Carla Marzari joined the Blue Prism Innovation Centre in 2019 as an innovation engineer to conceive, design and create new, forward-looking and innovative solutions with connected-RPA and emerging technologies. A true tech-powerhouse, Carla has won several hackathons around the United States, and earned the prestigious OZY Genius Award in 2018. Prior to Blue Prism, she held roles in Healthcare RPA and software development. Since earning her B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering Technology from the University of Toledo, Carla is passionate about STEM and helps the future generations gain a computer science education by leading robotics clubs at the elementary and high school level.

Shalini Agarwal is a Director of Engineering at LinkedIn, responsible for building the core experience of the company’s Sales Solutions enterprise product. Before this, she was responsible for delivering scalable Search and Data Applications while managing a global team at LinkedIn. Shalini spent nearly a decade at eBay where she shaped buyer experience and transformed her career from individual contributor to management. In addition to her day to day role, she is leading LinkedIn’s REACH apprenticeship, a program designed to hire non-traditional talent to LinkedIn’s engineering team. She has been part of Women in Tech programs for over 10 years. Her passion lies in building great software, business applications and empowering women.

Aashima spearheads global Healthcare solutions in Google Cloud.Previously, Aashima led Digital Health Incubations at Kaiser Permanente and brought several frameshifting opportunities to life. Aashime serves as a board member on the HIMSS North America Board. She was recognized as Most Influential Women in Healthcare IT by HIMSS and Top 100 Women in Fem Tech and Health Tech award.She is founder of GirlsInTek, an initiative with a purpose is to ignite girl’s innovative talent and interest in computer science.

Anjali has over 20+ years' experience in designing, developing and leading teams to build software solutions for security services; enterprise applications for telecom and management solutions for the wireless industry along with sound management background. In her current capacity at Cisco, she is the Partner Security Architect and Security Officer at Cisco Customer Experience’s Platform Security Group. She is currently leading the Security Center of Excellence initiative and her main focus is developing strategies and solutions for improving the security and privacy posture of Cisco Products. Her specialty is navigating complex landscapes in the areas of container security, data governance, and cyberspace privacy issues. Anjali has been an avid speaker, an influencer in Networking With A Purpose Silicon Valley series in areas of data privacy and cybersecurity. Her expertise is at the intersection of Machine Learning, Networking, and Cybersecurity. She holds a Patent in the field of workload scheduling based on a credit-based mechanism. She is also an Executive Producer of "Diva Motherhood" music video celebrating "mainstream women". Anjali holds a Masters in Computer Science from Dalhousie University, Canada, and a Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from the University of Pune, India.

Karuna is Senior Software Engineer at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab. She came to USA to pursue her Master's in Software Engineering from San Jose State University and started her career as a Cloud Engineer at IBM.

Currently she works as a DevOps Engineer on ensuring Enterprise applications to run reliably using latest cloud-native technologies. Her expertise is around creating scalable and robust infrastructure to run Hybrid SAAS applications on Kubernetes running on different cloud providers. Automation and seamless CI/CD is the goal with the big aim of one click deploy for every new product.

She is an avid reader, blogger, enthusiastic learner, socially and physically active and a cheerful person. Follow her @goyalkaruna.

Cassandra Rommel specialized in distributed systems at Northwestern before pursuing a career with early stage hardware startups. After her tenure as a founding engineer at Brilliant, working on IOT in the consumer smart home space, Cassandra took on a new challenge helping bring IOT to the industrial world with Samsara, one of the fast growing startups in Silicon Valley. She is passionate about hardware, startups, women in STEM, and her dog Archie.

Madhumita started her career in the CRM space, building apps & products for sales productivity. She transformed her career to TPM role in data R&D. She focused on defining the path from raw data to meaningful insights & enabling engineering talent to build it. Madhumita is passionate about generating ideas with impact & looking forward to her “future you” defining the “why” & the “what” for building data platforms & products.

Rebecca is a product manager and senior software engineer at New Relic. Her tech cred is from a full time coding bootcamp; before she was in tech she studied History and French. She enjoys solving problems, learning from customers, and learning new languages from Netflix’s array of international reality tv programs.

