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Serena H. Huang

Founder of Data with Serena

Dr. Serena H. Huang is an AI executive, keynote speaker, and founder of Data with Serena. She has led AI and People Analytics at organizations including PayPal, Kraft Heinz, and GE, where she drove over $100 million in measurable business impact across a 300,000-person global enterprise.

Her work focuses on the intersection of AI, leadership, and the human skills that become more valuable as technology advances. She is the author of The Inclusion Equation: Leveraging Data and AI for Organizational Diversity and Wellbeing (Wiley, 2025), and her insights have been featured in Fast Company, Barron’s, and CNET.

Today, Dr. Huang advises organizations on building AI systems and cultures that perform and that people actually trust.

Upcoming conference sessions featuring Serena H. Huang

How to Stay Human in the Age of AI - The Skills That Matter When AI Changes What Good Looks Like

AI did not just change how software gets built. It also changed what good looks like.

As AI accelerates execution, the differentiators are shifting. The developers and leaders who thrive in an AI-powered world will not necessarily be the people who produce the most output. They will be the clearest thinkers, the fastest learners, the people others trust when the answers are unclear, and the ones who can adapt before they are forced to.

That shift has major implications for how organizations evaluate talent, develop leaders, and decide who advances. It also changes the equation for individual contributors. Your future is not on your manager’s roadmap. Increasingly, the capabilities that shape careers are the ones AI struggles to replicate and organizations still struggle to measure.

In this closing keynote, Dr. Serena H. Huang draws on a decade of deploying AI inside some of the world’s largest organizations to explore what becomes more valuable as AI becomes more capable, and why the future may depend less on keeping up with technology and more on strengthening the distinctly human skills that AI cannot replace.

Wednesday Jun 24 @ 5:00 PM @ Accelerate Chicago 2026

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