USA AI Summit 2026
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November 7, 2026
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Manhattan, NY
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A Global Gathering of AI Innovators
Join thought leaders, developers, researchers, and founders as we explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping industries, creativity, and the future of work.
- Keynotes, Workshops, and Networking
- World-Class Speakers
- Startup Showcase and Live Demos
What You’ll Gain
Hear from global AI pioneers, industry disruptors, and bold thinkers shaping the future across every domain.
Artificial Intelligence powers data analysis, healthcare diagnostics, transportation, finance, education, marketing, cybersecurity, and automation. AI improves efficiency, personalization, and decisions across industries and daily life!
Meet the Visionaries
Whether it's a quick refresh or a deep clean transformation, our expert touch leaves your home or office shining.
Phillip Meade, Ph.D.
Dr. Phillip is a transformational leadership expert with over 30 years of experience in systems design and culture change. As a senior leader at NASA, he led the cultural transformation following the Columbia tragedy, guided the workforce transition during the Space Shuttle retirement, and helped reinvent Kennedy Space Center into the world’s busiest commercial spaceport.
Sebastian Uzcategui
Venezuelan-born entrepreneur, trader, and founder of Stocks University. At 22, he has helped over 1,200 students through accessible financial education, prioritizing mentorship and integrity. A dynamic presenter, he’s spoken at churches, seminars, and AI summits, leveraging AI in trading and business. Advocates faith, service, and financial freedom.
Nelly V. Tacheva
Nelly V. Tacheva is a visionary leader in AI and immersive technology. As the founder of Tangra, she develops next‑generation innovations that transform how modern professionals learn, create, and communicate. With an MBA in Business Analytics and an MS in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Education, she brings a rare blend of technical depth and strategic insight.
Various AI Topics
Phillip Meade, Ph.D.
Session: TBA
Dr. Phillip is a transformational leadership expert with over 30 years of experience in systems design and culture change. As a senior leader at NASA, he led the cultural transformation following the Columbia tragedy, guided the workforce transition during the Space Shuttle retirement, and helped reinvent Kennedy Space Center into the world’s busiest commercial spaceport.
Sebastian Uzcategui
Session: TBA
Venezuelan-born entrepreneur, trader, and founder of Stocks University. At 22, he has helped over 1,200 students through accessible financial education, prioritizing mentorship and integrity. A dynamic presenter, he’s spoken at churches, seminars, and AI summits, leveraging AI in trading and business. Advocates faith, service, and financial freedom.
Erik Conn
Session: TBA
AI Erik is an artificial intelligence consultant, educator, speaker, and author of The Algorithm of Power, dedicated to helping people and organizations understand how to work alongside AI. He specializes in AI literacy, prompt engineering, workforce reskilling, and the practical implementation of AI tools across industries.
As the founder of AI Learning House and AILiteracy.biz, AI Erik delivers workshops, keynote presentations, and training programs that translate complex AI concepts into real-world strategies businesses and communities can use immediately. He has spoken at libraries, universities, community programs, and industry events, focusing on preparing everyday professionals for an AI-driven economy.
His mission is simple: ensure people are not left behind as artificial intelligence reshapes work, education, and opportunity. AI Erik is known for his engaging speaking style and his ability to bridge the gap between human insight and emerging technology, empowering audiences to confidently use AI in their daily work and lives.
Nelly V. Tacheva
Session: TBA
Nelly V. Tacheva is a visionary leader in AI and immersive technology. As the founder of Tangra, she develops next‑generation innovations that transform how modern professionals learn, create, and communicate.
With an MBA in Business Analytics and an MS in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Education, she brings a rare blend of technical depth and strategic insight.
At Rutgers Business School, Nelly teaches Immersive Marketing, a pioneering course exploring how AI, AR, and VR are reshaping brand storytelling and customer experience.
She also leads hands-on workshops that empower leaders to harness emerging technologies for real business impact.
Kotryna Kurt
Session: TBA
Kotryna Kurt is a 4x founder. She is the CEO and founder of an AI search & LinkedIn company, Linkedist, that helps other businesses grow on AI search, strengthen their GEO, and much more. Besides the latter, she also founded a few startups and associations globally.
