Amanda Richardson, Coderpad

Amanda is a senior leader with 15+ years of experience in product management, data and analytics, corporate strategy, operations and marketing at top-tier technology companies. She was recently named CEO of CoderPad, an interviewing platform with an intuitive live programming environment to help you hire better candidates faster.

Before joining CoderPad, Amanda was CEO at Rabbit, which allowed friends to keep in touch by watching their favorite shows together, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners and acquired by Kast in July 2019. Prior to Rabbit, Amanda was Chief Data & Strategy Officer at HotelTonight, the leading mobile app for last- minute hotel bookings, where she led data analytics, corporate strategy and data engineering to create and execute data-driven growth strategies. During her time at HotelTonight, the company grew exponentially with triple the number of app downloads and five times the amount of revenue growth. She also spent three years as VP Product at HotelTonight, where she led multiple feature enhancements that improved conversion by over 30% and managed platform relationships with Apple and Google.

She has held product leadership roles at Prezi, where she drove customer segmentation and focused product improvements that expanded the user base to over 50 million users. She was SVP of Product and Marketing at Snagajob where she oversaw the roadmap that drove 30%+ annual revenue and was responsible for achieving $20 million advertising revenue targets. Amanda began her career in business development and product management capacities at Eclipsys, a hospital software company.

Christine Hawkins, HP, Inc.

Born in Tasmania, Australia, Christine started her career in Science and Problem Solving roles in the Mining and Telco industries in Australia before joining HP in 2007. Her strengths of leadership and problem solving have enabled her success in various interesting roles across South Pacific, Asia and USA. Some examples are Asia Pacific Customer Experience, Chief Operating Office for India and Director of HP wearables Incubation team. She is currently Director of Customer Transformation in HP’s Transformation Office. When Christine is not explaining what a Tasmanian Devil really looks like – she enjoys exploring the hiking and skiing opportunities here in North America.

Claire Johnston, Lendlease

Claire Johnston is Managing Director for the master planning, entitlement and development of three major areas in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. Lendlease estimates that it will develop up to 15 million square feet of residential, retail, hospitality, and other associated community uses in the new neighborhoods. Google will focus on developing its office space within these mixed communities. Prior to her current role, Ms. Johnston was Managing Director of Lendlease Communities in August 2015, directs the Lendlease Communities business including Development projects, Property and Asset Management, Environment, Health & Safety, as well as managing new business opportunities. She also held the position of Project Director of Island Palm Communities, a Lendlease community in Oahu, Hawaii.

Most recently, as Project Director on an Urban renewal project (value $6b) at Docklands Melbourne Australia where she was responsible for the development and delivery of commercial, residential and mixed-use assets as an integrated, master-planned in partnership with the City of Melbourne and the State Government of Victoria. Ms. Johnston received a Bachelor of Commerce, Labor and Industrial Relations from the University of Western Sydney, and a Master’s Degree in Business from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne). Past board positions have been with Destination Docklands, Kunia Water Association and Newport Haven. She is also a member of the Law Institute of Victoria (Australia) and The Chief Executive Women Group (Australia).

Dawn McIntosh, NASA Ames Research Center

Dawn McIntosh has been a federal civil servant with NASA Ames Research Center for nearly 20 years. She is the Project Manager for the BioSentinel mission, building a deep-space cubesat to measure radiation exposure effects on yeast DNA. She is also the Associate Division Chief for Mission Systems in the Intelligent Systems Division, working to identify standardization and efficiency improvements as well as new mission opportunities for our flight software and mission operations and ground data systems teams. Dawn has a BS in Physics/Astrophysics, a MS in Mechanical Engineering, and has worked in a Computer Science division her entire career at NASA. This breadth of education and work experience has allowed her to work in every Mission Directorate at NASA, spanning aeronautics research to tool development for the Space Shuttle return-to-flight post-Columbia accident to lunar science mission. Dawn’s top career goal is to work on things that have never been done before and that we’re not entirely sure how to do.

Jean Hayden, Google

Jean Hayden is Director of Strategy and Operations at Google Cloud, responsible for strategy, planning, analytics and data across all of the Customer Experience functions covering $XB in revenue. Jean also manages some of the offshore operational units for the functions,, coordinating with an large vendor team over in Pune, India. Jean grew up between Maleny in Queensland and Canberra and attended the Australian National University before spending many years consulting with the Boston Consulting Group. Prior to Google Jean was COO at two fast-growing services startups including Dalberg Global Development Advisors in New York and SkillCapital in London.

Susannah Torpey, Winston & Strawn LLP

Susannah is a Litigation Partner at Winston & Strawn with more than 15 years of experience representing Fortune 500 companies in multimillion and billion dollar high-stakes antitrust and IP litigations, class actions, high-tech competitor disputes, and investigations. She also counsels companies to guide them through complex antitrust and IP issues faced by high-tech companies, whether they are start-ups or dominant market leaders. Susannah has been recognized as a SuperLawyer, "National Practice Area Star" in antitrust, "Local Litigation Star," Top Woman Attorney, and "rising star" for obtaining critical litigation wins for her clients - whether at trial on behalf of plaintiffs or by winning complete dismissals on behalf of defendants.

Susannah has represented major U.S. and multinational corporations in litigation, investigations, and counseling partnerships involving a wide array of antitrust issues, including price fixing, information exchanges, no poach and wage fixing agreements, group boycotts, monopolization, monopoly leveraging, interoperability issues, refusals to deal, exclusive dealing, tying, price discrimination, unfair competition, anticompetitive product redesign, and mixed issues of antitrust and intellectual property law relating to FRAND obligations, standard setting, patent licensing, and patent misuse.

Susannah is a trial lawyer, but also litigates at the appellate level and has advised clients at every level of the federal court system, including the Supreme Court. She regularly represents plaintiffs, as well as defendants, and has represented clients in both civil and criminal matters, including in international criminal antitrust investigations. Susannah has represented and counseled clients in a variety of industries, including in high-tech & FinTech; AI; blockchain; internet and web app; wireless connectivity (2G-5G); ecommerce platforms and data; semiconductor; electronics; VoIP; pharma; biotech; chemical processing; oil; steel; distribution; publishing; sports; international trade; consulting; and financial services. 

Marti Grimminck, International Connector
Founder, Future of Women in Tech

Marti is a global business executive, social entrepreneur, keynote speaker and creative marketer. She brings to corporations and governments innovative approaches to disrupt business as usual and create large-scale systems change. Her signature work combines social impact, virtual engagement, creative uses of technology and global markets.

As the Founder and CEO of International Connector, Marti has deep knowledge of Generational trends of GenZs and Millennials, stemming from a global network of young innovators across 190 countries. With 20 years experience working on developing promotional campaigns, brands, products and platforms, Marti’s work is remarkably diverse and globally spread. Marti has taken her experiential and immersive creativity to develop impact marketing programs, such as Innovative Resilience in Puerto Rico, Your Big Year Youth Empowerment Platform, and the Future of Women in Tech. Her trademark is to utilize technology as an enabler for social change. 

Dawn Lillington, Australian American Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco
Founder, Future of Women in Tech

Dawn Lillington has enjoyed 15 years of success in creating and maintaining relationships within the Australian/American community at the Australian American Chamber of Commerce. She is experienced in managing operations, event production, brand, marketing, social media and business development.