Laura I. Gómez is a seasoned tech leader, advocate, and activist born in México and raised in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Her journey in the tech industry is unique to an undocumented youth, starting with a software engineering internship at Hewlett-Packard at the age of seventeen. She continued to carve her path, working at pioneering companies like YouTube and Twitter in the 2000s.

Her early experiences positioned her as a pioneer, breaking barriers as one of the first Latinas in consumer web tech. In 2014, she founded Atipica, a predictive AI platform for talent acquisition, raising a seed round of $4M - the largest for a solo Latinx founder in Silicon Valley at that time..

As a vocal proponent for Latinx representation in tech, Gómez co-founded Project Include in 2016, championing true inclusion in the tech sector. She remains a founding advisor, continuing her mission to foster diversity in the tech sector.

As an early speaker on responsible and ethical AI, she has had the privilege of speaking at prestigious events. This includes being the opening keynote speaker at the most prominent AI conference, NeurIPS, in 2018. She also shared the stage at the Women in the World final summit at New York's Lincoln Center, alongside influential figures like Oprah Winfrey and Stacey Abrams.

Amidst the pandemic in 2020, she founded a nonprofit, Proyecto Sol, to create safe spaces for Latinx people and allies. In 2023, she founded Cepanoa Health, a health tech startup tackling the $14 trillion costs of childhood adversity and trauma in the United States health system. She also serves on the Behavioral Health Commission and the Suicide Prevention Committee for San Mateo County. Her thought leadership is recognized with speaking invitations to LULAC (Summer 2024), Grace Hopper (Fall 2024), and attendance at Rock Health's Digital Health CEO Summit (Spring 2024).

Her experience has been highlighted in books such as Reset by Ellen Pao (2017), Inclusion on Purpose by Ruchika Tulshyan (2022), and the book by Greg Epstein, Harvard Chaplain, Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation (2024). She has also been featured in publications like WIRED, The New York Times, and Forbes México.

Based in Redwood City, California, her hometown, she enjoys going to her local libraries, cooking, hiking, reading, and spending time with her sisters, nieces, nephew, and pets.