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#WICxIWD 2022: Mastering Executive Leadership & Presence

Ready to step up your executive leadership career? Whatever your goal — be it director, vice president, CEO, or COO — your leadership skills will determine how far you can go. At #WICxIWD 2022, a premier digital event designed to help you acquire the skills you need to succeed as a leader and advance your career on the path to becoming an executive.

About #WICxIWD 2022: Mastering Executive Leadership

Held in tandem with International Women’s Month, Women In Cloud’s will be hosting a premier digital event to help you acquire the skills you need to succeed as a leader and advance your career on the path to becoming an executive.

You will be about to experience the following benefits:

  • LEARN: Gain the skills to transform their executive presence through CXO panel and keynotes
  • CONNECT: Establish strategic alliances with Industry leaders through warm introductions and Cloud Leader Roundtables to expand your career and business opportunities
  • ACT: Participate in #EXECUTIVEPRESENCE and #FINDYOURFIT bootcamp to gain business acumen, develop executive courage and think about what company needs.


Join us to learn, connect, and act with peers and industry leaders through a diverse schedule of inspirational talks, panels, immersive workshops, focused-roundtables, bootcamps, and more.

Check out the recap of #WICxIWD 2022

CXO Power Panels & Keynotes

Hear from industry leaders turning the magic quadrant on its head and changing the landscape by addressing economic access and gender parity experience. Joining us will be change-makers who will shed light on topics impacting the leadership and advancements in cloud technology, AI, entrepreneurship and more.

WIC Power Talks

Access a hub of action and idea driven power talks by influencers, subject-matter experts, community leaders, entrepreneurs, and more. Watch content at your leisure and engage with speakers in the #WICDigitalNetwork.

Bootcamps & Skill-Building Workshops

Immersive learning experiences complete with downloadable worksheets, live exercises, and training from subject-matter experts to up-level your skilling and professional development. Get ready to unlock results that make a difference.

Focused Roundtable Discussions

Focused small-group discussions facilitated by industry leaders providing real-time leadership and business advice on topics that promise to shift your perspective and provide insights with impact. Join us to participate in the most sought-after networking session in the virtual event space.

Event Agenda Summary

1:00 – 1:15pm PST (4:00 – 4:15pm EST) – Opening Remarks with Chaitra Vedullapalli and Nancy Watt

1:15 – 1:30pm PST (4:15 – 4:30pm EST) – Keynote: Show Your Worth to Advance Your Career by Shelmina Babai

1:30 – 1:55pm PST (4:30 – 4:55pm EST) – CXO Power Panel: Disrupting Leadership by Breaking the Bias (#BreakTheBias) featuring Erika Van Noort, Lisa Goodman, Heba Ramzy, Carmen Nazario, with moderation by Amy Protexter

1:55 – 2:20pm PST (4:55 – 5:20pm EST) – #ExecutivePresence Bootcamp

  • Opening Remarks
  • PowerTalk: The Missing Link Between Merit and Mastery by Pattie Grimm
  • Workshop: The Power of Presence by Rupa Dash
  • Q&A

2:25 – 3:10pm PST (5:25 – 6:10pm EST) – #FindYourFit Bootcamp for Job Seekers

  • Opening Remarks
  • Power Panel: Discover Your Next Cloud Leadership Role featuring Neera Bhat, Marian Breeze, Joy Levine-Winn, Sonia Wadhwa with moderation by Cara South
  • Workshop: Mastering Your Executive Interview with Ankita Goyal
  • Q&A

3:15 – 4:00pm PST (6:15 – 7:00pm EST) – Cloud Leader Circle Networking Hub featuring over 35 Advisors!

4:05 – 5:00pm PST (7:05 – 8:00pm EST) – Closing Remarks, Happy Hour/Open Networking

WICxIWD 2021 Highlights

WICxIWD 2022 Speakers

Stay tuned for 2022’s full lineup of speakers & advisors influencing the tech industry

Amy Protexter

Amy Protexter
Senior Vice President, North America Marketing – Insight

Shelmina Abji
Author, Empowerment Speaker

Nancy Watt
President, Nancy Watt Communications

Chaitra Vedullapalli

Chaitra Vedullapalli
President & Co-Founder – Women in Cloud

Carmen Nazario
President, ELYON International, Inc.

