Jenny Kay Pollock
Helping leaders turn AI experimentation into organizational value
San Francisco, California, United States
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Jenny Kay Pollock is an AI adoption and governance leader who helps executives turn emerging technology into better decisions, stronger organizational capabilities, and measurable business value. Based in Silicon Valley, she advises high-growth startups, serves on the boards, and invests in women-founded companies.
She is the co-founder of WOMEN x AI and the founder of Luminizing Growth. Her work sits at the intersection of AI governance, organizational transformation, executive leadership, and practical adoption. She is the creator of the Use-to-Value Gap, a framework for understanding why visible technology adoption does not always translate into meaningful organizational progress.
Jenny is an experienced international keynote speaker, moderator, facilitator, and emcee whose appearances span major technology conferences, universities, and executive communities. She has been selected as a keynote or featured speaker for organizations including AnitaB.org, MAU, App Growth Summit, App Promotion Summit, Startup Grind Silicon Valley, Stanford, and Miss CEO. She has also spoken, moderated, or facilitated more than 45 WOMEN x AI programs.
Jenny leads keynotes, workshops, and masterclasses on AI adoption, governance, organizational transformation, and the evolving role of human judgment. She has also designed and delivered four paid five-week AI Advantage cohorts, helping professionals move from experimenting with AI to applying it more intentionally in their work.
Through practical frameworks, candid examples, and participatory learning, Jenny helps audiences move beyond AI activity for its own sake and build repeatable practices that improve decisions, strengthen trust, and create new ways of working.
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Cutting Through AI Overwhelm: How to Focus on What Actually Matters
The AI landscape is moving quickly, with new tools, models, and claims appearing every day. For many professionals, the result is not clarity but overwhelm.
In this keynote, Jenny Kay Pollock helps audiences separate meaningful developments from noise. She explores why chasing every new tool rarely leads to better work, how to evaluate whether an AI capability is relevant to a real need, and where human judgment remains essential.
Attendees learn a practical approach for deciding what deserves attention, what can be ignored, and how to experiment without losing sight of outcomes, trust, and the work itself.
The session helps participants move from reactive tool-chasing to more intentional AI adoption grounded in purpose, priorities, and value.
Format: Keynote
Audience: Business professionals, founders, operators, technology leaders, and people navigating rapid AI change
Preferred duration: 20–45 minutes
Previously delivered at: Echoes in AI, hosted by Swagata Ashwani
Delivery: In person or virtual
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How To Get Your Feature Built: A Playbook from Idea to Production
Turn your big idea into a launched feature that delivers results. Jenny Kay Pollock shares a step-by-step playbook for validating concepts, building internal buy-in, setting the right success metrics, and crafting a go-to-market plan that gets your idea over the finish line. Perfect for product leaders, marketers, and innovators ready to make their next feature a reality.
“How To Get Your Feature Built: A Playbook from Idea to Production,” at MGA Global Virtual Conference 4.0 on 11/18/21.
Building the Leadership Bench for the Future of AI
AI is changing how we work, lead, and make decisions, but the future of AI will not be shaped by technology alone. It will be shaped by who is invited to build it, question it, govern it, and lead through the change.
In this keynote, Jenny Kay Pollock explores why developing a broader leadership bench is essential to building more effective and responsible AI. Drawing on lessons from the first year of WOMEN x AI, she shares how access, community, practical learning, and visible leadership opportunities can help more women move from participating in AI conversations to shaping them.
Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of why representation must extend beyond visibility, how communities accelerate practical AI learning, and what leaders can do to create more opportunities for women to contribute, lead, and receive credit.
Format: Keynote
Audience: Technology leaders, executives, founders, professionals working with AI, and women in technology
Preferred duration: 20–30 minutes
First delivered: WOMEN x AI 1-Year Celebration, The Huddle, Mountain View, February 2025
Delivery: In person or virtual
Using AI on Your Board Journey
AI can be a valuable thought partner throughout the board journey, from identifying target companies and researching opportunities to strengthening your positioning, preparing for conversations, and maintaining momentum.
In this practical session, Jenny Kay Pollock shows current and aspiring board members how to use AI tools more intentionally without outsourcing the judgment, relationships, and credibility that board service requires. Participants learn how to improve their research, sharpen their narrative, prepare stronger questions, and create a more focused board-search process.
The session also addresses where AI can introduce risk, including inaccurate information, generic positioning, privacy concerns, and overreliance on automated outputs.
Attendees leave with practical ways to use AI as a strategic support tool while keeping human judgment, trust, and relationship-building at the center of their board journey.
Format: Co-presented session or workshop
Audience: Executives, board candidates, aspiring board directors, and senior leaders
Preferred duration: 45–60 minutes
Previously delivered for: WomenExecs on Boards, Get on Board Week, Corporate Board Readiness by How Women Lead
Co-presented with: Holly Uber
Delivery: In person or virtual
AI as Your Creative Partner: Unlocking New Possibilities in Design
AI can accelerate creative work, but its greatest value is not simply producing more ideas faster. Used thoughtfully, it can help people explore unfamiliar directions, challenge assumptions, develop stronger concepts, and move from a blank page to a more intentional starting point.
In this interactive workshop, Jenny Kay Pollock explores how designers and other creative professionals can use AI as a collaborative partner throughout the creative process. Participants learn practical ways to generate and refine ideas, build visual and narrative concepts, experiment with alternatives, and evaluate AI-generated outputs with a critical eye.
