Fernando Dominguez Pinuaga shares his journey from energy systems to Google X, where he learned to think in true moonshot scale before joining SandboxAQ. At the crossroads of AI and quantum physics, he leads initiatives that are redefining cybersecurity and scientific computing.He explains how adversaries are already stealing encrypted information today through store-now, decrypt-later attacks — making quantum-era risk a current problem, not a future one. Fernando outlines the path toward crypto-agility, encryption inventorying, and modernization strategies that governments, banks, and enterprises must now adopt.Beyond security, he highlights the rise of physics-based AI models capable of accelerating breakthroughs in drug discovery, materials science, energy systems, and financial modeling — areas where classical AI struggles. Fernando frames this moment as the beginning of a new computational era, where quantum principles and AI jointly shape the next industrial wave.

Lauren Freund has spent the last few years inside her dream company, leading social media and influencer marketing at Canva. She describes why traditional influencer playbooks—optimizing for follower counts and reach—are increasingly outdated, and why she now screens creators for deep engagement, relevance, and the ability to truly carry Canva’s message. For her, the messenger is as important as the message, and influencer feedback is anchored in objectives and CTAs, not rewriting their voice. On the brand side, she runs every idea through a simple but demanding filter: why share and why care—why the company should post it, and why the audience would genuinely care. From there, she uses each platform’s “success signals,” like shares/saves or time-on-post, to decide when to use video and when carousels outperform. Lauren closes by reflecting on working at a product she genuinely loves and how the ever-changing worlds of social and AI keep the work exciting and experimental.#20MinuteLeaders #SocialMediaStrategy #InfluencerMarketing #CreatorEconomy

Coming from years of manual social monitoring in marketing roles, Anya Law saw how expensive and ineffective traditional social listening was for startups. Meeting her co-founder at Atlanta Tech Village, she joined PitchGhost to transform a simple Twitter scraper into a full prompt-based, actionable social listening platform. The team discovered their ICP through trial and error—moving from solo founders to multi-person GTM teams who needed context-aware posts, sentiment filters, and response automation. With LinkedIn support as a major differentiator, PitchGhost is now expanding integrations, APIs, and CRM workflows to become a core part of the modern RevOps stack. Anya’s story is one of solving her own pain, refining personas, and building a tool that helps teams act—not just monitor.

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