9:15 – 10:00 | Registration |
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10:00 – 10:15 | Opening Address |
| Elizabeth Kraushar, MBA ‘16 |
| Janaki Palaniappan, MBA ‘16 |
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10:15 – 10:45 | Morning Keynote |
| Ita Ekpoudom, CEO, Tigress Ventures |
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10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
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11:00 – 12:00 | Pitch Competition |
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12:00 – 12:15 | NYC State of Tech Joint Address |
| Vishal Gaur, Associate Dean MBA Programs and Professor of Operations, Technology and Information Management, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University |
| Douglas Stayman, Associate Dean, Cornell Tech |
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12:15 – 1:45 | Lunch Breakout Sessions |
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1:45 – 2:30 | Afternoon Keynote |
| Peipei Zhou, NA Team Lead of Global Client Solutions Managers, Facebook |
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2:30 – 3:30 | Panel: Women in tech – decoding the journey to the top |
| Violet Bell, VP Financial Services & Insurance, Adobe |
| Nikki Singh, Director of Marketing, CommonBond |
| Hadiyah Mujhid, Software Engineer, Founder, Playpen Labs |
| Leslie Revitt, GVP, Strategy & Innovation, Macy’s |
| Pooja Chandrasekaran, Senior Product Manager, Amazon |
| Kathryn W. Guarini, Vice President, Offering Management, IBM |
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3:30 – 3:45 | Closing Remarks |
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3:45 – 5:00 | Company Fair & Networking Reception |
| Sponsored by M&T Bank |
| Julieta Ross, CTO, M&T Bank |