Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic and serves as chair of its Board of Directors. As President, she leads the organization’s work across research, engineering, product, governance, and commercial execution and manages the executive team.

Before co-founding Anthropic, Daniela served as Vice President of Safety and Policy at OpenAI, where she led efforts to ensure the safe development and deployment of AI systems. Prior to her work in the AI industry, Daniela was Head of Risk Operations at Stripe, where she oversaw risk management and compliance.

Daniela began her career in public service, working in international development and government.

D. Graham Burnett is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and History of Science at Princeton University. The founder of the non-profit Institute for Sustained Attention, Burnett currently heads the Institute’s flagship project, the Strother School of Radical Attention. Recent related collaborative books include: Twelve Theses on Attention (Princeton, 2022); Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses (Columbia, 2023), and Attensity! (Crown, 2026), the latter a manifesto of the international “Friends of Attention” coalition. His next book, Till the Light Leaps: Essays on Playing Attention, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in early 2027.

Tiziana Dearing is the host of WBUR’s Morning Edition.

Prior to helping listeners start the morning with news from around the corner and around the world, Tiziana hosted Radio Boston, WBUR’s daily local magazine, for five years.

Tiziana came to journalism after a career that spanned academia, nonprofits and for-profit management consulting. She taught graduate students at the Boston College School of Social Work and chaired its program in Social Innovation and Leadership. Tiziana ran a start-up foundation focused on breaking generational cycles of poverty in Boston neighborhoods and was the first woman president of Catholic Charities for the Archdiocese of Boston. Earlier in her work life, she ran a research center at the Harvard Kennedy School and worked in management consulting.

Tiziana has won a number of awards in the city, including a Pinnacle Award from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and Boston Business Journal’s 40 Under 40.

Janet Foutty is President of Employer Partnerships at RAISE US, a national, nonpartisan nonprofit helping American workers navigate the transition to an AI-powered economy. RAISE US engages government, corporate, and higher education partners to build new models of worker preparation and support. Janet leads the organization's private-sector engagement, building a founding coalition of major employers committed to co-designing and testing new approaches to worker transitions.

Janet finished her 33-year career at Deloitte in 2023, having served as CEO of Deloitte Consulting and Chair of the Deloitte US Board, where she led large-scale transformation for many of the world's largest organizations. Since then, she has worked as an advisor, consultant, and board member across women's health, leadership, technology, and workforce issues.

Janet is a best-selling author and frequent speaker on women's leadership, drawing on her own career to help others navigate theirs. She lives in Chicago with her husband.

Paula A. Johnson is a pioneer with decades of experience in academic medicine, public health, and higher education. Since joining Wellesley in 2016, she has placed the College at the forefront of STEM education for women and has led the creation of the school’s strategic plan, placing inclusive excellence at the heart of the Wellesley experience. 

During her tenure, the College transformed its Science Center into a state-of-the-art Science Complex, and President Johnson significantly advanced Wellesley’s focus on global engagement, creating the Wagner Centers for Wellesley in the World and the Hillary Rodham Clinton Center for Citizenship, Leadership, and Democracy.

Julie Jones is chair of Ropes & Gray and has been a member of the firm's management committee since 2011. One of the world's premier corporate lawyers, Julie has won countless accolades for her work on behalf of clients that include some of the world's largest companies and investors. 

Julie's ability to combine her market-leading knowledge of federal securities laws with business acumen has caused clients to describe her as unique in the marketplace. Chambers commented that “she can get down into the nitty-gritty and go head to head with the nerdiest, but she can also step back and be a field general for the client, seeing the big picture.”

Working out of the firm's New York and Boston offices, Julie is a board member of the Partnership for New York City, a trustee of The Conference Board's Committee for Economic Development, and a member of the Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and Cornell Law School.

Reshma Kewalramani, M.D., FASN, is the Chief Executive Officer & President at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a Fortune 500, global biotechnology company. She trained in internal medicine and nephrology before entering the biopharmaceutical industry, where she has dedicated her career to discovering and developing new medicines. She joined Vertex in 2017, served as Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of Global Medicines Development and Medical Affairs and became CEO in 2020.

