Google speakers
Allie Schultz
Strategic Cloud Engineering Lead, Google Cloud
Title: Anthos: Bringing the Cloud to You
Time: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Location/ Stage: ICC Capital Hall - Theatre 1 (The future of tech)
Allie is an Engineering Manager for Google Cloud, leading a team of Strategic Cloud Engineers across UK/I, France, Southern Europe, and Emerging Markets focused on Data and Analytics. Since 2015, Allie has worked at Google on several products including Android, Google Assistant, Google Ad Manager 360, and now most recently, Google Cloud. Before joining Google UK, Allie was a Senior Software Engineer and Systems Architect at a local consulting firm in Springfield, Illinois, USA. She holds a BA honors degree in mathematical sciences and computer science from the University of Illinois where she was also a member of the women’s softball team.
Nira Goren
Clinical Scientist, Google Health
Title: How to start a career in AI and machine learning?
Time: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 12:10 - 12:40 pm
Location/Stage: Taking charge of your future
Amy Freelander
Senior Product Technology Manager, Google
Title: The 10 Things You Should be Doing in 2019 To Advance Your Tech Career
Time: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 13:40 - 14:10 pm
Location/Stage: Taking charge of your future
Amy is a Technical Product/Program Manager for internal Google tools. She is a lifelong learner, an avid Lean, Agile and program management qualification collector and is a current MBA candidate at Warwick University. She comes from a technical and humanities background, holding a first class degree from Kent University in Computing and Spanish. She's worked in a range of roles, from full stack developer, to project manager, to professional services consultant to Agile coach. She's worked in both startups and huge multi-nationals. Her professional interests include diversity, inclusion, equity (with an LGBTQI+ focus), user experience, graphic design, behavioural science, Lean process management, Agile methodologies and using tech to better the world.
Joanna Chwastowska
Engineering Lead, Google Health
Title: How will coding be relevant in the future?
Time: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 15:00-15:30 pm
Location/Stage: The future of tech
Joanna Chwastowska is an Engineering Lead at DeepMind Health London. She holds a Masters in Computer Science from the Academy of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. In her current role she combines 12+ years of engineering and managerial experience at Google and DeepMind, with 5+ years in the startup world, to build strong, impactful and happy teams that deliver high quality, cutting-edge technology to healthcare professionals. Combines a broad range of interests - from advanced technologies, software development processes and user-driven products, to organizational theory and its applications to teams dynamics. Passionate about diversity and social impact of technology - Tech2Empower advisor, co-organizer of Campus for Moms and DressCode educational programs.
Priya Saxena
Strategic Cloud Engineer, Google
Title: Public or private cloud? Why compromise when you can go hybrid?!
Time: Tuesday June 25, 2019 at 17:20 - 17:50 pm
Location/Stage: The 2019 tech pulse
Priya is a cloud architect working for Google's strategic customers across EMEA region. She has worked at some of the most prestigious software companies in the world. After graduating in Computer Science, she pursued degrees in Business Administration and Embedded Systems. She started her career as software developer in India and then moved to work in France and the UK. She has a myriad of life experiences in different industries like Telecom, Banking, OS internals, Transportation, Virtualization and now in Cloud computing. Her R&D work is in the niche technologies like Containerization, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Security. She actively participates in tech and diversity events. She is passionate about innovating solutions, giving presentations, writing blogs on her vision for future tech and she currently has five patent filings.