Government, Social Sector & Education

Valued individuals involved in shaping public policies, providing essential services, and promoting education, tirelessly looking to improve society and empower citizens

Melissa Hale

Melissa Hale

Melissa Hale is a Power Platform Developer who transitioned from pursuing a PhD in venom and parasite research to finding a more fulfilling career and work-life balance in tech. With a strong background in SharePoint, Power Automate and Canvas Apps, Melissa has transformed business practices in both start ups and large firms. Beyond her professional role, she dedicates her expertise to the charity "Collaboration for Kids," enhancing their operations through the Power Platform. Based in Liverpool, United Kingdom, Melissa is enthusiastic about learning and growing within the Power Platform community. Melissa is dedicated to leveraging ethical AI and responsible technology to create meaningful and efficient solutions for organisations.

Melissa Hale is a Power Platform Developer who transitioned from pursuing a PhD in venom and parasite research to finding a more fulfilling career and work-life balance in tech. With a strong background in SharePoint, Power Automate and Canvas Apps, ... Show more

Naga santhosh reddy Vootukuri

Naga santhosh reddy Vootukuri

Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri, a seasoned professional with over 17+ years at Microsoft, reflects on his journey from India to the USA. Graduating from Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology in 2008, he now serves as a Senior Software Engineering Manager for Azure SQL. His role involves leading his team through software development cycles, ensuring successful product launches.

Currently, Naga focuses on a significant initiative in Azure SQL Deployment, emphasizing high availability for SQL customers during feature rollouts. Previously, he managed Master Data Services (MDS) within SQL Server, gaining community connections and contributing actively to Microsoft forums.

Aside from technical responsibilities, Naga engages in Microsoft hackathons and mentors junior engineers, finding fulfillment in guiding their career paths. He also champions diversity and inclusion, advocating for equality within the tech industry. Naga sees himself not only as a technical leader but also as a catalyst for positive change at Microsoft.

Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri, a seasoned professional with over 17+ years at Microsoft, reflects on his journey from India to the USA. Graduating from Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology in 2008, he now serves as a Senior Software Engineer... Show more

Stephanie Stasey

Stephanie Stasey

Stephanie is an expert, keynote speaker, and lecturer in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automation.

She has received multiple awards, including the Microsoft MVP for Copilot, and is regularly ranked as one of the top AI and Automation experts in Europe.

She delivers keynotes that challenge assumptions and accelerate meaningful change.

Stephanie has 20 years' experience in leading AI, automation, and transformation programmes for the UK's largest organisations.

Stephanie is a sought-after lecturer at 3 of the top 10 universities in the world.

She is dedicated to shaping the conversation around AI and automation, and humanity.

AI, agents and data analytics tools are transforming the world of work at an unprecedented pace.

She spent 3 years as a manager at Microsoft, including working with leadership at NHS England on delivering both NHS.net and NHS App.

She founded Miss AI in 2025 to support companies in navigating their AI transformation, AI agents and the future of work.

She serves as a trusted advisor to some of the world's biggest organisations.

She brings a wealth of knowledge and skills in change, programme management and people management.

Stephanie has a passion for helping leaders close the vector between AI ambition and realisation.

Stephanie is an expert, keynote speaker, and lecturer in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automation. She has received multiple awards, including the Microsoft MVP for Copilot, and is regularly ranked as one of the top AI and Automation experts i... Show more

Devika Toprani

Devika Toprani

💃 Devika Toprani is a human-AI researcher, global learning strategist and founder of Somagraphic Learning™ and Substack publication, Soulful Learning with AI (800+ subscribers)

🌍 Niche?
→ 5+ years experience in the US, UAE, and India
→ Pre-AI cognitive frameworks, built to mitigate EdTech/Enterprise automation bias + boost AI safety
→ Create DEI-driven UX systems where user sense-making leads AI execution

🧠 10 research-led Pre-AI Sensemaking constructs
🚀 Scales across 5+ industries

🇴🇲 Oman-Born | 🇦🇪 UAE Golden Visa | 🇮🇳 Indian | 🇺🇸 EB2 National Interest Waiver in process

🏢 Career
Coordinated US national accreditation at UIUC, School of Social Work, supported HR at George Mason University | K-12 Educator | EdTech Program Ops

🎓 MS Management (STEM) | Dual BS/BA Psychology | UK & India-certified L&D diplomas | Google UX Design certified

🔥 Trajectory
- Book chapter “Pre-AI Sensemaking Before Scale”, AI Everywhere Vol. 3 (Nov 2026)
- Independent Consultant, MENA Speakers
- Global Classroom Educator Fellow, World Affairs Council of Seattle
- Research contributor, Oxford AIEOU Human Flourishing
- Nominated Top 100 Changemaker, MIT AI-Powered Women Conference

🎤 Invited Speaker
- CognitionX Emirates 2026
- Global Data AI Virtual Tech Con 2026

🌟 Speaker:
UIUC WebCon, Northwestern TEACHx, Microsoft Data Group, Power Platform Classmates Dubai, Google NextGen DevCon 2026

💃 On March 6, 2026, Devika pioneered pre-AI embodied sense-making through Somagraphic Learning™ framework (SLF) introducing a structured 3-stage sequence (Attempt → Map → Refine). Anchors user's own reasoning before AI

Soma = Body, Nervous system
Graphic = Expressing written original ideas

❌ Not an AI literacy framework
✅ Pre-AI human thinking guardrail to build AI literacy

🗺️ Map Before Machine™
World’s 1st analog-first, deployable AI literacy mechanism requiring users to generate a timestamped cognitive artifact before AI (Toprani, 2026)

♻️ API Cost Governance. Consumer trust. Less tokens/user. Specific prompts. Policy neutral

🤖 Pre-AI layer in AI/LMS before chatbot. Timestamped. Verifiable. 5-10 min. No curriculum redesign. AI safety. Faster workflows/teams

🏦 Pen/paper: AI-restricted/developing countries
Accessible: Neurodiverse, multilingual & non-linear users

✍️ Defined Somatic AI Literacy™ Capacity to establish embodied conceptual orientation before AI interaction (April 2026) Not in AI literacy frameworks UNESCO, ISTE, etc (Post-AI)

🌎 For Global Advisory, Industry-specific Pre-AI B2B Licensing, Pilots:
https://soulfullearningwithai.carrd.co/

📚 Substack (Soulful Learning with AI): https://substack.com/@devikatoprani

✍️ Gumroad: Map Before Machine™ Pre-AI Thinking Card (Custom e-copies): https://mapbeforemachine.gumroad.com/l/mapbeforemachinegumroadcomlcareer-pivot-edition

Learning is Not AI-made. It’s Soul-made.
AI only refines, what YOU bring to the chatbot. 🌟🤖

© Patent-Pending IP | Timestamped DOI | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

💃 Devika Toprani is a human-AI researcher, global learning strategist and founder of Somagraphic Learning™ and Substack publication, Soulful Learning with AI (800+ subscribers) 🌍 Niche? → 5+ years experience in the US, UAE, and India → Pre-AI ... Show more

Roberta Coppola

Roberta Coppola

Master’s graduate with skills in digital communication, artificial intelligence, and data management. I have experience in public administration, focusing on document management and process automation, as well as in social media and content creation.
I am currently developing a thesis project involving AI, OCR, and digitization, combining analytical skills, precision, and creativity. I am proactive, well-organized, and results-oriented.

Master’s graduate with skills in digital communication, artificial intelligence, and data management. I have experience in public administration, focusing on document management and process automation, as well as in social media and content creation.... Show more

Arik Fletcher

Arik Fletcher

Arik Fletcher spends his career building things that make expertise, community and opportunity more accessible, in technology and beyond.

Over more than 25 years, that has meant moving from hands-on infrastructure and engineering into strategic consulting leadership, winning over £10m in competitive technology tenders, building and scaling a global technology PMO, and designing and delivering technical solutions for thousands of users across education, non-profit, SME and enterprise sectors. His current focus spans cyber security, AI strategy and adoption, cloud infrastructure, and governance, risk and compliance, delivered through fractional CIO, CTO, CISO and DPO leadership that gives organisations senior expertise they could not otherwise afford, alongside AI-augmented delivery models and a platform-agnostic evaluation methodology that have doubled consulting capacity and returned three to five times ROI for clients.

The same instinct to build access and community runs through everything else he does. He founded Greyface Guild, a community interest company built around the same principle: that creative and community work should be diverse, accessible and open to more people. Under its umbrella sit the Techie Brunch Club, a technologist community of over 1,000 members; South Devon Sound, a community radio station he funded and helped develop, giving local artists and presenters a platform; and Greyface Games, an indie studio building games and stories in its own Discordian Tales universe with accessibility and inclusive design built in from the first design document. He has spoken at game development industry events on that work.

