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Do you feel that you are stuck in your career,
life overwhelmed with busyness, 
and you are disconnected from yourself... 
then we need to talk.

Most high achievers I coach aren’t broken — they’re just disconnected.

🚨 Disconnected from their purpose.
🚨 Disconnected from the work they once loved.
🚨 Disconnected from the life they truly want to live.

It shows up as: STUCK, FRUSTRATION, LOST.

❌ Career stagnation
❌ Constant firefighting
❌ Burnout masked as busyness
❌ Imposter syndrome despite success

I help ambitious professionals — founders, product leaders, and emerging executives — reignite clarity, rebuild courage, and create conscious impact using The Ignite Method™.

You don’t have to choose between growth and fulfilment. You can have both.

🔥 The Ignite Method™

1. Clarity Journey — Rediscover who you are and what truly matters.
2. Courage Building — Move through fear and start acting boldly.
3. Conscious Impact — Create a career and life that actually feels like success.
4. Cohesive Action — Align what you think, feel, and do every single day.

🎯 What My Clients Gain

✅ Unshakable clarity on what’s next
✅ Courage to make big, aligned decisions
✅ Confidence to lead teams or businesses with purpose
✅ Energy and ownership to thrive at work and at home

📍 A Bit About Me

- PCC Certified Coach (ICF)
- 1,200+ leaders coached in 18+ countries
- Clients from Google, Coinbase, Dropbox, Salesforce, Intel, EA Sports, Rubrik, Visa, Zynga and more
- TEDx Speaker: Can Fear Push Us to be Courageous? Google it!
- Founder, IgnitedNeurons — a platform helping build a culture of high performance, growth mindset and based in values!
- Building the IgnitedNeurons Podcast to extract lessons you and I can apply in everyday life

💼 If You’re Leading a Team or Organisation:
I also partner with founders, HR heads, and L&D leaders to design bold cultures, build values-driven teams, and humanise leadership.

📩 Ready to Take the First Step?
Take the free 5-minute Ignite Life Quiz to discover what’s holding you back.

Let’s ignite your next chapter.

Utkarsh Narang

Work should make us feel seen, valued and heard. That is all that matters.

Finding a job is great.
Finding a company that genuinely values you is better.

A role can pay the bills.
A title can boost your résumé.

But neither guarantees that you’ll be respected, trusted, or allowed to be yourself at work.

Too many people spend years trying to earn their worth in environments that quietly benefit from them doubting it.

Here’s the truth most of us learn late: your self-worth isn’t something a company gives you. 
It’s inherent.

The right organisation doesn’t ask you to shrink your voice, edit your values, or perform a version of yourself just to belong.

It challenges you, yes but it also creates enough safety for you to show up as you are,
do your best work, and grow without feeling like you’re constantly on trial.

If you’ve ever felt successful on paper but unseen in reality,
this distinction matters more than salary bands or perks ever will.

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Most people won’t admit this.

Some jobs pay you in money.
And charge you in peace. 

If you’re ever forced to choose between your job and your mental health…

That’s not a career decision.

It’s a self-respect decision.

Here’s the lie we’ve normalized:

🚫 Burnout = ambition
🚫 Anxiety = drive
🚫 Toxicity = “high performance culture”

No.

Emotional intelligence means recognizing when your environment is shrinking you.

Not every hard season is growth.
Some are warnings.

If you’re:

• Scared of being laid off
• Staying in a role that drains you
• Afraid to pivot
• Quietly miserable but “grateful”

Read this carefully:

You can be ambitious
without being self-destructive.

Your nervous system is part of your career strategy.

When your mental health declines:
→ Your creativity drops
→ Your confidence erodes
→ Your decision-making weakens

And no title fixes that.

This doesn’t mean quit tomorrow.

It means:
✔️ Build leverage
✔️ Upskill quietly
✔️ Strengthen your network
✔️ Create options

Choose strategy over panic.

But never normalize suffering as success.

A job is replaceable.

Your mind is not.

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The 7 Highly Effective Habits of Leaders. 
Super simple yet very few practice them. Here's why 🔽 


Empathy, ownership, empower others, relationships - we have all heard these.

But still not many are able to practice them.

The big reason is that we have not seen them in real life.

But that can start with you.

Leadership is about how you show up every day and how you help others rise.

If you want to lead, start practicing these 7 habits:

 1. Take ownership
↳ See a problem? Step up and solve it.
↳ Go beyond your job description and take initiative.

 2. Create impact
↳ Focus on work that moves the needle.
↳ Help your team and leaders succeed by driving real results.

 3. Foster strong relationships
↳ Leadership isn’t a solo sport. Build trust and collaboration.
↳ Be the person others can rely on, listen deeply, and uplift those around you.

 4. Make space for everyone
↳ Leadership means amplifying diverse voices, not just your own.
↳ Invite different perspectives and ensure everyone is heard.

 5. Empower others
↳ Great leaders don’t hoard knowledge—they share it freely.
↳ Support your colleagues, mentor those around you, and celebrate others’ wins.

 6. Lead with integrity
↳ Do the right thing, even when it’s hard.
↳ Stay committed, stay passionate, and show up fully.

 7. Embrace growth
↳ See change as a chance to learn, not something to fear.
↳ Seek feedback, adapt, and keep evolving.

You don’t need a title to be a leader.

You just need the courage to start.

Start leading today.

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Failure doesn’t block success.
It filters who’s serious about it.

Most people quit at discomfort.
A few stay long enough to be shaped by it.

That’s the difference.

Over the years of coaching leaders and emerging executives, 
I keep seeing the same pattern. 

People walk out of meetings with brilliant thoughts 
still sitting quietly in their heads.

Later they say things like,
“I should have said something.”
“I didn’t want to sound stupid.”
“Maybe it wasn’t the right time.”
“What if people judged me?”

And that silence slowly turns into regret.

The mind tells stories. 
That others know more. 
That your perspective may not matter. 
That speaking up could make you look incapable or difficult.

