🧠 GenAI Collective 🧠 The Diversity AI Forum
Join the GenAI Collective and a host of AI professionals from diverse communities, including the Black, Latinx, Asian, and LGBTQ+ communities! 🙌
Listen to guest speakers and panelists discuss how they are using AI in the job market, developing AI tools and programs that promote inclusion, and how AI and inclusion benefits everyone. 🤝
Come ready to eat, drink, converse, and network with professionals who have a passion for diversity, inclusion, and AI! 🤩
Agenda
5:30pm: Open mingling
6:15pm: Welcome + opening statements
6:30pm: Keynote • Marcus Sawyerr
6:45pm: Panel discussion I
7:25pm: Panel discussion II
8:05pm: Keynote • Arjun Arora
8:30pm: Doors close
Speakers & Panelists
Senior Creative Producer / Marketer • Tech Industry
Event Host and Moderator
Anthony Garcia is a seasoned creative professional who has a passion for innovative technology and media, and throughout his career, he has been at the forefront of this ever-changing industry. Anthony's new passion includes artificial intelligence (AI), and in the last year, he has immersed himself in this new technology, landing marketing roles for various AI tech companies and startups.
Founder & CEO • EQ app
Marcus Sawyerr is a distinguished leader in artificial intelligence (AI), recruitment, and digital transformation. As the Founder and CEO of EQ Community, Marcus is dedicated to connecting multicultural professionals with tech industry opportunities. His extensive experience includes pivotal roles at industry giants like Adecco, Microsoft, and CareerBuilder, where he spearheaded initiatives in online recruitment and digital innovation.
Marcus is celebrated for his profound insights into the integration of AI in staffing and recruitment. He has been a vocal advocate for leveraging AI to enhance hiring processes, improve candidate experiences, and drive organizational efficiency. His thought leadership extends to numerous interviews and podcasts, where he decodes the latest trends and truths about AI in the staffing industry.
Recognized as a 2023 DE&I Influencer, Marcus combines his expertise in AI with a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. His work advances technological frontiers and champions the creation of inclusive workplaces.
Partner • Stride Consulting
I am passionate about helping teams and individuals achieve their goals. Over 25 years in building software, I have scaled high-performing teams and excel at helping technology executives scale, modernize, and transform their businesses.
Stride balances IQ and EQ to deliver business-critical custom software, while unlocking more efficient processes and stronger communications that leave your team transformed for the better. We are at the forefront of GenAI, having launched Stride Conductor, the only multi-agent codegen product specifically designed to eradicate tech debt.
Founder & CEO @ Alpino
GTM Strategy & Operations Consulting (focusing on AI)
LatinX & LGBTQ+
With 14 years of experience in tech, non-profit, and consulting, I am a B2B Sales, Marketing, and Operations Leader dedicated to helping businesses realize their potential. As the Founder and CEO of Alpino, I provide AI-focused frameworks to enhance branding, optimize strategies, and improve sales and operations for startups and SMEs. I also support a network of 30K+ underrepresented founders and investors through leadership roles in StartOut and the National Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce, organizing events and mentorship programs to empower the next generation of innovators and leaders.
DEI Consultant & Founder, AG Voiced
Board Member, Techqueria
Audrey Galo (she/her/ella) is an entrepreneur, DEI advocate, speaker, and career coach. She’s a Board Member for Techqueria, a nonprofit that nurtures the largest global community of Latiné people in tech. She founded AG Voiced, a coaching practice helping women of color accelerate their careers. She is formerly the DEI Program Director for General Assembly, driving education and career equity within the tech industry, including equitable access to AI skills and career pathways.
Through her work, Audrey seeks to amplify and support practices that restore the humanity and liberation of historically marginalized communities. Her leadership was shaped as an underestimated queer, Latiné woman and mother. Audrey is a San Francisco Area resident, raised in Chicago and proud of her Central American roots.
Equity Design Strategist • Consultant
Zariah Cameron is an Equity UX thought leader and International Speaker who centers on operationalizing how we build and design products and communities more inclusively, especially for those living on the margins. She ensures healing and care practices are at the foundation of the design, research, and cultural environment frameworks. She is a certified Yoga instructor and seeks to infuse the ideology and principles of the meditative practice into how teams are led and cultivated. She believes in creating a sense of community within her work and is passionate about mentoring young Black designers. She is also the host and executive producer of "The KickBack" podcast focused on reimagining design and tech for Healing and joy.
Managing Partner • Hewani Data
Dr. Keita Broadwater is the Managing Partner at Hewani Data, a global consultancy specializing in Data Analytics, Data Science, and Machine Learning Engineering. As a seasoned angel investor and co-founder of Shina Capital, he empowers deep tech startups in the Global South. His extensive career includes pivotal roles at Hewlett Packard, Lenovo, Disney Streaming, Jabil Circuit, and Cloudera. Dr. Broadwater holds an MBA from Cornell and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Maryland. He is also the author of "Graph Neural Networks in Action," a publication by Manning.
Product Manager • Formerly at Netlify
Jennifer is a trailblazing force in the tech world, with over two decades of experience at influential companies, including GitHub, Mozilla, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Passionate about using technology to revolutionize education and create equity, she has championed diversity and inclusion through leadership roles in the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and Latinas in Computing. Jennifer has lent her expertise to advisory boards for CODE2040 and Silicon Valley Latino and is currently an active member of Women Defining AI. A dedicated family woman and avid soccer enthusiast, she's always ready to kick goals on and off the field.
Founder/CEO • Advisor.AI
Arjun Arora is the founder of Advisor.AI, a startup that is revolutionizing student success through personalized, comprehensive, and cost-effective advising solutions. Arjun and his world-class team of education and technology experts are poised to significantly improve the higher education system by delivering advising support for tens of millions of students who are typically unable to gain access to the right support and insights required to achieve their boldest career dreams. With over a decade of experience in leading data and AI projects for Fortune 500 clients, Arjun has a proven track record of generating over $10M in ROI from value-driven AI solutions and has educated over 5000 business, technical, and domain experts on responsible AI best practices. Prior to founding Advisor.AI, Arjun worked at Datarobot, OpenText, and Robust Intelligence and completed his educational degrees from Kutztown University and Drexel University.
Founder & CEO at Zette
Yehong Zhu is the Founder and CEO of Zette, a Top Woman Entrepreneur in Media & Ad Tech, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. A first generation American, Zhu is a philosophy graduate of Harvard University and an avid writer. It was her experience as a business reporter in the Forbes newsroom that inspired her to found Zette. “I wanted to build a better way to access high quality content, while also ensuring journalists could still get paid.” Zhu later worked at Twitter, where she was a product manager on two teams in San Francisco and London, working with designers and engineers to ship features across Twitter's 400M users. Bridging the gap between premium journalism and consumer technology, Zhu founded Zette—the "Netflix for News." Today Zette is a venture-backed media AI startup that democratizes access to premium news while sharing revenue with newsrooms.
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