WOMEN x AI

About WOMEN x AI

Welcome to WOMEN x AI (WxAI) a podcast dedicated to amplifying women in tech and accelerating your success. Whether you're starting out or scaling up, you'll find real talk and real community here. Hosted by AI leaders Reut Lazo and Jenny Kay Pollock, we dive into stories, strategies, and insights from trailblazing women in AI. Subscribe and discover how women are building the future of AI. New episodes at www.womenxai.com and everywhere you listen.

Publisher

WOMEN x AI (WxAI)

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 May 2025

Latest episode

9 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 9 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   9 Mar 2026

   WxAI: AI x Boardrooms – Inside the AI Board Governance Compass

   This episode explores AI board governance featuring insights from industry experts on frameworks, case studies, and practical tools to help board members navigate AI responsibly. Join Reut Lazo and Jenny Kay Pollock in their conversation with Paula Fontana, Joanna Ridgway and Tamara Gracon. Topics AI governance frameworks Case studies in AI decision-making The Private Governance AI Compass Balancing innovation and risk in AI Board-level AI oversight AI is already shaping business decisions in ways that are often invisible, making governance critical. The AI Board Governance Compass provides a practical, repeatable framework for assessing AI risks and opportunities. Progress over perfection is a key principle—start with questions, not answers. Boards need to be equipped to ask the right questions about AI, even with incomplete information. Embedding AI oversight into regular board discussions is essential for responsible governance. The AI Board Governance Compass: Navigating AI with Confidence 5 Key Strategies for Effective AI Governance in the Boardroom Key Quotes: "AI is already shaping our decisions in unseen ways." "Boards need practical tools to navigate AI risks." "Effective governance balances innovation and risk." Resources: Full AI Board Governance Compass Framework (https://www.womenxai.com/ai-board-governance) ⁠WOMEN x AI Website⁠ (https://www.womenexai.com/) The Creative Act by Rick Rubin (https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Act-Way-Being/dp/0593652886) Empire of AI by Karen Hao (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0XYZ12345) AI Daily Brief Podcast (https://aibrief.com/) Chapters 00:00 Introduction to AI and Boardroom Governance 01:20 Intros 05:42 Unveiling the AI Board Compass 11:26 Understanding the Framework's Quadrants 16:48 The Importance of Data in AI Governance 22:38 Case Studies: Practical Applications of the Framework 30:44 Good Governance in the Age of AI 35:38 Lightning Round: AI Tools and Resources 40:05 Key Takeaways for Board Members

2. 

