44 Inspiring Women Tech Leaders — International Women’s Day is March 8, 2022
44 Inspiring Women in Tech You Should Know:
1 — Ali Littman (Director of Engineering, Modern Health)
Experienced manager-of-managers speaking at Elevate about how to get yourself promoted
2 — Aliza Carpio (Director, Tech Evangelist, Autodesk)
Serial tech evangelist will be speaking at Elevate about how to strategize and find your next job
3 — Angie Chang (Founder & CEO, Girl Geek X)
Serial entrepreneur founded Women 2.0 and Girl Geek X, built mentorship programs and hiring partnerships at Hackbright, hosts Elevate
4 — Arquay Harris (VP of Engineering, Webflow)
Morning Keynote speaker at Elevate (March 8) on decision-making at scale
5 — Ashu Ravichander (Principal Product Manager, Workday)
Experienced PM with bipolar disorder speaking at Elevate about building a scaffolding to hold you up through your highs and lows so you can bring your best to work when you need to
6 — Brook Shelley (Engineering Manager, Infrastructure, Slack)
Moderating a Slack engineering leadership panel on individual contributors and engineering management at Elevate
7 — Camille Tate (Head of Talent, Strava)
Speaking at Elevate about how Strava rewrote their hiring playbook to support the company’s antiracism value and build a diverse engineering team
8 — Caroline Chan (VP & GM, 5G Infrastructure Division, Network Platform Group, Intel)
Speaking at Elevate about the value of diversity and inclusion in tech
9 — Clare Martorana (Federal Chief Information Officer, Office of Management & Budget, Executive Office of the President)
Speaking at Elevate about building a team transforming government services for millions by putting people at the center of everything they do
10 — Divya Mahajan (Director of Architecture, Fidelity Investments)
Speaking at Elevate about GraphQL and AppSync, AWS’s implementation of GraphQL
11 — Elyse Gordon (Senior Director of Engineering, Strava)
Experienced engineering leader speaking at Elevate about how Strava evolved their technical hiring to build diverse engineering teams
12 — Erin Perkins (CEO & Founder, Mabely Q)
Accessibility educator speaking at Elevateabout her personal experiences working as a deafblind woman in tech, and challenging us to improve accessibility across the board
13 — Heather Natour (Head of Engineering, Seller & Consumer Growth, Opendoor)
Engineering leader speaking at Elevate about career growth
14 — Hema Chamraj (Director, Technology Advocacy, Ai4Good, Intel)
Moderating at Elevate the Intel executive panel on diversity in tech and AI
15 — Huma Abidi (Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence Software Products, Intel)
Speaking at Elevate about ensuring more bias-free AI
16 — Izzy Clemenson (Senior Staff Engineer, Slack)
Speaking at Elevate about successfully launching large, cross-functional initiatives as a lead engineer
17 — Jen-Mei Wu (Community Organizer)
Former ESG skeptic speaking at Elevate about how motivated justice-minded artists, engineers, and strategists can make an outsized impact with cryptocurrencies and Web 3 projects
18 — Jenn Clevenger (Senior Director of Data Engineering, Etsy)
Speaking at Elevate on an engineering leadership panel on managing managers and projects successfully
19 — Jiahan Ericsson (Senior Director of Engineering, Ironclad)
Interviewing the afternoon keynote speaker at Elevate on raising awareness, smashing stereotypes, challenging prejudice, effecting change, and championing equality
20 — Jill Schweitzer (Product Lead, Front)
Speaking at Elevate about how product, engineering, and design strive to work together happily at Front
21 — Julie Choi (Chief Growth Officer, MosaicML)
Speaking at Elevate about her career journey through several tech companies, including a few unicorns and bluechips, to her current startup making ML training better for everyone
22 — Kaitlin Fink (Product Design Manager, Front)
Speaking at Elevate about sharing customer insights and collaborating across teams at Front