She is also an active contributor and thought leader on LinkedIn, where she discusses entrepreneurship, leadership, sales, and marketing. For the last 11 years, Kotryna has delivered +400 company and public workshops and helped different European accelerators and communities. Within the last few years, she has shared her knowledge at events like AI Summit Qatar, TechBBQ, TechChill, Login, Growth Marketing Conference San Francisco, Sales Formula.
Priyanka Yerandekar
Session: TBA
Priyanka Yerandekar is a venture investor, and business strategist focused on AI, healthcare, and emerging technologies. She works at the intersection of capital, innovation, and execution, helping early-stage and growth-stage companies scale through fundraising, strategic partnerships, and go-to-market development. Her experience spans venture capital, private equity, management consulting, and business development, with a focus on scaling solutions that drive real-world impact.
Priyanka is particularly passionate about the transformative role of AI in healthcare, enterprise automation, and future-of-work applications. She actively collaborates with founders, investors, and ecosystem partners to accelerate the commercialization and adoption of high-impact technologies. She is actively involved in building relationships across founders, limited partners, and institutional investors, and is passionate about supporting mission-driven entrepreneurs solving complex global challenges. She holds a STEM MBA from Babson College and is based in Manhattan, New York, where she focuses on accelerating the adoption of responsible, scalable AI solutions that improve efficiency, access, and outcomes across industries.
Stefanie Pinsley
Session: Keep the I in AI: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Stef Pinsley is a speaker and coach teaching professionals how to use AI without losing their voice, credibility, or sanity.
As a former Google Product Marketing Manager, Stef led one of their most viral campaigns ever — the “Home Alone Again with the Google Assistant” ad starring Macaulay Culkin (500M+ views) — and worked on the Digital Wellbeing team studying how humans build healthier relationships with technology. After burning out and leaving corporate, she rebuilt her career from scratch, growing a community of 80,000+ followers and helping hundreds of professionals navigate career pivots, build magnetic personal brands, and find work that actually fulfills them.
When AI exploded, Stef saw the same problem she’d spent years solving: people were either avoiding the technology entirely or blindly outsourcing their thinking to it. She developed the Inner Mirror Method — a somatic, intuition-led approach that helps people use AI as a thinking partner while staying grounded in their own discernment and voice.
Her clients have used this method to break through writer’s block in a single session, create content that converts (one client’s AI-assisted strategy “paid off in week one”), and land career pivots after 15 years in the same field. Stef’s own AI-created content generated 3-5 qualified leads from a single Substack post that readers called “one of the best things you’ve ever written.”
Organizations like Pace Public Relations have brought her in to train their teams, with one senior director calling it “one of the most impactful trainings our team has had all year — we’re already seeing improvements in the quality and speed of our content.”
Her work has been featured in New York Weekly and CanvasRebel.
Her mantra: Keep the I in AI. And she doesn’t just mean intelligence — she means intuition. She means you.
Hemadri Negi
TBA
Hemadri Negi is VP of Growth Marketing (US) at Myprotein, leading growth across DTC and retail in one of the most competitive consumer categories. Based in New York, she builds scalable growth systems powered by data, experimentation, and AI.
Her focus is simple: drive revenue, protect margin, and move fast. She uses AI to accelerate creative production, sharpen customer acquisition, and improve decision-making across channels. No buzzwords, just results.
Hemadri is passionate about building teams that think commercially, test relentlessly, and treat AI as a competitive advantage rather than a trend.
Nadja Atwal
TBA
Nadja Atwal is an award-winning international business scaling and AI expert known as “The Media Architect.” She helps startups and established companies accelerate growth through strategic media exposure and smart visibility.
Nadja hosts a top-ranking U.S. business podcast and interviews CEOs, business leaders, and innovators on leading U.S. business TV networks, including segments filmed inside and in front of the NYSE.
She also serves on the international leader board of the Global AI Council, contributing to discussions on the responsible and human-centered future of artificial intelligence.
Shekhar Natarajan
Trust ecology – enabling trust and decision attribution in a mixed human digital world
Shekhar Natarajan once studied under street lights in South Central India. His mother pawned her wedding ring for 30 rupees to keep him in school. He arrived in America with $34. Today, he holds 207+ patents, is the Founder and CEO of Orchestro.AI, and is the architect of “Angelic Intelligence” — a revolutionary framework that embeds human virtue directly into AI’s computational architecture, not as an afterthought.
