Women of Influence: Tech Talk {Sponsored by Iron Peak Advisors}

In every generation there is a story to be told, a dream to be fulfilled, and a voice to be heard. Tech in Motion: Silicon Valley (https://www.meetup.com/TechinMotionSiliconValley/) is recognizing Women’s History Month with our Women of Influence panel. These women are currently pioneering and rewriting the future while taking the lead head on in the technology and engineering departments. Through courage, compassion, and conviction they have built their way up to represent the top in their class. Come and join us for this empowering tech talk that will inspire you to see history in a new light and discover a brand new future.

Moderating our panel for the evening:

Jeff Bercovici (http://www.inc.com/author/jeff-bercovici) is the San Francisco bureau chief of Inc., where he oversees the magazine's coverage of Bay Area startups and technology companies. Previously, he held senior editorial positions at Forbes, AOL, and Radar. His writing has appeared in Playboy, GQ, The New York Times and Glamour, among other outlets.

Panelists for the evening:

Pooja (Nath) Sankar (https://piazza.com/about/story) is the founder and CEO of Piazza (https://piazza.com/), which is changing the way technical students learn and find jobs. She has worked at Oracle, Kosmix, and Facebook, and has degrees from IIT, the University of Maryland, and Stanford. The genesis for Piazza and Sankar’s passion for social learning came from her experience as one of a handful of women in the computer science program at IIT in the late 1990s. Sankar started Piazza while studying for her MBA at Stanford. Currently, the Q&A platform serves over 30,000 professors and 700,000 students, including virtually all CS students at top US schools. Piazza Careers, which was launched two years ago, enables recruiters to source these students for technical jobs.

Jessica Greenwalt (https://www.facebook.com/JessicaGreenwaltDesign) is the Co-Founder of CrowdMed (http://www.crowdmed.com), a platform that uses the wisdom of crowds to solve difficult medical cases faster and at a fraction of the cost of the traditional medical system. CrowdMed's community has worked on over 900 cases, solving medical mysteries that have stumped doctors for years.

Jessica started her first company while in high school, which grew into the international design and web development firm, Pixelkeet (http://www.pixelkeet.com/). An award-winning graphic designer, web developer, and illustrator, Jessica has produced projects for LinkedIn, Marvel Comics, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California at Berkeley, and more. Jessica is one of Huffington Post's "6 Women Rocking Tech for Good (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-newmark/6-women-rocking-tech-for_b_6738018.html)", Inc.'s "10 Women to Watch in Tech (http://www.inc.com/ss/christina-desmarais/women-watch-tech-2014#6)", Today’s Leading Women's "Power 50", and is on iGirl's "The List (http://www.igirltechnews.com/the-list/)".

Alice Brooks (http://www.facebook.com/RoominateToy) is the Co-Founder and CEO of Roominate (http://www.roominatetoy.com/), which inspires girls in STEM through hands-on play. She started Roominate with Stanford engineering classmate Bettina Chen in 2012 after being fed up with the low number of women around them. For both, early childhood experiences got them interested in engineering and formed the basis of the idea for Roominate. Roominate has won numerous awards, including TIME’s #1 Toy of 2014, is available in over 4000 stores across the US and Canada, and is now launching internationally.Shark Tank's Mark & Lori invested "good role models." (http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank/video/VDKA0_54h6875j)

Alice holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and Stanford and previously worked at Nest. She was named to the 2015 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

Karen Kaushansky (http://www.linkedin.com/in/karenkaushansky) is Head of Experience for Cinder (http://www.cindercooks.com/), revolutionizing how people cook at home . Cinder just launched the Cinder Sensing Cooker, a precision temperature countertop kitchen appliance.

Recently named one of the top 75 Designers in Technology from Business Insider, Karen designs “The Experience of Things”. Prior to Cinder she consulted for technology companies small and large such as Samsung and Sensilk, creating experiences spanning hardware and software. She also worked for Jawbone designing interactive and audio experiences on devices such as Big Jambox, Mini Jambox and UP. Karen started her career working on complex speech recognition experiences well before people thought Siri would be a reality in our lifetime. Karen is a mentor with the Designer Fund. She plays ice hockey to exercise the body, and bridge to exercise the mind.

Sara Mauskopf (https://twitter.com/sm) joined on-demand delivery company Postmates (https://postmates.com/) in July to build and run its Product Management team. Postmates is transforming the way local goods move around a city by connecting customers with local couriers who purchase and deliver goods from any restaurant or store in a city in minutes. With the largest on-demand delivery fleet in the country, Postmates operates in 18 major US cities and is continuing to expand.

Before coming to Postmates, Sara was a Group Product Manager at Twitter. She was the Product Lead for Photos & Media on Twitter, the team responsible for the production, consumption and engagement experience around photos and other forms of media. Sara previously led the Discovery team, which included content and user recommendations, trends and personalization. Prior to Twitter, Sara was a Partner Technology Manager at YouTube and Google working on strategic partner integrations.

Agenda:

6:00pm - 6:30pm: Light snacks & Networking

6:30pm - 6:45pm - We ask that people take their seats

6:45pm - 7:00pm - Few words from our gracious sponsors

7:00pm - 8:00pm: Conversation with Panel and Q & A

8:00pm - 9:00pm: More networking

Special thanks to our sponsors who have made it possible for us to host this event: Iron Peak Advisors (https://www.ironpeakadvisors.com), Workbridge Associates (http://www.workbridgeassociates.com/) and Jobspring Partners (http://www.jobspringpartners.com/).

About Our Headline Sponsor:

Iron Peak Advisors (https://www.ironpeakadvisors.com), a Sacramento-based financial technology firm, is one of the first online investment advisory firms to present flat fee investment management. Our company specializes in building custom investment portfolios that are actively managed for a flat fee. We developed a series of proven proprietary algorithms and risk assessment diagnostics that identifies an investor’s investment time horizon and risk appetite. After the investor completes the risk assessment process, the results are calculated and reviewed by an advisor who begins constructing a custom portfolio comprised of commission-free ETFs (exchange traded funds). The client's portfolio is then professionally managed by a team of advisors who monitor those investments and rebalance the funds to ensure the client does not drift from their personalized investment model.

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