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Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and The New York Times bestselling author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things, which is now available in over 16 languages.

Prior to a16z, Ben was cofounder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2007 for $1.6 billion, and was appointed vice president and general manager of Business Technology Optimization for Software at HP. Earlier, he was vice president and general manager of America Online’s E-commerce Platform division, where he oversaw development of the company’s flagship [email protected] service. Previously, Ben ran several product divisions at Netscape Communications. He also served as vice president of Netscape’s widely acclaimed Directory and Security product line. Before joining Netscape in July 1995, he held various senior product marketing positions at Lotus Development Corporation.

Ben has an MS in Computer Science from UCLA and a BA in Computer Science from Columbia University.

Ben serves on the board of the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: 21, Capriza, Databricks, Foursquare, Genius, Lyft, Magnet Systems, Medium, NationBuilder, Okta, SignalFX, Tanium, TransferWise, and Usermind. He is also on the board of Columbia University and CODE2040.

At the age of 64, in her fifth and final attempt, Diana Nyad successfully fulfilled her lifelong dream of completing the 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida on September 2, 2013. Upon completing her grueling 53-hour journey, a breathless Nyad told the world, “I have three messages. One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never too old to chase your dreams. And three is it looks like a solitary sport, but it takes a team.”

Nyad has never been one to quit. In July of 2010, at the age of 60, she began her “Xtreme Dream” quest of swimming from Cuba to Florida, a task she had failed to finish thirty years previously. When asked her motivation, she replied, “Because I’d like to prove to the other 60-year-olds that it is never too late to start your dreams.” Nyad was unsuccessful in her quest in 2010 and tried two more times 2011 and 2012 before completing the historic swim in 2013.

Back in the 1970’s, Nyad was the greatest long-distance swimmer in the world. Her world records, such as circling Manhattan Island and crossing the 102.5 miles between the Bahamas and Florida, have led to inductions to many Halls of Fame, such as the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame.

Nyad became a prominent sports broadcaster, filing compelling reports for NPR, ABC’s Wide World of Sports, Fox Sports, and The New York Times. She has written three books and speaks French and Spanish fluently. Nyad has also earned the reputation of a uniquely passionate and entertaining public speaker, earning standing ovations with a broad spectrum of audiences.

In her 2015 memoir, Find a Way, Diana engages us with a unique, passionate story of this heroic adventure and the extraordinary life experiences that have served to carve her unwavering spirit. She recently debuted the one-woman show, Onward! The Diana Nyad Story, in Los Angeles and Key West. Directed and adapted by Joshua Ravetch, who helped shape Carrie Fisher’s show Wishful Drinking, Onward! has received praise among the theatre community.

Megan Smith served as the 3rd United States Chief Technology Officer and Assistant to the President (Obama) in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In her role, Smith and her team helped the President and the Administration harness the power of data, innovation and technology on behalf of the American people. Work included adding senior tech talent (with“TQ” - tech quotient) to policy tables for collaboration on topics from Artificial Intelligence and Federal Open Source to Precision Medicine; collaborations on broad capacity building in open data, open government, data science and supporting programs like the Presidential Innovation Fellows, GSA’s Tech Transformation Service, the U.S. Digital Service and more. The team co-created many all-hands-on-deck public-private programs like TechHire, Computer Science for All, Image of STEM, Data Driven Justice, Police Data Initiative, inclusive entrepreneurship and tech, local community solutions innovation, and ActiveSTEM. Prior to her role as U.S. CTO, Smith served as Vice President of New Business Development at Google managing early-stage partnerships across the company’s global engineering and product teams for nine years; led acquisitions of Google Earth, Maps and Picasa, and GM-ed Google.org’s engineering transition adding Google Crisis Response, Google for Nonprofits, Earth Outreach/Engine and increased employee engagement.Later she served in the leadership team of Google[x] where she co-created SolveForX and Women Techmakers.

