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  • Invite-only Session
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Speakers

Joti Balani

Founder and Managing Director, Freshriver.ai

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Joti Balani

Founder and Managing Director, Freshriver.ai

Joti Balani, Founder and Managing Director of Freshriver.ai, is a creative architect designing and delivering enterprise grade conversational artificial intelligence.

She created a multidimensional transformation framework blending AI, data sciences, engineering and social sciences. She leads transformative innovations at Fortune 100 enterprises to create emotional, economic and brand value with her team, who represent the empowered human race in all dimensions.

Joti has worked as a CAI strategy and delivery consultant at Google, Johnson & Johnson, Centene Corporation and Lowe's Companies, Inc. She is G100 US Country Chair for Robotics & Automation, the AI Impact lead at Innovation of Large Organizations (ILO), Intrapreneurship Governance Council Member/Unfold Consulting as well as AI Advisor to Web3 focused startups, Titlechain and Inpeak.xyz solving critical, global problems in business and society with courage, creativity and technology.

Joti also leads Open Voice Network’s (OVON) Industry Advisory Council to share her Conversational AI framework with the industry and is co-founder of Women in Voice/WiV, New Jersey, US chapter.

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Courtney Popp

Director, Education Programs, Infrastructure Masons

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Courtney Popp

Director, Education Programs, Infrastructure Masons

Courtney joined Infrastructure Masons in 2022 as their EDU Program Manager.

As part of her role, she manages the existing iMasons scholarship program, awarding hundreds of scholarships worldwide and manage and supports iMasons existing Capstone program, supporting teams of students at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) in year-long projects to introduce them to the digital infrastructure industry in the senior year of their bachelors degree.

She is managing and supporting iMasons emerging program to work with one or more major universities to develop and implement a multi-disciplinary minor-degree program in digital infrastructure and is a visible advocate for, and expert on, the data center industry’s workforce development needs.

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2:00 - 2:15 pm | Welcome & Intro to DCD>Academy & iMasons

2:15 - 2:45 pm | Presentation | iMasons Capstone Program experience

Jean Park, an iMasons Capstone Program graduate and current NYU student, discusses her experience with the Capstone as well as her intended career plans in AI and Policy

  • Jean Park, Graduate, iMasons Capstone Program

2:45 - 3:15 pm | Presentation | In the age of AI, how will your future be affected?

This session is designed to demystify the data center and the current capabilities of AI and LLMs. Learn where the future of data centers may go, and how this may impact the future of employment.

  • Courtney Popp, iMasons Director of Education Programs

3:15 - 3:45pm | Presentation | How can the industry build an AI talent Pipeline?

This session will discuss efforts to recruit and train a workforce equipped to weather the AI revolution.

  • Joti Balani, Founder and Managing Director, Freshriver.ai

3:45 - 5:00 pm | Executive roundtable | Meet the experts