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Work and the FutureEpisode 131: How Do We Get More Women into the Tech Sector? Economist Linda Nazareth talks to Tara Chklovski of Technovation
In this episode of Work and the Future, economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth talks to Tara Chklovski, founder and CEO of Technovation. They discuss:
Why it is a matter of ‘death by a thousand cuts’ when it comes to girls being discouraged from entering the tech sector
Why young girls need to think of tech as rewarding – and fun as well.
Tara’s work in helping young people work in teams to build technology prototypes to solve problems they see in their own communities
Why skills in innovation will be key as we face the future
How AI will di...
2025-08-1320 min
SheCanCode's Spilling The TA conversation with Tara Chklovski, CEO, TechnovationJoin us as we sit down with Tara Chklovski, CEO of Technovation, one of the world's leading tech incubators. In a landscape dominated by white male entrepreneurs, Tara is paving the way for diversity and inclusion in STEM. With her background as a former aerospace engineer, Tara founded Technovation to empower girls worldwide through technology education. Her initiative has impacted over 400,000 girls, with an impressive 76% of alumnae pursuing STEM degrees. Featured prominently in the documentary "CodeGirl" and a speaker at prestigious venues like SXSW and the UN, Tara brings a wealth of experience as a st...
2025-06-3032 min
The Future of WorkInnovating in an AI WorldAs AI continues to transform our workplace, it's not just about keeping up with the tech. It's about staying grounded, sharp and curious. We need to cultivate skills that allow us to adapt, recover from setbacks and navigate complexity. In this episode, we dive into why emotional and cognitive resilience are must-haves for the future and how thinking like an innovator and above your pay grade can set you apart in an AI-powered world. To talk about this important topic, we’re delighted to welcome Tara Chklovski, founder and CEO of Technovation. Read the transcript @ht...
2025-06-2533 min
My Wildest PredictionMy Wildest Prediction: Second season wrap-upThe second season of My Wildest Prediction, hosted by innovation expert Tom Goodwin, has come to an end. Here we share some of the key conclusions.In the following order, you can listen to: Tom Goodwin (host); Ana Maiques (CEO of Neuroelectrics); Nancy Xu (CEO of Moonhub); Patty McCord (HR Consultant); Bruce Daisley (Author); Dom Price (Work Futurist); Karoli Hindriks (CEO of Jobbatical); Susan Kahn (Business Psychologist); Scott Galloway (Business Guru); Andrew Yang (Businessman); Tara Chklovski, (CEO of Technovation); Lukas Boni (Co-Founder of Planted); Greg Clark (Urbanist); Rory Sutherland (Marketing Expert); Bertrand Piccard (Aviator); David Spiegelhalter...
2025-06-1807 min
The Future Of WorkMindset Over Skillset: Preparing Students for an AI-Powered Future with Tara Chklovski, founder and CEO of TechnovationWhat if the biggest barrier to success in tech isn’t access, but mindset? In this episode of Future of Work, Dr. Salvatrice Cummo talks with Tara Chklovski, founder and CEO of Technovation, about what it truly takes to thrive in an AI-driven world. Tara unpacks why resilience and adaptability are just as vital as technical skills, how simulation-based learning can reshape education, and why women are most at risk of being left behind. Together, they explore how community colleges, mentorship, and real-world problem-solving can unlock opportunity for all. The future of work isn’t just about tech, it’s abou...
2025-06-1029 min
BEYOND BARRIERSEpisode 348: Empowering the Next 25 Million: How Self-Reliance, Innovation & Vision Fuel Global ChangeWhat would it take to build a global movement that empowers millions of girls to change the world through technology? In this episode, you’ll meet Tara Chklovski, the powerhouse behind Technovation—the world’s largest tech entrepreneurship program for girls. Born in India and raised by women who shattered expectations, Tara shares how self-reliance, vision, and the courage to walk away from a PhD in aerospace engineering led her to launch a nonprofit that’s transforming lives in over 120 countries. With a bold new goal of equipping 25 million girls with AI and tech skills by 2030...
2025-06-0437 min
ASU+GSV Summit SessionsAI Education as a Catalyst for Societal ChangeRecorded live at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Ronit Levavi Morad, Senior Director and Chief of Staff at Google Research; Victor Lee, Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University and Faculty Lead of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning's initiative on AI and Education; Tara Chklovski, CEO and Founder of Technovation; Alex Kotran, CEO of The AI Education Project; and Erin Mote, CEO at InnovateEDU.The session explored the urgent need to equip students with AI literacy skills essential for navigating and understanding artificial intelligence. The panelists demonstrated how...