A technology professional with 15 years’ experience and B.S. Computer Engineering degree from San Jose State University, Seema has marketed cybersecurity solutions at Juniper Networks, Check Point Software, Imperva and Webroot. Currently, she drives a cross-Microsoft vision around security, compliance and identity by supporting sales teams and delivering compelling content for awareness and adoption of their enterprise security solutions. Born and raised in Silicon Valley, she enjoys time with her two daughters, speaks English and Hindi fluently and is an avid Bollywood singer. Furthermore, Seema has visited 15 countries and studied in the exotic island country of Singapore.

Uzma Makhdumi is currently Head of Payments Partnerships at Google where she helped launched Google Pay internationally in multiple markets. She now leads new business development initiatives for consumer payments globally working with banks, payment networks, regulators and financial technology companies to incubate new use cases to support consumers and merchants.

Prior to Google, Uzma was leading commercialization for Visa Digital and was also one of the early Product Managers for Mobile at Yahoo! where she managed their first revenue generating mobile products. She has also been a consultant at McKinsey advising high tech companies in the areas of strategy, growth and acquisition, and was an engineer at Bose Corporation working directly for the founder/CEO, Dr. Amar Bose.

Uzma double-majored in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Management Science from MIT and holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is also a certified leadership and executive coach, an Advisory Board member for RISE UP for Money2020 US to empower women leaders in Payments, and a startup advisor.

Prashanthi Ravanavarapu leads PayPal's Consumer Financial Services and Emerging Markets product teams. In her current role, she leads the teams focused on building products to improve customers financial health across the globe and building products for consumers in emerging markets. Prior to this, she was PayPal's Product Architect leading product innovation to solve the needs of the financially underserved. Prashanthi’s mission is to put a dent on global poverty through democratizing financial services for all. She believes in the intersection of profit and purpose and is enabling that at PayPal by bringing human centered design, lean and behavioral science to product innovation. She has had various roles in Data, Architecture, Strategy and Product Management. In addition to leading cross-functional teams focused on product innovation, she is a change agent and an intrapreneur. Prashanthi was also recently named as one of the most influential women in Payments in 2019.

Morgan leads Strategy and Programs for Google Cloud’s CTO Office, the mission of which is to foster collaborative innovation between Google and its most strategic customers around the world. Her technical focus area is AI, and she has a passion for Responsible AI. By keeping her finger on the pulse of the Office’s engagements, and leveraging the deep technical and industry expertise across the team, she identifies themes that are relevant and important for today’s technical leaders.

Morgan holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Krystal is a Software Engineer at Simple Habit, a mental health wellness app with a female CEO. She is committed to increasing the number of female and Latinx computer programmers. Krystal does this by giving technical talks and volunteering. In her talks, she seeks to give a face to those who are not usually represented amongst conference speakers. She believes the more you see, the more there will be.

Krystal is also a huge advocate of equal opportunities in the workforce, especially equal pay. In 2019 she was featured in the #NothingLess Micro Documentary by Hired. In 2018, she gave the talk “Applying Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In principles in technology” as part of the Visionary Voices program. You can reach Krystal through her website at www.krystal-flores.com.

Ms. Adams is the leader of Cloud Innovation Services in IBM Services, North America. She is responsible for the business that performs sales, development, enhancement maintenance, and testing services for on premise and cloud applications. Ms. Adams has more than 25 years of consulting and leadership experience in IT strategy, systems and technology and complex program delivery. She has held several senior leadership roles within IBM, including leading Global Technology Services for the North America Industrial Market. She also led the Chemical, Oil & Gas Industry business supporting North America clients. Prior to her current role, Ms. Adams led the Digital Technology Services organization for Fujitsu Americas. Throughout her career, Ms. Adams has worked closely with clients to create technology strategies that align to their business objectives and key imperatives. Ms. Adams holds a Bachelor of Science degree from California State University, Chico, as well as an MBA from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management.

Ms. Adams currently lives in the Chicago area with her husband Rick and their four children. She is active in the community and sits on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Youth Centers, the Board of Trustees for the Hinsdale Community House, and the Board of Directors for the International Women’s Forum, Chicago.

