Speaker Showcase

Aanchal Agrawal

Amazon Web Services

From new hire to next level: A five-year journey of growth at AWS

With over 6 years of customer-facing experience at AWS, I specialize in Networking and Application Security, driving technical excellence while championing ID&E across teams and initiatives. Throughout my career, I’ve (...)

Alina Desiatnikova

Independent Consultant

AI for Career Transitions: A Reverse Prompting Framework

Alina Desiatnikova is a Senior Technical Writer and systems thinker with over 9 years of experience creating user-facing and developer-facing documentation in fast-paced fintech environments. Often serving as the first (...)

Almee Christian

TutorsTap

AI Raised the Bar: Redefining Job-Readiness for Entry-Level Engineers

Almee Christian is a software engineer and product-minded builder with experience developing full-stack platforms, mentoring products, and open-source civic technology. She works across React, Node.js, TypeScript, MongoDB, AWS, and related (...)

Andjelka Djukic

Eclincher and Innovative Women of Serbia

AI is changing skills - but not who gets heard

Andjelka Djukic, PhD, is a SaaS sales and marketing leader, international speaker, and co-founder of Innovative Women of Serbia. As Head of Sales & Marketing at Eclincher, she works with (...)

Anmol Jain

Microsoft

When You Don’t Own the Team but Own the Outcome: Building Trust and Influence Across Cultures

Anmol Jain is a Product Manager at Microsoft, leading Azure Object Storage initiatives focused on global data resiliency, including redundancy and replication. She partners with engineering and cloud solutions architect (...)

Deepti Bahel

Infoway Software

Building Your Future: International Students & Professionals Navigating Tech Careers & Visa Pathways

Dinky Mishra

Pile Dynamics Inc.,

From ETL to AI Agents

Eden Haney

Disney Streaming

AI Didn’t Give Me Answers. It Gave Me Standing.

Eden Haney is a data scientist at Disney Streaming and a UCLA-trained electrical engineer whose career spans NASA, electric rail, and streaming infrastructure, and who uses AI to navigate complex (...)

Hina Gandhi

cisco

AI Won’t Replace You — But Lazy Engineering Will

Laasya Adusumilli

Deloitte

Your Work Makes Sense; But Does Its Story Translate

Leslie Fiorenzo

Business Speaking Solutions

Elevate Your Leadership Presence

Leslie Fiorenzo is the founder of Business Speaking Solutions and is known as Your Speak for Impact Strategist. She guides skilled professionals who need to be heard to show up, (...)

Michelle

The Elevated Encounters

From RIF to IF: Leading Through AI, Automation, and Workforce Disruption

Michelle Medious-Washington is an author, speaker, and founder and CEO of Elevated Encounters, a boutique management consulting firm helping organizations close the gap between leadership intent, employee execution, and customer (...)

Misheel Ganbat

EY

I Didn’t Have a Seat at the Table - So I Built My Own

Misheel Ganbat is a technology leader helping Fortune 500 companies navigate complex digital transformations across AI, data, and supply chain. Her work focuses on connecting emerging technology with real‑world business (...)

Rarity Le'Mons Bey

Rarity Enterprises LLC

Translating Tech: Language, Access, and Non-Traditional Paths into Cybersecurity

Founder, CEO, professional interpreter, language accessibility advocate, public health advocate, educator, serial consultant/serial strategist candidate, investor, global citizen, and content creator (musician).

Rashi

Healthcare

Beyond the Resume: Hiring for Agency, Grit, and Execution in the AI Era

Rashi Agrawal leads AI/ML at a leading digital Healthcare company, where she engineers high-stakes, secure, and HIPAA-compliant systems. Operating at the pioneer edge of generative AI technology, she architects state-of-the-art (...)

Rishika Reddy Akavaram

PPFL

AI, Agentic Shift and the 2026 Threatscape: Enabling Responsible AI Adoption Without Slowing Innovation

Sejal Parmar

Old Mission Capital

From 6 Internships to the Trading Desk: Building a Career Where Finance Meets Code

Sejal K. Parmar is a Quantitative Researcher at Old Mission Capital, drawing on over five years of industry experience to tackle options systems, trades research, and pricing challenges using C++ (...)

Shaily Goyal

Infoblox

Dear Rejection Email: Thank You, Next — How AI Changed My Job Search Forever

Shaily Goyal is a Software Engineer at Infoblox with over two years of professional experience in software development, networking, and cloud technologies. She holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science (...)

Shalini Dinesh

PayPal

30 Minutes. One Prompt. A Decision-Ready BRD: How Product Managers Use GenAI to Ship Faster

Shalini Dinesh is a Lead PM working at PayPal, and previously at Amazon, and Walmart, with experience across supply chain, checkout, and financial ecommerce. She focuses on building scalable digital (...)

Sherry Darden

Tugs Bees, LLC

Are You Really Listening? A Leadership Skill That Separates High-Performing Teams from Others

Great leaders aren’t just great talkers — they’re great listeners. Sherry Darden has spent her career proving it. As an award-winning keynote speaker, DISC-certified coach, and CEO growth strategist, Sherry (...)

Xinye Tang

Microsoft

From Post-Training to Context Engineering: Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems

Xinye Tang is a Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft working on production-grade LLM systems. Her work focuses on improving the reliability and performance of AI through system design and post-training. (...)