2025-05-0747 min
2B Bolder Podcast : Career Insights & Advice from Successful Women in Business & Tech#125 Dr. Tara Chklovski founder of the world's largest tech entrepreneurship program for girlsPrepare to be inspired as Dr. Tara Chklovski, founder and CEO of Technovation, shares her remarkable journey from growing up in India to building the world's largest female tech talent network. Against the backdrop of a culture that traditionally prepared girls for marriage rather than careers, Tara's extraordinary family defied norms – her grandmother founded a school at 65, her mother became an army doctor at 43, and her father taught her mechanical skills from childhood.This foundation of strong role models and hands-on technical experience propelled Tara from aerospace engineering to founding Technovation, which now reaches 400,000 people across more th...
2025-04-0326 min
My Wildest Prediction‘The next Microsoft will be started by a 17-year-old girl,’ with entrepreneur Tara ChklovskiTara Chklovski is the founder and CEO of Technovation, a global non-profit empowering young women to tackle real-world problems through technology and entrepreneurship. Chklovski joins My Wildest Prediction to explain how technology and education can spark positive change in underrepresented communities.My Wildest Prediction is a podcast series from Euronews Business where we dare to imagine the future with business and tech visionaries. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-03-1220 min
NVIDIA AI PodcastTara Chklovksi, Anshita Saini on Technovation Pioneering AI Education for Innovation - Ep. 245In this episode of the NVIDIA AI Podcast, Tara Chklovski, founder and CEO of Technovation, returns to discuss the importance of inclusive AI. With Anshita Saini, a Technovation alumna and OpenAI staff member, Chklovski explores how Technovation empowers girls through AI education and enhances real-world problem-solving skills. Saini shares her journey from creating an app that helped combat a vaping crisis at her high school to taking on her current role at OpenAI. She also introduces Wiser AI, an initiative she founded to support women and underrepresented voices in AI.
2025-02-0834 min
AI-Powered Bot : ChatgptTara Chklovksi, Anshita Saini on Technovation Pioneering AI Education for Innovation - Episode 245In this episode of the NVIDIA AI Podcast, Tara Chklovski, founder and CEO of Technovation, returns to discuss the importance of inclusive AI. With Anshita Saini, a Technovation alumna and OpenAI staff member, Chklovski explores how Technovation empowers girls through AI education and enhances real-world problem-solving skills. Saini shares her journey from creating an app that helped combat a vaping crisis at her high school to taking on her current role at OpenAI. She also introduces Wiser AI, an initiative she founded to support women and underrepresented voices in AI.
2025-02-0834 min
Tech Talks Daily150,000 Innovators and Counting: Technovation’s Journey to Transforming Tech EducationHave you ever wondered how we can address the ethical challenges of AI while empowering the next generation of innovators? In today’s episode, I’m joined by Dr. Tara Chklovski, the visionary aerospace engineer turned educator and the founder and CEO of Technovation—the world’s largest tech entrepreneurship program for girls. Tara has spent the last 15 years redefining what it means to create meaningful impact through technology education, with over 150,000 girls trained as tech entrepreneurs and innovators across 120 countries. Together, they’ve developed more than 12,000 apps and AI-based solutions tackling real-world problems. Our conversati...
2024-11-2833 min
Better HeroesCuriosity & Innovation: Unraveling AI’s Impact on Tomorrow's WorldAI is the buzziest of the buzzwords right now. Almost everyday we hear about the risks and the benefits, we hear about how AI is the future, and we try our best to understand how it’ll affect our industry and our jobs. But today’s Better Heroes aren’t just concerned with the current applications for AI and the current industry, they’re preparing future generations of AI programmers and users. Beatriz Sanz Sáiz is EY Global Data and AI Leader. Bea and her team led the recent launch of EY.ai - a unifying...
2024-06-0326 min
Leading What Matters MostUnleashing the Potential of Girls Through Tech Education with Tara ChklovskiIn this inspiring episode, Phil speaks with Tara Chklovski, CEO and founder of the global tech education nonprofit Technovation. Since 2006, Technovation has welcomed over 130,000 children, parents, and mentors from more than 100 countries to participate in their programs, fostering the next generation of innovators. Tara shares the powerful story behind Technovation's origin and her mission to bring the most powerful technologies, tools, and teaching methods to underserved communities so children can solve problems in their communities. She walks through Technovation's core program, where teams of girls identify community problems, develop tech-based solutions, build prototypes, create business plans, and pitch their startups...
