Jason Sobel, an experienced engineering leader helped build platforms and infrastructure at Airbnb and Facebook. He is a talented engineering leader with nearly 20 years of experience tackling high-scale technical challenges. 

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 VMwares 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 20,000 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 VMwares 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.

As Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Sisense, Ashley leads the go to market and product strategy, brand awareness and revenue growth. Ashley has more than 15 years of executive and technical experience at organizations such as Tableau, Alteryx, Amazon, Oracle and NASA. She has a strong track record of scaling businesses, transforming product and marketing organizations, integrating acquisitions, and effectively delivering product strategy and vision. Ashley’s leadership experience includes building Tableau's cloud product (Tableau Online), driving Alteryx's transformation to a data science platform and leading Sisense's highly customizable, AI-driven analytics cloud platform.

Melanie Francis is Vice President and Chief of Staff in the Office of the CEO at Akamai, where she serves as a key enabler and facilitator acting with, and on behalf of, the CEO. She maintains and executes the internal governance operating model while also providing operational and communications leadership at the senior executive level.

Francis joined Akamai in 2014, when she initiated Akamai’s change management organization. Prior to becoming Chief of Staff for Akamai’s CEO, she served the company across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including organizational change and transformation, business operations, marketing, and software development.

She has built a 25-year career as a catalyst for change in some of the world’s largest and best-known technology companies. She has spent the majority of her career focused on the information security industry, applying her expertise at the intersection of people, process and technology. She has a proven record of accomplishment in delivering successful business outcomes across a wide portfolio of technical and organizational transformations.

Before joining Akamai in 2014, she spent 12 years at Symantec, pioneering new roles in strategy, operations and marketing. She began her professional career as a software engineer for GTE, where she designed and developed communications software for the U.S. Department of Defense and also developed commercially-sold communications systems and encryption technology. She also served in product management and marketing roles for GTE CyberTrust and Baltimore Technologies.

A certified change management professional (CCMPTM), Francis is a founding member of the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) and serves as President of its New England chapter. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in the Honors Program at Stonehill College, and an MBA from the Clark University Graduate School of Management.

Monica Bajaj is a seasoned results-driven technology leader who is very passionate about Engineering innovation, engineering effectiveness while continuing building cool products. She currently serves as a VP of Engineering at Auth0( Acquired by OKTA) in Silicon Valley. Prior to joining Auth0, she was a Senior Director of Engineering and Product at Workday. She brings in almost 20 plus years of industry experience across various companies such as Cisco, NetApp, Perforce and Ultimate Software. She has led products across SaaS, AI/NLP, Storage and Security industries. As an Engineering leader, she has always been focused on building high performing globally distributed Engineering teams aligning with developer productivity, product delivery, and customer satisfaction.

In 2021, she received the “Mentor of the Year award “ by WomenTech Network Organization. In 2020 she was selected as one of the Top 60 Women technical leaders to watch by the Girl Geek X Community across fortune 500 companies . She serves on the board of Women in Localization driving their Technology Programs as a Board Member and Chief Compliance Officer for Women In Localization, a global non-profit organization focused on Women mentorship and localization activities. She is an active speaker and a blogger across several forums in Silicon valley and internationally focusing primarily on diversity, and uplifting women and young girls. She also serves as a mentor on Plato and Everwise. While she is not working she is either spending time with Boy Scouts, hiking or creating cuisines.

She can be reached on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mobajaj/ or at twitter @mbajaj9. She believes in : “Live, Learn, Lead Challenge, Empower and Lift each other”

Suzanna Khatchatrian is a Director of the Data Engineering team at Slack. She is responsible for running Slack's data warehouse, advanced analytics dashboards, and other data services. Prior to that, Suzanna built a brand new engineering team within Product Security that is focused more on proactive security measurements by delivering secure by default libraries and services for Slack. Suzanna is also an active participant in evolving and shaping Slack engineering leadership team and its culture via internship and career development programs.

Prior to joining Slack, Suzanna worked for IBM for almost 20 years. In her last role at IBM she was in charge of Watson Data Platform Security and DevOps teams. Suzanna has also played a critical role in the design and development of various IBM Analytics software products. She has several invention disclosures in the areas of Business Intelligence and Data Management.