Corinne Walters Opdyke started her career as a front-end software engineer at APT with a focus on usability. She’s transitioned into the first technical program manager role in Data & Services at Mastercard, building enterprise software for financial institutions, merchant, and beyond. Corinne is passionate about company culture, specifically diversity, inclusion, and engagement. She enjoys personal finance, checks out actual books from the public library, and volunteers with kids. She lives in the DC area with her husband and dog.

Olivia Rose is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Mailchimp, an all-in-one marketing platform for small businesses. Olivia leads Mailchimp’s Security and Abuse Prevention teams to effectively align security initiatives to organizational goals and strategies, while enhancing Mailchimp’s security program maturity and posture.

Olivia has more than 16 years experience advising and consulting executives and C-Level clients on effective measures to reduce and manage risk on their digital transformation journeys. She has held multiple leadership positions, including at IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) and Solutionary (NTT). She also founded QloudSecure, which helped companies like Costco and Google improve their security maturity programs.

Olivia holds numerous IT and security certifications, including CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), CISM (Certified Information Security Manager), CCSK (Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge), and CPHIT (Certified Professional in Healthcare Information Technology), among others, and is an active participating member of several industry groups. She is an accomplished and experienced speaker, having spoken at many local and national events, and is widely regarded as a mentor for new talent entering the field.

Sonali is currently an Advisory Managing Director based in New York office for KPMG LLP, where she is a member of the Forensic Service Line. Sonali focuses on AI, Machine learning, applying advanced data and analytics solutions specific to forensics, Risk consulting, Regulatory Compliance, Surveillance and Due Diligence.

Sonali has more than 18 years of experience in leading data and cognitive analytic solutions using augmented intelligence in financial crimes, information governance, data archiving, and risk and compliance. She is a trusted advisor for AI solutions for global Financial Services Clients.

She has had a diverse career with a core engineering background to leading advanced cutting edge technology solutions with firms such as IBM, HP, Honeywell across the globe.

Sonali has lead engagements in advisory and technology consulting domestically and internationally including Mexico, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada, France, Singapore and Australia

As the CIO of Nutanix, Wendy's focus on enterprise adoption of modern technologies fuels the company's global mission. Wendy also serves on the boards of Qualys, Inc. and Girls In Tech. A consumer tech enthusiast, Wendy has led technology and operational functions for Robert Half, GoPro, Yahoo! and Cisco. Wendy's recent accolades include being named ORBiE's Bay Area Enterprise CIO of the Year, the Fisher Center for Data Analytics' CIO of the Year, and one of HMG's Top Technology Executives. She was also ranked first on Enterprise Management 360's list of Top 10 Tech CIO's, named one of Silicon Valley Business Journal's Women of Influence and listed as one of the National Diversity Council's Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology.

Arushi is one of the founding engineers at WhatsApp Business and helped build the first monetization product for WhatsApp post acquisition. Over the last 3 years at WhatsApp, she has led different spaces of WhatsApp Business; from building the backend infrastructure for business platforms, to designing and building products for small-medium businesses. Today, she works closely with large enterprises across the world to engineer products and help define product strategy for communicating with users via WhatsApp Business.

Pavi Ramamurthy recently joined Upstart as their Chief Information Security Officer. Upstart is the first artificial intelligence lending platform designed to improve access to affordable credit while reducing the risk and costs of lending for their bank partners. At Upstart, Pavi is responsible for their overall security strategy as well as driving and managing security initiatives across the Corporate and Product platforms and also providing security assurance for their partners.

Pavi has close to 25 years of experience working in the software industry with more than 15 years in the security sector. Her previous stints include Anaplan, LinkedIn, VMware, Determina, Vitria Technology and 3Com. Pavi holds a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University, CA and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from University of Madras, India.

Gabby is a UX software engineer who spends her time translating meaningful human needs into great user interfaces and product experiences. She currently works at Playground Global, a Silicon Valley VC firm backing early stage startups. Leveraging her technical and design skills, she supports companies in Playground Global’s portfolio through work on application development, interaction design and product discovery. As a student at UC Santa Cruz, her academic work at the intersection of linguistics and computer science included research on natural language generation and dialogue systems. At Amazon Lab126, she did early prototyping and software development for the Echo, Echo Look, and other unreleased projects. Since joining Playground Global in 2016, Gabby has worked with several startups across diverse applications including robotics, city mobility, home awareness, and augmented reality. While all of the startup companies she works with are building innovative new technologies, Gabby is particularly excited to share her work with Artificial, a company building robotics software tools to close the loop between humans and automation.

