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I have to confess I’m technologically challenged. Or, as today’s guest Katherine Boiciuc, also known as KB, puts it, I’m a technology teenager. Learning every day but throwing tantrums about it.
KB is EY’s Oceania Chief Technology and Innovation Officer. We met at a conference, and when she was on stage she said everyone in the company works in IT but not everyone knows it, and I thought it was time to figure a few things out! What better way that to speak to one of Australia’s go to professionals in tech, with 20 years experience leading global teams at Telstra and advising Australia’s next generation of CTOs at Maximus.
KB is a tech industry leader, a woman in a man’s world (less than 9% of tech leadership positions are held by women), a mother, an accredited futurist, an AI specialist, and I can’t wait to learn from her.
In this episode we discuss:
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) basics, and what a voice-activated life looks like (and Sam’s big voice-to-text gaffe!)
- How we build trust with AI and its inherent bias
- Why it’s important that women aren’t left behind in this AI revolution, and how to build a conscious learning journey
- The value of micro-credentials
- Using AI as a strategic thinking partner to free up our time
- KB’s daily mega-prompt that saves her tons of time
- The generational gap in the workforce around AI, and how we capture the wisdom of older workers within it
- The resurgence of in-person events and building healthy habits around workplace connection
- KB’s sliding doors moment in her career, and the advice she received to think about how she would feel about her decision in 5 years’ time
- The importance of a village in making both family and career possible
- Spending time designing a life you love
About Katherine Boiciuc
Katherine Boiciuc, also known as KB, is the EY Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for the Oceania region.
Prior to EY, KB has more than two decades experience and is one of Australia’s go to professionals on tech. She’s led global teams at Telstra and more recently has been advising Australia’s next generation of CTOs as a Director at Maximus. She also sits on the boards of NSW Bureau of Health Information and Infoxchange (Australia’s largest technology not for profit).
KB holds an MBA and Master of Leadership from Deakin University, is a graduate from the London Business School where she studied Managing the Company of the Future and is an accredited Futurist with the Institute for the Future in California.