Athena Pathways

Athena Pathways is a project administered by AInBC Athena Pathways is a partnership of academia, government and industry to educate women in the science and commercialization of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science (AI/ML/DS) in order to deepen Canada’s talent pool and make it more inclusive while delivering real value in the form of trained interns, workers and executives to businesses that are struggling to find domain expertise. In addition to drawing more talent into the ecosystem, Athena will work to correct a gender imbalance that threatens the performance of AI technology itself if left unchecked; models are algorithms fitted to data, and diversity is a critical part of accurate models. Women currently comprise approximately one fifth of the workforce in AI, so programs of this sort are crucial to address gender bias. Athena’s near term goal of enrolling 500 women in high-school and university courses, internships and mentorship programs could approximately double the number of women currently working for industry in these fields today. From there, we envision the programs seeded by investment from the Digital Supercluster and the academic partners to grow into self-sustaining accredited courses and workshops that drastically increase AI/ML/DS literacy and industry competence across the province.

Website

http://athenapathways.org

External link for Athena Pathways

Industry

Non-profit Organization Management

Company size

2-10 employees

Headquarters

Vancouver, British Columbia

Founded

2019