As the Business Head (APAC Region), She is leading the global business relationship in USA, China, Japan, Hongkong & other Asia Pacific Regions. She has focused on Go-To-Market Strategy to expand the adoption of Click2Cloud products.

Her true passion is to work on strategies. Currently She is working with Alibaba, Huawei, SoftBank, OTC, Telefonica other cloud providers for customer advisory platform (CAP) and Hybrid/ Multi-cloud Migration strategies.

She is promotor of open-source ecosystem includes; Openstack foundation, OpenSDS, CNCF, Linux Foundation. Apart from her professional career, she is pushing the boundaries, to make a difference in youth empowerment and women in tech– the upcoming Leaders in India. She is excited and looking forward to challenges and more learning experiences!

Patricia Lenkov is a Senior Managing Director with Teneo’s Talent Advisory team. She is widely regarded as a thought leader on board recruiting, corporate governance, composition, and succession.

Prior to joining Teneo, Patricia led Agility Executive Search, a boutique firm she founded in 2008. Agility Executive Search specializes in corporate board and senior level executive search. To date, Patricia has conducted over 300 board searches for corporate clients, as well as, having worked with some of the world’s leading activist investors to recruit board directors. In 2018, Agility Executive Search was named as one of “America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms” by Forbes and was included in the Hunt Scanlon “New York Power 60” List.

Previously, Patricia was a member of the board of director’s practice at Spencer Stuart for four years, and prior to that, she spent six and a half years with Heidrick & Struggles where she conducted board and senior-level search assignments for Fortune 500 companies.

Earlier in her career, she held the role of Assistant Director of the MBA Program at Concordia University where she was also an Adjunct Professor. During her time at Concordia University, the MBA Program was ranked 4th in Canada by Canadian Business Magazine.

Patricia is an active member of the Women and Leadership Advisory Council at Concordia University and is on the Advisory Board of BoardProspects.com, the world’s largest online boardroom community.

Previously, she was a member of the Family Advisory Council of the Komansky Center for Children’s Health at New York- Presbyterian Hospital Weil Cornell Medical Center and the New York Steering Committee of 2020 Women on Boards.

She holds a BA, with distinction, in psychology from McGill University and an MBA from Concordia University.

She recently founded the ½ Percent Project, an animal welfare charity.

Patricia is an active contributor to Forbes.com.

Shweta is a technical leader and a software architect at Teradata with over 14 years of experience in Software Engineering.

She is currently focused on improving the Identity/Access Management experience for developers and customers and is building infrastructural services and API Management for Teradata's Data Analytics platform.

Shweta also co-founded inPHYnity.com to teach physics to high-achieving students and train them to represent the United States in international physics competitions with multiple students qualifying at the national levels including one who qualified to be a member of the 20 person USA Physics Team. She has a Masters in Computer Engineering from Vanderbilt University.

Joanna Sienko has recently joined Faire as an Operations Lead, an online wholesale marketplace for local retailers. Faire leverages prediction algorithms and artificial intelligence to forecast which products will sell faster in order to manage inventory efficiently and streamline the network effects within the international wholesale space.

Prior to joining Faire, Joanna spent 3.5 years at Flexport, a modern Freight Forwarder as a Sr. Global Operations Manager for the Enterprise segment. Joanna managed an Operations Team both in San Francisco and Hong Kong.

Prior to Flexport, Joanna worked in Investment Management at Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, graduated with a dual degree in Economics from McGill University and is presently very involved in the First Round Network community.

Sreeja is a Staff Product Manager at Qualcomm. In her role, she interacts with Wireless Enterprise Providers to align their connectivity needs with Qualcomm’s prolific wireless portfolio. She is excited to play her part in defining the roadmap, features and use cases for the next generation of connectivity solutions which are laying the foundations for IOT and Smart Homes. Prior to Product Management, she scaled up the Engineering Ladder at Qualcomm to become an Engineering Manager.

She has a Masters’ Degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. She has 2 patents in the fields of Wireless and Display technologies.

