About AI-Powered Woman
Mission: To redefine the future of leadership by placing women—and the full spectrum of human intelligence—at the center of the AI revolution.AI-Powered Women is a global institute and transformational leadership ecosystem anchored at MIT—uniting women at the frontier of technology, conscious leadership, and human potential.
Purpose: AI-Powered Women exists to awaken a more conscious relationship between technology and humanity. We exist to ensure that as artificial intelligence reshapes our world, women lead not only with technical fluency but with moral imagination, empathy, and spiritual intelligence. Our mission is to close the AI skills and confidence gap while awakening a deeper kind of literacy—one that integrates data, intuition, and wisdom.
Through our conferences, research collaborations, certification programs, and global partnerships, we bring together executives, educators, founders, and creators to explore how AI can expand—not diminish—our humanity.
We believe AI is not just a technological revolution, but a consciousness revolution. When women lead from the heart as well as the mind, we create technologies that heal systems, regenerate communities, and reconnect us to what makes us most human: creativity, compassion, and the courage to imagine a better future.
We believe AI is not just a technology shift—it’s a consciousness shift.
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: Joannapenabickley.com
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.
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
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.
