Human-Centered Leadership for the AI Era
The AI-Powered Women Conference brings together up to 1,000 leaders for a two-day gathering exploring what it means to lead — and remain deeply human — through this extraordinary period of technological acceleration.
This is deliberately not a conventional AI conference. We explore what AI can do, but also the larger human and societal systems into which it is arriving: how technology is reshaping leadership, work, power, judgment, creativity, connection, and the choices we make about the future.
Across two days, the program brings together disciplines too often kept separate — technology and organizational transformation alongside history, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, ethics, spirituality, creativity, and systems thinking. MIT scholars, Fortune 500 executives, AI leaders, researchers, and interdisciplinary thinkers will explore everything from responsible innovation, power and capital, and enterprise transformation to the human nervous system under pressure, collective intelligence, consciousness, meaning, and human judgment.
Through visionary talks, research, hands-on labs, and experiential practices, participants will strengthen the distinctly human capacities increasingly essential in an AI-shaped world: discernment, wisdom, relational intelligence, courage, creativity, and conscious leadership.
At the center is a larger question that will guide the entire weekend: What kind of future are we actually creating — and what responsibility do we have in shaping it?
Agenda
Where the biggest questions of the AI era are explored through visionary talks, strategic dialogue, interdisciplinary perspectives, and artistic reflection — examining how AI is reshaping power, society, work, identity, and the future of human life itself, while highlighting the critical role women leaders play in shaping more ethical, human-centered futures.
8:00 AM
to 8:45 AM
Arrival & Check-In
MIT Kresge Auditorium
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9:00 AM
to 9:10 AM
Spoken Invocation: Cello and Spoken Word
MIT Kresge Auditorium
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9:15 AM
to 9:30 AM
Conference Welcome: The Future Is Not Inevitable: AI, Humanity & The Decisions That Will Shape Civilization
MIT Kresge Auditorium
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9:30 AM
to 10:00 AM
Before We Build the Future: What Does History Reveal About Technology, Society & Human Choice?
MIT Kresge Auditorium
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10:05 AM
to 10:40 AM
The Human Nervous System Under Pressure: Acceleration, Grief & Meaning in the Age of Intelligent Systems
MIT Kresge Auditorium
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10:45 AM
to 10:55 AM
Music / Embodied Reset
MIT Kresge Auditorium
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11:00 AM
to 12:00 PM
Research on Women, Power & the Future of Decision-Making
MIT Kresge Auditorium
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12:00 PM
to 12:20 PM
Inside the AI Transformation Playbook: What It Really Takes to Build an AI-Native Organization
MIT Kresge Auditorium
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12:30 PM
to 2:00 PM
Lunch + Networking
MIT Kresge Auditorium
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2:00 PM
to 2:10 PM
Poetry / Reflection Moment
MIT Kresge Auditorium
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2:10 PM
to 2:55 PM
Spill the Tea: The Human Reality of AI Transformation Leaders Aren't Saying Out Loud
MIT Kresge Auditorium
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2:55 PM
to 3:20 PM
The Science of Collective Intelligence: What makes some groups more intelligent than others — and what research reveals about women, social sensitivity and group performance
MIT Kresge Auditorium
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3:25 PM
to 3:55 PM
The Imperative for Moral Innovation: AIs Impact on Moral Formation, Moral Conflict, Relationships & Collective Behavior
MIT Kresge Auditorium
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3:55 PM
to 4:10 PM
Mindfulness & Visualization
MIT Kresge Auditorium
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4:10 PM
to 4:40 PM
The End of Certainty: Why Philosophy Is Becoming a Leadership Skill in the Age of AI
MIT Kresge Auditorium
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4:45 PM
to 5:15 PM
The Rebalancing of Leadership Gender, Power & the Rise of Collective Intelligence in the Age of AI
MIT Kresge Auditorium
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5:30 PM
to 6:30 PM
Networking Reception
MIT Kresge Auditorium
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A hands-on workshop space focused on practical frameworks for AI governance, organizational transformation, workforce adaptation, decision-making, and human-centered leadership in an age of accelerating change.
10:15 AM
to 11:00 AM
Human-Positive Leadership in the Age of AI
Little Kresge
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11:05 AM
to 11:50 AM
Designing Human-Centered AI Teams: What to Automate, What to Augment & What Humans Must Retain
Little Kresge
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2:10 PM
to 2:55 PM
Drawing the Line: What Should—and Shouldn't—Be Handed to AI: A Practical Lab for Building Your Personal AI Boundaries
Little Kresge
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3:05 PM
to 3:45 PM
Transitioning Into AI: A Practical Roadmap for Nontechnical Leaders
Little Kresge
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3:50 PM
to 4:30 PM
Protecting Your Data in the Age of AI: Preventing Data Leakage Before It Happens
Little Kresge
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An applied AI playground where attendees actively build with AI through intimate, hands-on sessions focused on agents, automation, workflows, copilots, research systems, and real-world implementation.
10:15 AM
to 11:00 AM
Create Your Own AI Assistant: Building Intelligent Workflows With Open Source AI
Rehearsal Room 2
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11:00 AM
to 12:00 PM
Build Your Own Growth Engine: Design, Assemble, and Ship a Growth Loop
Rehearsal Room 2
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2:00 PM
to 2:50 PM
Is RAG Dead? Let's Build the Version That Isn't
Rehearsal Room 2
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2:55 PM
to 3:35 PM
Can AI Recommend You? Building a professional presence AI can find, trust, and put forward.
Rehearsal Room 2
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3:40 PM
to 4:30 PM
How to Build Your Own Neural Network
Rehearsal Room 2
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An immersive space for reflection, embodiment, nervous system regulation, creativity, and inner clarity — strengthening the human capacities machines cannot replace: presence, discernment, resilience, imagination, and connection.
10:15 AM
to 11:00 AM
The Human Advantage: A Nervous System Reset for the AI Era
Rehearsal Room 1
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11:00 AM
to 12:00 PM
Ancestral Intelligence: Remembering the Wisdom We Carry — Consciousness, Intuition & Human Potential in the Age of AI
Rehearsal Room 1
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2:40 PM
to 3:10 PM
Building an Intuitive Intelligence System: Using Tarot, Symbolic Pattern Recognition & AI for Better Decisions
Rehearsal Room 1
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3:15 PM
to 3:55 PM
Beyond Words: Accessing Intuition & Creative Intelligence Through Embodied Drawing
Rehearsal Room 1
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4:00 PM
to 4:30 PM
The Ancient Technology of Yoga: What Thousands of Years of Human Practice Can Teach Us About Attention, Energy & Consciousness in the Age of AI
Rehearsal Room 1
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Speakers
Collaborators
Book Authors
AI Lab Exhibitors
Founded, led, and built by women.
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