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Public Private Partnerships for Technology companies with Debra Lam

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Episode Description

Debra Lam is the Founding Director of the Partnership for Inclusive Innovation, a public-private partnership initiative that aims to foster access, growth, entrepreneurship, and innovation throughout the state

She was previously the Managing Director of Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation at Georgia Tech, where she advised cities around the world on policy, sustainability, climate change, and low carbon issues

Debra Lam has over ten years of international experience in governance, sustainable and strategic development, policy analysis, and project management, having worked in the public, private, and non-profit sectors

01:14 What is the Partnership?
02:00 What are Wicked Problems?
03:23 Leveraging to tackle these problems
04:57 What’s a great example?
06:46 How does this start?
09:29 How does the private portion work?
10:33 AI’s impact
13:05 How do smaller companies contribute?
14:41 How do you be effective?
15:46 How can people learn more?

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