As the global AI community prepares to gather in Paris for RAISE Summit 2026, anticipation is building around one of Europe's leading events dedicated entirely to artificial intelligence. Taking place on July 8–9, 2026, RAISE Summit will bring together founders, researchers, enterprise leaders, investors, policymakers, and innovators exploring the technologies, infrastructure, and ideas shaping the future of AI. From foundation models and AI agents to enterprise adoption, robotics, and responsible AI, RAISE is where today's breakthroughs meet tomorrow's opportunities.
As a proud community partner of RAISE Summit, WomenTech Network is excited to support this global gathering. More than a conference, RAISE Summit is a place where meaningful conversations begin, partnerships are formed, and the future of artificial intelligence is shaped through collaboration and shared expertise.
In celebration of this year's summit, we're spotlighting 35 visionary leaders and speakers whose work is advancing AI research, enterprise transformation, infrastructure, entrepreneurship, and innovation. These are the voices helping define what's next—and the speakers you won't want to miss.
Alice Guehennec
Directrice Tech, Data & Digital Groupe at Sodexo
Alice Guehennec is a technology and business transformation leader with more than 20 years of experience driving large-scale operational and technology transformation initiatives. She has led major business and technology transformations powered by advanced technologies, while also serving as a vice president of a leading technology association and holding multiple independent non-executive board positions. Her leadership focuses on leveraging data, technology, and artificial intelligence to improve operational performance, support sustainable growth, and create measurable business value through innovation.
Anna Goldie
Founder & CEO of Ricursive Intelligence
Anna Goldie is Founder and CEO of Ricursive Intelligence. She previously co-led the AlphaChip project, and co-founded the ML for Systems team at Google. She was an early employee at Anthropic and a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, where she developed frontier models such as Claude and Gemini. At MIT, she double majored in EECS and Linguistics and earned a Masters in EECS. She also holds a CS PhD from Stanford. She was named one of MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35, and her research has been widely covered in major media outlets and published in Nature, NeurIPS, ICLR, EMNLP, COLM, ISPD, ICLAD, MLCAD, MLSys, and ASPLOS.
Arti Garg
EVP, Chief Technologist at Aveva
Arti Garg is a technology innovation leader focused on shaping the future application of emerging technologies. She leads the advancement of technology strategy with a focus on evaluating and applying innovations such as generative AI to industrial manufacturing and critical infrastructure. With more than two decades of experience spanning the corporate, government, nonprofit, and research sectors, she has built high-performing teams, launched new initiatives, and helped accelerate the adoption of cutting-edge technologies while making complex topics accessible to diverse audiences.
Azalia Mirhoseini
Founder of Ricursive Intelligence
Azalia Mirhoseini is Founder and CTO of Ricursive Intelligence. Previously, she co-led the AlphaChip project, and co-founded the ML for Systems team at Google. She is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and founder of the Scaling Intelligence Lab at Stanford University. Previously, she served as a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Before that, she was an early employee at Anthropic, following several years at Google Brain. Her past work includes MoEs, now predominantly used in frontier LLMs such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek. She has also done pioneering research on inference-time scaling. Her contributions have been recognized through the MIT Technology Review’s 35 Under 35 Award, Okawa Research Grant, Gold Medal in the National Math Olympiad and publications in flagship AI & chip design venues.
Caroline Basyn
Chief Digital & Information, Global Business Services Officer at The Adecco Group
Caroline Basyn is a global executive and board member with more than 40 years of experience leading strategy, transformation, digital, IT, data, analytics, and global business services. She serves as Chief Digital and Information Officer and leads Global Business Services at the Adecco Group, driving digital transformation and operational excellence worldwide. She also serves on the Board of Proximus. Throughout her career, Caroline has held senior leadership roles at PepsiCo, Mondelez, Bacardi, and Procter & Gamble, leading large-scale business and technology transformations. A passionate advocate for women in technology and leadership, she champions innovation, AI adoption, and inclusive growth while inspiring teams across diverse cultures.
