2022

Seemantini Godbole - Keynote Speaker
As chief information officer, Seemantini Godbole leads the enterprise-wide global technology team focused on engineering, product, data and analytics, and innovation to enable a total experience for customers and associates. She is responsible for technology strategy, product roadmaps and development, and technology operations across all channels, including digital. She oversees the delivery of all capabilities […]

Riddhi Gupta
Riddhi is a seasoned leader with expertise in formulating and executing IT and business strategies, leading domestic and international portfolio, and Digital transformations. She is passionate about empowering people through collaborative partnerships and making value-add, fun. Her corporate experience includes making impacts at Vanguard, Sungard, TIAA-CREF, AIG, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo N.A. She […]

Maggie Hakas
As a Data Scientist at The Hartford, Maggie Hakas leads geospatial work for Personal Lines Home Insurance Data Analytics. For the last year she has worked to develop a model to capture risk based on the location of an insured home. Maggie also completed her graduate internship with The Hartford. Maggie graduated with a B.A. […]

Katherine Heighington
Dual citizen of Canada and the United States with international work experience in Asia and Africa and strong analytic skills using Python, Spark, and Hadoop.

Madlen Ivanova, WIDS Ambassador
As a Senior Manager of Data Science at Lowe’s, Madlen Ivanova leads the Digital Data Science team, which is responsible of the enterprise recommender system for both Digital and Stores. Sitting at the nexus of the technology transformation journey at Lowe’s, her team is driving innovation trough building Lowe’s proprietary AI driven products. Prior to […]

Lipsa Jha
Lipsa grew up in India and graduated with physics majors. She started her career as a programmer with an IT firm in 2004. She went on to do her master’s in business management at MIT Sloan. Currently, she is a Managing Director with Sia Partners leading Insurance practice. She advises clients on technology transformation with […]

Elizabeth Johnson
Elizabeth Johnson earned her PhD in a computational immunology lab at UTK while participating as a fellow in a NSF sponsored scalable computing IGERT. After graduation, she worked in the renewables industry as a Data Scientist conducting impact analyses and forecasts for green energy programs. For the past two and half years, Elizabeth has worked […]

Shikha Kashyap, Keynote Speaker
Shikha is the co-founder and CEO of Syntelli Solutions, a leading provider of data and analytics services. Shikha comes from a technical background and has been responsible for client’s enterprise architecture decisions, technology trends, as well as building out an amazing technology delivery team. Shikha also leads Health Insights, a health analytics company that was […]

Shikha Kashyap - Keynote Speaker
Shikha is the co-founder and CEO of Syntelli Solutions, a leading provider of data and analytics services. Shikha comes from a technical background and has been responsible for client’s enterprise architecture decisions, technology trends, as well as building out an amazing technology delivery team. Shikha also leads Health Insights, a health analytics company that was […]

Phoebe Klett
I am interested in both Pure and Applied Math. My research interests are concentrated around Algebraic Topology, but extend to neighboring subjects such as Algebraic Combinatorics and Category Theory. I’m currently working in Machine Learning in Charlotte, N.C.