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Bursting with insight, our expert led masterclasses, workshops and keynotes will provide you with all of the tech insight that you need to drive your business forward.
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Join senior executives and the who's-who from the world of tech and make connections that really matter. You'll connect with the people at your level who lead the conversation.
Sophie Ross is the Global CEO of the Technology segment within FTI Consulting. She has more than 20 years of experience in company management, strategic leadership and operations in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Ms. Ross specializes in helping clients manage their data in the context of compliance and risk, and leads global Technology segment strategy and execution across Information Governance, Privacy & Security, Digital Forensics & Investigations, E-Discovery Consulting & Services, Managed Review, Corporate Legal Operations and Blockchain and Digital Assets practices. Her consulting expertise includes e-discovery and high-stakes document review through predictable pricing models, applying analytics and simplifying the complex layers of discovery management.
Join Sophie's session 'Altered State: Digital Risk Management in the Wake of Business Disruption and Technology Acceleration'
As Okta's SVP, Chief Information Officer, Alvina Antar is responsible for enabling a seamless employee and customer experience. She most recently spent six years as Zuora's first ever CIO enabling business growth from $30M to $300M in revenue including a successful IPO in 2018. She built Zuora's IT department ground-up into the modern-day Business Technology organization for subscription businesses. Prior to Zuora, Antar spent 17 years at Dell focused on Digital Transformation, Global Delivery and M&A. The combination of Fortune 50 and high-growth start-up experience provides Antar with an intangible perspective on agility required to scale while maintaining operational efficiencies.
Antar founded the Silicon Valley CIO Women's Network that brings together Bay Area's leading CIOs sharing diverse perspectives, knowledge, challenges and experiences in a supportive atmosphere. She is also on the board of BUILD, a nonprofit dedicated to igniting the potential of our youth in under-resourced communities through experiential learning and entrepreneurship. Antar and her husband live in Menlo Park and have three children, twin 11 year old boys and a 7 year old girl. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
Join Alvina's session 'How Identity Is Driving Modern Businesses and Their Workforces'
Elaine Zhou is the Chief Technology Officer for Change.org, the world’s largest nonprofit-owned tech platform for social change with more than 450 million users worldwide. As Change.org's technical leader, Elaine leads a global engineering team of 70+ and growing to drive Change.org to the forefront of responsible AI, elevate the platform capability and scalability utilizing distributed cloud infrastructure, and engage repeat users through accessibility and a delightful experience.
Join Elaine's session 'Creating Richer Automation Solutions'
Teresa Dietrich is the Chief Product & Community Officer at Stack Overflow, where she is responsible for evolving and executing Stack Overflow's product strategy.
Previously she worked at McKinsey New Ventures as Global Head of Product & Engineering, where she played an instrumental role in creating and scaling their B2B SaaS products, built and led product development teams across the globe, and fostered a culture that attracted and developed top talent. Prior to McKinsey New Ventures, Teresa was Chief Technology Officer at Namely, and held several leadership roles at WebMD and AOL. Teresa is a Board Member for the Oklahoma School of Science and Math Foundation, the technical magnet high school that ignited her passion for learning and technology.
Teresa earned her Master of Science from George Mason University and continued on as an adjunct professor; she earned her bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University.
Join Teresa's session 'Building the Future of Work without Burning Out Your Workforce'
Catherine is a thought leader and innovator in the area of Customer Success, with over 20 years of experience helping a diverse list of clients from small business to Fortune 100 customers.
Catherine has published numerous blogs, eBooks and whitepapers on the structure, programs, and operational framework for Customer Success organizations and is rated among the Top 50 Influencers to Follow in Customer Success.
As GVP, Customer Success, Catherine is responsible for delivering great experiences and ongoing business value to Oracle's Cloud customers.
Join Catherine's session 'Fireside Chat: Creating Valued Customer-Enabled Technical Teams'
Happy has undertaken a variety of technical roles through her 20+ year career, starting as a developer and growing into a seasoned executive leader. She's participated in companies in various tech sectors including financial, enterprise, and business to business. She's also built and managed teams in companies at various stage of growth including series A+ start-ups all the way through large public businesses. PayPal, ServiceNow, Fortinet, and Everbridge are but a few. Keys to Happy's success include a skillful ability to identify and apply technical talent and a strong customer-centric business acumen. Knowing what your customers want, and what motivates your teams, and being able to combine those is a rare and powerful talent.
Fun Fact: Happy was born in Shanghai. Despite being born in China, she received her English name, "Happy", because her parents wished her happiness throughout her life. Her Chinese name, "Haibei", followed her English name. Happy is a big foodie and loves to chase amazing restaurants around the world and to cook amazing meals of her own.
