Women at the Edge of AI: Voice, Power, and the Courage to Build What Comes Next
About this session
AI is not only changing what we build. It is redistributing influence, decision-making authority, and economic power. Yet women remain underrepresented in many of the rooms where AI systems, investment priorities, governance models, and workplace consequences are being shaped. This session moves beyond familiar calls for representation. Drawing on more than three decades of building technology, leading global engineering organizations, and navigating transformation as a woman in tech, Manju Abraham and Geetha Sreedhar will examine what women need to lead at the edge of AI: technical fluency without credential anxiety, the courage to act before certainty arrives, the power to challenge flawed assumptions, and the judgment to build systems worthy of trust. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for moving from AI participant to AI decision-maker, builder, and shaper of what comes next.
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Key takeaways
- Recognize where power is shifting in the AI economy and why using AI is not the same as influencing how it is built, governed, and deployed.
- Apply a practical framework for building AI fluency, decision-making confidence, visibility, and influence without waiting to become the most technical person in the room.
- Identify concrete actions women, leaders, builders, and allies can take to ensure diverse judgment is present before AI systems and operating models become difficult to change.