Meet the womenbuilding ourcommunity

As Liverpool Chapter Lead, Neha is creating a welcoming local community where women can meet, learn and explore AI together in a relaxed and informal environment.

Her background spans data, AI and business strategy. At Comcast, she designed data pipelines, supported the migration of more than 50 workflows to AWS, and helped transform complex data into insights that informed business decisions. She enjoys making AI and technology easier to understand, helping women build confidence and discover practical ways to use AI in their everyday work and lives.

Neha holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Liverpool Management School, graduating with Distinction, alongside AI certifications from Databricks, Google and Microsoft. She believes AI should be accessible to everyone and is looking forward to growing The AI Social community across the Liverpool City Region.

As Malta Chapter Lead, Shaunagh is creating a welcoming, accessible space where women across Malta can connect, exchange ideas and navigate how AI is transforming their work and daily lives.

Shaunagh leads AI Enablement and Adoption at Flutter Entertainment, drawing on extensive experience across marketing, media and AdTech. Her philosophy is: ‘Implementing the tech is often the easy part; the real challenge lies in shifting mindsets, transforming habits, and helping people embrace change.’

She combines business strategy with human behaviour, holding diplomas in AI for Business Strategy and AI Governance & Ethics from UCD Professional Academy, paired with learning in psychological therapies, business management and marketing. Shaunagh believes AI transformation is fundamentally a cultural journey, not an IT rollout, and that real impact happens when adoption feels intuitive, psychologically safe and grounded in practical value.

Through informal meetups, practical discussions and guest speaker sessions, she is bringing together Malta’s professionals, mothers, founders, creatives, students and curious learners to demystify AI together.

Bea’s interest in AI began by using it practically in her work, getting curious, and wanting to learn more.

She brings over 15 years’ experience in digital marketing, working with global brands including Regus, PokerStars and Flutter International. She has led international teams and built digital operations from the ground up. Today, she also helps smaller businesses with their growth plans and marketing strategy, using AI as a practical partner in both settings.

That curiosity has taken her from teaching herself to build apps to completing the Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme at Saïd Business School and a digital transformation programme at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Bea is quick to acknowledge that navigating AI is an ongoing learning curve for all of us. She believes that as AI becomes part of more of our lives, we need places to share what works, what doesn’t, and what concerns us.

As St Albans Chapter Lead, she is creating a local space where women across St Albans and surrounding areas can explore what AI means for their work and everyday lives, without needing a technical background or knowing where to start. Whether it’s a relaxed social, a practical workshop or a guest speaker, you’re welcome to come along, ask questions and learn together.

As Brighton & Hove Chapter Lead, Sarah is creating a space where women can explore how AI is changing work, business and everyday life, without needing to be technical or buy into the hype.

Sarah is a narrative architect, trained journalist and communications leader with almost two decades of experience helping organisations become better understood. She is the founder of SJK Labs, a strategic advisory practice working with founders and leadership teams to shape how their organisations are understood, trusted and chosen by people and AI systems.

Her career has included leading communications at FTSE 250 company PageGroup and Moove - the Uber-backed and Waymo-partnered mobility company - alongside advising businesses across technology, fintech, SaaS and other emerging sectors.

Through SJK Labs, Sarah researches how AI systems retrieve, interpret and represent organisations, and developed Narrative Architecture as a way of aligning what a business says, what it does and what humans and machines ultimately understand. She is the author of 'The B2B Legibility Report' and also hosts PRception, where she speaks with researchers, founders and technologists about trust, influence and decision making in the AI era.

Sarah is particularly interested in helping women of all ages develop confidence around AI. Through relaxed meetups, practical workshops and conversations with guest speakers, she hopes to bring together Brighton & Hove’s founders, creatives, professionals, researchers and community builders to learn from one another and help shape how AI is understood and used locally.

As Swindon Chapter Lead, Tejiri hopes to bring together women from across Swindon’s professional, student, business and wider community networks. Tejiri is an AI Programme Manager with experience delivering transformation programmes across public sector and commercial organisations. Her work focuses on responsible AI adoption, helping organisations apply AI in practical, scalable ways that deliver real value. Her experience includes managing an AI-assisted healthcare triage pilot, leading a Microsoft 365 Copilot implementation, and delivering workshops that help people use AI confidently and responsibly.

