Women in Tech Texas 2023 | Ascend Global Media | 30 May 2023 | Hyatt Regency Houston, 1200 Louisiana Street, Houston, Texas, USA

The Central Meeting Place For Women in Tech
Join a growing movement of empowered women in tech at Women in Tech Texas. As we move from embedding resilience in the face of adversity, it’s time to charge full speed ahead to embrace The New Frontier.

You'll discover the most essential technologies in today's quickly changing world and learn new forward-thinking concepts in business and the workforce that will radically change our future. Join over 1,000 leading women in technology and diversity champions driving the innovation revolution to pioneer the future of technology and business.

2023 Speakers

SPEAKERS:

Gwynne Shotwell
President & COO, SpaceX

Dr. Virnitia Dixon
US Chief Diversity Officer, Santander Consumer USA

Rinki Sethi
Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer, BILL

Ann Michele Bowlin
Global Chief Information Officer, Norton Rose Fulbright

Shin-Wen Kuo
Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Katherine Tuluzova
Executive Vice President, Sigma Software

Alicia Jimenez
Senior Vice President, Global Head, Business Technology Platform, SAP Success Delivery Center

Krista Satterthwaite
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Mainstream Compute, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Kelly O'Hara
Senior Vice President, Technology Managed Services, Merkle

Anu Krishnan
Head of Information, Data & Analytics, Shell Information and Digital Technology

Liz Dennett
Chief Technology Officer, Cemvita

Veronica Tucker
Chief Information Security Officer, StandardAero

Courtney Trudeau
Senior Vice President, Technology Strategy Lead, Merkle

Erum Manzoor
Senior Vice President for Retail Consumer Technology, Citibank

Anne Anderson
Vice President, eCommerce & Global Business Transformation, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Lisa Jordan
Vice President of Delivery, CG Infinity

Leng Lim
Vice President, Head of Commercial Architecture and Technology Solutions, HP

Dorothy Lopez
Vice President of Software Engineering, Hilton

Sarah Martin
President, Sensing & Safety Technologies, Honeywell

Sirisha Gorantla
Global Vice President of Data Engineering & Analytics, Cloudflare

Shivani Sharma
Associate Vice President, Global Head of Cloud Economy and Industry Clouds, Infosys

Robyn Fuentes
Vice President of Consulting, Improving

Sandy Estrada
Vice President, Analytics & Information Management, Cervello, a Kearney Company

Casey Essary
Senior Director and Deputy CISO, BILL

Natalie Berestovsky
Senior Director of AI, BILL

Kate O'Connell
Senior Director, Head of IT Governance, Risk & Compliance / Business Control Officer, Santander Consumer

Jamie Nash
Senior. Director, Head of IT Governance, Risk & Compliance / Senior Business Control Officer, Santander US

Lanre Elujoba
Managing Director, Risk, Fusion3

Priya Ramachandran
Senior Director of Product Research & Development, NI

Tonya Drummonds
Director, Security and Customer Trust, Dell

Claudia Walkup
Director - Digital Transformation, Healthcare, Avanade

Kristen Harris
Technology Transformation Practice Director, Propeller

Jessica Mosley
Director of Quality Assurance, TrustCloud

Sharon Xue
Director of InfoSec GRC Customer Audit and Assurance, BILL

Mary-Helen Giles
Director, Executive Recruiting, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Carol Lang
Director, HP Anyware Product Development, HP

Hema Jeevaratnam
Director of Analytics & Information Management, Cervello, a Kearney Company

Rangoli Mathur
Director, Software Engineering, Personal Investing, Fidelity Investments

Louisa Marlin
Former Head of Delivery and Founder, Marlin Consulting LLC

Rocio Leon
Partner Relationship Director, HighRadius

Lauren Brodgon
Partner, Haynes Boone

Ruaa Alsaleh
Global HR Industry Director, UiPath

Corine Busson-Benhammou
Executive Director, Angers French Tech

Nan Beery
Lead Avionics Software Engineer, Axiom Space

Raneem Shahin
Senior Technology Integration Specialist, EVA, Axiom Space

Sarika Sahni
Senior Manager, Cloud Engineering, Energy, Resources & Industrials, Deloitte

Ashley Danna
Senior Manager, Regional Economic Development, Greater Houston Partnership

Amber Madsen
Digital Marketing Product Manager, Shell

Neeharika Meka
Software Development Manager, Amazon Web Services

Preetika Srivastava
Managing Data Science Consultant, IBM

Alley Lyles-Jenkins
Principal, Product Strategy & Experience Design, Slalom Consulting

Kathi Whitbey
Business Operations Manager, Unit 42 Threat Intelligence, Palo Alto Networks

Sophia Yang
Senior Data Scientist and Developer Advocate, Anaconda

Araseli Ramirez
Senior Consultant, Avanade

Alicia Moniz
Data and AI Specialist, Microsoft

Michele Jafri
IT Strategy Advisor - Product, Shell

Tiffany Savage
Cybersecurity Engineer, Visa

Andrea Pound
Staff Software Engineer, SLB

Shelly Nixon
Partner and Principal, Chief Gigs

Wendy Fong
Partner, Chief Gigs

Kalimah Sims
Founder, UVUVIO

Staci LaToison
Founder & CEO, Dream Big Ventures

Loretta Williams Gurnell
Founder & CEO, SUPERGirls SHINE Foundation

Carrie Beckstrom
Chief Executive Officer, PowerSpeaking

Amy Furber
Master Facilitator and Coach, Powerspeaking

Lisa Spence
Professor, Texas A&M

Meshell Baker
Chief Confidence Igniter, Meshell Baker Enterprises

Rachel Williams
Founder and CEO, Authentic Women's Leadership

Melecia McLean
Cyber Security Awareness Professional

Jasmin Cattanach
Cybersecurity Consultant and Customer Success Leader

Debbie Richards
Learning Strategist, Immerse

Sheana Hamill
Fractional CMO, Consultant, and Coach

2023 Sponsors and Partners

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• Bill
• Santander
• Shell

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Hwelett Packard
• Sigma Software

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Fusion3 Conculting
• Twilio

BRONZE SPONSORS
• Enpak Social
• Master of engineering Technical Management
• CGinfinity
• Uvuvio LLC
• Propeller
• Hp
• La French Tech
• Improving

PARTNERS:
• Alief
• Girlstart