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Some projects need to be cancelled. Panel members who have faced this issue will share their experiences and answer questions.
Sudipta Chakraborty is a Program and Project Manager with 12+ years of experience across financial services, technology, and global public health. She has led large-scale enterprise and regulatory programs, including ISO 20022 initiatives, driving cost savings and reducing risk. She’s also worked with the World Health Organization on multi-country programs. Today, she advises the Stanford Tri-Valley Care PFAC and mentors women in tech, bringing both strategic and human-centered perspectives to her work.
Rashmi Erande is a Technical Program Leader at Amazon with 9 years of experience driving cross-functional programs across AI/ML, IoT, and global product launches. She has led GenAI pipelines, ML recommendation systems across 19 countries, and IoT deployments spanning 22 cities in Japan.
Richard Meinecke is a Technical program manager in the semiconductor equipment industry with more than 15 years of experience. He has managed multiple projects related to gas delivery hardware and software development for large integrated systems sold to all the key semiconductor manufacturers. He interfaces with MEs, EEs, software, finance, manufacturing, and remote factories.
Lalit Sabnani is a seasoned Program Manager with more than 20 years of experience leading and implementing product enhancements in the semiconductor equipment space. The last decade was primarily in infrastructure projects in Display and Flexible Technologies division of Applied Materials. Innovation, Commercialization and Executions have been his watchwords as a Product Owner for Learning from Failures. He blends practical organizational insight with human-centered approaches to help individuals.
Panel Moderator Sean Murphy is founder and CEO at SKMurphy, Inc. Since 2003 his firm has assisted technology firms with customer development, focusing on early customers and early revenue. He enjoys working with small teams who plan to change the world, creating more opportunities than they started with. He is also the founder of Bootstrappers Breakfast ® meetings that are designed for entrepreneurs to share ideas and “eat problems for breakfast.”® Sean has a BS in Mathematical Sciences and an MS in Engineering-Economic Systems, both from Stanford.