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Cheryl O’Donoghue, MS is the author of three books focusing on emotional intelligence leadership, including the newly released How to Be an Emotionally Intelligent Leader and the 2019 release of the popular How to Be a Woman in Technology. As Founder of Emotional Intelligence (Ei) Leadership Resources, she works with organizations to transform corporate cultures through proven Ei practices, training and tools. Cheryl is also president of the nonprofit, Mission Sisters Who Work. Mission Sisters helps women in business and STEM to close the gender gap, taking the reins in their own careers with empowerment training, support and scholarships.

Alley is a design producer at USAA’s Chief Design Office. She specializes in human-centered design, digital strategy, and product management. She is also a newly minted Women in IT – Silicon Valley “Digital Transformation Leader of the Year” awardee and a two-time TEDx speaker.

Alley served on former Mayor Bloomberg’s first digital team to implement the City of New York’s premier digital road-map. The experience catalyzed successful digital campaigns with Dell, AIG, ExxonMobil, Neste US, Budweiser, and Takeda Pharmaceuticals. With LeverageSports, she worked on virtual reality campaigns for the University of Houston and the University of Minnesota football teams.   

Prior to joining WMG in 2017, Bernadette started her career in Technology at Accenture before moving to Adecco Group as Group Vice President, Global Head of Solutions.  As an advocate for the advancement of women in technology, Bernadette founded Women in Tech at WMG in 2017 with a mission to assist women achieve their career goals.  Bernadette also sits on the WMG’s Diversity & Inclusion Council. 

She is a board member of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and a member of the CIO Innovation Advisory Network at Lightspeed Venture Partners.  Bernadette holds a Master’s degree from NYU.  

DeAnnah Stinson Reese is CEO and Principal Consultant for E3 Professional Services. DeAnnah has 10+ years of experience in equitable hiring, retention, DEI education, and career development. DeAnnah and her team educates, equips, and empowers minorities to advance in their careers using her proprietary career strategizing model while also partnering with companies to diversify their leadership by creating more equitable workplace cultures. As a corporate equity educator and strategist, DeAnnah helps companies to understand the power of biases, privilege, race, and social injustices to strategize ways to cultivate truly diverse and inclusive workplaces that retain top diverse talent. More importantly, through her unconventional corporate workshops, participants are able to explore, challenge, and expand their perceptions of race through a humane social justice lens. Using her expertise, she has been able to change how underrepresented groups advance their careers and how companies dismantle corporate inequality. DeAnnah is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, a partner with Fortune 500 companies, and has been featured in a variety of media outlets. 

Early is a venture partner, blockchain investor, & advisor. His focus consists of driving digital transformation for financial institutions. He actively advises various digital asset exchanges, crypto-friendly banks, FinTech companies, and venture funds. 

With over 8 years of blockchain experience; Early is a lifetime member of the Bitcoin Foundation since 2013.  He is also a member of the Global Digital Finance. His involvement is in guiding the framework and best practices for compliant utilization of digital assets.

Gladys Kong is CEO of UberMedia and an expert in mobile technology and data solutions. Since being named CEO in 2015, Gladys has been responsible for assembling a best-in-class data science team and pivoting it from a social media app developer to a leading mobile data and analytics company.

In 2015 and 2016, Gladys was named one of Business Insider’s “30 Most Powerful Women in Mobile Advertising.” In 2016, Mobile Marketer named her one of the 25 “Mobile Women to Watch”. Her expertise and passion for innovation have directly contributed to UberMedia being ranked #16 in The Wall Street Journal’s Top 50 Start-Ups.

Helen Yu believes real growth thrives at the crossroads of #tech and #humanity. Ms. Yu has led multibillion-dollar revenue growth and profitability for pre-IPOs and Fortune 500 enterprises, including Oracle and Adobe. After watching many start-up technology founders rise and fail, Ms. Yu launched Tigon Advisory in 2017 as a growth accelerator.

She has been named a Top 10 Global Influencer in Digital Transformation by IBM, Top 50 Women in Tech by Awards Magazine, Top 35 Women in Finance by Onalytica, Top 10 thought leader in Cybersecurity, AI and Marketing by Thinkers360. You can find Ms. Yu on Twitter @YuHelenYu.

Jani is Co-Founder and VP of Sales at Brella. An experienced sales professional, he works for software that brings people together in a modern way in events. Advocating to bring more empathy in everyday life, sales and the workplace. 

Jo Peterson is vice president of cloud and security services for Clarify360. 

Currently ranked as #5 on the Rise Global Cloud Power 100 as well as #2 on the Rise Global Cybersecurity Power 100, a Top Woman in CyberSecurity by CyberCrime Magazine and a 2019 Channel Influencer by Informa. Jo is a 2016-2020 CRN Women of the Channel Recipient. She is a member of the Forbes Technology Council. 

In 2020, Thinkers360 listed Jo as one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders and Influencers to follow on social media and Onalytica listed her as one of the Top 100 Cloud Influencers.

Kathryn Ullrich is an executive recruiter with leading global search firm Odgers Berndtson. She focuses on senior executive searches for technology companies and senior IT leadership roles. 

