Speakers

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  Lan Guan

  Accenture

  Global Data and AI Lead, Senior Managing Director

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  Rich Miner

  Google

  Android Founder

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  Mopewa Ogundipe

  Clubhouse

  Engineering Manager, Android

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  Jessica Janiuk

  Google

  Sr. Software Engineer

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  Madona Wambua

  WGU

  Sr. Android Engineer

  See Bio
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  Aida Issayeva

  Twitter

  Sr. Android Engineer

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  Carolina Castro

  Google

  Developer Relations Program Manager

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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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  Martin Omander

  Google

  Cloud Developer Advocate

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  Roman Jaquez

  Philips

  Flutter GDE / Google Certified Cloud Architect

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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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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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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

WGU

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 the Founder/CEO of WeTransact.Live, THE data driven AI powered innovation platform accelerating idea to ROI. WeTransact is a Anthem Awards nominee for the Innovation Category. She is always pushing the boundaries of art, technology and impact to foster better alternatives for founders to unlock capital. Launching the Founders First Trading Card NFT series to provide underserved founders earlier access to non-dilutive capital and fostering a collaborative way to succeed together.2020 SheTransacts launched their first circle of female founders during the pandemic to experiment with a founders first fundraising and innovation process. Post COVID they are now here with us today sharing this new revolutionary cooperative approach with the world. SheTransacts came out of stealth mode and expanded to WeTransact in 2021. Fostering a new HER ecosystem for founders realigning and maximizing opportunities with investors and experts for generations to come. We are democratizing access to capital for innovators by revolutionizing the “winner takes all” investor first approach with a more sustainable founder first cooperative approach in Real Time. Alexis is a Google Women Techmaker and 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 she 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. Presented at the Deloitte Innovation Summit in Tokyo, Japan in 2018 as one of the 20 US emerging SaaS companies. She 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.

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Martin Omander

Google

Martin helps developers build better software, and works to improve Google's Cloud Platform. In his spare time he manages to sneak in some game programming and biking. Before Google, he worked at string of startups in Silicon Valley as a software engineer.

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Roman Jaquez

Philips

Roman Jaquez is a Google Developer Expert in Flutter as well as a Google Certified Cloud Architect who loves sharing his passion for Flutter with the wider developer community. He is also lead organizer at GDG Lawrence, as well as a GDG Mentor for the Northeast in the USA, with 10+ years of experience as a software engineer. He enjoys spreading the word about best practices in the industry ranging from mobile, web and cloud. He is also a dad and husband, who loves to draw as a hobby.

Facilitators

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  Anna Nerezova

  artnet.com

  Analytics and Optimization Consultant

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  Madona Wambua

  WGU

  Sr. Android Engineer

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  Ruchi Kansal Gupta

  Google NYC Women Techmakers Ambassador

  Monamedia

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Anna Nerezova

artnet.com

Anna Nerezova has a decade of experience in analytics and optimization. She is on the 100 Women in Analytics list by Google Analytics and is a Google Cloud Engineer Scholar. She is passionate about applying the latest technologies to provide solutions that bring growth and better experience for all users. Anna is a Google Developer Group organizer in New York City, hosting meetup events on a wide range of technical topics and a Women Techmakers Ambassador, supporting and empowering women in tech. Anna volunteers for Positive Planet US, a non-profit helping the underrepresented become entrepreneurs.

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Madona Wambua

WGU

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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Ruchi Kansal Gupta

Google NYC Women Techmakers Ambassador

Ruchi is a Sr. Customer Success Engineer with over 15 years of experience in the tech industry focused on both leading teams in solving problems and selling solutions that align with customer business initiatives. She has worked with IBM, CTW, Sony, HSBC, Human Interface AG, Apple, and founded Monamedia Inc. where she currently consults with fortune 500 companies including Google. She believes in engaging through both virtual and in-person events and helps grow communities who have limited resources. She currently supports the NYJL, AnitaB, Ekal and runs the Google NYC Women Techmakers. For fun, Ruchi is passionate about promoting women in tech, enjoys fusion music and the arts at the Public Theatre, reading historical non/fiction, and running in Central Park.  


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