Humanities & Social Sciences

Esteemed speakers contributing their insights into human culture, behavior, and societal development

Pirita Johnsen

Pirita Johnsen

Pirita is an AI Platform Architect, change leader, speaker and coach at Eviny, one of Norway’s leading renewable energy and technology companies. She works where people, technology and organisational change meet, turning rapidly developing AI capabilities into responsible and practical ways of working.

Her work covers AI adoption, platform governance, security, organisational learning, AI agents and low-code solutions. She combines the technical perspective of a platform architect with more than 20 years of experience in transformation, digitalisation, process development, project management and leadership across several industries.

Pirita is a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner and holds several ICAgile, Scrum Master and Product Owner certifications. Her sessions explore what happens when AI changes not only our tools, but also expertise, decision-making, roles and organisational design.

She is particularly interested in questions such as:

- Why do people achieve different results with the same AI?
- What remains valuable when knowledge becomes widely available?
- How do we preserve human judgement, context and responsibility as work changes?

What can you expect from her sessions?

- Honest lessons from introducing and governing AI in a complex organisation
- Practical approaches to AI adoption and organisational learning
- Real-world stories about people, platforms, governance and transformation
- Challenging questions about expertise and the future of work
- Concrete ideas for examining and redesigning work in your own organisation

Pirita does not present AI or IT as a simple technology rollout. Her focus is on what people and organisations must change to turn new technology into lasting value.

Pirita is an AI Platform Architect, change leader, speaker and coach at Eviny, one of Norway’s leading renewable energy and technology companies. She works where people, technology and organisational change meet, turning rapidly developing AI capabil... Show more

Alex Vidal

Alex Vidal

I teach humans and organizations how to use AI. And I teach AIs how to teach humans.

As founder of Mindmakers, I build adaptive learning technology that adjusts to each learner in real time. Whether you're upskilling 10 employees or teaching 1,000 students, no more one size fits all.

My background combines Psychology and Computer Science, which means I think about how people actually learn, not just how to ship features. I've been teaching AI and data science for a decade with thousands of learners.

I teach humans and organizations how to use AI. And I teach AIs how to teach humans. As founder of Mindmakers, I build adaptive learning technology that adjusts to each learner in real time. Whether you're upskilling 10 employees or teaching 1,000... Show more

Oyinkansola Onwuchekwa

Oyinkansola Onwuchekwa

Oyinkansola Onwuchekwa, also known as KKC, is an AI researcher and engineer completing a PhD in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Hull. Her research examines how language technologies handle multilingual and code-mixed text, with a focus on African languages and emotional expression in Afrobeats lyrics.

She is also a singer-songwriter who performs and releases music as KKC. Writing songs informs her research into how computers interpret emotion, language mixing, cultural references, and the ambiguity that gives lyrics their meaning.
Python runs through her work, from preparing datasets and training language models to building research tools and evaluating AI agents.

Her projects include the Low-Resource NLP Toolkit, a Python package for African language processing and code-switching analysis, and SAGE-AI, a prototype for reviewing research literature with traceable evidence and human review.

She has also built a gateway for controlling AI agents’ access to tools and benchmarks for testing whether coding-agent monitors recognise risky actions. Across her work, she asks whose language our software understands and how people can inspect and challenge its decisions.

Oyinkansola Onwuchekwa, also known as KKC, is an AI researcher and engineer completing a PhD in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Hull. Her research examines how language technologies handle multilingual and code-mixed tex... Show more

Burcu Taspinar

Burcu Taspinar

Burcu Taşpınar is a mechatronics engineer and data scientist working at the intersection of engineering, data and digitalization. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechatronics Engineering from Johannes Kepler University Linz and has experience in engineering simulation, industrial analytics and data-driven product management.

Having grown up internationally across Europe, Asia and the Middle East, she has developed a strong interest in how people experience places, technology and information differently across cultures. Her interests span machine learning, digital twins and human-centered AI. She is also exploring Local Perspectives, a concept investigating how data, AI and local knowledge can be combined to create more personalized ways of experiencing cities, and is active internationally as a technology and hackathon mentor.

Burcu Taşpınar is a mechatronics engineer and data scientist working at the intersection of engineering, data and digitalization. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechatronics Engineering from Johannes Kepler University Linz and has exper... Show more

Don Barden

Don Barden

Don Barden, Ph.D. is a behavioral economist, international speaker, and business consultant who has worked with organizations including the U.S. Army, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, and OneAmerica Financial Partners. He is the author of The Perfect Plan and Here Come the Girls, and teaches C-suite teams and business owners how to install the decision-making instincts that grow revenue, reduce turnover, and prepare organizations for the next era of leadership.

Don Barden, Ph.D. is a behavioral economist, international speaker, and business consultant who has worked with organizations including the U.S. Army, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, and OneAmerica Financial Partners. He is the author of The Perfect Plan and H... Show more

Soren Alexandersen

Soren Alexandersen

💭 Søren Friis Alexandersen is a renowned thought leader in the ERP space, known for his deep expertise and collaborative approach. He's far into his career's 3rd decade, and currently a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft in the Dynamics 365 Business Central engineering team, working on Microsoft's core business solution for SMBs, where his mandate is to rethink Finance through the lens of AI.

💡 With a distinguished standing in the community, Søren is celebrated not only for his technical acumen but also for his unwavering commitment to openness and continuous learning, always bringing in the human factor into technology.

👩🏼‍💻 Søren's is a strategist at heart, and his leadership is characterized by his ability to bridge the gap between complex technological concepts and practical, human-centered applications.

🦸🏼 As a lifelong learner, Søren continuously seeks new knowledge and perspectives, fostering a culture of growth and adaptability within his professional circles. He shares the broadly held view that technology can and should improve human lives through increased productivity, though he thinks a lot about what we will do with the productivity gain long term, and how we ensure AI in particular is fair, transparent, and accessible to all.

💭 Søren Friis Alexandersen is a renowned thought leader in the ERP space, known for his deep expertise and collaborative approach. He's far into his career's 3rd decade, and currently a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft in the Dynamics 365 Busi... Show more

Mehdi Mohseni

Mehdi Mohseni

Mehdi is a senior software developer and system architect who has been designing and building production systems since 2000. Across that time he has delivered solutions in office automation, CRM, healthcare management, and industrial and logistics automation, working primarily on the .NET platform and with a strong commitment to clean, object-oriented design.

Since 2016 his work has centered on cloud computing and cloud-native architecture. More recently his main focus has become AI engineering: integrating large language models into real .NET applications through function calling and tool use, building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and combining vector search with graph databases such as ArangoDB and NebulaGraph for semantic discovery and reasoning. He also applies these techniques to production problems such as AI-driven root-cause analysis in observability systems.

He writes and speaks about .NET, Azure, practical LLM integration, function calling, vector and semantic search, and graph databases, sharing much of this hands-on work at dotnet-talk.com.

Mehdi is a senior software developer and system architect who has been designing and building production systems since 2000. Across that time he has delivered solutions in office automation, CRM, healthcare management, and industrial and logistics au... Show more

Ugne Fink

Ugne Fink

Founder of Firm&Fair, international negotiation agency

Ugne Fink-Jensen is an international business negotiator, tech counsel, and speaker with more than 15 years of experience. She has worked across both SMEs and multibillion-dollar conglomerates, consistently operating at the intersection of technology, business, and law, including as Lead Negotiator on complex tech and digital transformation initiatives.

Today, she supports businesses in navigating strategic deals and strengthening their governance capabilities, with a focus on negotiation excellence, responsible AI, and the advantage of human skills in a technology-driven world. In addition, Ugne works closely across the Microsoft Dynamics ecosystem, supporting partners and contributing to Microsoft-led initiatives such as BC Talent.

Founder of Firm&Fair, international negotiation agency Ugne Fink-Jensen is an international business negotiator, tech counsel, and speaker with more than 15 years of experience. She has worked across both SMEs and multibillion-dollar conglomerates... Show more

Ben Greenberg

Ben Greenberg

Ben Greenberg is the Developer Relations Lead at Arbitrum and has been recognized as an Agentic AI Foundation Ambassador and a Docker Captain. He previously served on the board of Ruby Central and is deeply involved in the open-source community. Before moving into software development, Ben spent a decade in adult education, community organizing, and non-profit management. He writes regularly about the intersection of technology, ethics, and community, and is the author of numerous technical articles and publications, including his latest book, Vector Search with JavaScript.

Ben Greenberg is the Developer Relations Lead at Arbitrum and has been recognized as an Agentic AI Foundation Ambassador and a Docker Captain. He previously served on the board of Ruby Central and is deeply involved in the open-source community. Befo... Show more

Abtin Aghagolian

Abtin Aghagolian

Abtin Aghagolian is the Co-Founder and CTO of Pikd (pikd.app), a London based geospatial AR platform that turns the real world into an interactive, privacy first interface for brands and consumers. Pikd has worked with Red Bull, Burger King and the London Design Biennale.

He has been building consumer technology at scale for close to a decade. Before Pikd he founded a venture studio where he grew a team of over 100 people and shipped eleven platforms, including a video on demand service with more than a million users, alongside psychometric ad engines and fan engagement systems. That background is why he argues about privacy from the advertising side of the table rather than against it.

His current work is privacy preserving AI. He holds a UK patent pending invention for context aware augmented reality built on zero knowledge proofs and psychometric context modelling, and is leading a consortium bid into Innovate UK and the Eureka clusters on privacy first smart city infrastructure.

He has spoken at Digital Almaty, Global Tech Wave and Red Bull Basement, where he gave "Don't Build the Future Wrong: Ethics by Design in the Age of Immersive AI". He holds a BSc in Computer Science and Management from the University of St Andrews and a DBA from the University of Tehran.

Abtin Aghagolian is the Co-Founder and CTO of Pikd (pikd.app), a London based geospatial AR platform that turns the real world into an interactive, privacy first interface for brands and consumers. Pikd has worked with Red Bull, Burger King and the L... Show more

John Kwarsick

John Kwarsick

John Kwarsick is a cybersecurity and AI governance researcher focused on the human governance layer of increasingly autonomous systems. His 14-paper research program examines AI adoption failure, agentic governance, decision infrastructure, supervisory capacity, human-AI collaboration, and preservation of professional judgment. He created THE WHEEL Framework™ and WHEEL OS™ to evaluate whether organizations can adopt, supervise, and govern AI under operational pressure. John previously served as Director of Digital Sales for Security at Microsoft and led IoT security sales for Check Point. He speaks nationally and internationally on AI governance, human oversight, and enterprise readiness.

John Kwarsick is a cybersecurity and AI governance researcher focused on the human governance layer of increasingly autonomous systems. His 14-paper research program examines AI adoption failure, agentic governance, decision infrastructure, superviso... Show more

Mareike Kroschel

Mareike Kroschel

Focus areas: Artificial Intelligence & Ethics, AI Safety & Governance, Voice AI & Synthetic Trust, Human-AI Interaction, AI Bias & Inclusion, Leadership under Pressure, High-Stakes Decision Making, Negotiation & Influence, Crisis Communication, Autonomic Resilience & Regulation

Member of Global Health HUB Berlin, Global Institute for Negotiation (Zurich) and Women in AI Germany. Has worked with parliamentary groups, politicians and internationally recognised entrepreneurs.

Mareike Kroschel explores the interaction between AI and human voices. Her concept of Subcortical Contact Bias describes why the body trusts AI voices before the mind decides, and what that means for leadership, communication and trust when we can no longer reliably tell voices apart. She also asks how AI voices change the way we listen and speak, and who decides how AI sounds.

Voice is identity. With this idea, Mareike Kroschel founded VoiceDoula Concept. It is not a training but an accompaniment: people listen, pause and let their voice emerge.

