JANA LEVENE
Currently based in New York City, Jana works in business development for Google Assistant, Google’s flagship AI product. Prior to this, Jana worked in business development for (i) Area 120, a workshop for Google’s experimental products, (ii) X, Alphabet's moonshot factory that has launched self-driving car, Internet-powered balloons and clean energy kites projects and (iii) Jigsaw, an incubator that builds technology to solve complex global security challenges.
Previously, Jana was based in Google's Singapore office leading new market development for Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia and Nepal. Jana's work ranged from accelerating growth in Internet penetration, to helping businesses digitize and grow online, to influencing policy-making to support a free and open Internet.
Jana is an Advisory Board member at Code to Inspire, a non-profit that has built Afghanistan’s first coding school for girls. Code to Inspire is committed to developing technical literacy and creating safe employment opportunities in computer science and technology for women in Afghanistan.
Jana serves as an Advisory Council member at non-profit Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation’s leading provider of and advocate for high quality, affordable healthcare.