23 — Kamilah Taylor (Head of Financial Products Engineering, Gusto)
Speaking at Elevate about engineering leadership strategy, managing managers, and more
24 — Kristen Warms (Senior Program Manager, R&D Learning Enablement, Atlassian)
Speaking at Elevate about how we can create human-first experiences at work, redefine what it means to be successful, and as a result, open the door to tech careers that celebrate and affirm our humanity
25 — Laura Florescu (ML Researcher, MosaicML)
Speaking at Elevate about her journey to ML research and the exciting things she is working on at MosaicML
26 — Leena Mansour (Engineering Manager, Slack)
Speaking at Elevate on engineering management (versus working as an individual contributor)
27 — Leyla Seka (COO, Ironclad)
Afternoon Keynote speaker at Elevate (March 8) on her extraordinary professional journey, from successfully pushing for gender pay equity at Salesforce to co-founding Black Venture Institute
28 — Maria Lucena (Director of Architecture, Fidelity Investments)
Speaking at Elevate on GraphQL and AppSync, AWS’s implementation of GraphQL
29 — Melissa Andrews (Sales Engineering Manager, Splunk)
Speaking at Elevate about how to break into sales engineering as a mid-career entry point into tech
30 — Michelle Yi (Senior Director, Applied Artificial Intelligence, RelationalAI)
Speaking at Elevate about why knowledge is the future of data, and demoing relational knowledge graphs in action
31 — Mina Markham (Staff Software Engineer, Slack)
Speaking at Elevate about her career as a staff software engineer, one of the key members of a technical team
32 — Mina Hsiang (Administrator, United States Digital Service)
Speaking at Elevate about the gnarly challenges of government tech, tech as a team sport, and how they are building a team transforming government services for millions by putting people at the center of everything they do
33 — Raji Subramanian (VP of Engineering, Opendoor)
Speaking at Elevate about how to set the right goals for yourself, deconstruct common career roadblocks, and share approaches to deliver measurable impact that will get you noticed as you rise toward the top in your career
34 — Reeny Sondhi (Chief Security Officer, Autodesk)
Speaking at Elevate about becoming the role model you wish you had
35 — Rocio Montes (Senior Engineering Manager, GitHub)
Speaking at Elevate about how to strategize and find your next job
36 — Rukmini Reddy (SVP of Engineering, Platform, Slack)
Speaking at Elevate about engineering leadership
37 — Shailvi Wakhlu (Senior Director of Data, Strava)
Speaking at Elevate about why and how you need to #HumbleBrag at work
38 — Sharon Hunt (Head of Product, Clovers)
Speaking at Elevate about how to strategize and find your next job
39 — Sukrutha Bhadouria (Director of Engineering, Salesforce)
Moderating at Elevate an engineering panel on strategy, leadership, and more
40 — Susanna Holt (VP of Strategic Technologies, Autodesk)
Speaking at Elevate about how to become the role model you always wanted
41 — Tiffany To (VP of Product Management, Atlassian)
Speaking at Elevate about how to learn from failure
42 — Tracy Stampfli (Principal Engineer, Slack)
Speaking at Elevate about successfully launching large, cross-functional initiatives as a lead engineer
43 — Vrushali Patil (Head of Platform, Front)
Speaking at Elevate about how product, engineering, and design strive to work together happily at Front
44 — Willie Hooykaas-Baldwin (VP of Engineering, Salesforce)
Speaking at Elevate on an engineering leadership panel
These 43+ inspiring women speakers will be live-streaming at ELEVATE Conference in celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2022.
Join us and thousands of fellow women and allies! Everyone is welcome to tune in to the live stream. Details & FREE RSVP!
Plus, our sponsors are HIRING! Check out open jobs at Strava, Slack, Atlassian, Autodesk, Front, Intel, Ironclad, MosaicML, Opendoor, RelationalAI, Splunk, US Digital Service, and Fisher Investments!
