2026 Speaker Lineup

Director, Network Infrastructure

Meta

Chief People Officer

GE HealthCare

CEO

Nimbus Aerospace

Chief Technology Officer

Nimbus Aerospace

Director, Social Impact & Inclusion

Cisco Systems

Product Lead, Player Experience

The Walt Disney Company

E2 Fellow, Principal Community Partnerships and Grants Consultant

Energy IoT

Entrepreneur, Bestselling Author & Co-Founder

Forward Party

Dating Coach and Author

Get Your Guy Coaching

SR. Cloud Solution Architect Engineering Data & AI

Microsoft

Host & Content Creator

Managing Director

8genC - UnCap Ventures

Principal Product Manager

Ancestry

Senior Vice President and Chief Social Impact & Sustainability Officer

Cisco

Manager, Technology Strategy

PwC

SVP; Supervision Technology Executive

Bank of America

Vice President, Product Manager of Cyber Threat Intelligence

JPMorganChase & Co

Sr. Director, National Security Operations, Analytics & Engineering

Parsons

CEO

Andela

Co-Founder

BrightWorks AI and Change Agent AI

Massachusetts' 7th Congressional District

Former Chief Impact Officer

StockX

Developer Content Lead

OpenAI

Senior Software Engineer

Salesforce

Director, Segment Marketing

MassMutual

Co-Founder & President

SQUIRE

VP, Talent Development, Culture & Belonging

People Inc

CFO & COO

Westbrook

President and CEO

NAACP

Program Architect

NextGen | Tech

Global Markets Commercial IT Business Partner

GE HealthCare

Managing Director, Global Head of Security Response and AI Security

Morgan Stanley

Partner, Head of AI Research

KPMG

CEO & Founder

AJA LifeSciences Advisory LLC

President

National Medical Association

Founder & Managing Partner

Nuvanta Consulting Group

Founder & Chief Advisor, Rogers Solutions Group; Founder & President, Colorectal Cancer Equity Foundation

Rogers Solutions Group

Vice President Academic Medicine & Strategic Integration, Associate Professor OBGYN

IU Health Medical Group & IU School of Medicine

Health Equity Director

NAACP

Founder and CEO

Rauk AI

Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

WashU Medicine

Senior Director, Health Equity

Doximity

Chief Medical Officer

Hers

David L. Cohen University Professor of Pediatrics, Biomedical Informatics, and Communication

University of Pennsylvania

Executive Director; Founder & CEO; Adjunct Professor

SPARK RJ NOW, inc.; SEJH Institute; Emory Rollins School of Public Health

President

BET

Director, Center for Technology Innovation (CTI) and Senior Fellow, Governance Studies

Brookings Institute

Chief Neuropsychologist

Durham Region Center for Cognitive Health

Principal Nurse Experience Manager

Microsoft

CEO & Founder

2 E.D.I.F.Y., LLC

Co-Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education Assistant Professor of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University

Founder & Executive Director

Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute – DAIR

Founder & CEO, Advancing Health Equity; Author, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine, New York Times Bestseller

Advancing Health Equity

Chief Clinical Officer

Verily

Solution Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Founder

Monuments

Chief Marketing Officer

Nimbus Aerospace

Vice President, Global Communications | Global Business Solutions Group

Intuit

Founder and CEO

Onyx Impact

VP, Engineering

Betterment

Senior Regulatory Product Lead

Airbnb

Head of Creator Partnerships, Americas

Snap Inc.

Principal Solutions Architecture

VMware by Broadcom

Vice President of Diagnostic Operations

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Owner/Operator

McDonald’s

Minister of Home Affairs

Government of Bermuda

Colon & Rectal Surgeon

Mercy Health

Founder

BlackEverything.com

Chief Information Officer

GE HealthCare

Senior Associate, AI Engineering, Commercial Technology and Innovation Office

PwC

AVP; Financial Solutions Advisor

Merrill Lynch

CEO of the National Society of Black Engineers

National Society of Black Engineers

Editor-at-Large and Host at PEOPLE

People Inc.

Vice President of Program Strategy

Dream.Org

Vice President, Worldwide Startups and Venture Capital

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Co-Founder & COO

Blavity, Inc.

Creator & Founder

12PM Studios

Technical Trainer II

Amazon Web Services

Corporate Senior Director and Digital Creator

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CFO

Dream.Org

Editor in chief, Life

Business Insider

Sustainability Manager

CoreWeave

Solutions Architect

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

CEO

SynergyGrid

Writer and Content Creator

Blavity, Inc.

Space Manufacturing Engineer

Planet Labs

Government Affairs Director

Dream.Org

Director

PwC

Director of IT Quality and Regulatory Compliance

AbbVie

National Director of Economic Opportunity

Dream.Org

Chief Marketing Officer, Mobile eXperience

Samsung Electronics America

Principal AI Consultant

Asaday Consulting

VP, Brand & Product Marketing

Rocket

Senior AI Acceleration Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Principal

PwC

Vice President, Digital Strategy & Experience External Affairs

Planned Parenthood Federation of America Planned Parenthood Action Fund

AI Story-teller, Filmmaker, Comedian

AI & The Culture

CEO

TransPharMed, Digital Health Sales Institute

General Partner

Upfront Ventures

Financial Planner

Prudential Advisors

Academic Imaging Account Manager

GE HealthCare

Creator Partnerships Lead

Snap Inc.

