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Timnit Gebru

Timnit Gebru

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 field of AI and has dedicated her career to mitigating the negative impacts of Artificial Intelligence. Her industry-defining work highlights the urgent need for diversity in big tech….

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Aparna Bawa

Aparna Bawa

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…

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Diane Jurgens

Diane Jurgens

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, infrastructure, digital experiences, and enterprise resilience engineering. Prior to Disney, Diane worked at the mining, metals and petroleum company BHP as the Chief Technology Officer, delivering breakthrough innovation. She…

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Margaret Gould Stewart

Margaret Gould Stewart

Margaret Gould Stewart is Vice President of Product Design & Responsible Innovation at Facebook. Margaret established Facebook’s central Responsible Innovation team in 2018 to proactively surface and address potential harms to people and society in all that the company builds. As part of its mission, the Responsible Innovation team develops tools, methods and training to…

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Caroline Wanga

Caroline Wanga

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 Chief Growth Officer for ESSENCE Ventures, parent company of ESSENCE. For 50 years, ESSENCE has been relentlessly committed to serving its community deeply, whether via critical…

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Haben Girma

Haben Girma

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…

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Vanessa Pappas

Vanessa Pappas

Vanessa Pappas oversees the strategic business direction and growth of TikTok’s global operations, including content, marketing, user growth, and product. The TikTok platform has scaled to over 150 markets and reaches hundreds of millions of monthly active users around the world. Previously, Vanessa served over 7 years at YouTube where she was most recently the…

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Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher

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…

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Layshia Clarendon

Layshia Clarendon

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…

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Jen Easterly

Jen Easterly

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 2021 and unanimously confirmed by the Senate on July 12, 2021. As Director, Ms. Easterly leads CISA’s efforts to protect and defend civilian government networks, manage systemic risk to…

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