Smith has focused in her career on innovative solutions for humanity's challenges as CEO PlanetOut in the early days of the Internet working towards LGBTQ inclusion, at General Magic onteams designing early smartphone technologies and at Apple Japan. She is an advisor to the MIT Media Lab, Vital Voices, and the Malala Fund, which she co-founded. Over the years, Smith has contributed to a wide range of engineering projects, including an award-winning bicycle lock, space station construction program, and solar cook stoves. She was a member of the MIT student team that designed, built, and raced a solar car 2000 miles across the Australian outback. She holds a bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, where she completed her master's thesis work at the MIT Media Lab. Today she serves as a life member of the Corporation (board) of MIT and has recently been elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering.

Rainn Wilson starred in long running NBC Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Award winning series for “Best Comedy,” “The Office,” alongside Steve Carell, John Krasinski, and Jenna Fisher. Over the years, he has endeared himself to millions and earned three Emmy nominations with his portrayal of ‘Dwight Schrute,’ an eccentric paper salesman whose ego knows no bounds, dreams of being “#2,” and fervently torments his colleagues in his own lovable, pathetic fashion.

Prior to his fame from “The Office,” Wilson was best known for his role as ‘Arthur Martin,’ the pitiable mortician’s apprentice on the HBO’s Emmy Award winning television series “Six Feet Under.”

Wilson honed his theatre skills on the stage in New York for years before making the trip to Los Angeles to pursue on-screen work. His credits include performances in two Broadway plays, “London Assurance” and “The Tempest,” as well as off-Broadway productions of “The New Bozena” (a piece he created), “Plunge,” “Venus,” “Titus Andronicus,” and “Twelfth Night.” He attended the graduate acting program at New York University.

In 2008, Rainn and two of his friends, Joshua Homnick and Devon Gundry, created the program SoulPancake to create a space where people from all walks of life could discuss and question what it means to be human—a place to wrestle with the spiritual, philosophical, and creative journey that is life. Today, SoulPancake spans multiple distribution channels, from web to print to video to live events. In 2010, the SoulPancake book, SoulPancake: Chew on Life's Big Questions, was released with thought-provoking essays, bold questions and mind-bending art.

Wilson currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, fiction writer Holiday Reinhorn, their young son Walter, and their three pit bulls, Oona, Barry and Pilot.

Reshma Saujani is the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, a national non-profit organization working to close the gender gap in technology and prepare young women for jobs of the future.

In her groundbreaking book, Women Who Don’t Wait in Line, Saujani advocates for a new model of female leadership focused on embracing risk and failure, promoting mentorship and sponsorship and boldly charting your own course—personally and professionally.

After years of working as an attorney and supporting the Democratic Party as an activist and fundraiser, Saujani left her private-sector career behind and surged onto the political scene as the first Indian-American woman in the country to run for U.S. Congress.

Following the highly publicized race, she stayed true to her passion for public service, becoming deputy public advocate of New York City, and most recently running a spirited campaign for public advocate on a platform of creating educational and economic opportunities for women and girls, immigrants and those who have been sidelined in the political process.

A true political entrepreneur, Saujani has been fearless in her efforts to disrupt both politics and technology to create positive change.

Saujani is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Yale Law School. She was recently named to CNBC’s Next List; Crain’s 40 Under 40; FORTUNE’s 40 Under 40; Forbes’ Most Powerful Women Changing the World; Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People; Ad Age’s Creativity 50; and Business Insider’s 50 Women Who Are Changing the World. She has also been recognized as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in New York by the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal Technology Innovator of the Year and an AOL/PBS Next MAKER.

Chris Hardwick is a comedian, actor, TV host, author, writer, producer, and podcaster whose quick wit and up-to-the-minute intellect have made him the voice for a generation of pop culture enthusiasts. Hardwick currently serves as founder, CEO, and creative head of Nerdist Industries, a media empire under the Legendary Digital Network that encompasses theNerdist.com website, YouTube channel (over 2M subscribers), and a podcast network of 49 shows that includes Hardwick’s own incredibly successful Nerdist Podcast, which he continues to host weekly and garners over 5.5M downloads per month. He has attracted some of the biggest names in the world as guests on the show, including Tom Hanks, Mel Brooks, Jodie Foster, Tom Cruise, and Sir Paul McCartney.