As one of the founding members of the Armenian International Women's Association (AIWA) San Francisco affiliate, Suzanna currently serves on the AIWA SF board, where she is leading the scholarship committee and internship programs.

Suzanna holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and an M.S. degree in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.

Heidi Williams is Director of Engineering for Grammarly Business and Grammarly for Developers, our newest product offerings for professional teams and organizations and developers.

At Grammarly, Heidi is inspired by the potential impact the product can have as a platform, with the opportunity to help reduce conflicts and misunderstandings in communication and educate people on how to be more inclusive and equitable.

Before coming to Grammarly, Heidi served as VP of Platform Engineering at Box, founded WEST Diversity and Inclusion, and was co-founder and CTO of tEQuitable, a confidential platform addressing issues of bias, discrimination, and harassment in the workplace. Heidi was at Adobe for 17 years and most notably was a founding engineer on Dreamweaver, which democratized web development in the late 1990s.

Heidi volunteers as a technical advisor for PaymentWorks and Raise For Good and is a mentor for FastForward.org’s tech nonprofit accelerator program.

Heidi studied at Brown University, where she earned a BS in computer science. She also attended Stanford University’s Executive Institute.

Rekha is a product evangelist and technologist with a solid background in product management, strategy and engineering in leadership roles. She currently heads the eCommerce product team at Taco Bell and a firm believer in building simple yet delightful products with seamless experiences that help win both customers and business. Rekha is a strong advocate of Women in Tech, Data and Product and runs mentor circles to advance women in different functions. She's also a featured speaker at various events across the Bay area.

Tiffany Poeppelman is the Director of LinkedIn's Business Leadership Program. She applies emerging and classic talent development approaches to over 100 early career talents annually and supports their diversity hiring and selection efforts that impact the global business organization. She has held key roles at some of the most disruptive companies in tech, and has lived in three different countries across Europe and North America. Tiffany serves on the Executive Board for the Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology. She is a professional speaker to global audiences and mentors professionals and early career talent. She received her Master's Degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Northern Kentucky University, and her Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from Bowling Green State University.

Ingrid Lestiyo brings more than a decade of product strategy experience to her role. She joined the
company in 2016 as VP of Product Monetization. Ingrid currently leads Unity’s Operate Solutions
business unit that delivers Game Services to help customers acquire, engage, and monetize their users as
well as scale their games. In this capacity, she oversees a global team consisting of product management,
engineering, data scientists, sales, marketing, and partnerships.
Prior to joining Unity, Ingrid was SVP of Corporate Strategy for the Rubicon Project, which she joined
through the acquisition Mobsmith, Inc., where she led the mobile ad-serving platform as its co-founder
and CEO. Prior to that, she worked at Yahoo! Inc., and Flickr. Ingrid started her career as an investment
banking analyst at Morgan Stanley in London and Singapore.
She holds a BA and MEng in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from Harvard
Business School.

Kamini is the Head of Infrastructure at Airbnb. She leads several key pillars for Infrastructure including Developer Productivity, Data and Cloud Platform and the Search Infrastructure team. Her teams enable  productivity of engineering teams, provide end-to-end data offering for customers to build and scale products and applications and also enable Search Infrastructure for Airbnb. Prior to Airbnb, Kamini spent 6 years at LinkedIn where she was leading the infrastructure and productivity engineering team for the flagship app for LinkedIn. In addition to her domain expertise, Kamini is a champion for diversity and belonging in the workplace

Tanu is a passionate AI Strategist and Evangelist, bringing in years of experience running complex Digital Transformation Initiatives. She likes to work at the intersection of Business and Technology. She holds an undergrad degree in Computer Science and an MBA in Strategy and Marketing from Indian School of Business. 

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Anusha is a senior software engineer at AWS with 6+ years of industry experience. Working with AWS S3, she leads the design and implementation of a distributed storage service that operates cold storage technology at extreme scale. She has a master's degree in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from College of Engineering Guindy, India. Anusha is passionate about helping women grow in the tech community. Outside of work, she volunteers for Girls Who Code, and is also a scratch programming teacher for middle school and high school students

Naz is a software engineering manager at Netflix leading the Animation Studio Operations team. She is passionate about UI Engineering, Career Development and growth skills.Prior to Netflix, she worked in the Finance industry as a Software Architect, Principal Engineer and Tech Lead.

