Elizabeth Adams (she/her/hers) is a technology integrator, working at the intersection of AI Ethics, Ethical Tech Design & Tech Inclusion. She passionately teaches, advises, consults, and speaks on the critical subjects within Diversity & Inclusion and Humane Engineering in Artificial Intelligence. Her work centers on shared leadership in the advancement of technology through a social science lens.

Elizabeth impacts the world around her every day serving as a Key Constituent for the United Nations 3C Roundtable on Artificial intelligence, Chief AI Ethics Advisor for Paravision and as a Race & Tech Fellow at Stanford University’s Institute of Human-Centered AI & Center for Comparative Studies in Ethnicity. Elizabeth is a founding member of POSTME, a coalition advocating for Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology in Minneapolis. As co-lead of POSTME, Elizabeth’s leadership led to the city of Minneapolis banning Facial Recognition technology, a win for more tech transparency in support of ½ million residents.

Having served as an appointed member of the Racial Equity Community Advisory Committee for the City of Minneapolis, Elizabeth continues to influence the local Civic Tech & Tech equity conversation and framework. Over the last 20 years, she has refined her leadership acumen in tech design by leading a variety of technology initiatives in the Washington DC metro area for various government agencies. Now she remains dedicated to embedding ethics in artificial intelligence systems and makes time to pursue her passion for helping others chart a path toward Purposeful A.I.

Angela Duckworth is co-founder and CEO of Character Lab, a nonprofit that uses psychological science to help children thrive. She is also the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and faculty co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative. Angela was a 2013 MacArthur Fellow and has advised the White House, World Bank, NBA and NFL teams, and Fortune 500 CEOs. Angela has received many awards for her contributions to K-12 education, including a Beyond Z Award from the KIPP Foundation, and her TED talk is among the most-viewed of all time. Her first book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, is a #1 New York Times best seller.

Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist and a leading expert on how we can find motivation and meaning, and live more generous and creative lives. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers and Fortune‘s 40 under 40. He is the author of four New York Times bestselling books that have sold over two million copies and been translated into 35 languages: Give and Take, Originals, Option B, and Power Moves. Adam hosts WorkLife, a TED original podcast. His TED talks have been viewed more than 20 million times. His speaking and consulting clients include Google, the NBA, Bridgewater, and the Gates Foundation, and he serves on the Defense Innovation Board at the Pentagon. He is a former magician and junior Olympic springboard diver.

Erika H. James became the dean of the Wharton School on July 1, 2020. Trained as an organizational psychologist, Dean James is a leading expert on crisis leadership, workplace diversity, and management strategy.

Prior to her appointment at Wharton, Dean James was the John H. Harland Dean at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School from 2014 to 2020. An award-winning educator, accomplished consultant, and researcher, she is the first woman and first person of color to be appointed dean in Wharton’s 139-year history. As such she has paved the way for women in leadership both in education and corporate America. Dean James has been instrumental in developing groundbreaking executive education programs, including the Women’s Leadership program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School.

Known internationally, Dean James was named as one of the “Top 10 Women of Power in Education” by Black Enterprise and as one of the “Power 100” by Ebony. She has been quoted as an expert thought leader by the Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, CNN.com, and numerous other media outlets.

In addition to her academic responsibilities, Dean James is a board member of SurveyMonkey, a California-based market research and customer-experience company, the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), and several organizations that align with her passion for education and advancing women in business. Additionally, she serves as an advisory board member to Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management and as an executive board member to the Indian School of Business. She also serves on the board of Save the Children, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities.

Dean James holds a Ph.D. and Master’s degree in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Pomona College of the Claremont Colleges in California.

Andrea Jones-Rooy, Ph.D. is the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the NYU Center for Data Science, where she also developed and teaches their popular flagship course, Data Science for Everyone. She was previously assistant professor of political science at NYU Shanghai, where she founded their interdisciplinary major in quantitative social science. Andrea earned her Ph.D. in political science and complex systems at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and was a postdoctoral fellow in Social & Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon. Andrea regularly speaks and consults outside of academia on social and data science, with a special focus on helping non-scientists learn why and how to think like a scientist to design research programs to uncover what’s really going on in companies, especially as it affects diversity. In her spare time, she is a standup comedian and circus performer, both of which she has performed to audiences, including royalty, all over the world. In a possibly dubious effort to combine all three aspects of her life, Andrea is also the host of a monthly show, Political Circus, which is a political science lecture + comedy set + circus routine that nobody asked for, which you can catch in New York City’s Caveat theatre.

Dan Morales is the Director of People Analytics at McKinsey & Company, where he leads cross-disciplinary technical teams, including data scientists, data engineers, analytics translators and leverages advanced analytics methods and capabilities to address strategic talent questions for McKinsey’s senior leaders. Dan has worked on people analytics topics across the employee lifecycle from assessment to engagement, workforce planning, and performance management. He has led the growth and development of a group of analytics translators to amplify the impact of his team’s work across McKinsey’s organization.

Previously, Dan was an Associate Partner in McKinsey’s Washington, DC, office, where he led client service teams across industries on organization and technology related engagements in the public and private sector. Dan holds a PhD in Management Science from Stanford University and engineering degrees from the US Air Force Academy and MIT.

Ai-jen Poo is the co-founder and Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, a non-profit organization working to bring quality work, dignity and fairness to the growing numbers of workers who care and clean in our homes, the majority of whom are immigrants and women of color.  In 12 short years, with the help of more than 70 local affiliate organizations and chapters and over 200,000 members, the National Domestic Workers Alliance has passed Domestic Worker Bills of Rights in 9 states and the city of Seattle, and brought over 2 million home care workers under minimum wage protections.