Hardwick is perhaps best known as host and executive producer of Comedy Central’s two-time Emmy Award-winning nightly comedy game show @midnight with Chris Hardwick. Additionally,he has an extensive multi-year deal with AMC, which sees him hosting and executive producing multiple programs for the network. Hardwick’s duties include not only new programming but continuing to serve as host and executive producer of current and new Talking live after shows,including the highly rated Talking Dead, Talking Dead: Fear Edition, Talking Saul, and Talking Preacher.

Hardwick also serves as host of NBC’s hit new game show series The Wall, which features everyday people and families competing for life-altering amounts of money in a game of knowledge, camaraderie, and luck. He is also an executive producer on the show alongside LeBron James.

On stage, Hardwick continues to solidify himself as one of today's top touring standup comedians, having most recently toured the country as part of his multi-city standup comedy tour ID10T. In 2016, he wrapped his Funcomfortable tour, during which he shot his newest one-hour comedy special of the same name. The special premiered on Comedy Central, and Hardwick later made it available for a limited time as a streaming 50-minute Nerdist Podcast. An extended deluxe edition is currently available for purchase on iTunes and across digital platforms, including CC: Stand-Up Direct, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play, and Sony Entertainment Network. Hardwick’s first comedy special, Mandroid, aired on Comedy Central in 2012.

Off-screen, Hardwick partnered with Shadi Petosky at Puny Entertainment, an interactive entertainment and animation studio that focuses on design and story. The duo’s first original series, Danger & Eggs, was picked up to series on Amazon. The animated children’s show follows the adventures of fearless D.D. Danger and her ever-cautious best friend, a talking egg named Phillip.

In addition to his current ventures, Hardwick has made memorable appearances alongside Kelly Ripa as guest co-host of Live with Kelly. He served as a contributing writer for Wired Magazine for six years and released his first book, The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life), in 2011.

He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife Lydia Hearst.

Todd McKinnon is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Okta. He is responsible for creating, communicating and implementing the overall vision and strategy for the company. Under Todd’s leadership, Okta has grown into the leading identity solution with hundreds of enterprise customers. Prior to Okta, Todd served as the Head of Engineering at Salesforce.com, where he helped grow the team from 15 people to more than 250, and the service from two million daily transactions to more than 150 million with industry-leading performance and reliability.

Todd also has nearly a decade of experience working in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft. Todd earned his bachelor’s degree in business from Brigham Young University and his master’s in computer science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He is as a regular contributor to industry publications, including Forbes, Fast Company, Fortune and the Wall Street Journal Accelerators. Todd also serves on the Board of Directors for Family House, a not-for-profit organization that provides temporary housing to families of seriously ill children receiving treatment at the University of California-San Francisco Children’s Hospital. Todd also enjoys exercising and spending time with his family.

Frederic Kerrest is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder of Okta. He is responsible for Okta’s day-to-day operations, working with employees, partners and customers to deliver on the company’s mission of leveraging the cloud to make people more productive and IT more secure. As a key member of management, Frederic helps set corporate priorities to drive success for the company and its customers.

Krista Anderson-Copperman is Chief Customer Officer at Okta, charged with ensuring world-class customer support, customer success and training programs across a global customer base that spans many geographies, industries, and use cases.

Anderson brings more than 13 years of experience to Okta, delivering superior levels of adoption, loyalty and customer satisfaction for both enterprise and small business customers. Prior to joining Okta, she served as senior vice president, Customers for Life at salesforce.com, where she managed a portfolio comprising the largest and most strategic enterprise customers, including HP, Cisco, Dell and Allergan.

Krista earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Oregon. She also enjoys skiing, traveling and home remodeling and interior design projects.

Eric Berg is a seasoned product and marketing leader with over 20 years of experience across engineering, marketing and business development for both early stage SaaS companies and high growth software businesses within larger organizations. With Okta since early 2010, he is currently focused on company and product strategy, product management, product marketing, technical marketing and platform evangelism.

