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

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

Author: Pooja Kashyap is a technology enthusiast and Conversational AI Evangelist at Conversive AI , operating at the intersection of academia and industry while shaping thought leadership across the messaging and AI ecosystem. She is also a marathon runner with nearly 40 races completed since 2016, bringing endurance and curiosity to both her work and life. Prompt-generated image via Gemini In 2018, Amazon quietly scrapped an AI hiring tool it had spent years building. T

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

In early October, the WOMEN x AI Titans Tools Council an expert-led roundtable of AI builders, founders, and operators came together once again to share what’s working in their real-world workflows. This quarter, our Council tested 39 battle-tested tools , spanning everything from research copilots and meeting notetakers to AI-driven recruiters and design generators. Each tool was explored through hands-on use, uncovering what accelerates progress and what still needs human j

Community, Costumes & Claude: How AI Got Spooky This Week This weekend’s #WxAISocialSaturday was equal parts spooky, strategic, and social, thanks to our host Summer Poletti (rhymes with spaghetti), a fractional revenue leader and GTM strategist known for transforming underperforming sales orgs and elevating women into revenue and executive roles. Summer brought her signature blend of AI-savvy and human-first leadership to a festive Halloween-themed session full of AI art,

Photo by Reut Lazo What does the future of law look like in an AI-powered world? That question shaped one of the most thought-provoking events of SF Tech Week. On October 7, an audience gathered at Werqwise for the Aparti.AI Salon, hosted by Anna Naidis, CPO and Co-Founder of Aparti.AI , and supported by WOMEN x AI. Reut Lazo attended and had a great time learning at the intersection of AI and legal, in community. The evening brought together legal experts, founders, and in

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

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