WASHINGTON D.C. GLOBAL SUMMIT 2019
April 30, 2019 - Embassy of Italy | May 1st, 2019 - La Maison Francaise Embassy of France
WASHINGTON, D.C. GLOBAL SUMMIT
Where The Business World Meets
Our Washington, D.C. Global Summit is an intimate one day event featuring CEO’s. C-Suites, CDO’s, innovators, and global thought leaders, special keynotes, dynamic speakers and panelists. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. Seating is limited for this premier event!
Programming includes:
- Main Stage with over 40 speakers!
- Hiring Humans Career Fair and Expo
- Mentor Magic Sessions
- Resume Review Lounge
- VIP Lounge
- And more!
JOIN US FOR 2019 | #WeAreFuture
#WeAreFuture is our theme of 2019.
Wonder Women Tech is here for the future, and we’re building the next generation of leaders, changemakers, innovators, futurists and visionaries to ensure a better Earth and a culture of belonging and humanity.
We are also adding another location for our conference: The State of Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil.
Washington D.C.
May 1st, 2019
London
Virtual Summit TBA
LatinX Summit
Aug. 29th ~ 31st, 2019
Long Beach
Nov. 7th ~ 9th, 2019
MASTERS OF CEREMONY
Legislative Women -- Brazil
Morning Keynote
Shashrina Thomas
Vice President
TRI-COR Industries, Inc., Former Chief of Staff to Congress Woman, Terri Sewell
Jessica Renier
Senior Counselor, Terrorist Financing & Financial Crimes
U.S. Department of the Treasury
SPEAKERS
Jessica Renier
Senior Counselor, Terrorist Financing & Financial Crimes
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Celine Ho
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
World Bank Group on Financial Inclusion and Digital Economy (Latin America & the Caribbean region)
Ijeoma Genevieve Mbamalu
Assistant Deputy Commissioner
Technology, New York City Department of Social Services
Taharah Saad
Vice President
Arab American Women’s Business Council and Infotainment Quality Engineer at Ford Motor Company
Victoria L. Bowens, CDP
Associate Director, Diversity and Inclusion for the Director, Diversity Management Operations Center
Department of Defense
Mentors
AGENDA
Tue, Apr 30 - Embassy of Italy
Day 1
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
“Fitted for the Future”
Work Wear Selection Score a free outfit from Modcloth to get you ready for success at the Wonder Woment Tech Global Summit! Outfit selection is first come, first served with sizes ranging from XS – 4X!
Embassy of Italy Auditorium:
We will start at 6 PM SHARP.
6:00 PM – 6:15 PM
Keynote Speaker –Â “Junior Champions and Sponsoring Up”
Jessica Renier, Senior Counselor at U.S. Department of the Treasury
6:15 PM – 6:45 PM
#WeAreFuture Mentor Magic Panel Discussion
This speaker and panel series will feature women who are paving the way in STEAM industries. We will take a deep dive and reveal our most vulnerable stories around leadership, “failures”, our pathway through our career and development, and the insights and mentors that have carried us along the way.Â
Moderator: Lisa Mae Brunson, Founder, Wonder Women Tech
Panelists:
Kellen Felix Dunning, Government and International Relations, Wonder Women Tech
Saleema Vellani, Co-Founder & COO, Innovazing
Jo Amato-Tuck, Global Partner Development Manager, Microsoft
Ogay Irono, Founder and President of TIS Foundation
6:45 PM – 7:15 PM
Q&A Facilitator:Â Brianna Machado, Co-Producer, Wonder Women Tech
7:15 PM – 8:00 PM
Network Mixer and Close
Wed, May 1 - Embassy of France
Day 2
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Registration and Networking
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM — Mindful Sessions, Â Ananda Leeke, Chief Mindfulness Officer & Founder, Ananda Leeke Consulting
10:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Morning MC: Andromeda Peters, Psychotherapist and Miss United States
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM
#WeAreFuture: A Year of Discovering The Future of Innovation
Lisa Mae Brunson, Founder, Wonder Women TechÂ
10:10 AM – 10:15 AM
MC Welcome
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM
The Future of Diversity & Inclusion is Calling
Seth Smiley-Humphries, Director, Global Diversity and Inclusion, Lenovo
10:35 AM – 10:55 AM
The Future of Transportation: How far have we come and where are we going. Scooters, Rideshare, Self-driving vehicles
