Tess Posner is a social entrepreneur, musician, and interim CEO of AI4ALL, a nonprofit empowering the next generation of leaders in AI. She served as AI4ALL’s founding CEO (2017–21), growing the organization to reach thousands of students nationwide, and recently returned to guide it through a pivotal period of change. Previously, Tess led the White House–launched TechHire initiative, was a Fellow at the Institute for the Future, and built Samaschool, a program preparing learners worldwide for the future of work.
Tess creates music with a mission to inspire hope, empowerment, and connection to nature; her song “Volcano” won the 2024 WAM Gold Award and the Intercontinental Music Award. In 2024, she co-founded VENUS, a music showcase highlighting women in music. Tess was named one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics, co-authored The People Centered Economy: The New Ecosystem for Work, and holds a master’s degree from Columbia University.
Summit 2025
Friday ·
1:30pm
What if the real challenge isn’t teaching AI right from wrong, but designing it to carry meaning? What if AI was built not just for efficiency, but for belonging — for creativity, trust, community, and personalization we actually want? Following their provocations, we all gather in topic circles to ask why this matters, how else we might approach it, what we might do about it, and how we can communicate it to the world.