USJC Women+ Forum: Bringing AI to the Core of Your Organization

At a time when AI adoption is accelerating, AI literacy can be an important competency for global leaders. This event is intended for leaders who are looking to understand not just the mechanics of how AI is used but more importantly what it means to incorporate it into the core of your business, and how these conversations may compare and contrast in US versus Japanese contexts.

Join the USJC Women+ Forum for a conversation with Workato’s Senior Vice President of AI Applications, Genevieve Weber, who has experience living in both Japan and the U.S. The conversation will be moderated by Women+ Forum leader Sonja Okano Khan (ELP ’23), an engineering leader at Patreon with prior experience at other major tech companies like Instagram and Microsoft. Together, Sonja and Genevive will aim to help equip leaders across different sectors with the necessary context to make effective decisions about AI within your organization.

Featured Speaker

Genevieve Weber
SVP, AI Apps Business Operations, Workato

Genevieve is an accomplished operator with a 20+ year track record of scaling software and telecom businesses through growth strategy, product innovation, and operational transformation.

She serves as SVP, AI Apps Business Operations at Workato, where she architects and drives the company’s AI growth strategy. Prior to Workato, Genevieve was Operations Director at TPG, where she partnered with investors to execute value creation plans across software and enterprise technology portfolio companies.

Before that, she spent a decade at Salesforce in a series of senior leadership roles. As COO of the Salesforce Platform, she led enterprise-wide transformation initiatives for a $5B global business. Earlier, as Vice President of Cloud Go-to-Market Strategy for Salesforce Japan, she accelerated growth in one of the company’s most strategically important markets — a role she stepped into after leading cloud sales strategy in the U.S., partnering directly with product leadership to drive market share.
Genevieve began her career at Avaya, where she led sales operations for Asia Pacific from the Singapore office and shaped the company’s global SMB go-to-market strategy, including channel readiness and partner enablement.

She holds a B.S. in International Business and Japanese from Georgetown University and an MBA in Finance from Villanova University.

Moderator

Sonja Okano Khan
Engineering Lead, Patreon

Sonja Okano Khan is an engineering leader focused on building and scaling global consumer products. She works at the intersection of product strategy and technical execution to deliver high-impact user experiences across the United States and Japan.

She is an engineering lead at Patreon, the leading creator economy platform, where she has driven the company’s expansion from a memberships business into a broader media and community platform.
She also serves as a product growth advisor for ChatGPT in Japan, shaping strategy to ensure users have the best possible product experience.

Previously, Sonja spent over five years at Instagram, where she was a technical lead across Reels, Shopping, and international growth in Japan. She played a key role in scaling products used by over a billion users and building experiences for global markets.

She holds both a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington.