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Divya Sabade is an AI Product Leader with experience across ML-powered decision systems, enterprise technology, and agentic AI. She learns by building and writing about AI products, agents, trust, and the product decisions behind deploying AI in the real world. What building AI products taught me about autonomy, human judgment, and trust few years ago, some of the most important questions I asked when building ML-powered products was, “Can the model do this? Can it identify r

AI fluency is more than knowing how to prompt. Use these five questions to decide when to use AI, what to trust, and where human judgment matters most.

AI is making it easier to prepare for a job search. You can use it to research companies, compare roles, sharpen your positioning, draft outreach, prepare for interviews, and organize what you are learning along the way. Those are real advantages, especially in a process that can quickly become repetitive and exhausting. But when people have access to the same tools, the baseline rises. More candidates can produce polished materials. More people can tailor an application quic

AI can make a job search faster, but faster is not always better. Here are five ways to use AI to evaluate opportunities, improve your positioning, strengthen your network, and stand out without sounding like everyone else using AI.

At WOMEN x AI’s AI Career Lab: Your Next Move on September 23, 2026 we brought AI tools, hiring experts, and community into the same room to help women take a practical step toward their next opportunity. What stayed with us was how women helped eachother in real time. They shared tips and leads, offered résumé reviews, and helped each other think through what to do next. Our hiring panel brought candid answers to the questions in the room. Use AI to decide which opportunitie

Written by Jenny Kay Pollock, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of WOMEN x AI (WxAI) and Founder of Luminizing Growth. Through her work with executives, founders, and AI practitioners, she helps organizations navigate AI-driven transformation and adoption. A good startup pitch night shouldn’t just tell a founder whether investors liked the idea. It should help them understand: 🎯 What landed? ❓ What created questions? ✏️ Where does the story need to get sharper? 🚀 What might you want to

By Moha Shah, Venture Capital Leader & Innovation Operator across AI, Mobility, Climate, & Fintech/Insurtech. Focused on Fortune 100 to Startups. Prompt-generated image via Google Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 After decades of digital transformation from Web 1.0 to the cloud, the current transformation across enterprises and startups centers on the new AI economy. AI is rewiring talent acquisition, companies’ organizational design, and what jobs of the future will look like. This ar

How 30 executive women applied AI to real professional challenges through the WOMEN x AI Advantage Spring 2026 Cohort. By Jenny Kay Pollock, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of WOMEN x AI. Program Contributors: Reut Lazo and Jenny Kay Pollock Lead Facilitators, and Rachel Wong, Principal Learning Architect and Cohort Facilitator. AI confidence does not come from memorizing more tools or collecting more prompts. It comes from applying AI to real work, learning what happens when the outpu

At the beginning of every WOMEN x AI (WxAI) event, we say the WxAI Promise together: I promise to be curious. I promise to share what I know and ask when I don’t. I promise to hand her the mic. And I’m ready to learn AI, in community. The promise helps us set an intention for the time we are about to spend together. It welcomes new members, explains the culture we are building, and reminds all of us that a strong community depends on participation. The WxAI Promise sets the

AI Generated Photo Promoting the Event Hosted during JPM Week 2026, Bridging the Gap for Greater Investment connected women healthcare founders with venture capital investors. 📍 San Francisco | 📅 January 12, 2026 🤝 Hosted by WOMEN x AI and Pier 70 Ventures 💼 Sponsored by CLA 🩺 Focus: Women Healthcare Founders & Venture Capital JPM Week is one of the most important gatherings in global healthcare, bringing together founders, investors, pharmaceutical companies, health s

Written by Jenny Kay Pollock, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of WOMEN x AI (WxAI) and Founder of Luminizing Growth. Through her work with executives, founders, and AI practitioners, she helps organizations navigate AI-driven transformation and adoption. The Women in AI breakfast panel explored what it takes to move AI from breakthrough technology to real-world business impact. For the past few years, much of the AI conversation has centered on new models, benchmark results, and breakt

By Summer Poletti, Founder and CRO of Rise of Us, Host of Revenue Remix podcast and frequent WOMEN x AI (WxAI) speaker. "The event is the seed. Everything else is the harvest." - Summer Poletti The Room Before the Panel Started I walked into Templo Mayor Hall at San Diego State University's campus on a Saturday afternoon with my exec assistant, who everyone noticed “happens” to look exactly like me. Right down to the colorful highlights. We were, as several peop

Moha Shah shares insights on AI governance, responsible AI adoption, and board oversight for business leaders.

Written by Jenny Kay Pollock, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of WOMEN x AI (WxAI) and Founder of Luminizing Growth. Through her work with executives, founders, and AI practitioners, she helps organizations navigate AI-driven transformation and adoption. The best part of every event is reconnecting with longtime community members and welcoming new faces into the WOMEN x AI ecosystem. The hype surrounding AI right now is palpable. Walking the floor of Snowflake Summit 2026 Dev Day, you

Artificial intelligence moves faster in private companies. Growth-stage businesses experiment quickly. Portfolio companies deploy AI into products before formal governance structures are fully built. Operational pressure and competitive dynamics accelerate adoption. That speed creates opportunity. It also creates governance exposure. AI governance for private equity boards and growth-stage directors requires a different lens than traditional public company oversight. The time

AI governance failures rarely begin with a crisis. They begin with small signals that oversight is misaligned with exposure. Boards that recognize early AI governance red flags can correct course before risk escalates. Boards looking to structure oversight more systematically can explore our AI Governance for Boards framework, which introduces the Board Director’s AI Governance Compass. Boards that ignore them often discover gaps under pressure. 1. AI Is Discussed as Innovat

Artificial intelligence introduces a different category of enterprise risk. Boards that treat AI as a technology upgrade miss the governance implication. AI systems can influence pricing, hiring, underwriting, product recommendations, capital allocation, and customer eligibility decisions. In some cases, those decisions are probabilistic, data-dependent, and non-deterministic. That changes the risk profile. Many boards receive AI updates as innovation briefings. Few receive t

The number of AI tools available to leaders is growing rapidly. New platforms promise speed, automation, and transformation. Most deliver some value. Few deliver sustained impact. The challenge for executives is not knowing how to evaluate all of these AI tools . Why Tool Evaluation Matters AI tools are not neutral. They influence: how teams work how decisions are made how information flows through the organization Choosing the wrong tools creates inefficiency and can open th

Prompt-generated image via Google Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 By Moha Shah, Venture Capital Leader & Innovation Operator | Fortune 100 to Startups | AI, Mobility, Climate, & Fintech/Insurtech AI is set to transform many industries, including one of the most storied in the world – the legal sector. In this article, we’ll explore how AI is driving the legal industry’s transformation, AI-native startups to watch, and legal professionals’ views on AI’s impact on law firms’ busines

Female Founders Presenting at WxAI and Convex Demo Day Last night in San Francisco, we hosted the WOMEN x AI Demo Day in partnership with Convex. Seven founders got up and showed what they’ve actually built. Products in motion. Early traction. Real feedback. This is where you go beyond the headlines and the hype and start to see what’s real in AI. 📸 A big thank you to Natasha Renée, of Featured Founders who helped us capture the evening. Check out the Demo Day gallery! Wha