Naz is dedicated to advancing and growing careers of many engineers across the world. She is an active Career Coach on MentorCruise. She also volunteers with Hour of Code teaching high school girls how to code and serves as a member of MentorCruise and BuiltByGirls to coach engineers.

When she's not working, you're most likely to find her exploring the world, playing games, or curled up with a good book and a cup of coffee.

Jutta Williams is lead PM for Machine Learning Ethics, Transparency and Accountability at Twitter. Formerly, Ms. Williams was a Sr. Tech Lead at Facebook's Central Privacy Office and led regulatory, privacy and security efforts for Google Health, an AI research arm focused on teaching machines to diagnose illnesses. Formerly a Security Engineer and Product Manager for DoD working on crypto systems, she also served as the Chief Privacy, Security and Compliance Officer for two large integrated healthcare companies. She is the former Head of the US delegation to ISO for AI Standards. Ms. Williams graduated with highest distinction from Carnegie Mellon University, earning a Masters of Science in Information Security, Policy and Management. She's married with Beagles, enjoys reading, skiing and HGTV. For the purposes of this panel, Jutta has been working remotely since March 2020 for both Facebook and Twitter - and fully onboarded to my latest position without setting foot in an office.

Erica was born Eric in the early 1970's. Sid and Marty Kroft were on every Saturday morning with random ideas that on the surface seemed completely nonsensical but on deeper evaluation they made perfect scene, or at least that is the way Erica saw things. These worlds with talking flutes and hat people mixed with weekends painting with her grandmother and a dash of ADHD where the fundamental ingredients needed to shape the way Erica would see the world around her and approach all future challenges that came her way.

Not one for ever accepting "We do things this way because its the way it has always been done" Her mother would describe her as "always marching to the beat of her own drum." This mindset has guided Erica down a career path that is uniquely her, full of fun and hair raising problems to solve.

In 2018 Erica joined PayPal to lead a small internal design team at PayPal that is responsible for all of the tools and platforms used to build and run PayPal's business. The task was a daunting one not for the weak of heart, it was just the anxiety induced problem that excited Erica most. Two years later Erica and her team have successfully changed the way the organization operate and think about the user.

Kalina Bryant serves as the Global Head of Customer Advocacy at Asana. She oversees executive customer engagement and advocacy efforts, business development, and customer program strategy for Asana's customers base across the globe. Kalina also runs an engaging podcast and community amplifying the voices of women and underrepresented groups in the technology industry.

Ms. Bryant is also the founder of UnapologeTECH. An e-learning and coaching platform focused on changing the face of business with diversity and providing an inclusive and equitable environment for all. Kalina focuses on career development training and coaching programs for people to thrive in the technology industry and provides resources and community for technology companies to source top talent and current and future employees to reach their full potential.

Kalina has a passion for creating and innovating and has found success in three successful IPOs (Marketo, Anaplan, and Asana) throughout her career. She sits on the advisory board for Saint Mary’s College of California Science Department and the customer advisory board of Crowdvocate. In addition, Adobe has recognized her as one of the 50 Fearless Marketers in the world through her marketing efforts in Silicon Valley.

Andréa Long is a Bay Area native, UC Davis alumna, and business owner. Andréa has worked on event marketing, recruitment marketing, and diversity recruiting initiatives for top tech companies and has led the strategy and execution of programming for Employee Resource Groups. Andréa is currently the Head of Global Employer Brand & Recruitment Marketing at DoorDash and was formerly the Senior Manager, DEI - Recruitment Enablement at DoorDash where she built equity into the recruiting process. In further efforts to increase diversity and inclusion, she co-founded Our Collective, a community resource group that empowers Black and Latinx Employee Resource Group leaders. Andréa is also an entrepreneur, founding Firewood Events in 2012, Swag by Asayo in 2020, and Future Forward Conference in 2021. In all of her work, Andréa takes a people-first approach in order to be as inclusive as possible for people of all identities and backgrounds across the globe.

Parinita has a blend of product operations & technology consulting experience. In her current role with Google, Parinita manages global partner ecosystem & strategy for Engineering product operations & services. Prior to Google, Parinita helped fortune 100/500 companies transform product and quality operations through Global consulting firms such as Deloitte & Accenture.

