platform watching the future pass them by.
Next panel is about what education can deliver based on their needs.
Okay up first is the company I gave a 1/5 star review. Her mcic isn’t working. Now she talks.
I’ve never seen her before but I’ve seen a lot of their company staff.
Okay she says she’s a serial entrepreneur and has done her first startups over in china, and now this is her second company. She built this job-matching platform. Through instant chat. The market is pretty bad, she’ll say that, lots of layoffs
A girl holding a tiny puppy is making a video of this lady speaking.
A service dog hahah omg.
This woman just moved her last year from the east coast.
The jobs here are more about tech, east coast is more marketing and sales.
Here the turnover is like a year and a half and year.
Omg her voice is super loud on this microphone.
Big techs wants to be here in seattle, she picks this city and she wants the tech talents which is here. Talent in seattle compared to the Bay Area (where people think it’s the first place to go) but peoples are more down to the ground, instead of thinking about the moneys. People are always changing their focus in Bay Area. Here the talents believes in the products and are willing to put all of their heart into it.
Lots of global companies, when they come to the USA, tehy think of Seattle as a choice. It’s a great signs. (Her grammar is not that good, she pluralizes everything) As a founders, startup companies, what is missing? Here, peopel can be a little more aggressive on opportunities catching. When tehy see opportunities, they can be more hungries. THey’re already being traineded that they should go to amazon, Microsofts. It’s a right to join a star company. Less pay but big names.
At school never told what’s kind of life in startup. Whats kind of internship in startup. We see lot of great talents. They more question about themself, not the job opportunity itself. Maybe professor can give more encouragement.
Lots of good startup founders in Seattle. AI is coming, Seattle has the most AI talent in the United States. That’s the other vantage we are having. I share a lot in all different perspective. I do think Seattle is a great place. Has the best talents in the US.
I hope we see more students. All the unicorns can call me from Seattle.
NEXT WOMAN -
They hope 70% of students will complete at least some post-high school credentials because that is what we need,.
Employers are eager to engage in early talent program. The system is complicated. Lots of duplicative outreach from K-12,
Dude!! I want to get interns!!
Often students are presented with unfunny baked programs. Schools will take programs to local employers and they businesss is like we’d love to but it doesn’t fit our needs… they try, but it’s not meeting their needs.
Many different languages spoken by employers and the education community. Different words which can be challenging at times for both systems.
Our state has a lot of assets and a lot of peopel that really care about the outcomes of our economy. But at times it feels like we need family counseling with a translator.
Education is not moving fast enough, not preparing young people? Or are there misunderstandings in that space.
Next guy talks, works for state board. He’s glad to hear specific values
Education nd workforce is a partnership in order for it to work. And everyone you don’t know before you leave workign in the opposite side of the eof this as you, meet each other.
Education programs are not a “build it and they will come” type reality. It needs to be a place where true partnerships are taking complete ownership.
Used to work around the country and build partnerships with companies… success is employer led partners, a coalition of partners and finding commonalities.
I’m so distracted realizing that 100% I want to get interns. One for marketing, and maybe one to attend events and write articles. And/or as many as want to join. I can start training. And learning from younger people. This is so genius.
This panel isn’t keeping my attention but I’m trying.
Are k-12 advisory boards the same as (idk waht?) tehy’re not the same. We need intentional alignment.
Now a woman speaks who is a director of development for a young campus. They’re 100% transfer to enter in junior year. Their campus was built to be industry aligned. Without companies like Boeing they wouldn’t be able to campus.
Bro I’ve heard nonstop freaky things about that company. Boeing. I won’t write it here now… but just, they’re tied to transportation.
This woman says she has two boards for a small campus and both are industry aligned. It’s hard to change the cost, the tech they need to use must come from tuition or the state.
What is the cost and how to do we make it equitable? Everything is evolving really quickly and we need to work togehter as partners.
Next thought around AI… emerging tech, how that might shift.
At the last tech exchange summit, industry said clearly that they want to hire early talent, but where things may have gotten spicy was around whether students are being prepared. Is AI making it harder or easier for those folks to find jobs?
What is the impact of AI in the preparation for students? How is “entry level” as a meaning changing?
It’s moving so fast in teh employer ecosystem that that, too, even if you’ve got a good relationship hat is hanging and you can add that into your content and curriculum. But it’s a matter of getting faculty up to speed. Where is tech at the moment? Do we have the access on campus? Physically able to deploy it? The commonality is that he solution is in the direct relationship. It’s not rocket science. It’s not IT or machining, it’s about access to the tools.
Direct partnership with employers is the opportunity and the challenge.
And now which degree? You need to speak coding and AI for computer engineering. So the curriculum needs to catch up to this.
