Why everyone needs to join us this year more than ever!
Built on purpose, innovation and excellence, this event is designed for top global industry women leaders, CEOs, Corporate Women Executives, Women Tech Founders, Professional and allies focused on global, sustainable impact. The 5th Annual Summit ignites the power of “Collective Responsibility” through action-packed access to hybrid experiences over three weeks that promise to be memorable, empowering and inspiring.
The 2023 Annual Women In Cloud Summit explores the increasing pace of Cloud & AI Technology, creates a global hub for sustainable tech solutions, accelerates ESG + T-Innovations, and provides the platform to transform our collective community into sustainability leaders and thriving responsible global enterprises.
Three (3) Weeks, Hybrid Experience, Infinite Access.
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Summarized Agenda
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Workforce Development : 10 AM- 5 PM PST
- Welcome Remarks (WIC) – Emcee + Set Day
- Keynote: The 5 Superpowers of Modern Cloud Leadership You Need
- CXO Panel: Scalable Leadership Frameworks for Hybrid Workforce that Actually Work
- Big Talk Activity Session
- Thought Leadership: Navigating Life With Clarity & Purpose
- Introduction To World Record Attempt & Activity
- Panel: Preparing for a World That Doesn’t Exist Yet
- Thought Leadership: Leading the ESG Transformation With Tech, Inclusion & Representation
- CXO Panel: Cloud Marketplace as a New Sales Route for SAAS Solutions
- Power Talk: Dream Investors Are in Your Reach
- #WICxWorkshops: Make Effective Connections with Your Dream Investors
- Interactive Experience: Building Trust In Modern Hybrid Workplace
- Thought Leadership: Leadership Persona for the Modern Workplace
- #WICxWorkshops: How to Design and Implement Your Leadership Persona
- Power Talk: Preventing Burnout – How and Why It’s Important
- Thought Leadership: Why an ESG Plus Tech Strategy is Vital to Every Business/Company
- CXO Panel: Why is data privacy so important to ESG narrative?
- Cloud Leaders Circle Roundtable
- Closing Remarks & What’s Next for WIC
World Record Attempt: Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Attendee Orientation
Attempt 1: Vision Board Workshop (10 AM PST)
- Opening & Welcome
- Powertalk Building Your Dream Network
- Q/A, Share Vision Boards, Closing
Attempt 2: Vision Board Workshop (5 PM PST)
- Opening & Welcome
- Powertalk : Purpose Mindset
- Q/A, Share Vision Boards, Closing
#WICxICONS Celebration Dinner : Friday, Februray 17, 2023
- Doors Open
- Photo booth & Networking
- Opening
- Welcome
- Keynote: Rewriting the Script of Today for Tomorrow
- WICxICONS Celebration Dinner Course 1
- WIC Access Circles – Relationship Building
- WICxICONS Celebration Dinner Course 2
- WIC 2023 Plan of Action Sharing
- CXO Panel: Reinventing Responsibility for the Next Generation
- WIC Celebration: Guinness World Record + Legendary Award
- Leadership Townhall
- WICxICONS Celebration Dinner Course 3
- Closing
Reasons You Don’t Want To Miss…
#WICxWORDRECORD ATTEMPT
Join your WIC community by attempting to achieve the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for most users in a vision board video hangout.
Patti Dobrowolski, CEO & Creative Activator of Up Your Creative Genius will be there to help you define your vision board and inspire all of us to champion our leap of faith stories together and celebrate our world record! But most importantly, celebrate your own victory of moving closer to reaching that moonshot idea.
CREATIVE GENIUS and DRAWING SOLUTIONS: How Visual Goal Setting Will Change Your Life, is founder of Up Your Creative Genius, a consulting firm that uses visuals and creative processes to help companies and individuals around the world accelerate growth and change.