Over the years, Parinita was able to build successful win-win partnerships with customers and partners, thanks to her negotiation and collaboration skills. Negotiation has been an integral part of Parinita's day to day duties whether negotiating a partnership agreement for Google or convincing her 4 year old to eat veggies. Parinita has identified the lack of negotiation skills in women and is on a mission to empower fellow women in tech to get better at negotiations through proven concepts & frameworks.

An experienced engineer and program manager with a passion for system design, integration and validation, spanning myriad industries, starting from large mining machines(Caterpillar) to medical devices(GE healthcare) to currently, consumer electronics(Apple). I have worked on all aspects of a product lifecycle and enjoy working cross functionally within the company and also externally with CM,OEM and JDM partners. Currently enjoying the role of an Engineering Program Manager, with the Audio team at Apple, and have had the most fortunate opportunity to present the latest Airpods 3rd generation to the world, during the Apple event held on Oct 18th . I am a mom of a 6 year old and married to a wonderful person, who has supported me, through risks and wins.

Cynthia Long is an award winning Continuous Improvement Leader and Strategist.  Over the last 20 years, her passion for Lean Six Sigma has led her to create, innovate, and be a Revolutionary Leader for Continuous Improvement.  She is based in San Diego.

Aji Oliyide is a PMO Mission Lead at Google, writer, and podcaster based in Northern California. An experienced operations leader, Aji's work is focused on building systems and relationships that cultivate understanding and support 'big picture' initiatives.

With over a decade of operations and management consulting experience, Aji has solidified her expertise in operations in both educational and professional settings. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business with an MBA, and Eaton Corporation's General Management Development Program for engineers, Aji spent several years as a Management Consultant.

Today, Aji leads large-scale operational projects for Google, a range of mapping and geographic products that include Google Maps, Google Earth, and Google My Business. Her interest in operations management is inspired by her love for innovation and innate problem-solving capabilities; it's these traits that ignite her creative, analytical mindset.

Vidisha Suman is a Partner with Kearney’s Digital Transformation practice in the Chicago office. She has
over 15 years of industry and consulting experience in the digital space, serving leading companies
navigate the complex journey to become digitally enabled and position themselves for growth through
digital, while safeguarding their business from cyber exposure. She has worked extensively across North
America, Europe, India, Japan, and Australia with leading high-tech, and asset-intensive firms.  Prior to
Kearney, Vidisha worked in the tech industry in India and US with International Business Machines (IBM)
and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). 
Vidisha is an active voice for Kearney in the market on digital and cyber security strategies. She is the co-
author and leader of Kearney’s globally renowned Global Services Location Index (GSLI), a ranking of 60
countries on their potential and fit to deliver business services to global companies, based on financial
attractiveness, people skills and availability, business environment and digital resonance.
She strongly believes that engaged women leaders are fundamental to our commercial success. With
the objective of mentoring women, she founded, and continues to lead, the Women@Digital advisory
board at Kearney with senior client executives operating in the digital and technology space. Her
accomplishments were recognized with the Future Leader award from Consulting Magazine in 2019. She
is also part of the Leadership program class of 2022 run by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

Maya Mancuso manages US business relationships for Bird & Bird, an international law firm with a focus on helping organizations being changed by technology and the digital world. She works with globally ambitious companies on their expansion and growth in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. Maya serves on the Board of Directors and as the Senior Vice President for the British American Business Council of Northern California, a UK/US bilateral trade organization. She is a passionate advocate for the advancement of women in corporate leadership and in the technology sector, serving on the leadership committee for How Women Lead's #GetOnBoard week. How Women Lead is one of the primary actors driving the change in corporate board composition in the US. She is also a member of Tech Bay Area Advocates, where she launched the Women in Tech initiative in 2018. Maya serves as the President of the University of San Diego's Bay Area Alumni Association.

Dr Sonia Guota is a physician leader with an international reputation for expertise in healthcare Artificial Intelligence, subspeciality abdominal CT, MRI, ultrasound, and image guided procedures.
Dr Gupta leveraged her Harvard academic experience and understanding of regulatory requirements to accelerate go-to-market strategies for AI R&D, clinical validation, FDA/CE approval, and customer deployment. Dr Gupta has advised and consulted for Google, IBM Watson Health, General Electric, and several start-ups. Dr. Gupta is the Chair of the Guerbet AI Advisory Board and is an Advisor for MassMutual Ventures Southeast Asia. She is a board member of the American Board of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and an editorial board member of Applied Radiology’s Medical Industry Section. Dr. Gupta is passionate about the possibilities of AI in radiology and mentoring residents/fellows.