AI lifted the floor of what “entry level” means.
What about AI in other sectors? How are we feeling that tech support and implications on other industries?
The woman speaks
Lots of students ask if AI will replace the job? I always telling them, you use AI as a tool, as a weapon for you. That actually gonna give you more opportunities. They should not be scared of AI but more efficiencies to help them work fasters.
We want to launch product features. Usually take a week to two week. The whole team needed for a job to make delivery. Now it only thirty minutes. This is crazy, unbelievable. But we need the talent knows AI to make it come true.
They are very values. For a lot of students, we are right now hurrying. We ask them, do you know vibe coding. What kind of product you can create by yourself? Just use AI. We have 400 dev team. That alibi is trend set for CI students.
Her dress is so revealing compared to anyone else. Dude, I just don’t like her company cause they are all over the place but really let me down.
Lots of students are quitting school and starting their own companies.
A lot of students they already being unicorn. There’s whole transect of the ability to use AI is become one of the key advantage for the students of the schools. We are very welcome for companies to hire young kids. They are even more valuable than those who have 25 years of professional experience.
The maturity of AI is very different from sector to sector. It’s different in education versus maritime for examples. In the past we used to write Microsoft Office on our resumes, now we talk about the platform fluency.
Feels like lots of people in the audience are not paying attention. Some are but idk. Something about this panel just doesn’t feel efficient. Idk how it could be better. But I just think it’s like not too problem solving. Let’s see how the rest of this event toes. But a 45 minute panel of lots of people right at the start of the day just isn’t quite right, after a zoom video presentation that was so dysfunctional.
I realize that I’m not in the mood for this. Right? Or is it just like, not living up its potential?
They’ree saying that if you have good partnerships with government, educators, employers…
His microphone is so quiet, it’s the second mic they gave him, so I’m starting to got think it’s his voice. He gets so loud and so quiet.
Okay they say they’re starting to wind down. They know that Washington has world class companies, institutions preparing young people… yet young people are struggling to land local jobs. So where I the breakdown? Where are the early signals and how to do we lead young people to the jobs to stay in our communities.
Invest in soft skills, build community.
We have a scale problem in our state. A lot of great programs across the state, partnerships. A handful of students get access, dependent on where you live, your teachers. We can solve that if we can level up both the authority and responsibility of employers in the education and training systems. If we consider a sector partnership or intermediary model.
One example is life science Washington with powerful programs between cancer campuses and community colleges.
They get us way from one-to-one partnership which are not scalable. We need to redesign employers to have more responsilbity. We need them to have more responsibility and provide more…
A woman arrived late with stickers on her water bottle that say, “Actually, guns DO kill people”. And “vibes”. And a pic of Donna from “Parks and Rec”
Dollars are going to flow towards emerging needs. Ic an’t take any credit for it, but that is going to be a step in the right direction. Public investments have to be matched with employer investments. We’ll always get money one way or the other, an increase of taxes or local investments. We can choose to do that on our own or have it done to us.
Okay now they have a tiny Q&A for just the last 5 minutes of this panel.
Okay I’m just super uninterested in this panel. Idk what it is about this event. Maybe it’s this room we’re in, too. It’s got so much distractions like glass windows everywhere so teh transportation outside the window to teh left is super distracting and then everyone is arriving late on the right and then there are also windows to the front/right with students walking by a lot going to class but also sometimes people through that way are just arriving here late and lost.
Okay now there’s a CEO who arrived late and is behind me. He’s asking about soft sills. He says research 6 years ago about what product and productivity amplifies int eh work force, lots are about hard skills. But their data shows that soft skills are the key performance amplifiers. So then you ask “how do you learn those skills”? Through content, networking, and mentoring. That’s what we’re focused on.
The AI data we have is fascinating. In the contents of fast changing skills, soft are more important than hard. Not just leadership but also entry. We are using AI to bring the costs of learning soft skills down to a fraction of the cost compared to business schools in different parts of the company
Just curious how you’re thinking about performance and amplifies in the work force. The noise is all around hiring and recruiting.
Trying to teach employers to see how certain skills are more imoprtnat than it was 5 or 10 yearss ago
Now the emcee answers.
Is it 21st century? Forever skills? Soft skills?
How are you creating these inquiry based transferability of skills to shift and pivot. To be more adaptable for future opportunities .
Okay now the host of the event, the woman leading it, she’s holding up a sign that says “5 minutes” from behind. Cause actually they’re already running late, so I think she realizes, oh yeah, we need to wrap this up (their schedule is really tight).
I really agree you said. I’ve been hiring for almost 10 years. We building the company about chatting. The first thing we do is call and chat with them. In 30 seconds you know if this candidate is going to work for you or not.