Sarah Haynes, Co-founder, C0-CEO & Chairwoman Bolt Mobility CorporationÂ
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM — Keynote: Chris Michel, Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Americas at Bloomberg LP
11:35 AM – 12:05 PM
PANEL: Future of Workplace Culture: Why Cultivating Belonging Matters
Moderator: Grant Erhuanga, Co-Founder & CEO of Innovazing, Co-Founder & CEO at Mavasive Leadership InstituteÂ
Carolyn Jean S. McMillon, Executive Leader, Office of Equity and Employee Support Services, Department of Homeland Security (USSS)
Cara Pelletier, Director, Diversity, Equality & Belonging, Ultimate Software
Manuela Dimuccio Gonzalez, Co-Founder World Bank Group Women’s Network & Program Management Consultant, Office of the Chief Information Officer, World Bank Group
Jo Amato-Tuck, Global Partner Development Manager, Microsoft
12:05 PM – 12:10 PM
Mindful Moment
Ananda Leeke, Chief Mindfulness Officer & Founder, Ananda Leeke Consulting
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM
Getting to Equal
Niyati Shah, Senior Advisor, Gender and Social Inclusion
12:20 PM – 12:30 PM
Building a Top 4% Woman-Owned Business: Managing and Competing Against Men in STEM
Reisha Raney, CEO, Encyde
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch Break and Mentor Magic Sessions
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Afternoon MC: Karen Alston, Founder, Spectrum Circle
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
PANEL: A Multilingual Conversation: The Legislative Women in Brazil Who Are Making History and Policy
Moderator: Renata Vasconcelos, Senior Policy Director, Brazil-U.S. Business Council., U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Alessandra Campêlo, State Deputy of the State of Amazonas
Mayara Pinheiro, State Deputy of the State of Amazonas
Therezinha Ruiz, State Deputy of the State of Amazonas
Joana Darc, State Deputy of the State of Amazonas
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
PANEL: The Global Landscape: What Innovators Around the World Are Building
Moderator: Katie Burke, Technical Evangelist, Dow Jones
Lindiwe Matlali, Founder, Africa Teen Geeks
Christine Souffrant Ntim, Founder, Haiti Tech Summit
Stephanie Bagot, Senior Attorney at FINCA Impact Finance
2:30 PM – 2:40 PM – Everyone Should Be Able to Use Your Product! Inclusive, Accessible Software       Â
Raquel Breternitz, Senior Designer, Pivotal Labs
2:40 PM – 3:10 PM
PANEL: Refusing To Be Hidden Figures: Black Engineers Who Run The World
MODERATOR: Darrin Cunningham, Founder and President, Capital One
Cory Milam, Director of the Office of Innovation within the Office of Information Technology & Management at The Food and Drug Administration
Kenyatta Powers, Chief Information Officer (CIO) Maryland Department of Human Services
Nnennaya Udochu, Analog Engineer, Intel
Afua Bruce, Director of Engineering for New America’s Public Interest Technology Program
3:10 PM – 3:40 PM
PANEL: Beyond the Millennium: How Far Will Technology and Innovation Go?
MODERATOR: Ijeoma Genevieve Mbamalu, Assistant Deputy Commissioner, Homelessness Technology, New York City Department of Social Services
Mahshad Haeri, Customer Engineering Manager, Google Cloud Services
Johanna Salazar, Co-Founder, Two Goats
Emma Mankey Hidem, Founder & CEO, Sunnyside VR
Jacoby DuBose, Founder, Utopia Incubator
3:40 PM – 3:50 PM – Empathy Across Borders: Using Technology to Foster Belonging in the Globalized Workplace
Sage Franch, Co-founder & CTO of Crescendo
3:50 PM – 4:10 PM – Keynote: Shashrina Thomas, Vice President at TRI-COR Industries, Inc., Former Chief of Staff to Congress woman, Terri Sewell
4:10 PM – 4:15 PM
Mindful Moment
Ananda Leeke, Chief Mindfulness Officer & Founder, Ananda Leeke Consulting
4:15 PM – 4:45 PM
PANEL: An Honest Look At the Fintech Revolution: The Future of Currency
Moderator: Karene Richards, Finance Chair of the National Governing Board of the Association of Women in Science
Dale Pfeifer, Founder & CEO, Goodworld
Melissa Murphy, Senior Manager, Head of U.S. Regulatory Technology, Scotiabank
Celine Ho, Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), World Bank Group on Financial Inclusion and Digital Economy in Latin America & the Caribbean region
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM – Fireside ChatÂ
Saleema Vellani, CEO, Innovazing
Niko Hawkeye, CEO, Hawkeye Global, Inc.
