AnitaB.org Announces Participation of Sheree Atheson & Evelyn Namara @ Grace Hopper Celebration EMEA

The World's Largest Gathering of Women Technologists Expands its Reach to Thousands in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa

“We’re really proud to announce our first-ever Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration (vGHC) in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region is sold out” said AnitaB.org President and CEO, Brenda Darden Wilkerson.

“We look forward hosting more than 3000 attendees around Sheree Atcheson and our speaker, all Experts and Industry Leaders this year, and coming back with a new exciting program in 2022”.

AnitaB.org, the global non-profit focused on intersectional gender and pay parity in tech, today announced that Sheree Atcheson and Evelyn Namara will participate in the organization’s first-ever Grace Hopper Celebration in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). The event will take place virtually on May 25-27, 2021.

Sheree Atcheson

Listed as one of the UK's Top Most Influential Women in Tech & an international multi-award winner for her services to Diversity & Inclusion in industry, Sheree (@_nirushika_) is a Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Senior Executive; Advisory Board Member, Women Who Code; Contributor, Forbes. She is the Author of "Demanding More" (with Kogan Page Publishing) - a book which aims to teach readers about how deliberate exclusion has been in systems and society, so we can be purposefully and deliberately inclusive moving forward.

Evelyn Namara She is the founder at Vouch. She and her team have built technology to fuel transparent and traceability in distribution and disbursement of life-changing goods and services across the world. With the platform, they help NGOs and governments running cash-based programs to track the impact of programs and in the process eliminate the need of intermediaries who often reduce value in the whole supply-chain. They’ve also extended their offer to businesses and corporates by creating an Incentives platform that helps businesses and corporates create, manage and distribute coupon-based campaigns that facilitate acquisition, retention and rewarding of customers. Evelyn, is a technology entrepreneur who draws her passion in building real solutions that impact societies and communities using technology.

vGHC EMEA Speakers

Experts and Industry Leaders

Profiles : https://ghc.anitab.org/ghc-emea-home/speakers

Miruna Pislar (France) Research Engineer, DeepMind

Tulay McNally (Sweden) Director, Inclusive Design & Product Development, Electronic Arts

Barbora Buhnova (Czech Republic) Co-Founder, Czechitas & Associate Professor Masaryk University

Gal Moshe (Israel)

Software Engineer, Microsoft

Nina Hristozova (Bulgaria) Data Scientist, Thomson Reuters

Dr. Nadja Herger (Switzerland) Senior Data Scientist, Thomson Reuters

Orsolya Vasarhelyi (Hungary)

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Warwick, CIM

Dr. Jessica Wade (UK) Research Fellow, Imperial College London

Mai Temraz (USA) Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and the Blackstone LaunchPad Campus Director, UC Riverside

Iliana Montauk (USA) Co-Founder and CEO, Manara

Haneen Abufarha (Palestine) Technical Recruiter Upwork

Sameera Salameh (Palestine) Software Engineer, ProGineer Technologies

Pelagia Majoni (Zimbabwe) Student, Haverford College

Eden Yemesegen (Korea) Lecturer, Engineer, Researcher Korea Advanced, Institute of Science & Technology

Sanne Maasakers (Netherlands) Ethical Hacker / Red Teamer, Fox-IT

Ciara McDaniel (Ireland) Senior Product Manage, Workday

Carmen Rios (Mexico) Customer Experience Delivery Manager, Cisco Systems Inc.

Snezana Sahter (UK) Distinguished Software Architect, Intuit

Chandana Pavuluru (India) Software Manager, Intuit

Claudia Galvan (UK) Technical Advisor, Early Stage Innovation

Jin Zhang (UK) Director of Engineering, Facebook Inc.

Azalia Mirhoseini (UK) Senior Research Scientist, Google

Angie Ruan (UK) SVP of Technology, Nasdaq

Sophia Dominguez (UK) Head of Camera Platform Partnerships, Snapchat

Visit ghc.anitab.org for all Grace Hopper Celebration EMEA updates.

AnitaB.org thanks his vGHC EMEA Sponsors for their support and participation in making our first-ever Celebration a huge success :

Founding Sponsorship

• Google

Platinum Sponsorship

• Amazon

Gold Sponsorship

• Deepmind Technologies

• Barclays

Silver Sponsorship

• Bloomberg

• Chainalysis

• IBM

Bronze Sponsorship

• Citrix

• Consilio

• Zendesk

• CSL Behring AG

• Goldman Sachs

• Red Hat

• Planet

• National Instruments (NI)

• Stripe

• Bank Of America
  

• MPOS Video Spot (30 Sec) - Goldman Sachs

• Video Session (30 Min) - Red Hat

• Video Spot (30 Sec) -Barclays

• Newsletter Advertisement - Barclays

• Social Media Promotion - Barclays

• Video Spot (30 Sec) - Rockwell Automation

• Newsletter Advertisement - Rockwell Automation

• Sponsored KeyNote - Amazon

About AnitaB.org At AnitaB.org, we envision a future where the people who imagine and build technology mirror the people and societies for whom they build it. We connect, inspire, and guide women technologists, and organizations that view technology innovation as a strategic imperative. For more than 30 years, this community has grown and changed to become the leading organization for women in technology. Today, AnitaB.org works with women technologists in more than 50 countries, and partners with leading academic institutions and Fortune 500 companies.

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Arrangements for the appearance of Malala Yousafzai made through Greater Talent Network, LLC., New York, N.Y.