Prior to Okta, Eric served as the VP of Product Management and Marketing for Apptio, the market leading SaaS provider of IT financial management solutions, the Director of Product Management at Microsoft, and the Director of Product Marketing and Business Development at Ensim. Eric also has experience working at Goldman Sachs and Intel, where he held a variety of engineering management, technical marketing and product management positions.

Eric earned his bachelor’s in electrical engineering at the University of Washington and his MBA at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Eric also enjoys running, cycling and spending as much time in the outdoors as possible with his family.

Erin Baudo Felter is the founding Executive Director of Okta for Good, Okta’s corporate social impact initiative. She is charged with leveraging Okta’s most important assets – our people, product and company resources – to accelerate the impact of mission-driven organizations around the world. Erin has worked at the intersection of business and social impact for over a decade and has held various corporate social impact roles at Zynga, Yahoo and Warner Bros.

Erin holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA from the University of Texas at Austin. She is personally passionate about justice and equity in education and serves on the advisory board for Citizen Schools California. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and two young children.

Colin Anderson is Vice President of Information Technology, Global Chief Information Security Officer at Levi Strauss &Co. In this role he manages an international team responsible for information risk management, regulatory compliance, and IT enterprise risk management for a global organization with $5B in annual sales and over 2700 company owned and franchise retail location in 35 countries around the world. Prior to Levi Strauss & Co., Mr. Anderson was the CISO at Safeway a position he held for 6 years. At Safeway Mr. Anderson also led IT Planning, an IT architecture oriented function, was the executive sponsor of a leadership development program, and the executive champion of several cross functional initiatives including the development of an IT service catalog and customer service improvements. In addition to holding leadership roles in Information Security at Levi Strauss & Co., Safeway, and Commerce One a software company; Mr. Anderson previously led Network Engineering for Bank of America Capital Markets where he was responsible for providing 100% availability for Bank of America’s North and South America’s equity trading floors. Mr. Anderson is a frequent speaker on information risk management and other risk and compliance topics, and an elected independent non-executive Director for the non-profit retail cybersecurity organization R-CISC. Mr. Anderson holds both a B.A. in Finance and M.S. in Information Systems.

Dr. Nan Boden is currently the Head of Global Technology Partners for Google Cloud in Mountain View, California. She leads the organization responsible for partnering with companies that build their businesses on Google’s Cloud, Apps, Maps and Education products. Nan joined Google via acquisition in 2013 in the division that designs, develops, and deploys Google’s data centers, where she handled various strategy matters as well as mergers and acquisitions.

Nan formerly was the CEO of Myricom, a successful California Institute of Technology (Caltech) spin-off founded in 1994 that was a pioneer in high-performance computer networking. Over the years at Myricom, Nan migrated from the techie world into the business world, serving as Executive Vice President, CFO, a member of Myricom's Board of Directors, and then becoming CEO in 2010.

Nan earned her PhD and MS degrees in Computer Science from Caltech and her BS degree from the University of Alabama in Applied Mathematics. Nan's PhD research in "Runtime Systems for Fine-Grain Multicomputers" led directly into her work at Myricom, where she wrote the operating system software that controlled the company's first products. Adding formal business education to her business experience, Nan completed her MBA at UCLA-Anderson in 2011.

Including in her current role at Google, Nan has spent her career working at the strategic intersection of technology and business.

Ben Haines is Chief Information Officer at Oath. A transformational technology leader, Ben is focused on liberating companies from the legacy world of expensive and unproductive enterprise software and technology.

At Oath Ben led the massive undertaking of combining and improving Yahoo’s and AOL’s IT infrastructures. Ben oversees multiple teams responsible for all of Oath’s internal end user productivity, systems and applications ensuring they are addressing critical business needs.

Ben has held CIO roles at Box Inc., a startup with 100% cloud-based IT, and Pabst Brewing Co., where he transformed their traditional IT infrastructure and application environment into a service-orientated organization delivering business value. Ben also spent 9 years with Red Bull leading teams across Asia Pacific, Europe, and Americas.

