

So anything you're designing, if it doesn't have a female perspective, you're probably going to have an incomplete perspective.” Lili Gil Valletta (Co-Founder and CEO, CIEN+ and Culturintel and doing the right thing.It's about recognizing that 80 percent of consumer spending decisions in this country are done by a woman. “I think we need both men and women together realizing that getting more women in tech is not about being P.C. We talk to Lili and Amanda about building a culture of mentorship around women in AI, how they can be strength in vulnerability and the importance of creating pathways for non-traditional backgrounds to work in AI. In this episode of IBM thinkLeaders podcast, we are joined by guests Lili Gil Valletta (Co-Founder and CEO, CIEN+ and Culturintel) & Amanda Stent (Natural Language Processing Architect in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg). In 2013, she was named one of New York's 25 Top Rising Latinos by Latino Leaders Magazine.How can we increase the number of women in AI? What is the role of successful women in AI to provide future opportunities? How should businesses be adjusting? NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 06: Lili Gil Valletta attends TED x Water Street RESET on in New York City. In 2011, she won a Latino Trendsetter Award.

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In 2009, she was named Business Woman of the Year Award by Latin Pride Awards, an Outstanding Business Woman by the National Association of Professional Women, and received the Latina Leadership Award from the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). In 2008, Valletta was named in PODER Magazine's Top 20 Under 40. Valletta has frequently mentioned the idea of the "Brown Elephant" in the room, which represents a Latino market that is currently being ignored, despite the fact that it's growing in size and income. Valletta has also spoken before organizations and universities. pageant, and is the host of the YouTube channel Moments to CultuRise with multicultural news and commentary. Valletta has hosted the Miss Dominican Republic U.S. She is also an independent contributor for the Huffington Post and Fox News Latino. She has appeared in Spanish-speaking media for networks including Univision, Telemundo47, Television Dominicana, Telemicro Internacional, Caracol Television and NTN24 Noticias. Valletta has appeared in the media to the Hispanic markets, including on FOX News, MSNBC and CNN. The company currently has offices in New York City, Denver, Los Angeles and Bogota.

The company is a cross-channel and cross-cultural marketing and strategy agency and is 100 percent minority owned. In 2009, Valletta founded XL Alliance with Armando Martin, Manny Fields and Enrique Arbelaez. There she held positions including the company's global marketing services director, co-founder of the company's chapter of the Hispanic Organization for Leadership and Achievement (HOLA), and as head of “Proyecto MAS2”, an initiative to bring increased visibility to the Hispanic segment of the company's customer base. In 2000, she became the youngest female executive at Johnson & Johnson. She attended Southwestern Adventist University, earning a Bachelor’s in Business, as well as an MBA from the University of Colorado. Originally from Bogota, Colombia, Lilliana Gil immigrated to the United States as a teenager.
