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How to Navigate In Your Challenging Moments
A panel of extraordinary women leaders who are changing the face of technology will share their stories of making it in a male-dominated field. Join us on Thursday, October 19 & learn how female entrepreneurs can get in the door to pitch & get funding & how corporate executives can successfully seek mentor support & find the right connections to help break through the glass ceiling. You will gain valuable insights on how to be empowered.
Brenda Cortez: Koneska Health (Women Who Code NYC)
Brenda has been a member of the Engineering team at Koneksa Health since November, 2015. Prior to joining Koneksa Health, Brenda was a Systems Administrator at a major Financial Services company. She studied Electrical & Computer Engineering & received her B.S. from the School of Engineering at Rutgers University. Brenda is passionate about increasing the number of women in the field of technology. Her passion led her to join the Women Who Code NYC network around the time it was first stablished in March 2014. She later became one of the Directors & has since seen the network grow to nearly 9,000 members by mid-2017.
Grace Lee: Founder Wishpoints & Health Enovations (Moderator)
Grace is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor & subject matter expert with 20+ years of experience in product development & launch, predictive analytics, business design, healthcare, technology innovations, & customer, patient, & business data analytics in Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, & Healthcare. She is the founder of Health Enovations & Wishpoints
Andrea Turner Moffitt (CBS '07): Plum Alley
Andrea Turner Moffitt is the co-founder of Plum Alley Investments. Core to our mission is investing in innovative companies with gender diverse founding teams where our members can have a multiplier effect as they invest their capital. As a former investment banker & hedge fund analyst, Turner Moffitt has extensive investing background across various asset classes. An honors graduate from Columbia Business School & the School of International & Public Affairs, Turner Moffitt is the Co-chair of Columbia Business School's Tamer Center for Social Enterprise Alumni Circle & is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has also been actively involved in High Water Women & 100 Women in Hedge Funds & servers as a member of the board of Newcomb College Institute Dean's Advisory Council at Tulane University.
Laura J. Watkins: eBay
Laura is currently a Developer Evangelist at eBay in New York City. Before that, she served as Director of RackspaceStartups|SF, a curated incubator of cloud & big data companies, until 2016. She is a former Hackbright Fellow & Developer Evangelist at Rackspace, & spent eight years as a STEM teacher in Silicon Valley. She is passionate about the intersection between business & emerging technology, & took a leading role running marketing & advertisements for 2015's viral #ILookLikeAnEngineer campaign.
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