Speaker
Elaine Zhou
CTO, Change.org
Elaine Zhou is the Chief Technology Officer of Change.org, the world’s largest social change platform with more than 300 million users in 196 countries. As Change.org’s technical leader, Elaine leads a global engineering team to drive Change.org to the forefront of Responsible AI, to elevate the platform capability to reach a larger community, and engage repeat users who can lead change for their causes. Most recently, Elaine was the CTO at Vidado.ai, an Oakland AI startup dedicated to helping organizations unlock critical insight trapped in handwritten documents to drive their operations and strategy. Previously, Elaine was the SVP of Development overseeing engineering and product development at Clean Power Finance (CPF), a solar leasing and financing startup backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Google Ventures. Elaine’s 20+ years of experience includes technology strategy, AI research and development, software product development, and process improvement. Elaine received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley.