Stephanie Sylvestre

Meet Stephanie Sylvestre, CEO / Co-Founder of Avatar Buddy—a technologist, entrepreneur, and founder who's convinced the smartest thing about AI is the human using it. For more than a decade, she's been building technology that amplifies people instead of replacing them, and she hasn't wavered once.

As co-founder and CEO of Avatar Buddy, Stephanie creates digital twins: AI versions of real people, grounded in a private data vault so they stay accurate and resist the hallucinations that make people distrust AI. In her hands, that means a retired legislator whose twin can walk you through the bills she passed, an investor whose hard-won advice is available at 2 a.m. without ever bruising your ego, and everyday people whose stories, worldviews, and wisdom can be preserved for their grandchildren's grandchildren. It's mentorship on demand, legacy that outlasts a lifetime, and history kept in the hands of the people who actually lived it.

Her path runs through corporate leadership, nonprofit innovation, and now AI entrepreneurship — but the belief underneath it never changes. Stephanie champions the deeply human skills that no model can replicate: resilience, creativity, resourcefulness, problem-solving, and critical thinking. She believes AI, built with care, can help people be the best, most confident version of themselves.

She brings the whole subject to life with real stories and a contagious sense of possibility. Because even in the age of artificial intelligence, Stephanie's bet is simple: the most powerful force is still the human mind.