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2021 Keynotes and Featured Speakers

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Aparna Bawa

Chief Operating Officer & Interim Chief Legal Officer at Zoom

Aparna brings to Zoom an expertise in building operations and infrastructure for rapidly growing technology companies. She serves as our Chief Operating Officer. Prior to this, she was our Chief Legal Officer. Most recently before Zoom, she was SVP, General Counsel for Magento Commerce, which was acquired by Adobe in 2018. Prior to Magento, Aparna…

Haben Girma

Keynote Speaker - Human Rights Lawyer and Author

Haben is the first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School and is a human rights lawyer advancing disability justice. She was named a White House Champion of Change by President Obama, and is a recipient of the Helen Keller Achievement Award. Haben believes disability is an opportunity for innovation and has dedicated her…

Kara Swisher

Keynote - Host, Sway and Contributing Opinion Writer, The New York Times; Co-Host, Pivot, New York Media

Kara Swisher is the host of “Sway,” the new twice-weekly interview podcast about power by New York Times Opinion. She has been a contributing Opinion writer since 2018. Over her career, Ms. Swisher has hosted hundreds of news making interviews, going head-to-head with prominent figures including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Rupert Murdoch, Stacey Abrams, Kim…

Layshia Clarendon

Keynote - WNBA Basketball Player and Advocate

Selected #9 overall in the 2013 WNBA Draft, Layshia is currently the point guard for the Minnesota Lynx. Recently re-elected to a second term as WNBPA Vice President she helped negotiate a groundbreaking CBA Agreement that will serve as a bedrock for women’s professional sports leagues moving forward. A current member of both 5×5 and…

2020 Keynotes and Featured Speakers

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Serena Williams

Opening Keynote

Serena Williams exemplifies courage, beauty, power, and style, and she has overcome insurmountable odds to win 23 career Grand Slams. Her remarkable tennis achievements combined with her off-court success in fashion and philanthropy, as well as her status as a strategic partner and investor, make her one of the most recognizable global icons in the…

Megan Rapinoe

Closing Keynote

Co-captain of the US Women’s National Team and two-time World Cup Champion, Megan Rapinoe is an inspiring leader who most recently led the USWNT to the 2019 Women’s World Cup win. Megan is also a vocal advocate for equality for all and has been able to intersect her passion for humanity and authenticity by creating…

Marian Croak

Keynote Speaker

VP, Site Reliability Engineering, Google

Marian Croak is the Vice President of Site Reliability Engineering for Ads, Corporate Engineering and YouTube, at Google, Inc. Marian joined Google in late 2014 after retiring from AT&T as an SVP responsible for advanced research and innovation and designing and developing one of the world’s largest wireless and broadband networks. She managed over 2,000…

Dr. Lisa Su

Technical Leadership Abie Award

2019 Keynotes and Featured Speakers

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Aicha Evans

Keynote Speaker

Chief Executive Officer, Zoox

Aicha Evans, Chief Executive Officer at Zoox, is reimagining mobility in dense urban environments and redefining the customer experience through the creation of the first purpose-built, fully autonomous electric vehicle. Prior to joining Zoox, Aicha served as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Intel Corporation, driving the company’s strategy to transform from a…

Erin MacLeod

Featured Speaker Panelist

Senior Director for Product and Privacy Counsel, Ancestry

Erin MacLeod is a Senior Director at Ancestry, the global leader in family history and consumer genomics, where she leads a team of lawyers supporting Product and advises on privacy and regulatory matters, product development, commercial transactions, and intellectual property. Previously, she was a Director of Legal at Wind River, an embedded software company, while…

Tal Niv

Featured Speaker Panelist

Vice President of Law & Policy, GitHub

Tal Niv is the Vice President of Legal & Policy at GitHub. In her role she is responsible for the legal, community moderation, and public policy teams — working to advocate with policy makers for balanced rules and regulations that promotes software and software developers’ ability to learn, build tools together, and innovate. Of particular…

Marie Wieck

Featured Speaker Panelist

General Manager, IBM Blockchain

In her more than 25 years with IBM, Marie Wieck has held a variety of technical and executive roles in IBM’s hardware, software, and services units. She is passionate about innovation from diverse teams and driving business impact from new technologies. In January 2017, Marie was named into her current position as General Manager of…

2018 Keynotes and Featured Speakers

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Justine Cassell

2018 Speaker

Associate Dean of Technology Strategy and Impact Carnegie Mellon

Justine Cassell is the Associate Dean of Technology Strategy and Impact at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, and the Director Emerita of the Human Computer Interaction Institute. She co-directs the Yahoo-CMU InMind partnership on the future of personal assistants. Previously, Justine was a member of faculty at Northwestern University where she founded the Technology…

Jessica O. Matthews

Founder & CEO, Uncharted Power

Keynote Speaker

Jessica O. Matthews is the Founder & CEO of Uncharted Power, an award-winning renewable power company that specializes in harnessing the energy from motion to create entire ecosystems of power for communities around the world. The company was founded by Jessica when she was only 22 years old. Jessica was invited to the White House…

Padmasree Warrior

CEO & Chief Development Officer, NIO U.S.

Keynote Speaker

Padmasree Warrior is the CEO & Chief Development Officer of NIO U.S. She also serves as the Chief Development Officer of NIO and is a member of its board of directors. She is responsible for the brains of NIO’s autonomous, electric vehicles, as well as the overall user experience. Previously, Padmasree served as the Chief…

Joy Buolamwini

Featured Speaker

Joy Buolamwini is a computer scientist and poet of code who uses art and research to illuminate the social implications of artificial intelligence. She founded the Algorithmic Justice League to create a world with more equitable and accountable technology. Her TED Featured Talk on algorithmic bias has over 1 million views. Her MIT thesis methodology…

2017 Keynotes and Featured Speakers

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Dr. Deborah Berebichez

Keynote Speaker
Chief Data Scientist, Metis
Co-host, “Outrageous Acts of Science”

Maureen Fan

Keynote Speaker
CEO and Co-founder, Baobab Studios

Melinda Gates

Keynote Speaker
Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Ayanna Howard

2014 Winner of the Grace Hopper Celebration A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award

2016 Keynotes and Featured Speakers

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Ginni Rometty

Wednesday Keynote
President and CEO, IBM
Chairman, IBM Board of Directors.

Latanya Sweeney

Wednesday Keynote
Professor, Harvard University
Editor-in-Chief, Technology Science
Director and founder, Data Privacy Lab

Marc Benioff

Friday Keynote
Chairman and CEO, Salesforce

Megan Smith

Wednesday Afternoon Plenary Speaker
Chief Technology Officer, United States of America

2015 Keynotes and Featured Speakers

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Hilary Mason

Wednesday Keynote
Founder, Fast Forward Labs

Clara Shih

Wednesday Afternoon Plenary
CEO & Founder, Hearsay Social

Manuela M. Veloso

Friday Keynote
Herbert A. Simon University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Janet George

Friday Afternoon Plenary
Fellow & Chief Data Scientist – Big Data and cognitive computing, SanDisk