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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

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. When someone reads your professional bio, what do you hope they remember? Your expertise? The way you lead? The problems you care about solving? And does the language you use actually communicate those things? AI Advantage is WOMEN x AI’s five-week live online learning cohort

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

What happens when you bring together women working in construction, financial services, enterprise technology, and local government to talk about AI? You hear different perspectives on questions many of us are navigating: What is actually helping? Where are we creating more work? And how can we help shape the changes happening around us? On October 23, 2026, we brought these perspectives together during Week 4 of AI Advantage, WOMEN x AI’s five-week learning cohort. Cofacili

By Jenny Kay Pollock and Reut Lazo, Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of WOMEN x AI (WxAI). Get clearer. Get connected. Shape what happens next. What happens when you bring women together, give them space to learn something new, and invite them to help one another move forward? On October 10, 2026, we hosted our in-person WOMEN x AI Fall Leadership Retreat. We designed the day around three things: strengthening AI capabilities, building deeper connections, and turning new perspectives

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

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

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

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

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 discussions often blur the line between AI governance and AI ethics. For boards of directors, that distinction is not semantic. It is structural. AI ethics defines principles. AI governance defines accountability. Understanding the difference between AI governance and AI ethics is essential for directors who carry fiduciary responsibility. What Is AI Ethics? AI ethics refers to the principles that guide how artificial intelligence should be designed an

Board directors, executives, and governance-focused leaders gathered to explore AI oversight, risk, and board readiness using the AI Board Governance Compass. On March 19, 2025, WOMEN x AI partnered with the Silicon Valley AI Hub to host AI Board Governance in Practice, an interactive workshop focused on one of the most pressing questions facing boards today: How prepared are we to govern AI? As organizations accelerate AI adoption, boards are increasingly being asked to prov

Panelists Speaking on the AI Landscape in 2026 Last night WOMEN x AI hosted a conversation titled: AI Landscape in 2026: What Matters and What Doesn’t. This was not a trends panel. It was a judgment panel. The room was full of founders, investors, operators, and executives trying to answer one question: What deserves our attention now and what is noise? Here’s what we discussed: 1. AI Is Moving From Interface to Infrastructure Many leaders still treat AI like a feature. A ch

Prompt-generated image via ChatGPT By Moha Shah , Venture Capital Leader & Innovation Operator | AI, Mobility, Climate, & Fintech/Insurtech | Fortune 100 to Startups In the World Economic Forum’s 2025 Future of Jobs Report , 85% of employers surveyed plan to prioritize upskilling their workforce. New AI tools and AI-first startups are launching each week, and it can feel overwhelming. During the latest Generative AI wave , tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Sora