Cheryl is an author of female empowerment books, CEO of EiLeadershipResources.com and longtime advocate of DEI initiatives. She is passionate about the work of Aspire2STEAM.org, a nonprofit she established to provide scholarships and mentoring to overlooked young women and girls pursuing education and careers in STEAM. Many scholarship recipients are working to pay for their own training, certification or college while attending classes and supporting their families. Many had to put their educational goals on hold due to the pandemic. Those supporting Aspire2STEAM.org change lives and are the hands that help underrepresented young women up and over these significant barriers.

LinkedIn: @Cheryl O’Donoghue MS and @Aspire2STEAM.org

Twitter: @Aspire2STEAM.org

Facebook: @Aspire2STEAM.org

Aly is a SaaS Customer Success professional with a passion for DEI and policy reform that actually makes a difference. She desires to bring a down-to-earth approach to diversity and inclusion that leads to true empowerment for those of underrepresented identities. Aly is currently pursuing a degree in Organizational Leadership with a focus on D&I. In her spare time, she is focused on building Tech(ish), a new social club, which will cater to first-gen, non-technical, and others underrepresented in technology. She is in the fight towards real equity for Womxn of Color in the workplace and beyond.

Corporate attorney turned fashion tech and sustainability entrepreneur, Stephanie is the Co-Founder of Queen of Raw, a marketplace to buy and sell unused textiles, keeping them out of landfills and turning pollution into profit. Prior to starting Queen of Raw, Stephanie worked as a lawyer in the fashion, media/entertainment, start-up, and technology industries and co-founded a sustainable textile manufacturing facility. An advocate for women in business and sustainability, her companies have been featured in NPR, Good Morning America, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, WWD, ELLE, Cheddar, Parade, WCBS, United Nations, Fortune, Entrepreneur, WIRED, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and Fast Company. Stephanie is a 2020 Inc. Female Founders 100, NASA/NIKE/IKEA/DELL LAUNCH.org Innovator, a Grand Prize WeWork Creator Awards Winner presented by Ashton Kutcher, a Cartier Women’s Initiative Laureate, an MIT – Solve Global Challenge Winner, a Climate Change Finalist in Mohammed bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity, a Finalist for The Elevate Prize, a thredUP Circular Fashion Fund Recipient, and an LVMH Innovation Award Finalist. She is a Member of Pledge 1% and New York Circular City Initiative and Founding Member of Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network, along with Aveda, Kering, and Stella McCartney. 

Allie Brandenburger is Co-founder & CEO of TheBridge (thebridgework.com), a non-partisan organization breaking down silos and connecting professionals across tech, policy and politics. Allie is unique in her ability to speak the language of innovation and regulation, and helps companies and individuals translate between and navigate these ecosystems. She has extensive experience at the highest levels of politics, government, advocacy and tech. Allie has worked with some of the most innovative tech companies and coalitions, advocating on a broad range of tech policy issues. Allie on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/abrandenburger. 

Madison Butler is a New Englander at heart but moved to Austin in 2017. Her work is focused around creating equitable spaces and creating scalable strategies to achieve psychological safety. She is an outspoken advocate for mental health, destigmatizing trauma, DEI and the ability to be “human at work”. She is passionate about facilitating hard conversations through storytelling, data and tough empathy. Madison is committed to deconstructing the status quo and rebuilding corporate America, one organization at a time. Her mission is to ensure that no one ever feels like corporate spaces were not made for them, and they can live, work, and exist out loud. She is a start-up enthusiast and is passionate about building inclusive teams from the ground up with early stage companies. Madison is committed to helping change the narrative around what it looks like to be “human at work”, and hoping to help alleviate unconscious bias in corporate America.

John Comacchio is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Teknion Corporation, where he is responsible for providing enterprise-wide technology vision, leadership, and management. He is a member of the Leadership Team and the Executive Committee. Passionate about mentorship and developing future leaders, he is a mentor in the Teknion Mentor program.

Previously, John was a Principal at KPMG Consulting, General Manager US Interactive Toronto, the Information Technology Officer at Nissan Canada, and a member of the Nissan North America CIO Council. John also sits on a series of Technology Advisory Boards, bringing external strategic insights into view.

John holds a Master of Business Administration, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario

Angela is the founder and CEO of Laudable, a startup making it easier (and more affordable) for marketers to produce video content. Laudable is out to kill boring B2B marketing (ahem, the white paper) and make company content more authentic. Angela was previously the founding Chief Marketing Officer at Sparkfund, a venture-backed energy technology company. Before Sparkfund, she started the alternative energy group at a Boston-based insurance company. She graduated with a B.S. in Business from the University of Southern California and is originally from outside of Boston.

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Doris Han is the lead engineer at BlocPower. She focuses on developing smart energy solutions for buildings and work cross functionally between building science, product and data team. She is leading the design and development of engineering software that serve clean energy project at scale at BlocPower. Doris Han holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University.