The session also examines the limits of AI-assisted creativity, including sameness, bias, attribution, intellectual property concerns, and the risk of allowing the tool to make the most important creative decisions.
Participants leave with practical approaches for integrating AI into their creative workflows while preserving originality, judgment, and a distinct human point of view.
Format: Interactive workshop
Audience: Designers, creative professionals, marketers, founders, and innovation teams
Preferred duration: 60 minutes
Previously delivered at: AI User Conference, 2025
Co-presented with: Reut Lazo
Delivery: In person or virtual
Hands-On AI Tools for Everyday Work
The challenge for many professionals is no longer finding AI tools. It is knowing which tools are worth using, where they can genuinely improve the work, and how to avoid creating more noise than value.
In this hands-on workshop, Jenny Kay Pollock guides participants through practical ways to use AI for research, writing, idea development, planning, and everyday problem-solving. Participants test tools in real time, compare different approaches, and learn how to improve results through clearer prompts, stronger context, and better judgment.
The session also addresses common pitfalls, including inaccurate outputs, privacy concerns, generic work, and overreliance on automation.
Participants leave with practical use cases they can apply immediately, a clearer sense of where AI can support their work, and a framework for deciding when human judgment should remain in the lead.
Format: Hands-on workshop
Audience: Professionals, founders, operators, marketers, and business leaders
Preferred duration: 60–90 minutes
Previously delivered at: Alley 2 Valley Summit, Palo Alto, 2025
Delivery: In person or virtual
From AI Experimentation to Meaningful Value
Organizations and professionals are experimenting with AI at a rapid pace, but using more tools does not automatically lead to better work, stronger decisions, or measurable progress.
In this keynote, Jenny Kay Pollock explores the gap between visible AI activity and meaningful value. She explains why access to tools is not the same as building capability, why isolated experiments often fail to change how work gets done, and why human judgment remains essential as AI becomes more capable.
Attendees learn how to move beyond trying tools for their own sake and begin identifying where AI can improve decisions, strengthen workflows, and create repeatable value.
The session gives participants a practical way to evaluate AI opportunities while maintaining trust, accountability, and a clear connection to the outcomes that matter.
Format: Keynote
Audience: Data professionals, technology leaders, business leaders, and professionals applying AI in their work
Preferred duration: 20–45 minutes
Previously delivered for: Women in Data
Delivery: In person or virtual
AI Breakthroughs in Mobile App Marketing
AI is reshaping how mobile app marketers research audiences, create campaigns, personalize experiences, test ideas, and make growth decisions. But rapid adoption also raises important questions about quality, differentiation, privacy, and where human judgment still matters.
In this panel, Jenny Kay Pollock moderated a conversation with leaders from WLCM, Snapback, Houzz, and Craftsman Plus about how AI is changing mobile app marketing in practice. The discussion explored where AI is creating meaningful advantages, which use cases are overhyped, how teams are adapting their workflows, and what marketers should consider before embedding AI more deeply into their growth strategies.
Attendees gained practical perspectives on using AI across creative development, personalization, experimentation, and campaign execution while avoiding generic outputs, weak strategic thinking, and technology adoption for its own sake.
Format: Panel moderation
Role: Moderator
Audience: Mobile app marketers, growth leaders, product marketers, founders, and technology teams
Preferred duration: 30–45 minutes
Previously delivered at: App Promotion Summit San Francisco, 2024
Panelists represented: WLCM, Snapback, Houzz, and Craftsman Plus
Delivery: In person
The Use-to-Value Gap: Why More AI Activity Is Not Creating Better Work
Organizations are buying AI tools, launching pilots, and encouraging experimentation. Yet much of that visible activity is failing to produce meaningful organizational progress.
In this keynote, Jenny Kay Pollock introduces the Use-to-Value Gap: the difference between visible technology adoption and measurable organizational value. She explains why tool access is not transformation, why a pilot is not yet a capability, and why more AI activity does not automatically lead to better decisions or better work.
Attendees will learn how to distinguish experimentation from organizational capability, identify where AI should meaningfully change work, and evaluate adoption through better decisions, repeatable practices, stronger trust, and new ways of working.
The session gives leaders a practical framework for moving beyond activity metrics and focusing on the organizational outcomes that matter.
Format: Keynote
Audience: Executives, business leaders, transformation leaders, product leaders, AI program owners, and innovation teams
Preferred duration: 30–45 minutes
Level: Intermediate
Delivery: In person or virtual
Status: Available for booking
Learning Objectives:
After this session, attendees will be able to:
Recognize the difference between visible AI activity and measurable organizational value
Identify when an AI experiment is becoming a repeatable organizational capability
Evaluate AI initiatives through changes in decisions, trust, practices, and ways of working
Ask stronger questions about ownership, risk, outcomes, and what should change in the work
The Power of Subscription Models in Gaming
As gaming apps look to diversify monetization, subscriptions are becoming more popular. In this session learn how pricing strategies affect subscription conversions, how to leverage user onboarding to drive adoption and retention, and how to leverage user research to optimize your subscription product and marketing strategies.
This presentation was given at App Growth Summit LA 2021 virtual event on March 24, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVHKs3dSXfk
Jenny Kay Pollock
Helping leaders turn AI experimentation into organizational value
San Francisco, California, United States
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