Celebrating Technology Leaders Episode 2: Women Tech Entrepreneurs and Founders

In episode 2 of this series, we learn from leading tech entrepreneurs and founders. In the fireside chat format, the host, Bushra Anjum, revisits the panelists' aha moments when they realize they have an idea worth pursuing. How did they gauge customer needs and secured funding? How have their journeys been since the launch of their company? We will also explore what it takes to be an entrepreneur in the technology sector, what are the unique challenges and rewards of this career choice, and how the panelists' background in CS and engineering helped them along the way.

Conducted on: October 14th, 2020 at 12 p.m. Pacific

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HOST
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♦ Bushra Anjum: ACM-W Standing Committees Chair, ACM Ubiquity Senior Editor
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bushraanjum/
Bushra Anjum, Ph.D. is a Health IT data specialist currently working as the Data Analytics Manager at the San Francisco-based startup Doximity. Aimed at creating HIPAA secure tools for clinicians, she leads a team of analysts, scientists, and engineers working on product and client-facing analytics. Prior, she worked for Amazon as a software engineer, architecting large-scale distributed services supporting Prime Membership, with particular emphasis on performance and scalability. Dr. Anjum is a regular speaker at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, STARS Celebrations, CRA-WP Grad Cohorts, to name a few. She has been recognized by Tribune as a Top 20 under 40 Professional for career excellence with a deep commitment to community service. Dr. Anjum can be contacted via the contact page https://bushraanjum.info/contact or via Twitter https://twitter.com/DrBushraAnjum.

PANELISTS
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♦ Shanea Leven: Founder and CEO at CodeSee
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaneak/
Shanea is the Founder and CEO of a developer platform called CodeSee. CodeSee helps developers master the understanding of codebases. We visualize how an enterprise-scale software system works and fits together, so developers — and anyone else — can onboard more easily, plan more reliably, and ship features faster and better. Shanea has spent many years as a product leader building platforms for developers at Google, Docker, eBay, Cloudflare, and various developer-focused startups. She holds degrees in business and computer science.

♦ Rebekah Bastian: CEO and Co-Founder of OwnTrail
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebekahbastian/
Rebekah Bastian is an entrepreneur, writer, artist, tech executive, mentor, wife, mother, and an aerial acrobat. She is the CEO & Co-founder of OwnTrail and was previously vice president of product and vice president of community and culture at Zillow. Rebekah is the author of Blaze Your Own Trail, is a contributor to Forbes, and is a frequent speaker on social impact, career navigation, and corporate diversity.

♦ Heli Helskyaho: CEO Miracle Finland Oy
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helihelskyaho/
Heli Helskyaho is the CEO of Miracle Finland Oy. Heli holds a Master’s degree (Computer Science) from the University of Helsinki and she is specialized in databases. At the moment she is also working on her doctoral studies at the University of Helsinki. Heli has been working on IT since 1990.
Heli is an Oracle ACE Director, an Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador, and a frequent speaker in many conferences. She is the author of Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler for Database Design Mastery (Oracle Press 2015) and a co-author of Real World SQL and PL/SQL: Advice from the Experts (Oracle Press 2016).
Heli was listed as one of the TOP 100 influences on the IT sector in Finland in 2015, in 2016, in 2017, in 2018, and again in 2019.

♦ Nina Bhatti: Founder and CEO Kokko Inc
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninabhatti/
Nina Bhatti is currently the Director of Efficiency and Performance for Google Cloud. She has been a startup founder providing color-science and machine learning-based product recommendations for the $32B cosmetics e-commerce market. At Hewlett-Packard, she led research and engineering of web performance, imaging systems, streaming services, mobile applications, and private cloud services. She has 24 granted patents.
As an undergraduate Nina attended UC Berkeley majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. Her Ph.D., at the University of Arizona, focused on high performance and fault-tolerant distributed systems.

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