Lumiera's core product is an eight-week executive education program on the non-technical challenges of AI.
“our core product is a, uh, executive education program that spans eight weeks.”
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Allegra Guinan
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Allegra Guinan entered the tech industry over ten years ago while living in San Francisco and is now based in Lisbon.
“I got into the the tech scene over ten years ago. Now. I was living in San Francisco. I'm actually based in Lisbon now.”
Allegra Guinan's first tech job was at a startup doing 3D visualization for e-commerce in the interior design space.
“And I started working at a startup that was doing 3D visualization that was quite ahead of its time.”
Allegra Guinan worked on the data team at the fintech company Chime as a technical program manager.
“I was working at Chime, which maybe you've seen them in the news recently.”
Allegra Guinan later worked as a technical program manager at Cloudflare, where she got involved in enterprise AI initiatives.
“So I was working as a technical program manager there. It was a multinational or is a multinational organization”
Allegra Guinan met Lumiera co-founder and CEO Emma on a beach in Lisbon about four years before the recording.
“And I met my co founder at Lumiera, Emma, who's the CEO, around four years ago on a beach in Lisbon.”
The name Lumiera combines 'Lumi' for light and 'era' for future, meaning a brighter future.
“Which is how we got the name Lumi for light, era for future, so a brighter future.”
Guinan cited a recent report finding that three times more employees use AI than their leaders believe.
“Three times more, uh, employees within organizations are using AI than their leaders think. That was from a a recent report this year.”
At Cloudflare, Guinan piloted several AI coding assistants with a group of engineers from various teams, relying largely on qualitative feedback.
“One of my favorite things that I worked on at Cloudflare was piloting different um, coding assistants, AI coding assistants”
Guinan said some leaders recently had to roll back AI-first organizational approaches after employee backlash.
“And there have been some recent, uh, news stories coming out of leaders sort of having to roll back their AI 1st organizational approach.”
Guinan says there is no standardized industry definition of responsible AI, though many published principles overlap.
“there's no standardized definition of responsible AI, you know, there are set of principles that a lot of people agree on and they're sort of overlapped.”
Guinan says compliance in the EU is a financial argument for responsible AI because non-compliance can bring major fees.
“Or being compliant and not facing, uh, major fees when you are not compliant, especially here in the EU, for example.”
Guinan observed that leading banks in AI have increasingly presented explainability and responsible practices externally over the last couple of years.
“And what we've seen mostly in the last couple years is a shift in what they're presenting externally in terms of explainability and their responsible practices and their leadership.”
Guinan recommends companies have system cards, documented guardrails, tracking and system prompt versioning to answer customer questions about AI features.
“do you have system cards in place? do you understand what your guardrails are? are they documented somewhere?”
Lumiera's vision is 'a future equipped for humanity', reversing its original phrasing 'humanity equipped for the future'.
“We had started with humanity equipped for the future. But we want to be human centered here”