vGHC 21 Speakers

vGHC 21 Speakers
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MC, Guest, Keynotes & Featured Speakers

Ambassador Susan Rice

Ambassador Susan Rice

Domestic Policy Advisor to President Biden

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Ambassador Susan E. Rice is the Domestic Policy Advisor in the Biden Administration. As Director of the Domestic Policy Council, she coordinates the formulation and implementation of ... Learn more

Aparna Bawa

Aparna Bawa

Chief Operating Officer & Interim Chief Legal Officer at Zoom

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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 wa... Learn more

Brenda Darden Wilkerson

Brenda Darden Wilkerson

President and CEO, AnitaB.org

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Brenda Darden Wilkerson is a pioneering thought leader and an advocate for access, opportunity, and social justice for underrepresented communities in technology. She currently serves... Learn more

Caroline Wanga

Caroline Wanga

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ESSENCE; Chief Growth Officer for ESSENCE Ventures

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Caroline A. Wanga is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ESSENCE, the number one media, technology and commerce company dedicated to Black women and communities. She also serves as C... Learn more

Cleo Wade

Cleo Wade

Keynote - Writer, Poet, and a New York Times Best-Selling Author

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Cleo Wade is a writer, poet, and the New York Times Best-selling author of What The Road Said, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life, and Where To Begin: A Small Book about Your... Learn more

Deb Liu

Deb Liu

President & CEO of Ancestry

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Deb Liu joined Ancestry in March 2021 as President & CEO and a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Prior to joining Ancestry, Deb was a senior executive at Facebook wher... Learn more

Diane Jurgens

Diane Jurgens

Chief Information Office (CIO) The Walt Disney Company

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Diane Jurgens serves as the EVP and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for The Walt Disney Company, leading a global technology organization that includes enterprise business systems, in... Learn more

Haben Girma

Haben Girma

Keynote Speaker - Human Rights Lawyer and Author

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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 Pr... Learn more

Jeanne Sparrow

Jeanne Sparrow

Master of Ceremonies (MC) - 7-Time Emmy-Winning Television and Radio Personality

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Jeanne Sparrow is renowned speaker, top consultant and 7-time Emmy-winning television and radio personality. She is also a graduate faculty instructor at Northwestern University. Jean... Learn more

Jen Easterly

Jen Easterly

Keynote Speaker - Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

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Jen Easterly is the Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Ms. Easterly was nominated by President Biden in April... Learn more

Justine Ezarik

Justine Ezarik

AKA iJustine, Tech & Digital Creator

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A Streamy Award winner, Justine Ezarik aka iJustine is one of the top female personalities online with over 13.5M social fans. She was named one of the Hollywood Reporters 50 most pow... Learn more

Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher

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

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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 c... Learn more

Layshia Clarendon

Layshia Clarendon

Keynote - WNBA Basketball Player and Advocate

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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 negoti... Learn more

Margaret Gould Stewart

Margaret Gould Stewart

Vice President, Product Design & Responsible Innovation
Facebook

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Margaret Gould Stewart is Vice President of Product Design & Responsible Innovation at Facebook. Margaret established Facebook’s central Responsible Innovation team in 2018 to p... Learn more

Payal Kadakia

Payal Kadakia

Featured Speaker - Executive Chairman & Founder of ClassPass and the Artistic Director of The Sa Dance Company.  

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Payal is the Executive Chairman & Founder of ClassPass and the Artistic Director of The Sa Dance Company. Payal has been a “dancetrepreneur” since the age of 3 when she starte... Learn more

Timnit Gebru

Timnit Gebru

Engineer. Scientist. Advocate.

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We are proud to announce Timnit Gebru will be a Keynote Speaker at Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration. Timnit’s research focuses on ethics, accountability, and transparency in the fie... Learn more

Vanessa Pappas

Vanessa Pappas

Keynote - Chief Operating Officer of TikTok

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Vanessa Pappas oversees the strategic business direction and growth of TikTok’s global operations, including content, marketing, user growth, and product. The TikTok platform ha... Learn more

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Abie Award Winners

Dr. Nuria Oliver

Dr. Nuria Oliver

Technical Leadership Abie Award Winner

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Award Description: The Technical Leadership Abie Award is our most prestigious award and celebrates a woman who led or developed a product, process, or innovation that made a notable ... Learn more

Ainura Sagyn

Ainura Sagyn

Student of Vision Abie Award Winner

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Award Description: The Student of Vision Abie Award recognizes and celebrates an undergraduate or graduate student who has a unique vision of how technology innovation can solve impo... Learn more

Lisa Hauser

Lisa Hauser

Educational Innovation Abie Award Winner

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Award Description: The Educational Innovation Abie Award in Honor of A. Richard Newton recognizes educators for developing innovative teaching practices and approaches that attract fe... Learn more

Eden Canlilar

Eden Canlilar

Emerging Technologist Abie Award Winner

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Award Description: The Emerging Technologist Abie Award is an award that highlights the creative ways women in technology confront problems and seek solutions. We want to celebrate wo... Learn more

Dr. Dieuwertje Kast

Dr. Dieuwertje Kast

Social Impact Abie Award Winner

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Award Description: The Social Impact Abie Award recognizes those making a positive impact on society, via technology. Nominees may have developed technology that caused social change ... Learn more

