Jean Alfonso-Decena is the founder of In Silence AI, a virtual ashram that provides resources to study and embody the symbiosis of spirituality and technology. She is a 2x startup founder and tech product builder, global tech leader, serial speaker, yoga teacher and mentor currently based in Kyoto, Japan. Born and raised in Manila, Philippines, Jean spent over 15 years traveling extensively for a simultaneous deep spiritual studies and big tech journey, building and running globally-distributed, cross-functional tech teams and businesses across Asia, the US, and Europe for Silicon Valley tech startups.

Jean is a pioneer AI Trainer and Conversational AI Designer when the space was still nascent, evolving into an executive leadership role, co-designing and co-building AI-powered virtual assistants for a Berkeley-based, Google award-winning AI fintech startup. Simultaneously, Jean is certified to teach and guide people into Hatha and Trauma-informed yoga, meditation, and whole-food plant-based nutrition. She traveled through the Mojave Desert, Rhinebeck in NY, Central, and Southeast Asia, and several cities in the US, to pursue her inward journey into Self followed by 10 days of deep, utter silence in a remote monastery in Sri Lanka and Rishikesh, India. 

Jean continues to marry the two worlds of spirituality and technology in speaking at global AI and tech events, coaching, mentoring, and training organizations, universities, and individuals including mentoring at NYC, training an Ivy League university's faculty on Data Science, and speaking at a TEDx event in Japan. Jean has also been certified in Web3 to meld various domains of deep technology and anchor them into a spiritual foundation to help uplift human consciousness and build ethical AI. She's recently joined an AI Research Lab providing executive support to the director, learning about the scientific bases and foundations of intelligence through Artificial Life and Ethical AI.

Learn more about Jean and her work here.