Nathalie Flores, Vice President of Carbon Markets and Strategic Accounts at StoneX Group, kicked off an audience Q&A session by asking about how companies should give back. Walker pointed to AWS’ investment in local education, citing the establishment of STEM labs for students in Loudoun County, Virginia, where one of the company’s data centers is located. Another question came from Onika Williams at Meta, who asked the panelists to elaborate on how to embrace the unknown of AI.
Teigland responded that the key is “putting humans at the center in everything you do. There’s too much talk about the erasing of jobs and not enough talk about the changing of jobs…I think the opportunity is there, we need to run towards it. This is going to make us better, faster, more intelligent, but we’ve got to do it in the right way.”
TIME100 Talks: Disrupting for Opportunity—Transforming Systems to Address Global Challenges was presented by Philip Morris International.