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Techspark.AI, CAN

Techspark.AI, CAN

by | 16/06/26 | AI, Blog, Navigation, Steering, Technology, Thought Leadership, Ventures

Spark the Mind,
Change the World.

Tech Spark AI helps historically marginalized students see their culture positively reflected in their learning spaces. We elevate educators to better serve their scholars through culturally responsive curriculums, training, and personalized AI tools.

The Unique Challenge

 

Increasing diversity in the technology ecosystem is an urgent national priority. The USA National Report Card highlights significant academic performance declines and widening achievement gaps, disproportionately affecting Black and Brown students. These disparities are exacerbated by the digital divide, with the advancement of AI widening the gap further.

We recognize a breakdown in the pipeline that moves Black youth and girls from elementary to high school STEM courses. This leads to underrepresentation in higher education and technology careers. Black students often feel discouraged from pursuing STEM due to a lack of positive representation and engagement within the curriculum. Women comprise only 23% of STEM graduates, with Black women making up just 2.9%.

Our mission is to close this gap through our intelligent AI tool, Spark Plug, professional development, culturally responsive curriculum design, and advanced tech workshops for youth. We aim to provide underrepresented students with opportunities to thrive, ensuring they can make meaningful contributions to the tech ecosystem.

By addressing these challenges head-on, we strive to build a more inclusive and equitable educational landscape.

 

Theory of Change:

Redesign Learning: Innovate educational practices to be culturally responsive and technologically enriched.

Shift Mindsets of Teachers and Administrators: Enhance change through mindset-shifting professional development.

Influence Education Policy: Advocate for policies that promote advancements in education.

Co-Create with Students: Collaborate with students in experiences that resonate with their cultural and technological realities.
Engage with the Community: Build strong community ties to ensure education is relevant, inclusive, and impactful.

Stephen Ibaraki

Stephen Ibaraki

by | 11/06/26 | AI, Assets, Blog, Ethical AI, Navigation, Science, Steering, Technology, Thought Leadership

Stephen K. Ibaraki has been a teacher, an industry analyst, writer and consultant in the IT industry, and the former president of the Canadian Information Processing Society.

Currently, Ibaraki is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, futurist and speaker. He is also the founder of the UN ITU AI for Good Global Summit, and a vicechair of the ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health, founding chair of the Financial Services Roundtable Tech Advisory Council, and founding chair of the International Federation for Information Processing Global Industry Council. Ibaraki serves as an Advisor for the Business Development Committee of the IEEE Computer Society. He is the co-founder for the Technology Advisory Board at Yintech Investment Holdings Limited.

In 2018, he was invited to be a founding member of IPSoft's AI Pioneers Steering Committee and he was also invited to join the Science and Technology Council for the ARCH Mission Foundation. Aside from taking on these new roles, he was invited to be a keynote speaker at the Yonder25 Conference as well as the Reshaping National Security forum which was hosted by Shanghai Institute for International Studies; and the UNICRI Centre for AI and Robotics.

Ibaraki has been the recipient of a Microsoft MVP award for 13 years in a row since 2006

In December 2018, Ibaraki was invited by YPO to share his insights about business and investments with respect to the Fourth Industrial Revolution at YPO Edge 2019.

Dr. Emily Springer

Dr. Emily Springer

by | 11/06/26 | AI, Blog, Changemaker, Ethical AI, RFW, Thought Leadership

Dr. Emily Springer, a certified algorithmic auditor, one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™(2024), and member of UNESCO’s Women for Ethical AI.

Dr. Springer is an responsible AI advisor and algorithmic literacy trainer for social impact professionals. She specializes in sociotechnical understandings of AI, end user research and testing, and AI strategy and risk mitigation.

Inclusive AI Lab

Inclusive AI Lab

by | 11/06/26 | AI, Blog, Ethical AI, RFW

The Inclusive Ai Lab

AI upskilling for

non-codong professionals

The Inclusive AI Lab brings artificial intelligence (AI) literacy to the masses, primarily professionals and practitioners who are not technical, non-coders, and have no data or computer science training. All trainings are designed with this in mind and focus on upskilling in AI from a concepts perspective, not math.

 

Dr. Emily Springer, AI Ethics expert

 

Run by award-winning trainer, Dr. Emily Springer, this training enables you to access broad generalist AI content that still takes you deep inside the core issues, conundrums, and the challenges of inclusive, responsible AI. All training assumes a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) lens and takes seriously the role AI can, cannot, or should not play in efforts for social justice.

 

The Inclusive AI Lab is the training division of TechnoSocio Advisory, an independent, woman-run consultancy firm focused on inclusive AI for social impact. If you're interested in consulting services, such as in AI advising (end user research, testing protocols, etc), AI policy and strategy creation, risk mitigation planning, orcareer mentoring, please see TechnoSocio Advisory.

Pascal Bornet

Pascal Bornet

by | 09/06/26 | AI, Blog, Changemaker, Engineering, Ethical AI, Opinion, Technology, Thought Leadership

Pascal Bornet is an award-winning expert, author, and keynote speaker on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, and Agentic AI, with over two million social media followers. Regularly ranked as one of the top 10 global AI and Automation experts, he developed his expertise through 20+ years at McKinsey and EY, implementing AI initiatives for hundreds of organizations worldwide. Bornet advocates for making our world more human with AI.

Digital Green Guide

Digital Green Guide

by | 09/06/26 | AI, Assets, Automotive, Blog, Commonwealth, DIgital Banking, Ethical AI, Exchange, Money Matters, Navigation, Steering, Ventures

A guide/guidebook has always been a useful thing to have throughout all of history. In the USA for some there became a niche that needed to be served helping citizens getting from Point A to Point B and back again safely. Civically and Culturally speaking a man called Victor Hugo Green introduced a guidebook for Negro travellers to use, for their safety first, and their comfort second.

 

 

WHY

WAS IT A

NECESSITY?

 

 

Introduced by Victor Hugo Green

African American travelers faced discrimination, such as white-owned businesses refusing to serve them or repair their vehicles, being refused accommodation or food by white-owned hotels, and threats of physical violence and forcible expulsion from whites-only "sundown towns". Green founded and published the Green Book to avoid such problems, compiling resources "to give the Negro traveler information that will keep him from running into difficulties, embarrassments and to make his trip more enjoyable". Candacy Taylor, the maker of a 2019 documentary film about the book offered this summary: "Everyone I was interviewing talked about the community that the Green Book created: a kind of parallel universe that was created by the book and this kind of secret road map that the Green Book outlined".

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