Aliza Carpio is Director, technology evangelist at Autodesk, who focuses on building Autodesk’s tech story aligned with its brand and vision to enable everyone to create a better world designed and made for all. Prior to this role, she was tech evangelist  and open source program leader at Intuit. She started her career as systems engineer and has followed her passion for learning which has led to her current role. She is an inventor with over 10 filed patents. Outside of work, she helps female led micro businesses grow their business using social media platforms and coaches San Diego-based startups on design thinking. She was speaker at GHC 2019, 2020, 2021 and is GHC 2020 & 2021 Open Source co-chair. Aliza graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry.