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Elizabeth Theophille
Former Chief Technology Transformation Officer @ Novartis
Ulrika Jagare
Director AI, Automation & IoT @ Ericsson
Isabel Vilacides
Director of Engineering @ Github
Marieke Mulder
Head of Sustainability @ ASML
Ekaterina Serban
Head of Privacy and Information Security Bosch Group @ Robert Bosch GmbH
Andrea Coifman
Data Science Lead @ Devoteam
Renka Pooja
Chapter Test Lead @ Admiral Group plc
Elahe Arani
Senior AI Research Manager & Sr. Research Scientist, Advanced Research Lab @ NavInfo Europe
Adelina Simon
Technology Evangelist @ Form3
Tiffany Stahl
Advisory board, Chair and Facilitator @ Fierce Up Coaching
Stars was born on June 3, 1967. She studied applied computer science at the Technical University of Magdeburg and studied further in the UK, graduating as a Master of Science in Engineering. Her whole working life has also been closely tied to information technology.
Stars began her professional career in the IT division of Bertelsmann at the beginning of the 1990s. She moved to the IT service provider Triaton in 1998, where she was initially in charge of software development and, from 2000 on, the member of the Management Board responsible for sales and marketing. Triaton was acquired by Hewlett Packard (HP) in 2004, with the result that Stars continued her career at this global IT group. She was responsible at HP for IT services business in the Netherlands and, from 2007, was Managing Director of HP's local organisation in Switzerland.
In 2012 she joined the Executive Board of the DAX 40 company Deutsche Börse AG, where she was responsible for IT, capital market business and human resources (as Labor Director) until 2020.
The technology and financial market expert has also held seats on various Supervisory Boards since 2009, currently with Supervisory Board mandates at the power company RWE and the logistics company Kühne+Nagel.
The Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG has appointed Hauke Stars as a member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG with functional responsibility for 'IT' effective February 1, 2022. In this capacity, Stars is responsible for all Group-wide activities in the areas of IT, data, organisational development and process management.
After studying chemical engineering (including PhD) at TU Delft, Karen de Lathouder worked successively at Shell and AkzoNobel from 2008 to 2015. In 2015 she went to work for the oil company Orpic in Oman. From 2017, she worked for bp in the UK and Germany. As of January 1st, 2022, she is the new CEO of bp Netherlands. She is also manager of bp's Rotterdam refinery and will carry out her responsibilities as CEO alongside her current role.
When Karen is not working for bp she co-runs a gym in her hometown Schiedam as a personal trainer.
Christine is Chief Information Officer at SUSE where she is responsible for the global IT function. She previously served as CIO in Residence at SAP and as Senior Vice President of Technology at Thomson Reuters Corp. Prior to SAP and Thomson Reuters, Christine held global roles in data driven companies: BP, BG Group (now part of RDS), Transport for London (TfL), United Utilities and Associated Octel.
Christine is a Non-Executive Director (NED) of the Royal Bank of Scotland International, she sits on the DIGIT Lab Advisory Board and is Vice Chair of the British Computer Society's (BCS) Fellowes Advisory Task Group (FTAG).
She holds a Master's degree in Computing and Electronics and was awarded Fellowship of the BCS, where she also served 2 terms as a member of the strategic panel helping to advance its mission of Making IT good for Society.
Montse Montaner is a visionary and strategically driven transformational leader with more than three decades of international experience across large pharma companies delivering excellence in Quality and Manufacturing Operations Management and Sustainability.
Her strong business acumen and deep operational understanding makes her very effective in defining how quality and sustainability can become a business accelerator to deliver and make a postive impact into the organisation.
Montse has been the first Novartis Chief Sustainabilty officer and during this period she has designed the new company environmental sustainability strategy, to become a biopharmaceutical leader in environmental sustainability.
Prior to this appointment, Montse served as Novartis Chief Quality Officer, leading quality organisation from research to commercial, where she transformed quality organisation operating model through strong focus on compliance and data & analytics, productivity initiatives and digitalisation. Previously to this role, she held different roles in Novartis and Sandoz where she was VP Quality Technical Operations, Third Party and CMO Quality head and Novartis Quality Management Systems & Control Operations Head.
Prior to Novartis, Montse worked for more than 15 years at Sanofi, where she held different leadership positions across the corporation.
Montse has received accolades for her work: she was awarded as 100 Top Women in Sustainability (Ranking #1 in Pharma and #46 cross-sector), awarded in the Sustainability Magazine's Top 100 Leaders Program and short list for the European Diversity Award due to her commitment on promoting diverse teams in their organisations.
Montse has a Bachelor in Pharmacy at Barcelona University with MsC on Pharmaceutical Technology. She has undertaken different leadership programs at Harvard Business School, Princenton University, IESE Business School and Cranfield School Management. She has also been professor at a Pharmacy School at Barcelona University for a period of 8 years.
Lena joined MongoDB in March 2019, with more than 20 years of cybersecurity experience. Before joining MongoDB, she was the Global Chief Information Security Officer for the international fintech company, Tradeweb, where she was responsible for all aspects of cybersecurity. She also served as CIO and Chief Security Officer for the New York Power Authority, the largest state power organisation in the country.
Lena is a founding member of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan, formerly the Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, which allows security leaders in academia and the private sector to collaborate on tackling the most challenging security issues. Lena is a member of IT-ISAC, frequently speaks at industry events and has been featured in Fortune, Dark Reading and CSO Online.
Vicky Bunyard is the IBM CTO for Northern Europe. She has a background in Systems Engineering and Enterprise Architecture and has spent time in primarily technical transformations ranging from software engineering process and methodology redesign through data and analytics, to Enterprise Architecture and Technology strategy. The result is that she truly understands that technology is only one part of the equation and technology in context is the way to success.
She firmly believes that technology can be 'the answer', but only when we truly understand 'the question' - and that it is not about how great the tech is, but about how great we can be when we are backed by great tech.
Inspirational leader with broad international expertise in strategy development & execution, digital & data transformation, IT software development, marketing and commercial propositions.
Executive Board member, successfully leading teams over 200 people, budgets over 40 mil Euro and a diverse portfolio of strategic projects with high impact on local and central operations.
Andreea has an international experience of over 16 years across energy & telecom industries, having worked in EMEA, Africa and Middle East in different management positions for companies such as E.ON, Orange, Ericsson and Vodafone. With a strong digital and business leadership background, Andreea has experience in building high growth businesses within large corporations.
A recognised public speaker, actively involved in several external C-level industry forums.
Appointed in October 2019, Aurelie Bergugnat is currently the group Chief Data Officer and Senior Vice President in charge of Performance Management.
Prior to this role, after multiple operational roles in Finance, such as CFO of IT channel division for SE (US$2 Bn/ year) and M&A integrations, Aurelie led special projects for the Executive Committee of Schneider Electric, on the operationalization of strategy between Functions, Businesses and Operations; and the creation of the Digital Performance Office of the group – defining and deploying performance management for Digital Transformation and Subscriptions businesses of SE portfolio.
Aurelie received an Executive MBA from Columbia University (NY) and London Business School (UK); she is also a graduate of HEC Paris (France) in Strategic Management and Ecole Nationale Superieures d’Arts et Metiers (France) in Mechanical Engineering.
On a more personal note, Aurelie has been an active member of MIT CISR Data Board and WEST – Women in the Enterprise of Science and Technology – based out of Boston, supporting women in their careers in Technology.
A long-time ballet dancer and yoga student, she also enjoys sailing and skiing. She is a French – American citizen with two hometowns: Providence, RI and Paris, France where she currently lives with her husband and two daughters
Sunna Bjorg Helgadottir (39) is the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at HS Orka which is a privately owned power generator in Iceland, owning and operating over 170 MW of geothermal power production capacity, in addition to a 10 MW hydro plant commissioned in 2020.
Sunna's role at HS Orka is leading the technical team which involves large Capital Investments, as well as other smaller scale Engineering/Technical project. Sunna's primary focus since joining has been on expansion projects, increasing the power production in a very demanding, green energy market. In addition, Sunna does also lead the Health and Safety within HS Orka and with the team, they have focused on improving the Safety Culture within the company.
Prior to joining HS Orka, Sunna was the VP of Technical Operations as Alvotech, which is a state-of-the-art Biopharmaceutical company in Iceland. Sunna was responsible for all Technical Operations, i.e. Engineering group, Facilities, Supply Chain and all EHS within the company. Sunna's main role was to lead those teams and lead the Site Readiness program, which was to prepare the site for the first GMP audit.
Prior to joining Alvotech, Sunna spent 14 years at an Aluminum plan in Iceland, owned by RioTinto –called ISAL. Sunna started there 18 years old in the canteen and worked her way up to the Executive team at the age of 29 and was the youngest women within Rio Tinto to reach Executive team at a plant level. At the Aluminum plants Sunna was responsible for all production and had 80 employees within her team. Under Sunna's leadership ISAL broke a record in annual production, which was remarkable given that the plant was producing 2.5x the designed capacity.
Sunna has a B.Sc. degree in Mechanical and Chemical Engineering and a M.Sc. in Engineering Management and Optimization from University of Iceland. Along with the university degree's Sunna has taken a few courses in leadership management, production optimization and has been working with the continuous improvements and Lean management philosophy from 2007.
Sunna's personal interest lies in spending time with her family and kids, as well she loves trail running in the mountains of Iceland and Europe and she just completed the Tour Du Mont Blanc circle this summer.
Sarah Polan is currently the EMEA Field CTO at HashiCorp where she leads executive advisory for customers in multi-cloud strategy and adoption. With a background in security, and as a leader in the Financial Services Industry, she previously focused on containerized workloads, cloud identity, and secrets management. She aims to elevate strategic conversation surrounding cloud adoption and improve the balance between technical enablement, velocity, and security.
Fun Fact: Before Sarah joined the tech industry, she trained as an opera singer.
Frédérique Liaigre is a European industry technology leader, and currently the President of France and Managing Director of South EMEA at Verizon Business. Frédérique's 25-year career at some of the largest telecoms and IT brands, has spanned across EMEA and North America. She has ample experience working cross-culturally with global teams, in multiple languages, and helping global clients set the right foundations for their digital transformations.
Frédérique is passionate about the future of communications and how technology can help drive us forward together by creating new ways to collaborate and share knowledge. As a seasoned speaker and contributor to numerous publications, Frédérique's topics of focus include 5G, Network-as-a-Service (NaaS), SD-WAN, and collaborative ways of working.
Fun Fact: When Frédérique is not busy at work, she likes to cook, spend time with friends and family, and take her dog for walks!
Kat joined Lucid in 2017, having spent more than a decade in management-side employment law. She was previously a shareholder and director at Clyde Snow & Sessions with experience in preventative advice and counsel, workplace investigations, and employment law training. She holds a B.S. in business administration and management from Brigham Young University and a J.D. from the University of Utah.
Fun Fact: Kat's loves going to film festivals, and in fact is married to the producer of the movie, Napoleon Dynamite.
Wei Li, vice president of Software D&E (Development & Engineering) at ASML, oversees scanner software development, architectural design, engineering environment and data and digital platform development. She is a board member of the Global Diversity & Inclusion Council at ASML and a strong advocate for women leadership in technology. Wei focused on software and computer science after studying both electrical engineering and biophysics. "I used computers to do simulations in biophysics, and I really felt that my passion was on the simulation side," she explains. Originally from China, Wei completed a dual degree from Louisiana State University (a PhD in physics and a master's degree in computer science).
Fun Fact: She checked many boxes of diversity herself.
Delphine is a people-first leader with over 25 years experience in consumer electronics. Lived and worked in China, North America, and Europe she has transformed many global businesses leading innovation and forming cross-functional global teams. Today, she leads Logitech's biggest busniess group, Personal Workspace Solutions (>2BN$).
Her mission is to impact people's lives by creating simple and delightful experiences. A mission which is greatly influenced by her international journey exposing her to different western and eastern mindsets, e.g. China. People, DEI and environmental sustainability are at the center of this mission and rooted in how she builds any new organisation. Her current organisation is 50% female (vs. 26% global average) and hosts 30+ different nationalities. The product portfolio she manages is entirely carbon neutral with 2 in 3 products using PCR plastics. She believes that technology must drive sustainable and inclusive innovation. Fully committed to realise the company's pledge to being carbon positive by 2030, she leads the way inspiring others through her organisation. In her opinion, innovation brings change, and any change leads to exciting, new opportunities.
Delphine is one of only 19%* of women in the tech industry that reach executive level and at the same time she is a mother of two children. She finds herself in the position of a role model, which she views as a serious and integral responsibility, and as such devotes herself to driving action for a more equal and better future for generations to come.
Onur Korucu has started and continued her professional life in multinational professional services companies such as KPMG, PwC and Grant Thornton. She had the opportunity to work as an experienced consultant and part of senior management in different world geographies. Recently she worked as a GRC, Cyber Security and Data Protection senior manager within Avanade UK & Ireland before moving into her new role; VP of Consulting Cyber Security and Data Protection at one of the Microsoft partners, TerzionDX.
She is an information security, compliance, and privacy professional focused primarily on emerging technologies from information security and data protection perspectives. On top of her technical engineering degree and M.Sc degree, she obtained her LL.M degree in Information and Technology Law. She also completed a Business Analytics executive master program at the University of Cambridge.
She published a book about risk-based global approaches to improve data protection. She has also been publishing articles in prestigious magazines such as Harvard Business Review and Tomorrow Magazine about trending technology, cyber security and data protection, privacy trends. She was one of the lecturers for the Cyber Security Masters programme at Sabanci University Istanbul. She is a Women in Tech world ambassador and board member and International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Ireland Chapter Chair. She was nominated for the GRC Role Model of the Year 2022 and Cyber Women of the Year 2022 awards. She continues to appear in seminars, conferences around the world as a speaker. She has CISM, CDPSE, CRISC, ITIL-F, PCI DSS QSA and ISO 27001 LA certifications.
Ashley Bellview is Senior Director, Global Communications at Booking.com. In this role she is responsible for overseeing employee, executive and thought leadership communications. Having first established a robust internal communication function at Booking.com, her current focus is discovering new ways to drive employee engagement, build brand advocacy and increase corporate participation in key industry topics.
Before joining Booking.com in 2014, Ashley worked at the intersection of technology, communication and hospitality, helping new businesses scale through digital marketing channels and emerging technologies. Always curious, Ashley has also been a butcher’s apprentice, a field reporter, a bartender and a novice pyrotechnic operator. Her least favourite part of any romantic comedy is the third-act misunderstanding, and she holds a bachelor's degree in linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin.
Originally from Austin, Texas, Ashley has lived and worked in multiple cities across the world. Leaving New York City before it made her hard and Northern California before it made her soft, she's now sought a happy medium in her home in Amsterdam.
Maja has over 27 years' experience in the tech industry. She has a degree in Computer Science and started her career at University of Novi Sad, Serbia later moving to the private sector as a Software Developer.
In 2000 Maja moved to the UK with her family, where she continued her career as a Senior Software Engineer. A couple of years later she took her first leadership position as a Software Engineering Manager. The following 10 years Maja spent leading teams in delivering software solutions for travel and finance sectors before joining Rentalcars.com in March 2013 which then became part of Booking.com. After a successful period of managing a highly entrepreneurial Software Engineering function at Booking.com, Maja stepped up to a Director of Engineering role in October 2017. In 2022 she was promoted to Senior Director of Engineering, further increasing her leadership responsibilities.
Maja has passion for growing people, technology and innovation but also enjoys travelling and is keen on an active and healthy lifestyle.
Molly has 20+ years' experience in understanding the needs of users in a variety of domains around the globe. She is particularly intrigued by complex marketplaces and the challenges and opportunities that they present to businesses and how they serve customers. She builds diverse teams that build great products and services to help everyone experience the world. Molly is currently the Senior Director of UX at Booking.com.
Karen Wilson has over 17 years experience in the Learning and Development (L&D) industry and is the Global Director for Learning & Talent Development Booking.com. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing both the Learning and Leadership development strategies.
Having first centralised the L&D department at Booking.com, her current focus is discovering new ways to drive and embed an inspired and infectious learning culture. She provides strategic leadership to a growing global team of 60+ learning and development professionals. Her specialism over the last 7 years has been to lead the transformation of L&D departments combining capability build and organisation design with effective change management.
Previous to her time at Booking.com and Rental Cars, she was Head of Learning for Ricoh UK Ltd and spent her early career in the commercial world of Sales and Strategic Account Management. She has a Bachelor's degree in Business Studies and is experienced in the world of coaching and mentoring.
Karen lives in Manchester in the UK with her husband and three highly energetic and extraordinary daughters. She also loves to explore the world through travel, curiosity, sport and an obsession for reading.
I'm a highly experienced professional with over 20 years in the CPG industry, with a strong background in business and tech and a passion for driving transformation and growth enabled by digital. As a passionate people leader, I've a solid track record of inspiring teams and empowering individuals to achieve their full potential. I believe that creating a positive and inclusive work environment is key to success and have always been dedicated to fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
Throughout my time at Heineken, I have been fortunate to hold a variety of roles, each providing me with valuable experience and insights into the inner workings of the organisation. Working with cross-functional teams and leading change agenda, I have always remained focused on creating value for our consumers, customers, employees, and shareholders.
I am a senior IT Executive with 20+ years of experience and a solid track record of accelerating company growth by combining emerging technologies, business process optimisation and shared services always focused on business value creation and strategic partnership.
I strongly believe in the power of cultivating a collaborative team culture focused on delivering practical business results: profitable revenue, satisfied customers and engaged employees and business partners. Over the years, I have been recognised for leading strategic technology innovation to grow the top and bottom line of the organisations I have worked for.
Throughout my career, I have always been worried about the legacy we are leaving behind and making sure that all my actions (and the companies I have worked with) acted with purpose and in alignment with my personal values. Working with communities, developing them, sharing our knowledge and assets, sharing our vision and bringing them on our journey for me has always been key. In Heineken, we have a clear and empowering strategy that supports this purposes while driving consistent value creation.
Ana Lira is a Director of Software Engineering at TomTom. She has over 20 years of experience in the tech industry. Ana joined TomTom in 2022 to lead the development of their new product, the TomTom Maps Platform. The goal of her team is to engineer the first real-time map, by creating a standard base map that anyone can contribute to and benefit from.
The TomTom Maps Platform is bringing together a pool of map content from map users around the world. The resulting geolocation database – the largest available today – feeds continuous improvements back to the map, helping it keep up with reality.
Ana is from Venezuela but lives in Spain.
Fun Fact: 6 kids family and happy disaster mom.
Hobbies: running (away from my kids), marathons when she was younger. She's now learning skiing and kite surfing.
Julia Pallé is a leading expert on sustainability in motorsport and the international elite sport industry. As Senior Advisor – Sustainability, of the world’s first all-electric motor racing series, Formula E, Julia certified that the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship was net zero carbon since inception – the first sport in the world to achieve the standard.
While developing and implementing the sustainability strategy at Formula E, Julia has overseen a range of significant achievements that establishes Formula E's credentials as a leader of sustainability in tier-one sport.
Julia is also Sustainability Advisor for Extreme E, the all-electric SUVs series, bringing electric racing to some of the most remote corners of the planet to highlight the climate change challenges faced by different ecosystems.
Before joining Formula E and defining the sustainability strategy, Julia was the Sustainability Executive at Michelin Motorsport.
Cristina Duta, Director of Intelligent Automation at Aecom, is an innovative leader with an extensive experience in technology, consulting, intelligent automation, thought leadership. She holds an MSc and a PhD in Computer Science and capitalises on more than 12 years of experience in software development and Intelligent Automation, delivering significant Digital Transformation programs across Telecom, Life Science, Banking and Manufacturing companies.
