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Speaker 3: I want to start with tech. We just got I
Speaker 3: think talking about tech. You have afro tech, right, So
Speaker 3: afro tech is a convention, right, or people that's interested
Speaker 3: in technology, people that's in technology, right, Black people? How
Speaker 3: do you see this landscape changing as far as artificial
Speaker 3: intelligence and all of these robotics? How how is this
Speaker 3: changing in real time? And how is that impacting Black
Speaker 3: people that's in technology and black people that's trying to
Speaker 3: get into technology.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so afrotech started ten years ago. You know, I
Speaker 1: started my career in Silicon Valley. Working it into it,
Speaker 1: which is you know, a company that has huge monopoly
Speaker 1: on like TurboTax and so many other products QuickBooks. And
Speaker 1: what we've seen over time is that these companies are
Speaker 1: very good at evolving and a lot of companies fail
Speaker 1: right like companies take a shot and then they completely
Speaker 1: failed because they didn't evolve quick enough. The evolution and
Speaker 1: the speed in which these companies is moving is something
Speaker 1: we have never seen before. And when it comes to
Speaker 1: labor and teams and hiring, they are not able to
Speaker 1: keep up with the pace of hiring that they need
Speaker 1: to for these technical skills because a lot of these
Speaker 1: skills take ten to fifteen years to really learn. So
Speaker 1: there's this huge gap and the reason Afrotech has been
Speaker 1: so successful and why people continue to need to get
Speaker 1: into technologies because there is a large gap in the
Speaker 1: labor market. I mean, it's one of the reasons we're
Speaker 1: in this trade wars now really And I think for
Speaker 1: afro Tech, you know, we have about three hundred clients.
Speaker 1: These are corporate tech companies everyone from you know, your
Speaker 1: Intel to Lockheed Martin to Nvidia to Boring B to
Speaker 1: B companies that are billion dollar companies. You've never heard
Speaker 1: of like F five run by a blackman, fifteen billion
Speaker 1: dollar plus revenue, Like, it's amazing the impact these companies
Speaker 1: can have. What's happening is that with AI, they're all
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what is the disruption in the
Speaker 1: industry that's going to happen. And I think that a
Speaker 1: lot of times people are getting AI wrong, Like people
Speaker 1: are like, hey, it's going to take my job. It's
Speaker 1: like a I's going to take your industry. Like so
Speaker 1: there's not like it's not like, oh, it's me against
Speaker 1: the person using AI. No, the whole industry is gone.
Speaker 1: What do you do when you're playing that game?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you said that. An interesting seat in
Speaker 2: this As an event such as athletech gets to see
Speaker 2: a lot of the entrepreneurs inside the tech space in
Speaker 2: terms of innovation. We try to stress the people like
Speaker 2: we have to take part in this, We have to
Speaker 2: be part of the innovation. We have to be a
Speaker 2: part of the engineering. As you start to see businesses
Speaker 2: that are coming to the event each year, do people
Speaker 2: really and I say people in our community specifically, do
Speaker 2: they understand the severity of what's ahead of the ahead
Speaker 2: of us over the next two to five years. We
Speaker 2: don't get this right, because I know we will get
Speaker 2: it right.
Speaker 1: But if what I think they're trying, you know, I
Speaker 1: think Afrotech reaches people who are have a higher proclivity
Speaker 1: of being able to say, like, I know that there's
Speaker 1: something out there that I need to know, you know,
Speaker 1: And that's why we do events all over the country.
Speaker 1: We do happy hours all over this country. Got a
Speaker 1: happy hour tomorrow in Houston, New Orleans. You know, we're
Speaker 1: trying to bring it to the people, not just have
Speaker 1: this huge, mega thing that happens in Houston, which is
Speaker 1: in October this year. What I'm seeing is that people
Speaker 1: know that there's a gap between where they are and
Speaker 1: where they need to be, but they're not quite sure
Speaker 1: if they're willing to take the risk to fill that gap.
Speaker 1: You know. I think it's the same that happens in
Speaker 1: other industries where people are like forty fifty years old
Speaker 1: and they know that these kids grew up with technology,
Speaker 1: and you kind of have to decide, am I going
Speaker 1: to try to play their game or am I going
Speaker 1: to like lean on my leadership skills or my soft
Speaker 1: skills that can only take you so far. And that
Speaker 1: gap is really, really small with the world.
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