Built Differently,
By Design.

Our Approach

The Latino AI Summit was born from a simple but urgent realization: Latino professionals were already engaging with AI in their work and lives, yet rarely felt centered, welcomed, or supported in spaces shaping the future of technology.

What began as a passion project quickly became a community-driven movement. Without a budget, institutional backing, or a blueprint, the Summit was built through relationships, trust, and shared commitment. It emerged in response to real conversations with educators, founders, nonprofit leaders, creatives, corporate professionals, and students who wanted to learn about AI, but not in spaces that felt intimidating, extractive, or disconnected from their lived realities.

Meet the Founders

Ruby opens doors, builds relationships, and creates opportunities for connection, visibility, and collective impact.

Michal designs the systems, experiences, and infrastructure that make those doors meaningful.

Together, they are building a Latino-led innovation ecosystem rooted in trust, audacity, care, and action.

Ruby Garcia

Co-Founder, Speaker, Leadership & Visibility Strategist

Ruby Garcia works at the intersection of leadership, visibility, and emerging technology. She helps individuals and institutions build influence, expand opportunity, and navigate the future of work with confidence, while honoring culture and community.

Michal Tapia designs the conditions that help people feel safe enough to lead, learn, and build together. Her work spans inclusive leadership, psychological safety, experience design, facilitation, organizational change, and community-centered strategy.

Co-Founder, Bilingual Consultant & Facilitator

Dr. Michal Tapia

Latino AI Summit Pillars

  • Community-led

    We build with the community, not for the community.

  • Learning-first and culturally grounded

    Latino AI Summit 2026 Attendee

  • Psychological safety as infrastructure

    People learn faster when they feel safe enough to ask questions and try.

  • Accessible across experience levels

    Beginners, practitioners, and leaders can all find value.

  • Intersectional by design

    We center the full complexity of Latino identity and experience.

  • Humanity first

    Technology is the tool. People are the point.

  • “Seeing so many Latinos, people like myself, not only working in tech and AI, but leading.”

    — Latino AI Summit 2026 Attendee

  • “This is more than an event. It’s a community that was waiting to be built.”

    — Latino AI Summit 2026 Attendee

  • “Every detail was thoughtfully executed. We're thrilled with the outcome.”

    — Latino AI Summit 2026 Attendee