Kishau Rogers
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Kishau Rogers is an award-winning technology entrepreneur specializing in wrangling complexity using computer science, systems thinking, creativity, and common sense. She is the Founder & CEO of Time Study, Inc., a high-growth startup offering solutions for using machine learning, advanced natural language processing, and data science to automatically tell a story of how enterprise employees spend their time and its impact on the areas that matter. As the Founder and CEO of Time Study, Kishau is one of the first Black women in Virginia to raise millions in venture capital to scale her tech startup. She is also the owner of Websmith Studio and the editor of the bigThinking project, a resource for promoting the principles of systems thinking.
Kishau’s work is featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, and Black Enterprise. In addition, she is a recipient of many awards, including the VCU Distinguished Alumni (in Computer Science), NAWBO Wells Fargo STEM award, the Lyn McDermid Community Impact Award, and the MBL Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
In her commitment to using technology as a tool for social good, she also serves as an advisor to organizations and initiatives like AI for Afrika, Think Of Us, WAAW Foundation, Level Up Ventures, Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Computer Science, the first U.S. White House Hackathon for Foster Care and SheHacks Africa, a software engineering intensive providing training to women & girls across Africa.
She holds a Computer Science degree and has over twenty-five years of experience in the technology industry and more than 15 years of entrepreneurial leadership.
Agile Machine Learning
The future of software is being driven by intelligent applications. By the year 2020, more than 85% of…
AI, Gatekeepers & New Rules for Solving the World’s Biggest Problems
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The Gift of Pitching
Pitching a product idea or a business is a skill that you refine with practice, a LOT of…
Enterprise architecture for artificial intelligence
Enterprise architecture for artificial intelligence The road to enterprise intelligence starts with the humans behind the curtain. This…
Data Iceberg Model for Machine Learning
One of the pitfalls to developing production-ready machine learning solutions is the failure to identify the appropriate data assets. In evaluating the data assets to be used for your project, use the Data Iceberg Model approach to determine the underlying (i.e. not visible) structures that triggered the creation of the dataset. The following Data Iceberg Model can be used to evaluate the quality & limitations of the data used to train your machine learning models.
Do Hard Things : Creating a new path of least resistance
Structural tension can help you discover how to create advancing patterns and to sustain advancement. This concept is applicable whether you're building a business or building a life.
Drifting Goals & What To Do When You’re Not Where You Want To Be
In systems thinking, there is a concept, a system archetype, called Drifting Goals. It is an archetype that defines the behavior that occurs when there is a gap between the current state and the desired state.So, what do you do in a situation where the gap between where you are and where you want to be is increasing?
The Dramatic Pause : Sometimes, You Gotta Let It Simmer
Effort is overrated. Have you ever noticed someone putting forth tremendous effort to improve a situation yet still failing to advance? It’s easy to believe that failure is a result of not enough effort, however, sometimes failure is a result of too much effort or a lack of understanding regarding how things “work.”
A Cheat Sheet for Knowing WHEN and HOW to think
There are four commonly used thinking frameworks: Systems Thinking, Design Thinking, Lean, and Agile. Determining which to use is dependent on what you're trying to accomplish. Here's a cheat sheet for knowing when and how to think.