Mingle with fellow girl geeks over great food and drinks, learn about Evernote’s approach to creating products for our end user, and meet inspiring women from across the tech industry.

We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

Speaker Bio: Naomi is passionate about helping new users understand the power of Evernote, whether it’s through creating new entry points, like Evernote Food on iOS and Android, or by designing a first-launch experience for the main Evernote clients. Prior to joining Evernote, Naomi received her MBA from Stanford, where she took courses at the d.school as well. Her background also includes consumer web experience at Eventbrite and other products across media and entertainment.

Speaker Bio: Kara joined Evernote last summer as the very first female designer (sorry, boys!). She’s currently the lead product designer on Evernote Food for iOS, working to make documenting your food experiences a more beautiful and memorable experience. After Kara received her BFA from RIT’s New Media Design program, she worked at advertising and digital agencies AKQA and Odopod before finding her sweet spot in mobile product design at Yahoo!. When she’s not pushing pixels, you’ll find Kara running, cross-fitting, snowboarding or instagramming.

Speaker Bio: As Evernote’s Product Manager of Commerce, Nancy deals with all things payments-related, from in-app purchases to chargeback prevention. Prior to joining Evernote, she worked at PayPal and attended Stanford University, where she earned her BS in Computer Science. Outside of work, she likes cats and musicals, but not Cats, the Musical, because well, it kind of sucked.

Speaker Bio: As a software engineer on the Data Products Team at Evernote, Zeesha’s primary goal is to implement products that help the millions of Evernote users be more productive and feel more empowered with their own data. After completing her Masters in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon and working with Oracle for over three years Zeesha realized that she wanted to use her skill set to help a broader audience. Evernote has been the perfect place for her!

Speaker Bio: Anuradha joined Evernote 2 years ago as a member of the QA team. Today she is responsible for leading QA efforts on mobile. She is responsible for testing Evernote’s apps for Android on widely used tablets and phones. Prior to joining Evernote Anuradha had worked at Sony, Yahoo, EA as a Software QA Engineer.

Speaker Bio: As the Product Manager for the web and iOS teams, Jamie strives to build great experiences for our users in all situations — whether they’re capturing notes on the go, or managing their business’ settings online. Jamie spent a few years in web development before she found her passion managing consumer products at companies like Comcast, UpMo, Blurb and AOL. She holds an MBA from University of Maryland.

Speaker Bio: As a member of the Platform Team at Evernote, Karolyn focuses on the success of Evernote’s development partners and the expansion of the Platform. Prior to joining Evernote, she enjoyed building the Account Management, Professional Services, and Product Management teams at Parature. Earlier in her career, Karolyn worked on various development projects as a software engineer for Alarm.com, MicroStrategy, and The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab.  Karolyn holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College

Join us and your fellow Bay Area girl geeks for an evening of good food, drinks and mingle. In our panel discussion you’ll have the opportunity to meet an impressive mix of HP female executives. Hear these ladies share inspiring stories and views on current technology and trends, their do’s and don’ts for a successful career in the tech industry and what it’s like to be a woman working at one of the biggest tech companies in the world. This will be an interactive panel discussion so get ready to ask these ladies your own questions!

We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

 

Speaker Bio: Ann serves as a director of HP, after 29 years in the day to day operations at HP. In her last operational role at HP, Ann was Executive Vice President of the HP Enterprise Business, a $57 billion business that encompassed storage, servers, networking, software, and services (2010 revenue). The products and services from this organization served business and public sector customers of all sizes in 170 countries.

 

For more than two decades, Ann was involved with building solutions to help HP customers manage and transform their technology environments and optimize business outcomes. Ann joined HP in 1982 and held a variety of management positions in marketing, sales, R&D, and business management. She also serves as a member of the board of directors for UPS and for the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

 

Ann holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University.

 

 

Speaker Bio: Bethany Mayer is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the HP Networking business unit where she oversees the group’s worldwide business operations. Prior to her general manager role, Bethany was responsible for worldwide marketing and alliances for Enterprise Business Group.

 

Bethany brings more than 25 years of experience in leading product management, marketing communications, operations and engineering from start-up companies to Fortune 500 corporations.

 

Prior  to HP Bethany held executive positions at Blue Coat, Mirapoint Incorporated, JDSU, Vernier Networks and Skystream Networks (now Ericsson). She has also worked at Cisco Systems where she was responsible for Cisco’s initial channel products and supply chain design. Earlier in her career Bethany held positions at Apple and Lockheed Martin Corporation.

 

Bethany holds a bachelor of science from Santa Clara University and an MBA from California State University, Monterey Bay. Bethany recently won the Stevie Gold Award for Female Executive of the Year for 2012. She was also recognized as one of the Top Women of Influence in Silicon Valley in 2008.

 

 

Speaker Bio: Tracy Keogh has worldwide responsibility for HP’s strategic human resources activities, including workforce development and organization effectiveness, benefits and compensation, staffing, global inclusion and diversity, HR processes and information management. 

 

Prior to joining HP in 2011, Keogh was the Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Hewitt Associates, the world’s largest provider of human resources consulting services. Her accomplishments included creating an award-winning virtual learning and development network, implementing a disciplined global succession planning process, and designing a comprehensive and successful employee engagement program.

 

Earlier in her career Keogh held top HR positions at Bloomberg LP and Analog Devices. 

In addition to her human resources background, Keogh has a wide range of leadership experience in operations, sales, marketing, and consulting for a number of organizations.

 

Keogh holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Harvard School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Smith College. She also attended the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Keogh serves on the boards of the Anita Borg Institute and the Cornell Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS).

Speaker Bio: Elizabeth has recently been made CISO for HP’s Software Division. As such she is responsible for end-to-end security of HPSW solutions – supporting secure products, through to secure delivery of services to customers. She additionally continues to lead the infrastructure services team that delivers SaaS and hosted solutions to HP customers. 

 

Elizabeth has broad operational delivery experience running security operations and SaaS/managed services. She has lead large operational and small technical teams and has successfully executed several turnarounds – improving solutions through innovation and focus on delivery excellence, all while meeting profitability targets and ensuring customer satisfaction.

 

Previously, as Chief Security Officer and Group Operations at HP Autonomy, Elizabeth was responsible for the security of hosted solutions. She concurrently lead the Group Operations Infrastructure team that delivered  global shared services for hosted solutions (Data Centers, Networks, etc), Hosted Application and Emerging Services. 

 

Prior to HP and Autonomy, Elizabeth was Senior Vice President for Worldwide Service Delivery at Iron Mountain, and Vice President and General Manager of Enterpise Services, Americas, at Symantec. 

Dr. Joyce holds a Ph. D. in information security.

Speaker Bio: April is a Principal Scientist in HP’s Analytics Research Lab. Her key technical areas and domains of expertise are in the research, design, and implementation of global enterprise collaboration solutions including mobile user experiences and social video communication.  

 

Since joining HP Labs in 2002, April has worked on multiple projects including BiReality telepresence, the DJammer a music manipulation device, and HP Halo video collaboration where she led the design for the original user interface. She received a best-paper award for her research on mobile video behavior and she co-created and led the experience design for the Gabble video conversation site. She is currently the principal investigator for HP Labs Compass an enterprise social collaboration demonstrator. 

 

April holds five patents and has written a number of white-papers. She is also active in several organizations and committees, among them the Grace Hopper conference for women in computing.

Klout and Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners would like to invite you to celebrate Valentine’s Eve with the most influential girl geeks of the Bay Area! ! Mark your calendars for Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at Klout’s HQ in SOMA! 

 

The theme of the night will be “embracing your journey.” Enjoy refreshing Kloutinis and +Kocktails as we share who we are, the Klout story, what we’re building, the user paradigm, and what it’s like to be a girl geek at Klout. There will be demos, breakout sessions, plenty of delicious food, and a photo-booth!

We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

Event Hashtag: #KloutGGD

 

Melanie Goetz, (Research Engineer)

Speaker Bio: Melanie Goetz is a Research Engineer at Klout on the Monetization team, which means she actively uses Hive, MapReduce, and Scala. She studied Linguistics and CS at MIT, and later attended graduate school at UPenn, where she studied CS with a focus on machine learning and natural language processing. In previous lives, she has worked with ATR, Toshiba, ETS, Linguistic Data Consortium, and Oracle.

Yize Li, (Software Engineer)

Speaker Bio: Yize Li has been with Klout since June 2012 as a Software Engineer. She primarily focuses on backend building by applying NLP and Machine Learning techniques to discover users’ influence, interests, and expertise. Prior to joining Klout, she worked with StumbleUpon as a Research Engineer.

Daisy Liu, (Software Engineer)

Speaker Bio: Daisy Liu is a CS graduate that hails from the University of Waterloo in Canada. As a software engineer, Daisy is using Backbone.js, HTML, and CSS to build the front-end Klout.com experience. She’s also leveraging node.js and MongoDB on the server.

