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Adrienne Prentice
Adrienne Prentice is the co-founder and CEO of Keep Company, a Bethesda, Maryland group-learning platform that gathers employees into coach-led peer groups to fight isolation, prevent burnout, and keep parents and caregivers from quitting. A former technology attorney at Cooley and Pillsbury who built and led a 35-person global legal team at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, she traded the partner track to build the support system she wished she'd had as a working parent. Keep Company has raised roughly $2 million in venture funding and was named by Techstars and Melinda French Gates' Pivotal Ventures among the top ten companies innovating in the care economy.
Jennie Strobeck
Jennie Strobeck is AVP of State & Local Sales, Digital Media at Adobe, where she leads government sales strategy across city, county, and state agencies. With a career spanning enterprise tech sales at DLT Solutions, immixGroup, and Avaya Government Solutions, she has spent over two decades at the intersection of technology and public sector transformation. At Adobe, she previously served as Chief of Staff and Channel Sales Manager before stepping into the AVP role in 2022. She is particularly focused on digital accessibility, helping governments meet DOJ WCAG compliance requirements and modernize document workflows at scale.
REI AMI
REI AMI (born Sarah Yeeun Lee) is a Korean-American singer, rapper, and genre-bending artist from Germantown, Maryland, who blends hip-hop, R&B, alternative pop, and pop-punk aggression into a sound entirely her own. After breaking through with Sub Urban's viral 'Freak' (2020) and debuting with her mixtape FOIL (2021), she catapulted to global stardom in 2025 as Zoey in Netflix's animated film KPop Demon Hunters, voicing and performing as part of the fictional K-pop trio HUNTR/X. Their single 'Golden' became Netflix's most-watched film's signature track, hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and won both a Grammy and an Oscar — firsts for any K-pop song.