Join Happy's session 'Fireside Chat: Creating Valued Customer-Enabled Technical Teams'
Maria is MuleSoft's VP of Engineering at Salesforce where she leads a distributed organization of 200+ engineers across North America and Argentina. MuleSoft is in the forefront of application integration and hyperautomation. As a technical leader, Maria focuses on enabling MuleSoft's customers to automate their software systems, regardless of whether they are on-prem, in the cloud, or legacy.
Prior to MuleSoft, Maria spent 5 years in Salesforce Analytics Cloud where she led an engineering team in the Data Platform area. The portfolio of products she was responsible for included a cloud ETL tool, external connectors, data prep tool with ML, and integration with Salesforce’s ecosystem.
Earlier in her career, Maria worked on various database products.
Fun Fact: Maria has a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance. She dreamt of playing the bassoon in the New York Philharmonic which was never realized. Today she uses her performance skills regularly in her role as an engineering leader.
Join Maria's session 'Embracing Automation - Key to Scaling Your Business'
A Global executive in leading strategy, planning and transformations, while driving product/program portfolio with operational excellence in high growth mode. Driving change in ambiguous and conflicting environments while leading global cross functional teams in highly matrixed and complex organizations.
Proven to deliver business results with strong business partnership and "customer first" mindset. Leadership in driving complex initiatives that require strategic change management, to develop the change vision for success, implementable roadmaps for the "big picture", and attain measurable business outcomes.
Fun Fact: I have visited more countries in the world than states from my home country!
Join Rani's workshop 'Lightning Talk: How To Lead Complexity Globally During Highly Uncertain and Disruptive Times' (Exclusive to Premium Ticket Holders Only)
Priya Devanand is an Engineering leader with extensive experience driving application security through Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) processes and delivering several billions of dollars worth of products with robust security and privacy capabilities. She spearheaded the development of cryptographic protocols, crypto key and certificate management, authentication, privacy-preserving techniques and identity management solutions. Priya has headed secure SDLC processes and application security initiatives to scale through automation, training and definition of well-defined secure development processes.
Join Priya's workshop 'Lightning Talk: Evolution of Security' (Exclusive to Premium Ticket Holders Only)
Cia is the Director of Engineering and Operations for T-Mobile building one of the fastest 5G networks in the world. Cia has been in the wireless industry for over 17 years working with several telecommunications and engineering companies, including Metro PCS, AT&T, Black & Veatch and T-Mobile.
She holds a B.A in Sociology, Master's in Political Science and Doctorate of Jurisprudence, as well as a certificate from Yale in Fostering Diversity and Inclusion. She uses both her legal and political interest in siting advocacy to bridge the gaps between municipalities, private and public sectors for wireless facilities in order to achieve one of the most expedient build-outs of a telecommunication network in California.
Her past personal, professional experience and education allows her to see the world through many lenses giving space for complex viewpoints from social, political and legal perspectives. She is a passionate champion of change for diversity and inclusion and one of the driving forces behind T-Mobile's Women in Technology's diversity and inclusion community.
For fun, Cia hosts a podcast called, The Cogent Code, which offers perspective on a variety of topics in a humorous and educational way.
Join Cia's workshop 'Developing Executive Presence in a Technical Space' (Exlusive to Premium Ticket Holders Only)
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Hear from a curated lineup of innovative and influential women in technology who will be sharing their journey on tech adoption and strategies to adapt to the challenges of modern business. Ask your own burning questions and quiz our speakers to get direct advice from them on how to overcome on your own challenges.
Interactive Workshops
Specially designed hands-on workshops will provide you with the opportunity to learn and implement in a practical environment. In this truly interactive format, you'll have the opportunity to dive deep and apply new skills to elevate your career to the next level.
Boardroom Discussions
Participate in facilitated roundtable discussions with other executives to hear how your peers are facing their tech and business challenges head-on in an intimate gathering of leading minds.
Speed Networking
Connect with speakers and attendees 1-2-1 at our Speed Networking feature where you’ll be able to quiz them directly on their session or gain advice that’s personal to you and your specific professional challenges.
Soapbox Corner
Take the stand and share your own unique perspective and forward-thinking concepts to your peers using prompted themes and discussion ideas. You'll be provided with the opportunity to speak openly for five minutes where you can encourage debate and collaboration. The most popular attendees will have the opportunity to join our speaker list for 2024!
Networking Reception
End the day with your other empowered peers at our Networking Reception where you'll be able to share some of your biggest takeaways of the day and cement your place as part of a growing community of leading executive women in technology.
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