Katica Roy is a gender economist and the CEO and founder of Denver-based Pipeline, a SaaS company
that leverages artificial intelligence to identify and drive economic gains through gender equity. In 2020,
Katica was named the 2020 Colorado Entrepreneur of the Year.
Ms. Roy is driven by a passion to eradicate economic inequality and champions the rights of refugees,
women, and children.  An award-winning business leader with more than two decades of experience in
technology, healthcare, and financial services, Katica is credited as a rare combination of expertise in and
passion for gender equity, people analytics, and sales operations. She pours her knowledge and unique
lens into several community and global initiatives, including as a member of Fast Company’s Impact
Council and Bloomberg’s New Economy Forum as well as a former board member of Edge of Seven,
Isabella Bird Community School, University of San Francisco’s Women in Leadership and Philanthropy,
and Book Trust and a member of the Women’s Foundation of Colorado, as well as a 2018 Colorado
Governors’ Fellow.  
In 2017 Katica was named a Luminary by the Colorado Technology Association and in 2019 a Top 25
Most Powerful Woman in Business and a Stevie Entrepreneur of the Year, Gold Award. She is also an
industry entrepreneur, thought-leader, and frequent editorial contributor and speaker.  Katica’s articles
have been published by World Economic Forum, NBC, Fast Company, Fortune, Financial Times, Forbes,
Bloomberg, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, The Hill, The Advocate, Salesforce and Morning Consult.

Pascale Diaine is a Partner at Storm Ventures, a VC firm investing in early stage B2B software. She focuses on sales & marketing automation, AI/ML, IIoT, retail tech, AR, computer vision, and robotics applied to the enterprise space.

Before joining Storm, Pascale founded Orange Fab, the corporate accelerator of the European Telco Orange and managed cohorts including Talkdesk (today worth $3B), Wonolo, Rallyteam (acquired by Workday), Verdigris, Pixlee, and many more.

She also started an alliance of corporations piggybacking on Orange Fab’s deal-flow and helping cohorts land their first Fortune 500 customers. She holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Technology at Compiègne (UTC). Originally from France, she now lives in the US with her husband and two-year old son and is a big beach volley-ball player.

Melinda Yee Franklin is a thought leader and strategist with a sustained track record of successfully enhancing corporate reputation to generate sales revenue and drive business development. She has cultivated a global network of high-level corporate, government, non-profit, and civic leaders
which enables her to execute business initiatives. Through her various leadership roles, she has demonstrated strong expertise in Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG), risk and crisis management, public policy, strategic development, and international affairs. 

In January 2021, Melinda was appointed to serve as the West Region Executive, Community Engagement/Corporate Responsibility at JPMorgan Chase. She is responsible for the development and execution of the firm's Corporate Responsibility strategy and Community Engagement efforts
throughout the Western United States, including California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming. In this capacity, she leads her team’s efforts to shape business initiatives and investments to support local communities and to drive the firm's impact.

In 2021 and 2019, she was named one of the most influential women in Bay Area Business by the San Francisco Business Times. She is the current Chair of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and sits on the boards of the San Francisco
Opera, the National Association of Corporate Directors Northern California Chapter, and the Hotel Council of San Francisco.

Dr. Karydis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). Before joining UCR, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Robotics in GRASP Lab, which is part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). His work was supported by Dr. Vijay Kumar, Professor and Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering. He completed his doctoral studies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware, under the guidance of Prof. Herbert Tanner and Prof. Ioannis Poulakakis.

Dr. Karydis's research program addresses foundational robotics research problems underlying applications in emergency response, environmental sensing, precision agriculture, and (more recently) pediatric rehabilitation. His research seeks to enable existing and new robot embodiments (and teams thereof) to operate in efficient and resilient manners autonomously and/or in cooperation with humans despite the presence of uncertainty associated with action, perception, and the operating environment.

