Girls In Tech – Catalyst Conference 2016
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- Date: April 19, 2016
- Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Guests Included
Coco Brown
Founder and CEO, The Athena Alliance
Interview Overview
Coco Brown stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Jeff Frick about the Athena Foundation’s goal of bringing more women into the board room. She provided insight into some of the issues that prevent women from being part of the board room, raising awareness of the issue and organizations helping train women.
This was Coco’s first time visiting theCUBE!
Sandy Carter
Social Business Evangelist and General Manager Developer Ecosystem and Startups, IBM
Interview Overview
Sandy Carter stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Jeff Frick about the opportunities that Girls in Tech presents to girls and women. She provided insight into the partnership with AngelHack and what’s happening with the changes in cognitive.
Sandy has visited theCUBE many times, including at IBM InterConnect 2016, IBM InterConnect 2015, and IBM Impact 2014.
Adriana Gascoigne
Founder and CEO, Girls in Tech, Inc.
Interview Overview
Adriana Gascoigne stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Jeff Frick about what lead to starting the Catalyst Conference. She provided insight into her experiences, how people can get involved in Girls in Tech, and the technology curriculum specifically designed for women.
Adriana visited theCUBE at IBM InterConnect 2016.
Mercedes De Luca
Chief Operating Officer at Basecamp
Interview Overview
Mercedes de Luca stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Jeff Frick about her session on career pivots. She provided insight into taking the risk out of pivots, focusing on making the next move based on your strengths, talking with other people and some of the vectors that make the moves smoother.
This was Mercedes’ first time visiting theCUBE!
Fran Maier
Co-Founder, Match.com & Founder TRUSTe
Interview Overview
Fran Maier stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Jeff Frick about her presentation on what it means to be a woman entrepreneur. She provided insight into what it was like being a sole women starting an Internet company in the 90’s, her passion to impart wisdom to other women and how it’s easier to be an entrepreneur of any kind today.
This was Fran’s first time visiting theCUBE!
Jim McCarthy
Motivational Speaker of Happiness
Interview Overview
Jim McCarthy stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Jeff Frick about his keynote address on a career without regret, have impact on what you care about. He provided insight into how many millennials look for work that has impact and meaning and how someone can get started in finding work they love.
This was Jim’s first time visiting theCUBE!
Monique Morrow
CTO, New Frontiers Engineering, Cisco
Interview Overview
Monique Morrow stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Jeff Frick about new frontiers development and engineering means. She provided insight into what this means for core business, what’s important to Cisco and changing the landscape to the digitized world.
This was Monique’s first time visiting theCUBE!
Tejal Shah
Founder & CEO, KidAdmit
Interview Overview
Tejal Shah stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Jeff Frick about what KidAdmit is and how they partner with schools and parents. She provided insight into the factors that parents use in deciding which preschool to send their child to and how KidAdmit is collecting data from preschools.
This was Tejal’s first time visiting theCUBE!
Scarlett Spring
President and Chief Commercial Officer at VisionGate Inc.
Interview Overview
Scarlett Spring stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Jeff Frick about the new diagnostic tool they are launching for non-invasive early detection of lung cancer. She provided insight into the hardware and software aspect of this new device, the data collected and the use of machine recognition technology.
This was Scarlett’s first time visiting theCUBE!
Jennifer Tejada
President & CEO, Keynote
Interview Overview
Jennifer Tejada stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Jeff Frick about her work in the past year helping women in technology. She provided insight into operations within a company, setting goals and nailing the delivery of those goals because of the many stakeholders involved in what you are doing.
Jennifer gave an exclusive interview with theCUBE last year at the Keynote headquarters.
Yvonne Wassenaar
CIO, New Relic
Interview Overview
Yvonne Wassenaar stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Jeff Frick about what New Relic does. She provided insight into how they help banks with their digital business. She provided insight into what she presented in her keynote address and how the Girls in Tech Conference brings diverse people together.
This was Yvonne’s first time visiting theCUBE!
Hilary Weber
Founder & CEO, Opportu
Interview Overview
Hilary Weber stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Jeff Frick about what Opportu is and their main audience of startups and larger companies. She provided insight into the dynamics they help companies with, including innovation and company culture through the use of different innovative tools from UC Berkeley.
This was Hilary’s first time visiting theCUBE!
Laura Williams
eDiplomacy Officer at U.S. Department of State
Interview Overview
Laura Williams stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Jeff Frick about what eDiplomacy is and the tech and culture upgrade at the U.S. Department of State. She provided insight into the technology implemented to achieve collaboration and the culture of need to share, including bringing secure Internet within the department and the wiki that now has 22,000 diplopedia articles.
This was Laura’s first time visiting theCUBE!
Meg Withgott
Co-Founder & CTO, Panafold
Interview Overview
Meg Withgott stopped by theCUBE and chatted with Jeff Frick about her talk on working women around the world. She provided insight into the women she spoke with about the advice these women would give their younger self, including finding joy when working on something hard and being open to life’s friction.
This was Meg’s first time visiting theCUBE!
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