2023 Summit Speakers
Sharan Hildebrand
VP of Strategic Alliances, North America | Hitachi Solutions
Karen Fassio
Marketing Director, Microsoft One Commercial Partner | Microsoft
Negar Farjadnia
Senior Director, National Cyber Security Practice Lead | Avanade
John Dathan
SVP and General Manager | Insight Canada
Marian Breeze
Head of Customer Success | Archive360
Vince Menzione
Founder | Ultimate Partnerships LLC
Megan Amdahl
SVP, Partner Alliance and North | Insight
Gavriella Schuster
Corporate VP, OCP| Microsoft
David Pryor
Director | VFI Partnerships
Gina Fratarcangeli
Managing Director | Google
Robbee Minicola
Partner Manager | Microsoft
Rajashree Varma
Founder and CEO | AffableBPM
Suzanne Gallagher
SVP Solutions | Insight
Patty Kuderer
State Senator, 48th Legislative District | Washington State Senate
Chaitra Vedullapalli
President and Co-Founder| Meylah
Amy Protexter
Senior Vice President Marketing | Insight
Deanna (Gibbs) Lanier
Chief Strategy Officer | iCertis
Denise Reese
Managing Director, South Market Unit Lead, Accenture AWS Business Group | Accenture
Gretchen O’Hara
Vice President, Worldwide Partners and Alliances | Splunk
Brea Starmer
Founder and CEO | Leons and Tigers
Sarah Wells
Founder | Impact Leadership
Erika Balbuena
Head of ESG | Robinhood
Michelle Reaux
VP of Human Resources | Insight
Dee Dee Walsh
VP, Marketing and Business Development | Mobilize
Gillian Muessig
Managing Director | Mastersfund
Patti Dobrowolski
CEO & Creative Activator | Up Your Creative Genius
Akhtar Badshah
Distinguished Practitioner and Senior Leader | University of Washington
Ashley Willis
Head of Developer Communities | Google
Miranda Hill
Global Head | Avanade
Olivia Bechtold
Co-Founder & Marketing Communications Specialist | Hello Friday Marketing
Tripti Sethi
Executive, Advanced Analytics | Avanade
Julie Madayag
Senior Director, Talent Acquisition | Avanade
Nadine Kazan
Group Manager, Financial Services | Avanade
Kalina Silverman
Founder | Big Talk
Enki Toto
Impact Investing | Salesforce Ventures
Tucker Stine
Chief Strategy Officer | Tucker Stine Brand Architects
Veena Gowda
Senior Director, Engineering | Teradata
Anju Bhagat
Senior Managing Director, Accenture’s Cloud First Networks in North America | Accenture
Ingrid Evans
VP Human Resources | Insight
Tracy Bolot
VP, Cloud Practice Delivery | Kyndryl
Nancy Watt
President | Nancy Watt Communications
Tom Langham
Senior Manager, Cloud Business Office | Boeing
Nancy Carpenter
Enterprise Cloud Consulting Services Lead | Boeing
Katie Franzen
Managing Director, Financial Services Midwest | Accenture
Peggy Ding
Accenture Business Operations- Global Cloud | Accenture
Mozhgan Eslami
Hybrid Cloud Solution Architect Leader – Cloud, Data and AI Practice | Kyndryl
Corrine Lewy
VP of Pricing | Teradata
Suma Nallapati
Chief Information Officer | Insight
Rachel Crump
Principal Accounting Officer | Insight
Jenn Medellin
Sr. Director, Experience Design | Teradatal
Gretchen Tinnerman
Vice President, US Network & Edge Practice | Kyndryl
Savitha Katham
Advisory Consultant | KPMG
Renu Menon
Director, CIO Advisory | KPMG
Vanessa Lo
Partner | KPMG
Kim Vu
Vice President, ESG | Remitly
#WICXANUALSUMMIT 2023:
MEET YOUR ADVISORS
Advisor Roundtables: Cloud Leadership Circle Networking and Roundtable with 20 Industry Leaders. Focus includes:
- Securing executive sponsorship
- Building executive presence
- Balancing competing priorities
- Navigating corporate ecosystem
Make Your Personal Brand Stand Out
A recommended Marketing + Communications Assets Checklist needed to build out a personal brand identity through digital/websites or printed collateral.
By downloading, you will also enter to win one hour personal coaching with a TED Expert Associate.
(Takeaways worth $500)
WICxANNUALSUMMIT WORKBOOK 2023
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Women in Cloud, a community-led initiative, is designed to address topics ranging from financial inclusion and the gender-gap to providing women with the tools, knowledge, and networks they need to reach their full potential. Our mission is to inspire, empower and accelerate the growth of women-led technology companies. We are requesting businesses to partner with us in our mission to create the much-needed economic access.
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