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Our Speakers

Kainat Abbasi

Kainat Abbasi

Undergraduate Student
Habib University

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At the time of acceptance, Kainat had been studying as an undergraduate student at Habib University, Pakistan pursuing a major in Computer Science. She has an extensive experience of ... Learn more

Masoumeh Abolfathi

Masoumeh Abolfathi

Research Assistant
University of Colorado, Denver

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My name is Masoumeh Abolfathi. I am a third-year Ph.D. student in computer science and information systems at CU Denver. My research area is data-driven cybersecurity. I try to propos... Learn more

Natalie Abreu

Natalie Abreu

Student
University of Southern California

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Natalie Abreu is a junior studying Computer Science at the University of Southern California. Her main areas of interest lie in ML and CS theory, and she works in the Automatic Coordi... Learn more

Bonnie Achee

Bonnie Achee

Instructor
Southeastern Louisiana University

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Dr. Achee is an Instructor in the Department of Computer Science at Southeastern Louisiana University. Additionally, she serves as Director of the Lion’s Code Coding Camp, a sum... Learn more

Shreya Agarwal

Shreya Agarwal

Founder, SelfBest

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She is an entrepreneur and founder of Selfbest Inc. She started her first business when she was just nine years old. A few years later, she tackled her next product as a product manag... Learn more

Kate Agnew

Kate Agnew

Sr. Director of Software Engineering, Optum

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Kate Agnew is a Senior Director of Software Engineering at Optum, where she began in 2017 on a team tasked with modernizing and introducing scalable technologies to healthcare. Now ma... Learn more

Tolu Akinyosoye

Tolu Akinyosoye

Vice President, Goldman Sachs

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Tolu Akinyosoye is a solutions architect and engineering manager at Goldman Sachs. She has built a software engineering career over the past 12 years, delivering creative solutions to... Learn more

Derya Akleman

Derya Akleman

Instructional Associate Professor
Texas A&M University

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Dr. Derya G. Akleman is an instructional associate professor of statistics at Texas A&M University and Assistant Dean for diversity and college climate in the Texas A&M Coll... Learn more

Gilda Alvarez

Gilda Alvarez

Manager, Deloitte

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Gilda has 20 years of experience in Enterprise Information Technology for several Fortune 500 companies. She specializes in database administration, database security, implementation,... Learn more

Minymoh Anelone

Minymoh Anelone

Software Engineer, Microsoft

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Minymoh Anelone is a Software Engineer on the Mixed Reality team at Microsoft. Her team builds the services that establish identities, context, and trust required for real-time collab... Learn more

Madhulekha Arun

Madhulekha Arun

Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning
LinkedIn

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Madhu Arun is a senior software engineer in the Feed AI foundations team at LinkedIn and works on improving candidate selection algorithm / first pass ranker for organic content in fe... Learn more

Aarti Ashok

Aarti Ashok

Sr Manager, PayPal

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Aarti Ashok is a Sr Manager in PayPal’s World Ready team where she has been overseeing the building and enterprise wide roll-out of a technology framework to build inclusive product... Learn more

Shubhi Asthana

Shubhi Asthana

Senior Research Software Engineer, IBM

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Shubhi Asthana is a Senior Research Software engineer at IBM Research, Almaden. She performs research and development in the area of Cloud Services & Analytics.... Learn more

Neveen Awad

Neveen Awad

Managing Director & Partner, DigitalBCG

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Neveen Awad is a Managing Director and Partner at the Boston Consulting Group. She is a core member of the Technology Advantage leadership team. She focuses on how digital, data, and ... Learn more

Hava Babay-Adi

Hava Babay-Adi

Software Engineer & Tech Lead, Google

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Hava is a tech lead and full-stack software engineer. She has been working at Google for the past 4 years. During that time, she has led, designed and implemented several migration pr... Learn more

Mahroo Bahreinian

Mahroo Bahreinian

PhD Student, Boston University

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4th-year PhD student working on Motion Planning and Control, former data scientist intern at iRobot.... Learn more

Nada Baili

Nada Baili

PhD Student, University of Louisville

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I am a first year PhD student in Computer science. I also work as a research assistant at University of Louisville. I earned a bachelor degree in mathematics and computer science from... Learn more

Pranjali Bakeri

Pranjali Bakeri

Principal Engineer, Sambanova Systems

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Pranjali Bakeri comes from a tenured background in designing and implementing chipsets. She feels lucky to have an opportunity to join Sambanova in its very early stages and make a me... Learn more

Ani Balasubramaniam

Ani Balasubramaniam

Principal AI Engineer, Microsoft

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I’m a woman Software Engineer with ~20 years of professional experience whose passion and hobby is programming. I’ve programmed in assembly language on an 8086, written HPC co... Learn more

Lena Banks

Lena Banks

Senior Software Engineer, Handshake

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Based in Denver, CO, Lena is passionate about translating DE&I principles into technical architecture. She is a Senior Software Engineer at Handshake, an early talent recruiting ... Learn more

Hazel Barker

Hazel Barker

Colleague Support Engineer, VMware

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Hazel Barker, a self-taught technologist, joined the VMware family in May 2016. She is currently a Support Engineer/Project Coordinator and global Welcome Ambassador for Black @VMware... Learn more

Simona Bateman

Simona Bateman

Senior Software Engineer, Google

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Simona is a software engineer passionate about making developers’ lives easier by identifying bottlenecks and building useful tools. She worked in a variety of roles across startups... Learn more

