Adriann Guy
Adriann Guy is a technologist, nonprofit founder, and emerging tech ecosystem architect, building equity-first pathways into AI/ML, Blockchain, & XR/AR/VR. She is the Founder and Executive Director of CreateHER Fest, a 501(c)(3) that uses technical learning series, idea-thons, and hackathons to help women and underrepresented communities become confident builders, impactful contributors, and ethical industry advocates. Through initiatives like their #75HER Challenge, CybHER Challenge and more, CreateHER Fest is designing both education and infrastructure for innovators across 80+ countries, and pioneering the .HER decentralized identity (DID) initiative to amplify women’s visibility, ownership and impact on-chain.
By trade, Adriann is an engineer whose career has spanned health tech to federal government, where she's led work in cloud governance, security, automation, and technical training. Recognized as a Forbes-featured leader in AI and Blockchain, a 2025 Unstoppable Women in Web3 & AI Awards honoree, and a Women Techmakers Ambassador, she holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Villanova University with a minor in Engineering Entrepreneurship.
Adriann speaks at universities, conferences, and community forums on ethical and socially responsible tech, cybersecurity as a shared responsibility, and what it looks like to build equity-first innovation ecosystems that center change makers impacting the high value problems of the future they’re helping to build.
By trade, Adriann is an engineer whose career has spanned health tech to federal government, where she's led work in cloud governance, security, automation, and technical training. Recognized as a Forbes-featured leader in AI and Blockchain, a 2025 Unstoppable Women in Web3 & AI Awards honoree, and a Women Techmakers Ambassador, she holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Villanova University with a minor in Engineering Entrepreneurship.
Adriann speaks at universities, conferences, and community forums on ethical and socially responsible tech, cybersecurity as a shared responsibility, and what it looks like to build equity-first innovation ecosystems that center change makers impacting the high value problems of the future they’re helping to build.