Today, Vertex has multiple approved therapies that treat the underlying causes of cystic fibrosis (CF), sickle cell disease, transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia and acute pain. In addition, Vertex is advancing a clinical-stage pipeline that represents best in class and/or first in class approaches in multiple disease areas, including CF, pain, type 1 diabetes, myotonic dystrophy type 1 and select renal diseases, across multiple modalities including small molecule, mRNA, biologics, cell and gene therapies. Continuing the tradition of excellence in the workplace, under Dr. Kewalramani’s leadership as CEO, Vertex has consistently been recognized as a best place to work, including by Science magazine, The Boston Globe and Fortune.

Dr. Kewalramani completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and her fellowship in nephrology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital combined program. She received her medical degree, with honors, from the seven-year medicine program at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and is a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology. She is an alumna of the Harvard Business School, having completed the General Management Program.

Dr. Kewalramani has received a number of distinguished honors and awards for her leadership and contributions to science and innovation. She has been named to the TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World list, the TIME 100 Health list, and is one of Fortune’s Most Powerful People, a Changemaker by CNBC, one of Boston Business Journal’s “Power 50,” one of Boston magazine’s most influential Bostonians, a top CEO by Barron’s, and one of Business Insider’s “10 People Transforming Healthcare.” She has received the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Boston University School of Medicine, and the International Institute of New England Golden Door Award, among others.

Since becoming MIT’s 18th president in January 2023, Sally Kornbluth has launched a suite of initiatives to spur bold collaborations on the great challenges of our time, from climate change and human health to manufacturing, quantum engineering and generative AI. 

She is also a vocal champion for the vital importance of fundamental discovery science as a pipeline for innovations crucial to the nation's health, prosperity, and national security.

A noted cancer biologist, she is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Inventors, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Eric Paley is the Secretary of the Executive Office of Economic Development (EOED). He has worked to shape the innovation economy for more than 25 years as both a successful entrepreneur and a leading venture capitalist. As co-founder and Managing Partner of Founder Collective, Paley helped build one of the world’s highest-performing seed-stage venture capital funds, with an investment portfolio that included groundbreaking technology companies across diverse sectors such as transportation, media, healthcare, consumer, advanced manufacturing and enterprise software, including Uber, The Trade Desk, Omada Health, Cruise Automation, Whoop, Formlabs and Airtable. Before Founder Collective, Paley founded and led Brontes Technologies, a hard-tech startup that commercialized novel 3D imaging technology from MIT to enable advanced manufacturing in dentistry. Paley continued to lead the company after its acquisition by 3M in 2006. Paley holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children.

Orit Shaer is a 2026-27 Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is Associate Provost for Wellesley in the World, Michael and Denise Kellen ’68 Chair in the Sciences, and Professor of Computer Science at Wellesley College, where she founded and directs the Wellesley College Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Lab. Her research focuses on human-computer interaction for the future of work and learning, including human-AI interaction, virtual and augmented reality, and tangible and embodied interaction. Current projects investigate how AI can become a partner in creative expression, how intelligent systems can support emergency responders making split-second decisions in the field, and how emerging technologies can support wellbeing and productivity for knowledge workers. Shaer's book "Weaving Fire into Form: Aspirations for Tangible and Embodied Interaction" (ACM Books, 2022) is the first comprehensive reference book on this emerging field. It provides conceptual and pragmatic tools for weaving the animating fires of computation and technology into evocative tangible forms.

Shaer is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a recipient of National Science Foundation (NSF) and industry awards including the NSF CAREER Award, the Agilent Technologies Research Award, and the Google App Engine Education Award. At Wellesley she was awarded the Pinanski Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Shaer has served on dozens of program committees, editorial boards, and review panels, including the NSF Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, ACM CHI, CSCW, UIST, and TEI conferences, and the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI) and Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction. She is a co-founder of CHIWORK, a conference on human-computer interaction for the future of work, and co-chairs ACM TEI 2027. Shaer received her PhD and MSc in Computer Science from Tufts University.