Amelia Bauer

Amelia Bauer

Senior Manager, Emerging Technology Lab, PwC

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Amelia is a Manager at PwC’s Advisory Emerging Tech Lab. She designs interactive experiences which illustrate the various applications of emerging technology and educates clients on... Learn more

Laleh Behjat

Laleh Behjat

Professor, University of Calgary

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Dr. Laleh Behjat is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Cana... Learn more

Rose-Gaelle Belinga

Rose-Gaelle Belinga

Software Engineer, Morgan Stanley

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Having held several tech roles at Morgan Stanley throughout 9 years, Rose-Gaëlle leads the IMPACT Tech Philanthropy program, while implementing internal Augmented Reality apps, in ad... Learn more

Tanaya Bhagwat

Tanaya Bhagwat

Network Consulting Engineer, Cisco

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I am Tanaya working as a Network Consulting Engineer in Cisco Systems, Bangalore. My interest lies in Networking , IOT and Data Science domains. I’m a Devnet Associate and a Cis... Learn more

Smriti Bhatt

Smriti Bhatt

Assistant Professor, Purdue University

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Smriti Bhatt received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology... Learn more

Elodie Billionniere

Elodie Billionniere

Senior Associate Professor, Miami Dade College

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Elodie Billionniere, Senior Associate Professor at Miami Dade College, has helped her college secure over $2.2 million in federal funding the past three years for STEM and emerging te... Learn more

Nina Bendel

Nina Bendel

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo

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As a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and the University of Waterloo, Canada, Dr. Nina Bindel researches how to maintain Internet security in the futur... Learn more

Melody Biringer

Melody Biringer

Founder, Women in Tech Regatta

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Melody Biringer is a self-proclaimed “connection engineer,” a serial entrepreneur who has built a career around building communities for women to thrive. She is the founder of the... Learn more

Jhilam Biswas

Jhilam Biswas

Customer Engineer, Google

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Jhilam Biswas is a Customer Engineering Lead at Google Cloud, helping enterprise customers build and migrate their infrastructure, data and application stack onto the Google Cloud Pla... Learn more

Steve Blackburn

Steve Blackburn

Professor of Computer Science
Australian National University

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Steve Blackburn is a professor of Computer Science at the Australian National University. From 2017-2019 he served as Associate Dean, Diversity and Inclusion at the College of Enginee... Learn more

Brianna Blaser

Brianna Blaser

Project Manager, AccessComputing

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Brianna Blaser is the Associate Director for AccessComputing, a national alliance that works to increase the participation of people with disabilities based at the University of Washi... Learn more

Lanae Blethen Kawa

Lanae Blethen Kawa

Architecture Advisor, Cigna

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Lanae BK has been a software engineer at Cigna since 2016. She got her start in coding by writing Sailor Moon fansites on GeoCities. She is an avid advocate for building strong cultur... Learn more

Veronica Bratland

Veronica Bratland

MS Student, Universtiy of Illinois at Chicago

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Veronica Bratland is a MS student at the department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interest lies in developing innovative wearable te... Learn more

Thiago Briquet Lacerda

Thiago Briquet Lacerda

Head of Product Management, Privacy, Intuit

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Thiago Lacerda is Intuit’s Privacy Product Management Leader, where he drives the company’s data privacy product vision and roadmap with the goal of providing users with transpare... Learn more

Gwendolyn Britton

Gwendolyn Britton

VP, Product Strategy
Southern New Hampshire University

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Dr. Britton has 25+ years in both private industry and academia. Dr. Britton is a strong advocate of women in technical fields. As such, she and her team have taken a group of both un... Learn more

A.J. Brush

A.J. Brush

Group Program Manager, Microsoft

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A.J. Bernheim Brush’s area of expertise is Human-Computer Interaction with a focus on Ubiquitous Computing. Part of the Microsoft Cortana product group since January 2016, she s... Learn more

Jennifer Burchfield

Jennifer Burchfield

Animation Supervisor, The Walt Disney Company

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Jennifer Burchfield is the Animation Supervisor for the Real-time team at Disney Television Animation (DTVA). With a vast love for all things animation, her career in the field has le... Learn more

Jamika Burge

Jamika Burge

Design Executive & Tech Founder
Capital One / blackcomputeHER.org

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Dr. Jamika D. Burge is an authority in research and programming that explores the intersectionality of Black women and girls in computing and design, which led her to co-found blackco... Learn more

Anissa Burton

Anissa Burton

Vice President, BI Competency Center
Wells Fargo Technology

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Anissa Burton is a Technology Business Services Sr. Associate at Wells Fargo and has worked in the financial services industry for over 18 years. She is a leader on the Women’s Team... Learn more

Lexi B

Lexi B

Founder Sista Circle: Black Women in Tech

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Alexandria Noel Butler, affectionately known as Lexi B, is a professional storyteller, thought-leader, and self-proclaimed “freedom fighter”. Regarded as one of Silicon Valley’s... Learn more

Eden Canlilar

Eden Canlilar

Emerging Technologist Abie Award Winner

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Award Description: The Emerging Technologist Abie Award is an award that highlights the creative ways women in technology confront problems and seek solutions. We want to celebrate wo... Learn more

Sheng Lun Christine Cao

Sheng Lun Christine Cao

Master of Science Student, University of Calgary

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Christine Cao is a Master of Science student at the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on applying circuitry optimiza... Learn more

Christina Carlson

Christina Carlson

Senior Director, Target

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Chris Carlson has a MS in Chemical Engineering and a MS in Computer Science. She started her career at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where she helped build two spaceflight instrum... Learn more

Robin Carnahan

Robin Carnahan

Administrator of the General Services Administration
General Services Administration

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Robin Carnahan currently serves as the Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). As Administrator, she is working to empower GSA career professionals and build ... Learn more

Vanya Chary

Vanya Chary

Solutions Engineer, Facebook Inc.

