What We Do
Conferences at the Forefront of AI & Human Potential
We host AI-Powered Women Summits at the world’s leading institutions for AI, bringing together brilliant minds from both technology and the humanities to explore the future of AI in business, creativity, and leadership. These events go beyond traditional tech conferences—our focus is on how AI enhances what makes us uniquely human: intuition, ethics, connection, and innovation.
AI-Powered Learning Platform
Our platform doesn’t just provide high-quality recorded content from our conferences—it’s AI-driven, curating the latest online courses, insights from top AI thinkers, and real-world applications. This ensures that women always have access to the most relevant, cutting-edge, and practical AI education available.
Corporate Partnerships & On-Site Leadership Events
AI-Powered Women is a flagship initiative within our broader Business to Human framework—designed to empower leaders with the latest AI insights, tools, and strategic support to amplify their impact. While AI-Powered Women focuses on closing the AI skills gap and advancing leadership equity through mini-conferences, panels, and hands-on learning, Business to Human expands this work organization-wide. Our high-impact workshops and internal panels build AI fluency, surface blockers, and generate tangible use cases grounded in daily work. Each session outputs structured human-centered insights that can feed into secure, team-specific AI agents and AI models to drive smarter cross-functional collaboration. Companies can engage with either initiative individually—or integrate both for a transformative, inclusive approach to AI readiness.
Email us at info@businesstohuman to learn more
The Team Behind AI-Powered Women: Strategic Advisory Council
To ensure the AI-Powered Women Conference is diverse, high-quality, and impactful, we’ve gathered a Strategic Advisory Council of leading experts across disciplines. Each member brings a unique lens to the conference, helping us design an experience that is inclusive, interdisciplinary, and transformative for all attendees.
Dr. Felicia Newhouse
Founder, AI-Powered Women
Lens: Vision
Description: With over 20 years as a product tech executive, three successful startup exits, and PhD research on women's leadership and transformational learning, Felicia is the visionary behind AI-Powered Women. She ensures attendees leave transformed and deeply empowered, fully equipped to leverage AI to future-proof their careers.
Website: aipoweredwomen.com
Joanna Peña-Bickley
AI Pioneer, inventor & design engineer
Lens: Ancestral Wisdom + Cognitive Wellness
Description: Hailed as the mother of Cognitive Experience Design, Joanna is a world-renowned, Mexican-American visionary design engineer whose award-winning work—from inventing AI-powered Alexa devices at Amazon to reimagining mobility for GM and advocating for women in tech—has transformed global brands, earned her honors like Fortune’s Most Powerful Women.
Website: Link Here
Gabi Zijderveld
Human-Centric AI Innovator & Investor
Lens: Human-Centric AI
Description: Gabi is a seasoned tech executive, startup mentor, and current Partner at Blue Tulip Ventures, who helped define the Emotion AI category as CMO and Head of Product Strategy at Affectiva—where she launched the industry’s first in-cabin automotive AI—and brings decades of experience across seven startups and two public companies, including IBM, building v1 products, scaling go-to-market strategies, and guiding early-stage AI founders.
Website: Blue Tulip Ventures
Beth Porter
C10 Labs, Boston University & MIT Media Lab
Lens: AI Tools & Upskilling
Description: Beth, Head of Studio Operations at C10 Labs and instructor at both Boston University and MIT Media Lab, brings her extensive experience in building AI accelerators. She excels in guiding AI founders from conception to investment, making her ideal for ensuring an accessible and impactful AI curriculum tailored for AI-Powered Women attendees.
Website: C10 Labs
Dr. Dilara Ally
Researcher at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School
Lens: Mental Health, Mindfulness & Human-Centered AI
Description: Dr. Ally bridges clinical expertise, AI, and contemplative practice in her mental health research at the Harvard Medical Center for Mindfulness and Compassion. She uses AI to understand relational processes such as compassion and perspective-taking.
Website: Center for Mindfulness & Compassion
Lisa Pierpont
Journalist and Emmy Award-Winning Producer
Lens: Storytelling & Production
Description: Lisa brings her extensive experience in journalism and production to the conference, ensuring that narratives are compelling and resonate with diverse audiences. She also bridges connections with journalists to amplify the event’s mission and expand its media reach.
Sara Fraim
CEO, Mass Technology Leadership Council
Lens: Ecosystem Growth & Inclusivity
Description: As CEO of MassTLC, Sara leads efforts to grow an inclusive technology ecosystem in Massachusetts, supporting innovation and community engagement. She'll help shape the tech narrative at the conference and help foster connections between industry leaders.
Website: masstlc.org
Bertha Asare
Founder, MiracleCyber
Lens: Youth in Tech, Cybersecurity, Inclusivity
Description: A Ghana native and responsible AI education advocate, Bertha empowers women, youth and immigrants through cybersecurity training, and will ensure our event promotes inclusivity and digital protection awareness.
Website: miraclecyber.com
Margaret Kelsey
Executive Learning and Development Expert
Lens: Curriculum Design & Mindfulness Integration
Description:
With a Harvard EdM, Margaret is an adult learning expert who merges mindfulness, stress management, and AI into executive education programs. She will ensure the conference curriculum is transformative and will help shape its AI-powered online learning platform.
Website: MHKLeadership.com
Emily Leahy
Founder, The Feminine Template
Lens: Women's Physiology
Description: Emily's mission is to revolutionize the future of work for women by leveraging physiology. Her research and work align women with their natural physiological rhythms with proven performance strategies, so she'll ensure our conference content and experiences promote healthy feminine embodiment and holistic well-being.
Website: thefemininetemplate.com
Kara Peterson
Co-Founder, descrybe.ai
Lens: Responsible AI & Ethics
Description: An award-winning justice tech entrepreneur, Kara is co-founder of Descrybe.ai and a recognized advocate for responsible AI in legal services. As Co-Chair of BU Questrom’s Women in Biz Alumni Council, she champions ethical AI adoption and will ensure our conference's content promotes greater responsibility and accessibility in applied AI.
Website: descrybe.ai
Anna Devere
Podcaster & Media Company Owner
Lens: Storytelling & Media
Description: An award-winning podcaster and healer, Anna bridges the known with the unknown. She merges media, music, and holistic wisdom and will help shape narratives that connect AI, women’s lived experiences, and ancient storytelling traditions at our conference.
Website: Building AI Boston
Backed by MIT’s Venture Mentoring Service (VMS), AI-Powered Women is supported by a diverse mentorship team of seasoned entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and MIT experts committed to guiding our growth strategy with integrity, innovation, and impact.
