Lenovo Exec Ada Lopez Talks Product Diversity Office, Accessibility, Bettering Society In Interview

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Lenovo Exec Ada Lopez Talks Product Diversity Office, Accessibility, Bettering Society In Interview

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Oct 31, 2024,05:02pm EDT

Updated Oct 31, 2024, 05:40pm EDT

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Ada Lopez is Lenovo’s chief diversity officer and leads its Global Product Diversity Office.

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A couple weeks ago, I flew some 800 miles north to Seattle to cover Lenovo’s Tech World 2024 conference. As you’d expect, the three-day event put artificial intelligence center stage; on its website, Lenovo boasts the tagline for Tech World is “smarter AI for all.” Company CEO Yuanqing Yang spent the keynote, which included cameos by Intel’s Pat Gelsinger and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, talking up the “AI for all” mantra by highlighting how AI can be used to better accessibility, noting the company’s software has helped ALS patients preserve their voice before the disease inevitably takes it from them forever. Likewise, Lenovo has used AI to create so-called “Alzheimer’s Intelligence” to help people who cope with the disease in remembering things more easily.

In what was only my third in-person interview since the [...]