The lineup for The Evolution.

Alicia Lyttle

CEO · AI InnoVision

AI strategist known as "The Queen of AI," entrepreneur and TEDx speaker with two decades at the intersection of AI, digital transformation and business innovation. Named one of JPMorgan Chase's 100 Women to KNOW in America and founder of the International Association of Artificial Intelligence Consultants. Author of "ChatGPT Made Easy."

Kay Malcolm

Vice President, Product Management · Oracle

Leads a team focused on AI and data strategy for the Oracle AI Database, and teaches AI for LinkedIn Learning. Creator of Oracle LiveLabs, a hands-on learning platform with more than 45 million views. Known online as "Your AI Work Bestie."

Wilglory Tanjong

Founder & CEO · Anima Iris

Built a $5,000 investment into a $4 million luxury handbag business worn by Beyoncé and sold at Saks, Nordstrom and Bloomingdale's, spending only 1% on advertising. Born in Yaoundé, Cameroon and raised in Maryland, she anchors the brand in a vertically integrated manufacturing hub in Senegal. Forbes 30 Under 30, Princeton BA and Wharton MBA.

Andrea Henderson

Partner · DHR Global

Executive talent strategist, board advisor and investor who advises CEOs, boards and investors on executive talent, AI, governance and leadership strategy across healthcare and life sciences. A frequent speaker on the intersection of AI, work and leadership.

Lynette Braxton

Head of US Sales Operations & Capabilities · Reckitt

More than 25 years driving growth and transformation in consumer goods across Kraft Foods, Mondelēz International and Reckitt. Co-founder of Project My Brother's Keeper, serving families in Essex County, New Jersey and Baltimore.

Alana Lovett-Griffin

Senior Manager, Partner Development · HubSpot

Leads a team of partner development managers driving revenue through partners and reps she doesn't manage, in deals she doesn't own. Founder of That Girl Reimagined, a platform for women rebuilding their identity, wellness and careers in public.

Kayanna Ray

Global Sales & Product Enablement Program Manager · Meta

Designs programs that equip global sales teams to sell with speed, precision and confidence, with a background spanning Meta, Intuit and Twilio. Speaks on using AI to personalize and accelerate enablement at scale without losing human connection.

Nikka Jarabe

Account Manager · Paramount

Partners with advertising agencies to execute media campaigns across CBS, Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, Comedy Central and Paramount+. Co-Chair of Asian Media Professionals, Paramount's employee resource group, and currently pursuing her master's at Harvard.

Kiara Bryant

Strategic Alliances Manager · Sage Intacct

Builds and grows partnerships across the partner ecosystem to drive joint go-to-market success, turning alliances into measurable pipeline and revenue growth. Based in Atlanta and passionate about empowering women in sales.

Mariah Bayne

Founder · Growing the Middle

Talent development strategist who helps professionals understand the value of their work before they're forced to defend it, drawing on 13 years across talent development, sales, customer success and operations. Her programs have supported more than 700 professionals and raised 90-day retention from 50% to 91%.

Dr. Nikkia McClain

President · Tené Nícole Creative Agency

Built a marketing and public relations firm representing Fortune 50 and Inc. 5000 companies after a successful career in real estate. Named a PR maven by Black Enterprise and a "Top Woman in PR" by PR News. Author of "DIYPR: Why Hire A Publicist When You Can Do It Yourself!"

LaMar Wright

Founder & Principal Advisor · The Coutureman LLC: Advisory

Strategic advisor and ecosystem builder working at the intersection of family office engagement, lifestyle advisory, capital relationships and cultural influence. Also the visionary behind Black Wealth Family Foundation.

Jarrett Albritton

Head of Partnerships · PeduL

Builds strategic partnerships with cities, Fortune 500 companies and workforce organizations to create talent and economic mobility initiatives, after 20+ years in enterprise technology sales generating over $40 million in software revenue. Host of the Big Tech Energy Podcast.

Kathryn Elizabeth

Founder · KP Performance Group

Stanford Graduate School of Business alumna and former owner-operator of Lee's Air, Plumbing & Heating, who has spent her career proving extraordinary businesses are built by developing extraordinary people. Launched new markets including global operations in Armenia.

Reggie Marable

Chief Customer Officer · Sierra

Chief Customer Officer at Sierra, the AI agent company, where he shapes the customer journey, adoption strategy and revenue expansion for enterprise AI buyers. Previously Head of Sales, North America at Slack and Area VP of Enterprise Sales at Salesforce. A Morehouse College graduate and author of 'The Blue Print: The Keys to Making BIG Money in Professional Sales,' he also sits on the board of the Technology Association of Georgia. At Summit he speaks to what AI-era go-to-market design actually looks like, which roles grow, which change, and what leaders should be hiring for now.