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM
PANEL: The Future is Female: Women Who Are Creating A Legacy in STEAM
Moderator: Shelly Bell, Founder/CEO, Black Girl Ventures
Kenya Pierce, Co-President and COO for Inglot VB
Maria Magdalena Sandoval Donahue, Ph.D., Founder, Think Ubiquitous
Victoria Bowens, Associate Director, Diversity and Inclusion, Diversity Management Operations Center, Defense Human Resources Activity
Lisa Mae Brunson, Founder, Wonder Women Tech
Taharah Saad, VP of the Arab American Women’s Business Council & Infotainment Quality Engineer at Ford Motor Company
5:30 PM
Closing Remarks with Embassy of France
5:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Networking
#WeAreFuture
Hiring Humans Career Fair and Expo
Open and Free to the Public
11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
10:30 AM
Registration Begins
12:00 PM – 3:00 PM: Resume Review Lounge
A space where recruiters and hiring managers from top technology, IT recruiting and management firms will be on hand to review resumes, answer your burning questions and have 1:1 discussions.
Stacy Garnett, U.S. Army Veteran/Recruiter for Feddata
Kristina Francis, President, EsteemLogic
Lynn Blyden, Senior Recruiter, FM Talent Source
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Mentor Sessions: Session One
Sophie Gairo, Software Engineer, VMware
Saleheh Vahaji, President of the DC Chapter of Persian Women in Tech & Adjunct Professor at George Washington University
Shalonda Ingram, Proforma R&E Graphics
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Mentor Sessions: Session Two – (Three Tables)
Saleema Vellani, Co-Founder & COO, Innovazing
Lisa Magill, Co-Founder + Head of Product, Aleria PBC
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Mentor Magic: Session Three (Three Tables)
Lucy Caldwell, Principal, Mockingbird Lab
Julie Meloni, Senior Engineering Manager, Improbable
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Mentor Sessions: Session Two – (Three Tables)
Saleema Vellani, Co-Founder & COO, Innovazing
Lisa Magill, Co-Founder + Head of Product, Aleria PB
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Mentor Magic: Session Three (Three Tables)
Lucy Caldwell, Principal, Mockingbird Lab
Julie Meloni, Senior Engineering Manager, Improbable
OUR MAGIC PROGRAMS
Hiring Humans
Career Fair
Our Hiring Humans Career Fair and Expo is always FREE and features a range of activities and programs designed to help you #LevelUp in your career and life. Candidates and Companies can interact via our Jobbio Jobs Board online. Enjoy expo and career fair booths, Mentor Magic Sessions, Resume Review Lounge, round table workshops, and in select conferences–a speaker series!
Mentor Magic
Sessions
Enjoy intimate round table discussions with your favorite Mentor. Each mentor is carefully curated and offers a wide range of expertise, from engineering, STEAM, C-suite, management, being a founder, and more!
Resume Review
Program
We want to see you put your best foot forward. We’ve created space in all of our conferences where recruiters and hiring managers from top technology, IT recruiting and management firms will be on hand to review resumes, answer your burning questions, and have 1:1 discussions to prepare you for the career fair and interview process.
REGISTER FOR WWT GLOBAL SUMMIT IN WASHINGTON DC
Early Bird pricing will end on March 15th.
- Your FREE Hiring Humans career fair ticket includes free access to the career fair, mentor magic sessions, and resume review lounge ONLY.
- Upload your resume with Jobbio Job board below to get in front of the companies participating in Hiring Human.
- General admission to the Global Summit gets you access to entire conference: mentor magic sessions, Hiring Humans Career Fair, and resume review lounge.
- General admission includes refreshments and lunch.
- VIP Global Summit ticket gets you all of the General Admission privileges and the access to the VIP lounge where you can mix and mingle with other VIPs and speakers.
- You'll also receive a VIP goody bag and lunch is included.
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VENUE INFORMATION
The Embassy of France in Washington, D.C., is the primary French diplomatic mission to the United States. It is located at 4101 Reservoir Road, Northwest, Washington, D.C., just north of Georgetown University. The embassy opened in 1984.
The Italian Embassy in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the Italian Republic to the United States. The original Italian diplomatic mission to the United States following Italian unification was founded by Baron Saverio Fava.
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