Cristina is an IA evangelist and thought leader focused on extending, enriching and empowering organisations in having a digital mindset for the future of work. She is an Executive Member of the Intelligent Automation Congress and a member within VOCAL Council and regularly shares her knowledge at global and industry-led events.
Fun Fact: You will always find her climbing mountain peaks and exploring some of the most unusual hike trails.
I'm Emily and I'm the Head of Data Analytics at MoonPay, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I've been in crypto for a few years now, having worked previously at Coinbase. But things move so fast in this industry, it feels like I'm a seasoned veteran.
Originally hailing from Toronto (i.e., Aubrey Drake Graham’s "the 6"), I moved to Amsterdam many, many moons ago to do my master's degree in Cultural Analysis. Long story short, I had a very difficult time looking for my first career job after the economic crisis of 2008, ended up becoming a digital marketing analyst, and haven't looked back since.
In my leisure time, I try and keep up with my literature roots by reading voraciously through the thousands of books I have on my list. I'm a fan of boutique gyms, a mediocre and fair-weather road runner, and I try to keep up my streak on Duolingo—with varying degrees of success.
Sheila is the Global Head of Corporate Technology in ING, where she is responsible for the global IT function for the bank's support functions. She previously worked as an executive client partner, management consultant and engineer at two leading global system integrators. She is also an entrepreneur, building a sports Tech company from start-up to scale-up; she holds a master's degree in Executive Coaching and she holds a double engineering degree in Computer Science.
Sheila is a supervisory board member of the most prominent social labour company, Pantar, in the Netherlands; she served for three years as the chairwoman of the Professional Women Network (PWN) in the Netherlands and two years as the global co-chair of the global PWN organisation.
Kate Smaje is the global leader of McKinsey Digital, working with clients to deploy the power of data, digital culture and capabilities along with modernised core technology. She has been a core leader of McKinsey's consumer work for many years, helping leading retailers and consumer-facing companies to capture opportunities afforded by new growth platforms, rethink consumer-engagement models and improve organisational performance.
In her work with clients, she helps companies understand the full extent of technology disruption on business strategy and leads digital, data and design transformations as industry dynamics evolve. Throughout this process, she works with senior leadership teams to help them build the mindsets, capabilities and grassroots understanding required to undergo change successfully and sustainably.
Kate also has first-hand experience as a chief technology officer across work in core technology, digital product management and innovation, and cyber-security. Before joining McKinsey she worked in the investment-banking division of a multinational investment bank and financial-services holding company in London, advising on mergers, acquisitions and debt restructuring in the technology sector.
In addition to her work with McKinsey, Kate is a trustee of Tommy's, a children's charity.
In over 15 years as a computer engineer, Janet's career has taken her around the world, from the US and Mexico to Germany, gaining broad and deep experience of digital products. She has been a project champion, a team leader, and a digital health pioneer, creating innovative products to make a meaningful impact on humans' and animals' lives. As a contributing member of – and sought-after speaker in – technology communities, Janet has long been a committed advocate of diversity, inclusion, knowledge sharing, and development opportunities that unleash the potential of individuals. Her passion for the intersection of technology and healthcare makes her a perfect fit in her current role: Head of Engineering at BI X, Boehringer Ingelheim's digital lab.
Androniki Menelaou is the Head of Data Science at Apollo Agriculture with over a decade of experience in the world of Statistics and Machine Learning. Androniki currently leads a team of Data Scientists that builds ML-powered credit models and automated operations technology to unlock the massive, untapped small-scale farming market in Kenya.
Her current position allows her to combine her passion for statistics with her core value of using technology to help the underserved population and see first hand the effect of the models her team builds. Previously, she worked both as a Product Manager and a Data Scientist at ING and also co-founded a startup. She holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Oxford and has experience both in the academic and corporate world.
Fun Fact: I love traveling so I try to cross off the map at least as many countries I visit as my age. I am currently on track!
Lisa is currently Head of App at Deliciously Ella, where she is responsible for their health and wellbeing app, feel better. Her role involves working with external partners, development teams and senior stakeholders to determine the product roadmap and maximise product growth and value.
Before this role, Lisa was previously at SoulCycle helping launch and grow their UK and International businesses, and before that digital innovation agency AKQA, working in their London and New York offices on a variety of Nike businesses (including their Nike Training Club app), Amazon Alexa, L'Oréal and Virgin Sport.
Lisa's career in recent years has focused on helping scale-up teams build out their technical product offerings to deliver results with smart use of resources.
As facilitator and mentor, Charmilla has worked in the growing Berlin tech community for the past 8 years creating data-informed people programs for developing healthy inclusive cultures. At Babbel, as Principal in Organisational Development, she has supported leadership development and managed change with a lens for collaboration and systemic equity.
Fun Fact: Growing up in New Zealand, Charmilla is influenced by the Polynesian culture where people, communities, and the collective influence her on the day when it all feels too much.
Elly An de Boer is the Lead of the DX team, a front-running Technology and Change team with the aim to accelerate ASML's most complex digital and data transformation. She has been part of ASML over the last two years and has 10+ years of experience in data management and platform development in fast-changing markets.