Her work rests on three principles. Cognitive: how voice, identity and leadership shape each other. Somatic: breath, body and nervous system as the ground of the voice. Artistic: sound, image and play as a space where the voice can appear. Her work is grounded in her training as a state-certified breath and voice therapist, many years of work in federal health care, and her career as a singer and composer in contemporary and avant-garde music.

She works with leaders (Grounded Voice), organisations (Living Cycles) and founder teams (Pitch Lab), and hosts “The Breath Room”, a space to breathe, listen and arrive.

Focus areas: Artificial Intelligence & Ethics, AI Safety & Governance, Voice AI & Synthetic Trust, Human-AI Interaction, AI Bias & Inclusion, Leadership under Pressure, High-Stakes Decision Making, Negotiation & Influence, Crisis Communication, Auton... Show more

Mala Mahadevan

Mala Mahadevan

Mala Mahadevan is a senior database professional with over 20 years of experience working with data, primarily in SQL Server and related technologies. She has been volunteering with SQL Server community for the past 15 years and is also a recipient of the PASSion award for being an outstanding volunteer. She is a featured blogger on sqlservercentral.com and also blogs infrequently at curiousaboutdata.com.

Mala Mahadevan is a senior database professional with over 20 years of experience working with data, primarily in SQL Server and related technologies. She has been volunteering with SQL Server community for the past 15 years and is also a recipient o... Show more

Shavana Peynado

Shavana Peynado

Shavana Peynado is a multi-award winning Software Engineer, public speaker, DEI advocate. Coming from an Finance and Modern Languages background, learning to program during the pandemic, Shav is dedicated to giving back to the community, fostering psychologically safe spaces for women in tech and is actively involved in mentoring.

Shavana Peynado is a multi-award winning Software Engineer, public speaker, DEI advocate. Coming from an Finance and Modern Languages background, learning to program during the pandemic, Shav is dedicated to giving back to the community, fostering ps... Show more

Maciej Rząsa

Maciej Rząsa

Software engineer with 10+ years under his belt. At Chattermill, he turns AI research into real-world products. A fan of diving deep into black boxes, he has unusual hobby of writing regular expressions by hand and arguing about their speed. When he’s not coding, he shares knowledge as a university instructor, speaker, and meetup organiser.

Bookworm, hiker, history nerd - ask him about Napoleon!

Software engineer with 10+ years under his belt. At Chattermill, he turns AI research into real-world products. A fan of diving deep into black boxes, he has unusual hobby of writing regular expressions by hand and arguing about their speed. When he’... Show more

Celina Del Turco

Celina Del Turco

Celina Del Turco is a software developer and educator from Argentina working at the intersection of technology, education, and human-centered design.

She develops educational technology and software systems focused on making technology more accessible, understandable, and resilient in real-world environments. Her current work includes Utopía, an offline-first educational technology project exploring adaptive learning, accessibility-aware interaction, local AI, and architectures that remain useful when connectivity and computational resources are limited.

Alongside software development, Celina teaches programming and technology through hands-on workshops, working with learners who often begin with little or no technical background. This experience has shaped her approach to engineering: systems should not force people to adapt to technology when technology can be designed to adapt to people.

Her interests include AI engineering, adaptive systems, offline-first architectures, accessibility, educational technology, and the practical challenges of building technology under real-world constraints.

Celina Del Turco is a software developer and educator from Argentina working at the intersection of technology, education, and human-centered design. She develops educational technology and software systems focused on making technology more access... Show more

Philip Chidera

Philip Chidera

Philip Chidera is a Product Designer and entrepreneur building fintech, SaaS, and Web3 products for clients and companies across Nigeria and internationally. He is also the Co-founder of Termwise, a school management platform built for Nigerian schools. He serves as Design Lead (UI/UX) for Port Harcourt Talent Tribe under ATC Africa, where he mentors and supports emerging tech talent. He combines product design with AI and no-code tools to build and ship production-ready interfaces. His work and speaking focus on product design, AI, emerging tools, and the evolving ways modern digital products are designed and built.

