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By Jenny Kay Pollock, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of WOMEN x AI. Program contributors: Jenny Kay Pollock and Reut Lazo, Lead Facilitators; and Rachel Wong, Principal Learning Architect and Cohort Facilitator. You ask an AI tool for help. The answer sounds polished, but something is off. It missed your audience. It assumed something about your experience. Or it confidently included a detail that isn’t true. What do you do next? On October 2, 2026, women came together for the first

Inside WOMEN x AI’s AI Advantage cohort: how women used AI for career research, résumés, LinkedIn, and board opportunities with live support.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded inside third-party software. From CRM platforms to HR systems to cybersecurity tools, many vendors now include AI features by default. In some cases, sensitive company data is being transmitted to external models without clear visibility at the board level. For directors, this creates a governance question: How should boards oversee third-party AI exposure? This is not an operational issue. It is a governance issue. Why Third-P

Prompt-generated image via Freepik By Moha Shah , Venture Capital Leader & Innovation Operator | AI, Mobility, Climate, & Fintech/Insurtech | Fortune 100 to Startups The Boston Consulting Group forecasts that the market size for AI agents will reach $52.1 billion by 2030. This signals that AI agents will transform the future of work by autonomously completing workflows with orchestration across business functions and teams. While AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemin

What We Learned from 12 Months of Collaborating with AI Last week, the WOMEN x AI community gathered at the Snowflake Silicon Valley AI Hub for A Year of AI: Women x Innovation — a reflection on what actually changed in AI in 2025, and what leadership will require in 2026. It was a Thursday night right before the holidays and the room was packed. That alone said a lot. But what stayed with us most was not the tools. It was the tone of the conversation. Grounded. Curious. Huma

A Glossary of Common AI Terms & Concepts by Tamara Gracon , Joanna Ridgeway , Paula Fontana , Jenny Kay Pollock and Reut Lazo . Here’s a quick guide to help you stay current in the AI era. From AGI to LLM, we’ve got you covered with clear, simple definitions of the terms you’ll hear most often in today’s conversations about artificial intelligence. 📘 Download the printable version A - C Agentic AI – AI that can set and work toward goals on its own, making decisions and ada

Photo by Jenny Kay Pollock What happens when fashion, health, and technology share the same runway? On October 10, that question came to life at Fashion × Tech: Fashion, Consumer, and Creator, a highlight of SF Tech Week 2025. Hosted in San Francisco and co-organized by WOMEN x AI, the evening gathered nearly 300 guests for a celebration of creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation at the intersection of AI and consumer culture. The Scene SF Tech Week Photo by Jenny Kay Po