Melinda French Gates is a philanthropist, businesswoman, and global advocate for women and girls. As the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda sets the direction and priorities of one of the world’s largest philanthropies. In 2015, Melinda founded Pivotal Ventures, a company working to accelerate the pace of social progress in the United States. Melinda is also the author of the bestselling book The Moment of Lift. Melinda grew up in Dallas, Texas. She received a bachelor’s degree in computer science and economics and an MBA, both from Duke University. Melinda spent the first decade of her career developing multimedia products at Microsoft before leaving the company to focus on her family and philanthropic work. She has three children—Jenn, Rory, and Phoebe—and lives in Seattle, Washington. Photo credit: Jason Bell

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Lindsay Jurist-Rosner is the co-founder and CEO of Wellthy – a market-leading health care concierge company combining digital innovation and human expertise so that families have the support they need to navigate any care situation. Serving two million individuals via top health plans and employers like Best Buy and Meta, Wellthy addresses a gap Lindsay encountered during her 28-year caregiving journey. Recognized by Fast Company among the “10 Most Innovative Workplace Companies” and featured on Inc. Magazine’s “Female Founders 200” list, Lindsay contributes to Fortune and Good Housekeeping and speaks at events like the 2024 Wall Street Journal Health Forum. Residing in New York City with her spouse and four children, Lindsay champions accessible care solutions at the intersection of technology and compassion.

Helen Adeosun is CEO and Founder of CareAcademy, a care enablement platform providing high-quality, state-approved training for home care, home health, assisted/senior living, and hospice organizations organizations to recruit, onboard, and retain caregivers. CareAcademy serves over 600,000 caregivers in post-acuity including more recently family caregivers with over 2 million classes taken. CareAcademy has been named an Inc. 5000 Fastest growing company in 2021 and 2023. Helen was named to Fortune’s 40 Under 40 in Healthcare list in 2020, one of Ten Outstanding Young Leaders by the Boston Chamber of Commerce in 2021, and a winner of EY’s Entrepreneur Of The Year New England Award and one of the Boston Globe’s inaugural Tech Power Players 50 in 2022, and Rock Health Top 50 in Digital Health in 2023. Adeosun serves on the board of the Caregiver Action Network, one of the largest national organizations serving family caregivers. Adeosun earned a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in Politics and Arabic Studies and holds an EdM. in Education Policy and Management from Harvard University.

Mahima Chawla is the CEO & Co-founder of Cocoon. Cocoon is a leave management platform that’s using first-of-its-kind technology to take the work out of employee leave. They partner with employers like Carta, Khan Academy, and Benchling to support their people through life’s most pivotal moments—from having a baby to caring for a loved one to navigating personal health. Cocoon’s proprietary software automates the most complex parts of compliance, claims, and payroll, saving HR teams hours while giving employees the seamless, intuitive experience they’ve come to expect from modern workplace tools. Founded in 2020 by former Stripe and Square employees, Cocoon is backed by Index Ventures, First Round Capital, and other prominent technology investors.

Monique Woodard is the Founding Partner and Managing Director of Cake Ventures where she invests in areas where she sees the future of technology being driven by major demographic trends. Her VC journey, starting in 2016, includes experience as a Venture Partner at 500 Startups focusing on early-stage startups in the U.S. and Africa, a Venture Scout at Lightspeed, and an advisor to foundations and firms like SoftBank's Vision Fund Emerge program. Before moving to the investor side of the table, Monique spent 15+ years in the startup industry as a founder and operator.

Deena's diverse investments cover women's health, digital health infrastructure, health equity, foodtech, and fintech. She champions extraordinary founders with missions, often underdogs. Formerly a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a leader in product partnerships at Google, she focused on health, search, and AI/ML, while directing social impact investments at Google.org. Deena also served under Secretary Clinton at the U.S. Department of State, assisting in President Obama’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit launch. She financed her education at Harvard and Georgetown through scholarships and entrepreneurial endeavors, including starting and selling a company during her college years. Currently, Deena lectures at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, is a Board Director for the National Venture Capital Association, and a Kauffman Fellow. Recognized as an influential leader in healthcare and venture capital, she is a noted speaker and has been featured extensively in major media outlets such as Bloomberg, CNBC, WSJ, Business Insider, and Fortune Magazine.

Chris Bennett is the Founder and the CEO of Wonderschool.com. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, resides in San Francisco, and is originally from Miami, FL. He is the son of Honduran immigrants and is passionate about travel, nature, and spending as much time as possible near the ocean.At Wonderschool, we are building a vertical software and services company to address the child care crisis. We collaborate with governments, employers, providers, and parents to achieve this.Wonderschool is venture-funded by Goldman Sachs, Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Imaginable Futures, Learn Capital, Long Journey Ventures, MaC Venture Capital, Uncork Capital, Rethink Education, Lerer Ventures, 500 Startups, FundersClub, and a number of angel investors.

