Get Ready for an Amazing Experience!
| From – To | Day 1: 15th May, 2025 | EXHIBITS | ||||
| 06:30 - 18:00 | Registration | EXHIBITS | ||||
| Imperial Ballroom | ||||||
| 07:00 - 08:00 | Breakfast | |||||
| 08:00 - 08:15 | Jyotika Athavale (IEEE WIE ILC Chair, Synopsys) | |||||
| 08:15 - 08:25 | Winnie Ye (Chair, IEEE WIE 2025) | |||||
| 08:25 - 08:35 | Kathleen Kramer (President, IEEE, 2025) | |||||
| 08:35 - 08:45 | Celia Shahnaz (Past Chair, IEEE WIE, 2025) | |||||
| 08:45 - 08:55 | Deyasini Majumdar, Marianna Semprini, Vijayalaxmi Biradar (IEEE WIE ILC Program Co-Chairs) | |||||
| 08:55 - 09:45 | Plenary Keynote Alessandra Costa (Synopsys) Leading the Charge in an AI powered world To be introduced by Jyotika Athavale (IEEE WIE ILC Chair, Synopsys) |
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| 09:45 - 09:50 | Break for Transition | |||||
| Regency Ballroom 1 | Crystal | Regency Ballroom 2 | Gold Room | |||
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| Track 1: Leadership Session Chair: Sudha Ramasamy |
Track 2: Career Development Session Chair: Naznin Akter |
Track 3: Personal Growth & Well-Being Session Chair: Amleset Kelati |
Track 5: Workplace Ecosystem Session Chair: Rajdeep Mazumder |
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| 09:50 - 10:10 | Panel Abir Chemiti (IEEE) Samar Baba (IEEE) Kumudhini Ravindra (Blue Lotus Engineering Systems, IEEE WIEC) AI and Business Integration: Navigating the Future of Business and Technology |
TalK Mariette Wharton (Nimble Mindset) AI + Human-Centered Design: Fueling Breakthrough Innovation to Accelerate Your Career |
TalK Niv Sundaram (Machani Robotics) RIA: Compassion in action |
TalK Deepak Mathur (IEEE) Young Minds, Fresh Insights from IEEE Members |
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| 10:10 - 10:30 | TalK JeanAnn Nichols (Nichols Executive Coaching) Creating Mid-Career Momentum |
TalK Theresa Brunasso (IEEE) The Unintentional Business Owner |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break + Networking | |||||
| Regency Ballroom 1 | Crystal | Regency Ballroom 2 | Gold Room | |||
| Track 3: Personal Growth & Well-Being Session Chair: Kumudhini Ravindra |
Track 2: Career Development Session Chair: Megha Arakeri |
Track 1: Leadership Session Chair: Dona Maria Jose |
Track 4: Emerging Technologies Session Chair: Windhya Rankothger |
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| 11:00 - 11:20 | Panel Morgan Kiani (Texas Christian University) Winnie Ye (Carleton University) Bozenna Pasik-Duncan (University of Kansas) Maryam Davoudpour (Humber Polytechnic) Mary Ann Hellrigel (IEEE History Center) Effect of Awareness and Education to reach a Better Work-life Balance |
Talk Camille McKinney (Camille McKinney - Leadership Coach) Shattering Ceilings: Cultivating Authentic Leadership Through Self-Discovery |
Talk Sree Ratnasinghe (Amazon Web Services) Climbing the Executive Ladder: Advancing while Remaining Authentic |
Talk Rajdeep Mazumder (HSBC) Generative AI in Financial Services |
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| 11:20 - 11:40 | Talk Marjan Alavi (McMaster University) Inclusive Leadership: Unlocking Your Path to Leadership Growth and Success |
Talk Sanmeet Kaur (Eastern Washington University) Building Trust through Blockchain: Revolutionizing Healthcare Data Security |
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| 11:40 - 12:00 | Talk Alexis King (Alexis King Consulting) How to be successful in your role so you can navigate change, seize opportunities and thrive in any environment. |
TalK Jyotika Suri (Google) Show up, Step up Leadership from the Middle |
Talk Rakesh Kumar (Technology Connexions Inc) Using DATA projects to expand career opportunities |
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| 12:00 - 12:20 | Talk Faith Haslebacher (Walt Disney Imagineering) Crafting Your Career Narrative |
Talk Prerna Gaur (IEEE India Council) Leading with Purpose: Empowering Women to Shape the Future through IEEE |
Talk Tara Javidi (UC San Diego) Active Physical Intelligence: Monitoring our Industrial Footprint |
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| Imperial Ballroom | ||||||
| 12:20 - 13:00 | Lunch Starts | |||||
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Keynote Jyotika Athavale (IEEE WIE ILC Chair, Synopsys) Designing Your Future: Strategies for Lifelong Career Growth To be introduced by Vickie Ozburn (IEEE WIE ILC Vice-Chair) |
