The Untold Story of a Veteran and a Googler at Project Maven
Interview with Amina Al Sherif, Chief Innovation Officer at Anno.Ai
Amina is the Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Product Officer at Anno.ai, an organisation that employs cutting edge technology to automate processes and streamline mission operations.
Prior to Anno, Amina worked as a Customer Engineer on the Google Cloud Platform bringing the innovation and power of Google’s capabilities to the Department of Defence and Intelligence Community. She works with the government to help improve mission effectiveness through adoption of commercial cloud services with a focus on big data and machine learning, gaming and simulation, and data privacy and security in cloud computing and analytics. She also is the President of the Data Ethics Consortium for Security, a continuation of her work in an ethics after her experience with Google’s Project Maven.
Amina’s time at Google coincided with Project Maven, the Department of Defence artificial intelligence initiative that hit the headlines when Google staff protested at being asked to build software that would improve drone targeting. In our interview, Amina will be sharing her journey of working with Project Maven at Google.