He carries the same mentoring instinct into his professional life: as London Regional Lead for the Microsoft Global Community Initiative, a British Computer Society member and mentor, a Chartered Institute of Information Security member, a career coach for Ada, the National Digital Skills College, and a mentor and speaker with the London CTOs.

Arik Fletcher spends his career building things that make expertise, community and opportunity more accessible, in technology and beyond. Over more than 25 years, that has meant moving from hands-on infrastructure and engineering into strategic c... Show more

Shawn Oden

Shawn Oden

Back in the olden days, before that thing we call Y2K, Shawn Oden was a pilot, until he accidentally became a programmer, and then eventually a data monkey. He has spent almost all of his career in highly regulated and security-conscious spaces, like background screening, healthcare, insurance, government, and the military. Driven by a healthy dose of curiosity, Shawn has learned quite a bit about more topics than he can ever hope to master.

On the current step of his adventure, Shawn finds himself working as a DBA for the U.S. Army.

And he still hasn't learned when to stop saying things like "Oh, that looks interesting."

Back in the olden days, before that thing we call Y2K, Shawn Oden was a pilot, until he accidentally became a programmer, and then eventually a data monkey. He has spent almost all of his career in highly regulated and security-conscious spaces, like... Show more

Yariv Tal

Yariv Tal

Yariv Tal is a senior developer, security researcher, and cofounder of Secure From Scratch, a venture dedicated to teaching developers secure coding from the very first line of code.

Leveraging four decades of programming experience and years of bootcamp mentoring , he lectures on secure coding in academia and the private sector, leads the OWASP-untrust project, and researches the intersection of AI and application security, with a focus on secure code generation, LLM evaluation, and secure-by-construction development.

He also wrote "Effective Secure Coding, Part I: Building Safer Features".

Yariv Tal is a senior developer, security researcher, and cofounder of Secure From Scratch, a venture dedicated to teaching developers secure coding from the very first line of code. Leveraging four decades of programming experience and years of b... Show more

Audun Fauchald Strand

Audun Fauchald Strand

Partner at Prinispalis. Worked for Nav and FINN.no before that. Loves to increase developer speed and make developers happy. Have led departments of 130 people, and coded applications to helt Norway handle the pandemic

Partner at Prinispalis. Worked for Nav and FINN.no before that. Loves to increase developer speed and make developers happy. Have led departments of 130 people, and coded applications to helt Norway handle the pandemic Show more

Jérôme Urvoas

Jérôme Urvoas

Jérôme is a professional coach, agile coach, facilitator and trainer.
For 19 years, he has been one of the pioneers who have develop an agile culture within Lectra teams. He is now in charge of a team of internal coaches that he created and who support his company in its many changes.
Passionate about human dynamics, he has developed over the years an expertise in the fields of agility, change management and the management of teams and organizations.
Active member of the Agile community and of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council France, he likes to share his experience and his convictions through conferences and training.

Jérôme is a professional coach, agile coach, facilitator and trainer. For 19 years, he has been one of the pioneers who have develop an agile culture within Lectra teams. He is now in charge of a team of internal coaches that he created and who supp... Show more

Karl Groves

Karl Groves

With 20 years of experience in web development, usability, and accessibility, Karl Groves is widely regarded as a pragmatic solution-finder and thought leader in the accessibility industry. In his role as accessibility consultant at AFixt, Karl focuses on pragmatic and efficient ways of improving the accessibility of websites and software.

With 20 years of experience in web development, usability, and accessibility, Karl Groves is widely regarded as a pragmatic solution-finder and thought leader in the accessibility industry. In his role as accessibility consultant at AFixt, Karl focus... Show more

Chime Okure

Chime Okure

Chime is a Microsoft MVP and Senior Power Platform Consultant with a strong focus on helping organisations deliver impactful low-code solutions using Microsoft Power Platform. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), he is passionate about knowledge sharing, enabling rapid learning, and improving team effectiveness.

Beyond consulting, Chime is a Careers Mentor at the University of Greenwich (UK), where he supports students through career guidance and STEM engagement, encouraging the next generation to pursue opportunities in technology.

His commitment to learning, mentorship, and innovation reflects a clear belief in technology as a driver of growth, opportunity, and positive community impact.

Chime is a Microsoft MVP and Senior Power Platform Consultant with a strong focus on helping organisations deliver impactful low-code solutions using Microsoft Power Platform. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), he is passionate about knowledge s... Show more

Estera Kot

Estera Kot

Dr. Estera Kot is the Chief Technology Officer at Clouds On Mars, where she drives the company’s innovation in Data & AI strategy and execution. A former Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, she played a key role in building performance-critical components of Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Fabric, focusing on Apache Spark and high-efficiency analytical engines.

