Welcome @Rita Feldmann - I’m so glad you’re here and I’m looking forward to seeing where this little community goes! It’s still very early days, but hoping it’ll have a real impact on supporting women in their businesses and help close the many gaps that impact female founders, entrepreneurs and business owners - in particular, funding, data, advice just to name a few. 🫠🤞 The AI conversation is such an interesting one, and I think it’s all about finding balance and making sure we use it for the right things (a lot of people seem to be using it for the wrong things) - I think it’s been seen as a bit of a silver bullet instead of a support tool. I was listening to a podcast today (Tech Overflow podcast - highly recommend) where they were talking about how organisations have quotas for using AI and if they’re not using it enough, they get a tap on the shoulder. As well as the skilling gap hangover that’s likely to fallout longer term with AI being able to eliminate the need for middle experience roles - so we have beginners and experts, with the reliance on AI to support the middle, but then how do people become experts when they’re not getting the scar tissue from learning and don’t have a middle point to progress to. Unfortunately I think we’ll swing one way to an extreme, before swinging back and finding the middle ground / balance again. Overall, I’m an enthusiastic fan and use AI a lot in my day to day - it’s definitely helped me in our business to be much more effective and efficient, but am also mindful of the impacts so try to be conscious and cautious also! 😅

@Michelle Moriarty so excited to have you here Michelle 😬