Margo Gaitan is a Manager for Quality Systems at autonomous robotaxi company, Zoox, where she specializes in Document Control and Receiving Inspection. She is also the co-founder of the Latinx Employee Resource Group at Zoox, which was established to engage, support and celebrate the Latin and Hispanic cultures and people at Zoox. Prior to joining Zoox, Margo was the Quality Systems Manager for Celestica Precision Machining where she led the ISO 9001:2015 certification for two sites, the first in the Western U.S. to achieve it. She has also managed quality control and quality assurance initiatives in numerous industries including torque tools, semiconductor and medical devices, and has worked in different capacities from mechanical design engineer, manufacturing engineer to quality engineer. Margo is a lifetime member of SHPE (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers) and has her Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University. Margo strives to use her positive attitude and energy to encourage others to succeed. Having immigrated from Managua, Nicaragua and being from a different background and culture, she understands facing hardships in both education and the workplace. She is inspired daily by her husband and their two daughters.

Nancy Hoque is a Senior Manager at Adobe, a leader within America's Digital Experience business which accounts for $4B in revenue. She is on the Board of Directors for Leadership California, a nonprofit focused on bringing women leaders from Success to Significance in California. A former solutions architect designing communications for the U.S. military at Motorola Solutions, Product Marketer in Cyber Security, and founder of a global Muslim headscarf startup, she is a woman in leadership advocate, discussing the need for more women leader role models and addressed Chancellor Angela Merkel on the topic. She is a Young Global Changer Ambassador for Global Solutions, a NextGen Leader honoree and recognized as a Leadership scholar at UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business. She is part of the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business professional faculty, teaching Audience Focused Communications.

Heather H. Wilson is the Chief Executive Officer of CLARA Analytics. Most recently she was the Chief Data Scientist and Head of Artificial Intelligence of L Brands. Prior to, Heather was the first-ever Chief Data Officer of AIG and was appointed to the US Treasury OFRAC in Washington, DC given her leadership and experience in leading some of the largest financial services organization data programs. Before AIG, Heather was the first female Chief Data Officer at Citigroup and promoted to the Global Head of Decision Science and the Head of Big Data analytics for the bank, where she was responsible for the billion-dollar data program as part of regulatory sanctions to architect and implement a risk and finance data architecture with associated data quality and data risk indices. Heather was tasked with briefing the mayors of New York City, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco quarterly with her team's leading economic indicators and was recognized as one of the Top Big Data Experts in the world. Prior to Citi, she was the Global Head of Information Strategy at Kaiser Permanente leading the next generation data platforms and advanced analytics and was promoted to the Global Head of Innovation at Kaiser running the Advanced Technology organization focused on next generation health solutions across analytics and digital with focuses on telemedicine, streaming data medications, operating room of the future and robotics with MIT.

Heather is a Board of Director member of Equifax serving on the Audit Committee and Technology Committee. She is a Trustee at Shenandoah University (the youngest trustee ever appointed in 2003) serving on the Finance and Investment Committees and serves on the Future Business Leaders of America Foundation Board that she started the age of 18. Heather's most recent five-year work at L Brands included advising the brand CEOs and spearheading several first-of-a-kind artificial intelligence and data analytics initiatives. She created and designed a new business model for the brands to scale their businesses and reach new growth revenue goals with the introduction of a fashion marketplace. As the CEO of CLARA Analytics in the Silicon Valley, Heather was named one of the 30 Most Inspiring Leaders of 2021, The Executive Headlines Magazine named Heather as the Changemaker of the Year for 2021. She has led CLARA to be named one of the best AIFinTech100 companies of 2021, one of the 13 best Predictive Analytics Startups in Santa Clara by The Startup Pill and one of the 101 most Innovative California-based Predictive.

Priya Sodha, M.S. & Certified Gallups Coach, is the founder & CEO of Innergem, a career strategy company with the mission to help women move up the career ladder through workshops & coaching. Priya cares deeply about inspiring women to tap into their inner potential & spends her time developing content & speaking on the topic of identifying your professional brand. Her specialty lies in transformational workshops focused on guiding individuals to develop a deeper understanding of self promotion. Priya is also a certified facilitator and delivers high impact trainings to employees at companies such as PollEverywhere, Bank of America, Assemble HR & more.

