Meet the Women of Techweek New York

Brace yourselves – we are two weeks away from Techweek New York. Get the skinny on Who’s Who, what you can expect and more. And if by some chance you have not already, get tickets now.

The Women Of Techweek New York

While Techweek New York celebrates the local tech ecosystem for 7 days, their speakers are concentrated at the Conference at 82 Mercer from Thursday Oct 2 – Friday Oct 3. Here are some of the amazing women you can expect to see: 

Adora Cheung
CEO, Homejoy

Allison Lami Sawyer
CEO & Co-Founder, Rebellion Photonics

Heidi Messer
Co-founder, Chairman,  Collective [i]

Hilary Topper
President and CEO, HJMT Public Relations

Jean Ellen Cowgill

President, Atlantic Media Strategies

Jocelyn Johnson

Founder, VideoInk

Jordan Crook
Reporter, TechCrunch

Julie Bauer
CEO, Grok

Karen Sumberg
Diversity Pod Lead, Google

Kathryn Minshew
Founder & CEO, The Muse

Keela Robison
CEO, Urbanspoon

Kiki Von Glinow
Deputy Managing Editor, The Huffington Post

Laura Sherbin

EVP and Director of Research, Center for Talent Innovaton

Lisa Xu
CEO, Nopsec

Lucy Chung
Partner, Undercurrent

Patricia Arundel
Head of Media & High Tech, Google Enterprise

Rose Marie Glazer
General Counsel – Americas, Siemens Corp.

Shauna Mei
Founder and CEO, AHAlife

Soraya Darabi
Co-Founder, Zady.com

Yao Huang
Managing Partner, The Hatchery

Techweek Schedule

• 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Monday, Sep 29

• Kickoff Party

  Soho:

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Tuesday, Sep 30

  Private Film Screening: The Internet’s Own Boy, followed by Q&A with Director Brian Knappenberger

  Soho House: Brian Knappenberger

  Black Pass

• 11:30 AM – 4:00 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  Food Truck Faceoff

  82MERCER:

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  Astia Venture Lunch

  LAUNCH Stage:

  Black Pass

• 12:00 PM – 12:40 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  State of Innovation in New York City

  Summit Stage:

  Summit Pass, Black Pass

• 12:30 PM – 4:45 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  LAUNCH Competition: First Round

  Techweek Town Square:

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 12:40 PM – 1:00 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  How to Gain Competitive Advantage in the Digital Age

  Summit Stage: Patricia Arundel

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 1:50 PM – 2:30 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  FinTech Panel: The Future of Making and Moving Money

  LAUNCH Stage: Spencer Greenberg, Manish Gupta, Charlie Sidman

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  Sports and Technology: How College and NFL Football Teams are Closing the Gap

  Summit Stage: Brian Linthicum, Nihal Mehta

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  What Matters? Tales from the Trenches of Technical Due Diligence

  Knowledge Bar: Mike Kelly

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• 2:30 PM – 3:10 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  Women Tech Entrepreneurs: Increasing Impact; Driving Results

  Summit Stage: Rose Marie Glazer, Laura Sherbin, Karen Sumberg, Adam Quinton

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  A Global Undertaking: Deciding When to Expand Internationally

  LAUNCH Stage: Are Traasdahl

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 2:50 PM – 3:10 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  Lisa Xu

  LAUNCH Stage:

  Expo Pass, Summit Pass, Black Pass

• 3:10 PM – 3:30 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  Becoming a Social Business: The New Way to Work

  LAUNCH Stage: Ed Brill

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 3:10 PM – 3:30 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  Established Innovation: Staying Relevant In A Sea of Startups

  Summit Stage: Keela Robison

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 3:30 PM – 4:10 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  CEO and Founder Panel: Learning from Leading Innovators

  Summit Stage: Mark Josephson, Jeff Wald, Matt Williams

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  Think Small. Why Brands Should Pursue High-Growth, High-Potential Companies in Their Infancy

  LAUNCH Stage: Blake Menefee, Ryan O’Connell

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 4:00 PM – 4:20 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  The Science of Data in the ‘Making Money Industry’

  LAUNCH Stage: Yao Huang

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 4:10 PM – 4:30 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  Makers: Masters of Innovation

  Summit Stage: Andrew Bolwell

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 4:20 PM – 5:00 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  Wearable Technology: Changing the Way We Think, Act, and Move