Katelin Holloway (Director of People & Culture)

Speaker Bio: Katelin joined the Klout team 2 years ago Valentine’s Day. As to be expected, she’s fallen madly in love with the team. Her journey includes a 5 year stint at Pixar Animation Studios, a layover at advertising giant McCann Worldgroup, and surviving a particularly wily bunch of first graders as an elementary school teacher. As for Katelin and Klout, they plan on living happily ever after.

Michelle Riles, (Lead User Operations Associate )

Speaker Bio: Michelle Riles single-handedly manages user operations support at Klout. Before joining the Klout team, she worked with users at the female-centric group coupon site, Plum District. Passionate about creating the best possible user experience, Michelle enjoys bringing smiles to users, one insight at a time.

Sahana Ullagaddi (Community Manager)

Speaker Bio: Sahana leads Klout’s community and social marketing strategy. She is fascinated by learning about what drives people to build relationships with brands. She is passionate about telling stories, connecting people through technology, and creating user happiness. In the past she has worked with EMC, Sumazi, Boeing, and Unilever. She is also a self-proclaimed laughaholic and inspiration addict.

Our amazing ticketing solution, Eventbrite is hosting a Girl Geek Dinner! Mark your calendars for Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at Eventbrite’s HQ in SOMA! 

It’s the eve of The Crunchies and Eventbrite’s President, Julia Hartz along with our 2 other co-founders are nominated for Founder of the Year! What better way to kick off 2013 than to host a Girl Geek Dinner right at our headquarters in San Francisco to share our success stories with other women in tech! The dinner will feature three of our top lady leaders including our President, Julia Hartz, our VP of Product, Julie Thompson, and our Director of User Experience, Melissa Cooper.

Julia Hartz will kick off the event talking about Eventbrite’s growth and our amazing company culture. She will be followed by Julie Thompson, who will discuss the importance of how product managers build strong relationships with engineering. To wrap up our keynote speakers, Melissa Cooper will take a deep dive into Design for Pirates: Hidden Treasures of the Purchase Funnel

We will then split into breakout sessions depending on each Girl Geek Attendee’s interests! Britelings from our Program Management, Visual & Interaction Design and Engineering teams will be in 3 of our conference rooms to go through mini demos and Q&A sessions. Did we mention that there will be desserts in each room? What’s a dinner without dessert?!

We can’t wait to see you there!

 

Talk Topic: How to build a sustainable culture

 

Speaker Bio: Julia spends her day focusing on the happiness, productivity, and growth of the team at Eventbrite (aka the Britelings). She strives to foster the culture that has defined Eventbrite, and that has placed the company among the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area three years in a row, according to the SF Business Times.

Prior to co-founding Eventbrite with her husband, Kevin Hartz, Julia enjoyed a career in Television Development at MTV Networks and FX Networks. She was fortunate enough to be a part of acclaimed shows such as Jackass, Nip/Tuck, The Shield, Rescue Me, and Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days.

Julia graduated from Pepperdine University with a B.A. in Telecommunications. She has served on the board of The Village Well, a non-profit organization that supports slow parenting, and has been active in The Full Circle Fund.

Julia has participated in several keynotes and panels to discuss ticketing, social commerce, and entrepreneurship including 2011 SF MusicTech, 2010 SXSW, 2011 Women in Business Conference, 2010 Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference, and 2010 Women 2.0 Founders Lab and Pitch Night.

 

Talk Topic: How Product Managers can build strong relationships with Engineering

 

Speaker Bio: As VP of Product, Julie is responsible for overall direction and design of Eventbrite. Julie has over eight years experience managing a variety of software products from conception to release. She started her career as a software engineer and moved into product management to improve communications between customers, engineers and business teams.

Julie made her leap to product management while working for Elemental Software, a startup which Macromedia acquired in 1999. At Macromedia, she was a Senior Product Manager responsible for major product releases on both the Dreamweaver and Flash product lines. Later, Julie joined Apple as Product Manager of Shake in Apple’s Pro Apps Division.

Julie holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from University of California, San Diego and a master’s degree from Columbia University.

 

Melissa Cooper (Director of User Experience)

 

Talk Topic: Design for Pirates: Hidden Treasures of the Purchase Funnel

 

Speaker Bio: Melissa is responsible for building and managing a team of talented user experience designers, developing the broader user experience strategy and managing day-to-day user research and design practices. Since joining Eventbrite in early 2011, Melissa is proud to have had her work selected by the Neilson Norman Group for their 2012 Application Design Showcase and for establishing a formal stream of work for continuous improvement focused on growth, retention and scalability.

Prior to Eventbrite, Melissa designed user experiences for large Australian news sites such as The Sydney Morning Herald. She also worked exclusively on developing new mobile products in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Innovation unit. Her experience extends across several leading e-commerce products, classifieds and new ventures.