Alpa Jain is Vice President of the API Center of Excellence for Experian Information Technology Services (EITS). She is responsible for overall API Experian strategy, including ensuring the applications meet the needs of the business as a whole. She oversees the technical and business fitness of the application portfolio and their associated costs and risks, as well as development of the applications governance process to gain consensus on a prioritized set of measurable business outcomes that applications must support.

Alpa joined Experian in 2012 and has well-rounded expertise in key business functions, including managing and running the Prospecting suite of solutions in Consumer Information Services (CIS) Product Marketing, as well as experience in areas of legal/compliance, sales and the National Customer Assistance Center (NCAC). Prior to joining Experian, she worked for various firms leading and managing teams to execute large-scale projects in both public and private sectors across North America.

Alpa has a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Structural Engineering from the University of Calgary. She also has an MBA from the University of California, Irvine.

Sheila Jordan is senior vice president and chief information officer at Symantec. She is responsible for driving Symantec's information technology strategy and operations ensuring that the company has the right talent, stays ahead of technology trends and maximizes the value of technology investments. Her goal is to drive increased productivity, better efficiency and strategic business partnerships through simple and intuitive experiences for Symantec’s global workforce.

Since joining Symantec in February 2014, Sheila has set the vision and strategy for Symantec IT, developed an experienced leadership team, and insourced IT operations from an outside vendor by building Symantec’s next generation secure data center in the company’s virtual private cloud. Sheila also led the effort to split IT operations when Symantec separated its security and information management businesses – a highly successful, transformative initiative accomplished in nine months.

Prior to joining Symantec, Sheila served as senior vice president of Communication and Collaboration IT at Cisco Systems. Within her purview at Cisco were collaboration platforms, user experience and support, and communications, collaboration and mobility services. During her nine-year tenure at Cisco, Sheila’s IT organization was recognized by the industry with awards presented by CITE, InformationWeek and CIO Magazine. She also received the 2010 Cisco Executive Sponsor Catalyst award for her leadership in developing successful relationships with customers, including several Fortune 100 companies.

Earlier in her career Sheila worked at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, where she was senior vice president of Destination Disney. A key architect of the strategic planning process, she was responsible for delivering profitable growth. She was instrumental in integrating marketing, sales, and services across the organization as Disney transformed its business from a product-centric to a guest-centric organization.

In June 2016, Sheila joined the Board of Directors of FactSet Research Systems Inc. (NYSE:FDS) (NASDAQ:FDS), a $6.5 billion global company that delivers the world's best insight and information to investment professionals through superior analytics, service, content, and technology.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting from the University of Central Florida and an MBA from Florida Institute of Technology.

Alexis Krivkovich is a Partner in McKinsey’s Financial Services Practice and leads McKinsey’s Silicon Valley Office. Alexis also ovesees McKinsey’s Banking Organization Practice in the Americas.

Alexis serves financial services and technology companies as they seek to align their organizations for growth and productivity. She has led high-profile efforts to drive change at scale, including enhancing customer experience journeys, innovating products and services, and redesigning operating models for agility.

Alexis is a regular speaker on financial innovation, change management, and top team effectiveness. In addition, she co-leads Women in the Workplace, a research collaboration between McKinsey&Company and LeanIn.org to encourage gender diversity in Corporate America.

Alexis holds a B.A. with distinction in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where she was an Arjay Miller Scholar. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and three young daughters.

Thinh Nguyen is the Senior Vice President of Information Technology at Nationstar Mortgage LLC, a mortgage servicing company. He is responsible for Corporate, Shared Services, and Digital Technologies delivering solutions for the enterprise. Since joining the company in 2014, Thinh has shifted the technology culture to a continuous deployment model leveraging emerging technologies and platforms to deliver digital transformation with a focus on customer experience.

In March 2017 Thinh and Nationstar were recognized as a Digital Edge 50 Award Winner for its transformative initiative with delivering a best in class customer centric website and mobile app.

Outside of work he enjoys spending time with his wife and coaching his 3 kids at soccer and basketball. He also serves as an advisor and volunteer to a non-profit called Operation Care International.