Elly An has a strong focus on quality and speed at the same time, but she truly believes that the most important aspect of a successful transformation lies in establishing the right culture for change and connecting the dots looking forward, with the value for customers in mind.
She is a mother to Mats (her son of 10) and in her spare time, Elly An is a trainer and coach to young handball talents with the dream to become professional international players, like she once was back in her twenties! Getting the most out of teams and people that have a strong purpose and goal makes her heart beat faster.
Emma is a highly skilled software architect and business leader who is passionate about leveraging innovative technology to create business value and enhance people's lives.
She joined ASML in 2010 as a design engineer and has since then progressed to the role of product architect. After ten years, she left to become the Chief Technology Officer at a Chinese software company in the education sector, leading a team of over 400 people across five departments and overseeing the product development for four business lines. Then in 2022, Emma returned to ASML as the lead for the product architecture group, focusing on product development strategy and technology lifecycle management.
Emma holds an Engineering Doctorate degree in Software Technology from the University of Technology in Eindhoven, a Master of Business Administration from TIAS (Netherlands) and a Master of Engineering degree in Embedded System from Zhejiang University in China.
Agathe is an IT Lead at ING in Germany since 2020 and reports directly to the CIO. She is responsible for all Tech applications ING uses in Retail Backoffice, Middleware, Core Banking, Data Management and Data Analytics. Agathe's career path started in public administration and quickly led her to the private sector. Over the past two decades, she has held various positions in Tech at ING. She considers herself a "trailblazer" and a "helper". Learning something new every day spurs her on; bringing women forward in Tech is close to her heart - as is her family. Other things she likes: swimming and reading.
Natasha is the data science lead in the financial crime department at ING Global Analytics which implements advanced analytics and machine learning in the detection and prevention of various types of financial crime. During her career, she was the Head of Data science at DotModus (Google cloud scale up), the Head of the Centre of Excellence for Robotics in South Africa and previously spent many years working as a data scientist and software engineer.
She holds a PhD in computer science specializing in computer vision from the University of Cape town in South Africa (one of the first non-white females in South Africa to accomplish this feat). Natasha is passionate about STEM education especially for females and disadvantaged communities having herself grown up during Apartheid in South Africa. She has led and participated in several national and international outreach initiatives and now serves as the Education lead at the NGO, Women in AI.
Bahar is an IT Lead responsible for Products domain at ING Tech DBNL. She is Turkish and she started her career in 1997 as a software engineer, after graduating from Bilkent University Computer Engineering. She worked as an engineer, moving on to become a technology specialist and leader in different positions mostly in the banking sector. She joined ING Turkey in 2012 and for eight years she led different teams in Tech like core banking, products, and digital channels. In the meantime, she completed her Executive MBA degree. In 2020 she moved to Amsterdam to take the IT lead role in Assisted Channels.Recently has taken the Products domain as IT Lead.
She is married and mother of 2 daughters at 17 and 21. As a woman leader, Bahar thrives to be a role model for young women engineers and passionate about increasing the presence of women in tech and also in leadership. Being a mother of 2 daughters herself, she cares for work-life balance at work, tries to inspire her team and encourages them to step up towards being leaders. She loves volleyball, reading, baking beautiful cakes, and of course cycling around Amsterdam.
Born and brought up in India - Started her career as a programmer, moving on to architecture specialising in Security and Infrastructure. Lead initiatives for Chaos Engineering and Site Reliability within the banking sector for the first time. 4 years in the IT (Area) Lead role for the Corporate Lending business of ING bank responsible for people, technology, systems architecture and digital transformation.
Violeta Misheva is a lead data scientist working in the banking world. She has about 10 years of experience in the world of data and holds a PhD from Erasmus University. She is very passionate about developing machine learning in a responsible and ethical way and likes sharing her knowledge with others.
Fun Fact: I was on a mission to run the major marathons in European capitals before the pandemic cut my training short (personal best: running the original marathon route in Greece).
Ayesha Iqbal is an IEEE Senior Member and Engineering Trainer at Manufacturing Technology Centre, UK.
She is a proud ambassador of Women in Science and Engineering and has been featured as an "Inspirational Woman in Tech" by WeAreTechWomen.
Besides teaching a number of theory and lab courses to engineering students, Ayesha also supervises a number of Final Year Projects, two of which were published as Research Papers in International Conferences. One project won National ICT R & D Funding from the Ministry of Information Technology (Government of Pakistan). She has also served as a Reviewer for various organisations including Telecommunications and Signal Processing Conference (TSP), Elsevier, IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials, and Wiley.
She possesses a Level 7 Qualification in Engineering (M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering) from University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan and currently serving as a Course Manager and Lecturer in Engineering at The Bedford College, UK where she is pursuing a Level 5 Diploma in Education & Training. She is also a member of IEEE Young Professionals, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society & IEEE Communications Society.
Fun Fact: Ayesha has been an orator and writer since the age of five. She loves travelling, baking, and photography.
