LaSandra Brill is Vice President of Global Digital Marketing at NVIDIA, one of the most influential technology companies in the world. Leading a team of 185+ people, she oversees data strategy, CRM, media, corporate social, marketing automation, NVIDIA.com, analytics, and NVIDIA's own AI marketing strategy. With 20+ years in tech marketing across Cisco and Symantec, she has been recognized as a Top 50 Influential Digital Marketer and Top 25 Women Who Rock Social Media. Beyond her work at NVIDIA, she is a published children's book author - her 2017 book 'Let's Be Friends' promotes inclusion for children with Down syndrome - and serves on the boards of LuMind IDSC Foundation, Special Olympics, and Abilities United.
Prachi Gupta is VP of Engineering at Google, leading the Workspace Communication & Time Management portfolio - Gmail, Chat, Calendar, and Tasks - for hundreds of millions of users worldwide. A graduate of IIT Roorkee and Ohio State University, she spent over eight years as VP of Engineering at YouTube before moving to Workspace, where she now sits at the intersection of Google's AI transformation and its most-used productivity tools. Her current mandate: turning Gmail into a Gemini-powered personal proactive assistant.
Debby Soo is the CEO of OpenTable, the global restaurant reservation platform serving 65,000+ restaurant partners across 110+ countries. A Stanford and MIT Sloan alumna, she took the helm in August 2020 — at the precise moment the pandemic shuttered restaurants worldwide — and transformed the business by shifting its focus from diners to restaurants as the primary customer. Under her leadership, OpenTable has achieved double-digit revenue growth in 2025 and quadrupled its share price since she joined, while forging strategic partnerships with Visa, JPMorgan Chase, and OpenAI.
Wendy Gonzalez is the CEO of Sama, a mission-driven AI data annotation and model evaluation company that employs thousands of workers in East Africa. She joined Sama in 2015, rose through the ranks as COO and President, and assumed the CEO role in 2020 following the passing of founder Leila Janah. Under her leadership, Sama closed a $70M Series B - at the time the largest funding round for a woman-led AI infrastructure company - achieved Forbes AI 50 recognition, and scaled to over 3,000 employees while maintaining its B Corp certification and social mission of lifting people out of poverty through dignified work in the AI economy.
Carolyn Joshua is the President and CEO of Trilyon, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based IT staffing and workforce solutions firm she has led since 2009. Under her leadership, Trilyon has grown into a globally recognized, women-owned and minority-certified enterprise serving Fortune 500 companies including Google, Cisco, Samsung, Hitachi, and Oracle across North America, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC. A champion of diversity, inclusion, and women's empowerment, she serves as Co-Chair of USPAACC WISE and has been recognized with the J.P. Morgan Unity in Action Award (2025), the SheLeads Impact Award (2024), and named a Top 50 Women Leader of San Francisco (2023).
Colleen Gallagher is the CEO of Textio, an AI-powered HR tech company helping organizations attract and develop top talent through bias-aware communication tools. A US Navy veteran turned finance executive, she rose through the ranks at Textio - from CFO to COO to CEO - bringing operational rigor and a conviction that most hiring fails because it mistakes likability for competence. Under her leadership, Textio launched Lavalier, an interview intelligence platform designed to replace gut-feel hiring with structured, evidence-based evaluation.
Rosalba Reynoso is the co-founder and CEO of Blue Trail Software, a San Francisco-based benefit corporation delivering custom software, AI/ML, IoT, and QA solutions for enterprises and scale-ups across the Americas and Europe. Coming from a human resources background rather than a technical one, she built a nearshore Pan-American IT company with teams across Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, and Spain, serving Fortune 100 clients including Samsung, Cartier, Hewlett Packard, and Logitech. A proud Latina leading a women-founded and women-led firm, Reynoso champions diversity and inclusion, stakeholder empowerment, and social impact - from funding coding bootcamps for women in Mexico to creating the My Luna menopause-tracking app.
Jenny Lefcourt is a General Partner at Freestyle VC, a San Francisco-based seed-stage venture capital firm with $565M+ AUM. A serial entrepreneur who dropped out of Stanford GSB to co-found WeddingChannel.com (backed by Kleiner Perkins), she later co-founded Bella Pictures before transitioning to venture capital in 2014. She has since backed iconic companies including Airtable, Patreon, BetterUp, and Intercom, earned spots on the Forbes Midas Seed List and Forbes 50 Over 50, and co-founded All Raise, the nonprofit accelerating female founders and funders in tech.
Carly Taylor is a data scientist, ML engineer, and Field CTO for Gaming at Databricks who blends computational chemistry roots with cutting-edge machine learning to transform how the gaming industry understands player behavior. As founder of Rebel Data Science and creator of the Taylor on Tech newsletter, she advocates fiercely for diversity in data science while holding two ML patents and a track record that includes reducing player churn by 17% at Activision.