David is an accomplished digital services expert who works with Gavi as the Chief Knowledge Officer to ensure that children in the world’s countries are immunized. He believes that knowledge delivered through digital channels is a key enabler to more effective immunization programs and helps saves children’s lives. David is leading the digital transformation at Gavi to ensure that Alliance partners in the immunization ecosystem have access to the best Gavi knowledge and digital services available.

Dr. Shahram (Shez) Partovi completed his neuroradioloigy training at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, AZ. He obtained his medical degree from the prestigious McGill University, in Montreal Canada in 1991. He moved to Phoenix in 1996 to complete his subspecialty training at Barrow. In addition to his passion for clinical excellence and medical research, Dr. Partovi also has deep knowledge in the field of medical computing and health IT. During his medical training, he simultaneously studies computer science to solidify his dual domain expertise.

As a result of his combined training, Dr. Partovi has moved into a physician executive role at Dignity Health, where has serves as the Senior Vice President of Digital Transformation. As Chief Digital Officer he oversees the digital strategy for the health system and is leads the Office of Digital at Dignity Health. With over 20 years of experience in the digital healthcare services, Dr. Partovi's focus has been to leverage IT toolsets to bring information from across the continuum of care to the point of care so that providers can take positive action. Currently, Dr. Partovi oversees nearly a dozen digital products and services facing patients and consumers at Dignity Health. He also leads the provider experience team where he continues to refine the Electronic Health Record end user experience.

During the past decade, Dr. Partovi has helped launch various health IT startups and serves or has served on the Advisory Board of numerous fortune 100 companies, such as GE and Cisco Systems. Dr. Partovi helped launch the department of biomedical informatics at the Arizona State University in 2006 and was subsequently recruited as the first clinical professor for that department. He has been actively involved in creating novel medical informatics curriculum for this program. In Arizona, Dr. Partovi was part of the Governor’s AZ Health-e Connection task force, and subsequently was a founding member of two Arizona Health Information Exchange Organizations. Recently, Dr. Partovi was appointed as Professor to the newly launched University of Arizona Clinical Fellowship program.

Dr. Partovi\’s current focus is to create an intensely positive personal digital experience for patient, consumers and providers.

Ginna Raahauge currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI). CHI is a $17B and growing healthcare company. Raahauge is a business-orientated technology leader who has played a key leadership role defining and delivering strategies that bring value to customers, partners, and shareholders of the organizations that she represents.

Bringing more than 25 years of technology and business leadership experience across the high tech industry vertical, Raahauge has reported to several C-level positions and provided strategic direction and advice to the company and its Board of Directors. Raahauge has a proven track record and commitment to innovation cycles, operational excellence and unique understanding of the challenges in both developing and applying technology for transformations or turnarounds. As a respected technology executive, Raahauge was invited to become a member of Sutter Hill Ventures CIO Advisory Board which is a highly successful venture firm established in 1962.

For the past 5 years, Raahauge also serves as Board member and member of the Diligence Team for acquisitions, of a non-profit, MentorNet, with a mission to ensure the success of the technology and engineering (STEM) workforce of the future. As a current Board member, Raahauge has advised through several turnaround scenarios and re-launch assessments, including developing strategies that capture new business models. Raahauge is a co-founder of an angel investment firm that specializes in bringing capital to demographics that have historically been ignored.  She is an active investor and funded Series A, B, C rounds for early start inventions.

Prior to her roles as a CIO at Riverbed and Informatica, Raahauge served as Vice President, IT at Cisco, where she was responsible for the entire technology platform that delivered Cisco's core revenue capturing revenue growth from $36B to $46B. During her tenure, Raahauge authored and executed on several transformational strategies that enabled several business models to scale across the technology platforms with an eye on simplification and innovative solutions.  Raahauge is also experienced in other Operational functions related to M&A, Risk Management, Integrations, Divestitures, Global Corporate Real Estate.

Ms. Raahauge is internationally recognized leader and recipient of numerous awards focused on transformational technology initiatives, diversity, and women in technology. She regularly contributes technology and leadership articles that have been published in Forbes, WSJ, Computerworld, WIRED, CIO.com, HBR Publications – Enterprisers Project, and other international publications.

