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.
In her role as Chief Product Officer, Radhika is responsible for the vision, strategy, delivery, as well as the product P&L's for all Hitachi Vantara products and solutions spanning data storage, data management and analytics, and IIoT software. She leads the product development, product management, and product marketing functions for the company, in addition to go to market for Hitachi's Lumada SaaS portfolio. Radhika possesses a unique combination of deep technical expertise and business acumen, and extensive end-to-end P&L experience. She previously held leadership roles at Lenovo, HP, Cisco, NetApp, and Nimble Storage, incubating and scaling several businesses.
Before joining Hitachi Vantara in September 2020, Radhika was executive vice president and general manager of 3D Systems software workflow business.
She has a bachelor's degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, as well as a Masters in Business Administration from San Jose State University.
Betsy Sutter joined VMware in January 2001, where she has shaped the culture and employee experience while leading all aspects of VMware's people strategies and functions. In this role, she leads the hiring, development and engagement of the best and brightest, as VMware has grown from 100 employees to more than 38,000 globally.
As the developer of an ever-evolving human resources organization, including innovative expertise centers, service delivery channels and a modernized HR partnering organization, she has aligned the people strategies with the business goals. Sutter has also built (and re-built) a world-class staffing organization and has overseen the successful acquisition of more than 60 companies. In 2008, Sutter founded the VMware Foundation, redefining citizen philanthropy in the corporate world. She is also passionate about bringing inclusion and diversity away from the edge and into the core of VMware's priorities and operating model.
Prior to VMware, Sutter held senior management roles at Silicon Gaming, Digital Equipment Corporation, Aehr Test Systems, General Electric and Intersil. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jason Sobel joined The New York Times Company as chief technology officer in August 2021. In this role, Mr. Sobel leads our Product Engineering team to build quality software, evolve our technical standards and empower our teams to achieve engineering excellence. He reports to Meredith Kopit Levien, chief executive officer of The Times Company.
Previously Mr. Sobel was at Airbnb serving as head of infrastructure from April 2019 until March 2021. From April 2016 to April 2019, he was Airbnb's engineering director and global head of trust and safety operations, leading the team that developed the technology Airbnb uses to combat fraud that keeps hosts and guests safe.
Mr. Sobel was vice president of engineering at Quantifind from September 2013 to November 2015. Prior to that, he spent six years at Facebook, where he worked on its backend platform to help steer the company through a massive growth phase.
Mr. Sobel earned an undergraduate and master's degree in Computer Science from Brown University.
Fiona Tan is Wayfair's Chief Technology Officer, and oversees a global innovation team responsible for creating market-leading experiences through its world-class e-commerce platform. Prior to Wayfair, Fiona served as senior vice president of U.S. Technology at Walmart where she was responsible for innovation and engineering execution spanning its site, mobile app and all associate and merchant-facing technology across its e-commerce and stores business in the U.S. Her prior roles at Walmart include senior vice president of Customer Technology and vice president of Engineering. Prior to Walmart, Fiona served in a number of leadership roles at Ariba, where she led a global engineering organization responsible for the strategy, lifecycle, and delivery of the Ariba Commerce Network, as well as TIBCO Software. Fiona has a master's degree in Computer Science from Stanford and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT.
Summer has over 20 years of experience in IT ranging from enterprise software development and testing to professional services and customer success. Her current role as Chief Client Officer at Testlio has allowed her to return to her greatest passion: software testing. She has a passion for problem-solving and fully believes that technology enablers must be combined with business value outcomes to support successful customer adoption.
Fun Fact: I worked on the Space Shuttle Columbia MSL-1 Mission.
As Chief Customer and Partner Officer, Lara Caimi leads the Customer and Partner organization for ServiceNow. Lara took this new role in July 2020, after serving as ServiceNow's Chief Strategy Officer since joining the company in December 2017.
Lara's organization—which includes customer outcomes, customer experience, alliances and channel ecosystem, and our training & certification organization—provides our partners and customers with best-in-class guidance and capabilities to drive successful digital transformations and realize quick time-to-value. Before joining ServiceNow, Lara was a partner at Bain & Company, where she worked for 17 years. While at Bain, Lara advised technology companies on topics of growth strategy, go-to-market strategy, and M&A.
Lara joined the board of Confluent, the event streaming pioneer, in February 2020. She is also a member of FirstBoard.io, whose mission is to increase female representation on corporate boards and at the highest level of corporate governance and management. Lara holds a bachelor's degree in economics and English literature from St. Olaf College, a MIB from the University of Sydney as a Fulbright Scholar, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
As Chief Marketing Officer at Velodyne Lidar, Sally Frykman oversees the strategic development and execution of global marketing and communications programs that advance the company's innovative vision and goals. Since joining Velodyne in 2017 as its Communications and Education Manager, Sally quickly ascended through the organization to her current position, previously serving as Director of Communications, VP of Communications, and Chief Communications Officer. Her multifaceted role encompasses a wide array of responsibilities, including promotion of the Velodyne brand, thought leadership development, and robust sales lead generation fueled by highly engaging digital marketing. Additionally, Sally leads Velodyne's comprehensive public and media relations efforts.
Sally is deeply committed to advancing Velodyne's mission of transforming lives through safe mobility and smart communities. Her dedication to advocacy and education has spanned the entirety of her career, with previous positions in public school administration, classroom teaching, and social work. She earned a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master's degree from San Francisco State. A California native and nature lover, Sally enjoys hikes around the Bay Area with her husband, their children, and dog.
Fun Fact: Sally's dedication to advocacy and education has spanned the entirety of her career. Previously she was an educator, starting as a high school special education teacher and ending as an elementary school principal.
Kavitha Mariappan is a seasoned go-to-market executive with a penchant for rapidly translating technology into customer-centric value, mobilizing global teams and operations, and transforming them into high-growth businesses. Over her 20+ year tenure spanning enterprise software and service providers, she has held various high-impact roles spanning marketing, product management, and engineering at industry-leading companies, including Databricks, Riverbed, Cisco, and Philips Electronics. She most recently served as CMO at Split Software, a venture-backed startup where she built the company's go-to-market engine from the ground up and was instrumental in defining a new category for product decisions. Kavitha is responsible for driving global transformation and innovation across all facets of Zscaler's business, customers, strategy, products, and operations, with a strong focus on customer value creation.
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