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Don't fear AI. It will lead to long-term job growth.
COVID-19 has sped up the automation of many tasks, leading some to fear algorithms will take their jobs. But AI is creating more jobs than it destroys.
Murat Sonmez
Founded in 2021, pulseESG™️ is a public benefit corporation dedicated to empowering purpose-driven enterprises to manage and improve their ESG footprint with an integrated and comprehensive technology platform built for compliance tracking and insight.
1989-1993 various roles from software engineering to product marketing management with Consilium, a provider of semiconductor factory automation software, Mountain View, California; 1994-1997 product management with Teknekron Software Systems, provider of real-time financial trading systems, Palo Alto, California. 1997-2014 member of the founding team, TIBCO Software, a real-time predictive data analytics software company in Palo Alto, California: various positions including Head of Global Field Operations, General Manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa operations and Chief Marketing Officer. From 2014 until 2021, Member of the Managing Board of the World Economic Forum and founding Head of the Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution at the Presidio in San Francisco, California.
BSc in Industrial Engineering, Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey; MSc in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Virginia Tech.
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