  LAUNCH Stage: David Berkowitz, Jason Fass, Steve Jackson, Hilary Topper

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 4:30 PM – 5:10 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  VC Panel: Predicting and Pursuing Success

  Summit Stage: Charlie Kemper, Tom Loverro, David Teten

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 5:10 PM – 6:25 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  LAUNCH Startup Competition – Final Round

  Summit Stage:

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM, Thursday, Oct 2

  LAUNCH Happy Hour

  82MERCER:

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 8:00 PM – 12:00 AM, Thursday, Oct 2

  Party

  Soho:

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 11:30 AM – 4:00 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Food Truck Faceoff

  82MERCER:

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Hiring Fair

  Techweek Town Square:

  Expo Pass, Summit Pass, Black Pass

• 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Surviving Technical Due Diligence – Case Studies

  Technical Stage: Mike Kelly

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• 12:00 PM – 12:40 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Future of Video Media Content: What People Actually Want to Watch Online

  LAUNCH Stage: Nathan Brown, Jocelyn Johnson, Erick Schonfeld, Roland Hamilton

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Where are they now: GroupMe Co-Founders

  Summit Stage: Jared Hecht, Steve Martocci, Jordan Crook

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Suffering Successfully: Dynamic Languages at High Scale

  Technical Stage: David Wood

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Don’t Be Boring: Put Your Phone Down and Get Offline

  Summit Stage: Alexis Ohanian, Michael Waxman

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 12:40 PM – 1:00 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Yuriy Boykiv

  LAUNCH Stage:

  Expo Pass, Summit Pass, Black Pass

• 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Future of Design: Strategic Design to Create Real Impact

  LAUNCH Stage: Tom Bassett, Julie Bauer, Ben Spear

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year Finalists: Where are they now?

  Summit Stage: Kathryn Minshew, Allison Lami Sawyer, Mert Iseri

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Seeing the Future of Media: Why RRE Chose BuzzFeed

  Summit Stage: Jonah Peretti, Will Porteous

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 2:20 PM – 3:00 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Spreading Your Story: How to Use Software as The New Medium for Story

  Technical Stage: Richard Schatzberger

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 2:40 PM – 3:00 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Separating Signal From Noise: How to Optimize Our Content Discovery Experience

  LAUNCH Stage: Roman Karachinsky

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 3:00 PM – 3:40 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  The Difference between Net Neutrality and the Open Internet

  LAUNCH Stage:

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Coding 101 in 30 Minutes

  Technical Stage: Mark Lassoff

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 3:10 PM – 3:30 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Revitalizing the ’90s Dot-Com: How to Reinvent a Heritage Brand

  Summit Stage: Neil Vogel

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 3:30 PM – 4:10 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  CTO Panel: The Best, Brightest, and Newest Innovation

  Summit Stage:

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Using Data Science to Crack the Viral Code

  Technical Stage: Ky Harlin

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 4:00 PM – 4:40 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Future of Social Media: What It Means to Engage Online

  LAUNCH Stage: Noah Brier, Andrew Caravella

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 4:10 PM – 4:30 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  The Most Significant Other – Defining the Relationship Between Americans and Their Mobile Phones…and How Consumers are Using Mobile To Book Their Travels

  Summit Stage: John Caine

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Interview with Adora Cheung

  Summit Stage:

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 4:40 PM – 5:00 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Stream to Stream: Crafting Points of Connection for Today’s Media Diet

  LAUNCH Stage: Jean Ellen Cowgill

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 4:50 PM – 5:10 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Creating an Immersive Customer Experience: How to Resonate with the Digital Generation

  Summit Stage: Ethan Song

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 5:30 PM – 6:10 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  FashionTECH Panel: Beauty and Style in the Digital Age

  LAUNCH Stage: Gihan Amarasiriwardena, Shauna Mei

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 6:10 PM – 6:40 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  Developing a Community-Driven Brand That Customers Join, Not Just Buy

  LAUNCH Stage: Soraya Darabi

  Black Pass,Expo Pass,Summit Pass

• 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  FashionTECH Happy Hour

  Bar Techweek:

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• 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM, Friday, Oct 3

  FashionTECH Runway Show

  Summit Stage:

  Black Pass,Summit Pass

• 8:00 PM – 12:00 AM, Friday, Oct 3

  Techweek Closing Party

  82MERCER:

  Summit Pass, Black Pass