Kulsoom Abdullah Archives - StartuptoEnterprise

In this feature, the Editor-in-Chief of StartuptoEnterprise, Linda Ashok (LA), talks to Pakistani-American Data Scientist and Olympic Weightlifter Kulsoom Abdullah (KA) to present her talk on machine learning in the healthcare sector at the Digital Innovation Virtual Conference scheduled for Nov 5, 2020. LA: It is a minority to be i) a Pakistani in America, ii) a woman in data science, and iii) an Olympic weightlifter. How do you bring all these identities together to overtake the majority? KA: Being a minority doesn't affect me personally but professionally when I don't see many minorities equally represented in a group of people flock at conferences, or say, at the daily workplace. LA: Kulsoom, I hear you. Would it be okay for you to share any experience you had as a Pakistani-Amer...

The technology space is largely male-dominated, even today. Women and the nonbinary are most certainly freer than before to call shots and make decisions that move global businesses & influencing economies. But, modern-day conferences, seminars, and now online digital events lack gender diversity when it comes to representation. We don’t get to hear about many women leaders until they break the roof of the Whitehouse’s or the glass hall of the Swedish Nobel Committee or ages after we’ve lost them. Enter the Digital Innovation Virtual Conference 2020. You have 9 women leaders from global technology companies ready to meet on Nov 5, 2020, during the digital innovation virtual conference organized by InnovationDigi. Yes, a large part of the decision making is in control of the Sponsors. I...

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Data Scientist & Olympic Weightlifter Kulsoom Abdullah on Representation

9 Women Leaders at Digital Innovation Virtual Conference 2020