Lol. I’ve heard differently from super successful people
And lady!! Your company is really chaotic in person and online.
Communication is the first soft skill, most important for them to learn. Let them know that is importance. That will very help them to let them build more opportunities.
Resiliency is a muscle. We’ve got great examples of where mentorship programs in tech build that resiliency.
LOL now the water bottle lady is sitting on the floor petting the canine companion which is being trained by a guy in crutches. I always feel like training “canine companions” can be very performative. Like someone I know always brings their canine to pilates with her. I’m allergic to dogs so I wouldn’t like that.
The woman says there’s time for one more question, what are the primary skills which students are lacking and how are tehy communicating that to educational institutions.
This guy has answered so many questions but he speaks up again. He says he can connect you with another guy who will answer this way better than he will.
OMg and again, his voice is so quiet and then so loud.
Disconnect of new graduates and then hahah omg - he’s like hard to hear. He gets so quiet and then so loud.
I feel like this event is really not for me. Which makes no sense cause on paper its EXACTLY for me. I really want to be hosting successful events post-moass and tutor peopel on how to host events.
This next activity they have is like over 1 hour of something? I’ll listen to waht it is… but I may just go.
Professional skills, across all sectors, tehy are universal. And employers aren’t communicating that to the education system. Having industry-facing groups, industry-led groups responsibly for that state-regional communication will be a lot more efficient.
They say there are more snacks in the kitchen area, then they’ll explain waht is next. According to the schedule it says, “action lab” which idk what that could be.
Bahhahah the CEO just approached me asking if I’m in the press. I said that, no, I just have a blog. He asked if I can speak to him about upscaling. I asked, “why me?” He said he was watching me take meticulous notes, nodding along, and he would love to talk to me about upscaling. He thinks I’d really enjoy it. He gave me his card with his linkedin, email, and phone number… which do I choose? Hahaha omg.
If he read my blog, I wonder if he’d still be interested. Probably!
Hahahah and I just got an email thats an invite to an AMA with the guy who leads the climate hub. The one that “biked 36 miles before therapy” and wore an exploding seattle police car shirt to the event I attended the other day. I’d love to be a fly on that wall at that event.
The company I gave 1/5 stars to just approached me too and offered to put my on their website hahahah. Like my company, even for unpaid internships. And he apologized for their chaotic event. I’m literally cracking up hahahahaha. Maybe it’d be fun to be on the other side of hte table for their company. Have people apply to work with me? I’m not sure though. I told them likely I’d’ just look for people on Linkedin but they said I can be a second resource. He just said he sees me at so many events and it seems like I work really hard to build my businesses.
Okay I didn’t get a chance to get a snack - which is fine - and now I’m not sure what is going on bu they said they hope the demo works… geez. Hahahah what in the world?
There are thousands to millions of dollars spent on students success services in higher eudcaiotn insittutions, yet still dropouts. Not just for academic reasons, but for a host of reasons having to do with life, relevance, etc.
They want a tool to help students not drop out. Worked with a few foundations to get the project started, the “Pathways AI project”, mission-driven.
Look at it from the perspective of the learner. They design tools, try it out, then ask how it’s going, then iterate, iterate, iterate to make it better.
Students feel overwhelmed by complex decisions, they want guidance broken down into very small, doable steps. Represented in visual strucutred formats that show exactly what steps lead from point A to point B.
Okay so it seems like this lady wants for people to try out her product. Omg. Try out her tool.
Students have very hyper-local perspectives. They’re not seeing lots of pathway options because they’re not introduced to a large network of people or programs. Their aspirations are very local as well. They need security to understand how to pay for things.
For example, a student thogutho they wanted to be a neurosurgeon, then they realized they wanted to join the army cause it costs too much, but then they realize they just want to play in the navy band.
Tehy’re so mature but realistic.
Their access of knowing programs is tough.
Advisor to student ration is often 100:1, 200:1, 300:1… sometimes in colleges it’s 1000:1.
Now it’s showing this. Okay - so this company she’s showing off is someting I’ve heard of - like a problem/solution I’ve heard of at least a year or more ago at similar events to this. Like basically AI counselor bots.
Its the on icon of a start wearing a hast and quizzing kids.
And it’s starting to build the profile of the student based off hte basic information and whatever information the student provides from the early point.
The front and back end build a personalized path for the student. Taking what it just learned about hte student
- but their coloring is really hard to see. Like yellow background with white text. Light/neon green with white text.
BTW the wifi info they gave me doesn’t work. And my hotspot isn’t working, I ugess the reception is purposefulyl bad in thsi building so you focus on acadmeics (it is a college campus)
She says that this presentation they’re giving now, some of this they just came up with on Friday… like 4 days ago? Geeze.