Kyra-Lee is an Entrepreneur, Public Speaker, STEMM Activist and Civic Engagement Leader whose ten years of experience led to the creation of events impacting more than 1000+ lives globally. She founded F.C.M.A, an online learning platform dedicated to helping youth find their own unique voice by sharing their own stories. Through interactive video series using artificial intelligence research, F.C.M.A aims to amplify the youth voice and influence change. Kyra-Lee is a recognized & dynamic leader whose outstanding passion led her to give a TEDx Talk, and be featured in various publications online and in-print.

www.fcmacademy.com

Tasha Jones is a U.S. Navy Veteran and Founder of Twenty39 with more than twenty years’ experience in the Defense and Intelligence communities as an analyst, engineer and leader. Tasha is a recognized problem solver and turnaround PMP who is adept at re-engineering processes, projects and programs. After leaving the Navy and attending the New York Institute of Technology for her MBA, Tasha joined the US Department of Justice where she spearheaded multiple high-visibility project turnaround efforts for major IT systems. She founded Twenty39 with a mission to use data to solve complex problems for mission critical markets.  

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Marley is a high school student in Toronto, Canada who recently founded CASUAL Zine, an independent art collective and culture magazine. CASUAL works to digitally connect and promote young artists internationally.

Marley is passionate about combating anti-black racism and discrimination. She has advocated for gender and racial representation in tech and business at Women in IT conferences and on CP24 News. She has also been interviewed by Unsinkable Youth and The Math Guru.

Ashley has spent her career at the intersection of business and IT strategy, helping companies to get the most out of their IT investments. At Accenture Ashley is the Global Market Engagement Lead for Technology Innovation. She spends her days with clients, startups and account teams, driving strategies to help clients leverage the next generation of start-up partners to accelerate their business transformation. Previously Ashley was the Director for the Accenture San Francisco Innovation Hub. In 2019 Ashley was named Top 40 Under 40 by the San Francisco Business Times. Ashley holds a BA in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. 

Kelly Nuckolls is a dynamic professional with an aptitude for both the creative and business side of marketing strategy, and she proves expertise in strategically integrated marketing for technology solution providers that increases awareness and optimizes revenue streams. She is well-versed in today’s IT challenges and has the ability to translate technical capabilities into modern ROI, including next-gen solutions such as automation, cloud and edge computing, cybersecurity and resilience. Honored multiple times on CRN’s prestigious Women of the Channel list, Kelly’s ability to cohesively integrate solutions from multiple vendors showcases a fresh perspective and a comfortable, best-of-breed sales strategy.

Healthcare Industry Expert and Global Managing Director at Accenture Security, leading our community of security executives in NA, Europe and Growth Markets to enable the transformation to digital health and provide world-class solutions to secure medical data and protect the health sector.

Over 20 years of progressive leadership roles in managing global business in Government, Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Education Industries. Salwa leads teams of SMEs, MDs, Technical Architects, and Senior Executives in the development of corporate strategies to create and deploy innovative solutions that leverage integrated technologies and industry differentiation across multiple domains.

A Biomedical Engineer by training, she believes in the role of technology to improve our lives, leveraging AI / ML / DL, digital transformation, cybersecurity, data analytics, blockchain, and hybrid cloud to help our clients deploy the best industry cross-brand solutions.

Plant-based futurist, radical collaborator, rapid researcher, speaker, and entrepreneur.

Consultant in service to companies such as Sony, Reuters, UN Agencies, 38 Degrees, Microsoft, LG, GSK, IBM  and more. 

Co-Founder of LEAPS – accelerating Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals using unique design-style sprints. 

Co-Founder of AQai, missioned with improving humanities adaptability at speed and at scale, to help ensure no one gets left behind, in the fastest period of change we, or any human, has ever experienced. Pioneering the democratization of coaching, with AGI Digital Human AQ Coaches for all of humanity. 

Chapter founder and trustee at Journeyman, qualified Naturopath, Schumacher College Alumni & UN SDG (Global Goals) Ambassador.

Proud and humble Husband to a double term HR Director for the Obama Administration and an LGBTQ campaigner.

Keesa C. Schreane, author, Corporations Compassion Culture (Wiley, March 2021).

Keesa is Global Strategic Partner Director at London Stock Exchange focusing on risk and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data. She is also host and producer of Refinitiv Sustainability Perspectives Podcast, where she speaks with C-Suite and senior leaders about their agendas around impact investing strategy, sustainable finance, and social impact. Her efforts and dedication have provided her with valuable insights from corporate leaders, academics and not-for profit executives about social impact initiatives, human capital, and ESG practices.

She’s been a featured columnist in publications such as Essence, Latina, and Black Enterprise magazines and an on-air contributor with NASDAQ and other television news outlets.  

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Twitter: @keesacamille

Stacey Turmel is an attorney with more than 25 years of regulatory compliance and business litigation experience, along with 5 years of higher-education compliance programming.  In private legal practice, Stacey litigated patent, trademark and copyright infringement matters along with employment discrimination and corporate compliance issues.  Stacey is currently the CEO of The Internet is for Everyone, LLC, a Web Accessibility Compliance company that offers website/mobile app accessibility compliance evaluation along with legal case analysis and expert witness consulting.  Stacey is regularly sought out by businesses and organizations for her success in minimizing lawsuit risk related to web accessibility compliance.