Empowered - Women's Leadership Summit

EMPOWERED- Women’s Leadership Summit – This exciting one-day summit will bring together over 1000 phenomenal leaders, influencers, innovators and rising stars from a range of professions, on the occasion of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month on March 24, 2018. The event is hosted by The Expat Woman and will feature keynote conversations, panel discussions, workshops, a hiring mixer, demo alley and an all-women hackathon.
AGENDA
– Welcome by Nyna Caputi, Founder and CEO of The Expat Woman
– Rwandan Refugee to Woman in Tech @Slack: Jennifer Kanyamibwa, Program Manager, Communication Design at Slack
– Afghan Refugee to US Entrepreneur: Shakira Niazi, Founder/CEO at Salvare La Vita Water
– Women in Sales and Marketing Panel Rebecca Mulligan Santos, Marketing Communications VP at Bank of the West, Solu Nwanze, Director of Business Ops Marketing at Zendesk, Sharon Shi, Senior Account Manager at Twitter, Anusha Sethuraman, Sr. Manager, Product Marketing at Microsoft, Emily Chu, Senior Sales Account Executive at Farm Hill
– Women Leaders in Silicon Valley: Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Nolwenn Godard, Dr. of Pricing Product & President of Unity, Women at Paypal, Kathy Rokni, Dr. of Globalization at Netflix, Iliana Quinonez, Director, Solution Engineering at Salesforce. Pamela O’Leary, Talent Acquisition, Global Diversity Lead at Ericsson, Rania Hoteit, CEO/ Co-Founder at ID4A Technologies, Moderator: Smitha Prabhu, Director – HR Business Partner at DocuSign
– “Brand U” (the art of branding yourself) : Sarah Mills-Krutilek, Sr. Recruiter at Dropbox
– Career Transitions: Stories and Advice From Successful Women Who Took the Leap: Maire Sogabe, Chief of Staff to the Chief Security Officer, Principal Risk Advisor at PG&E, Preethy Padmanabhan, Dir., Business Operations of Global & Strategic Accounts at Nutanix, Odile Roujol, Business Angel at Bay Angels. Stephanie McLean, Founder/CEO at Trendy Treat, Sonya Pelia, Head of Marketing at Datometry and President of the Board at Maitri
– Finding Mentors and Sponsors to Fast Track your Career : Asha S. Collins, VP Clinical Trial Sourcing at McKesson, Maya Appiah, Senior Customer Success Manager, Global Accounts at LinkedIn, Sumayyah Emeh Edu, Member Board of Directors of Techtonica, Diversity and Inclusion Management Consultant, Aradhana Vaidya, Customer Success Engineer, Cloud Rendering at Autodesk. Cynthia Owyoung, Founder and CEO of Breaking Glass Forums, Charu Sharma, Founder of Next Play Inc
– Getting Funded and Succeeding as an Early Stage Founder : Julia Lam, Founder/ CEO at Tara&Co and Early Facebooker, Layla Sabourian, Co-Founder/VP at FairFunders, Founder at Chef Koochooloo, Liza Moiseeva, Co-Founder at GlobeIn, Komal Dadlani, CEO/Co-founder of Lab4U, Joanne Jiang, Founder at LadyMarry, Sylwia Gorajek, Producer and Host at Valley Talks
– Get Hired! Strategies to get noticed by Recruiters and find a Job in your industry : Siv Lam, Chief of Staff at Eaze, Carrie Brandes, Head of People & Culture at Redbubble, Ryan Tweedy, md at DeWinter Group, Ginny Cheng, Sr. Recruiting Manager, Tech & Business at Zillow
– Equality in the Workplace: How to Assert your Legal Rights: Arcolina Panto, Attorney at Law Offices of Arcolina Panto
– MISSION IMPACTFUL EXPAT! Be Bold – Let Go – Create Space for a NEW YOU! : Petra Chequer, VP, People Solutions at IMPACT Group
– Building Inclusive Cultures in the workplace: The Value of Employee Resource Groups – Maria Cuba, Diversity and Inclusion Program Manager at Airbnb, Khalida Ali, Manager of Diversity & Inclusion at Zendesk, Jeel-Marie Plenos, International Treasury Management Sales, Vice chair of Wells Fargo Asian Connection Bay Area, Duretti Hirpa, Senior Engineer, Integrations at Slack and Founder of Earthtones ERG at Slack, Anne Vu, Senior Paralegal at Lyft and Founder and Lead at UpLyft Women, Yenny Cheung, Full Stack Engineer and member of Women in Eng. ERG at Yelp, Neetal Parekh, Founder/CEO at Innov8social
– Raising Capital in Silicon Valley : Nancy Hayes, Managing Director at Golden Seeds, Adina Tecklu, Venture Capital Investor at Canaan Partners, Jayni Shah, Investor at Menlo Ventures, Ivy Nguyen, Investor at Zetta Venture Partners
– Job Search Trends: Insights from a Silicon Valley Recruiter: Alison MacKay, Infrastructure Data Center Recruiting at Facebook
– Communication Strategies and Tips for Expats and Immigrants to Navigate the US Job Market and Workplace: Joe Lurie,, Cross-Cultural Communications Trainer & Ex. Director Emeritus at UC Berkeley’s International House