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.
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March 9, 2026
<p>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. </p><p>Join Reut Lazo and Jenny Kay Pollock in their conversation with Paula Fontana, Joanna Ridgway and Tamara Gracon. </p><p><strong>Topics</strong></p><ul><li>AI governance frameworks</li><li>Case studies in AI decision-making</li><li>The Private Governance AI Compass</li><li>Balancing innovation and risk in AI</li><li>Board-level AI oversight</li><li>AI is already shaping business decisions in ways that are often invisible, making governance critical.</li><li>The AI Board Governance Compass provides a practical, repeatable framework for assessing AI risks and opportunities.</li><li>Progress over perfection is a key principle—start with questions, not answers.</li><li>Boards need to be equipped to ask the right questions about AI, even with incomplete information.</li><li>Embedding AI oversight into regular board discussions is essential for responsible governance.</li><li>The AI Board Governance Compass: Navigating AI with Confidence</li><li>5 Key Strategies for Effective AI Governance in the Boardroom</li></ul><p><strong>Key Quotes: </strong></p><ul><li>"AI is already shaping our decisions in unseen ways."</li><li>"Boards need practical tools to navigate AI risks."</li><li>"Effective governance balances innovation and risk."</li></ul><p><strong>Resources:</strong> </p><ul><li><a href="https://www.womenxai.com/ai-board-governance" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Full AI Board Governance Compass Framework</a></li><li><a href="https://www.womenexai.com/">WOMEN x AI Website</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Act-Way-Being/dp/0593652886" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">The Creative Act by Rick Rubin</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0XYZ12345" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Empire of AI by Karen Hao</a></li><li><a href="https://aibrief.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AI Daily Brief Podcast</a></li></ul><p><strong>Chapters</strong></p><p>00:00 Introduction to AI and Boardroom Governance</p><p>01:20 Intros </p><p>05:42 Unveiling the AI Board Compass</p><p>11:26 Understanding the Framework's Quadrants</p><p>16:48 The Importance of Data in AI Governance </p><p>22:38 Case Studies: Practical Applications of the Framework</p><p>30:44 Good Governance in the Age of AI</p><p>35:38 Lightning Round: AI Tools and Resources</p><p>40:05 Key Takeaways for Board Members</p><p><br></p>
October 22, 2025
<p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>“AI gives you what you give it. It can enhance your voice, but it cannot replace your thinking or your voice.” — Namisha Balagopal</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Guests</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/namishab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Namisha Balagopal </a>— Product leader across HP, Twitch, Amazon, and digital health</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayan-shay-may-raz-280079163/overlay/about-this-profile/">Mayan Shay May-Raz </a> — Principal Product Manager, Amazon Search, former AR and VR PM at Lenovo and Meta startup</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/drnancyli/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Dr. Nancy Li</a> — Founder, PM Accelerator, YouTube and LinkedIn Top Voice</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasmnkbal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Jasmeen Bal</a> — Product leader in the EV charging industry, former automotive engineering</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Hosts</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/reutlazo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Reut Lazo</a>, Cofounder and Co-CEO, WOMEN x AI</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennykaypollock/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Jenny Kay Pollock</a>, Cofounder and Co-CEO, WOMEN x AI</p><p><br></p><p><strong>What We Cover</strong></p><ul><li>How AI speeds strategy, PRDs, and stakeholder buy-in</li><li>Research at scale with interview synthesis and insight mapping</li><li>Prototyping and UI flows with AI design helpers</li><li>Data quality, cleansing, and why your inputs determine your outputs</li><li>Hallucinations, bias, and practical guardrails in production</li><li>The evolving PM role, specialization, and parallelized build cycles</li><li>Blending AI insight with human empathy and product taste</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Takeaways</strong></p><ul><li>AI is a force multiplier for PMs who stay in the loop and think critically.</li><li>Inputs matter. Define personas, context, and goals to get useful outputs.</li><li>Use AI to compress time, then spend the saved time on deeper questions.</li><li>Guardrails require humans. Validate facts, monitor outputs, and design for failure cases.</li><li>Clean data beats big data. Aggregate, de-dupe, and cleanse before you trust.</li><li>The PM toolkit is changing, but storytelling and empathy still win rooms.</li><li>Product orgs will specialize. Core feature PMs, growth PMs, and internal tooling PMs can move faster with AI.</li><li>Parallelize more. Strategy, research, prototype, and QA can run together with AI assistance.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Tools Mentioned</strong></p><p>Dovetail — Customer interviews, synthesis, and insights</p><p>Lovable — Prompt to clickable prototype for faster stakeholder alignment</p><p>Claude — Reasoned writing, persona-aware drafting, and analysis</p><p>Amplitude — Product analytics and auto-captured events for faster decisions</p><p>Fathom — Meeting records, notes, and action items</p><p><br></p><p>Also referenced: Miro AI, Figma, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Google Vertex AI, RAG and multi-agent patterns</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Resources and Recs</strong></p><p>Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks, on storytelling that lands with stakeholders</p><p>On Purpose with Jay Shetty — Madonna interview on resilience and belief</p><p>Power and Prediction by Agrawal, Gans, and Goldfarb, on how AI shifts decision making</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Chapters</strong></p><p>00:00 Intro and why AI in product matters now</p><p>01:09 Guest intros</p><p>05:06 How AI changes PM work and team velocity</p><p>08:44 First moments when AI changed their product practice</p><p>14:36 Strategy, speed, and decision making with AI</p><p>15:13 Research at scale and the Dovetail workflow</p><p>16:53 Blending AI insight with human intuition</p><p>20:21 Designing an AI-native product process end to end</p><p>23:29 Specialization and faster iterations across the lifecycle</p><p>24:40 Parallelizing strategy, prototyping, research, and QA</p><p>26:32 Risks and challenges, overreliance, and “vanilla” docs</p><p>28:01 Hallucinations and practical guardrails in production</p><p>33:39 Tool favorites of the week</p><p>37:40 Non-AI recommendations and why empathy still matters</p><p>41:02 How WOMEN x AI helps members grow</p><p>43:07 Closing and final quote</p><p><br></p><p>Recorded for the WOMEN x AI community. Learn more and join at www.womenxai.com.</p>
September 28, 2025
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