Estera is a Polish-born engineer by passion, fluent in several programming languages and recognized for her hands-on technical depth. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science with distinction, specializing in machine and deep learning for medical imaging. Her research has led to numerous scientific publications and a U.S. patent in big data processing.

Her career spans global tech leaders like Intel, Sony, and Procter & Gamble. She is a respected educator and mentor, having designed full-time and postgraduate AI-in-Cloud programs at the Warsaw University of Technology. Her students now work at CERN, Google, Meta, and other top-tier institutions worldwide. Estera is a guest lecturer at UCLA—one of the top public research universities in the U.S.—and Łazarski University in Warsaw.

As a speaker, she’s presented at top industry events including MLADS (Microsoft’s internal AI and data science conference in Redmond), the inaugural FabCon in Las Vegas, and several AI and cloud conferences across Europe. She also produces educational content on YouTube, making complex AI topics accessible and practical.

Estera is committed to building scalable, ethical, and real-world-driven AI solutions, with a focus on impact over hype.

Dr. Estera Kot is the Chief Technology Officer at Clouds On Mars, where she drives the company’s innovation in Data & AI strategy and execution. A former Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, she played a key role in building performance-critical c... Show more

Tricia Diamond

Tricia Diamond

Dr. Tricia Diamond is a portfolio and program management executive, aerospace engineer, and organizational strategist with more than two decades of leadership across the public sector, technology, and consulting in the United States and the Netherlands. She holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and professional aviation experience, alongside advanced credentials including the PfMP®, PMP®, PMI-ACP®, PMO-CP®, CPMAI, GPM-b®, CAL®, ITIL®, AWS-CCP, AWS-AIP, MCASE. As Director of ARPA Implementation for a major U.S. city, she built and led a PMO governing a $386M federal recovery portfolio with 100% regulatory compliance. She has spoken at ASPA and PMI conferences, previously served as VP of Professional Development for PMI Puget Sound, and is a Seattle Parks and Recreation Commissioner. She is the founder of Diamond PMO Solutions, an MWBE owned management consultancy specializing in portfolio governance, PMO design, and organizational strategy as well as PMI certification trainings. Her book, Second Line Leadership: How New Orleans Solved Coordination Without Controls, was published in September 2026.

Dr. Tricia Diamond is a portfolio and program management executive, aerospace engineer, and organizational strategist with more than two decades of leadership across the public sector, technology, and consulting in the United States and the Netherlan... Show more

Bert Fabry

Bert Fabry

As the founder of FabCore BV, Bert provides leadership, communication, and agile training and coaching to organizations and individuals worldwide, fostering environments that emphasize empathy and efficiency. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience across communication, leadership consulting, training, and IT advisory work, he helps people and teams grow with intention — an approach captured in FabCore's tagline, "From the Heart."
He has also worked at the intersection of technology and road safety, contributing to BUMP where his tech expertise met a strong commitment to safer roads.
An international speaker, he regularly shares his insights at conferences, engaging audiences with his deep knowledge in technology, leadership, and agile practices. With a background spanning the arts, technology, and international development, he draws on a diverse array of experiences to champion empathic leadership and continual learning. His journey through personal challenges has fueled his dedication to professional growth and making a meaningful impact.
Outside of work, he indulges in cooking and storytelling, enhancing life's flavor as a culinary enthusiast and a veteran tabletop roleplaying game master.

As the founder of FabCore BV, Bert provides leadership, communication, and agile training and coaching to organizations and individuals worldwide, fostering environments that emphasize empathy and efficiency. Drawing on more than 25 years of experien... Show more

Angela Trego

Angela Trego

Dr. Angela Trego is a rocket scientist turned Confidence & Communication Expert and the #1 bestselling author of Squashing the Imposter Syndrome. She has trained thousands of professionals across six continents to strengthen confidence as a skill so they can communicate more effectively, lead more boldly, and contribute at their full potential. Her core message is simple: confidence is a skill that can be learned, practiced, and strengthened.

Her work focuses on imposter syndrome, soft skills development, mentoring, and practical leadership tools that translate across industries. In addition, she specializes in faculty development and training university educators. She focuses particularly on STEM and engineering fields to implement evidence-based confidence-building strategies, engaged teaching practices, and classroom management approaches that increase student motivation and belonging.