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Vanya Chary is a Solutions Engineer in the Applied Research and Development Team at Facebook, Inc. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University where she received her Masters in El... Learn more

Joyce Chen

Joyce Chen

Sr. Director of Engineering, Nordstrom

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Joyce has worked in the software industry for more than 25 years and has extensive experience building software and leading teams through change. She joined Nordstrom in 2018, spearhe... Learn more

Shanthini Chetlur-Kannan

Shanthini Chetlur-Kannan

Product Development, Manager Curtiss-Wright

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Shanthini has almost 20 years of experience in the field of embedded computing. Shanthini has worked across various applications like automotive, medical devices, semi-conductor, defe... Learn more

Layshia Clarendon

Layshia Clarendon

Keynote - WNBA Basketball Player and Advocate

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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 negoti... Learn more

Allan Cook

Allan Cook

Managing Director, Deloitte

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Allan is Deloitte’s Digital Reality Business Leader and is working with clients to develop and implement their strategies, pilots and technology solutions in VR, AR, MR, 360, sp... Learn more

D’Yanna Craighead

D’Yanna Craighead

Senior Manager, Technology
The Walt Disney Company

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D’Yanna Craighead is a senior technology manager with over 20 years of technology experience at various large corporations. With a background in software engineering, business analy... Learn more

Kristen Csenkey

Kristen Csenkey

Ph.D., Candidate Balsillie School of International Affairs

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Kristen Csenkey is a PhD Candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada. Her research focuses on the management of innovation and emerging technologies... Learn more

Zeesha Currimbhoy

Zeesha Currimbhoy

Senior Engineering Manager, LinkedIn

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Zeesha Currimbhoy is currently a Senior Engineering Manager at LinkedIn. With her decade of managerial experience, she builds and leads engineering teams that are responsible for the ... Learn more

Shaundra Daily

Shaundra Daily

Professor of Practice, Duke University

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Shaundra B. Daily is a professor of practice in electrical and computer engineering & computer science at Duke University. Prior to joining Duke, she was an associate professor at... Learn more

Kamini Dandapani

Kamini Dandapani

Director of Engineering, Infrastructure, Airbnb, Inc.

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Kamini is a Director of Engineering at Airbnb. Her team is responsible for developing tools and infrastructure to enable continuous development and deployment. She also leads the sear... Learn more

Maryam Daniali

Maryam Daniali

PhD Candidate, Drexel University

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Maryam Daniali is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Drexel University. She is broadly interested in providing robust machine learning models to bias and under specification. He... Learn more

Siobahn Day Grady

Siobahn Day Grady

Assistant Professor
North Carolina Central University

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Dr. Siobahn Day Grady is an assistant professor of information systems at North Carolina Central University in the School of Library and Information Sciences. She is the first woman C... Learn more

Laura Deaner

Laura Deaner

Chief Information Security Officer
Northwestern Mutual

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Laura Deaner is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Northwestern Mutual, a Financial Services company. She leads the Cybersecurity and Risk Management team while spearhea... Learn more

Sthiti Deka

Sthiti Deka

Principal Engineer, SambaNova Systems

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Sthiti Deka is a Principal Engineer and also an early team member at SambaNova Systems. She works on the performance analysis of ML models. Before SambaNova, she worked at Intel on th... Learn more

Michaela Miki Demeter

Michaela Miki Demeter

Security Researcher, Intel

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Miki’s career has encompassed everything from firmware to application space. Her last eight years have had Security focus as a Security Researcher for Intel, working on Secure Devel... Learn more

Amalia Dempsey

Amalia Dempsey

Senior Manager - Software Engineering
TransUnion

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A leader and Women in Technology advocate, Amy Dempsey is currently a Senior Manager at TransUnion for Marketing Solutions. She has vast experience working with the backend engineerin... Learn more

Liesbeth Dingemans

Liesbeth Dingemans

Head of AI Strategy and Innovation Projects
Prosus/Naspers

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Hans Dockter

Hans Dockter

CEO, Gradle Inc.

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Hans is the founder and project lead of the Gradle build system and the CEO of Gradle Inc., a company with the mission to transform developer productivity. Hans is a thought leader in... Learn more

TiAuna Dodd

TiAuna Dodd

DevOps Engineer, NBA

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Tia Dodd is a creative technologist who is passionate about cultivating tech-life balance in a digital world. In 2018, Tia graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering from Howard ... Learn more

Ruo-Ping Dong

Ruo-Ping Dong

Machine Learning Engineer, Unity

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Ruo-Ping Dong is a Machine Learning Engineer at Unity working on the ML-Agents toolkit. Her work focuses on developing machine learning tools for training intelligent agents, includin... Learn more

Amanda Drew

Amanda Drew

UX Research Manager, Capital One

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Mandy has led UX Research initiatives for CreditWise, helping millions of Americans improve their credit scores and achieve financial success; and Eno, Capital One’s Artificial Inte... Learn more

Yuhan Du

Yuhan Du

PhD Student, University College Dublin

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PhD student in UCD School of Computer Science, University College Dublin Member of Life Science Data Analytics (LISDA) Research Group In collaboration with UCD Perinatal Research Cent... Learn more

Ani Dutta

Ani Dutta

Principal Technical Program Manager
Amazon

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Ani has 15+ years of experience working in technology including Honeywell, Microsoft, small startups and most recently Amazon as a Senior Technical Program Manager. Ani is a leader ... Learn more

Divya Dwarakanath

Divya Dwarakanath

Security Engineering Manager
Snap Inc.