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| 13:30 - 13:50 | Lunch continues... | |||||
| 13:50 - 14:00 | Break for Transition | |||||
| Regency Ballroom 1 | Crystal | Regency Ballroom 2 | Gold Room | |||
| Track 1: Leadership Session Chair: Dona Maria Jose |
Track 2: Career Development Session Chair: Megha Arakeri |
Track 4: Emerging Technologies Session Chair: Rajdeep Mazumder |
Track 5: Workplace Ecosystem Session Chair: Windhya Rankothge |
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| 14:00 - 14:20 | Talk Tom Murad (IEEE Canada) Enhancing Engineering Leadership skills through Innovative Work Integrated Learning Programs |
Talk Lorie Reichel-Howe (Conversations In The Workplace) Speaking Up While Female: Defeating Gender Bias |
Talk Marisabel Rodriguez (IEEE BTS) GreenOps for Sustainable Infrastructures |
Workshop Shilpa Shastri (Apptio, IBM) Building Equity Through Bytes: How Cloud Computing Drives Inclusive Data Practices for Tomorrow's Workplace |
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| 14:20 - 14:40 |
Panel Jeewika Ranaweera (IEEE) Thomas Coughlin (IEEE Past President) Kathleen Kramer (IEEE President) Dejan Milojicic (Hewlett Packard Labs) Mary Ellen Randall (IEEE President-Elect) Engineering the Future: Women Securing their Place in Industry 5.0 |
Talk Sara Hart (Hartcom) Midlife Women In Transition: Making the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life |
Talk Shreya Verma (Boeing) Can I Trust the AI “I” Want to Learn How to Build? |
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| 14:40 - 15:00 | Workshop Jahnavi Brenner (The Vivid Leader) Beyond Technical Excellence: Leveraging the PIE Framework to Accelerate Your Engineering Career |
Talk Salome Mikadze (Movadex) The Silent Engineer: Designing a Future Where Models Build, Founders Orchestrate, and Code Fades Away |
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| 15:00 - 15:20 | Talk Maja Vuković (IBM) Generative AI for Software Engineering |
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| 15:20 - 15:50 | Coffee Break + Networking | |||||
| Regency Ballroom 1 | Crystal | Regency Ballroom 2 | Gold Room | |||
| Track 1: Leadership Session Chair: Sudha Ramasamy |
Track 5: Workplace Ecosystem Session Chair: Huang Chao |
Track 3: Track 3: Personal Growth & Well-Being Session Chair: Kumudhini Ravindra |
Track 4: Emerging Technologies Session Chair: Gokce Nur Yilmaz |
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| 15:50 - 16:10 | Talk Loredana Abramo (Boston University) Empowered by AI: learning new leadership paradigms |
Talk Carisa White (EUV Tech) Own Your Journey: How to Advocate for Yourself at Every Career Stage |
Workshop Nagpal Punam (Cisco) Understanding Self-Care and Implementing It Effectively |
Talk Pavithra C. Suriyanarayanan (Synopsys) Driving the Future: Safeguarding AI- powered vehicles with Functional Safety & Cybersecurity |
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| 16:10 - 16:30 | Talk Susana Lau (IEEE Entrepreneurship) From Vision to Venture: Building Products That Sell |
Talk Celia Shahnaz (Past Chair, IEEE WIE, 2025) AI for Research and Innovation accelerating women Empowerment, Retention and Advancement |
Talk Beenish Zia (Intel Corporation) Unlocking the Potential of AI in Voice Analysis for Healthcare |
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| 16:30 - 16:50 | Talk Nicole Neuman (Synergy Engineering Ltd) Leveraging Gender Differences to Promote Female Engineers in Entrepreneurial Roles |
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| 16:50 - 17:00 | Photo Session | |||||
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Career Fair Location: Market Street Foyer | |||||
| 19:00 - 19:30 | Keynote Janice Casagrande (Ansys) Embracing Future Technologies and Building a Supportive Network To be introduced by Tom Coughlin (Past President, IEEE 2025) |
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| 19:30 - 20:30 | RECEPTION/NETWORKING
Location: Imperial Ballroom |
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| From – To | Day 2: 16th May, 2025 | ||||||
| 07:00 - 15:00 | Registration | EXHIBITS | |||||
| Imperial Ballroom | |||||||
| 07:00 - 08:00 | Breakfast | ||||||
| 08:00 - 08:15 | Jyotika Athavale (IEEE WIE ILC Chair, Synopsys) | ||||||
| 08:15 - 09:00 |
Keynote Anu Ramamurthy (Microchip Technology) Professional and Personal growth in the AI age To be introduced by Mary Ellen Randall (President-Elect, IEEE 2025) |
