Join us for the West Coast’s biggest celebration of the successes and innovations being engineered by women from across the tech sector.
Following two years of sell-out events, we are returning to the West Coast in 2020, assembling 2,700+ tech industry visionaries and pioneers from major global corporations and innovative start-ups, all in one place for 2 days of life-changing networking, learning and insight.
Embrace diversity and inclusion, broaden your professional network and supercharge your career with our extensive training programmes at this year’s conference.
VP, Digital Product Management @ GE Digital
Aubrey Blanche is The Mathpath (Math Nerd + Empath), Global Head of Equitable Design & Impact at Culture Amp, and a startup investor/advisor. She questions, reimagines, and redesigns the systems that surround us to ensure that all people access equitable opportunities. Her expertise covers talent programs and accessible product development to event design and communications. She is the inventor of the balanced teams approach and a culture of belonging, and the Balanced Teams Diversity Assessment in the Atlassian Team Playbook. She open sources these methods and releases thought leadership and tools to create positive change at here at aubreyblanche.com.
As Hitachi Vantara’s CIO, Renée Lahti is responsible for developing and implementing the company’s information technology initiatives. Earlier Lahti was CIO of Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and prior to that, she was CIO and Vice President of business process and technology at SC Johnson & Sons. She previously served as CIO and VP of IT governance services at Symantec Corporation. She also held senior IT leadership roles at Oracle and PeopleSoft. Lahti holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master's degree in information systems from the University of Texas.
Aarthi Raju is a Principal Architect at Amazon Web Services who is passionate about Cloud Computing. She loves building things, so it’s perfect that her role helps partners build their businesses on Amazon Web Services. She is responsible for helping strategic partners and customers build solutions that are well architected and optimized. Prior to this, she worked as a Sr. Technical Account Manager supporting AWS enterprise customers acting as their advocate within AWS, helping them build ground breaking technologies. She holds a Master’s degree in Computer Networking from Wichita State University, Kansas.
As the Vice President of Content Operations and Assessment, Lynda is responsible for ensuring McAfee’s cybersecurity products have high efficacy and detection rates while keeping customers safe from the latest threats. She leads a global team that ensures all new detections are swiftly identified and solutions released quickly. Prior to this role, Lynda led a global team of senior technical engineers that brought McAfee’s future to life through innovative strategies and prototypes. Lynda also spent over two decades with Intel Corporation holding numerous technical and leadership positions.
A respected expert in her field, she has two patents and won the Intel Achievement Award, the Intel Software Quality Award, and the Society of Women Engineers Emerging Leader and Fellow Awards.
Lynda holds a BS in computer science and is a valued industry conference speaker. She has a passion for coaching, growing, and developing technical leaders and remains active in community outreach programs for the Society of Women Engineers.
Anshu Kak is a Vice President & Distinguished Engineer (DE) at IBM. She works as a CTO for Financial Service Integrated account. Prior to that she was an executive for worldwide technical sales and led a Analytics Technical Specialists worldwide which is a multi billion dollar business. She was responsible for the strategy, revenue and direction for the technical sales team. Prior she led the Software Client Architects globally as well as led Tech Sales Software as a Service business. Anshu is a recognized leader in IBM and software industry broadly for her significant contributions to the industry and her team is responsible for architecting cloud and analytics/AI solutions for numerous IBM clients. Her team works very closely with the development teams in IBM be it for Hybrid Data Management, Data Governance & Integration or Data Science & Business Integration. Key important role for her is client satisfaction and how IBM clients get business value from IBM software.
She co-leads the Cloud Computing Reference Architecture and member of IBM Architecture Profession Board. Has written various papers on cloud technology and recently co published papers on Cognitive computing, Mobile in Cloud and BigData Analytics in Cloud to CSCC (Cloud Standards Customer Council). She also has the responsibility for leading the technical sales teams for expansion of SaaS business for IBM thus specializes in Cloud Computing. Prior to that she was CTO for Middle East and Africa, to define and work on strategizing how to have IBM penetration in the region, and grow the sales and distribution technical team. Anshu is recognized as a leader in the deployment of architecture and the design of complex end-to-end client solutions, leveraging her deep technical expertise in Enterprise Architecture, SOA, Cloud and Cognitive Computing.She has written numerous books on deployment of software and is also part of the Architect and DE board at IBM. She has received numerous awards and accolades from the industry and the recent one was from Asian American Business Development as top 50 Asian Americes in Business.
Sandra E. Lopez is VP for Intel Sports and Media responsible for partnering with the sports and media industry to provide the future fans and consumers with the next generation of immersive media experiences. Her team is focused on leading the business, marketing, and market development efforts of Intel Sports and Intel Studios. Lopez is also the co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on VR/AR/XR.
Previously, she led and managed the Fashion wearable business in Intel’s New Technology Group. Earlier in her Intel career, Lopez held various roles within corporate marketing, including director of new business marketing and director of consumer marketing. In the latter role, she led Intel’s brand repositioning work to earn an Intel Achievement Award in 2010. She also earned industry honors. In 2019, she was names Top Women in Media and HiTEC 100: The Most Influential and Notable Hispanic Professionals in IT..In 2018, she was named Most Powerful Women in Technology, Most Influential and Notable Hispanic Professional in Tech and Sports Business Journal Game Changer. In 2015, she was named among the Top 10 Latina Executives by LATINA Style Inc.
Before joining Intel in 2005, Lopez worked at Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia, Computer Associates International Inc. and several other technology companies.
Lopez holds a bachelor of science degree in economics and textiles and clothing from the University of California at Davis. In addition, she attended the Stanford Intel Accelerator Program. As part of contributing to the community, she is focused on building the next generation of women leaders.
Madhu Narasimhan is Executive Vice President and leader of the PVSI division of Wells Fargo’s Group Portfolio Delivery & Agile Delivery. In this role, she supports PVSI’s change delivery & agile transformation, focusing on structure and continuous improvement, enabling the group to enhance capabilities to better support PVSI business units; and more directly build on, share, and leverage knowledge and talent.
Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Narasimhan was the executive leading virtual channels and analytics for Kaiser Permanente. She has led large staffs of product and technology personnel to deliver cross-channel, integrated technologies and experiences. Narasimhan has developed enterprise-level integration strategies, led vendor implementations, and managed enterprise application services at scale.
Narasimhan holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of California, Riverside, a bachelor’s of engineering in computer science from Birla Institute of Technology, India and an engineering project manager certification from Caltech. She completed executive programs at Harvard Business School and Stanford Business School.
Narasimhan is passionate about mentoring and promoting women in technology. She also actively volunteers to promote science awareness and inspiration in elementary school levels and is a founding member of the Bay Area Elementary Science Olympiad Foundation established in 2007.
She is based in Oakland and lives in the Bay Area.
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