Dr. Trego works with institutions to strengthen teaching effectiveness while reducing faculty burnout. Before dedicating her career to speaking, teaching, and coaching, she held technical and senior leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries and around the globe. She now brings that real-world leadership perspective into both industry and academia.

Whether working with executives, faculty, or emerging leaders, Dr. Trego's mission is simple: equip people with the confidence and skills to thrive.

Available for keynotes, consulting, coaching, and short courses. Every engagement is customized to the client's specific audience, language, and goals. Participants don't just hear these tools. They practice them in the room and carry them out the door as confidence they can actually use. Discover more at www.angelatrego.com

Dr. Angela Trego is a rocket scientist turned Confidence & Communication Expert and the #1 bestselling author of Squashing the Imposter Syndrome. She has trained thousands of professionals across six continents to strengthen confidence as a skill so ... Show more

Thomas Clavier

Thomas Clavier

I am an (agile|craftdevops) coach, teaching at the University of Lille, my favorite subjects are agility, devops, docker, lean startup, software craftsmanship and management. For more than 20 years, I've been trying to turn work into a game, make developers progress and challenge managers, ask questions to make teams grow.

I am an (agile|craftdevops) coach, teaching at the University of Lille, my favorite subjects are agility, devops, docker, lean startup, software craftsmanship and management. For more than 20 years, I've been trying to turn work into a game, make dev... Show more

Wesley Chun

Wesley Chun

WESLEY CHUN, MSCS, is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) https://developers.google.com/experts in Google Cloud (GCP) & Google Workspace (GWS), author of Prentice Hall's bestselling "Core Python" https://corepython.com series, co-author of "Python Web Development with Django" https://withdjango.com, and has written for Linux Journal & CNET. By day, he's a AI Technical Program Manager at Red Hat https://redhat.com/ai, and in his spare time, Wesley runs CyberWeb https://cyberwebconsulting.com specializing in GCP & GWS APIs and serverless platforms, Python & App Engine migrations https://appenginemigration.com, and Python training & engineering. He was one of the original Yahoo!Mail engineers and spent 13+ years on various Google product teams, speaking on behalf of their APIs, producing sample apps, codelabs, and videos for serverless migration http://bit.ly/3xk2Swi and GWS developers http://goo.gl/JpBQ40. Wesley holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Music from the University of California, is a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, and loves to travel to meet developers worldwide at conferences, user group events, and universities. Follow he/him @wescpy on Tw/X https://twitter.com/wescpy, BS http://blskyl.ink/wescpy, and his technical blog https://dev.to/wescpy.

WESLEY CHUN, MSCS, is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) https://developers.google.com/experts in Google Cloud (GCP) & Google Workspace (GWS), author of Prentice Hall's bestselling "Core Python" https://corepython.com series, co-author of "Python Web De... Show more

Arpit Jain

Arpit Jain

Grad student at MIT. Supply-chain security researcher. 24 published CVEs credited by name, including a critical authorization flaw in pgAdmin 4 and several in Red Hat products, where the vendor advisories carry a named acknowledgement. Over 650 merged contributions across 200 open-source organizations including apache, google, kubernetes-sigs, containerd, prometheus, sigstore, OWASP, NASA and NIST, most of them security or supply-chain hardening. Builds mitigation-aware CI/CD vulnerability scanners. Active contributor to CNCF, sigstore and SLSA, OpenSSF, and US federal government projects.

Grad student at MIT. Supply-chain security researcher. 24 published CVEs credited by name, including a critical authorization flaw in pgAdmin 4 and several in Red Hat products, where the vendor advisories carry a named acknowledgement. Over 650 merge... Show more

JuanJo Ciarlante

JuanJo Ciarlante

JuanJo Ciarlante is a Principal Engineer at GrafanaLabs and Assistant Professor at Mendoza Uni. His industry experience includes working for Google as SRE TL, as well as other SRE roles at Canonical Ltd, and Bitnami.
His OSS journey started in 1998 when he contributed IP Aliasing support to Linux, and since then to several other OSS projects. He's particularly passionate about Cloud-y OSS projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, etc which made cloud computing accessible for the rest of us.

JuanJo Ciarlante is a Principal Engineer at GrafanaLabs and Assistant Professor at Mendoza Uni. His industry experience includes working for Google as SRE TL, as well as other SRE roles at Canonical Ltd, and Bitnami. His OSS journey started in 1998 ... Show more

Mario Noioso

Mario Noioso

Mario Noioso is a Rome-based technology author, solutions architect and inventor. He is an Advisory Solutions Architect at MongoDB, working with public sector and regulated organizations across EMEA on data and AI architecture.

