Motivational Speaking
Visualization is key. Here are a couple of Alana’s speeches.
Summer 2019 - RBMS
Winter 2019 - Virginia Women’s Business Conference
Education First (EF) Global Leadership Summit 2022: Berlin, Germany
“EF Summits combine a week-long educational tour with a global leadership conference. In July 2022, students from all over the world came together in Berlin, Germany to celebrate this year’s theme: The Impact of Sports & Wellness.” (EF Blog)
Maxel’s Women Investing in AI
Over the summer of 2026, Alana’s company Maxel hosted a dinner series connecting Women Investing in AI across 8 cities in 9 days connecting venture capitalists, investment bankers, researchers, founders, and senior operators all actively investing in AI through capital and technology.
See the full documentary series capturing the tour here.
New York City
Summer 2026
The Women Investing in AI Dinner Series, presented by Maxel Lab, continued its journey with its second stop in New York City.
The evening brought together a room of women investors, builders, and leaders who are actively shaping the future of artificial intelligence. The dinner featured a fireside chat with Roshna Bahauddin, an investor whose conviction in early-stage founders embodies the spirit of the series.
Throughout the evening, one theme emerged clearly: as AI tools and models continue to accelerate at an unprecedented pace, leadership remains the ultimate differentiator and the strongest moat.
Washington, D.C. Summer 2026
On Monday, June 22nd, Alana Andrews launched the first stop of Maxel’s Women Investing in AI dinner series in Washington, D.C.
The evening featured Madhavi Sunder, Frank Sherry Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a leading voice on AI regulation, intellectual property, and the global governance of emerging technology.
Together, the room explored what it means to build AI that is both commercially impactful and unambiguously human-centric - from investing in data infrastructure that serves users as much as businesses, to understanding the symbiotic relationship between stronger AI models and the humans who train them. The conversation also examined one of AI’s most transformative frontiers: digital twins, and what it means to preserve, scale, and ethically deploy human intelligence in the age of artificial intelligence.
Boston
Summer 2026
The Women Investing in AI Dinner Series, presented by Maxel Lab, continued its journey with its third stop in Boston - bringing together the kind of interdisciplinary conversation the series was created to foster.
The evening convened researchers, investors, and global leaders around one table, with perspectives spanning continents, disciplines, and institutions. Discussions explored the future of AI through the lenses of data infrastructure, cybersecurity, and the value of building AI systems that are both ethical and efficient - not as competing priorities, but as a shared imperative.
Chicago
Summer 2026
The Women Investing in AI Dinner Series, presented by Maxel, continued its journey with its fourth stop in Chicago - bringing together a dynamic group of AI founders, venture capitalists, investment banking associates, and MBA candidates from Chicago Booth for one of the most expansive conversations of the series.
Over the course of the evening, the group explored the intersection of human and artificial intelligence, the future of data infrastructure at scale, the opportunities within emerging niche markets, and the importance of intentional resource allocation in building the next generation of technology