She has been a speaker and emcee at the IEEE WIE International Leadership Conference, 2019., Women in Silicon Valley Conference 2019 among many others prestigious events.

Sreeja is extremely passionate about promoting and encouraging women in the STEM field and actively works for the cause through the Qwomen organization at Qualcomm as the President of the Bay Area chapter. She acts as the Qualcomm Liaison for IEEE WIE Santa Clara Valley, is a Techwomen Mentor and works with the NCWIT Bay Area chapter on their events. She also Emcees and volunteers for Vibha, a non-profit organization for under-privileged kids and Reading Partners. In her spare time, she loves reading, mentoring and volunteering.

Alexa Smith has been actively engaged in the blockchain space since early 2016, leading partnership and ecosystem development efforts from both the startup and enterprise side.

In her current role with DFINITY, she helps to catalyze development on the DFINITY platform through impactful partner programs. Prior to joining DFINITY, Alexa founded and led BASF’s Blockchain Lab and supported the company's digital innovation initiatives in the Bay Area. She was a founding team member and the Director of Market Development at Xpansiv, a startup focused on the use of data science and cryptography to differentiate commodities based on their environmental and social impact. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and was a Fulbright Fellow to Argentina in 2015.

Nikki is a cloud and software product Director who works with a global team of talented engineers and architects in designing and implementing innovative solutions from product inception to production. After spending over a decade working in product engineering and management for multimillion dollar technology and start-up companies, Nikki believes what truly drives innovation is not only a commitment to technological breakthroughs but also people’s passion in improving everyday lives by building products that leave a lasting impact, disrupt the industry, and are vehicles of change, while providing the best user experience.

When Nikki isn’t working on her next big product release or entrepreneurial endeavors she is spending much needed time with friends and family discussing the latest politics, or simply the meaning of life. She’s an adventurous traveler who also enjoys capturing moments through photography.

Nikki also holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering , M.S. in Electrical Engineering and has a corporate innovation certificate as part of the LEAD program.

Allison Metcalfe is the General Manager of the TV division at LiveRamp, the leading provider of omnichannel identity resolution. Allison is responsible for driving the strategy around bringing people-based marketing capabilities to television. Prior to LiveRamp, she served as the Senior Director of Customer Success at Demandbase. She also brings experience from earlier customer success roles at Jigsaw (now Data.com, acquired by SalesForce) and Equilar. Allison holds a BA from the University of St. Thomas.

She is one of the country ambassadors for Africa Code Week, an initiative supported by Google, SAP, UNESCO and YouthMobile in 37 African countries and a Technovation International Challenge mentor. Through all these co-ordinated efforts, Victoria hopes to conscientise as many young female Africans on the benefits of learning Digital and Coding Skills in relation to STEM and broaden the scope of the uptake of STEM Business Entrepreneurship as a whole towards the development of her country and the African continent. Her work cuts across all spheres of the community and enables corporate stakeholders to have a fuller share in imparting business entrepreneurship skills, digital skills training and empowering young girls and women through mentorship by means of the wide array of STEM initiatives that Girls In STEM Trust provides to ensure that they become 21^st Century Workforce Ready and Fourth Industrial Revolution relevant.

Prior to joining Symantec’s Global Security Office to architect the global risk management program, Melike established the technology risk management program at Common Securitization Solutions, the joint venture of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to monitor the technology risk posture from development to after go-live as part of single securitization initiative. A passionate advocate for empowering and increasing visibility and influence of women in STEM fields, Melike holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and an M.S. in Systems Engineering from University of Virginia. She is CISSP, CIPP/IT, CRISC, PMP and ITIL certified.

Veni Singh is a technology industry veteran who has dedicated her career to building products and scaling businesses at organizations such as Walmart and Visa. Veni currently leads product and engineering at Volition Beauty, a technology startup redefining the beauty industry by combining crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence (AI) to build beauty breakthroughs. She also consults at a leading blockchain startup. Prior to Volition, Veni was Director of Product at Visa where she worked with c-level executives to redesign their payments experience. Before that, she was Group Product Manager at Walmart Labs where she led industry leading initiatives such as Savings Catcher. Earlier in her career, Veni helped Fortune 500 companies redefine their ecommerce strategy as a management consultant at PwC. A software engineer by training, she started her career as a software developer at IBM. Veni graduated with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Pune and master's degree in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University - both with highest distinction. Veni is a dedicated meditator, a trained yoga teacher and an avid traveler.