Elana Berkowitz is a founding partner of Springbank. A serial social entrepreneur and policy wonk, she’s a former Obama Administration technology policy official who has worked across the Obama-Biden Transition Team, the FCC and Secretary Clinton’s office at the State Department. She also served as innovator-in-residence for CARE, one of the world’s largest humanitarian organizations. She’s acted as an advisor on strategy, user insights, and impact partnerships consulting for companies and organizations, including Etsy, Kickstarter, Google, and Code for America. She also worked at McKinsey as a technology, media, and telecom consultant across 10 countries.

Cat Canada is the Marketing Director of Bobbie, the disruptive mom-founded and led pediatric nutrition company. She brings years of CPG and agency experience to Bobbie, helping to create their signature customer-centric impact marketing approach.As a bold and empathetic marketer, Cat runs teams across the marketing organization, bringing Bobbie’s mission to life: to shake the stigma on formula feeding while creating a parenting culture of confidence, not comparison. And it’s working! Bobbie’s award-winning marketing has been recognized by FastCompany’s Brands That Matter in 2022 and 2023, Fortune’s Change The World List 2023, and a Bronze Anthem Award for their work driving awareness for the maternal mortality crisis.After nearly twenty years in sunny San Diego, she recently settled in Northern California with her husband and two sons.

Rita B. Choula, MA, serves as the Senior Director of Caregiving at the AARP Public Policy Institute, where she spearheads the development of family caregiving initiatives. She provides expertise both internally and through partnerships, linking policy, research, and practice to support caregivers of various identities. Collaborating with clinical experts, Rita leads the creation of programs and tools that help healthcare professionals recognize and meet the needs of family caregivers in various settings. Her mission is to shape systems that address caregivers’ comprehensive needs through equitable, culturally-responsive policies. Rita's commitment is fueled by her personal journey as a caregiver to her mother, who suffered from Frontotemporal Dementia, while she also cared for her two young children.

Julia Cohen Sebastien is the Co-founder and CEO of Grayce. Grayce is a social care management platform that solves care challenges for those caring for loved ones or themselves. The company provides the most comprehensive solution, combining 1:1 expert care management, community connection, and resources. Grayce partners with employers and health plans, such as Blues plans, DocuSign, and ServiceNow. Before founding Grayce, Julia spent 15 years in health care and health tech, particularly in population health, at organizations such as Aetna, Clarify Health, The Boston Consulting Group, and The Advisory Board Company (Optum). Outside of work, Julia has cared for loved ones with neurodivergence, cancer, dementia, multiple sclerosis, strokes, chronic and autoimmune diseases. Julia holds an MBA from the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Howard E. Mitchell Fellow, and a BA from Dartmouth College. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and children.

Frédérique is a general partner at GV specializing in disruptive technologies in the consumer space. She has spent 15 years building consumer and enterprise products for public companies and startups. Frédérique helped start GV’s Women’s Health team and leads the cross-functional team of investors and advisors making investments in this space. Before joining GV, Frédérique led product and engineering efforts at Uber, where in just four years, she helped scale the company from 80 employees to more than 7,000 and from 14 cities in four countries to 400+ in 68 countries. Frédérique holds a Master of Science in Spacecraft Technology and Satellite Communications from University College London and a Master of Science in Telecommunications Engineering from Télécom SudParis.

Billy Deitch, a Partner at Oak HC/FT, joined the firm in 2018 and focuses on growth equity and early-stage venture opportunities in healthcare. Prior to joining Oak HC/FT, Billy was an investor at Francisco Partners, where he focused on investments across healthcare and technology. He was previously with TPG Growth, the early-stage platform of TPG Capital. Billy began his career in the investment banking division at UBS and also worked with the lending platform Funding Circle. Billy received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Sara Deshpande is a General Partner at Maven Ventures, a seed stage venture firm investing in tech companies addressing emerging consumer behavior and trends with $200 million AUM across five funds. At Maven, Sara and the team identify and back bold founders with a vision worth fighting for and help them unlock their potential to change the world, building iconic brands like Zoom and Cruise. Sara specializes in consumer software including digital health and personalized medicine, consumer applications of AI, consumer climate, family tech, and other high-growth consumer sectors. At Maven, Sara has led pioneering investments at the Seed stage in companies including Daybreak Health, Hello Heart, Carrot Fertility, Nest Genomics, and Wildtype. Sara has been at Maven for a decade since joining as the first employee. She previously worked with startups around the globe, including at The Idea Village in New Orleans, helping founders articulate and achieve a bold vision against all odds. She is Lecturer in Management at the Stanford GSB where she teaches an MBA elective course on startups and is a regular contributor to Forbes on Venture Capital. Earlier in her career, Sara was a management consultant in the Healthcare Strategy practice at Deloitte. Sara graduated from Xavier University with a B.S. in Finance and received her M.B.A. from Stanford.