Tejiri holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems and Business Analysis from Aston University. She is currently studying for an MSc in Artificial Intelligence. She believes successful AI adoption is not only about technology, but also about creating the confidence, knowledge and opportunities for people to participate. Through welcoming meet ups, beginner friendly sessions, hands on workshops and collaborative events, Tejiri aims to make AI practical and accessible, helping more women build confidence, exchange ideas and learn together.

Dr Yosr Sbais is an Assistant Professor of Management control at the Higher Institute of Sciences and Technology of the Environment, University of Carthage, Tunisia. She is also a project manager and researcher working across responsible innovation, sustainability, entrepreneurship and community engagement.

With more than 20 years’ experience in higher education, Yosr has contributed to international and European projects focused on sustainability, green entrepreneurship, innovation, employability and the development of sustainable ecosystems. Through initiatives including SmartGreen Ecos, she helps connect entrepreneurs, institutions and stakeholders around green transition and sustainable business models.

Yosr is also Community Engagement Lead at CHIFAA, supporting participatory and human-centred approaches to AI for women affected by breast and cervical cancer across North Africa. As The AI Social’s Tunisia Chapter Lead, she is passionate about bringing women researchers, entrepreneurs, students and professionals together to explore how AI can support more ethical, inclusive and human centred innovation.

As North West London Chapter Lead, Lena is creating a space where women can explore AI with confidence, away from the jargon and hype that so often gets in the way. She is the founder of Rise IQ, an AI governance and ethics advisory consultancy, and co-founder of a responsible AI literacy initiative in collaboration with King's College London Responsible AI. Lena's path into AI began after more than two decades in London's financial derivatives markets, an experience that shaped her 'verify, don't trust the surface' approach to risk, now applied to how organisations, schools and families navigate AI.

She advises boards and regulated industries on AI governance, contributes to UK AI policy through APPG AI and the House of Lords, delivers "Parenting in the Age of AI" workshops for schools and organisations, and hosts the podcast Hardwired: The Human Algorithm. As a parent of a tween and teenager, Lena is especially passionate about helping women feel confident asking the questions that matter, whether that's for their careers, their businesses or their families and is looking forward to building a warm, welcoming community across North West London.

As South London Chapter Lead, Melissa is creating an open, empowering and deeply inclusive community where women can meet, learn and explore AI together, whatever their background or level of experience.

Melissa is a Senior Events and Marketing Lead specialising in AI developer programmes. She leads flagship digital initiatives for Google DeepMind and Kaggle, helping to grow global developer communities and deliver large-scale learning experiences, including Google's 5 Days of AI, which has reached more than 1.5 million participants. With more than seven years' experience across Google, YouTube and the tech start-up landscape, her work brings together technical community building, go-to-market strategy and AI adoption. She is passionate about making complex technical ecosystems feel accessible, creating spaces where developers, creators and learners can thrive.

As a first-generation Black immigrant living in London, Melissa brings a lived perspective that shapes how she views technological progress. She is committed to ensuring the rapid pace of AI does not leave communities, particularly older generations, behind. Through relaxed social meetups, practical conversations and shared learning, Melissa is looking forward to helping women across London ask bold questions, bridge the generational technology divide and build lasting confidence in this new era.

Cherriss “Cherry” Manzi is a serial founder and champion of entrepreneurship and youth opportunity, working at the intersection of behavioural science, AI and the future of work. Her ambition is to help more people take control of their own destiny and have a voice in shaping the future.

As AI reshapes work and threatens the first rung of the career ladder, Cherry believes we need new routes into opportunity. She wants the direction of AI to reflect the needs and aspirations of the people whose lives it will change, with more of us able to influence what is built and who benefits.

She co-founded ZIYX, an award-winning platform combining gamification with entrepreneurship education. She is now building Dynamis, an association bringing together universities, organisations, government, young people and corporates to create more accessible pathways into entrepreneurship, self-employment and portfolio careers.

Through The AI Social’s Central London chapter, Cherry hopes to create a welcoming space where women can explore these possibilities together, build confidence with AI and turn their ideas into something real.

A mother of two young children, she sees shaping the future as both a shared responsibility and a deeply personal one.