Session: AI-Driven Transformation: Insights from the C-Suite
This panel brings together top executives to discuss how AI is reshaping business strategy, innovation, and leadership. From leveraging foundation models to enabling data-driven decision-making, panelists will share practical lessons, challenges, and actionable strategies for driving AI adoption at scale while maintaining responsible governance and ethical standards.
Bio
Moderator:
Namrata Shah is a global technology executive, mentor, and AI educator with over 23 years of experience spanning consulting, cloud, AI/ML, and software engineering. Recognized as an AWS Hero and Microsoft MVP, she has been a featured speaker at international conferences including AWS re:Invent, sharing insights on AI governance, cloud innovation, and emerging technologies.
Beyond her executive roles, Namrata is deeply committed to community building and education, creating comprehensive learning programs on Generative AI, Amazon Bedrock, and Model Context Protocol (MCP). Through her work, she empowers women and underrepresented technologists worldwide, bridging complex technical concepts with practical applications. Passionate about inclusive leadership and responsible AI, she fosters a more diverse, future-ready technology ecosystem.
Panelist:
Amira Youssef is a Product executive and digital transformation with over 20 years of global experience across four continents, passionate about solving complex challenges through technology. Leading Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Technology, and digital transformation initiatives from building 0-to-1 products to scaling solutions for both enterprises like Microsoft, Bupa and startups.
Recognized as a catalyst for change, Amira delivers measurable results with a customer-first, data-driven approach in uncertain, fast-paced environments. Her leadership philosophy centers on resilience, adaptability, and building diverse, high-performing teams.
She is a CPO Award Winner (Products That Count, 2025), keynote speaker on AI and leadership, mentor to 50+ emerging leaders through Women in Product, and host of the NYC Product Leaders Meetup.
Garima describes herself as a tech passionate executive leader, with a strong focus on driving clear business outcomes. In her 21+ years of professional journey, she has worked across diverse industries (Retail, Automotive, Finance, Telecommunications etc), and different geographical locations (India, US, UK, Sweden), leading enterprise wide digital transformations, data management, AI transformations, smart manufacturing, creating customer facing digital products which led to new revenue streams.
She started her career as software developer, and later took leadership roles in renowned companies like Pandora, IKEA, Volvo, Sandvik Group etc. She is a well-known international tech speaker, co-author of several ISO standards and recipient of five data and leadership awards globally
On the personal side, she is married and has one child. She enjoys travelling, running and badminton.
Tendü Yoğurtçu, PhD, is a technology executive and AI strategist known for shaping how enterprise software organizations translate data, cloud, and artificial intelligence into scalable platforms. With deep expertise across AI, data, and global technology operations, she has led large, distributed engineering organizations and guided complex portfolio transformations that drive sustainable growth, trust, and long-term enterprise value.
Over her career, Tendü has defined and executed product and innovation strategies that move emerging capabilities from incubation to enterprise deployment, advancing AI to production scale and embedding trusted intelligence across global platforms. She is recognized for combining technical depth with strategic judgment to make disciplined build, buy, and partner decisions that expand market position. A frequent industry speaker and active advisor across academic and venture ecosystems, Tendü’s leadership centers on shaping resilient, AI-powered platforms and advancing responsible innovation at scale.