Prior to launching Innergem, she was the Executive Director for the Youth Business Alliance where she spent her time addressing the opportunity gap for youth by providing students in underserved communities the resources & tools to leverage their career. In addition to her work, you can find Priya teaching yoga & mindfulness to women in C-Suite to create balance & wellness in the workplace. Priya is a certified RYT Yoga Alliance teacher, mindfulness & meditation coach. Her motto is: It's not a work/life balance but rather, a life/work integration.

Teresa’s purpose is to enable individuals, teams and organizations to unleash their greatest potential. With over 25 years of corporate experience, 15 of those as an Executive, and a vast academic background, Dr. Deveaux is skilled at empowering her clients to raise the bar professionally and often, personally as well. Beyond her work as CEO of Savage Consulting and Co-Mentor-in-Chief at My Corporate Mentor, Teresa is a Professor for the MBA programs at Pepperdine and Antioch Universities. She is also an accomplished athlete, having completed 5 Ironman Triathlons and over a dozen marathons including the prestigious Boston and New York City marathons. Dr. Deveaux is thrilled to be engaging with the WOSV community for this exciting event!

Bringing women into the meaningful, flexible, well-paid work of tech through education and inspiration. We are committed to furthering the presence of women in the tech field through the promotion of the techy mindset. You are techY!

Ling has spent her career driving several successful Start-Ups and credits her success to “building from diversity.” By understanding that a team is successful, with different personalities and different backgrounds, the focus is on the mission. Everyone can get distracted. It's been Ling’s job to guide the energy and focus on the mission. Ling has led as Chief Customer Officer, Chief Commercial Officer, Chief of Staff, VP Business Development & Strategic Marketing, at companies like EdCast, Amdocs, Jive, Savvion and Nortel.

Meshell Baker is the Owner of Meshell Baker Enterprises, founded to help female founders, women
business owners and women leaders empower their teams and employees to develop high-
performance resilience and unstoppable confidence. Meshell, along with her team, leverages her 25+
years of sales and leadership success in more than a dozen countries, to inspire energetic and
collaborative communication. Her clients acquire the knowledge, skills, and support to integrate
success principles and fundamentals resulting in markedly improving confidence and sustaining
profitable results.

Meshell Baker understands that many sellers struggle with fear of rejection, doubt, and imposter
syndrome. She is on a mission to establish confidence as a core tenet for success.
Meshell masterfully and artfully guides her clients to capitalize on their current conditions and
leverage obstacles as opportunities and reenvision their problems as possibilities. She is renowned
for her authentic value-based and no-nonsense approach to selling that inspires clients to confidently
convert more conversations into raving fan clients. Meshell has phenomenal results, accolades,
awards and has compiled an incredible track record of raving recommendations with clients over the
years.

Miriam Haart currently stars in the top 10 hit series, ‘My Unorthodox Life’ on Netflix. Miriam is attending Stanford University and is on track to graduate in 2022 with a degree in Computer Science. Miriam is the youngest teacher at Stanford University. She teaches a class in the Computer Science department on Virtual Reality development. She built several skills within the fields of virtual and augmented reality as well as quantum computing. Miriam has built numerous iOS compatible apps, some of which she’s won awards for. She is the co-founder of Eazitt, a consumer goods app in South Africa. She also served as a project manager at the tech company Yewno, where she created a platform that allows students to research, collaborate, and publish articles in peer-reviewed journals. 

Adonica Shaw is a 3-time TEDx speaker, author, and health and wellness advocate. As an established podcaster, she hosts the Parent Pod which is currently ranked in the top 10% of parenting podcasts globally, as well as the I Surrender and Self-Care Saturday podcasts. And as a health advocate, she also serves as a Mental Health Subject Matter Expert for the Conscious Inclusion Company. She is also known for her work as both a Patient Advocate for the Preeclampsia Foundation and Momma’s Voices, and a voice for maternal health matters after surviving a "Code Blue" Hypertensive Crisis with Preeclampsia just 3 days postpartum.

Named as one of the top 136 Black Innovators in STEM + Arts by Wonder Women Tech, Adonica is the founder of the health-focused internet company, The Wingwomen Inc.. She believes women in particular, need a unique support system to break through the glass ceilings in their lives. She’s committed to providing access to valuable health and wellness information to women and empowering them to be active agents in their wellness.

