Argentina Beltran is the Founder & CEO of InclusifAI, a platform supporting underrepresented founders using AI for social good. With over 20 years of experience across corporate, nonprofit, and startup sectors, she’s helped build ecosystems where innovation and equity go hand in hand. Her work lives at the intersection of emotional intelligence, systems design, and cultural change — shaped by both boardroom experience and a deep commitment to community.

She’s also the author of What We Teach the Machines, Emotional Intelligence in an Artificially Intelligent World, a powerful exploration of how our emotional conditioning shapes the technologies we build — and how reclaiming our humanity is one of the most important design challenges of our time.

During this episode, we discuss:

• Argentina’s upbringing in the Philippines, coming from a family of entrepreneurs, before moving to Canada as an adult
• How she’s been in the innovation space for over two decades
• Her work has always in community
• Why the funding gap needs serious attention and how she prioritizes providing the right innovators with opportunities
• How the rise of AI made technology grow so fast
• We already have the resources and technology to resolve and address the important problems in the world but we’re choosing not to
• The importance of community in the startup world
• How non-technical founders can adopt AI
• Advice for building a community if you don’t have one yet
• The book she recently published
• Her shoutout to Amandipp Singh from Enabled Talent

And more. Tune into this episode as we dive into all things AI!