Michelle Gass is the president and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co., the first woman to lead the 172-year-old denim company. A chemical engineer by training, she built Starbucks' Frappuccino into a $2 billion brand, ran Kohl's for five years, and is now reshaping Levi's into a direct-to-consumer denim lifestyle retailer.

Ali Mannan Tirmizi is a Pakistani IT leader and engineer who went from co-founding a Harvard-backed water filtration startup at 23 to becoming a Senior IT Manager at Procter & Gamble, where he leads supply chain cloud platforms across Asia, Middle East and Africa. With a background in Electrical Engineering from LUMS and comparative public policy from UMass Amherst (US State Department SUSI program), he bridges technical depth with social purpose - slashing $220K in cloud costs at P&G while previously building a $2 water filter that removes 99.99% of bacteria for Pakistan's underserved communities. He also writes on data management for DATAVERSITY and holds a YouTube channel where he shares insights from his journey.