An Evening with Leaders
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Join us for an "Evening with Leaders" where the topic of the evening will be 'Leadership development'. After hearing from some of our Leadership team in Munich, you will have an opportunity to discuss current issues and trends in the industry with your peers through roundtable discussions over dinner.
Agenda
17:30 Registration & mingling
18:30 Welcome words (Jochen Eisinger, Engineering Director)
18:40 Keynote 'It's not about you; Learning to look outward as well as inward on a leadership journey.' (Daniel Clifford, Principal Software Engineer)
19:00 Panel and Q&A
- Moderator: Mícheál Ó Foghlú, Engineering Director
- Participants: Janina Voigt (Technical Lead Manager), Ganesh Shankar (Senior Product Manager) & Meagan Timney (Staff UX Researcher)
19:30 Roundtable discussions over dinner
20:30 Networking & dessert
Jochen Eisinger
Director of Engineering
Jochen is a Director of engineering at Google, currently responsible for making Chrome the most trustworthy and safest tool for browsing the web. He has worked on various parts of Chrome for the past 9 years, starting as a software engineer in the Munich Chrome team working on privacy features.
Daniel Clifford
Principal Software Engineer
Daniel leads an engineering team at Google in Munich that is focused on building and optimizing critical parts of the Web Platform in Chrome, Google's cross-platform web browser. His team is responsible for the V8 virtual machine for JavaScript and WebAssembly, as well as for building low-level Web capabilities in Chrome and ensuring the security of Web Platform APIs. Previous to joining Google in 2010, Daniel spent many years as an engineer in (and sometimes leader of) teams building complex software systems, gathering experience at companies like Apple, Netscape, Amazon and Avid Technology.
Mícheál Ó Foghlú
Engineering Director, Developer Infrastructure
Janina Voigt
Staff Software Engineer and Manager
Janina has been working at Google for more than four years and manages a team in Munich that works on signing users into their Google accounts. Janina joined Google directly after her PhD in October 2014. Before that, she completed an internship at Google in 2011 when the Munich office was much smaller than it is today.
Ganesh Shankar
Senior Product Manager
Ganesh leads a team of product managers on Google’s Corporate Engineering team, focused on making Googlers the happiest and most productive workforce in the world, and extending GSuite Enterprise products with the technology that helped Google scale. Hailing from Australia, Ganesh started his career as a biomedical engineer, founded an education startup while travelling Asia, and for the last six years has worked as a Product Manager at Google in Sydney, London and Munich.
Meagan Timney
Staff UX Researcher
Meagan Timney is a UX Research Lead at Google in Mountain View, California. She joined Google in 2016, and currently oversees key enterprise research efforts and strategy for Stadia. Prior to Google, Meagan managed the user experience team at Inkling, a digital publishing startup in San Francisco, CA. She has worn many hats, including designer, researcher, and manager, at small agencies, Silicon Valley startups, and now Google.