Joanna is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who built next-generation media technology companies including ReacTV, Moxi, and the award-winning cable network Current TV. In the last decade, she has been an entrepreneurial leader in the venture industry, including the first operator angel investor with Broadway Angels, a General Partner managing Core Ventures Group, a Co-Founder of RAISE Global, and an active leader in the ALL Raise movement. Joanna has served on over a dozen private start-up boards and several nonprofit boards, including venture philanthropy pioneer Full Circle Fund and prestigious female C-level membership organization C200. She resides in the Bay Area and is constantly humbled at home by up to four kids and a demanding Berner named Drake.

Jesse Draper is a mother of 3 boys and founding partner of Halogen Ventures focused on early stage investing in consumer technology companies led by female and co-ed teams. Draper, the first solo female GP in Los Angeles is also a 4th generation venture capitalist, the creator and host of Emmy nominated television series, The Valley Girl Show, and host of the MOMumental Podcast. She is a fierce advocate for investing in women and the opportunity for using technology and innovation to solve some of the biggest issues facing women and families today. Among her 75+ portfolio companies, are the Skimm, Babylist, ThirdLove, HopSkipDrive, The Flex Company, Squad (acquired by Twitter), Eloquii (sold to Walmart) and This is L (sold to P&G). Following Jesse’s viral Medium piece, Investing in Women Isn’t a Fucking Charity, she’s become a leading voice of women in technology. Draper is also a Kauffman Fellow.

Jenny Edwards is a Managing Director for J.P. Morgan responsible for leading the firm’s healthcare commercial banking practice for the Western United States. Jenny has been dedicated to healthcare her entire career holding roles in both the government and private sector. Over a decade at JPM, Jenny has worked across a number of markets within the firm’s nonprofit healthcare, innovation economy and healthcare services team. Today, Jenny’s team is responsible for providing clients ranging from start-up to IPO with a wide array of solutions including treasury and cash management services, credit (spanning pre-profit to direct lending), and cross-LOB expertise (i.e. investment banking, private banking and capital markets). Jenny is responsible for driving the Commercial Bank’s healthcare strategy in a critical region for the healthcare sector in the country. Jenny currently lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.

Rebecca Egger is the CEO/Co-founder of Little Otter. The nation's 1st fully digital, results-driven telehealth company focused on providing evidence-based mental health care for children 0-14 and their entire families. With more than ten years of experience in medical technology, specializing in product design. She most recently worked as the 20th employee at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, building the infectious disease program to a $10 million annual program and developing an app to help developing nations respond to large-scale health events. Rebecca lives in Durham, NC, with her husband, daughter, and two cats.

Ita’s mission is to engage, educate, and elevate the next generation of successful female founders and investors. As the Founder & CEO of Tigress Ventures, an advisory and consulting firm she started in 2014, Ita tapped her considerable network to convene visionary entrepreneurs with seasoned professionals to help women scale their businesses and hone their leadership skills. As a Venture Partner at Plum Alley Investments, she oversaw investment opportunities and pipeline for high-growth female-founded and gender-diverse startups. Previously, Ita held product management roles at TravelClick and American Express. She began her career at Goldman Sachs as an analyst in Credit Capital Markets and then as an institutional trader of preferred stock. Ita is a graduate of Princeton University and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Joseph Fuller, Professor at Harvard Business School and co-director of its Managing the Future of Work project, pioneers research on employment and income polarization. As former CEO of Monitor-Deloitte, he brings extensive expertise to his role. A Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Fuller delves into the "care economy," examining its impact on workers' career trajectories and employers. His methodology helps companies evaluate the economic effects of care-related benefits, like turnover and absenteeism. Fuller's focus extends to how employer practices inadvertently marginalize certain worker groups, notably caregivers. His work illuminates the nexus between talent, corporate strategy, and economic competitiveness, offering insights crucial for navigating contemporary workforce challenges.

Brittney Riley Gavini’s work focuses on driving capital to overlooked people and problems by making venture capital more equitable and effective. She has over a decade of experience focused on early-stage innovation, as an operator, investor, and LP. For the last six years, Brittney has been at Pivotal Ventures, an investment company founded by Melinda French Gates to accelerate social progress in the United States. There, she leads the direct investment work, investing in startups in the Care Economy, and also invests in emerging venture funds. Previously, Brittney led the US ventures team at Village Capital, where she built the process and team to source, train, and invest in hundreds of early-stage companies in Fintech, Health, and Education. Brittney spent the beginning of her career at early startups, focused on growth and community in the consumer tech space. Brittney is a Kauffman Fellow (Class 28) and lives in San Francisco with her husband, two young girls, and one attention deprived pup.