Carolina Parada
VP and Head of Robotics at Google DeepMind
Carolina Parada is a technology leader and AI researcher dedicated to advancing robotics through human-centered learning. Throughout her career, she has led pioneering research in physical AI, robot learning, autonomous vehicle perception, and speech recognition technologies, driving innovations across both simulated and real-world environments. She is passionate about building useful, general-purpose robots while fostering collaboration across research, engineering, and product teams. A strong advocate for women in robotics and artificial intelligence, she encourages greater representation and inclusion, inspiring more women to pursue leadership and innovation in the field.
Cécile Lejeune
Présidente at Kantar France
Cécile Lejeune is an experienced leader in the advertising and marketing sector whose career has been shaped by executive roles at major international agencies. She has led the development and management of global brands, leveraging creativity, technology, and artificial intelligence to drive growth and innovation. Her leadership extends beyond operational excellence through her service on several boards of directors, reflecting her influence across the industry. With a strong focus on the intersection of creativity, technology, and AI, she continues to help shape the evolution of modern marketing and brand development.
Dena Almansoori
Group Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at ADNOC
Dena Almansoori is a global technology leader with more than 20 years of experience transforming organizations through innovative strategy, human-centric leadership, and the deployment of advanced technologies across multiple industries and continents. Passionate about the intersection of technology and leadership, she is committed to using artificial intelligence and innovation to create positive impact for people and the planet. Her work has earned international recognition, including being named among the Top 10 Women in AI and the Top 100 Global Tech Leaders, reflecting her influence in shaping responsible and transformative technology. She is also a strong advocate for women in technology and AI, championing greater representation and inspiring future generations of innovators.
Eve Bodnia
Chief Executive Officer at Logical Intelligence
Eve Bodnia is a leader in AI reasoning and formal verification with a focus on advancing trustworthy artificial intelligence. She has driven the development of systems designed to move AI beyond language-based models toward scalable, formally verified reasoning for mathematics, software, and hardware. Her work emphasizes applying rigorous reasoning to safety-critical domains, with the goal of enabling more reliable AI systems and formally verified code generation. She has also contributed to research spanning quantum information, probability, and combinatorics, advancing the development of AI capable of solving complex, research-level problems.
Helena Chao
Head of Venture Capital and Crossover Coverage, Global Investment Banking at Bank of America
Helena Chao is a leader at the intersection of founders, investors, and institutions, with a career spanning primary research, sales, markets, and investment banking. She has built long-standing relationships across the innovation ecosystem, helping management teams navigate critical inflection points through market insight, strategic networks, and a deep understanding of how private and public markets intersect. Passionate about supporting founders and leadership teams building the future, she is committed to helping companies position themselves for long-term success while fostering connections that drive innovation and growth.
Kaoutar Sghiouer
Global Head Of Data and AI | CDAIO | Group SVP at Sanofi
Kaoutar Sghiouer is the Global Head of Data & AI at Sanofi, where she leads the company's data democratization strategy and advances its vision of becoming the first AI-powered biopharma at scale. Her work drives AI and data innovation across the pharmaceutical value chain, from drug discovery and clinical development to manufacturing and commercial operations. Beyond Sanofi, she has contributed to numerous international Data & AI initiatives and holds multiple patents in data processing and AI methodologies. Kaoutar holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) and executive education certifications from HEC Paris, Harvard University, and IMD. She is widely recognized for advancing AI-driven innovation in healthcare and improving patient outcomes through technology.
Katherine Wetmur
Managing Director, CIO - Cyber, Data, Risk, and Resilience at Morgan Stanley
Katherine Wetmur is a technology leader with more than two decades of experience and has served on the Board of Directors of SustainableIT.org since 2022. She has been recognized on the Fast Company Queer50 2023 list for her contributions to fostering inclusive workplaces and celebrating diversity. Katherine has also supported initiatives that advance opportunities for women in technology through Girls Who Code and has championed equality as a Pride co-chair while participating in fundraising efforts to help end HIV and AIDS and support marginalized communities. Her leadership reflects a sustained commitment to innovation, inclusion, and community impact.