Philip Chidera is a Product Designer and entrepreneur building fintech, SaaS, and Web3 products for clients and companies across Nigeria and internationally. He is also the Co-founder of Termwise, a school management platform built for Nigerian schoo... Show more

Mathias Weber

Mathias Weber

Mathias Weber is a Managing Consultant in the Data & AI practice at a leading independent IT service provider. With two years of experience in Forensic Analytics and five years in Data Architecture Consulting, he helps clients navigate complex data & AI challenges and align technology solutions with strategic goals.

Beyond consulting, Mathias is an active technology scout in Berlin’s vibrant tech scene, having attended as well as documented more than 200+ tech events and having published insights in the book Other People’s Software Endeavours as well as on the website almatzo-techscouting.eu.

Mathias Weber is a Managing Consultant in the Data & AI practice at a leading independent IT service provider. With two years of experience in Forensic Analytics and five years in Data Architecture Consulting, he helps clients navigate complex data &... Show more

Tim Rayburn

Tim Rayburn

Tim Rayburn is a Vice President of Consulting with Improving Enterprises, a software and project management consulting company in Dallas, TX. He is a passionate advocate of apprenticeship and mentorship in corporate environments. He has been awarded the Microsoft MVP in recognition of his expertise and community leadership 11 times. He is also a conference organizer, an author, and can be found speaking across the nation on agile processes, software design, and career management. He lives in the North Dallas area with his amazing wife Kate and their loyal dogs Dresden and Radagast.

Tim Rayburn is a Vice President of Consulting with Improving Enterprises, a software and project management consulting company in Dallas, TX. He is a passionate advocate of apprenticeship and mentorship in corporate environments. He has been awarded ... Show more

Jovan Kojic

Jovan Kojic

Jovan is a multidisciplinary researcher and management professional working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, business strategy, technology, and ethics. His research examines the organizational and socioeconomic implications of AI automation, with particular focus on algorithmic bias, privacy, governance, sustainable innovation, and the human consequences of technological transformation.

He collaborates with the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and its Mathematical Institute, contributing to discussions that connect theoretical and quantitative approaches to AI with practical business applications. His academic background also includes research in green chemistry, microwave chemistry, analytical methods, and process optimization.

His work combines quantitative analysis, mathematical reasoning, management research, and technological perspectives to examine how organizations can adopt emerging technologies while addressing questions of fairness, accountability, sustainability, and strategic value.

As a speaker and researcher, he focuses on making complex technological and managerial issues accessible while encouraging critical discussion about how organizations should approach the next generation of AI-driven transformation.

Jovan is a multidisciplinary researcher and management professional working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, business strategy, technology, and ethics. His research examines the organizational and socioeconomic implications of AI autom... Show more

Candice Van Dertholen

Candice Van Dertholen

Candice Van Dertholen is a Global Speaker, Retreat Facilitator, and Private Advisor to high-performing professionals, executives, and founders navigating growth, pressure, and visibility. She is the founder of The Warrior Within Healing, bringing over two decades of experience across leadership, business development, and wellness.

Her work focuses on identifying and shifting root-level patterns that directly impact decision-making, communication, and performance under pressure. She partners with leaders operating at a high level to strengthen internal clarity, stabilize momentum, and expand their capacity to lead with consistency and precision.

Candice’s approach integrates embodiment, nervous system regulation, and pattern recognition to address what traditional strategies often miss. The result is sustained performance, stronger presence, and the ability to navigate complexity without losing traction.

Candice has spoken for internal teams like McCormick & Company, Inc. and international conferences like Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading Conference in Birmingham, United Kingdom. She also volunteers as a speaker for NAMI Charlotte, bringing mental wellness support to the community.

In addition to her work, Candice is an event founder Warrior Defined, a men's mental health event in Charlotte, NC.

Candice Van Dertholen is a Global Speaker, Retreat Facilitator, and Private Advisor to high-performing professionals, executives, and founders navigating growth, pressure, and visibility. She is the founder of The Warrior Within Healing, bringing ove... Show more

Siyanbola Ajiboye

Siyanbola Ajiboye

Siyanbola Ajiboye is a strategy focused professional in digital transformation, business process, change management, root-cause analysis and AI, with a focus on strengthening operational systems, mitigating revenue leakage and delivering measurable organisational outcomes.