Isabelle Hau is the executive director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning, a Stanford-wide initiative to connect scholars and students across disciplines, and bridge research, practice, and policy, to bring quality, scalable and equitable learning experiences for all learners and throughout the lifespan.Prior, she was a founding partner at Imaginable Futures, a venture of the Omidyar Group, the philanthropic investment firm of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam. She led the U.S. education initiative, portfolio and team. Her work has directly impacted millions of learners and families.Isabelle earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated from ESSEC and Sciences Po Paris.

Dan Hermann joined Ziegler in 1987 and was named President and CEO in 2018. He also is the Head of Investment Banking, a member of the Ziegler Board and Executive Committee. Dan focuses on fostering the growth of the firm while always pursuing new opportunities. As the head of both the healthcare and senior living practices, Dan was instrumental in the creation of and fundraising for the Ziegler Link•Age Longevity Fund, L.P. (the “Fund”). The Fund is one of the first to focus on the aging market and companies that provide innovative products, services and technologies to meet the growing needs of seniors and senior living providers in this changing era of healthcare reform.

Michael Jones is the Vice President of Communications at Wellthy, where he leads media, storytelling, events, and brand communications that drive national conversations about healthcare, wellness, caregiving, and the future of work. At Wellthy he’s helped lead national media spotlights in Bloomberg, TechCrunch, AARP, Axios, Fortune, and more about support for family caregivers. Prior to his time at Wellthy, Michael worked for Change.org for 14 years, where he led the company’s North America region — overseeing media, advocacy, email engagement, and digital campaigning teams. He’s appeared as a thought leader for social change on CBS Evening News, NPR, CNN, and dozens of other media outlets.

Jeff Jordan is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, serving on the boards of numerous companies including Airbnb, Instacart, Incredible Health, Wonderschool and Pinterest. Previously, he was CEO and executive chairman of OpenTable, leading it through significant growth and a successful IPO during a challenging period for tech IPOs. Before OpenTable, Jeff was Senior Vice President and General Manager of eBay North America, significantly contributing to its development as a major e-commerce brand. His role at eBay included overseeing the acquisitions of PayPal and Half.com, eventually becoming President of PayPal and establishing it as a leader in online payments. Earlier in his career, Jeff held financial positions at Hollywood Entertainment and The Disney Stores, and worked at the Boston Consulting Group. He earned an MBA from Stanford and a BA from Amherst College. Jeff is an active mentor and leader in the Bay Area community. He serves on the boards of the DAPER Investment Fund, The GSB Trust, and the Stanford School of Engineering Advisory Council. He also runs a regular basketball game that connects young people and established tech industry vets.

Arani Kajenthira leads investing at Good Chaos, a family office that uses philanthropy, investing, and narrative strategies to imagine new possibilities and experiment with wild ideas that have the potential to shape a more inclusive and equitable future.Previously, Arani has spent time in other investment roles, in philanthropy, and in management consulting, where she led strategic planning and collaborative initiatives to address a range of complex social challenges, including improving maternal health outcomes for BIPOC. Arani began her career in environmental consulting and is a former Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she focused on policy decision-making in the water, energy, and food sectors.A Canadian Rhodes Scholar, Arani is based in Chicago and holds a PhD in Engineering from Oxford.

Lauren Birchfield Kennedy is Co-President of Neighborhood Villages, which she co-founded with Sarah Muncey. Kennedy guides, evaluates, and executes the organization’s strategic vision and policy objectives. She oversees external relations, including government affairs, strategic partnerships, development, and communications, to further the impact, sustainability and scalability of Neighborhood Villages’ mission and programs. Prior to co-founding Neighborhood Villages, Kennedy served as the Director of Health Policy at the National Partnership for Women & Families in Washington, D.C., where she directed the organization’s health policy portfolio. Kennedy is recognized as a leading voice in early education and care delivery system reform, both in Massachusetts and nationally. Kennedy’s policy and political analyses have been featured in diverse media outlets, including the The New York Times, the Boston Globe, Forbes, NPR, and Bloomberg Businessweek. Kennedy holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles and a law degree from Harvard Law School. Kennedy resides in Massachusetts with her husband and two children.

Michal Lev-Ram is a Silicon Valley-based journalist who covers the technology sector and its intersection with politics, society, and the economy. She spent most of her career at Fortune, joining the publication as a tech reporter in 2007 and most recently serving as its Editor-at-Large. Michal has also served as Fortune’s Editorial Director of live events, overseeing a slate of international conferences, and as co-host of Leadership Next, a weekly podcast series. Outside of Fortune, Michal was the creator of Operation Firewall, a podcast series about an early cybercrime investigation which aired on Audible in 2022 and is now under development as a TV show. Prior to Fortune, Michal wrote for Business 2.0, CNNMoney, Fast Company, and Popular Science.

