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Hear from inspirational women in tech as they deliver actionable insight, guidance and advice through expert-led technical sessions and workshops that will supercharge your career.
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Gain insight, discover innovative practices and learn new processes in over 80 sessions curated to enhance your soft and technical skills delivered by industry heavyweights.
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Support inclusivity and learn how you can play an integral part in creating an inclusive industry that benefits not only you and your organization, but contributes to a more equitable society.
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Kate Prouty is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Akamai. As CIO, she oversees Akamai’s Information Technology organization, responsible for business transformation including global strategy, development, and operation of the applications and IT infrastructure that enable agile and efficient user experiences for Akamai's customers, employees, and partners. She is based at the company's global headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Prouty joined Akamai in 1999 and has led a long and distinguished career at the company, leading the transformation of Akamai's business processes with an emphasis on flexibility, agility, and user experience. She has been instrumental in developing systems that have been foundational to the company's growth and scale, including the implementation of Akamai's enterprise resource planning systems, the network statistics system that is used across the company to better understand how our customers are using our deployed network, and our network supply chain to ensure the smooth operation of the business and best serve Akamai's customers. Prior to becoming CIO, she collaborated closely with leaders across the company in HR, Finance, Platform Engineering, Product Development, Services, and Sales. She brings to the role an adept understanding of the criticality of security, risk, and compliance across the industry and Akamai's business.
Prior to joining Akamai, she held a variety of technology positions including in network administration, system administration, database administration, and software implementation at Fleet Financial and Digitas.
Prouty holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Keene State College and is a graduate of the Greater Boston Executive Program at MIT's Sloan School of Management. She co-chairs the Executive Women's Network at Akamai and is a member of the board of directors of the nonprofit organization Delta Projects, which supports and empowers people with intellectual challenges.
Jean Olive is the Chief Technology Officer for Best Buy Health responsible for technology strategy and architecture, product design and delivery, digital transformations, and operational excellence. Jean's career has been centered on global companies with a mission to improve and save lives where she progressed through a variety of engineering, supply chain and leadership positions at Raytheon Technologies, Royal Philips, and Schneider Electric.
Jean is a champion for advancing women in technology and leadership, and inclusion and diversity as a competitive advantage. She advocates for women to help other women through coaching, mentoring, career opportunities and taking the path with a heart – love what you do. Jean and her husband Stephen have five grown children, enjoy lake life and traveling.
Jean received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Connecticut, is a member of the UConn Academy of Distinguished Engineers and serves on the School of Engineering advisory committee.
Abha Dogra is a senior executive with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, driving commercial and non-commercial software products strategy and development. She is a Senior Product and Software development evangelist with extensive knowledge in diverse areas of Enterprise Solution Delivery and SaaS-based business services (XaaS), including Software Development, Enterprise Architecture, Product Development, Digital Transformation, Automation and more. As a strategic thought leader, Abha enjoys sharing her insights and expertise in Product Management and Engineering, technical and business planning, Enterprise Architecture, DevSecOps, Scaling Agile (SAFe), and global team development.
Currently, Abha holds a dual role at Schneider Electric; She is the North America Chief Information Officer and the SVP of Digital Technology. Her focus is to drive both digitization and digital transformation through an evolved organization operating model.
Kerry Munz is Chief Technology Officer at Vendr, a startup on a mission to help the worlds fastest growing companies revolutionize the way they find, buy, and manage SaaS. As CTO, Kerry is responsible for technical strategy, product delivery, and operational excellence across Engineering, Security, and IT to support Vendrs fast growth.
Prior to Vendr, Kerry was VP of Engineering at HubSpot, a marketing, sales, & services SaaS automation platform. Kerry led hundreds of engineers across multiple groups including Platform Infrastructure, Growth, Fintech, Business Intelligence, and the Revenue Product organizations. Kerry was responsible for HubSpot's cloud infrastructure of thousands of servers and services running in both AWS and Google Cloud and helped scale the company to hundreds of thousands of customers and $1B in sales.
With over 30 years of industry experience, Kerry also led teams and architecture at Cisco Systems, and was a key engineer for multiple security and networking startups. Kerry holds 5 patents related to communication software and security.
As a champion and mentor for women in technology and women in leadership, Kerry has spoken at Grace Hopper, Google NEXT, and multiple women leadership panels. She loves to teach about Infrastructure as Code, leadership development, and the art of negotiation.
Elizabeth Garber is a Customer Experience and Innovation expert leading initiatives that will change the landscape of Digital Identity. In 2021, she co-edited/co-wrote the GAIN Digital Trust whitepaper, which called for a globally interoperable solution to high-trust identity online. It was signed by 150+ global identity experts. She co-chairs the OpenID Foundation’s GAIN technical Proof of Concept, which explores the challenges of global interoperability. She also participates in working groups with the Open Identity Exchange and Institute of International Finance.