Deepika is a product geek with a passion for building and leading product teams and working with engineers and designers to build and launch great products that customers love. She is the founder and CEO of SolveforXX an organization, focused on helping entrepreneurs that target the female customer base. She previously led product management for the Amazon Alexa product. Prior to that, she was the head of product management at Marketron and built the first programmatic ad buying marketplace platform for the radio industry; in addition, her entrepreneurial bent of mind led her to co-found a fashion marketplace startup - Hautely based in Singapore. She led product for Intel's IoT and enterprise platforms for many years prior to that. As someone who is passionate about solving the diversity issue in tech, she is proud to have co-founded AWIP (Advancing Women in Product). She has an MBA from the Wharton school, a Master's degree in Computer Science from UC Davis and a Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science from Osmania University. When she is not working, she is an avid yogi and a cinephile.

Emily Howe, known as "Femily" is Silicon Valley's Gender/Equity Strategist. As a Gender/Cultural Studies MA with a big firm tech consulting background, Femily speaks at and advises Silicon Valley on gender, equity, and building a diverse, ally-centered culture. She's an expert media source on women, work and Silicon Valley "bro culture" and has been interviewed on countless podcasts and quoted in publications from The Telegraph to Bustle.

Tracy Stone is the Global Leader for Tech Women @ Intuit, a strategic initiative sponsored by the CTO to attract and recruit, retain and advance technical women. In this role, she works with the leadership team and technologists to develop the strategy and programs to drive increased diversity in tech. Tracy has a degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering and has worked at Adobe, HP and Intel, including leading software development teams. Before joining Intuit, Tracy co-founded and led a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the number of girls exposed to STEM at the elementary and middle school level.

Stephanie Rice leads a team at Yelp within Enterprise Marketing that oversees Yelp's Enterprise events and content creation for Franchise & Mid-Market brands. She is constantly coming up with innovative ways to connect Yelp's senior leaders with national brands. In addition to events, she's also worked with Yelp's largest clients to create case studies, industry reports, product videos and more to showcase how Yelp can strategically partner with multi-location brands. She graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and has been with Yelp since 2014.

Ling is a global customer officer who is passionate about digital transformation which powers the future of work. Her leadership guides the EdCast to a single vision across all customer contacts. The EdCast mission is to enable organizations to create a future ready workforce, enhance employee productivity and build a customer of collaborative innovation.

As a corporate official, Ling is responsible for global customer, and related legal/financing. EdCast is a customer centric organization, as such, Ling also influences marketing, sales, product, and engineering. A serial entrepreneur, Ling has been involved in Public Offerings and acquisitions by Nortel Networks and Amdocs.

Angie Chang is CEO and Founder at Girl Geek X (formerly Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners). Prior to Girl Geek X, she was VP of Strategic Partnerships at Hackbright Academy, a women's engineering school which has graduated over 500+ female software engineers. Angie led partnerships with employers at Hackbright, where she built valuable hiring partnerships (Uber, Slack, GoDaddy, Redfin, Indiegogo and more), launched the mentorship program (enlisting 700+ industry engineers as volunteers in 4 years) and connected countless women to new jobs in tech. Prior to that, she co-founded Women 2.0 in 2006, a media company which promotes women in high-tech entrepreneurship, and Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners in 2008 (now Girl Geek X). She was named in Fast Company's 2010 "Most Influential Women in Technology" and more recently Business Insider named her one of "30 Most Important Women Under 30 In Tech". Angie has been invited by the U.S. State Department to speak on women's high-tech, high-growth entrepreneurship in the West Bank, Switzerland and Germany. In her early career, Angie held positions in product management and web/UI production at various Silicon Valley startups. She holds a B.A. in English and Social Welfare from UC Berkeley.