She and her husband, Jason, enjoy time on the lake wakeboarding, running, biking, attending their son’s swim competitions, and split their time between San Francisco and Denver.

Joshua Stageberg is Sr. Director of Product Management at Veritas. For more than a decade, Joshua has worked in the information management space, with a special focus on helping enterprises better manage their unstructured data. He leads product management teams responsible for software-as-a-service (SaaS) products, including Veritas Information Map and on-premises software products, including Veritas Data Insight. Joshua was previously the Vice President of Product at LiveOffice (a SaaS enterprise information archiving startup) which was sold to Symantec in 2012. He holds a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Rish Tandon is the Chief Technology Officer at Heal. Founded in 2015, Heal is a health technology company focused on revolutionizing care delivery by bringing highly qualified, well trained and affordable doctors to our patient's homes. P​rior to Heal, Rish spent five years at Amazon as General Manager of Amazon's Mobile Shopping app and platform. Rish has over 17 years of experience leading development of large scale products and services across Amazon, Expedia, and Microsoft

Mike is accountable globally for protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of Allergan’s vast information assets across an R&D, supply chain and commercial enterprise spanning ~100 countries. This includes strategy, governance, risk management, 3rd-party oversight, IT compliance, identity & access management, security technology management, security analytics and monitoring, incident response, investigations and forensics, and SAP/ERP security.

Mike passionately champions industry collaboration and information sharing within multiple executive security forums, including Department of Homeland Security’s National Health ISAC, where he is currently serving on the Board of Directors and is Chair of the Product and Services Committee. Mike is also an active member of McKinsey’s Healthcare CISO Group, Corporate Executive Program (CEP), Evanta CISO Governing Body for Philadelphia and North New Jersey, and Corporate Executive Board’s Information Risk Leadership Council.

Mike was recently named the 2015 Information Security Executive of the Year for the Northeast by T.E.N., as well as the 2015 Information Security North America Executive of the Year for the Healthcare sector. Previously, Mike was VP, Information Security Assurance at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). There, Mike was accountable for the security of GSK’s information systems and computing infrastructure spanning 400+ sites in 110 countries, owning shared services in the areas of platform, network, application, and data security and advanced threat defense.

Mike is CISSP, Lean Sigma Coach/Practitioner, Six Sigma Green-Belt, and ITILv3 certified.

Mark Trout is the Chief Technology and Information Officer for Vivint Solar. Mark serves as a member of the Executive Leadership Team and is responsible for overall systems development, implementation, and information technology operations. He has spent more than 20 years in Silicon Valley, including roles serving as chief transformation officer at eBay Enterprise and managing partner at the international consultancy firm Accenture. Throughout Mark’s career, his successes have been based on a foundation of business acumen and technical breadth. Building high performing teams has been a highlight for him and the successes which these teams have achieved.

Lauren Woodman is Chief Executive Officer of NetHope, a consortium of 50-plus global nonprofits that empowers committed organizations to change the world through the power of technology. NetHope and its members unite with technology corporations and funding partners to design, fund, apply, adapt and scale technology-based solutions to some of the world's most intractable problems in development, humanitarian response and conservation. NetHope harnesses technology to transform how nonprofit organizations operate and deliver aid to advance their missions. In the process, NetHope builds a platform of hope for everyone.

Lauren's career has been defined by the intersection of technology, development and policy. Prior to assuming the leadership role at NetHope in 2014, Lauren held a variety of high-level positions, including: managing Microsoft Corporation's global education and government programs for more than a decade; serving as an executive at the Software and Information Industry Association; and shaping policy at the United Nations. Lauren holds a master's degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a bachelor's degree from Smith College.

Nir Zuk brings a wealth of network security expertise and industry experience to Palo Alto Networks. Prior to co-founding Palo Alto Networks, Nir was CTO at NetScreen Technologies, which was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004. Prior to NetScreen, Nir was co-founder and CTO at OneSecure, a pioneer in intrusion prevention and detection appliances. Nir was also a principal engineer at Check Point Software Technologies, and was one of the developers of stateful inspection technology.