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Divya Dwarakanath is a strong security leader, who progressed from a junior security engineer into a leadership role at Snap Inc, and now heads the Enterprise, Product and offensive S... Learn more

Jen Easterly

Jen Easterly

Keynote Speaker - Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

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Jen Easterly is the Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Ms. Easterly was nominated by President Biden in April... Learn more

Hajar Emami Gohari

Hajar Emami Gohari

Graduate Research Assistant
Wayne State University

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Hajar Emami received the M.S. degree in artificial intelligence from the Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2008. She is currently working toward the Ph.D. de... Learn more

Deanna Emery

Deanna Emery

Lead Data Scientist, Aon IP Solutions

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Deanna graduated from Harvard University in 2017 with a joint degree in Physics and Astrophysics. After graduating, she spent half a year on a bicycle tour through parts of Europe. Sh... Learn more

Hananeh Esmailbeigi

Hananeh Esmailbeigi

Clinical Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago

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Dr. Hananeh Esmailbeigi, Clinical Associate professor at The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) completed her BS degree in Biomedical Engineering at Tehran Polytechnique, Iran. S... Learn more

Deborah Everhart

Deborah Everhart

Chief Strategy Officer, Credential Engine

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Deborah Everhart serves as the Chief Strategy Officer at Credential Engine, leading the expansion of credential transparency initiatives that enable more effective connections between... Learn more

Zahra Fatemi

Zahra Fatemi

Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Chicago

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I am an ML research intern at Salesforce Research. My research lies at the intersection of Machine Learning, Causal Inference, and Fairness.... Learn more

Ke Feng

Ke Feng

Data Scientist, AON

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Ke Feng currently works as a Data Scientist at Aon in Chicago. Before joining Aon IP Solutions, she completed her M.S. in Data Science at DePaul and holds a B.A. degree in Political S... Learn more

Elodie Fichet

Elodie Fichet

Sr. Accessibility Program Manager, Amazon

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Elodie is currently a Sr. Accessibility Program Manager at Amazon, within the Devices organization. She raises the bar on accessibility, collaborating, consulting, and educating a var... Learn more

Olivia Firth

Olivia Firth

Graduate Student, Montana State University

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Olivia Firth is a Master’s student in computer science at Montana State University. After completing her undergraduate degree in mathematics, she found a passion for education and w... Learn more

Mimi Flynn

Mimi Flynn

Vice President, Morgan Stanley

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Mimi Flynn is a Vice President at Morgan Stanley. A self-taught coder, Mimi picked up coding when she was 8 by learning BASIC on an Atari 800. She loves building and fixing things fro... Learn more

Tami Forman

Tami Forman

Executive Director, Path Forward

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Tami Forman, Founding Executive Director of Path Forward, is building this organization from the ground up, working with donors, partners, and participants to fulfill the organization... Learn more

Daniela Fragoso

Daniela Fragoso

Technical Contributor, SpaceML

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Daniela is a Senior pursuing a B.S. in Computer Engineering at University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl. She is a volunteer Technical Contributor for SpaceML, an extension of NASA’s F... Learn more

Colleen Frank

Colleen Frank

Master Software Engineer & UX/UI Designer, Capital One

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Colleen Frank is a Master Software Engineer and UX Designer at Capital One where she is responsible for driving the user experience and development of the company’s application obse... Learn more

Savanah Frisk

Savanah Frisk

Security Engineer, Snap Inc.

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Savanah Frisk is a Security Engineer on the Application Security team at Snap Inc. She leverages her background in Cognitive Science and Security Awareness to approach enterprise plat... Learn more

Poonam Garg

Poonam Garg

Chief Engineer, U.S. Bank

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Poonam Garg is a technologist seasoned leader, working as Lead Software Engineer – Software Engineering Coaching at U.S. Bank. Poonam has spearheaded cultural transformation aro... Learn more

Nicole Gauer

Nicole Gauer

Cigna

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Nicole Gauer, Cloud Governance Automation and Transformation Manager at Cigna, is focused on driving public cloud adoption and improving the effectiveness of public cloud governance p... Learn more

Haben Girma

Haben Girma

Keynote Speaker - Human Rights Lawyer and Author

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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 Pr... Learn more

Ilana Golbin

Ilana Golbin

Director, PwC

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Ilana is a Director at PwC Advisory Emerging Tech Lab, and one of the leads for Artificial Intelligence. Ilana specializes in applying machine learning and simulation modeling to addr... Learn more

Maria Gomez

Maria Gomez

Senior Analyst, Wayfair

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Maria Gomez is a Senior Technical Analyst on Wayfair’s Advanced Analytics team. Her subgroup focuses on using analytics, statistics, and ML techniques to incubate new capabilities i... Learn more