Fun Fact: beyond Digital Identity and banking, Elizabeth is passionate about re-designing work to cultivate inclusive teams with the power to change the world.
Bela Labovitch is a passionate technologist and engineering leader whose career in software spans many decades. She is currently a Vice President of Engineering at athenaHealth, a healthcare technology company that aspires to build an ecosystem that provides accessible, high-quality and sustainable healthcare for all. She has held a variety of positions - CTO, VP, Architect and developer at companies that range from start-ups to larger enterprises. Bela has a Masters in Computer Science from Northeastern University and a Bachelors in Computer Science from Brandeis University.
Bela is particularly interested in attracting and keeping women in the technology field and raising women leaders. She is on the steering committee of the Women's Leadership forum at athena and founded their Women in Technology initiative. She is a STEM mentor and speaks at organizations such as Girls Who Code. In 2019 and 2020, the Healthcare Technology Report named her as one of the Top 25 Women Leaders in Healthcare.
Bela serves on the Board of the non-profit Parents Helping Parents and is a long-time parental stress counselor. She is a mother, runner, yoga practitioner, reader and avid traveler.
Erin Buonomo is the Executive Director of Design at IBM, focused on the design of AI-powered enterprise solutions in the asset management and engineering domains. In this role, she is on a mission to help clients transform and build more resilient and sustainable business operations by marrying human-centered design and technology to deliver intelligent workflows and insights. She leads a global, multi-disciplinary team of design professionals tackling complex problems and designing innovative experiences utilizing Design Thinking.
Erin has been with IBM for 17 years and held a variety of roles leading initiatives and teams to deliver enterprise software and innovations at scale. She has experience that ranges from strategic product planning, organizational leadership, and agile product design and development. Erin holds a M.B.A from Bentley University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She is passionate about fostering inclusivity and building future leaders through her activity in women and local community groups.
Fun Fact: Avid Peloton fan and mom of twins
A pioneer in the software industry, Pam is currently a Senior Director of Software Engineering at Salesforce, leading several teams in the areas of scale. The life cycle of Pam's career includes large companies, startup companies and consulting firms. A mentor to women engineering students, she gives freely of her time implementing technical solutions to move non profits to the cloud. In a career where she was often the only woman at the table, with unstoppable determination and strategy, she evolved from a software engineer into senior leadership, always with a passion for building top notch products and healthy cultures. Pam holds a patent for her work at Groove Networks, which was subsequently acquired by Microsoft.
Fun Fact: In her free time, Pam enjoys Trail running and Alpine Touring with her Border Collie Maggie Mae!
Beth leads the Data Science Team at Roku. The team develops automated algorithms that provide business value, particularly in newer areas where there is high uncertainty.
Beth is a seasoned Data Scientist and leader with 20+ years of experience in a variety of big data fields: advertising, speech, music, biology and medical. She has over 30 publications and 13 issued patents.
Fun Fact: Beth loves being outside and can often be found walking or running in Boston or hiking in New England.
Fariha is an empathetic and collaborative leader who thrives in fast paced, innovation-led organizations. As an expert in personalization technology, she has created innovative marketing solutions for the healthcare, insurance and consumer industries. Also, as an agile pioneer, she has led the successful integration of corporate acquisitions at the technical, product and process levels.
Fariha's career spans large companies, startups, non-profits and government organizations. As Partner for Product & Program Velocity at Digital Innovation Inc, she worked to create an innovative product design and development process to complement the firm's internationally recognized corporate innovation framework.
As President of the Boston chapter of OPEN, she is responsible for building and promoting an ecosystem for professionals, innovators and entrepreneurs in the Boston area, to grow their careers and business.
She is currently leading a team that is responsible for development and go-to market for innovative solutions in the digital health space, for a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical company.
As a Director of Software Engineering at Capital One, Marina is partnering with risk and audit technical executives and business leaders on building innovative data driven products that empower our customers with intelligent risk insights. In this role, she is leading and growing new engineering teams for Risk and Audit organization in Boston, MA.
With over 20 years of experience, Marina held engineering leadership roles at Thomson Financial (now Thomson Reuters), Computershare, Genscape and Linedata where she was recognized for her passion for new technologies. In her last role, as a head of new platform engineering team, Marina led Linedata's effort in building the first cloud native real time trading platform, delivering a first Linedata production solution in a public cloud and building innovative continuous integration and delivery processes. Marina has extensive expertise in platform engineering, evolving legacy systems to cloud microservices architecture and leading agile transformations.
Marina holds a Masters degree in Applied Mathematics from Moscow State University of Engineering and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
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