Innovation

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation publishes content on innovation and related issues. Find and access current and archived items in our database. 

#DigitalEmpowersUs Interview Series: Women in Tech with Bayer's Nalini Polavarapu

Corporate Citizenship Center
February 28, 2020
Nalini Polavarapu

Nalini Polavarapu has always been interested in taking an interdisciplinary approach to solving challenges on a global scale. She currently works as the Head of Data Sciences – Customer Centricity at Bayer. With a strong foundational background in STEM coursework, she developed a lifelong passion for AI and agriculture, that she has been able to combine when she began her work as Bayer’s first data scientist over 10 years ago. Since then, the team has vastly expanded and the overall data science community within Bayer Crop Science alone employs 700 + people. We sat down with her learn more about her experience as a woman in the tech industry and advice she would give to women looking to follow a similar path. — Alexa Miller, Director, Digital Empowers National Campaign

Nalini Polavarapu
Alexa Miller
Data
Economic Empowerment
Innovation
Women

#DigitalEmpowersUs Interview Series: Women in Tech with City Tech Collaborative's Brenna Berman

Corporate Citizenship Center
February 28, 2020
Brenna Graphic

Brenna Berman is working to make cities happier, healthier and more productive. She currently serves as the CEO & Executive Director of City Tech Collaborative in Chicago, Illinois, an urban solutions accelerator looking to improve cities and turn them into places where technology helps drive innovation, inclusion, and collaboration for all. Before joining City Tech, she worked in the administration of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, where she served as the Chief Information Officer for the City and Commissioner for the Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) from 2012 to 2017. Brenna began her career at IBM where she worked to promote government innovation. We sat down with her to learn more about what has influenced her career, her work at City Tech and other projects she enjoys.

Alexa Miller
Brenna Berman
Economic Empowerment
Innovation
Women

ILR Pilot Design Workshop

The ILR Design Workshop is intended for those organizations that have or may still submit an ILR Interest or Resource Contributor Form. The meeting will be an opportunity to refine your pilot proposal, build new partnerships, network with peers, and meet our new ILR community manager.

T3 Network Annual Meeting Follow-Up Webinar

Due to inclement weather in Chicago during the T3 Network Annual Meeting, this webinar will provide an opportunity for all members of the T3 Network to hear a wrap-up from the event, get an overview of next steps for the T3 Network moving into 2020, ask some questions, and comment on disucssions that took place at the meeting.

From John Legend to Apprenticeship's John Lennon: A Wrap-up of Talent Forward 2019

Center for Education and Workforce
October 25, 2019
Talent Forward 2019 Wrap-Up
© Photo by Ian Wagreich / © U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Each year, as the Chamber Foundation hosts the Talent Forward national workforce conference, we focus on talent—educating and training, talent tech and data, recruiting, hiring, and upskilling. With no shortage of talent challenges, the opportunities for informative discussion are endless. While a day devoted to dissecting talent-related topics could focus solely on the problems, Talent Forward is all about the solutions.

Jaimie Francis
Competitiveness
Data
Economic Growth
Education
Innovation
K-12 Education
Postsecondary Education
STEM
Talent Pipeline Management
Workforce Training
Youth Employment

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