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| 09:00 - 09:45 | Keynote by IEEE IAS sponsor Yanni Zhong (IEEE IAS) Begin with the end in mind-professional and personal development in the wind industry To be introduced by Antonio Luque (VP IEEE MGA) |
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| 09:45 - 10:30 | Keynote by Arm Gold Sponsor Susan Graham (ARM) Engineering Change: Leading Inclusive Innovation in the Age of AI To be introduced by Jyotika Athavale (IEEE WIE ILC Chair, Synopsys) |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break + Networking | ||||||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Keynote
Cecilia Metra (University of Bologna) AI Reliability and Security Challenges to enable a Trustworthy Metaverse To be introduced by Vickie Ozburn (IEEE WIE ILC Vice Chair) |
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| 11:30 - 12:20 | IEEE HKN INDUCTION CEREMONY Chaired by Celia Shahnaz (Past Chair, IEEE WIE 2025) |
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| 12:20 - 13:00 | Lunch starts | ||||||
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Keynote
Vanitha Kumar (Qualcomm Technology Inc.) Connectivity & AI Symbiosis : Leadership in the era of Connected Intelligence To be introduced by Timothy Lee (President, IEEE USA, 2025) |
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| 13:30 - 13:50 | Lunch continues... | ||||||
| 13:50 - 14:00 | Break for Transition | ||||||
| Regency Ballroom 1 | Crystal | Regency Ballroom 2 | Gold Room | ||||
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| Track 2: Career Development Session Chair: Naznin Akter |
Track 4: Emerging Technologies Session Chair: Gokce Nur Yilmaz |
Track 3: Personal Growth & Well-Being Session Chair: Amrita Aurora |
Track 5: Workplace Ecosystem Session Chair: Huang Chao |
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| 14:00 - 14:20 | Talk Elaine Beattie (Women of Vision Leadership Institute) The Fem-Leadership Edge: Lead with Passion, Purpose, and Power |
Talk Tulika Jha (Microsoft) Mastering Key Competencies to become an AI Powered Leader |
Talk Marta Eraña- Díaz (Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morel) Balancing Minds: Cognitive and Emotional Well-Being for Women in STEM Fields |
Talk Dona Maria Jose (Salesforce Inc) Building Your Brand Through DEI: A Personal Journey to Professional Growth |
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| 14:20 - 14:40 | Workshop Nancy Marmolejo (Talent and Genius) Engineered for Inclusion: Personal Branding for Underrepresented Women in STEM |
Talk Dulsha Kularatna-Abeywardana (The University of Auckland) Supercapacitors: Sustainable Energy Solutions of Tomorrow |
Talk Kumudhini Ravindra (Blue Lotus Engineering Systems, IEEE WIEC) Shatawashyak – 6 Principles for Healthy Living |
Talk Megha P. Arakeri (Professor, MIT Bangalore, India) Building Future-Ready Workplace Ecosystems: Engineering Change with EPICS in IEEE |
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| 14:40 - 15:00 | Talk Lulu Wang (Qualcomm) Harnessing Edge AI - Unlocking the Potential of On-Device Intelligence |
Talk Tripura Pidikiti (RVR and JC College of Engineering) Elevating Women in Engineering: Leading with Emotional Intelligence in an AI-Powered World |
Talk Windhya Rankothge (IEEE WIE Committee) From Burnout to Breakthroughs: The Future of Cybersecurity Workplace Ecosystems |
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| 15:00 - 15:20 | Talk Gabel Chong (Cisco) Prioritizing Personal Growth in the Modern Age of AI |
Talk Rashna Seli Zaroo (ST Micro) Leveraging Networks for Transformative Change |
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| 15:20 - 15:50 | Coffee Break + Networking | ||||||
| Imperial Ballroom | |||||||
| 15:50 - 16:10 | IEEE FOUNDATION | ||||||
| 16:10 - 16:50 | Panel by IEEE USA sponsor
Chad Kidder (IEEE USA) Amber Orr (IEEE-USA Vice President, Career and Member Services) Scott Tamashiro (Raytheon) Colleen Bailey (University of North Texas) Simay Akar Koehler (CEO and Founder of AKEC) Extend Your Reach, Increase Your Impact: Leveraging IEEE for Maximum Success |
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| 16:50 - 17:35 | Keynote
Michaela Blott (AMD) Enabling the AI Revolution To be introduced by Cecilia Metra (University of Bologna) |
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| 17:35 - 17:45 | Closing Remarks |
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