Kenza Ait Si Abbou, born in Fès in north-eastern Morocco, studied electrical engineering in Valencia and industrial engineering in Germany.
Today, as a manager for robotics and artificial intelligence at Telekom, she is responsible for process automation, among other things.
In addition to her mother tongues Arabic and French, the 40-year-old speaks fluent Spanish and Catalan, Chinese and Japanese and of course German.
Ait Si Abbou, who lives in Berlin, has received multiple awards, including the “Digital Female Leader Award 2018”, as a book author: In “Don't panic, it's just technology”, she passionately advocates more diversity in the IT industry and one more relaxed handling of artificial intelligence.
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The IT scene is almost 90 percent dominated by “young white men”, as you say.
This also has consequences in that these young white men also program the prejudices and errors of young white men into their AI systems.