Adonica is a 2021 Globant “Women Who Build” nominee, and she is also a former public board member for the Healthcare for the Homeless and Farmworkers Board in San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her second book, “Shatter Your Own Glass Ceiling,” is set to be published in 2022.

Tamuri LeAnne Richardson is the owner of TLeanne Speaking Pros LLC located in Vacaville, California. She is a Professional Motivational Speaker, a Certified Mental Health Advocate, an Influential Storyteller, Communications Coach, and an International Best-Selling Author of "The Power of Why II (Why 28 Women started Online Course)", “10 Steps to Becoming a Highly Effective Public Speaker”, "Powerful Affirmations for FemPreneurs", and "Trusting Someone Else's Heart".

Tamuri is the President of the Solano County Black Chamber of Commerce assisting small businesses with organizational development, structure, and marketing strategies to be successful and thrive.

She is also the Chair of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) San Francisco's Black Mental Health Committee, and a known Speaker and Presenter. She helps fight the stigma on mental illness in all cultural communities, specifically the African American community, and encourages all who are in need to seek shame-free assistance in order to have a productive, successful life. She is also an active member of The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc., Oakland – Bay Area Chapter's (NCBW-OBAC) which is committed to provide programs that increase the participation of African American women in economic, civic, entrepreneurial, and human service arenas of their respective communities through education, scholarship, and collaboration. In fact, she has spoken in front of the Senate at the Capital in Sacramento, California as an advocate for mental health where she stressed concerns about legislation to Senators, Assemblymen and Assemblywomen for a better tomorrow.

She is a member of Toastmasters International since 2015. In 2018, she won an award for her speeches entitled, “Reinventing Yourself” and “Stand Up and Stand Your Ground” in the consecutive year at the International Speech contest at the Area and District levels.

Tamuri is also a TedX Coach helping TedX Speakers to have the C-A-M Effect. Captivate, Articulate and Motivate the audience.

Tami Forman is the founding chief executive of Path Forward, a nonprofit organization that empowers stay-at-home mothers and other caregivers to restart their professional careers. Since its founding in 2016, Path Forward has worked with more than 90 companies, including Amazon, Apple, Comcast NBC Universal, Netflix, SAP, Walmart, and Verizon to launch, implement and expand returnships and other return to work programs for mid-career professionals. Eighty percent of Path Forward’s program graduates have converted into full-time employment.

Before founding Path Forward, Tami spent a decade as a tech marketing executive with data solutions provider, Return Path. Before that she worked in book publishing at Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin and held senior-level web editorial positions at iVillage and News Corp.

Tami is a frequent speaker on issues related to women’s participation in the workforce, having presented at the Grace Hopper Celebration, DisruptHR, Tech Inclusion, and the Conference Board’s Women’s Leadership Conference, among many others. She is also a frequent podcast guest on topics related to career and women in the workplace. She writes a career column for Forbes, is a Fairygodboss VIP, and was named by Flexjobs as one of the top 20 career experts for working moms. She also works with the NYC Department of Education helping to achieve gender equity in STEM education in a school system that educates more than a million children. Tami lives in New York City with her husband and two children.

Rhiannon Payne is the author of The Remote Work Era, founder of Sea Foam Media & Technology, and product marketer at Remote (remote.com). Her path to success as a remote worker and entrepreneur has been unconventional, having dropped out of high school to move to California and eventually pursue a career in tech. Since 2015, she has been traveling the world while running her own consulting agency and recently joined the team at Remote. Her book outlines how she made her remote dreams a reality and how other women can go remote and thrive in the new age of work.

Shawna Robins is an international best-selling author of 2 books - Powerful Sleep – Rest Deeply, Repair Your Brain and Restore Your Life, and Irresistibly Healthy – Simple Strategies to Feel Vibrant, Alive, Healthy and Full of Energy Again.

Her signature program, Irresistibly Healthy, an online wellness program for women who want to reset their habits and change their lives.

Shawna is a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach, a graduate of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, and a certified Miracle-Minded coach with Marianne Williamson.

Shawna has been featured on several podcasts and in Authority Magazine, Thrive Global, and The Huffington Post.

A free download of her latest book can be found here: www.shawnarobins.com You can follow her on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.