His approach combines governance, technology, and transformation assurance, informed by close to two decades of experience across high-risk and regulated maritime environments. He developed the proposed digital-twin-enabled security framework for the Gulf of Guinea.

His professional and advisory services includes transformation readiness, process and solution design, systems integration, cybersecurity risk, benefits realisation, revenue leakage plugging, development of custom practical frameworks and solutions for organisations and technology programme failure analysis.

Siyanbola Ajiboye is a strategy focused professional in digital transformation, business process, change management, root-cause analysis and AI, with a focus on strengthening operational systems, mitigating revenue leakage and delivering measurable o... Show more

Sharon Steed

Sharon Steed

Sharon Steed is a keynote speaker, author and person who stutters. Drawing on her own experience as a stutterer, Sharon brings a uniquely personal lens to the practice of empathetic leadership. She shows that vulnerability isn't a weakness to overcome but a skill that builds trust, loyalty, and stronger teams.

Sharon has spoken on stages in 20 countries spanning five continents. She’s helped organizations like Google, Microsoft, Booking.com, Northwestern Mutual and dozens of others improve performance, retain top talent and be better communicators by teaching them how to be actively empathetic.

She is the author of "Leading with Empathy For Dummies" as well as several courses on LinkedIn Learning. Her most popular course, "Communicating with Empathy" has been translated into a dozen languages and has surpassed one million views. She has given a TEDx talk on empowering insecurities, and she’s the author of the O’Reilly Media, Inc. eBook "Empathy at Work."

Sharon Steed is a keynote speaker, author and person who stutters. Drawing on her own experience as a stutterer, Sharon brings a uniquely personal lens to the practice of empathetic leadership. She shows that vulnerability isn't a weakness to overcom... Show more

Vasuki Uday Kiran Vudathala

Vasuki Uday Kiran Vudathala

Vasuki Uday Kiran Vudathala (Uday) is a Staff Performance Engineer at ServiceNow with more than 16 years of experience in performance engineering, platform reliability, and observability across enterprise software, cloud-native systems, mobile applications, and generative AI platforms. His work focuses on how complex systems behave under real-world workloads, with particular interests in AI inference reliability, MCP and tool-calling workflows, peak workload engineering, and long-session mobile performance.

Uday developed the Peak Workload Engineering (PWE) and AI-Native Reliability Architecture Framework (AIRA-F) frameworks and has contributed open-source tools including JMeter Insights Pro and Peak Workload Analyzer. His technical articles have appeared in freeCodeCamp, InfoQ, HPCwire, SD Times, Cloud Native Now, Platform Engineering, DevOps.com, and StickyMinds.

He has spoken at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America and Conf42 Observability, sharing practical lessons from production systems and performance testing. He also serves as a hackathon judge and mentor, including mentoring participants at the UC Berkeley AI Hackathon.

Vasuki Uday Kiran Vudathala (Uday) is a Staff Performance Engineer at ServiceNow with more than 16 years of experience in performance engineering, platform reliability, and observability across enterprise software, cloud-native systems, mobile applic... Show more

Claire Hayek

Claire Hayek

Claire Hayek, Eng., MBA, is a NeuroLeadership expert, TEDx speaker, and creator of Pressure-Proof Leadership™, a neuroscience-based system that protects decision quality, execution stability, and culture performance under pressure.

For more than 30 years, she has operated in high pressure environments, from growing up in war-torn Lebanon to engineering and executive leadership. Her work addresses one of the most expensive problems in business: leaders who lose strategic judgment precisely when it matters most.

Her thought leadership has been featured in International Business Times. She is the host of ‘The NeuroLeadership Edge Podcast’, ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally, and the author of her second book 'The Leadership Skill Nobody Taught You: Calm Under Fire in the Age of Disruption' launched in September 2026 (French edition: La compétence en leadership que personne ne vous a apprise : garder son calme sous le feu à l’ère de la disruption - Oct 2026).