Daphne Li is the CEO of Common Sense Privacy, a leading privacy compliance software company dedicated to empowering businesses with the tools to manage privacy risks and uphold consumer trust. As a spinout from Common Sense Media, Common Sense Privacy leverages the same industry-leading privacy rubric and privacy evaluation database, making Common Sense Privacy uniquely positioned to address the pressing privacy concerns companies face in today’s digital age. Passionate about the mission of protecting consumers, Daphne also brings leadership experience in education and healthcare, both critical components of the care economy. Leading strategy for Apple’s education business gave her insights into the critical role technology can play in education but also the importance of guardrails. At Health2047, an innovation studio backed by United Health and the American Medical Association, Daphne helped bring innovative care solutions to market while safeguarding patient privacy. At the Care Summit, Daphne will talk about how to address privacy in a rapidly evolving regulatory environment, mitigating risks and building lasting trust with consumers.

Sheila Lirio Marcelo has more than 20 years of leadership experience in internet consumer marketplace businesses, including as the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ohai.ai, a cutting edge technology startup leveraging generative AI to improve the lives of families. She was a former Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and is a founding board member of The Asian American Foundation (TAAF). Ms. Marcelo previously founded Care.com in 2006 and took it public in 2014; she was Chairwoman and CEO until early 2020, when the company was sold to IAC. Ms. Marcelo earned a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, which also conferred upon her an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 2015. She has a J.D. and M.B.A. with honors from Harvard University. In 2014, Marcelo became the youngest recipient of the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award.

Patrice is a strategic leader and the Co-founder and CEO of The Holding Co., a lab dedicated to ushering in a modern care system. Leveraging over two decades of expertise in design and innovation, including co-founding IDEO.org, she has positioned The Holding Co. at the forefront of transforming the care economy. Patrice's leadership has catalyzed over 50 partnerships spanning startups, corporations, and government agencies, focusing on creating impactful brands, products, and services across financial caregiving, the connected home, family mental health and more. Patrice is also on the Board of Directors of the Dogpatch and NW Potrero Hill Green Benefit District in San Francisco to support urban greening in her own backyard and a proud mom of 2 girls.

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Natasha Mascarenhas is an award-winning technology and venture capital reporter for The Information. She previously covered the tech beat for TechCrunch, the Boston Globe and the San Francisco Chronicle. A graduate of Boston University, she is currently based in San Francisco, covering everything from Musk's latest ventures to the challenges within the generative AI boom.

As founder and CEO of Guaranteed, the first tech-enabled hospice care company, Jessica McGlory is modernizing of end-of-life care—one that redefines how the patient and caregiver experience death and dying—and ensures end-of-life care is more personalized, inclusive, and accessible to all. Guaranteed has raised almost $10M to date and its backers include BrandProject, Cake Ventures, Lakehouse Ventures, Precursor Ventures, SCAN, and Springbank Ventures. A Detroit native and DePaul University graduate, Jessica currently splits her time between NYC and Los Angeles.

Dr. Pooja Mittal is the Chief Health Equity Officer (CHEO) for Health Net. She leads the company in developing, implementing, facilitating, and embedding health equity strategic initiatives into Health Net’s programs, services, actions, and outcomes. In addition to her role as CHEO, Dr. Mittal practices primary care at a Federally Qualified Health Center in San Mateo County. As a family physician, teacher and recognized national expert on Perinatal HIV care, she has a unique perspective to design strategic initiatives that improve health outcomes for California’s most vulnerable populations. Dr. Mittal has an expertise in Digital Health and is part of the UCSF S.O.L.V.E. Health Tech advisory board which focuses on bridging health equity and innovation to create and adapt products that reach marginalized populations. Dr. Mittal also dedicates her time to improving health outcomes through teaching the next generation of healthcare workers (Stanford Internal Medicine Residents). She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at UCSF and Stanford University School of Medicine. In addition to her clinical work, she has been published in the areas of well-childcare, group visits, preconception care, health equity and perinatal HIV.

Alexandra is Alix’s Co-Founder & CEO, working closely with investors and partners while overseeing Alix’s rapid growth and ensuring every Alix family receives the level of high quality, empathetic care and service they deserve. For over 20 years Alexandra has been a trailblazer in business innovation, launching and scaling more than a half dozen successful, multi-channel consumer brands and helping grow Mysoor Industries into a multinational powerhouse. After offering to help settle the affairs of a close family friend in 2022, Alexandra experienced firsthand how overwhelming the estate settlement experience could be. After over 900 hours and exorbitant legal fees that offered little practical assistance, she decided to start Alix so no other family would have to go through what she went through.

Anna Nordberg is a journalist who focuses on parenting, education, and culture. Her work has appeared in Slate, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, and the New York Times. During Covid, she reported on the need for more structural supports for parents;the impact of the pandemic on mothers and adolescents;the importance of paid leave;and the best ways to combat learning loss. From 2019 to 2023 she served as Board Chair of Children's Council of San Francisco, which works to build the supply of quality childcare in the city and advocates for families and care providers. She lives with her husband and two young children in San Francisco.