And she says if there are ideas on how to improve it, we’re going to be part of the codesign process. Geeze. Is this like a hackathon? No wonder why this is a free event. They’re using us to build their product.
Often people drop out of school because of childcare needs, transpirtation needs… rarely academics.
Dude this is just the wrong feeling from. Their funding is from companes/families I’m not a fan of. A family who news is coming out whose father tried to drug their mom without her knowing because of an STD he got while cheating on her at an infamous island and then gave to her. Also, someone who funded/funds vaccines for lots of the population.
Now tehy want our help with codesigning their work, to help them deeper understandings at a high level and also within details. More concrete.
I wonder what the rest of the audiences feeling about this. I know it’s helping real students. But… it’s’ just the wrong feeling to me. She said right now they scrape websites but there is lots of private data they want info on. What’s relevant to this usecase.
Local data, data bout jobs. Lots of data out there they need help figuring out what the best quality data is.
They ask if there are any students here (one girl rasises her hand) and they say she’s the most important here. Now they say it’ll be so informal. They want you to look at your nametag and find the number on the back of your name tag - but mine has no number. Four teams.
I joined “group 2” and a woman is talking about how she jsut bought a property in France and keeps traveling back and forth between that… while eating popcorn. She is asking the presenter what she got a doctorate in. The woman says it was a program for black and brown leaders… but then one lady is trying to figure out where to sit and then another new lady just showed up and she tells her to go find the right group, she’s not in group 2… she’s in group 3, and then sends her away.
Now they say it’s popcorn style conversation and the lady eating popcorn laughs.
Now they have two questions on screen but they disappeared so another woman goes to turn the screen back on but it’s’ screenlocked cause you need her password to log back in. And she’s not here to unlock her laptop. Oh, she goes up and unlocks it.
The first one Is about mindset - sector, industry, organizational role, what do you think are the central challenges for credential to career pathways.
Now popcorn lady says let’s go around so people actually know what we do and who the audience is.
Now the tech person for 30 years grow up in a family of teachers, the problem is what we tackled three years ago, its not just at schools but also in the; workplace
This guy doesn’t know that everyone is introducing themselves and jsut starts answering the question and everyone is too polite to tell him
Also there’s a lady with her legs crossed and her dress is SO revealing and there’s a guy sitting in the circle across from her main sure not to make eye contact at all. He’s totally looking down, closing his eyes, etc. it’s so funny. Cause he’d see EVERYTHING if he looked straight ahead. Much more than appropriate for a morning networking event. Right? Haha.
This guy is still talking to answer this question (he told me earlier he has hearing problems) and he said he wants to connect people and create networks.
The poster this woman is writing on is falling over on the stand. To take notes.
He says you need to make a network of coaches and leaders in organization. There is not standardized ways of matching sills.
Campuses need to evolve to create people networks. Qualified people
It’s funny how this woman is taking these important notes and data literally with handwritten notes. Doesn’t feel like it’s teh best way to get this info, inefficient.
He says he’s been a part of huge companies. Still talking, and yeah,
this guy across from the girl whose skirt/dress is super revealing is looking every direction except in front of him.
Next guy is a professor, for 10 years he’s done career advising for adult students. He said the past decades it’s been easy, and now 3-4 years ago it’s falling apart. He can not tell his CS students their career is worth anything in this market.
Dude this reminds me of AA. W’ere going to run out of time if everyone talks as long as these two guys. There are 12 people in this circle and we only have 2 minutes.
This guy says his job and that he has kids. His kids were told from an early age they’re going to college.
I’ll say I run Kelly Tutors, systems thinking, event reviews, content creator for financial literacy for kids and entrepreneurship.
Let them make their own decisions and trust their instincts
The more parents and adults help lift them up, expose them to things, not try to guide them too much.
The more you can show them to - my almost 4 year old, take her to expos
There’s no right decisions, but there are decisions, so make them and make them the right one
This popcorn woman runs a botiuque returning firm, but it’s a rough year without a lot of companies hiring. Primarily computer science. She doesn’t know what to tell people to study anymore.
This woman is talking all about her kids and their friends and their successes.
Reminds me of Performance-based love. Lately I’m learning of this myself. Perfomrance based love and approval.
Her son got home from the gym last night and they were talking about something at school, all these pathways
She says she’s talking too much, but keeps going on. And still talking, doesn’t know what will be next emerging. Infrastructure feels safe, maybe next week it won’t be safe. Its difficult to know how to direct people
Then she says sorry for talking so much, she’s done.
OH I’m sitting next to a guy I’ve heard speak before. This guy is super interesting and I loved his event.
