Sara Jones is co-founder and COO of Women Tech Council (WTC), a national organization focused on the economic impact of women in driving high growth for the technology sector. WTC operates several impactful programs that propel the economic pipeline from high school to the boardroom. Through these programs, WTC offers mentoring, visibility, opportunities and networking to more than 10,000 women and men working in technology and thousands of high school and college women entering the workforce. WTC aims to create business environments focused on high performance, not just diversity, where men and women can succeed.

Sara is also President of InclusionProⓇ, where she consults executive teams on leadership strategies as well as diversity and inclusion - how to attract, grow and retain diverse and winning teams through her Inclusion GrowthⓇ Framework strategies. As a consultant, she has keynoted or trained over 40 groups on leadership, high performing teams, talent strategies, and career skills. Sara has almost 20 years of experience within companies leading operational, partnership, fundraising and legal strategies. She was CEO of ApplicantPro, an HR technology company providing recruiting tools to over 3000 clients, with a strong female workforce. She was VP of Strategic Development at Patent Law Works, an IP firm based in Silicon Valley. She was head of business development at School Improvement Network, an educational SaaS technology company, where she led product development and business development for educational best practices on-demand video. She started her career as a patent attorney, where she led diversity efforts and became a partner at Workman Nydegger. Sara has a law degree from BYU and a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Utah.

In Ada's own words, "I am an executive leader known for performance oriented, holistic and scalable marketing strategy. As an empathetic, service oriented leader, I have led high-growth, innovative and profitable agencies, and provided business leadership to an extensive portfolio of clients. I am deeply committed to the intersection of sales, engineering, product and marketing, all based on a foundation of data based decision making to empower teams and exceed objectives.

My areas of expertise include: Business Development & Acquisition, Strategy Development & Execution, Branding/ Product Launch, Digital Transformation & Data Management, Resource Management & Training, Growth Stage & Transition Management

As a digital marketing expert and a regular panelist at key industry conferences, I’ve presented on industry-leading Holistic Digital Marketing Strategies, Search Engine Marketing, Programmatic Display, Conversion Optimization & Landing Page Optimization, Data Management & Analytics, AI, and Scalable Growth Strategies."

Alicia Garcia is the VP of Corporate Operations and Human Resources at MasterControl, where she is responsible for facilities and operations, HR and recruiting, and corporate quality and process improvement initiatives for all MasterControl locations worldwide.

Garcia has worked in the technology sector for over 10 years and in the retail sector for over five years. Prior to joining MasterControl in 2009, she served in various HR leadership roles at ClearOne Communications and Target Corp.

Garcia earned a bachelor’s degree in international business with a minor in French from Westminster College and she holds a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification. She is an elected member of the board of directors for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake and actively participates in community events supporting local organizations.

Amanda started her career at Adobe as a software engineer. Quickly after, she discovered she wanted more. She yearned to understand the entirety of the product lifecycle, not just the development sector. With that, she made the move from engineering to product management and hasn't looked back.

Outside of work, Amanda enjoys spending time with her husband and two golden retrievers, exploring Utah's great mountains, and designing killer brands for local women-owned businesses.

Eshaani has been in the IT industry for almost 10 years now. She will be sharing her experience about the different kinds of roles she had including but not limited to developer, tester, business analyst etc. in a small to large sized organizations.

Jenny is a 27-year-old queer woman working as a UX/UI Designer at Divvy in Silicon Slopes. She has an undergraduate degree in Psychology from UVU and is certified in UX through Dev Mountain. She previously worked at Qualtrics in technical support and research project management. Jenny grew up in Alpine, working alongside her father in his art studio, where she helped create commercial illustrations and discovered her passion for design. She loves snowboarding, climbing, and making other people laugh.

As Dwelo's Chief Architect, Karen designs it’s IoT platform to connect and orchestrate tens of millions of devices, clients, sensor readings, and user commands. Previous to Dwelo, she was an engineering manager at Quizlet, where she built the data science team and designed backend services. Karen has over a decade of experience working with high scale distributed systems and doing interesting things with data, like building book retail recommendation engines and computer vision systems for art recognition.

UI/UX Designer with experience interning for Amazon and Code Chrysalis in Japan. Karen loves to read, travel and learn about penguins. As part of her educational background, she went to Harvard and the University of Tokyo for a TECH Program. In addition, Karen's team won second place at the NASA Robotic Competition. She is very passionate about story telling and will be graduating with a bachelors degree this May from the University of Utah.

Michelle works at JumpSearch and has 10 yrs of experience in agency recruiting and have worked with many candidates on all aspects of career development, resume/LinkedIn writing, salary negotiations, interviewing and job search.

Miriah Peterson graduated from BYU August 2017 with a B.S. is Physics. After dropping out of graduate school, she decided to pursue a career in software. She now works as a Data Scientist at Nav. She works in both Go and Python. She is the organizer of the Women Who Go Utah chapter and holds monthly meetings to help women get started in development careers. She is also an active member of the Utah Go Users Group where she has spoken on Data Science in Go. When not building out production level ETL systems in go she spends a lot of free time reading about Data Science, Deep Learning and works on implementing new skills and tools on personal projects on both Go and Python.

Oindrilla is a software engineer at Western Governors University with an experience of 9 years as a QA resource. Prior to this, she worked for Accenture and Mercedes Benz Research and Development in India. Oindrilla's key technology includes JAVA, Selenium, performance and automation testing, QA concepts and QA project management. She has also been a trainer for Performance testing concepts and tools at organization level. When she is not working, she loves reading and listening to music. For a very short time, Oindrilla also had the privilege to be a radio jockey here in Utah.

Sarah is 28 year old female software engineer working at Divvy in Lehi, Utah. Before getting hired as a software engineer she received her Masters in Educational Technology and worked as the sign language tech support at GoReact in Orem, Utah. Realizing her passion for development, she enrolled in the six month after-hours coding bootcamp offered by Dev Mountain. Shortly after she was hired by Divvy as the only female, and only junior, engineer at the company.

Tanei Atagi Henry graduated from Brigham Young University then taught English at Timpview High School from 2007-2011. She and her husband, Jed, parent their four children together. Tanei founded Provo Girls Summit in 2017 and the nonprofit it is associated with, Introducing Tomorrow in 2018.

Tejaswini is an experienced banking technology leader, Agile & Project Management enthusiast and enterprise coach.

Her key strengths include mentoring teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution and transparency. Tejaswini is very passionate about fast paced project deliveries, team motivation and inspiring other women in technology.