The Best Decision Ever: Thriving in Business with a Humanities PhD

Speaker(s): Kathryn Hume

The Best Decision Ever: Thriving in Business with a Humanities PhD – Kathryn Hume
Hume will share how she went from academia and a degree in Comparative Literature to becoming a technology executive, underscoring how the contemporary workplace provides opportunities to teach, learn, and even impact the future of education. 
Thursday, November 9th
12:00-1:00 PM
Pigott Hall, Room 252
Kathryn Hume is Vice President Product & Strategy for integrate.ai, a SaaS startup applying AI to drive growth and customer satisfaction for large enterprises, and a Venture Partner at ffVC, a seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm, where she advises early-stage artificial intelligence companies and sources deal flow. As the former Director of Sales and Marketing at Fast Forward Labs (Cloudera), Kathryn helped Fortune 500 companies accelerate their machine learning and data science capabilities. Prior to that, she was a Principal Consultant in Intapp's Risk Practice, focused on data privacy, security, and compliance. A widely respected speaker and writer on AI, Kathryn excels at communicating how AI and machine learning technologies work in plain language. She has given lectures and taught courses on the intersections of technology, ethics, law, and society at Harvard Business School, Stanford, the MIT Media Lab, and the University of Calgary Faculty of Law. She speaks seven languages, and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University and a BA in mathematics from the University of Chicago.