Dr. Jennifer Olsen serves as the CEO of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers where she works to fulfill the former First Lady's vision for "a more caring society" by supporting the strength and resilience of our nation's 53 million family caregivers. Prior to joining the Institute, Jennifer used her epidemiology training to lead global health efforts in tech philanthropy and disaster response efforts in the Federal government.

Emily Oster, CEO of Parent Data, empowers parents with data for confident decisions. With a PhD in Economics from Harvard, she's a Professor at Brown University, specializing in health economics. As a mom of two, her pregnancy experience sparked a mission. She applied her economics background to analyze parenting data, authoring bestsellers like "Expecting Better" and "Cribsheet." Founder of ParentData, her platform boasts a vast subscriber base and a robust social media presence. Her latest book, "The Unexpected," addresses pregnancy complications, offering data-backed insights and strategies for future pregnancies. Co-authored with Dr. Nathan Fox, a renowned specialist, it facilitates crucial conversations with healthcare providers. By tackling tough topics, Oster aims to ease the challenges of pregnancy for all.

Warren Packard has over 25 years of experience in venture capital and entrepreneurship.Warren is currently the Operating Partner at AI Fund, a $175M venture studio. Warren is responsible for the formation and financing of AI Fund's portfolio of companies.Prior to joining the AI Fund, Warren was the founder and CEO of Thuuz Sports, creators of the award-winning AI sports highlight reels platform. Thuuz Sports was acquired by Stats Perform in 2020.Prior to founding Thuuz, Warren was a Managing Director at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, DFJ. During his tenure at DFJ, the firm was the principal investor in many multi-billion-dollar companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, Box, Skype, Baidu, and Hotmail. Warren has a BS, MS, and MBA from Stanford University.

Avni Patel Thompson is a three-time founder who has spent a decade building companies at the intersection of technology and modern parenthood. Her latest venture, Milo, is an AI-powered partner that helps parents tackle the invisible load of managing a family. Milo is backed by OpenAI, Y Combinator and Magnify Ventures. Prior to Milo, Patel Thompson was the founder and CEO of Poppy, a YC-backed technology platform that connected parents to vetted caregivers in their community. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, she spent over a decade building consumer businesses at P&G, adidas, and Starbucks. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSc Chemistry from the University of British Columbia. She lives in Vancouver with her husband and two daughters.

Lynn Perkins is CEO and co-founder of UrbanSitter, an app and website that’s making it easier than ever for parents to find, book and pay trusted childcare, from last minute babysitting to full-time care. Lynn has turned her vision of an “OpenTable for babysitting” into a service with more than a million users in 50 cities and has facilitated millions of babysitting jobs. Lynn is a thought leader and frequent speaker on the topics of finding trusted child care, parenting and caregiving trends, ensuring women get a seat at the table, marketplaces and the sharing economy. She has been featured in/on CBS This Morning, USA Today, WSJ, The New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, and more. Lynn is a graduate of Stanford University.

Jason Resendez is a nationally recognized care advocate. He currently serves as the President and CEO of the National Alliance for Caregiving, where he leads research, policy, and programmatic initiatives to build health, wealth, and equity for America’s 53 million family caregivers. In 2023, Jason was named one of the most consequential leaders in health and medicine by STAT News. Prior to joining NAC, Jason was the founding executive director of the UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Center for Brain Health Equity where he pioneered the concept of Brain Health Equity through peer-reviewed research, public health partnerships, and public policy. In 2020, Jason was named one of America’s top influencers in aging by PBS’s Next Avenue alongside Michael J. Fox and Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy. He has been quoted by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, STAT News, and Univision on issues related to caregiving and health equity. Jason is from South Texas and graduated from Georgetown University.

Katherine Rice is a businesswoman, investor, advisor and board director. Passionate about advancing women leaders, Katherine is currently a Partner at GingerBread Capital, a venture fund investing in female founders with a focus on healthcare and the care economy, among other sectors. Prior to GingerBread, Katherine was an Operating Partner at Altamont Capital Partners.  Previously, as a senior executive at Williams-Sonoma, Inc., Katherine ran business development spanning multiple brands and launched new global multi-channel businesses.  She was also a manager at Bain & Company and began her career in investment banking in New York. Katherine has served as a board director of numerous private companies and non-profit organizations. She holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vanderbilt University.

Eve Rodsky transformed a “blueberries breakdown” into a catalyst for social change when she applied her Harvard-trained background in organizational management to ask the simple yet profound question: What would happen if we treated our homes as our most important organizations? Her New York Times bestselling book and Reese’s Book Club Pick, Fair Play, a gamified life-management system that helps partners rebalance their domestic workload and reimagine their relationship, has elevated the cultural conversation about the value of unpaid labor and care. In her highly anticipated follow-up, Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World, Rodsky explores the cross-section between the science of creativity, productivity, and resilience. Described as the ‘antidote to physical, mental, and emotional burnout,’ Rodsky aims to inspire a new narrative around the equality of time and the individual right to personal time choice that influences sustainable and lasting change on a policy level. Rodsky was born and raised by a single mom in New York City and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband Seth and their three children.

