Enda Open Studios x Kilomba Collective | March 2, 2026 | New York City

There is a version of the AI conversation happening everywhere right now. It lives on conference stages, in think pieces, in product launch decks. It talks about speed, scale, and disruption. It rarely talks about who holds the power, who wrote the rules, or what it costs to navigate institutions that were never built with you in mind.

On March 2, 2026, Enda Open Studios and Kilomba Collective are bringing a different conversation to New York City. Thirty people. One room. 

One woman who spent 18 years building inside Google and YouTube and has seen the machinery of Silicon Valley from the inside. This is the AI leadership event NYC has not had yet.

The Conversation Behind the Conversation

Bibiana Leite was the first Google Brazil employee transferred to the United States, back in 2010. She spent nearly two decades leading growth, partnerships, and market expansion across the Americas, scaling global teams through wave after wave of digital transformation. She now sits on boards, backs technology companies as an investor through Black Angel Group, and holds a Master's degree in Organisational Psychology from Columbia University.

When she talks about artificial intelligence, she is not talking about it as an observer. She is talking about it as someone who watched the infrastructure of the modern internet get built, who led operations inside it at scale, and who understands exactly how power, legitimacy, and access get distributed inside those systems.

That perspective is rare. And it is the centre of this evening.

Why This Is Not Just Another AI Event

Most conversations about AI political discourse stay surface level. They discuss adoption rates and productivity gains. They treat the technology as something happening to industries rather than something being shaped by specific decisions, specific institutions, and specific concentrations of power.

Enda Open Studios was built for a different kind of depth. Each edition brings together a curated room, a focused guest, and a format designed around genuine dialogue rather than broadcast.

This edition, developed with Kilomba Collective, asks four things directly:

• What is being normalised as inevitable inside the current AI moment, and who benefits from that framing

• How authority and reputation actually function inside Silicon Valley, and what stays invisible unless you have navigated it firsthand

• What is genuinely being redistributed as AI scales across institutions and economies

• What leadership requires that no system can automate or replace

Women Shaping AI, From the Inside

This gathering centres women in tech leadership who have operated at global scale, not as commentators but as the people who built the systems being discussed. Women in AI are investors, executives, researchers, and institution-builders. They are not a side story to the industry. They are part of its foundation.

Women shaping AI deserve conversations that match the scale of their influence. This evening is one of them. It is a strategic leadership discussion, not a diversity panel, and that distinction matters.

The People in the Room

Elis Clementino, Head of Strategic Relationships and Growth at Enda Sportswear and NVH Studios and Co-founder of Kilomba Collective, moderates the conversation. Her work spans North America, Africa, Europe, and Brazil, connecting communication, narrative, and strategic relationships into something that builds real institutional weight.

Fernanda Dias, Co-founder of Kilomba Collective and Ph.D. Candidate at Columbia University's Teachers College, hosts the evening. Her research focuses on Brazilian immigration and Afro-Brazilian cultural practices in the United States, and her work connects culture, education, and equity in ways that bring precision to every room she enters.

What Enda and Kilomba Built This For

Enda Sportswear was created by a Kenyan woman in Kenya, a country that redefined what excellence means in long-distance running. As Enda global expansion continues across Africa, Europe, North America, and Brazil, the brand has always built conversations alongside product. Performance connects to identity, culture, and belonging. Enda Open Studios is where that belief takes shape in dialogue.

Kilomba Collective exists to strengthen the presence, language, and global projection of Black Brazilian women in spaces of global relevance. This partnership is rooted in one shared intention: to create a room where Black women speak about the past, present, and future with full depth, without simplification.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who should attend this event? 

Leaders, investors, founders, researchers, and operators who are actively engaged in technology, institutional leadership, or the broader conversation around AI and its structural consequences.

What are the four themes guiding the conversation?

The evening explores four core lenses: movement as leadership, invisible codes of power inside Silicon Valley, AI as a structural dispute over authority and access, and what remains fundamentally human in an era of automation.

Is this a panel or a keynote? 

Neither. The evening runs as a moderated strategic interview, with Elis Clementino interviewing Bibiana Leite across four focused areas of conversation, followed by an open audience Q&A.

How is this different from standard tech events? 

This conversation sits at the intersection of leadership, power, and AI from the perspective of someone who led inside one of the world's largest technology companies for 18 years. The focus is institutional and structural, not product-driven.

How do I RSVP? 

RSVP details will be announced shortly. Full location information is shared upon confirmation. For questions in the meantime, reach Enda Sportswear directly at hello@endarunning.com.