“Women Shaping the Future of AI. On May 28, 2026, in Boston, Women X brought together founders, researchers, engineers and investors for an evening on responsible AI, human-centered design, and the judgment it takes to build technology that serves people, not the other way around. Speakers from Meta, NVIDIA, and Red Hat shared how they apply AI in practice, and where the field is heading.”
What it means to shape the future of AI
During Boston Tech Week, Women X gathered founders, researchers, engineers and investors for an evening on responsible AI, human-centered design, and judgment…
Government accountability in AI
AI is no longer only a technology conversation. We welcomed Massachusetts State Representative Erika Uyterhoeven for a talk on AI transparency, government accountability, and keeping community voice in the systems shaping everyday life…
"The moat is empathy, not the model."
The line that stayed with us after Ani Avanian of Meta Reality Labs spoke. The products that last won't have the most advanced tech, but the deepest understanding of people…
AI is scaling faster than hardware can keep up
Helen Zhao of Red Hat on the infrastructure behind modern LLMs, from quantization to speculative decoding, and keeping AI efficient without losing quality…
A path through open-source AI
Aakanksha Duggal, Principal Data Scientist at Red Hat, shared a journey shaped by open-source AI, teaching, and agentic systems. One hackathon became the start of her path, a reminder that AI did not replace her, it expanded what she thought she could become…
AI for scientific discovery
Olivia Viessmann, Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA, looked past generative models to a harder frontier: using AI, high-performance computing, and agents to accelerate discovery in biology and drug development. As she put it, it is far cooler to generate drugs and solve diseases than text and images…