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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit36 min
Infrastructure as Destiny: The Compute-Capital-Cloud Trinity | RAISE Summit 2026
Stephanie Cohen, Don Barneston, Suresh Vasudevan, Greg Matson, Jeff Denworth, Jordan Nanos
Driven by a critical shortage of physical infrastructure against surging AI demand, the event highlights how neoclouds and vendors are shifting from speculative investment to immediate deployment through deep operational partnerships and aggressive capacity underwriting through 2028. Key industry leaders from companies like Cloudflare, Vast Data, and Solidigm discuss how architectural innovations in storage compression, isolated compute environments, and resilient interconnects are solving bottlenecks in copper, optics, and hardware failure rates. Looking ahead, the discussion projects a multi-decade expansion cycle marked by market consolidation, the emergence of machine-to-machine commerce, and the transition of AI inference into a ubiquitous cloud utility embedded within every application.
- RAISE Summit19 min
Stephanie Cohen - CSO @ Cloudflare: Future of Content & Fair Compensation in the Age of AI
On July 1, Cloudflare implemented a permission-based default policy to block AI scrapers while launching a beta for micropayments via HTTP 402, aiming to transition the web into a value-based economy where content creators control data access. This strategic shift, supported by data showing a 65% surge in training crawler traffic, has drawn criticism from industry figures like BrightData's David Bossert but is defended by CEO Matthew Prince as necessary to repair the broken economic relationship between publishers and tech giants. Complementing this infrastructure, newly appointed Chief Strategy Officer Stephanie Cohen leverages her Wall Street background to guide Cloudflare's expansion into cybersecurity and AI financial services, predicting that high-value human judgment will remain essential even as automation transforms data-rich sectors.
- RAISE Summit19 min
Cloudflare CSO, Stephanie Cohen: The Future of Content & Fair Compensation in the Age of AI
Stephanie Cohen, Matthew Prince
Cloudflare Chief Strategy Officer Stephanie Cohen announces the implementation of "Content Independence Day," a permission-based policy that allows website owners to block or charge AI crawlers for access via new default settings. This initiative seeks to rebalance the relationship between content creators and technology platforms by establishing a market where data-rich sectors, particularly financial services, can monetize their intellectual property directly. While facing industry pushback from competitors who argue against restricting bot access, Cohen contends that shifting to a controlled ecosystem is essential to incentivize high-value content creation and secure a sustainable future for the internet.
- Goldman Sachs22 min
Julia Boorstin CNBC Media & Tech Correspondent & Author, "When Women Lead"
Julia Boorstin, Sallie Krawcheck, Stephanie Cohen
Former banking executives Sally Krawcheck and collaborators launched Ellevest to address systemic gender biases in venture capital and financial planning by deploying a data-driven strategy that challenges the myth of female risk aversion. The initiative aggregates $1 billion in assets while promoting co-ed founding teams and specialized investment vehicles to overcome severe funding gaps, particularly in the fintech sector where women receive disproportionately little Series B capital. Supported by evidence that diverse leadership yields superior profitability, the organization aims to unlock $11 trillion in women-held assets by shifting the financial narrative from scarcity to abundance.
- Goldman Sachs30 min
Anna Malaika Tubbs, Author of “The Three Mothers"
Anna Malaika Tubbs, Stephanie Cohen
Anna Malaika Tubbs' *The Three Mothers* utilizes original archival research to document the lives of Alberta King, Louise Little, and Berdis Baldwin, revealing how their distinct educational backgrounds and radical strategies directly shaped the legacies of their sons, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. By framing the systematic erasure of these Black women as an intentional oversight driven by historical bias, Tubbs demonstrates that their pursuit of equity, self-reliance, and narrative healing served as the foundational pillars for the Civil Rights movement. The work further argues that recognizing such multi-generational contributions is essential for both advancing racial justice and establishing diversity as a critical driver of corporate profitability and market innovation.
- Goldman Sachs19 min
Julia Hartz, Co-Founder and CEO of Eventbrite
Following a two-year bootstrapped inception, Eventbrite co-founders Julia and Kevin Hartz scaled a self-service event platform that powered four million global events and sold over 300 million tickets. The company secured Sequoia Capital investment in 2009 after navigating initial funding rejections, eventually transitioning to a public listing that clarified its mission and distributed operational model. Today, the leadership team maintains rigorous customer engagement and investor transparency to navigate public market volatility while sustaining a diverse, globally inclusive workforce.
- a16z43 min
a16z Podcast | M&A and Innovation, Inside Out
Stephanie Cohen, Martin Casado
Stephanie Cohen leads a strategic restructuring at Goldman Sachs that integrates M&A and organic growth under a unified framework, utilizing hybrid models like the Marcus brand and rigorous red-team evaluations to mitigate decision bias. Parallel to these acquisition efforts, the firm launched its "Accelerate" internal incubator to nurture employee innovations while protecting them from bureaucratic momentum through dedicated R&D pockets. To further support this evolution, a $500 million investment commitment targets women-founded businesses, and the organization is shifting its five-year planning horizon toward a culture that celebrates iterative learning and calculated risk-taking over traditional failure aversion.
- Goldman Sachs26 min
Beth Comstock: Creating a Culture of Innovation
Beth Comstock, Stephanie Cohen
Former GE Vice Chair Beth Comstock articulates a leadership philosophy that reframes storytelling as the engine of strategy and introversion as a critical organizational asset. Drawing on her tenure under Jack Welch and later at NBC, she critiques the "law of big numbers" for obscuring cohesive narratives while advocating for internal "permission slips" to bypass gatekeepers and foster innovation. Comstock concludes that overcoming structural resistance requires leaders to reframe rejection as deferred action and to prioritize human connection over rigid corporate hierarchies.
- Goldman Sachs21 min
Ellen Ochoa: Making History in Space
Former astronaut and NASA administrator Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in space, reflects on her 28-year career spanning five missions that addressed ozone depletion and solar wind research while advocating for reframing engineering as a collaborative team sport. She details NASA's strategic pivot from internal manufacturing to commercial service partnerships with entities like SpaceX and the agency's continued reliance on 25-year international collaborations to sustain the International Space Station. Looking toward future exploration, Ochoa emphasizes the technical feasibility of lunar and Mars missions contingent on long-term political will and current ISS research, while underscoring leadership principles such as "seek first to understand" that guided post-Columbia safety protocols.
- Goldman Sachs14 min
Deborah Jackson and Davida Herzl: Advancing the Future of Women Entrepreneurs
Deborah Jackson, Davida Herzl, Stephanie Cohen
Plum Alley Investments, founded by Deborah Jackson, targets Series A female-founded technology companies like Davida Herzl's Aclima by providing capital and strategic support to address the systemic capital gap for women in hard tech. This venture capital firm prioritizes ventures with validated products and societal impact, operating with an investment thesis that diverse leadership correlates with superior financial returns and global innovation. Through an active partnership model where members commit $1.5 million or more annually, Plum Alley aims to establish a replicable template proving that women-led investing and companies can achieve both massive market impact and exceptional profitability.