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Women in AI connects, empowers, and elevates female founders and engineers in artificial intelligence. We partner with AI leaders, investors, and service providers to support women in founding, investing, and building in the AI space.
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Charlene Li
A transformative strategy and leadership expert, Charlene is a New York Times bestselling author who has led organizations and leaders through significant disruptions, with a portfolio that includes work with 14 of the Dow Jones 30 companies. Her expertise spans research, writing, and weekly LinkedIn streams focused on innovation and the impact of generative AI on the future of work. Through tailored keynotes and workshops, she inspires audiences to embrace actionable change, highlighting empathy and relationships as core leadership qualities. She also offers selective advisory and coaching services, supporting top leaders and organizations in achieving transformative goals with a stakeholder-centered approach. With clients like Adobe, SAP, and the US Navy, her work consistently drives impactful change across industries.
Jeff Herbst is the Co-Founding Managing Partner of GFT Ventures, with three decades of expertise in venture capital, operations, business development, and M&A. Before GFT, he served as NVIDIA’s Vice President of Business Development for 20 years, where he fostered a comprehensive ecosystem of accelerated computing applications in AI, data science, autonomous machines, and graphics. During his NVIDIA tenure, Jeff established the Nvidia GPU Ventures program, overseeing over 40 global investments and 20 acquisitions valued at over $8 billion. He also spearheaded the Nvidia Inception accelerator, which now includes over 8,000 AI, data science, and high-performance computing startups. Earlier in his career, Jeff led business development for the Altavista search engine and was a partner at Wilson Sonsini in Palo Alto. He holds a JD from Stanford University and a BS with honors in Computer Science and Economics from Brown University.