Nishat Ruiter is the General Counsel and Secretary of TED Conferences, a nonprofit organization that believes passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives, and, ultimately, the world. Through creativity, and deep respect for TED's mission, Nishat's work is centered on ensuring that TED's legal requirements are met through a combination of practical and creative solutions that meets its needs, while still retaining the authentic TED voice where possible. She manages strategy for legal issues across the org, helps implement and develop trademark, privacy, AI risk management, and compliance policies company-wide, and addresses all corporate issues for TED Foundation including licensing TED content across the world in all forms of media, acquisitions, partnerships, real estate licensing, marketing, clearing TED talks, developing templates, training, and code of conduct issues within the company with HR and at conferences. Prior to TED, she worked for over 17 years as in-house counsel, and in private practice including working as Associate General Counsel at CA Technologies, a Fortune 500 software technology company as Head of the North American Sales legal department, advising on M&A with respect to integrating company operations for licensing, and advising on regulatory compliance issues for government sales, marketing, advertising, and social media.

Nishat served as a member of the Board for International School Services, a not-for-profit providing international schools and teachers global and education support, including diversity and leadership frameworks, and serves as a founding member of a grassroots not-for-profit One Hillsborough, aiming to build social fabric, advocacy, and equity in her town (one-hillsborough.org) She also serves on the editorial board of the London-based International In-house Counsel Journal. Nishat worked and travel in the Netherlands, holds a BA in Political Science from Rutgers and a JD from Widener Law School and was recently recognized as the first Alumni in Residence at the campus and hosted onsite workshops with professors and students to discuss the future of legal education and the importance of impact, values and ethics in a legal framework. Inspired by a Bahá’í perspective on things, she aims to build authentic paths of change in community, education and in legal curriculum where she can.

A product strategy leader focused on integrating AI into products, services, and workflows. Artificial Intelligence, in all of its forms, is the next great paradigm shift in how we interact with technology. I'm using 20 years of silicon valley experience in product, design, and strategy to help clients understand what's possible and create realizable value in their businesses.

Ken Button is Co-Founder and CEO of ContractSafe. He is a former general counsel and has 20+ years of experience founding, leading, investing in and advising growth companies. He and Randy co-founded ContractSafe based on their frustration in trying to find a good, easy-to-use contract organizer. They also previously co-founded Verengo Solar and grew it from a start-up to over $100 million in sales.

Previously, Ken served as a senior executive at ePolicy Solutions, which was sold to a subsidiary of ChoicePoint, and practiced law at O’Melveny & Myers and Winston & Strawn.

Ken is a member of Young Presidents Organization, and is on the Board of Advisors of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. He received a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law and an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley.