tecHER Newsletter

The women shaping Artificial Intelligence

Meet some of the women at Volvo Group who work at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence, shaping it to deliver the goods for the transport industry. Daria Zotova, Data Scientist, Deepthi Pathare, PhD in Machine Learning, and Ida Elwesköld, Digital Transformation Specialist explain what drew them to both AI and working at Volvo Group.

The future of AI  according to strategic foresight

Emily Xiangxuan Xu is a senior foresight manager at Volvo Group Connected Solutions Innovation Lab. As an economist and a forward-thinking strategist, she thrives in the big picture, constantly seeking out facts, trends, scenarios, and novel business models to create the future we aspire to inhabit.

Emily's role in strategic foresight involves a systematic and forward-looking approach to understanding, anticipating, and planning the future. It involves the exploration and analysis of potential future scenarios, trends and uncertainties to help organizations and individuals make informed decisions and develop strategies that are resilient and adaptable. 

 

Read more about Emily's role and the insights she generates

Women Empowered

The definition of a successful life

MinJuan Wang is a leader in AI. She has always been passionate about data and technology. But her journey hasn't always been straightforward. In fact, when she started her career, she was following someone else's dream. In Women Empowered, she shares what she learned along the way, and how you too can achieve your goals.

Three rules to change your career

With close to 25 years' leadership in the field of design, Pernilla Johansson's background includes time as a consultant, working with Electrolux and Phillips Design and her current role as Vice President and Head of UX Design at Volvo Group Digital & IT. If her career journey has taught her anything - it's that there are three basic rules to success.

Stop being a good girl!

Listen to Cécile’s life and career advice around overcoming 'good girl syndrome'! Learn how she became a global leader, driving digital business transformation (focusing on customer, design and technology). From early life changing experiences, and facing challenges in her early 40’s, leveraging each obstacle to create a successful and sustainable career.

Tech Corner

Using telematics data to predict future electric charging networks

By Maja Feierabend, Data Scientist 

 

Have you ever heard of a Catch 22 dilemma? It is a situation where the solution to a problem requires another solution which depends on the positive outcome of the first. Sounds too abstract? Imagine you are a truck owner, and you are very eager to change to emission-free vehicles. 

 

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Creating a single design source of truth for digital products​

By Jennifer Tendell & Christian Cromnow

 

Explore how Jennifer Tendell, a Software Engineer in UI Framework and Kingbolt and Christian Cromnow, a System Architect specializing in UI Frameworks, built a single block-based digital design source to inform a whole suite of product design UI outcomes.

 

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Smashing myths around working with cybersecurity

By Dorota Figiel, Noora Hammar, Palak Sehgal, and Shaylene Chance

 

Did you ever get the feeling that people working in cybersecurity were oddball, introverted tech geniuses, locked away in basements and garages, preferring code to human contact? Think again. Meet some women working with cybersecurity and see what they are really like. Some are not even into coding!

Meet the women who followed their dreams

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