Her work bridges human resilience and organizational performance, focusing on one central question: how do we master pressure without becoming driven by it?

Claire Hayek, Eng., MBA, is a NeuroLeadership expert, TEDx speaker, and creator of Pressure-Proof Leadership™, a neuroscience-based system that protects decision quality, execution stability, and culture performance under pressure. For more than 3... Show more

Stefan Böhringer

Stefan Böhringer

Having worked in web development, automotive and the energy sector for many years, Stefan moved to the Chair of Educational Data Science at the University of Regensburg a few years ago. He works as a software architect, backend developer, ai engineer and data analyst, building large scale systems for the German/Bavarian state ministry of education

Having worked in web development, automotive and the energy sector for many years, Stefan moved to the Chair of Educational Data Science at the University of Regensburg a few years ago. He works as a software architect, backend developer, ai engineer... Show more

Cecilia Geraldo

Cecilia Geraldo

Mobile Engineering Manager focused on building scalable platforms and AI-enabled engineering systems.
At Thoughtworks, she leads mobile teams operating across 15+ engineering teams in high-scale environments, applying modular architecture, server-driven UI, and platform-as-product thinking to enable sustainable growth and team autonomy.
Her work integrates AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) into developer workflows, documentation systems, and internal tooling, bridging mobile engineering with next-generation engineering practices.
As a Latina engineering leader working in global tech ecosystems, she champions technical excellence, inclusive leadership, and knowledge-sharing as pillars for long-term impact.

Mobile Engineering Manager focused on building scalable platforms and AI-enabled engineering systems. At Thoughtworks, she leads mobile teams operating across 15+ engineering teams in high-scale environments, applying modular architecture, server-dr... Show more

Nimish Sharma

Nimish Sharma

Results - driven Cybersecurity Engineer with diverse experience across Healthcare, Banking, Public, and Telecom sectors, cross-functional project guidance and stakeholder support, security architecture strategy, application/ agentic AI security, predictive analytics, and enterprise risk management. Adept at designing and implementing scalable solutions, driving automation, and delivering quantifiable value and innovation.

Results - driven Cybersecurity Engineer with diverse experience across Healthcare, Banking, Public, and Telecom sectors, cross-functional project guidance and stakeholder support, security architecture strategy, application/ agentic AI security, pred... Show more

Joanne Gouaillier

Joanne Gouaillier

Je suis tombée dans l'agilité il y a déjà pas mal d'années, sans en connaître le nom. Ce mindset, ainsi que ses valeurs et principes, sont pour moi cruciaux pour toute organisation, toute démarche, tout projet. Non pas que les méthodes liées à l'agilité soient toujours les + adaptées, mais ce mindset fondé sur l'humain, l'écoute, la co-construction, l'adaptation et la création de valeur est transposable à toutes les échelles. Je suis aujourd'hui coach pour les équipes agiles, et j'accompagne aussi l'individu et les organisations à se transformer.

Je suis tombée dans l'agilité il y a déjà pas mal d'années, sans en connaître le nom. Ce mindset, ainsi que ses valeurs et principes, sont pour moi cruciaux pour toute organisation, toute démarche, tout projet. Non pas que les méthodes liées à l'agil... Show more

Vaishnavi Venkata Subramanian

Vaishnavi Venkata Subramanian

I am passionate about empowering Women in Technology, a champion of Neurodiversity, Accessibility, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and improving culture in the workplace. I love supporting women in technology and working towards creating impact and giving back to their communities in a small way.

I am passionate about empowering Women in Technology, a champion of Neurodiversity, Accessibility, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and improving culture in the workplace. I love supporting women in technology and working towards creating impact and gi... Show more

Please note that Sessionize is not responsible for the accuracy or validity of the data provided by speakers.

Join Speakers Directory

Join our Speakers Directory today and amplify your reach! Showcase your expertise to a global audience hungry for your insights. Let your voice be heard!

Create Profile