Marina joined HEINEKEN in 2014 as part of HEINEKEN Global Audit IT team, bringing with her years of IT auditing and security consulting expertise gained in Deloitte, after obtaining a Masters In Computer Science majoring on Information security from the university of Zagreb, Croatia.
In HEINEKEN Marina held several roles; Senior IT auditor in Global Audit, which gave her the privilege to get to know many of the Operating Companies, Global functions/initiatives, Digital & Technology role as Security Officer for the Central Project organisation, and Security Incident manager within Cyber Defense and Operations team, as well as Chapter lead for Security SMEs.
Most recent she stepped into the role of Product Owner of the global Cyber Defense and Operations team, where she has the privilege to work with a group of brilliant and passionate team of security experts who tirelessly work to ensure the continued operations of HEINEKEN in a safe way.
Fun Fact: Her passion for security started from childhood growing up in Croatia and wanting to be a hacker, which turned into a passion for Cyber Security in her professional career. Personally she is a passionate rock climber and loves to spend time in the mountains.
Sarah and the PowerSpeaking, Inc. team are passionate about helping organisations—at corporations like Genentech, eBay, Autodesk, and Cisco —develop powerful communication skills that inspire people and get results.
"A large part of our client base is in the high-tech and biotech sectors, so many years ago, we researched and developed HighTechSpeaking®, which helps technical professionals become more clear, strategic, high-impact communicators," Sarah says. "And in 2018, we launched Confident Speaking for Women, to meet the unique challenges women face in the workplace. Both are now among our most popular programs."
Prior to joining PowerSpeaking, Sarah worked in large multinationals enjoying a varied career path in law, sales, and marketing. She found her passion in motivational coaching, training, and development. Sarah believes that "we all have what it takes to transform our careers through stronger communication;it just takes training, practice, and a growth mentality."
Fun Fact: Outside of work, Sarah loves long cliff walks and sailing on the Devon coast, UK.
Janneke is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, board member and mentor for startups and co-founder of CapitalT, a VC fund that invests in technology companies using proprietary technology to evaluate entrepreneurial teams. In the past she has started and exited 2 international tech companies. She is co-initiator of InspiringFifty, an initiative that aims to increase diversity in tech by making female role models more visible. As part of the InspiringFifty initiative, Janneke has published The New Girl Code and Project Prep, a novel for young girls. The goal of the project is to encourage young girls, inspiring them to pursue a career in technology and invest in an educational foundation focusing on math and computer science.
Janneke is a member of the supervisory board of UNICEF, boardmember of Codam, advisory board member of FutureNL, member of the investment committee of Innovation Quarter and the supervisory board of NPEX. Janneke was named 2014 EY Entrepreneur of the Year and Most Innovative Leader in 2016, and one the 10 most prominent angel investors in 2018 and Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year in 2019, a few of many in a long list of honours for Janneke.
Janneke did research with Eva de Mol on the investments in female entrepreneurs in the Netherlands. This has led to a lot of media, discussion and questions in parliament. Legislation is prepared now to take action and change the situation. The industry itself has agreed to a quota for their own teams and the teams they invest in.
Fun Fact: Janneke had her picture taken by Annie Leibovitz and has been appearing in a campaign for UBS that was shown in: WSJ Magazine, The Economist, Wallpaper but also on billboards at London City Airport, NY JFK and the airport of Frankfurt.
At Babbel, Franziska is leading a Platform Engineering team as Engineering Manager. She has worked in the Berlin tech community for the past 11 years, growing from a Junior QA Engineer into an Engineering Manager of several different types of teams. A believer in DE&I, she has a habit of building a strongly inclusive team culture and extending mentorship opportunities to other marginalized people in tech.
Fun Fact: When Franziska was born, the number one song in the US charts was Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley.
Simona is a person who still believes and values the good in people the most. Living and breathing in Amsterdam, with a huge passion in technology.
My job is an interesting part of the entire IT journey, because it means that I'm in the middle of business and technology. Translating business ideas into actual solutions, mapping problems with possible solutions, a day-to-day point of contact for the Client and the team, participating in the presales process, preparing demos, POCs, kickoff projects, etc. I am trying my best to be a strong standalone bridge between the business and technology and correlate those two things in the tightest link possible. Still, there are many things that I should learn, and I am learning, and that is what inspires me.
My role as managing director is actually wearing many hats from solution architect to managing people and processes at IWConnect, while growing the Dutch office from business and people.
Lead Cloud Security Architect at Carlsberg Group, with over 15 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry. Venicia specializes in multi-cloud security strategy and architecture, and has previously held a role at Microsoft, leading Cloud Security Architecture with enterprise customers in EMEA. Venicia is a CISSP and Multi-cloud certified, bringing a wealth of technical expertise and industry knowledge to her role at Carlsberg.
Apart from her professional expertise, Venicia is also a fervent advocate for gender diversity and inclusion in the cybersecurity industry. She has a social media audience of over 50,000 individuals, whom she educates with valuable cybersecurity content. Venicia's dedication to empowering women in cybersecurity makes her a role model for aspiring female cybersecurity professionals and a valuable contributor to the broader cybersecurity community.
