Jordan Hagan
Careers in data and AI rarely follow a straight line and Jordan Hagan’s is no exception.
Jordan is a Solutions Architect at NVIDIA with 16 years of experience navigating the ever-changing data and AI landscape. She began her career as a data analyst in healthcare in 2010 and has consistently pushed herself into new territory, transitioning into data science in 2017 and becoming an AI practitioner in 2024.
In 2025, Jordan became the first Americas hire on Groq’s Solutions Architect team, where she learned hardware from scratch and showed the impact of taking initiative early. In her Data Dialogues talk, she’ll share her “first bad pancake” philosophy: why shipping imperfect work matters, how strategic discomfort enables growth, and practical guidance for building a resilient career in an industry that is constantly reinventing itself.
Date: Friday, January 30 @ 12:00–1:00pm
Location: Gross Hall 103
Data Dialogues is a speaker series focused on thoughtful conversations around data, analytics, and AI. The series highlights real-world experiences and perspectives from practitioners across the industry, creating space to explore how people build, adapt, and grow in a rapidly changing technical landscape.