But here is the reality.

Leadership is not built in the moments when everything feels comfortable.

It is built in the moments when you decide your voice deserves space in the room.

Here’s a simple three-step framework that works - 

Step 1. Ground yourself in intent.
Before speaking, ask yourself a simple question. Am I trying to prove myself right or am I trying to help the team think better? When your intent is contribution, your tone changes.

Step 2. Add perspective, not opposition.
You do not have to challenge people aggressively. A simple line works wonders. “May I offer another perspective?” or “Can I build on that idea?” It keeps the conversation open instead of defensive.

Step 3. Stay curious.
After sharing your thoughts, ask a question. “How are others seeing this?” Curiosity keeps dialogue alive and signals that you are here to think with the room, not win against it.

Most leaders do not need more confidence… they need the courage to honour their perspective.

So the next time you sit in a room and feel that familiar hesitation creeping in, remember this.

You were not hired to sit quietly and agree.

You were hired to make the thinking in the room better.

What helps you find the courage to speak up when it matters?

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“Go 10 miles while others go 1.”

That’s the advice.

And it sounds powerful. 

But here’s the part nobody talks about:

Most people don’t fail because they didn’t go 10 miles.

They fail because they went 10 miles in the wrong direction.

Hyper-focus is dangerous
if you’re focused on the wrong thing.

Relentless effort is expensive
if it’s applied without clarity.

In a world obsessed with hustle, we’ve confused:

🔁 Intensity with impact
⏱️ Hours with leverage
😓 Exhaustion with excellence

Yes, Alexandr Wang talks about overdoing it.

But what actually separates the top 1% isn’t just “more effort.”

It’s:

• Choosing the right problem
• Building rare skills
• Compounding daily consistency
• And knowing when to pivot

If you’re facing layoffs, uncertainty, or a career pivot right now…

Don’t just “go 10 miles.”

Ask yourself:

👉 Is this the right road?
👉 Is this building long-term leverage?
👉 Is this sustainable for 3–5 years?

Because extraordinary careers aren’t built on burnout.

They’re built on strategic obsession.

Go further.

But go wisely. 🧠

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In my first month as a physiotherapist, I earned ₹5,000. I genuinely wondered if I had wasted 6 years of my life.

Six years of study.
Internships.
Exams.
Late nights.

For this?

I left my clinic confused.

And my dad said something I’ll never forget.

He said, “Money grows. But don’t let money decide your worth.”

At 23, I didn’t fully understand it.

Today, I do.

Yes, I earn more now. Way more.

But my success is larger than my paycheck.

Success is:
• Waking up excited
• Working with people I respect
• Coaching someone into clarity
• Having dinner with my family without checking my phone
• Sleeping with peace

Money matters.

But if it becomes your only scoreboard, you will always feel behind.

If you want to build a life that feels successful, not just looks successful, let’s talk.

DM me COACH and I will send you a link to my clarity call.

Happiness is not supposed to feel good all the time.

That sounds wrong.

But it explains why so many successful people still feel stuck.

We’ve been sold a simple equation:

Less stress
More comfort
= Happiness

But that formula doesn’t work.

If feeling good all the time created happiness…

People with the easiest lives
would be the happiest.

They’re not.

Because there are two different things we confuse all the time:

Pleasure and Purpose

Pleasure is easy.

A raise.
A promotion.
A weekend off.
A dopamine hit.

It feels great.

Until the feeling fades.

Purpose is different.

Purpose survives bad weeks.
Failed projects.
Hard feedback.
Difficult conversations.

It doesn’t disappear when things get hard.

It often requires things to get hard.

This is where many careers go wrong.

People optimize for comfort instead of meaning.

But meaningful careers are rarely comfortable.

Some reminders I come back to often:

1️⃣ If your work never challenges you, it’s probably not growing you.
2️⃣ Short-term comfort often trades away long-term fulfillment.
3️⃣ The right problems make struggle feel worthwhile.
4️⃣ Progress feels better than pleasure.

So maybe the real career question isn’t:

“How do I make my life easier?”

It’s:

“What problem is worth struggling for?”

That answer changes everything.

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The Biggest Career Myths!

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: 
Founders and employees are both slaves to their aspirations.

The founder burns out chasing freedom.
The employee burns out chasing security.
Different cages, same exhaustion.

Both tell themselves “it’ll make sense when I get there.”
But “there” keeps moving.

More targets. 
More funding. 
More promotions.
And slowly, we trade peace for progress 
one dopamine hit at a time.

We mistake motion for meaning.
We call stress “passion.”
We glorify the grind and forget the goal.

But look closer at the ones who made it.
Satya Nadella  
Sundar Pichai  
John Donahoe  
 
They didn’t chase titles. 
They reinvented identities.
They didn’t quit to find purpose.
They became purposeful where they were.

And then look at founders like Jensen Huang (NVIDIA), Whitney Wolfe (Bumble Inc.), Melanie Perkins (Canva)

They didn’t build companies, they built themselves first.
Their empires were a byproduct of clarity, conviction, and consistency.

You don’t need a new company, a new logo, or a new title.

You need a new operating system.
Because at some point, you stop working for a company
and start working on yourself.

So here’s the real play:
Think of yourself as a startup worth investing in.

Build your product - your skills.
Craft your pitch - your story.

And sell your value to the world.

You are the founder.
You are the product.
You are the investment.

Now, build like it matters.

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This line today stopped me mid-scroll:

“Today is the youngest you’ll ever be.”

Read that again.

Most people think the advantage belongs to people who started early.

It doesn’t.

The real advantage belongs to people who start before they feel ready.

The truth:

You will never feel fully prepared.

Not before launching the idea.
Not before switching careers.
Not before posting your first piece of content.
Not before starting something meaningful.

So people wait.

Another month.
Another year.
Another “when things settle down.”

And suddenly a decade passes.

Here’s what actually matters:
1️⃣	Start messy. Clarity comes from motion.
2️⃣	Stop over-optimizing the first step.
3️⃣	Momentum beats perfection every time.
4️⃣	The earlier you start, the longer compounding works for you.

Five years from now you’ll look back and think:

“I wish I started then.”

But the truth is simple.

Then… is today.

♻️If this resonated with you, repost it so someone else stops waiting.

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I turn 41 this year.

And here’s the uncomfortable truth:

Most of what stressed me out at 25
doesn’t even register now.

The “urgent” emails.
The race to be impressive.
The fear of being behind.
The need to say yes to everything.

None of it aged well.

What actually mattered?

Here are 9 things I wish I understood earlier 👇

1️⃣ Sleep is a performance strategy.
Not a luxury.
8 hours > 8 productivity hacks.

2️⃣ Movement fixes more than mindset.
A daily walk has solved problems
overthinking never could.

3️⃣ If you don’t choose your priorities,
your inbox will.

4️⃣ Your values are proven by what you refuse.
Not what you chase.

5️⃣ Boundaries feel selfish before they feel strong.
If saying “no” makes you anxious,
you’re rewiring something important.

6️⃣ Most people aren’t stuck because life is hard.
They’re stuck because distraction feels safer than action.

7️⃣ Learning can be productive.
But it can also be sophisticated procrastination.
Depth beats dabbling.

8️⃣ Fear and confidence both require belief in the unknown.
You’re choosing one either way.

9️⃣ Happiness isn’t having no problems.
It’s having better problems.

At 40, I don’t want an easy life.

I want a meaningful one.

And meaningful lives come with responsibility, discomfort, and growth.

If you’re in your 20s or 30s feeling behind:

You’re not behind.

You’re just early in the reps.

What feels urgent today probably won’t matter in 15 years.

But your health, your integrity, and your relationships will.

Protect those fiercely. 💛

If this resonated, tell me:
What stopped feeling urgent as you got older?

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Most of what feels urgent at 25 won’t even matter at 45.

This BAFTA win matters for a reason no one’s talking about.



A small regional film winning an international Award is easy to celebrate.

The headline writes itself.

But what stayed with me about the Manipuri- language, Indian feature, Boong, wasn’t just that it won.

It was what was said on that stage.

In a room built to celebrate achievement, the message wasn’t about scale or success.

It was about forgiveness.

That matters.

Because moments like this quietly reshape what we believe is possible.

When something rooted, specific, and deeply personal travels to a global stage, it does two things:

✅It expands representation.
✅And it expands imagination.

You start to question your own internal ceilings.

Maybe the work you’re building doesn’t need to look “mainstream.”
Maybe your background isn’t a limitation.
Maybe depth can travel further than polish.

And maybe strength doesn’t always look loud.

There’s something powerful about seeing recognition attached to humility.

About seeing visibility used to elevate something bigger than the self.

That kind of example doesn’t just inspire filmmakers.

It inspires anyone building something slowly.
Anyone working without immediate validation.
Anyone trying to stay grounded while aiming high.

Wins like this don’t just change industries.

They change belief.

And belief is where every long-term journey actually begins.

♻️ If this resonated, share it with someone building quietly.

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Most meetings don’t fail because of bad people.
They fail because of bad leadership.

If you walk into a meeting without intention,
you’re not leading it.
You’re just attending it.

Here’s a simple framework I use: LEAD

L - Limit the agenda
• One clear objective
• Fewer topics, deeper focus
• Share context before the meeting

If everything is important, nothing is.

E - Engage everyone
• Set expectations upfront
• Ask quieter voices first
• Use questions, not monologues

Engagement is designed. Not hoped for.

A - Align on actions
• Summarize decisions before closing
• Assign one owner per task
• Confirm deadlines out loud

If there’s no owner, there’s no outcome.

D - Drive accountability
• Send a 5-line action summary
• Set one check-in date
• Celebrate progress publicly

Great meetings don’t happen by accident.
They’re led with clarity.

What’s one meeting habit you’re changing this week?

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“I wish I started earlier.”

That sentence quietly ruins more lives than failure ever will.

Read that again.

Not failure.
Not rejection.
Not layoffs.

Regret.

Most people don’t fail because they’re incapable.

They fail because they wait.

They wait to feel ready.
They wait to feel confident.
They wait for clarity.
They wait for permission.

Meanwhile…

Opportunity keeps moving. 🚆

If you’re:
• Thinking about changing careers
• Recovering from a layoff
• Sitting on an idea
• Fantasizing about a “better life”

Here’s the uncomfortable truth:

You don’t need more time.
You need more courage. ⚡️

The people ahead of you?

They were scared too.
They just moved anyway.

Confidence isn’t a prerequisite.
It’s a byproduct.

You don’t become confident and then act.

You act…
And confidence catches up.

A year from now you’ll either say:

“I’m glad I started.”

Or

“I wish I started earlier.”

One decision separates those two sentences.

Start messy.
Start unsure.
Start embarrassed.
Start small.

Just start. 🚀

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Most people don’t need a new plan.

They need better questions.

Your next decade won’t be defined by one big decision.
It’ll be shaped by the small things you keep optimizing for.

Most careers drift because we never pause to ask:

• What am I actually building toward?
• What skill am I compounding?
• What am I tolerating that’s quietly draining me?
• What does “enough” even mean for me?

We obsess over productivity.
But rarely over direction.

And direction > speed.

I’ve seen incredibly smart people burn years chasing goals they never consciously chose.

The uncomfortable truth?

If nothing changes, you will still arrive somewhere.

The real question is:
Will you like where you land?

Take 10 minutes today.
Answer the 7 questions in this carousel honestly.

Not for LinkedIn.
Not for performance.
For yourself.

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7 questions that will define your next decade

Everyone tells you to never stop.

Push harder.
Stay consistent.
Outwork everyone.

But sometimes the real power move is stepping away.

At 16, Alysa Liu retired from competitive skating.

Most people thought it made no sense.

She was already a champion.
Already breaking records.
Already at the top.

Then she walked away.

Two years later she came back.

And at the 2026 Winter Olympics she won gold.

Here’s the lesson most people miss:

Burnout doesn’t mean you’re weak.
Sometimes it means you’ve been strong for too long.

The Alysa Liu mindset is simple:
1️⃣	Rest is not quitting.
It’s recovery for the next version of you.
2️⃣	Distance creates clarity.
When you step away, you remember why you started.
3️⃣	Pressure kills passion.
Joy is often what brings elite performance back.
4️⃣	Comebacks are built in silence.
Growth happens while the world thinks you disappeared.

In a culture obsessed with hustle…

The bravest thing you can do is pause.

Because sometimes the fastest way forward…

is taking a step back.

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“Yet” might be the most underrated leadership tool.

Most people use language to limit themselves.

The best leaders use language to expand possibility.

Here’s why one small word matters:

It reframes failure
“I failed” → “I haven’t figured it out yet.”

It builds persistence
“This isn’t working” → “This isn’t working yet.”

It prevents premature quitting
Struggle becomes a phase, not a verdict.

It interrupts harsh self-talk
“I’m not good at this” → “I’m not good at this yet.”

It normalizes being a beginner
Mastery always starts with awkward reps.

It shifts your time horizon
Today is data. Not destiny.

It builds mental flexibility
Fixed becomes fluid.

A small shift in language.
A massive shift in trajectory.

This week, try this:

Notice one limiting sentence you say to yourself.
Add “yet” at the end.

That’s it.

Extraordinary outcomes often begin with an ordinary “yet.”

What’s one sentence you’re rewriting today?
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How do you take the journey from loneliness to solitude?


You can be surrounded by people…
and still feel lonely.

You can be completely alone…
and feel deeply at peace.

Solitude and loneliness are not the same.

Loneliness hurts.
Research shows chronic loneliness can impact your health as much as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

But solitude? Solitude strengthens you.

When chosen intentionally, time alone improves clarity, creativity, and emotional control. It helps you hear your own thoughts instead of everyone else’s noise.

When we moved countries, I experienced both.

At first, the quiet felt heavy. Then it became powerful.

I realised the difference was choice and meaning.

If you cannot sit alone with your thoughts, you will struggle to lead yourself well.

And if you avoid real connection, loneliness grows quietly.

If this resonates, take a few minutes and read it.

Alone is not the same as lonely.

One is a skill. The other is a signal.

Which one are you experiencing right now?

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Most people aren’t afraid of being alone.

They’re afraid of being still.

Because stillness removes the noise.

No meetings.
No notifications.
No performance.

Just you and your thoughts.

And that’s uncomfortable.

So we stay “productive.”

Back-to-back calls.
Constant Slack pings.
Scrolling between tasks.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth:

If you can’t sit with yourself,
you’ll struggle to lead others.

Because leadership requires:

• Emotional regulation
• Clarity under pressure
• Independent thinking
• Decisions that aren’t crowd-approved

Solitude builds those.

Not isolation.
Not withdrawal.

Intentional time alone.

When I started protecting small pockets of silence:

Morning walks without podcasts.
Journaling without an agenda.
Sitting in a café without reaching for my phone.

I noticed something.

Clarity improved.
Reactivity dropped.
Decisions felt cleaner.

Solitude isn’t loneliness.

It’s strategy.

In a world addicted to distraction,
the ability to sit with your own thoughts
is a competitive advantage.

Try this:

10 minutes tomorrow.
No input.
No scrolling.
No background noise.

Just observe your thoughts.

You’ll either meet clarity
or meet discomfort.

Both are useful.

The leaders who think clearly
are usually the ones comfortable being alone with their thinking.

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Stillness might be the skill we’re underestimating most.

Every year on Women’s Day, I see the same thing on LinkedIn.

Messages.
Quotes.
Celebrations.

All well-intentioned.

But this year I tried something different.

I listened.

Not to respond.
Not to debate.
Just to listen.

I spent time reflecting on the words, experiences, and struggles that women have shared for decades.

And something became very clear.

Many of the lessons we talk about in leadership today have been said for years.

We just haven’t always been listening.

Sitting with that reminded me of a few things:

1️⃣ Listening is one of the most underrated leadership skills

2️⃣ Progress begins when we question the stories society handed to us

3️⃣ Equality is not a “women’s issue”
It is a human issue

4️⃣ When women rise in education, leadership, and the economy, societies rise with them  

Today, I’m reminding myself of something simple.

Before we try to say the right thing…

We should first learn to listen.

Happy Women’s Day 💜

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Speeches everyone should hear this women’s day

Helen Yu

CEO @Tigon Advisory Corp. | Host of CXO Spice | Board Director |Top 50 Women in Tech | AI, Cybersecurity, FinTech, Insurance, Industry40, Growth Acceleration

I'm passionate about human-AI amplification rather than replacement.



As the founder & CEO of Tigon Advisory, I help tech companies multiply growth through responsible AI, cybersecurity, IoT, supply chain, and CX strategies. Offering CXO-as-a-service in digital transformation, risk management, GTM, and thought leadership. Clients include NVIDIA, Salesforce, Microsoft, Cisco and innovative startups in Cybersecurity, SaaS, Fintech, etc. Also serve as board director and VC advisor on ethical tech and governance. 



Credentials include cybersecurity certification from MIT Sloan, MBA from Loyola University Chicago, WSJ/Amazon bestselling author ("Ascend Your Start-Up"), keynote speaker, and host of CXO Spice podcast where I explore leadership in emerging tech.



On LinkedIn, my daily posts (300+ in 2025, 136k+ reactions, 38k+ comments) share practical insights on ethical AI scaling, voice agents, bias mitigation, and building trust in human-AI teams.



I'm passionate about mentoring the next generation, especially women and underrepresented leaders in tech.

