2026 Speaker Lineup

Director, Network Infrastructure

Meta

CEO

Nimbus Aerospace

Chief Technology Officer

Nimbus Aerospace

Entrepreneur, Bestselling Author & Co-Founder

Forward Party

SR. Cloud Solution Architect Engineering Data & AI

Microsoft

Founder, 8genC & Partner, UnCap Ventures

Principal Product Manager

Ancestry

Senior Vice President and Chief Social Impact & Sustainability Officer at Cisco

Cisco

Manager, Technology Strategy

PwC

Vice President, Product Manager of Cyber Threat Intelligence

JPMorganChase & Co

Sr. Director, National Security Operations, Analytics & Engineering

Parsons

CEO

Andela

Senior Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services

Massachusetts' 7th Congressional District

Former Chief Impact Officer

StockX

Senior Software Engineer

Salesforce

Co-Founder & President

SQUIRE

CFO & COO

Westbrook

Program Architect

NextGen | Tech

Managing Director, Global Head of Security Operations and Incident Response

Morgan Stanley

Partner, Head of AI Research

KPMG

CEO & Founder

AJA LifeSciences Advisory LLC

Managing Partner

Nuvanta Consulting Group

Founder & Chief Advisor

Rogers Solutions Group

Vice President Academic Medicine & Strategic Integration, Associate Professor OBGYN

IU Health Medical Group & IU School of Medicine

Founder and CEO

Rauk AI

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

WashU Medicine

Chief Medical Officer

Hers

Vice Chair, Life Sciences & Health Care Industry Leader

Deloitte

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 and CEO

Advancing Health Equity

Chief Marketing Officer

Nimbus Aerospace

Associate Director, City Compliance

Lime

Principal Solutions Architecture

VMware by Broadcom

Minister of Home Affairs

Government of Bermuda

Colon & Rectal Surgeon

Mercy Health

Senior Associate, AI Engineering, Commercial Technology and Innovation Office

PwC

CEO of the National Society of Black Engineers

National Society of Black Engineers

Co-Founder & COO

Blavity, Inc.

Solutions Architect

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Satellite Manufacturing Engineer

Planet Labs

Director

PwC

Chief Marketing Officer, Mobile eXperience

Samsung Electronics America

VP, Brand & Product Marketing

Rocket Companies

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

University of Pennsylvania

Principal

PwC

AI Story-teller, Filmmaker, Comedian

AI & The Culture

CEO

TransPharMed, Digital Health Sales Institute

General Partner

Upfront Ventures

Financial Planner

Prudential Advisors

Security Engineer

Figma

CEO

Stock Up With Larry Jones

Fortune 500 & Private Equity Company Board Director

Former Global Chief Information Officer, Deloitte

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

Ancestry

President

BET

Principal Software Engineer

Red Hat

Chief Executive Officer

Okovate Sustainable Energy

Director, Generative AI Enablement Lead

Morgan Stanley

Co-Founder & General Partner

Reign Ventures

Founder, CEO and Chairman

Blavity, Inc.

Head of AI Developer Advocacy

IBM

Head of Customer Value & Community

Frame Security

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

NVIDIA

AI Engineer

Meta

Executive Vice President, Engineering

Rocket

Principal

FS Vector

Co-Founder & CEO

Earn Your Leisure

Chief Customer Officer

Sierra

Co-founder

Sloefy

CEO & Co-Founder

The Gathering Spot

CEO/Founder

Unalome Consulting Group LLC

Founder & Principal

SAA & Associates Emmy Award-Winning Host Journalist Commentator

Lead Cybersecurity Architect

JP Morgan Chase

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

Senior Vice President, Engineering Network Security

Palo Alto Networks

Principal Radar Systems Engineer and Founder

GovTech Academy

Co-founder

Elizabeth & Minnie Publishing

Founder and CEO

NILE & Co.

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

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

Musician, Actor, Filmmaker, Founder, Philanthropist

Chief Clinical Officer

Verily

Research Engineer

The John's Hopkins University

Global CISO - Operational Technology

Solventum

Brand Manager

AfroTech and Black Tech Green Money

CEO

Malo Santo

Vice President of Culture and People Experience

Axon

Co-Founder & MD

Africa Fintech Summit