Melissa Cash

Melissa Cash

Co-Founder & CEO
Pok Pok


Melissa is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pok Pok, a TIME100-recognized company reimagining how kids use technology. Named to Inc.’s Female Founders 500, Melissa is a leading voice on how we design technology for the next generation. Pok Pok builds digital experiences that prioritize imagination over addiction and creative thinking over consumption, protecting kids’ creativity, curiosity and agency in an increasingly AI-driven world. She also co-hosts Parenting, Apparently, a brutally honest podcast about the complicated and often contradictory reality of raising kids today.

Schedule

wednesday – 10:30am Women+ in Tech
Time Icon 30 mins Location Icon Meridian Hall — Upper Mezzanine

Conviction Before Proof: Making the Call Before the Playbook Exists

Challenge the prevailing wisdom of the tech industry by learning to make consequential decisions before the proof is there. This workshop takes you through building around the belief that the technology we create today shapes how the next generation thinks tomorrow. Learn how to make big decisions with conviction when there’s no playbook, no consensus, and not enough evidence.