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CEC is a security service integrator with focus markets in manufacturing, healthcare, SLED and Corporate Campus.  Customers with complicated organizations and physical plants rely on CEC as extensions of their teams in making strategic investment and management decisions related to their technology and infrastructure. I serve as Culture and Compensation Committee Chair. 

What would the world look like if we truly accelerated action for women?

Right now, full gender parity won't arrive until 2158 according to the World Economic Forum.

That’s 132 years away.

We have the power to move that date forward.

In this special #IWD2026 newsletter edition, I reflect on the progress we’ve made, highlight the women who inspire me, and share actions we can take to accelerate change.

Inside you’ll find:
✅ Highlights from a powerful Women in Technology panel at the Acumatica Summit
✅ Books and podcasts that expand perspective
✅ Simple actions anyone can take to move the needle

Over the past year, I’ve been incredibly fortunate to learn from many inspiring women leaders across technology, financial services, manufacturing and communications.

Now I want to hear from you 👇
Tag one woman who inspired you and tell us why.

Let's amplify women’s voices together. 
Happy International Women’s Day 🌸

#IWD2026 #AccelerateAction #WomenInLeadership #GenderEquity

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Bridging Responsible AI Innovation | Advisor to Tech Leaders | Host, CXO Spice | Human-AI Amplification Advocate

Every March 8th, the world pauses to honor the achievements, resilience, and brilliance of women. But this year’s theme, Accelerate Action, reminds us

Open article: Accelerating Change: Celebrating Women and the Work Still Ahead by Helen Yu • 4 min read

Accelerating Change: Celebrating Women and the Work Still Ahead

What lights you up about the work you do?

For me, it's this.
Fresh off Conga Connect in Orlando and straight into Enterprise Connect in Vegas, I hosted "Hot Takes & Cold Drinks" with two women who are redefining what leadership looks like in communications and technology.
⭐️ Millicent McIntyre, MSOB — 2026 Spotlight Award Winner, Senior Director, Buyer Services IAA
⭐️ Lori Wodrich — 2025 Winner & this year's judge, Senior Systems Engineer Amerisure Insurance

What resonated with me most was HOW they got there.
🔥Millie started in a contact center after cosmetology school.
No title. No roadmap.
She became the person everyone came to through curiosity, consistency, and caring deeply about people.
"Culture is the foundation of everything we do."
She meant every word.

🔥Lori's defining moment was A hackathon.
Surrounded by engineers far more technical than her, she almost changed her answer to fit in.
She didn't.
She held her ground. Shared her reasoning. And the entire panel shifted to her choice.
That's confidence backed by data.

Lori's Three S's I'm taking with me:
✅ Speak Up
✅ Say Yes — to growth, not every task
✅ Share Results

And here is Millie's closing wisdom:
Don't try to be like every other leader.
Be authentically, unapologetically YOU.

These are two women who didn't wait for a title to lead.
They showed up. Over-delivered. Built trust.
And the title eventually followed.

My biggest takeaway: Leadership is earned, not assigned.
Here is my personal hot take:
Sometimes you need to put down your to-do list and focus on your to-be list.
Who do you want to BE? Let that guide everything else.

Thank you, Millie and Lori, for being so open, so real, and so generous with your stories. You reminded all of us of what's possible. 🙌

And a heartfelt thank you to Erica Marois and Cheryl Kahan-Radhuber at Informa and Enterprise Connect for creating this space for women in communications. This is exactly the kind of platform our community needs. 💜

▶️ Watch the full 15-minute conversation below!

#EnterpriseConnect #WomenInTech #Leadership #EC2026 #Communications 

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What did I learn from the OECD - OCDE Responsible AI Due Diligence Guidance?

Responsible AI is shifting from principles to accountability; clarifying who is responsible, at what point, and across the value chain.

👉 The real shift is from “Do we use AI responsibly?” to “Can we prove it — continuously?”

AI governance is becoming a core business capability rather than a compliance exercise.

I’ve broken down the insights that stood out to me me most in the carousel including where responsibility escalates, when scrutiny should be deeper, and why disengagement is sometimes the responsible choice.

Let me know what stood out to you 👇

#ResponsibleAI #AIGovernance #RiskManagement #BoardDirectors #CEOs

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CEO of Tigon Advisory Corp. | Host of CXO Spice | Board Director |Top 50 Women in Tech | AI, Cybersecurity, FinTech, Insurance, Industry40, Growth Acceleration

5 Key Learnings from OECD Responsible AI Due Diligence

Are you modernizing your systems fast and wondering if you’re doing it securely?

In this short CXO Spice trailer, John Picinich and I touch on the real tension leaders are facing right now; moving quickly to innovate while making sure security, risk, and trust don’t fall behind. It’s a conversation about what works in the real world.

This builds on the themes from the #CXOSpice newsletter I shared three weeks ago on breaking down data silos in financial services, where we explored why governance, secure data movement, and a strong foundation are essential before layering on automation and AI.

I had the chance to host John Picinich at Progress Software to unpack:
✅ Where most organizations misjudge modernization risk
✅ How security teams can become enablers, not blockers
✅ What “secure by design” looks like in practice

🎥 Watch the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/gPq8B8Tg

And stay tuned. I’ll be hosting Progress Software’ Chief AI Officer Ed Keisling on agent orchestration soon.

#FinancialServices #AI #Agents

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What the #WomenInTech stage taught me at Acumatica Summit?

Have you ever walked into a room and felt momentum happening in real time?
Speaking at Acumatica Summit this year was one of those moments.

I left thinking less about the stage and more about the people. Leaders choosing courage over comfort. Learning out loud. Lifting each other higher.

A few lessons that stayed with me
✨ Confidence starts with the story we tell ourselves
✨ Preparation creates clarity when pressure rises
✨ Leadership means sending the ladder down

I shared a few deeper reflections in my latest newsletter. Check out the full story: https://lnkd.in/e2Ad_BXf

What is one lesson that has changed how you show up this year?

#WomenInTech #Leadership #Technology #Innovation

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A FIRST TIMER’S PERSPECTIVE I didn’t know what to expect walking into my first Acumatica Summit. I knew the event was significant, and I felt honored 

Open article: What the Women in Tech Stage at Acumatica Summit Taught Me? by Helen Yu • 7 min read

What the Women in Tech Stage at Acumatica Summit Taught Me?

What does success look like twelve months in if you go all in on a frictionless Commerce Chain?

I asked Lisa Martin, CRO of Conga during our interview at Conga Connect.
Her answer was precise.

Deal velocity accelerates. Deal volume grows. Revenue leakage stops hiding in quarterly post-mortems.

Most organizations look at discounting retrospectively. A scattergram tells you where you bled. Commerce Chain stops the bleeding.

A connected Commerce Chain changes the equation. You see where margin is slipping in the moment. You catch at-risk customers before renewal. You act on upsell signals the data was always telling you.

And when agentic AI matures inside that chain, it executes the insight.
Faster deals. Protected margin. Smarter renewals.

👉 Read the full story in CXO Spice Newsletter 
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#CommerceChain #CRO #CongaConnect #CongaPartner

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“It’s not growth at all costs anymore. It’s growth, but profitable growth , and the thing getting inspected is how easy we are to do business with.” —

Open article: Commerce Chain Is the Revenue Operating System Your Business Has Been Missing by Helen Yu • 5 min read

Commerce Chain Is the Revenue Operating System Your Business Has Been Missing

What does every business leader need to understand about the agentic era?

Here are 5 things I took away from Jensen Huang’s keynote at NVIDIA GTC:

1️⃣ Tokens are the new oil
Jensen redefined what a data center is.
Data centers are no longer places where we store files.
They are factories producing tokens.
Power goes in.
Data goes in.
Intelligence comes out.
Every watt of power you have is either generating revenue or wasting it.
The next metric CEOs may start tracking alongside EBITDA: tokens per watt.

2️⃣ The inference inflection
For years AI was a training story about who had the biggest models and the most parameters.
That era is over.
AI now must think, reason, and act in real time.
That requires inference at massive scale.
Compute demand has grown roughly 1,000,000× in two years.
That’s not hype.
That’s infrastructure reality.

3️⃣ Every SaaS company will become an AaaS company
Just as every company eventually needed:
• an HTTP strategy
• a cloud strategy
• a Kubernetes strategy
Every company now needs an agent strategy.
The question is no longer if.
It’s how fast.

4️⃣ The security model just changed
Agentic systems can:
• access sensitive data
• execute code
• communicate externally
Jensen said that out loud. Slowly.
Let that sink in.
The opportunity is enormous.
So is the risk.
In the agentic era, security and governance are the foundation.
The companies that get this right will win.

5️⃣ Synthetic data will unlock robotics
Real-world data will never be sufficient to train robots for every scenario.
Simulation closes the gap.
Synthetic data allows robots to learn faster than the real world can generate experience.
The GPT moment for autonomous systems may already be happening.
BYD, Hyundai, Nissan, and Geely just joined the platform, representing 18M vehicles per year.

The closing scene of the keynote said everything.
Robots and humans sitting around a campfire in a forest.
Playing music together.
The caption:
“The future’s here. Won’t you come and see.”
Not a warning.
An invitation.

Two stops worth making on the show floor today:
✅ Cisco Booth #1421 - The agentic era needs a secure foundation. I’ll be interviewing Kevin Wollenweber, SVP & GM of Data Center at Cisco, on what Secure AI Factory means at enterprise scale.
✅ Elastic Booth #3200 - Jensen said 90% of the world’s data is unstructured and largely inaccessible. Elastic is building the retrieval layer to unlock it. Don’t miss their sessions on eliminating the data bottleneck and how NVIDIA itself is using it.

The token factory is only as powerful as its security, networking, and data retrieval layers.

That’s the story continuing on the show floor.

#NVIDIAGTC #NVIDIAPartner #CiscoPartner

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What Boards and Security Leaders Must Know about AI-Driven Threats?

Last week, I hosted Mike Riemer, Field CISO at Ivanti on a webinar secure by design: prevent weaponized AI attacks with Kernel security strategies.

Mike put the stakes in sharp focus from the start:

Threat actors can reverse engineer a patch and weaponize it within 72 hours.
In some cases, attacks begin within 90 seconds of code being published.

Let that sink in.

This is not a technology problem you can delegate to your CISO.
It is a governance issue, and boards have a fiduciary duty to act.

In my latest newsletter, I cover:

✅ Why traditional perimeter defenses are failing
✅ What Secure by Design means  and how to hold vendors accountable
✅ Why kernel-level security is the new line of defense
✅ The questions every board and audit committee must be asking now

Knowledge without action leaves your organization exposed.

As AI-driven threats accelerate, kernel-level security has become the new line of defense.

Are you ready for it?

Watch the full conversation with Mike here:
https://lnkd.in/gP4hnwGT

Join us for the upcoming #LinkedInLive where we'll be continuing this critical conversation. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gF8YcTqf

#CyberSecurity #BoardGovernance #KernelSecurity #AIThreats #CISO #RiskManagement #IvantiPartner

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“Threat actors can reverse engineer a patch and weaponize it within 72 hours — and we’ve seen attacks begin within 90 seconds of vulnerable code being

Open article: What Boards and Security Leaders Must Know About AI-Driven Threats and Kernel-Level Defense by Helen Yu • 6 min read

What Boards and Security Leaders Must Know About AI-Driven Threats and Kernel-Level Defense

Why are companies still using 8 platforms to move money?

I just saw a CFO’s finance stack:
Stripe. Wise. Ramp. Mercury. Chargebee.
Plus 3 international bank accounts.
Eight logins. Eight reconciliations.
And they’re still losing 4–6% on every international transaction.

Here’s the hidden tax 👇
You get paid €100K → converted to USD (≈3% gone)
You pay a European supplier → USD back to EUR (≈3% gone)
That’s 6% lost moving the same money in a circle.
On a $10M business? $600K/year.

This is why Airwallex exists.
One platform to:
✅ Accept global payments
✅ Hold 20+ currencies (no forced FX)
✅ Pay suppliers same-day
✅ Issue cards globally (zero FX fees)
✅ Open accounts in minutes
One integration. One dashboard.
Companies doing $10M+ internationally save $400K–$600K/year just by consolidating.

Airwallex just opened their second HQ in San Francisco. They're bringing global-first infrastructure to companies tired of fragmented stacks and hidden fees.

So Why are you still using 8 platforms to move money?

#AirwallexPartner #CFOs

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How do you prepare for the next frontier of transformation?

AI is reshaping how we build, decide, and serve customers; and getting ready means learning, experimenting, and connecting with others who are doing the same.

You’ll find a mix of business leaders and builders at the #MicrosoftAITour. 
People like me, are focused on turning AI ideas into real impact. What I love about this experience is how hands-on it is. You not only hear about the technology, but also get to explore it, build with it, and learn directly from Microsoft engineers and the community. From secure apps to agents and solutions using tools like Foundry and Copilot, you walk away inspired and ready to apply what you’ve learned.

This 20-second clip is a throwback to my favorite moments from the Chicago tour last September 🎥

I’m excited for the upcoming U.S. stops:
📍 Washington, DC on March 10 - Register here 👉 hhttps://lnkd.in/ebyjqCQb
📍 Atlanta on April 29 (I will be there in person)- Register here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ey83fdKc
📍 Houston on May 28 - Register here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eKVZVvE9

If you’re looking to prepare your organization for this frontier transformation, join a tour near you and start turning possibilities into action.

#MicrosoftAITour #FrontierTransformation #AILeadership #MicrosoftAmbassador Microsoft in Business

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When was the last time a support call made you feel heard?

After 2.3 million miles in the air and more support calls than I can count, I've come to believe we've been measuring customer experience all wrong.
We track resolution time. Handle time. CSAT scores. But nobody measures how it felt to be spoken to.

I've been hung up on agents who said all the right things and still left me feeling dismissed. And I've had problems go unresolved by agents who somehow made me feel taken care of anyway. The difference was never the script. It was tone. Pacing. The small human signals that say I hear you before a single solution is offered.

As executives, we've optimized everything we can see on a dashboard. But the felt experience of a conversation, that's been the blind spot.

That's what made me pay attention when I came across ElevenLabs' emotional voice agent. Because it points at something I've believed for years: conversational quality is product quality. And we're finally at the point where AI can deliver it at scale.

The leaders who get ahead of this won't just have faster support. They'll have support that people remember for the right reasons.

See it in action: https://lnkd.in/eDtV-aGs

#VoiceAgent #ConversationalAI #CX #CustomerOperations #ElevenLabsPartner

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How many of your #security alerts matter?

Last quarter, my team reviewed 14,000 alerts. Only eleven led to investigation.
That's not a security program. That's noise with a compliance checkbox on it.

As a Board Director, the question I keep bringing back to leadership is simple: would we catch it before it happens?

Most organizations can't answer that with confidence. Not because they lack tools. But because they're measuring the wrong things. Volume of alerts. Hours logged. Endpoints covered. 

None of it tells you what the board needs to know: where is the human risk, and is it escalating?

The shift I've been advocating for is moving from reactive reporting to predictive intelligence. Not just flagging what already happened, but understanding behavioral patterns early enough to intervene before damage is done.

When I look at what predictive risk scoring is doing now, platforms like Teramind being able to detect behavioral shifts weeks before an incident occurs, that's the kind of intelligence that belongs in a board briefing.

Rule-based systems catch what you anticipated. Behavioral AI catches what you didn't. In insider risk, what you didn't anticipate is almost always what gets you.

Stop counting alerts. Start asking: what does this pattern mean?

#PredictiveIntelligence #Workforce #AIGovernance #TeramindPartner

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What happens when AI stops living in the cloud and starts living in the world?

That's the question at the center of NVIDIA GTC.  That’s the premier global AI conference where developers, researchers, and business leaders come together to explore the next wave of AI innovation.

From physical AI and AI factories to agentic AI and inference, this is where the breakthroughs shaping every industry get unveiled. With 500+ sessions, labs, and workshops, there's no better place to go deep on real-world AI use cases and connect with the people building the future.

Last year's GTC drew 27K in-person attendees and 40M+ keynote views. I can't wait to see what 2026 has in store.

Register now and explore the session catalog: https://nvda.ws/4kfWXS8

#GTC25 #NVIDIAPartner #AI #PhysicalAI #GenerativeAI

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What does a connected, intelligent Commerce Chain look like in action?

At Conga’s 5th Annual Inspire Awards, we celebrated real, measurable business impact with CRO Lisa Martin.

When pricing, quoting, contracting, and revenue operate as one connected system, companies move faster, price smarter, and scale growth.

Here’s what that looked like this year:
✅ Commercial Excellence — IBM
Unified quoting and renewals for 3,000+ sellers and partners worldwide, accelerating deal cycles while improving seller productivity and global customer experience.
 
✅ Future of Commerce — Electronics Digikey
2× market outperformance in 2025 by unifying e-commerce with customer-specific pricing through neural networks and real-time pricing execution.
 
✅ Momentum Leader — Pediatrics Plus
Automated ~50% of monthly billing and reduced DSO from 84 → 54 days.
 
✅ Buyer Experience — Jack Henry 
Eliminated manual pricing errors, unified siloed sales processes, and accelerated time-to-revenue for financial institutions nationwide.
 
✅ Judges’ Choice — Southwest Airlines
Reduced contract creation time to just 5 minutes, delivering enterprise-grade governance with startup speed.
 
✅ Community Champion — Natalie Myers
Amplified peer voices and strengthened knowledge sharing across the entire Conga community.

A connected Commerce Chain unlocks measurable revenue performance across the entire lifecycle.