Ever since he’s been engaging the community, it’s consistent to have community events, students come out, mid career people are concerned. So if mid-career people are concerned, that should alert us all.
As we look at computer science, trade, I have involvement with aerospace
Popcorn lady keeps saying “yep” so many times to everything he says.
Hundreds of resumes have skills, but not credentials.
Popcorn lady completes his sentence for him hahah geez.
While eating at the same time.
Soft skills should be changed to “power skills”
He says a report came out with a review in 2025, out of the top 9 skills employers want is AI skills, everyone is worried they’re falling behind on AI… everyone thinks it but that means everyone is? The other skills are power skills that they’re looking for.
Also internships or groups involved with. Leadership. Characteristics of leaders.
I said that I have lots of successful kids making hundreds of thousands of dollars for themselves or charities, and the parents who are most successful are just taking the leap of faith to let their kids lead the way. I said, like, how many parents do you hear that their kids wanted to “buy bitcoin” 10 years ago hahah. So you got to take that leap of faith. As humans scientifically we have good instincts. So the more we can just let them do it, but also exposing them to everything possible.
Popcorn lady loved my comment by the way haha
And the guy remembered me. lol.
Technology is changing so fast. They want to start with onramps at different times. Tehre are different definitions of when onramps can start. We want different (idk what she’s talking about, I’ve got that “post-just-speaking” high hahaha, nervous high)
The chain of technology changes so fast. Students get lost… you told me to take this class, but now it is pointless. What is the pathway? Sometimes the soft skills are missing. Generational leaders, there are many generations between leaders. What are their values? What are they used to?
These kids were born with devices in our hands.
We’d never put our social security numbers into phones, but for them, “five two wahtever, right”
Hahahaha she’s funny.
Even now the 20 year olds, with people five years younger won’t know what you went through.
Even some college students don’t have phones (I’m like, hello? But there are free phone and computer programs). Accessibility programs.
It’s true that there are so many resources available
More research about what districts and schools are doing.
Next woman works with tech and helps students workign no bachelor degrees. Small community, technical colleges. Workign with students in California and New York. Some just out of school, some on teh other side of career.
Suddenly is smells STRONGLY of pizza. LOL. I wonder if they’ll run out of this too. They ran out of breakfast.
We assume people know whats available, where they can work, what they can do. Maybe you got different skills in different places. But a lot of time the professors are out of hte workforce for a long time. SO tehy’re not even tuned into the landscape.
Mentorships to get real world exposure.
I think we’re going to run out of time for real.
Also a lot of kids who started at school 3 or 4 years ago, things have totally changed. Things are harder now than before.
Net woman works at an in-persona nd online school. But now she got a partnership and is doing a summit on higher education and the impact of AI in April and she worked at another university for strategic partnerships.
Yay! I love events like this hahaha.
A lot of the times, trying to open up the doors of other potential jobs… there’s a long term test you can take, it gets your interests and tests your attitudes and waist careers you could maybe fit into. Something like that to tie into may be valuable.
Peopel don’t even know what’s available. They ask what their neighbors, friends, and mom and dad told them to do.
She said lots of people don’t want to work at banks, I wanna tell her that by the way, young kids do want to. Cause they think thats where money comes from. Like if you want money, just go to the bank. It’s endless.
College is learning hte language of learning, wahtever degree you’re looking at.
College degree shows perseverance.
This woman is still talking a lot and keeps bringing up so much stuff, but I think we’re going to run out of time and not even have time for these last two women to speak.
Next is a woman speaking, representing a program where people with unusual backgrounds - credentials and degrees are a way of gatekeeping. So how COMPETENT are people? Their thought process.
W’ere not thinking about transformable skills.
Yeah all the groups around us seem to be wrapping up and there’s a woman with a mic who wants to tell everyone it’s lunch time . She jsut starts speaking and cuts people off. LOL so yeah, there’s a woman who didnt get to speak. Well… okay, they’re letting her speak for hte last second. But the emcee wants everyone to stop talking.
She works for a nonprofit to train and skill people for careers in tech… our group just told her to give the host two more minutes.
How do young people learn about opportunities, give them people to talk to. Data center techs, all sorts of things.
I told the bank lady my comment about how kids, when they’re young, all want to work at the banks, but then they start to figure it out and it must change hahaha. She loved it.
OMG popcorn lady asked for the name of my company hahahah “kelly tutors” it old her. Omg. Here we go. Maybe I need to edit this part out. The funny SSN lady asked to connect with me too.
Hahah omg and my linkedin picture is so funny right now. But it’s cause I was/am feeling so bullish on GME/AMC/BBBYQ.
