Gloo in Palo Alto
5:30 PM
$50
What to Expect
In the age of AI, success requires more than technical skill and raw intelligence. It requires EPIQ skills—the powerful harmony of EQ and IQ. This talk explores why emotional intelligence is a critical advantage for all leaders and professionals, driving better decisions, stronger collaboration, greater resilience, and more human-centered innovation. As AI automates more and more work, the people who stand out will pair technical acumen with emotional intelligence.
Featured Guests
Rich Hua
Chief EQ Evangelist and Worldwide Head of EPIC at Amazon
Rich Hua is a global leader in architecting emotionally intelligent, innovation-driven cultures at scale. As Chief EQ Evangelist and Worldwide Head of EPIC at Amazon, he built the world’s largest corporate EQ community of practice, engaging 70,000 members across the company. He has worked with senior executives at some of the world’s most recognized organizations—including NVIDIA, Oracle, Johnson & Johnson, BMW, and Capital One—and has influenced the mindset and behavior of 1.5 million leaders and professionals worldwide.
Rich also advised the Amazon Alexa team on integrating emotional intelligence into Alexa+, contributing to an AI assistant embedded in more than 600 million devices. His pioneering work has been featured in Forbes, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and AWS Executive Insights.
Today, as CEO of EPIQ Leadership Group, Rich helps leaders harmonize EQ with IQ—what he calls the EPIQ skill set—to build organizations where high performance and high humanity thrive together.