2024-05-2141 min
Heroïnes DigitalsLaura Inés Fernández o com certificar la diversitat per contribuir a un món més just
Quin és el paper de les empreses en sumar per un món just, inclusiu i pròsper? Quin és l'impacte de les decisions que es prenen per tenir una plantilla més plural i igualitària? Com s'aconsegueix avaluar i certificar aquest esforç i quina és la importància de fer-ho?
De tot això i de molt més hem reflexionat amb Laura Inés Fernández, fundadora i CEO de Bein Mindset, la primera consultora que desenvolupat un procés d'auditoria i certificació per acompanyar a les organitzacions en la gestió de la diversitat...
2024-04-3052 min
InTechnology177. What That Means with Camille: AI Literacy in Today’s WorldIn this episode of What That Means, Camille gets into AI literacy with Tara Chklovski, Founder and CEO of Technovation. They talk about the history of Technovation, how the program works, why it focuses on underprivileged girls, the real-world problems the girls are solving with their projects, how to bring AI and AI ethics into education, how large language models are changing tech education, and more. To apply to be a participant or volunteer with Technovation, visit https://www.technovationchallenge.org/ . The views and opinions expressed are those of the guests an...
2023-10-2325 min
SEE Change with Annie SeelausSEEing Change When You Invest in a Girl's EducationOn episode #8 we are thrilled to welcome the inspirational and insightful, Tara Chklovski. She is the Founder and CEO of Technovation, a global tech education non-profit that equips young women with 21st century skills and the education they need to become the next generation of tech entrepreneurs and leaders. She shares her story of what inspired her to change her career path and start Technovation and how it has grown into a global organization that has engaged more than 150,000 girls in over 100+ countries. She has deep subject matter expertise and big goals to empower millions of girls in the fu...
2023-02-0239 min
Machine Meets WorldTechnovation CEO Tara Chklovski on Unpacking AI’s Black BoxTara Chklovski, CEO and founder of Technovation, talks artificial intelligence with James Kotecki, Director of Marketing at Infinia ML.---EPISODE HIGHLIGHTSWhy Technovation Demystifies AI [3:44]A Focus on Grassroots AI [6:34]How Technovation Demystifies AI [24:39]The Technovation “Trick”: Adults and Kids Learn AI Together [26:51]---EMAIL THE SHOWmmw@infiniaml.com---Video and transcript: https://medium.com/machine-meets-world/technovations-tara-chklovski-on-machine-meets-world-infinia-ml-1a8cca1171cc?source=collection_home---4------8-----------------------
2020-06-2330 min
Getting Smart Podcast200 - Using Artificial Intelligence to Solve Problems in Communities with Tara ChklovskiToday’s episode is a little extra special — it is Getting Smart’s TWO HUNDREDTH episode of the podcast! This week, the team will be hearing from Tara C. Chklovski, the CEO and founder of Iridescent. Tara grew up in a small town outside Delhi India. Inspired by a tinkering father, Tara wanted to be an aerospace engineer. After a master’s degree at Boston University, Tara launched into a Ph.D. at USC. But the pull to help more girls experience powerful science, engineering, and technology education drew her away. In 2006, she launched the non-profi...
2019-05-2221 min
NVIDIA AI PodcastTeaching Families to Embrace AI - Ep. 85Tara Chklovski is CEO and founder of Iridescent, a non-profit that provides access to hands on learning opportunities to prepare underrepresented children and adults for the future of work. She’s been called everything from the “pioneer empowering the incredible tech girls of the future,” to a “CEO science superstar hero.” Tara is here to talk about a bunch of things, including the UN’s AI for Good Global Summit this May in Geneva, and the AI World Championship, part of the AI Family Challenge, May 18 in Silicon Valley.
2019-05-1630 min
HumAIn PodcastHow the World can Participate in AI with Tara Chklovski[Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSSTara Chklovski is CEO and founder of global tech education nonprofit Technovation (formerly Iridescent). Prominently featured in the award-winning documentary Codegirl, Forbes named Chklovski “the pioneer empowering the incredible tech girls of the future” and Discovery Science Channel named her its first “CEO Science Super Star Hero” for her work encouraging the next generation of innovators, problem solvers, and game changers. A frequent advocate for STEM education, she’s presented at the White House STEM Inclusion Summit, SXSW EDU, UNESCO’s Mo...
2019-05-0740 min