Sukrutha is the CTO and co-founder of Girl Geek X, and a Senior Engineering Manager at Salesforce. Sukrutha graduated from USC with an M.S. in Electric Engineering. Sukrutha is involved in Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners because she wants to change the world for girls, one geek dinner at a time, and she is passionate about technology, gender diversity, and engineering leadership. Sukrutha was named in Business Insider’s list of “30 Most Important Women Under 30 In Tech“ in 2014 and “San Francisco Business Times 40 Under 40” Tech Titans of 2016. Sukrutha is a new mom to a tiny girl geek and in her spare time trains for races - swimming, cycling and running.

Vanessa has worked as a Senior Sales Leader in IT for 23 years. She retired from Cisco Systems, to run her non-profit , Love Never Fails (www.loveneverfailsus.com) which provides housing and IT Training for survivors of human trafficking. LNF was founded in 2010 when one of her 15 year old dance students was assaulted and sold for a year. Vanessa is a sought after speaker on the topics of human trafficking, diversity and inclusion. She is the recipient of several awards including 2013 Jefferson, 2015 Top 20 Dynamic Women Owned Nonprofits, 2017 Discovery Investigation & People Magazine Everyday Hero Award.

Mike Robbins is a thought leader and author of five books, including Bring Your Whole Self to Work and, the brand new, We’re All in This Together. He’s an expert in leadership, team performance, and company culture. Mike works with clients like Google, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Genentech, eBay, Schwab, the NBA, the Houston Astros, and many others. He’s a regular contributor to Forbes, and his work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as on NPR and ABC News. Mike hosts a weekly podcast and his books have been translated into 15 different languages.

Chaitra Vedullapalli is recognized as an Influential Business Leader with a passion to enable digital equity and access to achieve economic prosperity in our communities. She is the co-founder and CMO of Meylah, focused on helping customers to modernize their business with cloud solutions. Vedullapalli is also the co-founder of Women in Cloud, sits on many boards and drives global conversations with the United Nations and top corporations throughout the U.S.

Using the power of AI, Cloud, and IoT, Vedullapalli Is fiercely committed to empowering business owners to access the digital economy. She is recognized as an author, speaker and change leader, holds a patent, is a TEDx and United Nation Speaker and was honored as a top 100 Small Business Influencer.

Priya Ramesh, President & Founder of CEO Communications LLC is an award-winning communications expert, who has trained Fortune 500 CEOs, global executives and professionals on leadership and communications. She has spent 16 years working closely with the C-Suite at IBM, Microsoft, Intel, HP, Ford Motors, Coca Cola, transforming them into effective leaders.

Sheryl is a Mental Toughness and Certified High Performance Coach™, best-selling author, speaker and mother of three. She's the CEO/Founder of The Zone Lab LLC, and has facilitated local and global workshops for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, Bank of America, Autodesk, Google Ventures and VMware to name a few.

Sheryl is passionate about speaking and coaching women to gain the clarity, confidence and influence to speak up, be heard and unlock their next level of impact.

Sheryl has been a featured guest on various national podcasts, radio shows and as a ThriveGlobal Journal contributor. She opened the The Women of Silicon Valley conference last year and hosted a standing room only workshop.

Her mission is to empower 10,000 female leaders and emerging leaders a year to be Mentally Tough, so they can reach that next level of ambition and joy in their career in a holistic and sustainable way.

Julissa is a global sales enablement leader with over 15 years of experience in various Sales Enablement and Training roles for companies like Hewlett Packard, Adobe, New Relic, and Leanplum. She has trained and mentored many technology sales employees and has a passion for improving the learning experience of sales reps and sales support roles. Being the first in her family to earn university degrees at Sacramento State and St. Mary’s college of California, Julissa enjoys mentoring university students with resume writing and coaching them on interview skills. In her spare time, she appreciates international travel, volunteering for organizations like Vallejo Together which helps displaced families get back on track, and pouring at a Latino owned winery called Bodegas Aguirre in Livermore, CA.

Kaylin is a Product Design Manager at Crunchyroll, the world’s most popular anime brand with 60 million registered users and two million subscribers, and VRV, the fandom-focused video platform. She leads web, mobile, and TV design teams in creating products used by millions of people around the world. Prior to Ellation, Kaylin led design for big-data analytics company Jumpshot, helped found the healthcare company Patch, produced award-winning designs for Disney, Ronald McDonalds, Eric Clapton, and more. Outside design, Kaylin can be found reading, rock-climbing, baking keto-friendly desserts, and hiking North Bay with her husband and two dogs.

