Why Attend ?

Sophie Ross is the Global CEO of the Technology segment within FTI Consulting. She has more than 20 years of experience in company management, strategic leadership and operations in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Ms. Ross specializes in helping clients manage their data in the context of compliance and risk, and leads global Technology segment strategy and execution across Information Governance, Privacy & Security, Digital Forensics & Investigations, E-Discovery Consulting & Services, Managed Review, Corporate Legal Operations and Blockchain and Digital Assets practices. Her consulting expertise includes e-discovery and high-stakes document review through predictable pricing models, applying analytics and simplifying the complex layers of discovery management.

Join Sophie's session 'Altered State: Digital Risk Management in the Wake of Business Disruption and Technology Acceleration'

Jameeka Green Aaron is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Customer Identity Cloud - Auth0, a product unit of Okta. She is responsible for the holistic security and compliance of Auth0’s platform, products, and corporate environment.

She is a recognized industry leader and brings 25 years of experience to the role, with a career that has spanned a wide variety of industries in both information technology and cyber security, including aerospace and defense, retail, and manufacturing, at both Fortune 100 and privately held companies—including Nike, Hurley, Lockheed Martin, and the U.S. Navy.

Jameeka lives in Irvine, CA, with her husband Amilcar who serves as Diversity Equity and Inclusion Commission for the City of Irvine. She is committed to advancing women and people of color in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. She has participated in the U.S. State Department’s TechWomen program, the National Urban League Young Professionals and the National Society of Black Engineers. She is an advisor for U.C. Riverside Design Thinking Program, a board member of Digital Brands Group, a member of Chief and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Elaine Zhou is the Chief Technology Officer for Change.org, the world’s largest nonprofit-owned tech platform for social change with more than 450 million users worldwide. As Change.org's technical leader, Elaine leads a global engineering team of 70+ and growing to drive Change.org to the forefront of responsible AI, elevate the platform capability and scalability utilizing distributed cloud infrastructure, and engage repeat users through accessibility and a delightful experience.

Join Elaine's session 'Creating Richer Automation Solutions'

Helen Holder is the Chief Technologist for HP Personal Systems. In her time at HP, she has built a track record of delivering innovative products, features, and services based on high-impact technologies, including new computing architectures, IOT, printed electronics, and displays. She also leads HP's long-term research on the future of compute.

Before becoming Chief Technologist, Helen was a Distinguished Technologist in HP Labs, where she was a thought leader on ambient and distributed computing. Prior to that, her early career included groundbreaking work in sustainability, which led to her appointments to the National Academies of Science committee on the Evaluation of Safer Chemical Substitutions and the California Green Ribbon Science Panel, advising the state on green chemistry and alternatives assessment.

Helen received her Bachelor of Science from MIT and her Master of Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She has written many technical papers and holds 21 patents.

Fun Fact: I'm a professional singer and conductor.

Teresa Dietrich is the Chief Product & Community Officer at Stack Overflow, where she is responsible for evolving and executing Stack Overflow's product strategy.

Previously she worked at McKinsey New Ventures as Global Head of Product & Engineering, where she played an instrumental role in creating and scaling their B2B SaaS products, built and led product development teams across the globe, and fostered a culture that attracted and developed top talent. Prior to McKinsey New Ventures, Teresa was Chief Technology Officer at Namely, and held several leadership roles at WebMD and AOL. Teresa is a Board Member for the Oklahoma School of Science and Math Foundation, the technical magnet high school that ignited her passion for learning and technology.

Teresa earned her Master of Science from George Mason University and continued on as an adjunct professor; she earned her bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

Join Teresa's session 'Building the Future of Work without Burning Out Your Workforce'

As Senior Vice President of Corporate Operations Strategy, Leah drives Oracle's business operations and M&A integration strategies. This includes a focus on the operational changes required across Oracle's people, processes, and systems to support customer success, partner success, employee success, and ultimately, Oracle's ongoing growth and operational excellence. In addition, Leah is responsible for strategic communications and Oracle's executive sponsorship program, which matches Oracle executives to strategic clients to ensure they maximize their investments and achieve superior value.