Now each group is summarizing what they talked about. I’m not even going to take notes. Hahah idk why. I jsut feel like zoning out a bit. But it is funny cause one of the guys speaking now is from the UK and he said he forgot to volun-tell someone from his group to summarize for them, so he wll… and I feel like maybe he knows people want to hear his voice cause we all love British accentshahaha. But my ex-fiance from Iran, he said he doesn’t like British accents!! So… idk, I just thought they were universally adored. Nope. Funny.
She said now they’re behind. Next panel is 12:25.
Omg and the popcorn woman just said she sent MY WEBSITE to her kids and her kids best friends hahahah. Omg. My website is not really for kids. I told her that and she said “its fine”
AHHHH hahaha. - at lunch I sat next to the VP of this foundation or whatever and we all went around and said our companies, and finally they got to me (I was just not even going to mention myself and what Id o) but HE HAD HEARD OF ME hahahahaha. I told him, yeah, last year one of my blogs got passed around like 30 times I think. From one of your events. Omg. The blog was crazy. I called out comments about how fire tracking didnt’ lineup, how some companies were being in charge of scanning if child p*rn was real or not, lots of things omg. How people weren’t even paying attention. Omg hahaha. He said he has older kids so he doesn’t use tutors anymore, but he’s heard of me. Dude, my company name is a trojan horse. Duh. Geez. So funny. But someone else from here was happy I’m here, so the vibe must be good about my blogs hahaha. Omg.
Okay now the lunch people are talking butI want to go get more pizza.
Okay this lunch talk is not keeping my attention as much as this pizza is.
Okay but they say, fi we are designing talent pathway, what woudl you change about how peopel move from “learning” into “work”?
It’s a really interesting thing. Skills have a shorter and shorter shelf life. Apart from those inate traits of a person, we’re looking at technology changing so much that by the time I train you on it, teh tech has changed.
So we can’t have someone who already has the talent and skillset cause by the time we are hiring and training for them, the need has evolved.
But what are some of the no-regrets skills? Transferralbe skills in another context? You must have an understanding of core things to get hte jist of what these changes mean. You must understand AI, machine learning, generative learnings, how LLM’s work.
Wd don’t all have to code but we have to understand how these things come together and how cloud and security play a part. How we used it relative to (idk what she said)
Things are becoming more personalized for you, your work, and the team you’re on.
Constant assessing, restarting the need, and realize your pathway may need to change tomorrow. You have the building blocks? Great - but how to do you apply it? Finetune searches? Look at things with a critical eye and acknowledge feedback. It’s pretty crticial .
The other effect AI is having is a paradox. The things that are easy for humans to do are hard for machines, and the things easy for machines are hard for humans. Interpersonal skills are hard for AI to do, the premium on these skills is becoming greater and greater.
lOl and even a woman leading this event asked if I was enjoying the event so far. I jsut told her I love to attend things, hear professionals talk about their passions, the latest in cutting edge. You know? Trying my best to be at the intersection of innovation and education.
BTW their pizza they sponsored is like the most expensive in this city. So strange. Get a tiny bit cheaper pizza an hten spend more money on breakfast. boom.
There has never been a better environment for entrepreneurs. This is what we used to do, this is what got automated away, and this is the future.
Okay now they’re wrapping up the day. Closing remarks. We’ve listened to foundational skills we all need. If you leave here inspired and don’t do anything, we’ve failed.
It’s asking: what is one concrete action you will take in the next 3 months to better connect our WA jobseekers to Washington jobs?
For me, I think I will get some interns! Start to train people and provide job experience :)
Now, I’m done with this event, it’s over. I’m a bit wiped out from being so “recognized” - and someone telling me they sent their kids to my website hahaha. You know ? I mean. I think I need to update my website just a little bit so maybe I can work on that tomorrow during the coworking session I’m attending :) - thats good to have a goal.
And, yeah, then busking before the event at 5 and then the guitar jam.
I’m just sitting on a couch after this event taking it easy. I almost wanna update my website right now. I think I will. To add my music class and babysitting class. Actually, I just looked at it. It’s fine for now. But I think I should add a page where people can sign up to try out my tutoring, as well. We’ll get there. I’ll add it to the list for tomorrow’s work. Yay!! I love having that kind of goal.
I was going to spend a lot of time busking, but ended up going to the skatepark downtown and watched skateboarders do tricks for over an hour. It’s truly my favorite way to spend my time (watching skateboarders to tricks) and I rarely do it in Seattle. Just usually there aren’t people at teh parks, or its just one person so I feel awkward. But today there were liek 12 people. It was so fun.
I love it. It makes me so calm, excited, amazed. I never expect anyone to land tricks, you know? So each time they do, it is such an exciting thrill.
One guy’s skateboard said “to the moon” on it, which made me happy. GameStop is going to the moon.
