Good morning from Laguna Niguel, the place we’re about to begin day 2 of the Fortune Most Highly effective Girls Summit. I’ve been particularly within the conversations about how firms are utilizing AI, from the NBA’s push to create a hyper-personalized fan expertise to e.l.f. Magnificence’s funding in coaching its algorithms on social media information in order that 90% of its AI responses at the moment are in “e.l.f. language emojis” – with workers ensuring the suggestions is participating. I’m wondering if highlighting AI’s potential greater than its perils would possibly draw extra ladies into utilizing it.
Right here’s a wrap-up of different conversations about investing in ladies’s sports activities, making a career-building private model, and one the place Uber teased new gig alternatives. Some ideas sparked by final night time’s dinner audio system:
- Speaking About Microgeneration – Not the small-scale manufacturing of energy from renewable sources however generational subgroups just like the ‘xennials’ who at the moment are of their early to mid-forties. (That’s someplace between geriatric millennials and younger Gen X, my latchkey cohort that’s not often showered with peppy adjectives. Humph.) That is the goal demo for actress Cameron Diaz’s Avaline natural wine model. As Diaz and her associate, serial entrepreneur Katherine Energy, talked to Emma Hinchliffe concerning the tech-savvy, nostalgic, brand-loyal xennials, I questioned how innovation will impression how we outline future generations. Boomers span 18 years; Gen X lasted 15. Labels have limits. Perhaps life-stage issues extra. Xennials occur to be of their peak incomes years. And Diaz, who took a number of years off to lift her youngsters, talked about pulling in her vitality to go ahead, very like a jellyfish, as she returns to appearing with Again in Motion, due out in January. That’s a sense many can relate to when re-entering the workforce. You may learn extra right here.
- Lizzo’s Misplaced Alternative – Lizzo obtained a heat welcome, for good motive. She is a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, philanthropist and entrepreneur whose shapeware model YITTY embraces the physique positivity that’s characterised her profession. So it’s unlucky that she dismissed a query from my colleague Ellie Austin about the high-profile lawsuit filed by three of her backup dancers, alleging sexual harassment and a hostile work setting. The accusations are a supply of misery for Lizzo and her followers. She mentioned this wasn’t the time or place to deal with them. I disagree. Whereas no person anticipated her to touch upon the specifics of a lawsuit, this was an opportunity to speak concerning the workforce that helps her and her philosophy in main them. Click on right here to learn extra.
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