Rupa Dash
CEO, World Woman Foundation

Heba Ramzy
Senior Director /Executive, Avanade

Erika Van Noort
Vice President, Candidate and Employee Experience, Innovation Executive, Softchoice

Lisa Goodman
President, MC3 US

Pattie Grimm
Global Senior Director Sales Enablement, VMware

Joy Levine-Winn
National Director, Cloud Sales, Solutions & Success, Insight

Cara South
IT Senior Manager, Application Management as a Service, Boeing

Neera Bhat
Managing Director Cloud First, Accenture

Marian Breeze
Head of Customer Success, Archive360

Sonia Wadhwa
Senior Director Of Operations and Business Management, Microsoft

Ankita Goyal
Technical Recruiting Manager, JPMorgan Chase & Co

Carolina Azevedo
Managing Director Cloud First, Accenture

Colleen Hoagland
Managing Director Cloud First, Accenture

Peggy Ding
Global Cloud First Operations Lead, Accenture

Tina Pangle
VP Lifecycle Strategy & Global PMO, Insight

Vandana Verma Sehgal
Security Relation Leader, Snyk

Akeela B. Davis
Motivation Specialist / President, Courageous Business Culture

Karen Cone
Fyrii.AI | Mastersfund | Board Director | Venture Partner

Cindy Gross
Generative Coach, Strategic Race+Gender Equity Adaptive Leader, Befriending Dragons

Christine Bohle Boyd
Managing Director, Bridge Partners

Bishakha Jain
Senior Consultant, IBM

Arup Nanda
Global Head of Architecture – Enterprise Data, JPMorgan Chase CTO Office

Vimi Rao
Founder, Chief Executive & Technology Officer, sapta.io

Tammy McMiller
CEO, Plan Heal

Stacy Tatem
Cloud Data Services Specialist, NetApp

Rebecca Jones
COO, Bridge Partners

Puja Shah
Director, Concentrix Catalyst

Priya Pandey
Manager, EY

Parul Chheda
VP Alliances, CoreStack

Nonye Umahi
Managing Consultant, Cuanu Resources & Technical Services Ltd

Nida Beig
Sr Product Manager, Amazon Web Services

MH Lines
Founder and CEO, StackMoxie

Lorena Loeffelholz
Brand Manager, Azure, Zones, LLC

Kathy Durfee
CEO/Founder, TechHouse

Janice Reese
CEO, Network PDF Cloud

Deborah Akerele
CEO, Valouree Foundation

Ellie Wu
Senior Director, Customer Experience Transformation, SAP Concur

Harpreet Kaur
 Sr. Product/TPM – Microsoft, CEO – Why Blend In

Lynne Frankel
Founder, Lynne Frankel LLC

Nicole Arndt
Associate Director, Career Coach and Industry Relations, Columbia University

Tamara McCarthy
Vice President of Strategic Alliances, Concourse Labs

Dafna Ziv
Consultant, AR Consulting Services – Cash Is King, NL

Holly Leyda
Director, Business Transformation, Insight

What To Expect from the Virtual Event

Ticket Options

General Admission – $49

Access all live virtual thought-leadership talks, panels, bootcamps, and networking experiences at WICxIWD along with over 20+ on-demand master class content to unlock leadership mastery.

  • Leadership & Professional Development

  • Mastery-Focused Keynote Thought-Leadership & Power Panels

  • Professional Development Bootcamps

  • Focused Networking Sessions with Subject-Matter Experts

  • Warm Introductions to Industry Leaders

  • 20+ On-Demand WIC Master Class Power Talks

Annual Access Pass – $249

Purchase any time and get access to 12 months of 20+ sessions that will connect you to industry leaders, subject-matter experts, peers and more.
One-Time Payment of $249 gives you access to 20+ events including #WICxAnnualSummit 2023 and more!

  • All Events: Leadership & Professional Development

  • Strategic Business Development & Networking

  • Access to Cloud Jobs

  • Unlimited Warm Introductions

  • Exclusive Invitations to Dinners & Roundtables

  • Downloadable Software Offers & Worksheet Resources

Corporate Annual Pass – $3000

Surprise 5 of your employees, customers and/or partners with gift of infinite access. This offer includes 5 premium tickets for all 2022 signature events, 5 annual access pass ($249/Pass), All year access to content, Digital Network, Warm Introductions, two invites to Cloud Leader Circle and your company’s logo included on event landing page and virtual event programming.

  • 5 Tickets to all WIC events (Valued at $1000)

  • 5 Annual Access Pass (Valued at $1,245)

  • Logo Inclusion on Webpage & in Virtual Event Platform

  • Two (2) Advisor Listings on GET Introduced Platform

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  • Year-Long Access to #WICxIWD Content

  • Represent your brand in the economic access movement

Participating Fortune Companies & Sponsors

Accenture
Insight
Hitachi Solutions
M12
Microsoft
Teradata
IBM
Meylah
Canada
Boeing
JP Morgan Chase

Community Partners

WIT Network
IAMCP
Voices for Innovation
Black Channel Partner Alliance
Innovation Women
Women in Alliances
Founders Live
Microsoft Alumni Network
Hello Alice

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