01 / About
A rare operator at the intersection of AI product, strategy, and execution.
Danielle Regis is a Deployment Strategist at Palantir and was the CIA's first dedicated AI policy officer. She works at the intersection of technology, people, and culture, where AI actually gets adopted. Cornell engineer, Harvard MBA, and a 2026 "100 Women in AI" honoree.
She began as an embedded software engineer at the CIA, went on to lead the agency's venture partnerships and commercial technology adoption strategy, and helped shape national AI policy alongside the White House. Today, pairing Cornell electrical-and-computer-engineering depth with a Harvard MBA and founder experience, she leads AI implementation where most enterprise efforts stall: the messy ground between vision and value. She co-founded LINGO, a STEM education company that reached more than 10,000 students, and is an International Strategy Forum Global Fellow.
- New Yorker
- Based in Washington, DC
- Black woman in AI
02 / The Thesis
Anyone can comment on AI. I'm the person who tells you whether it will actually land.
Why does technology get adopted, or not? The answer is rarely purely technical. It is about trust, cultural readiness, and whether institutions can absorb it. I have lived all three layers most people only theorize.
Technology
Cornell ECE, embedded-software roots, hands-on LLM deployment. I understand how the thing actually works.
People
First dedicated AI policy officer at the CIA, advisor to senior government leadership. I understand who decides to trust technology, and why.
Culture
Adoption inside the hardest, highest-stakes environments that exist. I treat culture as the real bottleneck, not an afterthought.
03 / Work & Experience
Palantir Technologies
Leading AI implementation where most enterprise efforts stall: the messy ground between vision and value.
Central Intelligence Agency
Shaped national AI policy alongside the White House, led venture partnerships and commercial technology adoption strategy, and built from an embedded-software foundation.
STEM education company reaching more than 10,000 students, democratizing access to technology.
04 / Recognition
Harvard Business School
Master of Business Administration
Cornell University
Electrical & Computer Engineering
05 / Field Notes
Coming soonField notes from inside the room, not thought-leadership wallpaper.
Essays and a newsletter on why technology actually gets adopted, written from the messy ground between vision and value. Arriving soon.
06 / Connect
Let's talk about what actually gets adopted.
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