Patrycja is a lead engineer at Form3, Financial Cloud, working on reliability and performance of UK payments. She is also the founder of Yon Labs, a startup focusing on automated tools for the detection and refactoring of security vulnerabilities, performance anti-patterns, or cloud issues and providing consultancy in Java and cloud technologies.
She is a regular speaker at software conferences, including CodeOne, JavaOne, Devoxx, JFokus, and others. She was awarded an Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador title in 2020 and 2021. She was also named as one of Top 10 Women in Tech in Poland in 2016.
Her interests focus on automated software engineering, mainly static and dynamic analysis techniques to support software verification, optimization, and deployment.
My name is Pooneh, and I am a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) working in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) team in Criteo, Paris. I am passionate about Single Sign On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), coding for access management, plus public speaking.
But also, there is a hidden character inside me, who has felt women's challenges in the tech world and I love to elaborate on the situation for other women, by talking in conferences to help and encourage other women to join tech companies. Besides, I love baking and doing yoga and I play the violin!
My name is Estelle THOU I am 27 years old and I am currently a Software Engineer at Criteo Paris. Before I got here, I studied food and nutrition engineering. Then I worked as a Quality and R&D manager in a French start-up called La Fabrique Cookies.
After two and a half years in this field, I decided to change my life by switching to web development. To do so, I followed a 6-month bootcamp after which I had the opportunity to do a 6-month internship. That's when I took my first steps at Criteo. Since I've been a developer for one and a half years, I'm working on UI and fullstack projects.
Trishia joined Flow Traders as a Software Developer in 2016. During her career there, she was a technical SME in OTC trading platforms and vendor communications, a team lead to the Trading Engine team followed by technology leadership in Fixed Income space. Currently, she moved to the business side to act as a Business Architect, aligning trading with the technological solutions that are developed in house. Previously she worked in Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan. She is passionate about combining the technology and business needs and working with the developers and end users on most efficient software.
She holds a degree in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence from the University of Southampton. She was involved there in women in technology initiatives, running the ECSWomen society.
My name is Bukola Johnson, I am a Platform Engineer at HelloFresh, a Speaker, and a Mentor. I am passionate about solving problems with technology and bringing change and Inclusion into Tech. I enjoy sharing my knowledge and mentoring people that are trying to move into Tech, especially women and young girls . As someone that is interested in increasing the visibility of women in technology, I am a volunteer at SheCodeAfrica as a DevOps coordinator where I mentor and guide ladies interested in starting a career in cloud/DevOps. I am also an ambassador for the Google Womentechmaker program and a co-organiser at the WTM Berlin Chapter.
Isabel began her career as a journalist and (later) editor, specializing in medicine, health, and science. Since 2005 she has worked as an independent trainer and coach, with a focus on communication skills training, message development, and storytelling for business.
Isabel has helped executives from all sectors, including the tech and pharma industries, to communicate powerful messages to a variety of audiences, through media interviews, presentations, meetings, and negotiations, and to develop their unique value propositions in the workplace. She has also served as moderator for advisory boards and at press conferences.
In 1992, following a personal experience with the pregnancy complication pre-eclampsia, Isabel set up a UK-based patient advocacy group, which is now international. She co-authored, with Professor Chris Redman of Oxford University, the award-winning book, Pre-eclampsia: The Facts, followed by Understanding Pre-eclampsia.
Fun Fact: Isabel knows a huge number of Shakespeare soliloquies—including all of Hamlet'—off by heart and often recites them to relieve the tedium of solo car journeys.
She has 30 years of agnostic professional experience working in global high-tech corporations such as Rolls-Royce, as well a range of startups from Tech, Sustainable, & Social Impact.
Carolyn is passionate about helping Women grow authentically and confidently to achieve their personal and professional.
Using her professional knowledge, personal experience and lessons learned she has created a portfolio of workshops and seminars which are focused on supporting and guiding Women to craft, implement and achieve their desired roadmap.
Zuzanna is a certified communication coach and team facilitator. She is the change maker that helps organisations to scale successfully by building strong internal and external relationships. She also is a faculty member of CRR, where she co-creates the future of organisational coaching.
She has over 10 years of experience within the biomedical field. She combines it to facilitate building strategies that feed on data, benefit the organisation and make people thrive. Not by removing outliers, but by including them in seemingly impossible but truly robust solutions.
When Zuzanna is not changing the world with her coaching or data analysis, she loves to boulder, dive and connect to nature. She advocates for psychological safety, culture of inclusion and proper distribution of talents at work.
Fun Fact: She has just learnt to yoga-headstand
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zuzanna-borek/
Dr. Marissa Alert is a licensed clinical health psychologist, consultant, speaker, and founder of MDA Wellness. She delivers high-energy training, workshops, and keynote presentations that equip employees and leaders with practical and actionable strategies to manage stress, prevent burnout, and improve resilience and wellbeing. With over ten years of experience, she is skilled at making meaningful connections with audiences, who love her down-to-earth approach that keeps them engaged while learning.
Dr. Alert holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Dartmouth College, a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of Miami, and completed her postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her passion is to help people lead more fulfilling lives that are in line with their values.
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