Speakers

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  Roman Jaquez

  Senior Software Development Engineer at Philips Health Systems

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  Rich Miner

  Google

  Android Founder

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  Lan Guan

  Accenture

  Global Data and AI Lead, Senior Managing Director

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  Mopewa Ogundipe

  Clubhouse

  Engineering Manager, Android

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  Jessica Janiuk

  Google

  Sr. Software Engineer

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  Carolina Castro

  Google

  Developer Relations Program Manager

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  Madona Wambua

  Snr. Android Engineer & Android GDE

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  Aida Issayeva

  Twitter

  Sr. Android Engineer

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  Jason Mayes

  Google

  Senior Developer Relations Engineer, TensorFlow.js

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  Kevin Galligan

  Touchlab

  President

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  Alexis Snelling

  WeTransact

  CEO & Founder

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  David Snelling

  WeTransact

  Chief Strategy Officer / Founder

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  Michael Evans

  Twitter

  Senior Android Developer

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Roman Jaquez

Roman is a Flutter GDE, Google Certified Cloud Architect, and the GDG Lawrence Lead Organizer and Mentor for the Northeast Region.

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Rich Miner

Google

Rich has been building and investing in innovative startups for over 30 years. He joined Google with the acquisition of my startup company Android, which we built into the worlds most popular operating system. At Google Rich helped lead android development, helped create and grow our venture fund (GV) & he is currently building innovative products. Before Google Rich helped build the worlds first voice based personal assistant as co-founder of Wildfire Communications. Rich sold Wildfire to Orange where he was a VP of innovation and also started Orange Venture's - a corporate fund focused on communications and life style related investments. Rich has a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Mass at Lowell.

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Lan Guan

Accenture

Lan Guan is a Senior Managing Director at Accenture and heads up Global Data and AI in Cloud First. She advises cross-industry C-suite clients on enterprise growth by developing and implementing data and AI strategies. Lan brings deep expertise in transforming data propelled by the Cloud Continuum into actionable plans and scalable solutions to maximize market opportunities for clients. 

Lan is a keynote speaker, author, and passionate inventor specializing in a spectrum of business domains utilizing data strategy, cloud architecture, robotics, and artificial intelligence and machine learning. 

Lan was named one of the Top 25 Women Leaders in Consulting for 2022 by the Consulting Report and she received the award of STEM Champion for Women by NAFE Women of Excellence in 2020. She holds an MBA degree in Computational Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and a Ph.D. (ABD) in Econometrics from Wayne State University.

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Mopewa Ogundipe

Clubhouse

Mopewa Ogundipe is an Android software developer at Clubhouse, leading the app creation for the popular mobile operating system created by Google. She has been developing Android-based software since 2014 at Instagram, Khan Academy and Medium.

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Jessica Janiuk

Google

Jessica Janiuk is a senior software engineer at Google. She currently works on the Angular framework team building one of the world's most popular front end web frameworks. She is based in the bay area but is originally from Wisconsin. She's also a former Women Techmakers Ambassador and GDG Organizer.

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Madona Wambua

Madona is an Author, Keynote Speaker, Senior Android Engineer, and Google Developer Expert for Android with over years of experience building Android Applications. She is also a GDG NYC Lead, Women Tech Maker Ambassador, a host of Tech Talks with Madona, and a developer who enjoys sharing her Android knowledge and teaching others how to make Android applications.

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Aida Issayeva

Twitter

Aida is an Android Developer and Google Developer Expert for Android with over 7 years of experience building android applications for various industries, ranging from cloud gaming services to satellite data communications to fintech. On a personal level, she’s that friend, who has a to-do list for the day, plans everything out, and creates itineraries hour-by-hour for everyone.

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Jason Mayes

Google

Jason is the public face of TensorFlow.js, helping web engineers globally take their first steps with machine learning in JavaScript. By combining knowledge of the technical and creative worlds he develops innovative prototypes for Google's largest customers and internal teams.He holds an MEng in computer science, is a member of the British Computing Society, and is a certified information privacy technologist. Jason loves sharing knowledge online which has attracted a global following.

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Kevin Galligan

Touchlab

Kevin runs technology for Touchlab. He and Touchlab have been heavily involved in the NYC Android community for the past decade, including the Android NYC meetup and Droidcon NYC. He's currently focused on Kotlin Multiplatform technology

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Alexis Snelling

WeTransact

Alexis Snelling is currently connecting founders, funds, and startup communities with our AI Innovation Collaborative Ecosystem Tool. Founder of WeTransact.live (AKA SheTransacts), the White Label Innovation platform, to go from Idea to ROI, movement starter of #RealRaise Series and the Founder's First Ecosystem. Alexis fosters a more cooperative way for the startup ecosystem to align smarter and more sustainably together.Alexis is passionate about bringing ESG, DEI and SDGs into the seeds of startups to foster a more diverse and prosperous ecosystem for ALL. In 2019 Alexis was selected as one of the top 28 female CEOs by AllRaise to attend TechCrunch Disrupt and in 2018 was nominated for the Female Founders Alliance Champion Awards. She has spoken to VCs on the subjects of the future of work, fintech, and remote training as an expert and featured entrepreneur. Prior to SheTranacts she presented at the Deloitte Innovation Summit in Tokyo, Japan in 2018 as one of the 20 US emerging SaaS companies.Fun facts: Alexis is a 3rd generation female entrepreneur and trained as an Olympic level ice dancer while earning a BA in French and Economics from Lake Forest College.

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David Snelling

WeTransact

David Snelling is a hands-on Agent of Change, CSO, CTO, Architect, Engineer and results driven leader experienced in a very wide swatch of technology, technical and business strategy and executive leadership.David leads and mentors based on Humanity Empathy and Responsibility (HER) combined with strategy and vision informed by 30 years of experience driving some of the biggest technology plays in the world influencing millions of users and billions in revenue.From startups to fortune 500, David has been an industry leading cutting edge Entrepreneur and technology leader for over 30 years, specializing in AI with a focus on AdTech, NLP, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Speech Recognition, blockchain and Predictive Analytics.

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Michael Evans

Twitter

Michael is a Senior Android Developer at Twitter and a Google Developer Expert for Android.