Barbara Widholm is Vice President of Emerging Technology Strategy & AI Governance at State Street Investment Management, with over 15 years of experience across financial services and technology. Her career spans digital product development, AI, and quantum computing, and today she leads work at the intersection of emerging technology adoption, AI governance, and enterprise strategy — from AI governance frameworks and agentic systems to emerging platform and security risk. She works closely with senior technology and business stakeholders to translate innovation into practical, defensible strategy, bringing a perspective that bridges the technical and the strategic. Barbara holds an MSc in Data Science and a certificate in Quantum Computing from MIT. A strong advocate for peer-driven, practitioner-level dialogue among leaders navigating the same fast-moving challenges, she is drawn to the Kodi Connect community and its emphasis on quality, candid exchange.