Katrin Lehmann
Chief Information Officer at Mercedes-Benz Group AG
Katrin Lehmann is Chief Information Officer at Mercedes-Benz Group AG and Mercedes-Benz AG, where she leads global IT across all divisions, brands, and markets. She previously held senior leadership roles at Mercedes-Benz and SAP, driving digital transformation across sales, marketing, data, cloud, and customer innovation. With expertise in enterprise IT, AI, software development, and digital innovation, she focuses on advancing technology-driven transformation, sustainable growth, and operational excellence.
Kavitha Mariappan
Chief Transformation Officer at Rubrik
Kavitha leads Rubrik’s efforts to accelerate enterprise transformation and deepen executive engagement, with a focus on expanding Rubrik’s footprint across the Global 2000 and public sector decision-makers. She partners across the GTM organization, shaping Rubrik’s CXO narrative, championing value economics, and unlocking new revenue streams. Prior to Rubrik, Kavitha was EVP of Customer Experience & Transformation at Zscaler, where she built and scaled the company’s CXO and Transformation Practice. She holds a B.Eng. in Communication Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, and an M.S. in Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy from NYU School of Law and Tandon School of Engineering.
Laetitia Pfeiffer
Chief AI Officer at Publicis Media
Laetitia Pfeiffer is an international business and technology leader with more than 30 years of experience helping organizations turn emerging technologies into drivers of sustainable growth. Throughout her career, she has led strategic and operational transformation initiatives spanning digital technologies, blockchain, data, generative AI, biomimicry, and regenerative innovation across industries including luxury, retail, agrifood, and the public sector. Beyond her executive leadership, she supports high-impact technology and environmental startups as an investor and strategic advisor while contributing to local digital innovation initiatives. A passionate advocate for responsible AI and greater gender diversity in technology, she actively encourages more women to pursue careers in AI, cybersecurity, and digital innovation to build more inclusive technologies.
Lin Qiao
CEO and Co-Founder of Fireworks AI
Lin Qiao is the cofounder of Fireworks AI and has been recognized on the Forbes AI 50 and Fast Company AI 20 lists for her contributions to artificial intelligence. She has led the growth of a platform that processes 30 trillion tokens daily while advancing specialized AI models, frontier inference, and enterprise AI infrastructure. Through her leadership, she has championed the development of customizable, open AI models and strategic collaborations that expand access to scalable AI technologies. Her work reflects a sustained commitment to advancing AI innovation and shaping how organizations build and deploy intelligent systems.
Loredana Crisan
Chief Design Officer at Figma
Loredana Crisan is a design leader whose work has shaped products, user experiences, and collaborative design systems across global technology organizations. She has led major product and design initiatives, including the redesign of Messenger, the launch of a charitable giving platform, and the development of AI-powered creative tools that emphasize creative control and collaboration. Loredana has also contributed to the broader design community through her advisory role in design and human-computer interaction and by supporting a global network of more than 250 community chapters with a customizable design system. Her leadership reflects a sustained commitment to advancing design innovation, empowering creative communities, and expanding opportunities for collaborative creation.
Luboslava Uram
Chief Operating & Technology Officer at Solvd Group
Luboslava Uram is an international executive with extensive experience leading technology, operations, and transformation across regulated industries. Throughout her career, she has driven scalable platforms, AI-enabled transformation, and operational excellence while combining strategic platform thinking with disciplined execution to deliver impact at scale. Having built an international career across Europe, she is recognized for advancing innovation while fostering accountability, engagement, and sustainable organizational growth.
Maia Josebachvili
Chief Revenue Officer of AI at Stripe
Maia Josebachvili is a technology executive and company builder. She is currently Chief Revenue Officer of AI at Stripe. Before this role, Maia held several leadership positions at Stripe, including GM of the Enterprise business, Global Head of Strategy & Operations, M&A, and HR. Before Stripe, Maia was the Founder and CEO of Urban Escapes, an e-commerce travel company, where she was named one of Inc Magazine's Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 years old. Following the successful sale to LivingSocial, she took on the role of GM of New Business Initiatives, leading global teams and helping to scale the company 15x in two years. After LivingSocial, Maia joined as a founding member of Greenhouse and helped grow the company to successful $1B+ sale, serving in various roles from CMO to VP of Strategy & People. She started her career as a derivatives trader on Wall Street and also had a short stint as a professional skydiver.