Pamela Gonzales

Pamela Gonzales

Director of Programs, Bolivia Tech Hub

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Pamela is the co-founder of Bolivia Tech Hub, a non-profit that fosters local innovation and opportunities in tech for the youth. Pamela is also Chapter Ambassador for Technovation, a... Learn more

Tanneasha Gordon

Tanneasha Gordon

Principal, Deloitte

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Tanneasha is a multifaceted cyber leader with over 15 years of experience advising large global organizations on privacy, content compliance, data governance and product security. As ... Learn more

Margaret Gould Stewart

Margaret Gould Stewart

Vice President, Product Design & Responsible Innovation
Facebook

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Margaret Gould Stewart is Vice President of Product Design & Responsible Innovation at Facebook. Margaret established Facebook’s central Responsible Innovation team in 2018 to p... Learn more

Asha Gowdaiah

Asha Gowdaiah

Engineering Director, American Express

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Apurva Gupta

Apurva Gupta

Senior UX Designer, Amazon Web Services

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Deepti Gupta

Deepti Gupta

PhD Student, University of Texas at San Antonio

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Minoo Gupta

Minoo Gupta

Senior Director, Shared Engineering Services, Citrix

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Prarthana Gupta

Prarthana Gupta

Product Manager, Wayfair

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Mia Hailey

Mia Hailey

Global Cybersecurity, Pfizer

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Mariah Hart

Technical Program Manager, Microsoft

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Minda Harts

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CEO, The Memo LLC

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Soha Hassoun

Professor, Tufts University

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Yuka Hatori

Student, Santa Clara University

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Lisa Hauser

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CodeArt/Miami Dade County Public Schools

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Director of Design + Content
Oracle

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Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Dev Technology Group, Inc.

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Maryam Honari

Machine Learning Engineer
Unity Technologies

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Chelci Houston-Burroughs

Associate, Technology Business Analyst, Morgan Stanley

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Erin Howard

Student, Western Washington University

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Lucia Huo

Program Manager, Microsoft

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Harshita Huria

Software Engineer, Bloomberg

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Therese Huston

Therese Huston

Cognitive Scientist, Seattle University

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Katrina Hutchins

President & CEO, Re-Source Solutions

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Vaishali Jain

Software Engineer, Pinterest

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Abby Jenkins

Senior Director, Content
PBS KIDS Digital PBS

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Alina Jenkins

Head of Communications
Body Talk

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Senior Technology Manager
Bank of America

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Karin Jue

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Senior Director, Streaming Media
PBS KIDS

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Megan Kaczanowski

Lead Security Architect, Northwestern Mutual

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Emily Kager

Senior Software Engineer, Uber

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Anitha Kalaivanan

Senior Software Engineer
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Serafina Kamp

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Kiana Karami

Assistant Professor
Penn State Harrisburg

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Alana Karen

Author, Self

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Smruthi Karinatte

Associate, Morgan Stanley

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Sakthi Kasiramalingam

Director - Cloud Platforms Discover Financial Services

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Dieuwertje (DJ) Kast

Director of STEM Education Programs
University of Southern California Joint Educational Project

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Aaron Katz

Chief Information Security Officer
Private Investment Firm

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Software Engineer
American Express

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Julia Kieserman

Product Manager
Palantir Technologies

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Tiffany King

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Product Engineer, Siemens Digital Industries Software

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Fatemeh Koochaki

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Vice President, Morgan Stanley

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Chris Kuang

Co-Founder, U.S. Digital Corps
General Services Administration - U.S. Digital Corps

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Kelsey Lafer

Vice President in the Systematic Market Making (SMM) Core Strats Group, Goldman Sachs

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Technical Product Manager
Unity Technologies

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Gyeongeun Lee

Student, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Minhwa Lee

Student, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

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UX Researcher, Google

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Kate Lehman

Associate Director and Academic Researcher, UCLA Momentum

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Dr. Tim Lewis

Manager, Space and Missile Systems Integration, The Boeing Company

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Katherine Lewis

UX Engineer, LinkedIn

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Principal Software Engineer
Oracle

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Rui Li

Hardware Engineer, SambaNova Systems

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Jingwen Liang

Jingwen Liang

Research Scientist, Electronic Arts

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Jessica Lin

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Developer Advocate, Facebook Inc.

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Ph.D. Candidate, Boston University

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Sr. Director, Research and Evaluation, PBS

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Software Engineer, JPMorgan Chase

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Senior Software Engineer, DoorDash

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President & CEO of Ancestry

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Research Associate
Carnegie Mellon University

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Software Engineer, Capital One

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PhD Student, North Carolina State University

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Manager, Mphasis

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Associate Software Engineer, Capital One

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Software Engineer II, USAA

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Cognitive Software Engineer, IBM

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Senior Software Engineer, LinkedIn

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Founder and CEO, DataedX

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IT Specialist, NIST

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Ann McNamara

Associate Dean for Research
College of Architecture, Texas A&M University

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Karen Meager

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Senior Software Engineer
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James Mickens

Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University

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Director, PwC

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Product Line Director, Business Client Platforms, Intel Corporation

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Mahsa Mozaffari

Ph.D. Student
Rochester Institute Of Technology

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Bryn Mawr College

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Sarvenaz Myslicki

VP Engineering, American Express

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Software Engineer, Bloomberg