Roshni Raveendhran is an assistant professor of business administration in the Leadership and Organizational Behavior area at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. She received her Ph.D. in business administration (management) from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

Raveendhran’s research focuses on understanding the future of work. In particular, she examines how technological advancements influence organizational actors, workplace practices and the management of employees. In doing so, she develops insights about how organizations can effectively integrate novel technologies into the workplace to manage their employees.

She also explores how organizations can increase the effectiveness of their leadership and HR practices to address the changing nature of work. Raveendhran’s research has been published in academic journals such as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Computers in Human Behavior, Behavioral Science and Policy, and outlets such as MIT Sloan Management Review. It has been featured in outlets such as CNN Business, Financial Times, Business Insider, Forbes India, and Virginia Public Radio. Her research has also received international honors such as the Academy of Management’s 2020 Outstanding Practitioner-Oriented Publication in Organizational Behavior Award and finalist in the INFORMS Best Dissertation competition in 2017.

Nancy Rothbard is an award-winning expert in work motivation, teamwork, work-life balance, and leadership. Professor Rothbard was previously on the faculty of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and holds degrees from Brown University and the University of Michigan. She has published her research in top academic research journals in her field and her work has been discussed in the general media in outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, ABC News, CNN, Forbes, National Public Radio, US News & World Report, and the Washington Post.

Professor Rothbard’s research focuses on the interplay between emotions and engagement in multiple roles. Specifically, she explores how people’s emotional responses to one role or task affect their subsequent engagement in another role or task. She has examined these questions in the context of work and family roles and in the context of multiple tasks that people perform within the work role. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organization Science, and Personnel Psychology. In addition to her academic articles, Professor Rothbard has authored several Harvard Business School case studies. Her teaching cases touch on the topics of leadership, corporate culture, and organizational change. Professor Rothbard received the 2000 Likert Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan. She is also the recipient of the Gerald and Lillian Dykstra Award for Teaching Excellence and the 2010 Wharton Teaching Commitment and Curricular Innovation Award.

Professor Rothbard has helped some of the world’s premier companies change their approaches to teamwork, leadership, and work motivation. Among other projects, she has worked with a Fortune 100 company to understand the factors that improve call center performance and customer service, a leading hotel chain to transform sales and hiring, and financial service organizations to optimize their leadership and approach to sales.

Kanwal Safdar is a leader within Microsoft’s People Analytics organization focused on enabling data driven decisions of global HR programs, processes, and services on behalf of the company. Her team partners directly with HR leaders to advise on Diversity and Inclusion, Employee Voice, Retention programs etc. The team also partners heavily with Product to help shape future vision and internal implementation efforts.

Kanwal cut her teeth in the People Analytics space at Google where she spent 9 years. Prior to joining Microsoft, she was a Director of People Analytics at Workday, and in the past has led the People Analytics function at Silicon Valley changemakers, Tesla and Palo Alto Networks. Throughout her career, she has built extensive analytics and insights experience and has proven success in formulating and implementing solutions in service of people and business problems.

Kara Swisher is renowned for elevating the public’s understanding of the technology industry’s trends, products, and players through her journalistic excellence.

She has covered the technology industry through a number of different media channels, including her website Recode, her podcasts Recode Decode and Pivot, her columns for The Wall Street Journal, her contributions to The New York Times, her two books, and her appearances on NBC, CNBC, and MSNBC.

She also co-produced and co-hosted the Code Conference series, the country’s premier conference on technology and media, which has featured industry leaders including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Google’s leadership, and among many others.

Becky Thielen is a leader within Microsoft’s People Analytics organization focused on enabling data driven decisions of global HR programs, processes, and services on behalf of the company. Her team partners directly with HR leaders to advise on Diversity, Inclusion, Learning, Services, and Talent programs and processes within Microsoft. She was a key contributor to the creation/evolution of the function and has led multiple teams within Microsoft’s People Analytics organization. During her 20+ year career, Becky has focused on moving the discipline forward in various areas including: data analysis and insights, measurement and reporting, strategy, process improvement, technology implementations/integration, and program management.

Sarah Tobey is a Director of People Analytics at McKinsey & Company. As an analytics translator, Sarah works to bridge the technical expertise of data engineers and scientists with the business needs of McKinsey leadership. Sarah joined McKinsey as a People Analytics Expert, leading cross functional teams to serve clients across industries on a range of topics, from workforce planning to assessment, performance management, and employee upskilling at scale.

Sarah is currently focused on redesigning McKinsey’s continuous engagement and measurement strategy, developing new methods of connecting with colleagues, integrating new data sources, and advancing the sophistication of the firm’s People models. She also serves as the Translator expert on Natural Language Processing. Sarah holds an M.B.A from Columbia University and a degree in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania.

June Zhang is a manager on the People Analytics team at McKinsey & Company. She is an analytics translator focused on network analytics, where she leads a team of data scientists, data engineers, analysts, and others in advancing technical capabilities and in generating insights and supporting decisions for senior leaders across the talent lifecycle. Prior to this role, June served clients across industries on topics of digital strategy, analytics, and organization.

June is passionate about tackling projects that improve experience and promote health, both in work and in life. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, dual degrees in Commerce and Health Studies from Queen’s University, and a health coaching certification.