Samantha (Sam) Saperstein is the head of Business Growth and Entrepreneurship within the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) organization at JPMorgan Chase. She also runs the Women on the Move DEI Center of Excellence at the bank. Women on the Move is a global team that focuses on providing equitable opportunities for women in their careers, personal finances, and businesses. Prior to this role, Sam served as chief marketing officer of JPMorgan Chase Commercial Banking, where she led marketing, communications, and client experience. This included traditional and digital marketing efforts, media relations, employee communications, market research, and client satisfaction initiatives. Sam has a B.A. from Brown University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School. She lives in Westchester, NY with her husband and three children.

Tina Sharkey is a thought leader at the intersection of entrepreneurship, AI, digital strategy, and modern brand development. As a Lecturer on the Business of Innovation and Director of Innovation Quest & Student Led Ventures at USC’s Iovine and Young Academy, she drives purpose-driven innovation. With extensive experience in scaling global brands for Fortune 500 companies like Johnson & Johnson and Time Warner, and co-founding ventures such as iVillage and Brandless, Tina has significantly influenced digital and consumer engagement landscapes. She has received accolades from Fast Company as a Top Woman in Technology and Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the 50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs. Additionally, she has been twice named one of Goldman Sachs' 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs. Tina serves on public and private boards, consulting with corporate leaders and startup founders, challenging conventional thinking to foster sustainable growth.

As First Partner of California, Jennifer Siebel Newsom is an influential advocate and partner to women, moms, and families through her California for ALL Women and California for ALL Kids initiatives. Jennifer serves as honorary chair of the California Volunteers Commission and co-chair of the Governor’s Advisory Council on Physical Fitness and Mental Well-Being. Jennifer is also the co-founder of the California Partners Project. Jennifer is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker and thought leader on gender equity, and has written, directed, and produced the critically acclaimed documentaries Miss Representation, The Mask You Live In, The Great American Lie. Through her latest film Fair Play and the California for ALL Women initiative, Jennifer has sought to raise awareness about the critical importance of care and caregiving in society and make visible the invisible care work historically held by women. Jennifer graduated with honors from Stanford University and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. She is married to Governor Gavin Newsom and is the mother of their four young children.

Shadiah is working to solve the child care crisis as Cofounder CEO of Kinside, a child care marketplace backed by $16M in venture capital since 2018. Previously, Shadiah cofounded HoneyBook, a 2 billion dollar unicorn. Guided by values of equity in the workplace, she prioritizes building high performing teams that are diverse, inclusive and human-centered. Shadiah has been recognized by multiple publications for her leadership, including Inc, Forbes, Fortune and Huffington Post. Shadiah is a first generation Mexican-American with degrees from Harvard University and Pomona College. She currently lives in San Francisco with her two rambunctious kids.

John’s a co-founder and Managing Director at JAZZ Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital firm investing in technologies to improve human performance - transforming how we work, live and play.

Anna is Executive Director of FamTech.org, a group of over 250 companies, from early stage to series D, who have collectively raised over $1B dollars in venture capital funding to solve the needs of working families. The nation’s only technology association focused exclusively on the needs of innovators and partners delivering solutions to power and transform the care economy. Prior to FamTech.org, Anna founded a cloud-based software company LeaveLogic. After the birth of her two children—one born in Europe, the second born in the United States—the glaring difference in family leave policies prompted her to launch LeaveLogic. Anna led the company from initiation, funding, to successful acquisition.

Alison Rapaport Stillman was a Founding General Partner at Serena Ventures, overseeing portfolio management and sourcing new investments. In addition to growing the reach and impact of the SV portfolio, Alison is the person founders turn to when they need pointed advice, detailed feedback, and tough love. Alison holds a BS from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is a CFA charterholder.

Joanna is the founder of Midi Health, a virtual care platform for women in perimenopause and menopause. The company brings expert care, covered by insurance, to women nationwide. Prior to Midi, Joanna founded Kurbo, the first digital therapeutic for childhood obesity, which was scaled to help tens of thousands children worldwide and the company was successfully sold to Weight Watchers in 2018. Prior to diving into digital health, Joanna spent more than 20 years in direct private equity and venture capital investing in health and consumer companies including a number of notable consumer internet companies, including BlueNile, eToys, Babycenter, HotJobs and Flycast. She was also named to the Forbes 50 over 50 list of top Innovators in 2023.