Then I busked in a good subway station and made about $60. One guy said I’m the best thing that’s been in that station in a long time, please keep comign back.
this kind of encouragement is really amazing to hear. its nice to have this positive human interaction.
Next event is AI and healthcare. It is in a popular venue, yet a room in the venue i’d never been in. And they have these insane glass doors/walls/windows which are SO hard to see which is an open door and which is a window and legit you really almost walk into glass all the time.
2/3rds of hospitals and physicians are using AI apps.
Usually healthcare falls behind, but now it’s moving faster than ever. AI adaptation in healthcare. The sponsors are creating a guardrail. The hosts and sponsors of this event.
This guy is invited up. He will keep it brief. They moved into this places three months ago with a vision to make healthcare AI safe and transparent. A lot has happened int he last few weeks across the ndsutry. With lots of lawsuits, new products, and soon our state will be enacting laws to help with high risk AI. They’re grateful for the sponsors for making the food and space available.
They want to talk about what are the gaps in AI when the tech is already mid-flight.
We’v to people here who are the leads of privacy offices for the state, work on the task force force. There are also lawyers here, heads of emerging tech at companies, more cofounders, and a clinician.
They’re just introducing the panel. It’s a bit or a crowded room. And the woman next too me is taking selfies of herself and her date.
Earlier I was sitting on teh floor of this place with a funny guy I met who was holding his longboard while smoking outside the vendor.
He later told me he’d dropped out of high school and now has a great job in AI and basically, don’t judge a book by its cover.
Then he said he’d recently been broken up with cause he’d met a girl while in Istanbul who was a local and moved into his hotel room with him for two months. But then he forgot to text her for 2 days and she broke up with him.
While we were sitting on the floor this selfie woman walked by and her dress has a slit up the back that is so extreme you can literally see her butt cheeks. But especially when you’re sitting on the floor.
Now this guy speaking is talking about getting 550 providers into 3 solutions. He’s literally looking right at me in the eyes a lot of the time he is talking but I’m not sure what he’s taking about. He’s talking about five solutions instead of three. It was a great experience and from a goerneing standpoint, I think it only tells half hte story. That’s bringing a new vendor, a new (idk waht) onboard. It says nothing about what you do when that vendor is in your staff.
There are lots of people standing up in the back and lots of empty chairs. They sent out so many messages for people attending this saying it was a sold out event, etc. But there are really lots of empty cuhairs like 1/3 of the chairs or maybe 25% are empty. But a lot of familiar faces here.
Now hte next woman is talking about how she was a doctor and then started her new business. And how you have to document things or else you can’t prove it happened. Then she started using ambient scribe and realized she had to read every single word to make sure it was accurate and reflective of what happened in the session with her patient. This created a gap… if something doesn’t come out or isn’t accurate or there’s a hallucination, how can you go back and reconstruct what happened?
BTW there’s a handsome older man here who I noticed earlier and he jsut went and sat down with wine in his hand, lame. I’m over alcohol. BUT that made men remember, do you know what they have to drink here? Red wine, white wine, beers… and sprite hahahah. Omg so I’m stuck drinking a sprite. Good news I have a water bottle though. So, I may just not drink any more sprite and have my water.
This selfie girl is talking a lot to her date too, during these speeches. It’s super distracting.
The guy I talked to earlier, too ,the funny guy said that this is not really an event, its a party for the people here. And lots of peopel are ready to give you money if you know how to ask for it.
Okay now this woman on stage says the things most likely to get your things shut down… she’s on a committee, and hone organizations come into the door, healthcare is infamous for its contracting life cycles (everyone laughs)
SO waht iare the things that slow you down? The fist question eliminates about 90% because this space is becoming extremely accessible.
DO you have a chief security officer?
Whats the first thing that happened when GPT dropped? They call in the security officers.
IT’s often overlooked but it’s a basic.
You can give top tier technology but fail not he basics. Simulated phishing against employees, multi factor authentication, not asking employees to bring their own machines.
As a startup these are overlooked in the early days. Get your ducks in a row, a fractional CISO. This is so alarmingly common, we get these amazing vendors you really want to work with, with conviction, but they don’t have the basics.
Next: the regulations and whats is coming into play
What shoudl we be watching out for?
He says how long do we have? (Everyone laughs)
He says he spends a lot of time in his day to day doing red lines and looking at risk. He says he’s been on both sides representing health tech and hospitals. The contracting process sounds interesting to him.
On the horizon, there’s a lot. AI laws and specifically hte focus of this event which is tracabitiy, logging, the EU just like with GPR privacy has taken the lead and taken those presercriptive approaches.