Prior to executive search, Kathryn worked in software product marketing, strategy consulting and engineering. She is founder of a Silicon Valley non-profit for women in technology and a partner of Athena Alliance helping women into board roles. Kathryn is author of Getting to the Top: Strategies for Career Success.

Kathryn has a BS cum laude in electrical engineering from University of Michigan and MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Kiki Mwiti is the Founder and CEO of DYVVYD (divvied, divide, diversified), which is the tech industry’s 1st diversity and inclusion platform and digital community for VCs and startups. DYVVYD leverages AI and machine learning to provide overlooked and often underestimated founders the power to access capital. The platform targets investors who are “ahead of the curve” in terms of prioritizing investments in underrepresented founders—such as women, people of color, LGBTQIA and older founders and provides a digital community where both investors and founders can be introduced foregoing barriers such as the warm intro or elite network.

Matthew Douglas is the Chief Enterprise Architect for Sentara & Optima Healthcare, which employees over 30k employees in Virginia. He is responsible for over $60 Million in Healthcare IT budgets and the architecture and the operations teams supporting it. 

Matthew has 25 years of experience as a global IT executive with expertise across multiple verticals, building, and managing large-scale networks and enterprise applications. This includes 10 years of experience in cloud technologies “when cloud wasn’t cool” he has expertise in machine learning, AI, and infrastructure architecture with decades of experience with large scale application life-cycle development from concept to production. 

Natalie Au founded her consultancy with a simple mission in mind – to drive impactful work that’s gender equitable, inclusive & empowering across the private and public sector. Her expertise in gender, safeguarding, diversity and inclusion stems from a 15-year career in international development. She’s happiest using her expertise in unconventional ways, whether it’s building tech products or improving organisational performance. 

Natalie is also a Strategic Advisor for W.E. Can Lead. She holds an M.A. in International Politics and Human Rights from City University in London and B.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies from Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Parneet Pal is a Harvard-trained physician, working at the intersection of lifestyle medicine, behavior change and technology. Her focus is regenerative wellbeing – how we can optimize personal and planetary health. 

She is currently the Chief Science Officer at Wisdom Labs, a San Francisco-based company solving for stress, burnout, anxiety and loneliness in the workplace, using the science of mindfulness, resilience and compassion.

An educator and communicator at heart, Parneet is an international speaker; podcast host at Wise@Work podcast; a TEDMED scholar; writes for various publications including Harvard Business Review and was featured on the cover of Mindful magazine.     

Rajkumari Neogy is an epigenetic coach and executive consultant focused on the intersection of neurobiology, culture and empathy in today’s business world. Possessing a rare blend of scientific prowess and emotion, Neogy believes that passionate self-reflection coupled with dedicated curiosity define true leadership. Specializing in the technology sector, Neogy has worked with high-powered, worldwide organizations for more than two decades, training leaders at Google, Facebook, Adobe, Indeed, Slack, Salesforce and numerous others.

She holds a master’s degree in Transformative Leadership Development from the California Institute of Integral Studies and is the author of “The WIT Factor: Shifting the Workplace Paradigm by Becoming Your Optimal Self.” Neogy is based in San Francisco.

Prof. Sally Eaves is a highly experienced Chief Technology Officer, Professor in Advanced Technologies and Global Strategic Advisor, Author and Speaker on Digital Transformation, Sustainability and Social Impact. She specialises in the application of AI, Cloud, CyberSecurity, Blockchain, IoT & 5G disciplines for both business and societal benefit at scale. Sally is Senior Policy Advisor for the Global Foundation of Cyber Studies & Research and has founded ‘edtech’ enterprise Aspirational Futures to enhance accessibility, inclusion and diversity in education, technology and beyond. 

Stephanie is the senior vice-president of Technical Operations at SS&C Intralinks, she leads a team responsible for the daily operations of the Intralinks products; her team tests and deploys software, manage the infrastructure, and ensures the security, auditability, and reliability of the Intralinks products.  Prior to joining SS&C, Stephanie held leadership roles in IBM Watson Health and Commerce solutions.

With over 25 years of experience in technology, project and product management as well as business operations, Stephanie is a well-rounded executive who strives to practice servant leadership and supports her teams to deliver on commitments while providing an outstanding customer experience. 

Varsha Makharia is a Domain & Business Solutions Head for Tata Consultancy Services, a multinational Information Technology services and consulting company headquartered in Mumbai, India. With 21 years of experience in the IT services industry, predominantly in the Travel, Transportation and Hospitality business unit, she is the go-to person for growth & transformation strategy, business solutions and nurturing domain talent within her business unit. Recognized as a Contextual Master within TCS, her sought after and insightful articles and points of view on industry trends are a testament to her experience and expertise. Multi-lingual (fluent in 4 languages) and multi-faceted, Varsha is a regular speaker at webinars hosted by TCS.

Currently the Global CIO for MullenLowe Group – part of the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) – Veronica Millan oversees the global technology organization. She is responsible for integrating and transforming technology in her agencies.  

Prior to this role, Veronica led teams in North and Latin America and was also named as CIO Magazine’s “Ones to Watch.”  Veronica has a PhD, mentors women in business, and promotes DEI in the corporate world.  With experience in the Americas and Europe, Veronica has a global perspective that permeates her professional and personal life; she is also fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.