Jennifer leads the Caregiving strategy at Pivotal Ventures, a Melinda French Gates company focused on accelerating social progress in the United States. Jennifer’s portfolio of partners seeks to make caregiving more affordable by unlocking a once-in-a-generation level investment into the care economy—to scale affordable innovations and make care a public good. With deep expertise in the care economy, Jennifer is an entrepreneurial leader at the intersection of innovation and social impact. She previously served as Executive Director of Rent the Runway Foundation focused on leveling the playing field for female founders. She has held leadership roles in tech and mission-driven organizations, and advises early stage founders and investors. Jennifer holds a BA from Georgetown University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Matt is the Cofounder and COO of The Holding Co., a design lab exploring the intersection of caregiving and innovation. In this role, he has worked with over 40 organizations–from startups to Fortune 500s to government agencies–designing modern solutions for caregivers. Prior to founding The Holding Co., Matt was the COO at IDEO.org, where he worked with a range of social sector partners to design solutions in areas like early childhood education, workforce development, and financial health. On the Portfolio Team at New Proft, a national venture philanthropy organization, Matt drove the investment selection process for several large investments and provided strategic support to social entrepreneurs as they scaled their organizations.

Sally is the CEO & Founder of Forshay, a firm that takes a holistic lens on how hard work can accomplished more easily, as it’s essential to have both the right players on the team, and the culture and organizational structure that enables people to do their best work. Forshay does this in two ways – with a modern approach to executive recruiting, and by supporting overworked teams with interim experts in the People/HR and Marketing domains -- all grounded with inclusion, diversity, equity and belonging. A speaker in two TEDx talks (one on the Future of Work where a few things might have come true since the pandemic), Sally’s been featured in numerous media including the Wall Street Journal, BBC, Harvard Business Review, and regularly lectures at Stanford and UC Berkeley. However, her friends say the only thing that people really want to hear is that she was in two Prince videos.

Anne is Founder and CEO of ATI Advisory (ATI), a research and consulting firm that guides public and private healthcare leaders in solving the most complex problems in healthcare through objective research, deep expertise and bringing innovative ideas to action. Anne is a nationally recognized leader in financing and care delivery for populations with complex care needs. She shares her insights regularly with policy and business leaders, including the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the Senate Aging Committee, Health Affairs, and the Aspen Ideas Festival. Anne founded Daughterhood, a non-profit family caregiver community, and serves on several corporate and non-profit boards. She spent her early career working in the office of Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) and the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Vanessa Villaverde is an award-winning innovator, activist, mother, and strategic advisor for startup organizations. After a two decade career in policy entrepreneurship, she is known throughout healthcare policy circles for leveraging her expertise outside of government to structure private public partnerships. Her investment thesis has always been centered on impact and looks for entrepreneurs that are creating better access, more affordable, and more informed healthcare, climate, and financial solutions for vulnerable populations. She is an Investor, President of a nonprofit board Founders and Funders of Color, and a Board Advisor to Georgetown University Graduate School of Health. Currently, she leads early-stage innovation investments on behalf of the California Healthcare Foundation, leveraging the endowment to support diverse founders addressing healthcare needs throughout the low-income population of California.

Doug Wenners is the CEO of Grouper, an innovative company that offers social fitness benefits through contracted health plans across the United States. Doug is a strong advocate for the role of social connectivity as a driver of good health, happiness and longevity. He believes connecting older adults with activities - from pickle ball to bridge - is a "connection prescription." Doug is a 25-year survivor of Hodgkin’s Disease, an experience that helped him to understand the importance of a strong social network to good health. Prior to Grouper, Mr. Wenners was CEO of Optum at Home following the acquisition of the company he co-founded, Prospero Health. Previously, Doug had a successful 16-year tenure as a C-suite executive with Anthem and was acting CEO of Privia Health, a national physician practice management company.

Christine Winoto is an inspiring and accomplished leader, with a deep commitment to transforming the healthcare industry through innovation and investment. As the Founder and Executive Director of the UCSF Rosenman Institute and Founding Partner of Medtech Venture Partners, Christine has decades of experience in operations, strategic planning, business development, and venture investment driving growth and success in the healthcare sector. Christine’s leadership and vision have contributed to the health technology innovation ecosystem, and she continues to inspire and lead with her dedication, intelligence, and passion. Christine’s contributions to the healthcare industry have been recognized by her selection as one of the most influential women in San Francisco Bay Area business in 2020. She holds an MBA from Erasmus University in the Netherlands and a BS from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Julie is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Magnify Ventures, a seed stage venture capital fund. Before launching Magnify, she spent over a decade as an investor and advisor with institutional-scale family offices and mission-focused organizations, including launching and leading the venture capital investment portfolio and strategy at Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company created by Melinda French Gates. In her roles, Julie has invested in pre-revenue startups, category-defining companies, and industry-leading venture capital firms, and she’s built partnerships across sectors to seed innovation in emergent markets. She is a frequent speaker on venture capital and startups. Julie is a Kauffman Fellow and member of All Raise.