OWN IT 2018
Keynote Speaker
Fortune 50’s Most Powerful Women (2015-2016)
Diane Bryant
Technology President and Advisor
Diane Bryant, the most acknowledged and successful female executive in the $300 billion chip industry, has paved her way through the tech industry making leading impacts on reputable companies. She worked at Intel for just over thirty years, ending her career there as the President of the Data Center Group which helped Intel become a significant supplier of processor chips to corporate clients. Following her departure at Intel, Google announced that Bryant would be joining Google Cloud as the new Chief Operating Officer. Currently, she serves as an Independent Director at Broadcom, Inc. and an Advisory Board Member with CurieAi and OWNZONES Entertainment Technologies.
In a recent Forbes interview by Johan Moreno, Bryant explains that as a leading women tech executive, she encourages the majority population to invest in an inclusive environment that invites diversity. She acknowledges the risk that comes with change in a workplace that is focused on the majority instead of the minority, but insists that business communities should consider talent as being the compelling reason to shift the workplace into a more diverse environment.
Bryant attended American River College in Sacramento, CA before transferring to the University of California, Davis. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 1985.
Panel Speakers
Davis Women in Business presents the OWN IT 2018 Conference. The conference will have panels that unite multiple women of diverse backgrounds, professions, and experiences on the OWN IT stage to spark an engaging discussion under one vocational theme.
The OWN IT 2018 Conference panels will include women in entrepreneurship, women in digital media, and women in technology.
Women in Entrepreneurship
Y-Vonne Hutchinson
Founder
ReadySet
Vivienne Ming
Co-Founder
Socos Labs
Ellen Grace Henson
President
Women in Consulting (WIC)
Claudia Viek
Founding Director of the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
San Francisco, CA
Women in Digital Media
Sheila Hatch
President and Creative Director
Decca Design
Yvette Hatton
VP Digital Product Management
Wells Fargo Digital Channels Group
Papiha Nandy
CEO and Executive Producer
Papiha Nandy Broadcasting Company
Archana Panda
Creative Arts Designer
Radio Jockey
Women in Technology
Sarah Hanna
Electrical Engineer
Farhana Mohammed
Operations Program Manager
Archana Mhapsekar
Optical Network Engineer
Breakout Session Speakers
Breakout sessions will be organized into smaller groups and will focus on a topic that aligns with the speaker’s accomplishments and experiences.
Women in Consulting
Amber Ofiesh
VBA Developer
State Street
Lindsey Giddings
Recruitment Marketing Events Specialist
Fisher Investments
Nancy C. Nelson, SHRM-SCP
Principal
HRProse, LLC
Danielle Ball
Talent Acquisition & Mobility
Franklin Templeton Investments
Betsy McGinn
CEO
McGinn eCommConsulting
Women in Morgan Stanley
Gena Harper
Wealth Advisor
Morgan Stanley
Kimberly Friedman
Wealth Advisor Associate
Morgan Stanley
Joanna Perry
Executive Director
Morgan Stanley
Anne Marie Frost
Associate Complex Manager
Morgan Stanley
Women in The Workforce
Nivi Achanta
Consulting Analyst
Accenture
Juhie Rathor
Social Media Marketing Coordinator
Waze, Inc.
Shaitaj Dhaliwal
Management Consulting Analyst
Accenture
Women in Engineering
Kirthi Shenoy
Principal Engineer
Microsemi Corporation
Trish Ang
Front End Engineer
Slack Inc.
Liz Tang
Director of Engineering Student Startup Center
Director of PLASMA
Women in Pixar
Beth Sasseen
University Relations Program Manager
Pixar Animation Studios
Susan Salituro
Lead Configuration and Release Engineer
Pixar Animation Studios
Erin Merchant
System Administrator
Pixar Animation Studio
Women in Studio Engineering
Inga Huang
Product Management of Studio Engineering
Netflix
Women in Science
Julie Bossuyt
Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology Graduate Group Chair
Associate Professor Unit Department, Pharmacology
UC Davis School of Medicine
Women in Nonprofit
Iliana Perez
Entrepreneurship Ambassador
Educators For Fair Consideration (E4FC)
Women in Educational Policy
ALYSA CISNEROS
Associate, Education Policy and Programs
Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Christina Murdoch
Director, Center for Applied Policy
UCD School of Education