Maya Raber is the founder of Tulip Management, a leading management and leadership development training company based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Leveraging Maya’s extensive management experience, Tulip Management has developed a portfolio of classes to address the needs of managers and leaders in the high-tech industry, and has been working with over 80 companies delivering training globally.

Maya held senior level positions in the high-tech industry, building and leading high performance global engineering organizations, and delivering world-class products.

A graduate of the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) with an engineering degree, Maya started her career in software engineering.

Megan Fenyoe is an Air Force Veteran, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Therapist (LCSW), Speaker and Trainer, Host of The Blonde Bombshell Podcast and I Am Enough TV and Founder of the international I Am Enough Movement which is a 501c(3) Non-Profit Organization.

She is an Amazon Best Selling Author and recently published her book You Are Enough: 5 Steps To Move From Struggle To Strength. She has been featured on SiriusXM Radio including the Jenny McCarthy show, multiple TV/Radio Shows and podcasts.

Megan has gone through many struggles throughout her life most recently being involved in a narcissistic abusive marriage. She was left traumatized and this is when she began questioning if she was enough. For many years she was living a life without meaning and purpose.

Megan’s life began to change when she finally said yes to herself and walked away from the abuse. She has successfully transformed every area of her life using her proven 5 Step System and is now am living a vibrant, beautiful life. A life where she truly believes she is enough.

Working as a Mental Health Therapist for the past 15 years, Megan is considered an expert in her field. Her area of expertise is the mind and the way it affects behavior and well-being. Through coaching, leadership, consulting and speaking engagements, Megan has helped hundreds of people accurately assess their challenges and identify ways they can change - capitalizing on the strengths they already have while building new ones. Megan focuses on cognitive restructuring and reality testing thoughts as well as a host of other Cognitive-Behavioral Techniques (CBT).

She has a sustained commitment to facilitating positive transformation and human-to-human connection with each person she works with. Megan’s passion and purpose is to help you (1) build confidence, (2) find clarity in getting what you truly want in life (3) get inspired to take action towards building the life of your dreams, and (4) empower you to believe you are enough!

Holly Jackson is a business coach and owner at Healing with Holly. She’s been building profitable, unstoppable businesses for over 12 years. Holly helps women love their life and career again.

Beginning her career in non-profit, Holly helped build a policy hub for future leaders. She has a thirst for continued education and inspiring others to uncover their passions.

Holly holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a master’s degree in Public Administration.

She is an outdoor enthusiast and health junkie who loves anything with adventure. Holly loves to travel and experience diverse cultures.

Liz is a purpose driven global technology marketing leader with demonstrated innovation experience. She leads integrated digital marketing and social media programs, brand and influencer awareness initiatives, market segment and product portfolio messaging, ground-breaking global partner programs and demand generation campaigns that impacts revenue growth.

For the past three years, she has been awarded CRN Magazine Women in the Channel recognition, and, in 2013, Liz received industry recognition with the Sirius Decision Channel Program of the Year. A Silicon Valley native, she is an outdoor enthusiast, who disconnects from all devices as much as possible to go adventuring.

Adrienne is on the Technology Leadership Team at Cornerstone, a leading Talent Management and Talent Experience software company. As Sr. Director of Business Systems, she develops technology strategy and leads the engineering teams who are creating software and tools to help internal departments get their jobs done efficiently and easily. With her passion for narrowing the gender gap in technology, she also leads the Diversity & Inclusion efforts for the Cornerstone Engineering department, mentors women in technology, and has been a volunteer for Girls Who Code since 2013, hosting weekly coding clubs for middle and high school girls.

Adrienne holds a B.S. in Environmental Systems Engineering from Penn State. She lives in Westchester County, NY with her husband and 3 children.

Marla Sofer is the VP of Strategic Partnerships at Jemstep, a B2B2C digital advice SaaS solution focused on helping Americans invest to achieve their financial goals. Before diving into Fintech in 2015, Marla led institutional partnerships at BlackRock and J.P. Morgan quantified in billions of dollars. She has been a champion of gender diversity, founded two employee women’s networks, and served as a non-profit leader dedicated to social justice.