His work focuses on how data and AI systems behave in real production environments, where complexity, governance, legacy, scale and operational constraints shape outcomes more than theory ever does. He has helped teams design data foundations that stay coherent as systems scale, organizations grow and automation becomes pervasive, including national-scale digital public services.

His career spans more than 30 years across IBM, Microsoft and ServiceNow. He began in IBM's development labs, working on mainframe and C/C++ systems, and holds US patents from that period, including one on deploying applications across distributed nodes and one on real-time analysis of live musical performances, which in hindsight reads like an early specification of an agentic AI loop.

He is the author of Who Owns Memory Owns the Future: Power, Knowledge, and Imagination from Fire to Mars, a history of how humanity has stored, controlled and transmitted memory, from oral tradition to databases and AI. He writes on data, AI and technology culture at marionoioso.com and in Towards Data Science, and edits Real-World Architectures, a series of free field guides on production data architectures.

He speaks regularly at industry and academic events, including AWS Public Sector Day, MongoDB.local and the Sapienza University of Rome engineering festival, on AI agent memory, data sovereignty, public sector modernization and the long arc from early computing to agentic systems.

Mario Noioso is a Rome-based technology author, solutions architect and inventor. He is an Advisory Solutions Architect at MongoDB, working with public sector and regulated organizations across EMEA on data and AI architecture. His work focuses on... Show more

Megan Hsu

Megan Hsu

Megan Hsu is a school district administrator in the Bay Area, California, and the founder of Edumated: Education Automated, an initiative focused on helping educators and leaders harness AI and automation to transform how schools operate. She leads special education programs by day and builds the infrastructure she wishes existed by night, developing applications and training programs that streamline the work of managing people, documentation, meetings, and decisions across complex school systems. Her years of classroom teaching, program leadership, and hands-on systems design give her a vantage point that spans both sides of the admin table.

Megan is a frequent presenter on AI in education and has spoken at ACSA Women in School Leadership, ACSA Every Child Counts, CAAPLE Con, the CEC Convention, the CASE Conference, and IASE Conference in Bhutan. She is an active participant in the educator innovation movement, builds through national AI hackathons, and has won hackathons with projects AI Social Stories and BeastBlend. She believes the future of education will be shaped by the educators and leaders who design the systems they need themselves.

Megan Hsu is a school district administrator in the Bay Area, California, and the founder of Edumated: Education Automated, an initiative focused on helping educators and leaders harness AI and automation to transform how schools operate. She leads s... Show more

Vernessa Hopkins

Vernessa Hopkins

Vernessa Hopkins is a leadership and change management consultant and the founder of VAH Consulting LLC. With over 25 years of experience, she partners with leaders and teams to improve communication, alignment, and execution—especially in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

Vernessa specializes in helping organizations navigate breakdowns among leadership, product, and technical teams, where misalignment often causes delays, frustration, and lost momentum. Through her proprietary framework, The Influence Equation™, she equips leaders with practical strategies to strengthen self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and communication—key drivers of team performance and organizational effectiveness.

Her work focuses on reducing friction, improving cross-functional collaboration, and enabling leaders to guide teams through change with clarity and confidence. Vernessa has facilitated leadership development, organizational strategy, and conflict resolution across a range of industries, helping teams build stronger dynamics and deliver better outcomes.

Vernessa Hopkins is a leadership and change management consultant and the founder of VAH Consulting LLC. With over 25 years of experience, she partners with leaders and teams to improve communication, alignment, and execution—especially in fast-paced... Show more

Brigitte Bergery

Brigitte Bergery

Enseñar sobre empleabilidad es una tarea fundamental para avanzar en pos de lograr varios de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible: en Argentina solo 3 de cada 10 personas en edad laboral recibió información sobre empleabilidad durante la educación formal. Algunos de los temas que desarrollo:
➡️ Empleabilidad
➡️ Networking
➡️ Armado de CV
➡️ Uso de LinkedIn
➡️ Marca personal y redes sociales

Ya confían en mi: escuelas secundarias, universidades, centros de formación para el trabajo, edtech, organizaciones del tercer sector, comunidades profesionales, eventos, gobierno, consultoras y medios de comunicación.

Participé en:
🚀 33º Jornada de orientación vocacional organizada por la Junta Regional de Educación Católica de San Isidro
⚙️ Expo Laboral del Centro Argentino de Ingenieros
💻 DevOps Days Argentina
🧪 LABURAtorio (evento presencial organizado por Fundación Banco Nación)
🚀 CoderCamp by Coderhouse 3era y 4ta Temporada.
☁️ AWS Community Day Argentina 2024 (evento presencial realizado en UADE).
▶️ Work Festival 2024 (evento presencial organizado por Takenos)

📊 El recorrido hasta HOY:
+35000 personas en LATAM participaron en clases, charlas o talleres accediendo a conocimientos clave para el mundo laboral.
+500 jóvenes participaron en la charla “Onboarding al mundo laboral”.
+400 profesionales de habla hispana me eligieron como asesora de empleabilidad para acompañarlos en su reinserción, transición o ascenso laboral (Top career coach)
+45 charlas en diferentes formatos.
Emplea Habilidad es community partner de los principales eventos enfocados en el mundo laboral.
Participación en espacios vinculados al área desde el rol de jurado, moderadora o creadora de contenidos.

Enseñar sobre empleabilidad es una tarea fundamental para avanzar en pos de lograr varios de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible: en Argentina solo 3 de cada 10 personas en edad laboral recibió información sobre empleabilidad durante la educación ... Show more

Elliott Mattice

Elliott Mattice

Elliott Mattice is Co-Founder and CEO of Veraidyn. His work focuses on AI security and governance, applying human trust principles and behavioral assessment to decisions about agent responsibility, oversight, and accountability. He brings 25 years of experience leading cybersecurity, risk, and governance programs across defense, healthcare, and federal contracting, including more than 40 federal authorizations. He is CSA TAISE-certified in trusted AI safety and holds CISM, PMP, ITIL, and CMMC-RP credentials. He earned a master's degree in Mindful Leadership and speaks regularly on AI governance to security audiences.

Elliott Mattice is Co-Founder and CEO of Veraidyn. His work focuses on AI security and governance, applying human trust principles and behavioral assessment to decisions about agent responsibility, oversight, and accountability. He brings 25 years of... Show more

Waskar Paulino

Waskar Paulino

Waskar Paulino is a software engineer who builds AI products, and a Technical.ly 2025 RealLIST Innovator. He is the founder of PhilaCon Valley, a Philadelphia tech community for people who build. Its PATCH series of hands-on labs puts designers, engineers, and artists in one room to make things, from NFC hardware to projection mapping.

He is a former startup CTO. Before that, he spent seven years at Apple as a Genius and trainer. He started his career teaching Spanish and music to young people in Philadelphia. He is a first-generation AfroLatinx technologist who explains technology the same way to a boardroom or a beginner.

He speaks on AI in production, AI-assisted building, creative coding, and community-led growth. At the AI Community Conference at Microsoft in New York, he presented "From Pixels to Meaning: Building an AI Content Pipeline That Actually Works." He has also spoken at Philly JS Club, OwlHacks at Temple University, FamCon, and The Moonlighters' Club Showcase. He has been a panelist at Technical.ly's Builders Conference during Philly Tech Week, at Per Scholas Philadelphia, and on AI infrastructure with Unisys in Allentown.

Coming up: he leads the PhilaCon Valley creative-tech activation at Founders Alley Philadelphia in October 2026. In December 2026 he co-hosts The AI Confessional at The AI Summit New York.

Waskar Paulino is a software engineer who builds AI products, and a Technical.ly 2025 RealLIST Innovator. He is the founder of PhilaCon Valley, a Philadelphia tech community for people who build. Its PATCH series of hands-on labs puts designers, engi... Show more

Kevin Cueva

Kevin Cueva

Soy Kevin Cueva, Ingeniero en Tecnologías de la Información y Máster en Big Data y Data Science. Mi experiencia se centra en el desarrollo de soluciones tecnológicas estratégicas, con un enfoque especializado en Inteligencia Artificial, Ciencia de Datos, MultiCloud, Ciberseguridad y automatización de procesos. Me desempeño como Software Development Consultant en Business IT, donde diseño e implemento soluciones personalizadas para optimizar operaciones y potenciar la toma de decisiones de mis clientes en toda Latinoamérica. He compartido esta experiencia como conferencista en eventos de la comunidad Google Developer Groups, así como en comunidades tech y otros espacios académicos y tecnológicos a nivel nacional.

