Gender equality in digital transformation is a lever for making it more competent, innovative, and capable of generating value.
On October 7th, in Milan, on the Main Stage of the Business Leaders Summit 2026, I brought this message to a context where the relationship between artificial intelligence and gender equality is not always familiar or can be met with mistrust or skepticism.
And that’s precisely why it’s important to be there.
It’s not enough to discuss these issues where they’re already shared. We need to bring them to the conversations about business, competitiveness, productivity, leadership, and process transformation.
The transformative power of AI
AI is redesigning activities, skills, roles, and career paths. This transformation can consolidate existing inequalities or become an extraordinary opportunity to address them.
Companies can choose to:
– expand women’s access to AI skills and professions;
– involve workers in process redesign;
– enhance skills that are currently underrecognized;
– measure who truly benefits from increased productivity and new opportunities;
– build more diverse leadership capable of understanding complexity.
These choices affect women, but they improve work for everyone.
Because more diverse groups ask more questions, see more risks, and imagine more solutions. And artificial intelligence designed without a significant portion of society is not neutral: it is incomplete.
Thanks to Business International Events for opening this space for discussion and to Veronica Del Priore, Andrea Napolitano, and Sara Pansera for sharing their perspectives.
Technology opens up new possibilities. Leadership decides who will benefit.