With 25+ years of Fortune 500 leadership at Walmart, Disney, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Target — including growing Walmart’s grocery delivery business from $30M to $5B — Shekhar has driven transformation at unprecedented scale. Now, through Orchestro.AI, he is redefining the future of AI by proving that technology built on ethics outperforms technology built on speed.
Shekhar challenges Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” ethos with a radical alternative: build technology with love, not speed — and design it to last a thousand years. He believes the measure of great technology isn’t how fast it moves — it’s whether it amplifies human goodness.
Melissa Marrero
TBA
As a E-commerce Manager with a background in sales and email marketing, Melissa specializes in making the “scary” world of AI approachable for everyday professionals. At THG Beauty-Dermstore, she bridges the gap between complex enterprise systems and real-world productivity, focusing on data security and actionable reporting. She believes in “walking and talking” her way through the AI revolution—likely with a coffee in one hand and a rescue dog’s leash in the other—to ensure her team stays confident and ahead of the digital curve.
Kasoon Chapman
Conversations are Assets
Kasoon Chapman is a conversation intelligence expert and AI strategist who helps organizations uncover the real business value hidden inside their customer conversations.
As Founder and CEO of Penn.ai, she builds AI systems that capture and analyze conversations across voice, chat, and messaging channels to transform them into operational insights and measurable business outcomes. She advises leaders on how to move beyond experimenting with AI and instead design systems where conversations become a source of intelligence, clarity, and revenue.
Kasoon brings a rare perspective to the AI conversation. She doesn’t just speak about AI adoption; she builds the systems that make it possible. With a background in enterprise system design and intelligent automation, she previously co-invented a patentable insurance claims platform used globally to manage complex adjudication processes at scale.
Her keynotes challenge the way organizations think about AI. While much of the market focuses on tools, Kasoon focuses on strategy. She shows leaders how everyday business conversations already contain the signals that drive customer decisions, operational clarity, and growth.
Kasoon is the author of the upcoming book Conversations Are Assets, built on a simple idea: when organizations capture, understand, and act on their conversations, they uncover their most undervalued assets hiding in plain sight.
Theodora Petrou
TBA
Theodora Petrou is a business strategy and innovation professional with a strong background in marketing, operations, and AI-driven solutions. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management and a master’s in Business Strategy and Innovation Management.
With extensive experience in brand building, campaign development, and consumer behaviour, she integrates artificial intelligence into marketing to enhance data analysis, personalization, and performance. Her progression into a Head of Operations role further strengthened her strategic approach to business growth and scalability.
Today, Theodora runs her own company, supporting businesses in developing clear, sustainable strategies that combine innovation, marketing, and AI, with a strong focus on customer retention and measurable results. She is particularly interested in how innovation, branding, and AI can drive growth in fast-changing markets, and remains actively involved in the entrepreneurial community through collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Ruby Kaur
TBA
Ruby Kaur is a product leader at Capital One focused on developer experience and building tools that help engineers release software more safely and efficiently. She leads the user experience for release workflows within the CI/CD ecosystem, improving how teams ship code at scale. Ruby’s career spans finance and technology, with roles at Amazon Web Services, Newmark, Moody’s Analytics, and Best Egg, where she built data platforms and cloud-based products. She brings a practical approach to turning complex systems into simple, effective tools that improve how teams work and deliver value.
Maria Athanasiou
TBA
Maria Athanasiou is a lawyer, strategic advisor, and founder of Athanasiou & Associates LLC, as well as Founder of MASO Strategic, an international consultancy specializing in high-level advisory and policy engagement. With a strong foundation in maritime law, corporate governance, and international commercial frameworks, she brings a multidisciplinary approach to complex global challenges.
Michael Barris
TBA
Michael Barris is a communication expert, author, and former financial journalist with Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal, where he covered major global companies including JPMorgan Chase, Apple, Google, and Pfizer. He now advises leaders and organizations on high-impact communication in fast-changing, tech-driven environments.
He is the co-author of The Social Media President: Barack Obama and the Politics of Digital Engagement (Palgrave Macmillan) and has taught writing and public speaking at Rutgers University. His approach to communication was shaped early in his career as a jazz and blues musician, where success depended on reading an audience in real time, adapting in the moment, and earning attention rather than assuming it. That audience-first mindset now underpins his work with business leaders.
He brings a practical perspective shaped by years of reporting on business and markets, as well as direct experience with leadership communication in professional environments. His focus is helping senior professionals cut through information overload and communicate with greater clarity, impact, and human connection in the age of AI.
Prashant Kondle
TBA
I’m a product and technology leader known for transforming complex, compliance-heavy processes into scalable SaaS platforms. With 18+ years across startups and enterprises, I’ve helped defense contractors meet cybersecurity mandates, launched multi-million dollar e-commerce platforms, and led award-winning innovations in supply chain transparency.
At IVIS, I’m building ESG and supply chain risk solutions used by leading aerospace and manufacturing firms. At GoCoop, I 2.5×’d revenue and digitized India’s artisanal B2B trade. At Goldman Sachs, I unified 20+ systems to power data intelligence.
Emmanuel Ruiz
CEO, NextCore Analytics
Session: Multilingual AI — Global Challenges & Innovations
How modern LLMs are overcoming linguistic bias, translation errors, and dialect diversity in global applications.
Connor Walsh
Cloud AI Architect, SkyStack
Workshop: Building AI Pipelines in the Cloud
Hands-on session building a full AI workflow using serverless tech, vector databases, and model deployment strategies.
Isabelle Chen
Head of Language Models, LumoAI
Session: Multilingual AI — Global Challenges & Innovations
How modern LLMs are overcoming linguistic bias, translation errors, and dialect diversity in global applications.
Hina Gandhi
TBA
Hina Gandhi is a technical leader with extensive experience in designing and developing scalable, high-performance applications. She holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering. Over the years, she has demonstrated her technical expertise through impactful roles at Cisco Systems, VMware, and CloudHealth Technologies, excelling in areas such as cloud-based microservices, big data platforms, and SaaS solution development.In recognition of her leadership and technical impact, Hina was named the 2025 Women in Tech – Software Engineering Leader of the Year and is Gold Stevie Winner for technical leadership. Beyond her industry contributions, she is passionate about giving back to the community by mentoring students and delivering guest lectures at universities, inspiring the next generation of technology professionals.
Maha Elashri
TBA
Maha Elashri is a healthcare strategist, ICF-certified executive coach, and founder working at the intersection of health, AI, and human performance.
With 20+ years in health and pharma, she is the founder of The Wellness Bureau, a coaching and advisory practice helping leaders and organizations achieve sustained, high performance in an AI-driven world, and co-founder of Ephicacy Health, an AI marketing platform built for the life sciences and wellness industries.
Her talk draws on The Coherence Protocol™, a framework she developed to address what AI gets wrong about optimizing human health. While the industry races to automate decisions about how people live and how long they live, Maha asks the harder question: are we building systems that actually make people more whole, or just more measurable?
A published author and Amazon bestseller, her book The Coherent Life™ reached #3 in Business and Health on Amazon. She has advised pharma and biotech brands on commercialization strategy across the full product lifecycle, from clinical stage to consumer.
Her thesis: coherence isn’t a soft concept. It’s the missing variable in every AI health model being built today.
Elena Greco
Ethics Advisor, Global AI Forum
Session: Ethical Design in AI — A Human-Centered Approach
A deep dive into responsible AI, highlighting bias mitigation, fairness, transparency, and global implications of autonomous systems.
Marcus Dlamini
Founder, EduAI Labs
Session: Personalized Learning with AI
Explore how AI-driven platforms are transforming education with adaptive learning paths and dynamic content delivery.
Lara Nguyen
GenAI Director, NovaSynth
Session: Creative AI — From Text to Video
Lara demonstrates how generative AI is transforming content creation, with real-time demos in video, audio, and image generation.
Dr. Hassan Al-Mansour
Lead Data Scientist, FutureVision
Closing Keynote: AI & Humanity — Co-Evolution or Collapse?
A visionary closing on AI’s long-term trajectory, human-AI collaboration, and the existential questions we must answer now.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the USA AI Summit 2026?
The USA AI Summit is a premier event gathering leading AI experts, thought leaders, and innovators. It features keynotes, workshops, panels, and networking opportunities focusing on the latest advancements in artificial intelligence.
When and where will the event be held?
The USA AI Summit is scheduled to be held on November 7, 2026 at the 515 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022 (Jay Suites – The Beatles Room)
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