Zach Ciliotta-Young

Chief Revenue Officer · Slack

Chief Revenue Officer for Slack at Salesforce, a seat he stepped into in 2025 after leading Slack's global sales and revenue organization. His earlier career spans Indeed and SiteCompli, and he is a Fordham University alum. He speaks publicly on the new speed of work and what agentic AI changes for revenue teams, which makes him one of the sharpest voices on selling AI-native products to buyers still deciding how AI fits their own operations.

Latia YoungFountain

Head of Global Accounts, Central · LinkedIn

Head of Global Accounts, Central at LinkedIn, where she leads a Fortune 500 portfolio worth more than $100 million from Chicago. She has built her career on account strategy at scale, multi-stakeholder deals, executive alignment and long-horizon growth planning, and holds an MBA. Active in LinkedIn's Black Inclusion Group, she has represented the group at a Nasdaq closing bell. She moderates the Frontier panel on AI and the next era of sales.

Danielle DuPreé

VP Brand Partnerships · IZEA

VP of Brand Partnerships at IZEA, connecting major brands with the creators who move their audiences. Her decade-plus of sales leadership spans CPG, media, tech, financial services, energy, pharma and healthcare, including roles at GlobalData and YouGov. She speaks to why content is now part of the sales motion rather than a marketing afterthought, and how to translate creator value into business outcomes an executive buyer will fund.

Nia Adeyemi

Senior Director, Enterprise Growth · The Trade Desk

Senior Director of Enterprise Growth at The Trade Desk in New York, where she has grown through the company from senior account executive to agency hold-co leadership to her current enterprise growth role across more than a decade in the industry. She has represented The Trade Desk on AI-in-advertising panels including at MWC Barcelona, and is a longtime champion of early-career pathways into ad tech.

Meredith Allen

Sr. Manager, Ads System Readiness (Ads Market Activation) · Netflix

Senior Manager of Ads System Readiness within Ads Market Activation at Netflix, where she prepares the systems, processes and go-to-market readiness behind Netflix's advertising business. She joins the Frontier panel on how AI rewrote the ad playbook, alongside Nia Adeyemi of The Trade Desk with Kayanna Ray of Meta moderating.

Danielle Brown

SVP, Sports Streaming & Brand Solutions · Disney Advertising

SVP of Sports Streaming and Brand Solutions at Disney Advertising, leading brand partnerships across one of the most valuable live sports and streaming portfolios in media. She began at ESPN as a sales planner roughly 25 years ago and has since held senior roles including SVP of Data Enablement and Category Strategy. Named to Sports Business Journal's Game Changers, she speaks to how sellers stay indispensable as premium inventory, audience data and automation converge.

Danielle Estrada

Chief Revenue Officer · Promesa Consulting Group

Fractional Chief Revenue Officer at Promesa Consulting Group, bringing 30+ years of sales and go-to-market leadership across SaaS, fintech and AI, including EVP of Sales & Marketing at Hitachi Solutions. She builds revenue engines for growth-stage companies, pricing, process, comp design and the operating cadence that makes a number repeatable. Her coaching philosophy: fewer heroics, better systems.

Melissa C. Potter

Co-Founder · Black & Bespoke

Co-Founder of Black & Bespoke, the Black female-owned production company behind premium content and brand storytelling, and a chief marketing and brand executive with two decades in entertainment and culture. She was previously Executive Director of Content for Change at Paramount, after VP roles in strategy, impact and social impact spanning MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, CMT and Paramount Network. A board director based in New York, she speaks to narrative as a growth lever, how the story a brand tells determines the partnerships and revenue it can win.

Ejieme Eromosele

VP, Customer Growth · Quiq

VP of Customer Growth at Quiq, the conversational AI platform, with 18+ years in customer success and CX, including launching a new customer success function at The New York Times. Co-author of 'The Customer Success Talent Playbook,' founder of Success in Black, and named a Top 25 Customer Success Influencer in 2024 and 2025. She speaks to what AI actually changes in the post-sale motion, and how retention gets measured, resourced and protected when budgets tighten.

Martine Charles

Senior Sales Training & Enablement Manager · Uber

Senior Sales Training & Enablement Manager at Uber, with 12+ years designing the programs that get commercial teams productive faster. Previously led enterprise sales enablement at TikTok and global sales training at Spotify. She also serves on the board of Teens of Color Abroad. Her work is the practical side of AI adoption: what reps are taught, what they practice, and how new tools become habit instead of shelfware.

Larry Slaughter

Head of Enterprise Sales, East · Canva

Head of Enterprise Sales, East at Canva, building out the AMER East go-to-market region for some of the largest organizations in the country. He spent over eight years at LinkedIn in both new business and account management, earning Rookie of the Year before rising into sales leadership: managing junior talent in the high-velocity SMB space, then leading a team of tenured sellers within Large Enterprise, picking up multiple President's Club wins and promotions along the way. Before LinkedIn, he started his career as a Technology Consultant at Accenture, an unconventional entry point into sales. He's also an investor with inVest Ventures and a member of The Top Percentile Collective. Larry holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and is based in New York City.

