James Hodson, CEO and board member of AI FOR GOOD, talks about how the organization defines social good, how Corporations and Academia are hampered in their ability to push social innovation and how AI For Good seeks to fill that void. We discuss a few of their projects, especially around diversity and inclusion in the workplace - quantifying and measuring corporations' adherence to their D&I goals.

Professor Naomi Tague of the UC Santa Barbara Bren School of Environmental Science and Management talks about her research predicting and forecasting forest fire frequency and severity in California as well as modeling how water flows through landscapes, what data is used in the models and how machine learning helps at different points.