DSC Women in Tech Conference

Lena is a recent college graduate with a Bachelor of Science in computer science. She has since moved to New York City where she works as a full-time software engineer. At the beginning of quarantine, Lena created her Youtube channel, codewithlena, to document her experiences as a college student. Since then, it has transitioned into a tech-content channel with advice on being a software engineer and daily vlogs. Since its inception in April 2020, her channel has garnered over 380,000 lifetime views.

Stephanie Nuesi is the CEO and Founder of Max Up, a career coaching firm whose mission is to maximize the potential of the future leaders of the nation. She has interned in various top accounting firms, tech companies and different banks in New York City and California. Stephanie is passionate about career coaching and public speaking. She has given over 100 workshops and events in 7 countries and has been guest speaker for companies like Wiley, The AICPA, UBS, and more.

Stephanie has been featured on The Well, The CPA Journal, Josh Talks USA, and more. She has helped over 1,000 students and professionals from all over the world with her company Max Up, where she provides career coaching and professional development strategies and resources to help them land their dream careers. Because of her passion to keep involved with the community, she was chosen as a 2019 Forbes Under 30 Scholar.

Stephanie's mission is to create an impact in the world, one person at a time.

4th year computer science specialist, focused in putting highly scalable deep learning models into production. I’ve built different pipelines for data processing, modelling and evaluation and have multiple internship experience in the fintech industry.

Passionate UX/UI Designer, Social Media Manager, Art Director and DSC Design & Marketing Club Lead. Bohdana is based in Waterloo, Ontario, but was born and raised in Ukraine. She is a big fan of tech in all forms and shapes in combination of high-quality design.

Nathalia Silva is an active community leader, a Women TechMakers ambassador, and the founder of a tech meetup called 'Women Developers Toronto' - a Toronto-based community of 400+ members.

Audrey Pe (@audreyisabelpe) is a freshman at Stanford University and the founder and executive director of WiTech (@witechorg) -- a nonprofit organisation based in the Philippines that aims to educate, inspire, and empower youth to break gender barriers and use tech to make a difference in society.

Through WiTech, she has been working on projects at the intersection of technology and education since she launched the organisation at age 15. Now 19, her time is mostly spent going on partnership calls, speaking at webinars, and coordinating with WiTech’s 14+ chapters in 6+ countries on how to break the gender and accessibility gaps in tech.

Her work with WiTech has garnered her recognition as a 2020 Gen.T Leader of Tomorrow, 2019 Global Teen Leader, 2020 Pinterest Council of Courage member, 2018 Zonta Young Women in Public Affairs District awardee, 2019 Zonta Women in Technology Asia-Pacific District Scholar, Opportunity Desk 30 Under 30 Changemaker, 2020 Women in IT Advocate of the Year Finalist, and 2019 Women in Tech Global Aspiring Teen Award Finalist. A two-time TEDx, ASEAN and UN speaker, she has delivered over 80+ talks and has also been featured in local and international publications like Forbes, Esquire, and Elite Daily.

Nouha Dziri is a Ph.D. student at the University of Alberta working within the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute under the supervision of Dr. Osmar Zaiane. Her research interests revolve around generative deep learning models and conversational dialogue systems. In particular, her work focuses on modelling an intelligent agent which can have open-ended conversations indistinguishable from human ones. Before her Ph.D, she completed a MSc degree in Computer Science at the University of Alberta where she worked on building coherent dialogue systems. She has interned with brilliant researchers in the field at Google AI and Microsoft Research where she worked on dialogue generation modelling and evaluation.

Aditi Jain is a junior studying Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas. She is the Founder and ex-President of the Developer Student Club at UTD and Co-Founder of HackDSC. She loves Computer Vision and Product Management. Her current favorite classes are Operating Systems and Computer Vision. Feel Free to reach out if yall have any questions or just want to talk.

Eraina Ferguson is a special needs advocate, journalist, and TEDx speaker. Her company, My Good Life, enables families of children with special needs to live their best life despite their circumstances. Her recent monologue, Listen to Her, was read by actress Marla Gibbs and featured at the WACO Theatre’s 50in50 event. Her writing has been featured on NBC Universal, Red Tricycle, LA Parents Magazine, and the LA Times. Eraina lives in California with her husband and children.

Marina started her career in Technical Recruitment working with emerging tech and gaming startups. Being an LGBT woman, very early on, she got involved in diversity and inclusion topics in startups which she continued working on after moving to Berlin where she is currently leading the recruiting department at Kolibri Games (Ubisoft Mobile). She is particularly interested in intersectional diversity and the topics of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging within the gaming industry.

Laura is a senior software developer, advocate, and mentor. She has been working as a full- stack developer and also teaching coding in cities like New York and Buenos Aires. As a mentor she helped startups participating in accelerator programs like Google Launchpad and the World Food Programme by the United Nations. She has been recognized as a Google Developer Expert and a Woman Techmakers Ambassador. Currently, she is a web developer advocate for Samsung Internet at Samsung Research Institute UK where the team contributes to open source projects, build demos and participate in conferences getting the word out about advanced web features helping web developers to create great and more inclusive web apps.

Aadhya is the co - organizer of the Google Developer and Ambassador of Google’s Women Techmakers. Currently working as a Technology Specialist with Bell Canada. Aadhya is passionate about emerging technologies like AI, deep learning, IoT and the JEDI of Machine Learning. She always tries to learn something new every day and tries to seize every opportunity. Apart from that is interested in building socially relevant projects by formulating innovative solutions. In her spare time, she enjoys inspiring the youth that want to get into tech.

Stephany Lopez is a tech community leader and software developer from South Texas. She has experience at various tech companies in software engineering, developer advocacy, program management, and is an incoming Product Management Intern at Adobe. Driven by her passion for accessibility and equity in computer science education, Stephany founded PyLadiesRGV and is a Google DSC Student Advisor, where she aims to empower developers and communities to build impactful products.

Hey! I'm Param Gandhi, a junior at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. I am a software engineering intern at DataChat, a startup founded in Madison. The platform is trying to simplify data science by allowing you to "talk" to data in natural language. Kinda like Siri + Excel. I am studying computer science and have a background in full-stack development and data analytics. Apart from academics, I'm into formula 1 racing and music. Ping me on LinkedIn and we can connect and have a chat!

Megan Landau is a Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company working under the Advertising Platforms team. While Disney is well-known for its movies, theme parks, cruise lines, and of course, Disney+, few people connect Disney with being a technology company with many roles where custom software products support all of the daily lives of the 200,000+ employees worldwide. For the past three years, Megan has enjoyed learning the ins and outs of Java, Spring, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Gitlab CICD, and many other tools, languages, and frameworks. With a background in literally everything except computer science, Megan’s talk will discuss her journey to where she is now and how being flexible and open to change helped her find her way to a career that she loves.

Kierra was raised in Kansas and currently attends college there as a Computer Science and Mathematics Major. She is also a Cybersecurity & Software Engineer at Boeing Space. When she is not writing code at work or in class, Kierra uses her personal experiences and knowledge to create meaningful content in order to educate, motivate, and entertain her audience across multiple platforms.

Stephanie Wong is a Developer Advocate at Google Cloud. As a speaker, writer, and architect, her mission is to blend storytelling and technology to create remarkable online developer content. She is the creator of the Google Cloud Youtube series Networking End-to-End, Discovering Data Centers, and Eyes on Enterprise, and the host of Google’s Next onAir broadcast. Before Google she helped businesses implement cloud technologies at Oracle. Born and raised in San Francisco, Stephanie’s active in her community, supporting women in tech and mentoring students.

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