Stay tuned for my conversation with Conga CRO Lisa Martin with a deeper dive into what the Commerce Chain means for the future of revenue leadership.

#CongaConnect #InspireAwards #CommerceChain #CustomerSuccess #CongaPartner

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What does it take to turn B2B influencer content into qualified pipeline?

I recently had a great conversation with Heather Barnett about this challenge and it’s clear this topic is rising on many B2B leaders’ agendas.

There’s a smarter way to approach it.

The Insight Collective and Custom Influence have put together an ebook that breaks it all down, featuring insights from leading B2B voices.

If you’re focused on making influencer marketing deliver measurable impact, this is worth your time.

https://lnkd.in/epkRekqz

#B2B #Influencer #Marketing 

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When was the last time an AI investment delivered what it promised?

I've sat in enough boardrooms to know that question lands differently depending on who's in the room.

For most enterprises, the pattern is the same; a promising pilot, a growing consulting retainer, and a strategy deck that never quite becomes a production system.

That's the cycle Klika Tech built VELOCITY™ to break.

It's a 16-month, fixed-price program that takes organizations from AI uncertainty to a fully operational, self-sustaining AI capability. One contract. Five structured phases. And your team owns everything they build including the models, the infrastructure and the IP.

Team don't get paid for hours. They get paid for outcomes.

ROI validation begins at Month 8 so you get proof mid-journey
If AI is on your roadmap this year, reach out to see what it looks like in practice.

Drop a “Yes” comment if you want to learn more. 👇

#AI #EnterpriseAI #KlikaTech #VELOCITY #DigitalTransformation

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Ready to launch your #career in #AI in 2026? 

LinkedIn just released its Skills on the Rise 2026 list and the signal is clear: AI is reshaping every role, not just technical ones. 

Here are the fastest-growing skills: Prompt Engineering, RAG, LangChain, Vector Databases, and Model Fine-Tuning along people skills like Stakeholder Management and Leadership Communication. Employers want professionals who can build and lead with AI.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 20% growth in computer and information research roles between 2024 and 2034. The opportunity is real.

I've consolidated what I learned from Coursera and U.S. Bureau of Labor and put together a table of 9 high-demand AI roles with required skills, salary ranges, and core responsibilities to help you find your best fit.

Which role excites you most? Drop it in the comments 👇

#SkillsOnTheRise #FutureOfWork #ArtificialIntelligence #TechCareers
#AI #Jobs #MachineLearning #DataScience #WomenInTech

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9 AI Jobs to Consider in 2026

What are the two things that define a world-class data center?

Here's what I learned from Equinix team at last year's NVIDIA GTC 
(watch the 1-minute clip below)
→ Environment - power, space, and cooling
→ Interconnectivity - dense access to public clouds and GPU-as-a-service

Equinix operates 280 data centers across 77 global markets. The London facility Aaron showcased was built with his in mind: 170,000 sq ft, 100% renewable energy, 99.999% availability, and 200+ cloud interconnection points all water-cooled.

Equinix also announced they'll be the first to offer the NVIDIA Instant AI Factory; fully provisioned AI infrastructure powered by DGX GB300 and B300 systems, across 45 global markets.

This year, I'm going deeper on the #sustainability side of all of this.
I look forward to speaking with Christopher Wellise, Global VP of Sustainability at Equinix to talk about what it takes to build and operate AI infrastructure responsibly; from closing the gap between pledges and results, to whether the industry is measuring the right things.

Tune in to our upcoming CXO Spice from #NVIDAGTC. What would YOU ask Chris? Drop it below 👇

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Where are the real conversations about the future of revenue lifecycle happening right now?

At Conga Connect.

Just arrived at the venue and the energy is already building. This quick clip gives a glimpse of the space and a great catch-up with Amy Williams from the Conga team as things get underway.

Looking ahead to a packed agenda for Day 1:
✅ The future of commerce keynote from David Osborne CEO of Conga
✅ Accelerating Innovation across the commerce chain from Rohit Chhabra, CPO
✅ My 1:1 with Lisa Martin, CRO, diving into Commerce Chain
✅ Tonight’s customer panel and awards
✅ And wrapping the evening with the VIP dinner with Conga executives, select customers and fellow analysts Shelly DeMotte Kramer, Roy Atkinson, Eric Kavanagh.

Events like this are where product vision, customer experience, and strategy come together. I’m interested in hearing how organizations are approaching revenue lifecycle transformation and connected commerce.

Let's connect if you're here at Conga Connect. Or follow #CXOSpice to get the latest updates.

#CongaConnect #RevenueLifecycle #CPQ #CommerceChain #Analysts #CongaPartner

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What does responsible AI governance look like when the infrastructure at stake is an entire city?

It's a question that I'm proud to have helped answer along with an exceptional group of experts in collaboration with AI & Partners.

In this whitepaper, Digital Public Services: Governance Challenges in AI-Enabled Smart Cities, we explore how we can build trustworthy, interoperable urban infrastructure as AI becomes central to transport, energy, health, and public administration.

Key takeaways:
✅ Interconnected systems create cascading risks - resilience must be built in by design
✅ Interoperability and open standards are governance tools rather than just technical ones
✅ Privacy-by-design is essential as sensor networks and data fusion expand across cities
✅ The EU AI Act creates real obligations for municipalities deploying high-risk AI

Thank you to my fellow contributors for making this such a rigorous and timely piece of work:
Sean Musch, Michael Charles Borrelli, Dr. Don Liyanage, Dr. Benedikt Kohn, Harvey Castro, Lisa Ventura MBE FCIIS MBCS, Mariia Shcherbakova, Patrick Orsos, Shreyas Karanjkar, Edward Cole, Mitko Karushkov, Vibhav Mithal, FHCA, Mateo Jarrin Cuvi, Michael Boevink, Ina Schöne, Richard Chiumento, and Carolyn Harrison.

If you work in urban policy, AI regulation, or digital public services, this one is for you. 

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