Since 2014, Leah and her team have managed the integrations of more than 20 acquired companies, valued at more than $15 billion, and they have led Oracle's transformation from a product-oriented company to a service-oriented company, with a multi-billion dollar cloud business that is growing rapidly.

Join Leah's session 'Fireside Chat: Creating Valued Customer-Enabled Technical Teams'

Happy has undertaken a variety of technical roles through her 20+ year career, starting as a developer and growing into a seasoned executive leader. She's participated in companies in various tech sectors including financial, enterprise, and business to business. She's also built and managed teams in companies at various stage of growth including series A+ start-ups all the way through large public businesses. PayPal, ServiceNow, Fortinet, and Everbridge are but a few. Keys to Happy's success include a skillful ability to identify and apply technical talent and a strong customer-centric business acumen. Knowing what your customers want, and what motivates your teams, and being able to combine those is a rare and powerful talent.

Fun Fact: Happy was born in Shanghai. Despite being born in China, she received her English name, "Happy", because her parents wished her happiness throughout her life. Her Chinese name, "Haibei", followed her English name. Happy is a big foodie and loves to chase amazing restaurants around the world and to cook amazing meals of her own.

Join Happy's session 'Fireside Chat: Creating Valued Customer-Enabled Technical Teams'

Maria is MuleSoft's VP of Engineering at Salesforce where she leads a distributed organization of 200+ engineers across North America and Argentina. MuleSoft is in the forefront of application integration and hyperautomation. As a technical leader, Maria focuses on enabling MuleSoft's customers to automate their software systems, regardless of whether they are on-prem, in the cloud, or legacy.

Prior to MuleSoft, Maria spent 5 years in Salesforce Analytics Cloud where she led an engineering team in the Data Platform area. The portfolio of products she was responsible for included a cloud ETL tool, external connectors, data prep tool with ML, and integration with Salesforce’s ecosystem.

Earlier in her career, Maria worked on various database products.

Fun Fact: Maria has a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance. She dreamt of playing the bassoon in the New York Philharmonic which was never realized. Today she uses her performance skills regularly in her role as an engineering leader.

Join Maria's workshop 'Lightning Talk: Embracing Automation - Key to Scaling Your Business' (Exclusive to Premium Ticket Holders Only)

A Global executive in leading strategy, planning and transformations, while driving product/program portfolio with operational excellence in high growth mode. Driving change in ambiguous and conflicting environments while leading global cross functional teams in highly matrixed and complex organizations.

Proven to deliver business results with strong business partnership and "customer first" mindset. Leadership in driving complex initiatives that require strategic change management, to develop the change vision for success, implementable roadmaps for the "big picture", and attain measurable business outcomes.

Fun Fact: I have visited more countries in the world than states from my home country!

Join Rani's workshop 'How To Lead Complexity Globally During Highly Uncertain and Disruptive Times' (Exclusive to Premium Ticket Holders Only)

Nupur Srivastava has 20 years of experience working for Microsoft, Google and Cigna and other companies in Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals, and Consumer Products. Her immense customer focus and her work experience in leading teams, business and technology with resilience have guided her career journey. She is a Director Technology Strategist, as Client facing CTO leading one of the largest customers for Microsoft. She Engages with Business and Technical leaders helping them digitally transform their business with the next generation innovation. She has a deep technical expertise in Big data and AI and has been a chief architect for several large-scale platform implementations like customer 360, ML and Data fabrics. Nupur speaks in various conferences like MS Inspire, Digital Transformation Academy, Women in AI guiding on individual career Transition journey. Nupur is an Electrical and Computer Engineer and has an executive master's in technology management from Columbia University.

"My Purpose is to overcome social barriers by building allainces and by empowering individuals and organizations to achieve more through Inspiration, Innovation and Impact."

Fun Fact: I love to Ski and I am able to ski down some of the most difficult terrains today, but I fell over a 100 times while learning it five years ago!