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Join the Women of Twilio on Thursday, December 14th at a Twilio Girl Geek Dinner in San Francisco!
Hear from eight women at Twilio giving lightning talks about various topics related to personal & professional growth - from analytics to flamenco!f
Start the holiday season off right with your fellow girl geeks! Join us at 6pm for snacks, drinks, & networking. Talks start at 7pm. Get your ticket now!
Twilio Speaker Bios:
GOWRI GREWAL (Twilio Senior Director of Sales & Solutions Engineering)
Talk Topic: What is Twilio?
Gowri Grewal leads the Sales & Solutions Engineering team at Twilio, along with our Expert Services team. She has been at Twilio since 2014, & in her spare time she loves to run, ski & generally spend time outdoors with her family.
BOBBI JO PRICE (Twilio.org Director of Enterprise Partnerships)
Talk Topic: Communication for Social Good: Meet Twilio.org
Bobbi Jo Price is the Enterprise Partnerships Director for Twilio.org. With 15 years experience working in the tech sector serving clients in areas such as higher education, government, & healthcare, Bobbi Jo is excited to now be working within Twilio.org helping nonprofits & social enterprises think about communication strategies in new ways. Bobbi Jo spends her free time volunteering with seniors & at a therapeutic riding center in Orinda.
DHARA PATEL (Twilio Senior Manager, BI - Data Engineering & Analytics)
Talk Topic: Analytics at Twilio
Dhara Patel is a Senior Manager of Business Intelligence (BI) group consists of data engineering & analytics functions at Twilio. She joined Twilio with a charter to form BI division & establish company wide BI practices. Today, her group has built systems & services that is supporting twilio wide data needs & has empowered twilions make data driven decisions. Prior to Twilio, she led data platform & analytics teams at Citrix - GoTo Division that provided insights to all business units & product teams. She has a proven track record of forming & leading high performing data teams with expertise in building large scale data systems supporting company wide analytics. She is passionate about providing actionable insights to the right people at the right time. She has a strong technical background & received her M.S. in Computer Science at USC. She also earned her M.S. in Information Technology with specialization in data systems back in India.
SRI ESHA SUBBIAH (Twilio Senior Engineering Manager)
Talk Topic: How To Form A Team
Sri Esha Subbiah is Senior Engineering Manager in Twilio leading Data Platform team. She is a Technically well-versed & business savvy Leader with strong management experience coupled with technical experience. Earlier she worked for eBay & Oracle for 7 years. She has been one of the leader & board member of WIT (Women in Technology) & WIN (Women in Network) groups in those organjizations & was leading innovation track. She has 17+ years of Industry experience in various areas such as Oracle Middleware, Oracle ERP, Front End Frameworks, Backend Java Frameworks, Big Data & AI. She has done M.S (By Research) & published many research papers & articles in Journals about Intelligent Software Agents & IoT devices.
MANASA BATTULA (Twilio Product Operations Manager)
Talk Topic: The Art of Developing a Habit"
Manasa Battula helps teams operationalize their processes to deliver the best customer experience. At Twilio, she is a Product Operations Manager leading two teams, Fraud & Messaging Operations. Manasa moved to the US in 2007 & worked as User Operations Manager for a bootstrapped startup in the payments space. Prior to that, she worked in a variety of Operations roles at TATA & HSBC in India. She is an avid learner who has taught herself technical skills, such as Python & SQL, & constantly advocates for learning something new. She is passionate about easy to use API's, scaling business needs with technology & Drawing the Owl'. She is a 2017 Co-chair for Women@ Twilio ERG & advocates, volunteers & partners with WEST, a mentorship initiative that aims at encouraging & retaining women in tech. She holds an MBA from International Institute of Information Technology, India.
NIVEDITA REDDY MUSKU (Twilio Senior Software Engineer)
Talk Topic: Voice Media App Demo
Nivedita Reddy Musku is a Senior Software developer working on Twilio Voice Media team. Previously, she worked as an Applications Developer in the Customer Service Management team at Service Now, an enterprise cloud company. She earned her M.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. Follow her on Twitter at @nivedita_musku.
CARA BORENSTEIN (Twilio Software Engineer)
Talk Topic: Imposter Syndrome
Cara Borenstein is a Software Engineer on the Network team at Twilio. She builds APIs that enable enterprise customers to connect privately to Twilio. Prior to Twilio, Cara was working in FinTech in New York. Cara is passionate about education & about empowering more women to pursue software engineering. Cara earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University. In her free time, she enjoys playing tennis & hiking.
MARNIE SKEHAN (Twilio Contact Center Solutions Specialist)
Talk Topic: Learn to Flamenco in Five Minutes!
Marnie Skehan began her 25 year Enterprise Software Sales career during the early 90's. After spending several years in the fast-moving Dot.com arena, she entered the Enterprise Contact Center Communications space with Aspect Communications. She then worked at Genesys in the Sales Channel organization, where she was the Bay Area Director of Strategic Sales. Presently, Marnie is maintaining the same sales velocity at Twilio, where her tenured Contact Center & Enterprise Engagement expertise is helping the North American Sales Team target partnerships. Marnie's board positions have included The Stylist Online, The San Jose Flamenco Society, SOCAP International, & the Northern California Contact Center Association. Follow her on Twitter at @MLSClassic.
About Twilio:
Twilio powers the future of business communications. Enabling phones, VoIP, & messaging to be embedded into web, desktop, & mobile software. We take care of the messy telecom hardware & expose a globally available cloud API that developers can interact with to build intelligent & complex communications systems
Event Tickets & Details:
Tickets on sale starting at 12:00pm PST on Thursday, November 30th, 2017 at Eventbrite!
Getting There:
The Twilio office is close to 4th Street Caltrain Station, Embarcadero BART/MUNI station, & Transbay Terminal.
Public transportation, rideshare, or carpooling is recommended, as there is limited street parking.
Disclaimer:
We may take photographs and/or video activities at the Girl Geek Dinner event for many purposes. By attending the Girl Geek Dinner, you consent to your image & recorded content being used in all marketing collateral & communications.
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