Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek is an Entrepreneur, Author, Technical Leader, and AI Influencer. Her career moves the needle for Technical and Social Innovation.--Once upon a time, Joan was a PhD student with big dreams. She LOVED linguistics, data, and storytelling. In her PhD comps papers, she uncovered the biased datasets being used for speech recognition AI. She spoke at events and began interviewing in tech. But there were very few women and Black folks on interview loops. At conferences. In buildings where projects were created. She realized either she was complicit in normalizing this, or she needed to do something. She launched Women in Voice (WiV) in August 2018 while living in her parents' basement. Thanks, parents! People around the world signed up for leadership positions in weeks. She landed her first six figure job in AI. By July 2019, she spoke at VentureBeat as a CEO and President of this global community she'd built. In technical work, she built and optimized data and AI products at enterprise, agency, and startups. She bootstrapped WiV on nights and weekends. As a VP of Data and Analytics and Head of Conversational Research, her work for customer and R&D projects drove multimillion dollar opportunities for Fortune 500 companies. Can you say $35M revenue boost?Her work spanned data, analytics, visualizations, research, product, partnerships, and evangelism.Adversity? Oh for sureShe lost her FTE in 2 AI layoffs, but has been resilient with entrepreneurial skills, a personal brand, networking, and building out 22 income streams.She closed $500k+ in sponsorships with Amazon, Google, enterprise and SMBs. WiV became an official 501(c)(30. She scaled the brand with 150-700% YoY growth..... Today, the global brand has a social reach of 65k+.She closed her first 6 figure contract. Then seven figure. and soon 8 figure!Joan has been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Adobe XD, and at CES, VentureBeat, Google i/O, and GeekGirlCon. Today, she is the #4 Voice AI Influencer. She published her first book with Wiley called Your AI Roadmap as a companion to the Your AI Roadmap Podcast.What's she up to now?+ Builds custom AI and Data products+ Talks to AI builders on her podcast Your AI Roadmap+ Shares her Wiley book Your AI Roadmap: Actions to Expand Your Career, Money, and Joy+ Participates in AI, Investor, and Founder Communities+ Plays and works out with her corgi, Luna--Business Development, Entrepreneurship, Growth Hacking, Community Building, Leadership, Linguistics, Sales, Partnerships, AI, Product