Leadership in the Age of AI
Liderar na Era da IA
Lessons from the Journey of a Black Brazilian Woman in Silicon Valley
March 2, 2026
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Enda NY Office
400 5th Avenue, New York City
Maximum capacity: 30 guests
Location details shared upon RSVP
Event Overview
Enda Open Studios is an intimate platform created by Enda Sportswear to host conversations that extend beyond the room. Each edition is curated intentionally, with speakers, audience, and theme selected to create depth and continuity.
This New York edition, developed in partnership with Kilomba Collective, centers leadership in the age of artificial intelligence through the lived experience of a Black Brazilian woman who built her career inside Silicon Valley.
This is an AI leadership event NYC focused not on product, but on power, language, scale, and access. The conversation approaches artificial intelligence as more than technical transformation. It examines AI as structural change, institutional negotiation, and political positioning.
The gathering brings together leaders, researchers, investors, founders, and operators engaged in shaping the future of technology.
Why This Conversation Exists
The AI era requires more than technical adaptation. It requires leadership literacy. Artificial intelligence is restructuring institutions, economies, and public discourse. At the same time, it is redistributing power and redefining legitimacy.
This conversation addresses:
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AI political discourse and what is framed as inevitable
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Invisible codes of authority and reputation inside Silicon Valley
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Structural disputes embedded in AI systems
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What leadership requires that cannot be automated
The intention is intellectual rigor grounded in real experience.
Women in AI. Women in Tech Leadership. Women Shaping AI.
This edition intentionally centers women operating at global scale in technology and institutional leadership.
The conversation reflects a broader shift in who defines the future of AI. It creates space for Women in AI and Women in tech leadership to speak from positions of influence, not commentary.
This is not a diversity panel but it is a strategic leadership discussion. The room is limited to thirty guests to maintain depth and continuity.
Participants
Fernanda Dias
MC | Co-founder, Kilomba Collective
Ph.D. Candidate at Columbia University (Teachers College), researching Brazilian immigration and Afro-Brazilian cultural practices in the United States. Adjunct Lecturer at the Colin Powell School (CCNY) and People & Programs Manager at the Paulo Freire Initiative at Columbia University.
Her work sits at the intersection of culture, education, equity, and community-building.
Bibiana Leite
Guest
Media and GTM Technology Executive, Board Member, and Investor with 18 years of leadership at Google and YouTube.
As the first Google Brazil employee transferred to the United States in 2010, Bibiana led growth, partnerships, communities, and market expansion across the Americas. She has built and scaled global teams through multiple waves of digital and platform transformation.
She holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. She serves on the board of Summer Search and is an investor with Black Angel Group, backing early-stage to Series D technology and AI companies.
Her perspective connects operational scale with systems-level analysis.
Elis Clementino
Moderator | Head of Strategic Relationships and Growth, Enda Sportswear & NVH Studios
Leads expansion, partnerships, and institutional positioning across North America, Africa, Europe, and Brazil.
Her trajectory connects communication, strategy, and business development, focusing on how strategic relationships and narrative build scale, legitimacy, and impact. Elis is also Co-founder of Kilomba Collective.
About Enda Open Studios
Enda Open Studios is designed as a platform for long-term dialogue. It reflects Enda’s broader positioning as a global sportswear brand created by a Kenyan woman in Kenya, now expanding across Africa, Europe, North America, and Brazil.
As Enda global expansion continues, the brand builds conversations alongside product. Performance is connected to identity, culture, and belonging. Excellence is defined as legacy, discipline, and direction.
This edition extends that positioning into global AI discourse.
About Kilomba Collective
Kilomba is a cultural and community platform dedicated to strengthening the presence, language, and global projection of Black Brazilian women in spaces of global relevance.
It bridges culture, academia, and leadership, creating environments where identity and excellence operate together.
This partnership is rooted in a shared intention: to create a space where Black women speak about past, present, and future without simplification.
Format
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6:30 PM – 6:50 PM |
Reception, networking, refreshments |
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6:50 PM – 7:00 PM |
Opening and introduction of Kilomba |
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7:00 PM – 7:05 PM |
Opening talk – Fernanda Dias |
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7:05 PM – 7:10 PM |
Framing and panel introduction – Elis Clementino |
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7:10 PM – 8:00 PM |
Moderated conversation: Elis interviews Bibiana |
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8:00 PM – 8:15 PM |
Audience Q&A |
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8:15 PM – 8:30 PM |
Closing networking |
Four Core Lenses Guiding the Conversation
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Movement as leadership
Crossing systems, shifting scale, and building the future while in motion. -
Invisible codes of power
Authority, legitimacy, reputation, and access within Silicon Valley. -
AI as structural dispute
What is being normalized as inevitable. What is being sold as progress. What is being redistributed as power. -
What remains human
What cannot be delegated, outsourced, or replicated in an era of automation.
RSVP
Capacity: 30 guests
RSVP link: To be announced
Additional information shared upon confirmation
For questions, partnership inquiries, or future Open Studios editions:
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