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Software Developer, Oracle

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Software Engineer, Microsoft

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Nuria Oliver

Scientific Director, Co-Founder
ELLIS Alicante Unit Foundation

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Jedd Ong

Jedd Ong

Diversity Associate, RingCentral

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Isabel Orlanes-Gallegos

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Stanford University

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Revekka Palaiologou

Senior Software Engineer
Inverzio

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Mousumi Panda

Software QA Engineering Manager, Sony PlayStation

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Student, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Student, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Bryan Payton

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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Kathy Pham

Kathy Pham

Director, Fellow Mozilla

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Sandhya Prabhakaran

Research Scientist
Moffitt Cancer Center/Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Kai Priester

Technical Contributor, SpaceML

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Kanishka Priyadharshini

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Assistant Vice President, Data Scientist, Bank of America

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Student, University of Illinois
Urbana - Champaign

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Jennifer Reiter

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Software Developer III, Making Everlasting Memories

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Maryam Riahi

Ph.D. Student
North Carolina State University

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Kirsten Rider

Kirsten Rider

Director, Membership
AnitaB.org

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Shruti Rijhwani

Shruti Rijhwani

Ph.D. Student
Carnegie Mellon University

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Snap Inc.

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Sheryl Root

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Carnegie Mellon University/RootAnalysis

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Alexandra Rusina

Alexandra Rusina

Senior Technical Program Manager
Electronic Arts

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Tatiane Russo-Tait

Tatiane Russo-Tait

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University of Texas at Austin

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Kavita Ryali

Kavita Ryali

Principal Program Manager
Microsoft

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Kanika Sabharwal

Software Engineer, Bloomberg

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CEO, Tazar

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Natasha Scannell

Software Engineer, Amazon

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Michelle Scheuerman

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Dev Technology Group

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Curran Schiefelbein

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MIT - Lincoln Laboratory

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Research Scientist
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Nidhi Sen

Director of Technology, Target

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University of Kansas

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Vice President, Product Management, U.S. Bank

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Janaki Sheth

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University of Pennsylvania

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Principal Engineering Manager
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Dilma Da Silva

Professor Texas A&M University

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Databricks

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Linkedin

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Zillow Group

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University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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University of New Mexico

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Western Governors University

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Rally Health

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JP Morgan Chase

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Professor, Duke University

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Technology Consultant, Qualtrics

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Leila Zahedi

Research Assistant
Florida International University

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Student, California State University Northridge

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Server Core Infrastructure Tech Lead
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Open Source Program Leader and Tech Evangelist
Intuit

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VMware

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Celeste Horgan

Senior Technical Writer, Linux Foundation

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Rocio Montes

Senior Engineering Manager, Github Actions
Github

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ClassPass

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COO, Zoom Video Communications, Inc.

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Cheryl Bisque

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO)
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Manuela Ajayi

SVP Core Platforms Strategy
Varis

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Fatma Tarlaci

Machine Learning Scientist, OpenTeams

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Liza Layne

Data and Analytics Manager, Watchfinder

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Ruth Llanos-Vos

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Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG)

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Timnit Gebru

Independent Scholar

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Kristine Howard

Developer Relations Manager
Amazon Web Services

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Sharon Murphy

EVP & CIO for the Chief Operating Office
Wells Fargo

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Diane Jurgens

Diane Jurgens

Chief Information Office (CIO) The Walt Disney Company

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Justine Ezarik

Tech & Digital Creator

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April Curley

Engagement and Partnerships Manager
Last Mile Education Fund

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Caren Young

President/Founder, The Professional Adult

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Cynthia Thomas

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Sisu VR

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Isabel Costa

Software Engineer Globality, Inc.

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Katie Gittleman

Director of STEM Initiatives and Outreach, Nova Southeastern University

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Kirsten Rogers Yoga

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Kai Two Feathers Orton, Ph.D.

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AnitaB.org

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Ariana Soto

Director of Strategic Initiatives, Coding it Forward

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Ariana is Coding it Forward’s Director of Strategic Initiatives. She leads Coding it Forward’s partnerships and new program launches—including the Civic Innovation Corps... Learn more

Kelly Rozumalski

Kelly Rozumalski

Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

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Kelly Rozumalski, Secure Connected Health Director and Vice President at Booz Allen, leads the firm’s Federal Health cyber business with a focus on developing solutions that support... Learn more

Megan Amos

Megan Amos

Vice President of Customer Success
Netreo

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Megan is the VP of Customer Success at Netreo and the Systers Keeper for AnitaB.org. With a background in full stack development, customer operations, and public speaking, she’s... Learn more

Jennifer Parak

Jennifer Parak

ThoughtWorks

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I currently work as a Software Developer at ThoughtWorks. I graduated in 2016 with a degree in Advanced Computer Science from The University of Sheffield, UK. Having started my career... Learn more

Prachi Manchanda

Prachi Manchanda

Software Engineer 2, Microsoft

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Prachi Manchanda is a software engineer at Microsoft, passionate about the causes of software for good, open source and inclusion. She enjoys giving talks about her work at Microsoft ... Learn more

Mirkeya Capellán

Mirkeya Capellán

IT Training, Res Mgmt, Strategic Proj Spec/QA
Mercedes-Benz USA / Pace University

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Dr. Mirkeya Capellán is responsible for IT Training, Resource Management, and Strategic Projects at the Mercedes-Benz US. Corporate office in Atlanta, GA. She oversees vendor and res... Learn more