Tami Mullen

Senior Director, Global Strategic Proposal Team · North Highland

Senior Director of the Global Strategic Proposal Team at North Highland, where she leads global proposal and pricing pursuits and orchestrates high-stakes enterprise bids. She calls herself a pursuit architect, with 25+ years across proposals and business development, including founding Clout Workspace and leading proposals at FORWARD Platform. Based in Baltimore, she writes and speaks on human-led AI: using it to sharpen a winning response rather than mass-produce a compliant one.

Stacie Selise

Founder & CEO · The Stacie Selise Group

Founder and CEO of The Stacie Selise Group, where she advances women leaders through leadership development and consulting under her Luxury Leadership banner. With 15+ years across sales and customer experience, including a Fortune 20 VP role leading award-winning teams, she built her firm around a simple observation: the most qualified person in the room loses when no one can articulate her value.

Doug Melville

CEO · JodieAI

Author of 'Invisible Generals,' the story of America's first Black generals and his own family legacy, and CEO of JodieAI. He previously served as Chief Diversity Officer at TBWA Worldwide and international head of equity at Richemont in Geneva, and writes for Forbes while hosting an iHeart podcast. He speaks about narrative as an asset: how the story you carry determines the rooms you can enter and the ones you can build.

Curtis Midkiff

Head of Social · Sprout Social

Head of Social at Sprout Social, the social media management platform, where he leads the brand's own social strategy. He joins the Frontier panel on selling the creator economy, bringing the platform-side view of how brands actually evaluate and buy creator partnerships.

Evonna McGill

Legends Global

Patricia Wortham

Former Chief Human Resources Officer

Gorish Aggarwal

CEO · Sybill

Marinda Yelverton

Group Director, Influencer & Creator Marketing · DEPT

Group Director leading the influencer and creator marketing practice at DEPT, with 17 years in marketing and the creator economy. Previously VP of Creator Marketing & Social Media at WME and SVP, Head of Client Services North America at Whalar, and founder of her own consultancy. Based in Los Angeles, she speaks to how creator partnerships get bought, measured and scaled, and why sellers who understand culture win the brief.

Charece Williams

Founder & CEO · Inside the Huddle

Founder, CEO and Head Coach of Inside The Huddle, built on 20+ years in sports and entertainment marketing with senior roles at Disney, Under Armour and PepsiCo, where she served as a VP. A former Division I volleyball player and co-founder of Next Level Partners, she has spoken for the Sponsorship Marketing Association. She coaches on access as a practiced skill: the preparation, introductions and sponsorship that turn interest into an offer.

Krystie Snype

Sales Training Representative · Johnson & Johnson MedTech

Sales training representative at Johnson & Johnson MedTech and a global MVP top performer in the top 1% of her organization. She came into medtech sales from the operating room as a surgical support technician, and holds a degree in biological systems engineering from Florida A&M. A longtime SISfluencer, she speaks to what stays human in a highly regulated, relationship-driven sale even as the tooling gets smarter.

Lauren Perine

Senior AI Business Process Specialist · Microsoft

Senior AI Business Process Specialist at Microsoft, helping organizations redesign business processes around AI instead of bolting AI onto old ones. She brings 11+ years in enterprise technology sales, including roles at FullStory and Pegasystems before moving into Microsoft's solutions and AI specialist practice. She translates between technical capability and business reality, one of the most practical voices on where AI actually belongs in a seller's workflow.

Petra Vincent

CTO · Sistas in Sales

Technology leader driving the AI and platform strategy behind Sistas in Sales, with 22+ years spanning digital strategy, business intelligence, generative AI and DevOps, and a McKinsey background. Based in Brooklyn, she builds the systems that let a global community operate like a product, and speaks to how small teams use AI to do work that used to require headcount.

Terri-Louise Brown

Head of International Community · Sistas in Sales

Head of International Community at Sistas in Sales, leading growth and partnerships across the UK and EMEA, including the flagship London market and representation at Cannes Lions. An award-winning international speaker, she is also founder of Talks With M.S. and The Empowerment Awards, and of TLJ Consults. She speaks to what building community and revenue across regions actually requires.

Erica Franklin

Global Director of Sales · Sistas in Sales

Global Director of Sales at Sistas in Sales, blending deep communication expertise with a passion for technology, strategic partnerships, and revenue growth. A 3X honoree on Demandbase's 100 Powerful Women in Sales list. She owns the partner revenue conversations and coaches sellers on the full cycle, which gives her strong opinions about where the handoff between sales and customer success usually breaks. Beyond that, she's expanding sales knowledge across Africa and helping small and midsize businesses build sales acceleration and retention strategies that hold up over time.