Mindy Bohannon
Mindy has over 20 years of experience as a database developer, business analyst, and agilist. She brings rich technical and strategic expertise to a variety of projects, like spearheading application modernization efforts. She has presented many sessions on agile methodologies, analysis, and professional development at local and national conferences. As president of the local IIBA DC chapter, Mindy actively promotes knowledge sharing in the BA community. She thrives on innovating solutions, fostering win-win relationships, and guiding individuals and organizations toward their highest potential for success.
Presentation: A Late Bloomer’s Guide to GenAI: Ethics, Bias, and Effective Prompting
As generative AI rapidly advances, understanding its ethical implications, inherent biases, and effective prompting techniques becomes crucial. All AI models can inadvertently encode human bias during training, potentially leading to discriminatory outputs lacking the social contexts and reasoning that govern human behaviour. This talk will explore managing AI bias, provide prompting best practices to steer outputs, and examine the need for ongoing human oversight. Ultimately, recognizing GenAI’s strengths and weaknesses allows us to capitalize on its capabilities for mundane tasks while focusing human effort on more cognitively demanding priorities.