Oh I jsut noticed someone in the audience I had a really awkward last conversation with. A while back he even blocked me on social media. But… before that, he was like touching the bottom of my dress a bit intimately and I didnt like it. Funny enough it’s the actual dress I’m wearing right now. And then he kept asking me to send some stuff about his business to “my community” but I don’t even hardly have acommunity and I told him that, and then he kept texting me and so finally I said, what do you want from me? And then he got really defensive and blocked me and removed me from all his social media (well, jsut linkedin) and I haven’t seen him since. So, idk. Maybe I’ll bump into him, but it’s been like over a year. But even so, I’m kinda just tired from this day. LOL. Lots of random, conversations.
Lots of people who were at the last event earlier today are also at this one.
Now they’re talking about a lawsuit and a deployment of a scribe company that was hit with a lawsuit for not getting consent from clients/patients. They relied on a 1960’s law, they used the law to file the action.
There are remedies and $5000/violation. They can sue with this law.
Dude eew. I hate all the risk that goes with businesses!!! Ahh. Haha. Geese. This crazy stressful world.
That’s why I like busking and fan-girling my favorite stocks and tutoring. This wild risk-filled life is not that great right? Omg. Can you imagine?
Thery said that you need to tell them you’re recording before you start recording. They asked it to default say that consent was obtained, and that is hard cause rhter’es no way to know it is true for sure. So now you may want sing or annual notices, but it’s still incumbent on you to get consent.
The adoption of AI is focusing on responsible management from this framework. And state agencies are required to operationalie principals. But we’re trtying to bake in AI governance no matter how you’re thinkgin about the use of AI, especially high-risk use cases. In healthcare its lots of high risk
We look to other states as models, but we want to uphold the values we have here as Washington state.
Concerns around algorithmic bias. Any use of violating trust, facial recognition, all those kinds of things. Those are places we’re having conversations.
This woman has a nice voice, this state representative. She sounds like what’s her face, the heroine of George of hte Jungle who married Judd Apatow. Leslie Mann.
She says you have to prove deceptive practice and harm caused. W hanv’et seen a flood of lawsuits and thats the fear of having private actions under my health, my action. They ant to have the same thing with the chatbot bill introduced this year.
Lots of people here are building AI agents, but what are quick pointers for AI agents that people shoudl think about.
There isn’t a lot of detail from a technological standpoint in these frameworks. We’re doing a lot in terms of building that real time enforcement and safety layer to create that proof of safety roles. To fill the gap to have proof of being safe and accountable.
OMG I’m seriously tired. And I think all day today I’ve had like 5 pieces of pizza, two salads, some dolmas, and 3 desserts, and a bagel. Oof. I’m so ready to go to bed.
Everyone has a shiny demo that is so appealing, how do you know they have the comprehensive solution? (The audience is cracking up)
He says he’s been asked this question before. There are lots of systems build enough to build their own, some are so small they need to buy out the shell. W’ere int he middle.
You can help to shape but… uh, so. When a vendor comes to me with a bright shiny object.
He likes to say he’d not a CMIO I’m the CMI”no” cause I know that providers will reject things because of a lack of trust.
The first step is trust, establishing trust.
In order to get into the door, there are a lot of hoops you have to jump through from the security standpoint.
It takes a lot of grit, but the first thing is trust. If you can’t establish that trust from the very beginning, it’s going to be a very tough road.
AI governance is important, but so is interdisciplinary input. We care about privacy.
OMG I forgot that the guitar jam is tonight. I think I’ll leave this early. I forgot about that! I’m excited. I may pack up and get going. I jsut want to get out of here and go play the guitar with my people. I think I will go.
On my way out I ran into my new funny longboarding friend. He had bailed on the talk (at least for a bit) too. He offered me some weed, but I declined and told him I quit a few months ago. He asked if I’d at least taken a bottle of wine to go, but I told him I’m actually totally sober these days. Then, he stopped and gave me a big hug. He said his mom was an alcoholic, and it’s super hard to be around drunk people.
We wished each other well and hoped to see each other again :)
And yep. I went to the music jam and it was extremely fun.
There was a standup bass, fiddles, another harmonica (I played mine, too), banjos… everything! It was way more “my style” than the other events of today (except for busking and watching skateboarding) and even on my way out, they yelled out goodbye to me by my name, and it made me realize that I have friends. It’s the first time I’ve felt like that since Shanghai.
And I’ve figured out the formula: find things you like, show up consistently, enjoy it, and don’t overstay. They’ve invited me to another event this month and some more events coming up - plus there is the weekly jam.
It’s just nice to finally have some community and nice vibes. FINALLY hahaha. Finally. Especially after such a crazy day.
A good mix of this, that, and the other :). See you next time.