Además de mi perfil técnico, he demostrado un fuerte liderazgo y un compromiso activo con el desarrollo social y comunitario. Co-fundé y lideré iniciativas de investigación como el Semillero Nexus Community y la Red de Investigación en Ingeniería Informática (RI3), y fui co-líder de la comunidad D'Soft.net (Microsoft) en la UNACH. Mi experiencia se extiende a roles de gestión en organizaciones de impacto como la Fundación SUMAE que cofundé y presidí, la Red Juvenil de Liderazgo Ecuador (RJLE), LIDERA Ecuador y AIESEC Ecuador, además de mi formación como líder global en el Aspire Leaders Program de Harvard Business School. He participado en proyectos de alto impacto como el desarrollo del primer metaverso del Ecuador para la ciudad de Riobamba, como capacitador voluntario para la ONU en manejo de software y digitalización de documentos, y en la organización de campamentos electorales y eventos de alto prestigio nacional.

Mis habilidades técnicas abarcan un amplio espectro: desarrollo Full-Stack (Python, Java, JavaScript, .NET), herramientas de Visualización de Datos y Business Intelligence (Power BI, RStudio), FinOps, IA Manager, DevOps y Cloud Computing (Azure, AWS, GCP), redes y ciberseguridad con formación en hacking ético y diseño de soluciones inclusivas, respaldado por mi formación en educación inclusiva para personas con discapacidad visual (FOAL / Fundación ONCE América Latina). Soy una persona autodidacta y proactiva, orientada a la resolución de problemas y al aprendizaje continuo, lo que me impulsa a generar un impacto positivo a través de la tecnología y el trabajo colaborativo. Me encanta viajar, explorar la fotografía y estar en constante aprendizaje, manejando muchos frentes con responsabilidad.

Soy Kevin Cueva, Ingeniero en Tecnologías de la Información y Máster en Big Data y Data Science. Mi experiencia se centra en el desarrollo de soluciones tecnológicas estratégicas, con un enfoque especializado en Inteligencia Artificial, Ciencia de Da... Show more

Tom Overton

Tom Overton

A 30-year veteran data guy with experience in enterprise databases, platform migration, application monitoring, audit and compliance, and document automation in environmental, government, telecom, manufacturing and healthcare industries. When not writing queries, I enjoy mentoring, coaching, woodworking, and hiking in our National Parks.

A 30-year veteran data guy with experience in enterprise databases, platform migration, application monitoring, audit and compliance, and document automation in environmental, government, telecom, manufacturing and healthcare industries. When not wr... Show more

Moises Jauregui-Sanchez

Moises Jauregui-Sanchez

Moisés Jauregui-Sanchez is an AI & EdTech leader, futures/foresight strategist, and strategic designer helping universities, governments, and companies build education’s future with AI, games, and evidence. He is Director of the School of Video Game Programming Engineering at Universidad Xochicalco and a PhD researcher in Human-Computer Interaction at UABC, where his doctoral work focuses on a serious games design model for cognitive stimulation in older adults. Ranked Mexico’s #1 Futurist Keynote Speaker by Favikon, he engages 160K+ followers across platforms and writes LongeviPlay LATAM, a newsletter on AI, serious games, and cognitive sovereignty. A Perplexity AI Business Fellow, he has delivered keynotes and masterclasses across LATAM. His talks explore AI in education, futures thinking, game-based learning, and human-centric innovation.

Moisés Jauregui-Sanchez is an AI & EdTech leader, futures/foresight strategist, and strategic designer helping universities, governments, and companies build education’s future with AI, games, and evidence. He is Director of the School of Video Game ... Show more

Michelle Keating-Sibel DNP, CRNP, FNP-BC, MSCP

Michelle Keating-Sibel DNP, CRNP, FNP-BC, MSCP

Dr. Michelle Keating-Sibel is a distinguished family nurse practitioner, educator, and healthcare leader. With extensive experience in primary care and population health, Dr. Sibel has dedicated her career to optimizing patient outcomes through evidence-based practice, preventative screenings, and value-based care. She has worked as a family nurse practitioner, providing comprehensive care across the lifespan, and has also served at Tandigm Health, where she focused on innovative healthcare delivery models to enhance quality and efficiency in primary care.

In addition to her clinical expertise, Dr. Sibel is a faculty member at Chamberlain University, where she educates future healthcare leaders on the implementation of strategies to drive policy change and improve healthcare quality metrics such as HEDIS measures. A seasoned speaker, she has presented on a range of critical healthcare topics, including deprescribing strategies, hospital-at-home models, and the integration of pharmacologic therapy in weight management.

Dr. Michelle Keating-Sibel is a distinguished family nurse practitioner, educator, and healthcare leader. With extensive experience in primary care and population health, Dr. Sibel has dedicated her career to optimizing patient outcomes through evide... Show more

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