Synge Tyson

Synge Tyson

Principal Accessibility Consultant
BWiC

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Rosario Robinson

Rosario Robinson

Executive Director, CMD-IT

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A technologist for over 25 years, Rose Robinson is Executive Director for CMD-IT (Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in Information Technology) leading the organizatio... Learn more

Robin Davis

Robin Davis

Engineering Manager, Apple

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Robin Davis is an Engineering Manager for User Studies in Sensor, Software and Prototyping at Apple. She previously worked on the Maps team as a Product Design Producer. She has been ... Learn more

Jawana McFadden

Jawana McFadden

Head of Diversity & Inclusion (North America)
TikTok

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Captain Jawana R. McFadden is a global diversity, accessibility, and inclusion change agent, with special emphasis on matters concerning Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities (IW... Learn more

Julia Grace

Julia Grace

VP, Product Engineering
Netflix

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Julia is the VP of Product Engineering at Netflix. She is passionate about tying engineering to business outcomes, especially during hyper growth. Her diverse journey includes running... Learn more

Elizabeth Stone

Elizabeth Stone

VP, Data & Insights, Netflix

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Elizabeth leads Netflix’s Data & Insights organization, a centralized and globally distributed team that includes: – Data engineering – Metrics development, anal... Learn more

Kim Martin

Kim Martin

Director, Data Science & Engineering, Netflix

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Kim strives to bring the best data solutions to the entire Netflix Platform. She leads the Data Science and Engineering (DSE) Platform team and partners closely with the Platform Engi... Learn more

Keri Gavin

Keri Gavin

Director of Inclusion Recruiting Programs, Executive Talent, Netflix

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Keri leads efforts to enable inclusive hiring of Executive Talent at Netflix as part of the Inclusion Recruiting Programs and Talent Acquisition teams. In her role, she fosters meanin... Learn more

Patricia Beagen

Patricia Beagen

Global Head of Recruiting Events
Apple

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Patricia Perry

Patricia Perry

Event Recruiting, Apple

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Mariana Vilela

Mariana Vilela

Event Producer, Apple Inc.

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Natasha Green

Natasha Green

Senior Community Manager, AnitaB.org

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Natasha is currently a global communities manager at AnitaB.org, an entrepreneur, and a former mathematics teacher for the New York City Department of Education. She is a technopreneu... Learn more

Tatiana Dominguez

Tatiana Dominguez

Managing Director, Deloitte

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With more than twenty years of experience leading complex projects and programs in the technology space, Tatiana has helped clients and Deloitte transform their business through data ... Learn more

Varun Ganapathi

Varun Ganapathi

Co-founder and CTO, AKASA

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Co-founder and chief technology officer of AKASA, Varun Ganapathi holds a B.S. in physics, an M.S. in computer science, and a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence, all from Stanford Unive... Learn more

Rosa Ramos-Kwok

Rosa Ramos-Kwok

Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase

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Rosa Ramos-Kwok is a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and is the Head of Global Technology Strategic Programs. Prior to this role, Rosa was the Head of Technology Risk Ma... Learn more

Sakuntaladevi Vidhyasankar

Sakuntaladevi Vidhyasankar

Vice President, JPMorgan Chase

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Sakuntaladevi is a highly adaptable, performance-driven influential leader who demonstrates an authentic approach to interactions with people at all levels in her organization. As a M... Learn more

DJ Chava

DJ Chava

DJ, Music Selector, and Cultural Curator

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DJ CHAVA is a Chicago raised and Los Angeles based DJ, music selector and cultural curator. Known for her high energy sets, vivacious personality and packed parties, an event headline... Learn more

Elle Woodruff

Elle Woodruff

Talent Acquisition Specialist, Staff
Qualcomm

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Ambassador Susan Rice

Ambassador Susan Rice

Domestic Policy Advisor to President Biden

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Ambassador Susan E. Rice is the Domestic Policy Advisor in the Biden Administration. As Director of the Domestic Policy Council, she coordinates the formulation and implementation of ... Learn more

Ripsy Bandourian

Ripsy Bandourian

Vice President, Global Accommodations Partner Services
Booking.com

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Ripsy Bandourian is the Vice President, Global Accommodations Partner Services for Booking.com. In this role, she leads all aspects of Booking.com’s relationships with its accommoda... Learn more

Kate Knyzewski

Kate Knyzewski

Principal, Strategic Innovation Group (SIG), Cyber and Engineering
Booz Allen Hamilton

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Diana Atanasova

Diana Atanasova

Software Developer; Open Source Engineer, ML, VMWare

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Diana Atanasova is an Open Source Engineer at the Open Source Technology Center, VMWare/Bulgaria. When Diana joined VMWare in early 2019, she was contributing to an open source projec... Learn more

Elizabeth McCullough

Elizabeth McCullough

Research Director, Clinical & Economic Research, 3M

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Elizabeth McCullough is the Director for the Clinical and Economic Research Department of 3M Health Information Systems, Inc. and oversees extensive clinical content research and deve... Learn more

Angela Tucci

Angela Tucci

AnitaB.org Board of Trustee Chairwoman and COO at Uplight

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Angela has 24 years of software industry experience as both an entrepreneur and public company executive. Previously, she served as the CEO Of Apto, Inc., Chief Revenue Officer of pub... Learn more

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