What I’d say to me back then - Adobe’s Lily Chiu-Watson on how blurry role definitions and AI experimentation will boost women in tech

If you see someone studied computer science at Stanford University, it’s easy to assume they were planning a career in technology all along. But that wasn’t the case for Lily Chiu-Watson, a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Adobe.

When she first went to college, Chiu-Watson had plans to focus on creative writing. Twenty years later, she finally got a Master's in fine arts and poetry, but that was after making a switch to computing that has led to a 25-year career in the technology sector. Chiu-Watson explains:

I really did fall into it by accident because I went in thinking I would do creative writing, and then once I was there, I realized that the college I ended up at was much more focused on engineering.

After trying out a few other humanities classes, she saw everybody else trying a CS class, and figured she should ...