How to Get AI to Work the Way You Would

James Gray helps growth-stage and enterprise leaders build organization-wide data and AI capabilities that ship, scale, and show up in next quarter's results. He teaches data and AI strategy programs at UC Berkeley Haas Executive Education and has trained 1000+ students across 39+ countries on Maven.com. James spent nearly a decade at Microsoft building the data and analytics platforms the business ran on. He has since served as Chief Product Officer and Chief Information Officer. His career sits at the intersection of product management, data, and AI. He holds an MS in Information and Data Science and an MBA from UC Berkeley, a BS in Electrical Engineering from Union College, and a leadership and performance coaching certification from Brown University.

Talin Koutnouyan is a Growth & GTM Operator who works directly with founders on growth, marketing and go-to-market, with a focus on health and wellness and pet care. She most recently led growth efforts at Modern Animal (later acquired by Chewy), covering consumer acquisition and veterinarian hiring. Earlier, she was the VP of Strategy & Analytics at Influential, an influencer marketing technology company that exited for $500M and solved influencer attribution for about 68% of the Fortune 500. Through Influential, PwC and the agency Ayzenberg, she advised Microsoft, Xbox, Amazon, Nike, Hilton, Uber and SpaceX. She is a Cohort 20 student of Hands-on Agentic AI for Leaders and has built AI skills, agents, and workflows for her own work and her clients.