Episode Title Indiana Women in Tech Week 6, AI Needs Women’s Voices Featuring Angie Carel

She did not come from a traditional tech background. Now Angie Carel is helping Fort Wayne learn, question and build with AI.For the sixth and final interview of the 2026 Indiana Women in Tech Week series, Jason Padgett talks with Angie Carel, an AI advisor, speaker and community builder in Fort Wayne, Indiana.Angie explains how marketing and creative strategy led her into generative AI, why curiosity matters more than a technical title, and how consistent learning took her from feeling intimidated by technology to working in terminal windows and building agents.The conversation moves beyond tools. Angie and Jason discuss which work people should keep for themselves, how much trust AI agents have earned, why women's voices must be part of the future being built, and why healthy disagreement may be one of the most important skills of the AI era.They also look toward 2035. Angie expects neither a perfect technological utopia nor a total dystopia. She expects surprises, tradeoffs and choices that people still have the power to shape.This episode closes the 2026 Indiana Women in Tech Week series from the Hoosier Heartland.CONNECT WITH ANGIE CARELWebsite: https://www.angiecarel.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angiecarel/Fort Wayne AI: https://www.fortwayne-ai.com/CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTJason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI WorkflowsAGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/📧 jason@agipodcast.ai