We are thankful and happy to be able to speak with Dr. Diana L. Ascher from UCLA.  Her work focuses on information, technology, and decision making in organizations. Dr. Ascher's interdisciplinary research interests draw from her work in a variety of fields, including financial communication, journalism, and public policy.

Dr. Ascher is the director of the Information Studies Research Lab (IS Lab) at UCLA, where she develops resources and programming to support the curriculum of the Department of Information Studies. Dr. Ascher, is also the founder of the Information Ethics & Equity Institute (IEEI), which translates data management priorities for information workers, the ethics, economics, and politics of long-term data management, and information ethics with respect to identity, privacy, power, and freedom.

Dr. Ascher earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles; an M.B.A. from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University; and a B.A. in Public Policy with concentrations in journalism and international policy from Duke University.

Data Ethics, Privacy, Quantum computing, & AI: Dr Diana Ascher shares her thoughts on these topics

Nelson Javier Mejia is a human centered engineer based in Frankfurt, Germany.  He is also an innovate coach and founder of weSpark, an innovation agency in Frankfurt.  

Nelson was trained at Hochschule Furtwangen University, where he received a MBA and degree in Industrial and Product Engineering.  

Nelson began his career as a consultant focusing on business intelligence and service engineering.  He eventually ended up at Lufthansa and Lufthansa Cargo, where he described his work as everything innovation.  

Recently, Nelson launched weSpark and innovation agency where the team provides experiences to help clients innovate.

We were very excited and happy to sit down with him and her a little about his journey and early influences.  Also, to hear a few tips that he finds useful to help innovate.

Nelson Javier Mejia shares some of life experiences & tips that help him and his clients innovate

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Nelson Javier Mejia shares some of life experiences & tips that help him and his clients innovate

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