Lila Tretikov: Partner @NEA, Product Differentiation, User Adoption & AI Bias | Slush 2024

Lila Tretikov is a highly regarded American and French CEO, board director, entrepreneur, investor, and executive. She is a distinguished leader in Al and technology with extensive experience navigating major market disruptions fueled by technological advancements. Lila is known for top global brands as CEO and senior executive and brings a wealth of experience from founding multiple technology companies. She is renowned for her strategic foresight, customer-centric ethos, and talent for propelling exponential growth across Fortune 50 and other high-profile organizations.??In 2024, Lila joined NEA as Partner, where she oversees Al Strategy spanning over 500 portfolio companies. In her most recent prior corporate position, Lila was Deputy CTO, CVP at Microsoft where she was instrumental in shaping Microsoft’s future growth through large-scale Al transformation. Before joining Microsoft, Lila was SVP Engie, CEO & Vice Chair Terrawatt at Engie (EPA:ENGI) where she led the company’s transition to renewable energy sources and cutting-edge technologies while the company divested from carbon-based energy sources. Previously, Lila was CEO at Wikipedia Foundation & Endowment where she reversed user and editor decline, introduced AI and multiplied revenues. Lila founded her first company while at UC Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Lab and created the first genomic browser. Lila is recognized among Forbes’ Top 100 Most Powerful Women and honored with the prestigious designation of Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum. Lila is joined on stage with Emma Hinchliffe. Emma is a senior writer at @fortune, where she covers women in business and gender issues across business, politics, and culture. Emma is the author of Most Powerful Women Daily (formerly the Broadsheet), Fortune’s daily newsletter for and about the women leading the business world. She is a co-chair of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit, where she’s interviewed everyone from Fortune 500 CEOs and U.S. politicians to Hollywood stars, and previously co-chaired Fortune’s MPW Next Gen Summit and the Fortune/U.S. Department of State Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership. Her work, which includes magazine features with subjects ranging from…