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boomie Odumade Michelle Bozeman Rita Munarwi Akshita Tyagi Vidya Shyamala Sravanthi Kondoju Cassandra Terry Prathusha Prakash Saloni Agrawal () Loren Sanders () Ranya Hasan Smita Saxena Substack Kelly Kitagawa Chealsea Wierbonski Asia Sharif Ananya Kapoor () Lan Nguyen Brooke Grindlinger Alana Esty Sukrutha Bhadouria, CTO & Co-Founder of Girl Geek X

ELEVATE 2026 Virtual Conference (April 21)

Join us online for the 9th annual ELEVATE Virtual Conference celebrating World Creativity & Innovation Day! Register for your FREE ticket! 🎟️

2026 demands creativity, resilience, and real technical leadership. Our community deserves a moment aligned with innovation itself.

We’re gathering for a fun day of inspiring talks, networking & connecting on April 21 to celebrate World Creativity & Innovation Day with thousands of women in tech & co-hosts Angie Chang & Sukrutha Bhadouria, introducing dozens of speakers. IT’S FREE TO RSVP — SAVE YOUR SEAT!

Tune in, connect and learn first-hand from technical leaders sharing successes, challenges, tips, tricks, & career insights focused on the unique set of challenges mid-career women face. For full session & speaker details, go to ELEVATE.GIRLGEEK.IO

Inspiring Career & Tech Talks include:

✅  Designing Your Promotion Playbook: AI, Ambition, and the Future of Growth in Tech

✅  The AI-Augmented Engineer: Cracking Massive Codebases in Record Time

✅  The Agentic Shift: Architecting the Future of Autonomous Innovation

✅  The Hidden Cybersecurity War of Online Shopping

✅  Reinventing Yourself Mid‑Career — Without Starting Over

✅  The Shadow Résumé: Reclaiming the Hidden Work That Builds Careers

✅  From Supply Chain to Sustainability: Engineering Impact Beyond the Lab

✅  How To Have Empowering Performance Reviews

✅  The Four Taxes of Transition: A Strategic Framework for Leading Through Change

✅  Compliance by Design: Build Secure Products and a Resilient You

✅  Building Inclusive and Intelligent Financial Technology

✅  AI Agents in the World of Public Education

✅  Leading With Inner Strength: A Framework for Women in Tech Who are Ready to Build Presence, Confidence, and Impact At Work

✅  How To Be A Valuable Individual Contributor (IC) from Day 1: A Practical Guide to Early Impact

✅  Agile Is Dead: Adaptability Is The New Currency

✅  Building Scalable and Reliable Data Platforms

✅  Optimization to Maximization: Unlocking the Full Potential of MMM, MTA, and Experimentation to Fuel Scalable Economic Growth

✅  Breaking Into the Health Tech Space

…and More! See ELEVATE.GIRLGEEK.IO for SPEAKER DETAILS & AGENDA – and get your FREE TICKET TO JOIN ONLINE!

If your company is hiring, building your employer brand, or looking for meaningful ways to engage women technologists, we’d love to collaborate.

Learn about 2026 conference sponsorship!

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Speakers

boomie Odumade

Boomie Odumade

Fractional VPE/CTO
TechBees
Michelle Bozeman

Michelle Bozeman

Senior Director
Microsoft
Rita Munarwi

Rita Munarwi

Director, TPM
Microsoft
Akshita Tyagi

Akshita Tyagi

Senior Software Engineer
Workday
Vidya Shyamala

Vidya Shyamala

InfoSec Manager
Amazon
Sravanthi Kondoju

Sravanthi Kondoju

Data Platform Engineering Lead
Target
Cassandra Terry

Cassandra Terry

Program Director
IBM
Prathusha Prakash

Prathusha Prakash

Engineering Manager
TikTok
Saloni Agrawal ()

Saloni Agrawal

Staff Supplier Engineer
Lucid Motors
Loren Sanders ()

Loren Sanders

Head of Learning & Talent
ROXLO
Ranya Hasan

Ranya Hasan

Founder & CEO
Hasan Health
Smita Saxena Substack

Smita Saxena

Executive Director & Founder
Maestro
Kelly Kitagawa

Kelly Kitagawa

Sales Engineer
Sierra AI
Chealsea Wierbonski

Chealsea Wierbonski

Group Product Manager
Google
Asia Sharif

Asia Sharif

Data Engineer
NatWest
Ananya Kapoor ()

Ananya Kapoor

Software Engineer
Stripe
Lan Nguyen

Lan Nguyen

Digital Marketing Manager
LinkedIn
Brooke Grindlinger

Brooke Grindlinger

Chief Scientific Officer
The New York Academy of Sciences
Alana Esty

Alana Esty

Senior Specialist
Ontario Health
Sukrutha Bhadouria, CTO & Co-Founder of Girl Geek X

Sukrutha Bhadouria

Senior Director of Engineering
Salesforce

Angie Chang

Founder & CEO
Girl Geek X

COMPANY

Girl Geek X is a community that has grown to 40,000+ women in tech over a decade from Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners. At Girl Geek X events, women share thought leadership in STEM expertise, as well as career advice in the fast-paced tech industry – hosting over 250 dinners at over 150 tech companies and startups across the San Francisco Bay Area – and globally we host annual virtual conferences. Girl Geek X events feature women at the mic sharing industry knowledge and career advice, for the retention and recruitment of mid-level / senior women in tech – a critical lever to increase the ratio of female CEOs, executives, engineers, entrepreneurs, and leaders.

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April 21, 2026
9am PT  TO 4pm PT
FREE & ONLINE
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