May Habib
CEO at WRITER
May Habib is the CEO and co-founder of WRITER, the leading agentic AI platform for the enterprise. Under May’s visionary leadership, WRITER has become a global enterprise AI powerhouse, transforming work at hundreds of pre-eminent organizations, including Accenture, Prudential, Vanguard, Mars, and Uber, and earning recognition as a World Economic Forum Unicorn, Forbes AI 50 company, and CNBC Disruptor. A Harvard graduate with high honors in Economics, May is an expert in natural language processing and AI-driven language generation. She is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, an Inc. Female Founder Award recipient, and one of Worth’s Groundbreaking Women for 2025.
Molly Presley
Senior Vice President Global Marketing at Hammerspace
Molly Presley is a product leader, podcast host, book author, and board member with a career focused on building profitable business lines and developing innovative go-to-market strategies for enterprise and data-driven businesses. She has extensive experience in cloud applications, infrastructure, SaaS, and enterprise applications, and consistently highlights advancements in AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, and data orchestration through her industry leadership and the Data Unchained podcast. Her work emphasizes the practical application of open standards, enterprise AI, and modern data infrastructure, helping bring attention to innovations that shape the future of high-performance computing and enterprise technology.
Sara Maldon
Head of Business Automation & AI at Make
Sara Maldon is a technology leader focused on bridging the gap between people and technology through artificial intelligence and automation. With academic backgrounds in both Law and Computer Science, she has led AI transformation initiatives spanning automation, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and fine-tuning to deliver measurable business outcomes. She is passionate about making complex technology accessible, fostering safe-to-fail cultures that encourage experimentation, and empowering people to work more efficiently, creatively, and confidently. A committed advocate for women in STEM, she actively supports initiatives that promote greater representation and opportunities for women in technology.
Stephanie Cohen
CSO at Cloudflare
Stephanie Cohen joined Cloudflare in 2024 as the company’s first-ever Chief Strategy Officer. A seasoned operating executive, she brings more than two decades of experience at Goldman Sachs where she advised the leadership and boards of some of the world's most important companies and institutions. In addition to her time in Investment Banking, she was Goldman Sachs's Chief Strategy Officer, ran two multi-billion dollar global segments and served as a member of their Management Committee. In her role at Cloudflare, Stephanie leads the company's efforts in expanding the breadth and depth of its presence in boardrooms and the C-suite on its path to $5B in revenue and beyond. She focuses on the most important initiatives driving Cloudflare's growth, including the future of the network, international expansion, AI and the developer platform. Stephanie has a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Illinois.
Susan Doniz
CIDO at The Walt Disney Company
Susan Doniz is a global technology and business leader whose career has focused on the intersection of human-centered design, technology, and digital transformation to create solutions for customers, employees, and communities. She has lived and worked across four continents, served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards, and taught at leading universities to help develop the next generation of digital leaders. Guided by a philosophy of servant leadership, she has led global transformation initiatives that drive business growth while investing in people and creating a better future. Her contributions have also been recognized through honors including Canadian Diversity Champion and one of Canada's 100 Most Powerful Women.
Tanuja Randery
Managing Director, Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) at Amazon Web Services
Tanuja Randery is a business and technology leader with extensive experience as a CEO and non-executive director, dedicated to helping organizations define their purpose, embrace digital transformation, and achieve sustainable growth. Throughout her career, she has championed the responsible adoption of cloud and artificial intelligence while supporting businesses across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa in addressing digital skills challenges. A strong advocate for inclusion, diversity, and equity, she is committed to expanding opportunities for women and underrepresented groups to develop digital skills and advance in technology. Her contributions to business and the technology sector have been recognized with the appointment of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
Whether your interests lie in agentic AI, enterprise transformation, AI infrastructure, research, investment, or responsible innovation, RAISE Summit 2026 offers a unique opportunity to learn directly from the people shaping the next generation of artificial intelligence.
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