Maggie Zhu is a People Partner at Anthropic, where she supports the Research and Safeguards teams. She previously served as Head of People at Fathom and Senior HR Business Partner at Scale AI, where she designed compensation, performance management, and manager development programs. Before transitioning into people strategy, Maggie spent three years as a management consultant at Bain & Company.

As a Design Executive at Capital One, Peter leads the design for HR and Finance experiences, focusing on employee-centered products that drive business outcomes. By combining vision-led leadership with a deep commitment to hands-on craft, he specializes in elegant product and service strategies that translate complex organizational needs into intuitive employee experiences. Formerly the design and employee experience lead for Accenture’s West Coast team, Peter views design as a discipline of resilience—adhering to rigorous principles to ensure technology empowers human potential and creates long-term, durable value.

Athar Siddiqee is the Vice President of Total Rewards at Micron Technology.

Emtrain founder and CEO Janine Yancey is a passionate advocate for healthy workplace cultures. Janine’s unique approach blends technology, behavioral science, data analytics, and social media-inspired interactions to help inform and improve workplace behavior. Janine presides over a team of experts and an extensive library of content including courses, video, resource guides, checklists and analytic reports that define the modern workplace.

Janine is a proponent of neutral, third-party guidance and problem-solving. By orchestrating a publicly-accessible community interface for employee questions and concerns, Janine stays at the forefront of real-world, real-time harassment, bias, discrimination, and ethics issues.

A tireless visionary, Janine writes extensively, has provided expert testimony and advice to state legislatures, and helps leading companies implement harassment prevention, diversity, ethics, and compliance programs. Janine is a sought-after speaker and has been published and interviewed in the mainstream media including The Washington Post, Fast Company, USA Today, Bloomberg Business, TechCrunch, and Startup Grind. She’s presented at Society of Ethics and Compliance; Techstars FounderCon; Founders Network, and The Club.

Prior to founding Emtrain, Janine was a partner at Employment Law Partners where she specialized in solving labor and employment problems for high tech firms including Google, Intuit and a variety of start-ups. Janine also worked as counsel at Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, served as Board Member of the Northern California Human Resources Association, and authored The HR Handbook, designed to help young tech companies navigate workplace laws.

Janine earned her JD at the University of California Hastings School of Law and a BA in English and Political Science at the University of California Berkeley.

Michel is the Senior Director of Learning & Development at Autodesk, where he drives learning and leadership initiatives as strategic levers for business transformation, innovation, and the future of work.

With experience spanning startups and global enterprises, Michel specializes in building people-centered, high-performing organizations grounded in continuous learning, leadership excellence, and data-driven solutions. His work sits at the intersection of AI-powered learning, experiential design, and inclusive development strategies, cultivating cultures of agility, innovation, and performance at every level.

Areas of Expertise: Learning & Organization Strategy; Individual and Team Coaching; People Engagement; People Analytics; Leadership Development; Competency Model Design; Design Thinking Methodologies; People Operations Scaling; Performance Management; Cascading OKRs/KPIs; AI for Learning and People Operations; Culture Scaling; Executive Team Facilitation.

Inderpreet S. Dhillon, M.D., MBA, is a California-based Senior Medical Director at Grow Therapy and a seasoned psychiatrist with more than 18 years of clinical and leadership experience. He practices across outpatient and inpatient settings, including forensic psychiatry, and specializes in the treatment of complex mental health conditions, including OCD, mood disorders, and treatment-resistant presentations. His approach integrates medication management with psychotherapy in a collaborative, patient-centered model of care. Dr. Dhillon previously spent over 13 years at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, where he served as Chair of Mental Health Services and oversaw virtual care delivery across the region. In these leadership roles, he advanced digital and technology-enabled behavioral health initiatives, expanded access to care, and helped modernize service delivery at scale. Today, he balances active clinical practice with executive leadership, driving measurement-based and technology-enabled behavioral health care nationwide while remaining deeply engaged in patient care.

Nancy is a senior Total Rewards leader with deep expertise across both compensation and benefits strategy. She partners with executive leadership and boards to design market-driven pay programs and sustainable benefits strategies that balance financial discipline with employee outcomes.

Jennifer Dulski has over 25 years of executive experience leading global teams at top companies, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, and Change.org. 

She is the founder and CEO of Rising Team, a team performance platform that helps companies boost engagement and retention, build trust and connection, and improve manager and team effectiveness. The platform combines software-guided team workshops with a personalized AI leadership coach, and its data from tens of thousands of teams gives Jennifer unique insight into the future of work and how to build high-performing teams that leverage AI without losing humanity.

Jennifer also serves on the faculty at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she teaches one of the school’s most popular courses, Managing Growing Enterprises, on people leadership. She writes about leadership and the future of work for Fortune, Fast Company, and LinkedIn Influencers, and is the author of Purposeful, a Wall Street Journal bestseller on how each of us can start movements that make a difference.

Tigran is CodeSignal’s CEO and responsible for driving the company’s overall strategic direction and results. After graduating from MIT, he co-founded CodeSignal in 2015 to help teams and individuals discover and develop the skills that will shape the future.

Seema is a passionate advocate for creating thriving work environments where employees feel valued, empowered, and supported. She has a proven track record of building high-performing teams and fostering a culture of trust and collaboration. Her journey is driven by a deep commitment to empowering individuals and creating safe spaces, inspired by personal experiences with societal limitations and marginalized voices.

Outside of work, Seema collaborates with anti-human trafficking organizations, gaining invaluable insights into human resilience and the fight for justice. In her previous tech industry roles, she saw a disconnect between companies' aspirations for healthy organizations and their ability to retain talent. This led her to help organizations prioritize employees and build cultures that truly value and support their people.

Seema believes a culture that promotes belonging  is essential for driving innovation, fostering creativity, and ensuring long-term organizational success.

Allan Brown has over 35 years of business experience in finance, sales, and human resources, and most recently joined Electronic Arts as VP, Total Rewards where he leads compensation, benefits, and workplace experience.  Prior to EA, Allan served in similar roles with Citrix Systems, Yahoo!, Marvell Technology, Google and Microsoft.  He started his HR career with Towers Perrin, consulting with management and boards on executive pay and expanded into total rewards during the dot com boom.  He built his career on high change situations where creativity, analytics, and influence drive results.

Hari Date is an expert in workplace recognition, employee engagement, and performance management. At Workhuman, Hari shapes strategies that foster positive workplace cultures, drive employee motivation, and enhance organizational success. With extensive experience in HR/HRIS and human-centric leadership, Hari has helped organizations leverage recognition and feedback to drive business outcomes. Additionally, Hari is a Professor, sharing insights on management, team dynamics, and leadership. Passionate about empowering individuals and organizations, Hari is committed to creating workplaces where people feel valued and inspired. 

Olga Bobin is the Head of Talent Mobility at EPAM Systems.