   22 Oct 2025

   WxAI: AI x Product Roundtable – Building Better Products Faster

   How AI is reshaping product management from idea to launch? The panel digs into strategy, PRDs, research, prototyping, analytics, guardrails, and the human judgment that still holds it all together. “AI gives you what you give it. It can enhance your voice, but it cannot replace your thinking or your voice.” — Namisha Balagopal Guests Namisha Balagopal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/namishab/)— Product leader across HP, Twitch, Amazon, and digital health Mayan Shay May-Raz  (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayan-shay-may-raz-280079163/overlay/about-this-profile/) — Principal Product Manager, Amazon Search, former AR and VR PM at Lenovo and Meta startup Dr. Nancy Li (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drnancyli/) — Founder, PM Accelerator, YouTube and LinkedIn Top Voice Jasmeen Bal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasmnkbal/) — Product leader in the EV charging industry, former automotive engineering Hosts Reut Lazo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/reutlazo/), Cofounder and Co-CEO, WOMEN x AI Jenny Kay Pollock (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennykaypollock/), Cofounder and Co-CEO, WOMEN x AI What We Cover How AI speeds strategy, PRDs, and stakeholder buy-in Research at scale with interview synthesis and insight mapping Prototyping and UI flows with AI design helpers Data quality, cleansing, and why your inputs determine your outputs Hallucinations, bias, and practical guardrails in production The evolving PM role, specialization, and parallelized build cycles Blending AI insight with human empathy and product taste Key Takeaways AI is a force multiplier for PMs who stay in the loop and think critically. Inputs matter. Define personas, context, and goals to get useful outputs. Use AI to compress time, then spend the saved time on deeper questions. Guardrails require humans. Validate facts, monitor outputs, and design for failure cases. Clean data beats big data. Aggregate, de-dupe, and cleanse before you trust. The PM toolkit is changing, but storytelling and empathy still win rooms. Product orgs will specialize. Core feature PMs, growth PMs, and internal tooling PMs can move faster with AI. Parallelize more. Strategy, research, prototype, and QA can run together with AI assistance. Tools Mentioned Dovetail — Customer interviews, synthesis, and insights Lovable — Prompt to clickable prototype for faster stakeholder alignment Claude — Reasoned writing, persona-aware drafting, and analysis Amplitude — Product analytics and auto-captured events for faster decisions Fathom — Meeting records, notes, and action items Also referenced: Miro AI, Figma, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Google Vertex AI, RAG and multi-agent patterns Resources and Recs Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks, on storytelling that lands with stakeholders On Purpose with Jay Shetty — Madonna interview on resilience and belief Power and Prediction by Agrawal, Gans, and Goldfarb, on how AI shifts decision making Chapters 00:00 Intro and why AI in product matters now 01:09 Guest intros 05:06 How AI changes PM work and team velocity 08:44 First moments when AI changed their product practice 14:36 Strategy, speed, and decision making with AI 15:13 Research at scale and the Dovetail workflow 16:53 Blending AI insight with human intuition 20:21 Designing an AI-native product process end to end 23:29 Specialization and faster iterations across the lifecycle 24:40 Parallelizing strategy, prototyping, research, and QA 26:32 Risks and challenges, overreliance, and “vanilla” docs 28:01 Hallucinations and practical guardrails in production 33:39 Tool favorites of the week 37:40 Non-AI recommendations and why empathy still matters 41:02 How WOMEN x AI helps members grow 43:07 Closing and final quote Recorded for the WOMEN x AI community. Learn more and join at www.womenxai.com.

3. 

   28 Sept 2025

   WxAI: AI x Go-to-Market Roundtable - Winning Markets with AI

   Marketing leaders on WOMEN x AI discuss how AI revolutionizes go-to-market strategies, enhancing efficiency and democratizing tools for all businesses.

4. 

   1 Sept 2025

   WxAI: AI x Sales Roundtable - Driving Revenue in the Age of AI

   Host Jenny Kay Pollock interviews Saumya Bhatnagar, Summer Poletti, and Amirah Raveneau-Bey about how AI transforms sales processes and customer interactions, driving revenue while maintaining human connection.

5. 

   22 Aug 2025

   WxAI: AI x Data Roundtable - Bridging the Gap Between AI and Data Analytics

   WxAI Cofounder & Co-CEOs Reut Lazo and Jenny Kay Pollock interview Annie Xu, Kasia Rachuta, and Rachel Mak-McCully about bridging AI and data analytics through ethical ownership and collaboration.

6. 

   8 Jul 2025

   AI Startups and Venture Capital Panel, Moderated by Holly Uber

   Moderator Holly Uber leads Preetha Ram, Sabira Alloo, Mahak Sharma, and Sheetal Inariani in a panel discussing AI startups, venture capital, and the importance of diversity in tech, highlighting funding trends and responsible AI innovation in this interview.

7. 

   24 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Women Leading the Way: Ignite Talks on AI Building and Advising

   Summer Poletti, Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek, Tarja Stephens, Imen Maaroufi Clark, N Liberty White, Alejandra Acosta, and Jessica Gold share insights on AI's impact across industries, emphasizing collaboration and human-centered design in this interview episode.

8. 

   10 Jun 2025

   Empowering Women in AI: The WOMEN x AI Story

   Hosts Jenny Kay Pollock and Reut Lazo explore the origin and mission of WOMEN x AI, which empowers women in the AI field through community and resources; this is an interview episode.

9. 

   27 May 2025

   Let’s Build Together – WOMEN x AI Trailer

   Co-hosts Reut Lazo and Jenny Kay Pollock introduce WOMEN x AI, a podcast that elevates women's voices in AI, shares stories from global leaders, and shapes the future of computing in this trailer, an interview.

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Women Leading the Way: Ignite Talks on AI Building and Advising

Published 24 Jun 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] What are the organizational design operating models, and really at the core, what we are seeing is that reinventing entirely how organization functions. So what does this mean is really shifting the focus from being technology-driven to investing more in people when we talk about AI. […]

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