Cloud/Edge
Next Generation Network and Reliability
About This Talk
Network and Reliablity are becoming increasingly critical in todays digital landscape, and the speaker will discuss the challenges of scaling and securing data in the cloud and at the edge, as well as the opportunities for innovation in this space.
Speakers
Sudha is a highly experienced Product Executive with over 20 years of expertise in digital media, e-commerce, marketplaces, AI, and cloud technologies. She has made a direct impact on enterprises, SMBs, and consumers throughout her career. In 2019, Sudha was recognized as one of the Most Admired Businesswomen by Insights Success and was also recently featured by CXO magazine as a Global leader with exemplary vision. She has been featured as 52 Women in Product Management making an impact by Product management festival.  Currently, Sudha holds the position of General Manager and Partner leading a Product team at Microsoft, overseeing Core services with focus on Azure Networking. Prior to this, she served as the Head of Product at eBay, where she led First party advertising and the developer ecosystem. Sudha was also the Head of Product - Customer Experience at Flipkart where, as first women expat she managed Product Management, Design, and Product Operations. During her tenure as the Director of Product at Yahoo, Sudha built the largest Online Display Ads marketplace and data platforms. With a strong background in both national and international markets, Sudha holds a Masters degree in computer science and an MBA in Marketing. She is passionate about building innovative products and solving complex problems. Sudha strongly believes in delivering outstanding products for customers while fostering strong relationships. She upholds the philosophy of treating every person as a customer in some way and treating them the way she would want to be treated.
Ashi Sareen is experienced in leading engineering teams to build large scale enterprise grade infrastructure software products in enterprise cloud, mobile and security markets. Ashi has led global teams of up to 100 engineers comprising of software developers, UX, quality engineers and software architects. She is currently leading the team responsible for Oracle Cloud and Dev Ops software for Fusion Apps. She holds nearly 20 years of hands on experience in full stack enterprise software delivery including defining product strategy and UX, delivering innovative ways to reduce cost, leading key customer initiative and leading 24-7 devops teams. Ashi has 15 years of experience in people management and experienced in building teams from ground up and leading global team. Ashi has led teams via agile methodologies and has been extensively involved with customer and exec interactions. Ashi has been recognized as Top Women Technologies in the Bay Area.
Monica Bajaj is a seasoned engineering leader with decades of industry experience building and scaling global diverse teams across both the consumer and enterprise space. She is currently VP of Engineering at Auth0, a division of Okta, where she empowers a frictionless developer experience ensuring ease of mind for her customers by focusing on building scalable and secure identity solutions. Monica brings in decades of industry experience across various tech industries and has been successful in building global diverse teams and scaling technology across multiple industries in the space of Consumer/ Enterprise, Infrastructure and Security. Prior to Okta she was a Senior Director of Product and Engineering at Workday where she led the efforts of replatforming Workday Community as a secure and scalable SaaS platform. Outside of work, Monica is very active in programs around mentorship, diversity, and uplifting women and young girls. She has won several awards as a Mentor of the Year 2021 award and has been recognized as top 60 Women technical leaders by the Girl Geek X Community. She has also served on the board as Technology and Chief Compliance Officer for Women in Localization for their GDPR and Security initiatives.
Nidhi Wadmark is an experienced product management, strategy, and transformation leader driving results and making a lasting positive impact in the payments, healthcare, e-commerce, and financial services industries. Nidhi is skilled in developing relationships and rallying teams around a vision to build products, services, and communities that help people at scale. She continually creates and executes strategies that drive results, meet customer needs, and align with business objectives. Nidhi builds and leads high-performance teams via inclusive management, goal setting, and motivation. Beyond work, Nidhi leads and drives change in her community. She is the Global Co-chair for PayPals employee resource group for disability inclusion, the founder of a local chapter of Women in Product, a mentor to product managers, and previously, a co-producer/host of a TV show spotlighting the South Asian diaspora.