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Shensi
Ding
CEO & Co-founder
Merge
Shensi Ding is the co-founder and CEO of Merge, the leading provider of agentic tools, customer-facing integrations, and internal workforce AI management for frontier LLMs, Fortune 500 organizations, and B2B SaaS companies. Prior to founding Merge, Shensi served as the Chief of Staff at Expanse (acquired by Palo Alto Networks) and worked in investment banking at Credit Suisse and Silver Lake. A graduate of Columbia University, Shensi currently lives and works in New York City.
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29 October 2026 11:30 - 12:00
Product Thinking for Workforce AI: Designing AI Experiences that Work with Employees
Many AI programs treat employee experience as an afterthought to cost and risk. Shensi Ding, co-founder and CEO of Merge, argues it should come first. Just like in product design, well-designed tools change how people work. In this session, she will discuss how to apply principles of product design to build workforce AI that removes friction for employees and helps them achieve better outcomes with AI, while protecting the business from security risks and runaway spend. Drawing on Merge's expertise in building great products and helping enterprises with AI transformation, Shensi will share a product-thinking framework for designing effortless and delightful employee AI experiences, securely and at scale.