Sr. Financial Planner

Betterment

Security Engineer

Figma

CEO

Stock Up! With Larry Jones

Fortune 500 & Private Equity Company Board Director

Former Global Chief Information Officer, Deloitte

Creator Partnerships, Consumer and Growth

OpenAI

National Civil Rights Attorney & Community Organizer for Landmark Cases | Adjunct Professor at Harvard | Forbes Power 100 Attorney | Congressional Black Caucus Nation Builder | Top 10 Influential Leader |

Merritt Law

Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Privacy and Product and Chief Privacy Officer

Ancestry

Product Lead

Block

Sales Engineer

Descript

First Vice President and Wealth Management Advisor

Merrill Lynch

Financial Planner

WestPoint Financial Group

Principal Software Engineer

Red Hat

Co-Founder

Klean Energy Entertainment

Author

Penguin Random House

Enterprise Technology Executive & Board Member

President and CEO

National Medical Fellowships

Chief Executive Officer

Okovate Sustainable Energy

Director, Generative AI Enablement Lead

Morgan Stanley

Assistant Editor

New York Public Radio/WNYC

Co-Founder & General Partner

Reign Ventures

Founder, CEO and Chairman

Blavity, Inc.

Chief Technology Officer

People Inc.

MVP, Software Engineer • ECP Tech TOH

Capital One

Head of Customer Value & Community

Frame Security

Sr. Solutions Architect, DGX Cloud (AI Platform Engineering)

NVIDIA

Founder and CEO

Kino Cove

Partner

Plente Group

Creator Partnerships Lead

Snap Inc.

Vice President of Social Impact

Best Buy

AI Engineer

Meta

Executive Vice President, Engineering

Rocket

Principal

FS Vector

Associate Publisher

Storehouse Voices/Penguin Random House

CNXN Helix: Fractional Chief Data & AI Officer | Enterprise AI Strategy, Platforms & Governance

Connection

Chief Information Officer

Workday

Co-Founder & CEO

Earn Your Leisure

Principal Product Designer

Microsoft

Chief Customer Officer

Sierra

President

Rice University

CEO

Freedmen Green Bank and Trust

Sr. Product Manager, AI/XR/Telecom

NVIDIA

Principal Solutions Sales Executive

Connection

Senior Solutions Engineer

Salesforce

Founder

Sloefy

Innovation Navigator

Bakar Labs for Energy & Materials

CEO & Co-Founder

The Gathering Spot

Enterprise Cloud Engineering Director

AbbVie

CEO/Founder

Unalome Consulting Group LLC

National Director of Organizing and Partnerships

Dream,Org

Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist

host and producer, regular contributor to CNN and News Nation

Lead Cybersecurity Architect

JP Morgan Chase

Independent Climate Consultant

N/A

CEO

World Connected Media Venturs

Chief Legal Officer

Zendesk

Independent Journalist with bylines in AfroTech, Madamenoire, Blavity

Host of Black Culture in Motion on aspireTV

Head of Global Brand and Creative

Delta Air Lines

Managing Director, Head of North America Firm Resilience and Global Head of Third-Party Technology Risk and Resilience

Morgan Stanley

SVP, AfroTech and Live Events

Blavity, Inc.

EVP & Chief Technology Officer

Ancestry

MVP, Software Engineer • CD Tech

Capital One

Senior Vice President, Engineering Network Security

Palo Alto Networks

Principal Radar Systems Engineer and Founder

GovTech Academy

Chief Operating Officer and Planning, Controls & Governance Executive

Bank of America

Publisher

Storehouse Voices/Penguin Random House

Head, External Engagement & Health Equity Strategy

Sanofi

Co-founder

Elizabeth & Minnie Publishing

Author

Penguin Random House

Managing Partner

Starfield Media

Director, Risk and Regulatory

PwC

Founder and CEO

NILE & Co.

Franchise Candidate Manager

McDonalds

VP, Flagship Engineering

LinkedIn

Co-Founder

The Gathering Spot

Head of Patient Insights & Engagement

UCB

AI & Enterprise Advisor

Deputy Director of Research Informatics and Data Science

American Society of Hematology Research Collaborative

Senior Product Manager

LinkedIn

Co-Founder & CEO

Earn Your Leisure

Director

NASA’s Johnson Space Center

CEO, American Board of Nursing Artificial Intelligence Founder, KhonsuAI & VytalFlow AI President, Global Nursing AI Alliance

Global Nursing AI Alliance, Khonsu AI

Co-Founder and Board Executive

MedTech Color

Musician, Actor, Filmmaker, Founder, Philanthropist

CEO

UnityCloud.ai

Research Engineer

The John's Hopkins University

Global CISO - Operational Technology

Solventum

Brand Manager

AfroTech and Black Tech Green Money

Partner

Offline Research

Sr. Director, Technical Program Management

Capital One

Vice President of Culture and People Experience

Axon

Co-Founder & MD

Africa Fintech Summit