The most alarming learning? impactmania's tests showed that AI hiring tools such as Application Tracking Systems (ATS) often favor the least experienced candidates over top (educated and experienced) people. It’s clear that human biases and historical data play a big role in this — and how the machine learns over time. We would fool ourselves to say that algorithmic hiring is based solely on merit.
The collated social media data form current information around wildlife, poaching (illegal hunting and capturing of animals), trading wildlife products, serves to better protect animals and nature and thus in the end us, humans.
Twenty years ago, Massimo Rossetto, on a mountaineering adventure stumbled on a small school in Kathmandu, Nepal. Making good on a promise to help, today, he has supported hundreds of young people and their families.
Lorenzo Pradella, Co-Founder and CEO, GreenBone Ortho, spoke about science and tech transfer from lab to commercialization, entrepreneurship, and how to create more unicorns for Italy.
Who is behind some of the work you see? impactmania realized an interview for Lamborghini's media outlets, including video interview, social media, and print magazine. The Lamborghini team and impactmania traveled to CERN in Geneva (2021).
There's a huge gap between the academics and the practitioners. I think some smart university is going to start a translational entrepreneurship group, working not only on translating their academic research, but maybe going through some of the best papers and pulling out useful things for practitioners.
Paksy Plackis-Cheng, founder of impactmania, was invited to India to witness the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in action.
