On this week’s paper:

📝 Block Posts: Read the latest write-up of our interview with Georgia Lewis Anderson, an AI Consultant, journalist, and creator working with Google, BBC, SBTV and more.

📆 Round the Block: Unmissable events happening soon in and around our community.

📣 Block Shoutouts: Our top picks of people making moves to amaze and inspire us all.

💼 Block Opportunities: Sharing the latest opportunities from our community.

📝 BLOCK POSTS

Artificial Intelligence Unlocking the Future of Creativity & Journalism with Georgia Lewis Anderson

By Hanaa Yousof

Before our very eyes, the world is rapidly undergoing a significant period of transition. A future powered by Artificial Intelligence has always been a potential future, but in the last year alone, we have simultaneously seen the monumental capabilities of this technology, and its accompanying downsides, particularly in creative fields. This year’s historic almost 5-month WGA Writers Strike was these downsides in action, with creatives globally protesting against the use of AI in writer’s rooms.

From ChatGPT to Imagen, our technological landscape seems to know no bounds — but how can we reconcile with such a massive amount of knowledge and change?

Our newest episode on Blocks2Bags aims to bridge that gap. With our guest Georgia Lewis Anderson, a broadcast journalist turned AI consultant, we discuss the future in light of such rapid change. For Georgia, who has transitioned between numerous different industries and developed the personalities of AI assistants for Google and Microsoft, she occupies an in-between, where creative pursuits and the tech world can perhaps live a little less at odds. On Blocks2Bags, she shared with us her belief in the powerful potential of AI to work with creatives, and why demystifying it is paramount for our tech-driven future.

TRANSITIONS IN THE WORKING WORLD AND TECH VS. CREATIVITY

She might be an AI consultant now, but Georgia’s journey to that has been anything but linear; with her Mum’s musician work and Dad’s job making computers, she carried a tech/creative middle-ground into her professional career. Starting off as a grime music journalist for SBTV, she experienced a 180° career shift when working for Microsoft with their virtual assistant, Cortana – a job that now, doesn’t even exist. Continuing down that path, she was approached by Google to write the personality for their Google Assistant, before leaving when offered to stay longer and making strides in the tech and creative worlds.

Read full article here.

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MONTHLY ROUNDUP

• BAG DROP #1 Recap - Immersive Pitch Night & Block Party

• Building Business Ecosystems and International Bridges with Foundervine CEO Izzy Obeng

• A B2B Conversation with Michael Berhane: Championing Diversity in Tech and the Power of Podcasting

• From Homegrown Londoner To Scottish Food Entrepreneur: How Khalid Elmourei Grew His Family Business

• UK BLACK BUSINESS SHOW LAUNCH PARTY TAKEOVER

• SAUDI ARABIA £5BN INVESTMENT IN GLOBAL SPORTS - MONEY MATRIX

📆 ROUND THE BLOCK

Angel Investing School

AIS is doing one of their quarterly webinars, where they teach people how to get started with Angel investing - it’s next Wednesday at 12pm and free to register here.

AWS Startups Women's Demo Day in London

Join over 115 people who have already registered for the London event for AWS Women's Demo Week, with former Lioness Alex Scott MBE as their headline speaker. Click here to register.

📣 BLOCK SHOUTOUT

To My Sisters Sold Out Hackney Empire

We wanted to give a huge congratulations to Courtney Daniella Boateng and Renee Kapuku on selling out their live show at the Hackney Empire. Over 1,200 people went to see them speak, and we were there to capture all of the action.

💼 BLOCK OPPORTUNITIES

Marketing Executive, Production, Schroders

“Hope everyone has had a great week so far! I’m hiring a Marketing Executive to join my team for a 6 month contract at Schroders Investment Management. It’s the opportunity to work with 24 different countries and execute global campaigns on a large scale. Located in our HQ in Moorgate with state of the art gym, health hub and amazing food. £200-£250/day” - APPLY HERE

Global Marketing Director, Black Music, Warner Music Group

You will work on the Global Priorities (GPS) team leading strategic GPS execution for Black Music repertoire in partnership with the SVP Global Marketing while ensuring smooth and timely running of the Global Priority System. This role will be based in London or New York reporting in to the SVP Global Marketing based in New York. - APPLY HERE

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