According to US census data, nearly half of the total labor force in the US is female and yet only 25% of technical roles are filled by women.
At Databricks, we believe increasing gender diversity in big data will fuel innovation, help attract top talent, and increase market share. As part of our mission to make big data more inclusive, we have partnered with Looker (https://looker.com/) and Foundation Capital (https://foundationcapital.com/) to bring this exciting event to the San Francisco and Silicon Valley tech community!
This event is designed for anyone interested in building a career in big data and open to women and men of all professional backgrounds.
Please join us for an evening of lively and thought provoking conversation with 3 female leaders in big data and their career journey.
Agenda:
5:30-6:30 pm Registration & Networking with Cocktails and Appetizers provided by Databricks
6:30-7:30 pm Women in Big Data Panel and Open Q&A
Panel Participants:
Heather Akuiyibo, VP of Sales, Databricks
Jen Grant, Chief Marketing Officer, Looker
Natalia Burina, Enterpreneur in Residence, Foundation Capital
About our panelists:
Heather Akuiyibo is the VP of Commercial and Mid-Market Sales at Databricks, the company behind the Unified Analytics Platform. Prior to Databricks, she spent 5 years building the high growth sales team at Zendesk. She has also held Sales and Support leadership roles at Google and developed her early sales career at Sun Microsystems. Heather is a proud working mom to three children who regularly ask to come to the Databricks office...for the snacks. You can view her LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hakuiyibo/
Jen Grant spent the last 15 years building powerhouse brands from the ground-up. As the first executive marketing hire at Box, she oversaw its growth from a small “consumer back-up” start-up to an industry-leading enterprise content collaboration company used by the majority of the Fortune 500. After Box, she spent a few years advising Homebrew’s portfolio, on the board of directors of nonprofit K-12 Team, and led the rebranding of Elastic as CMO. Prior to Box, Grant spent 4 years at Google leading the Google Apps EDU, Gmail and Book Search marketing teams. You can view her LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jencgrant/
Natalia Burina is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Foundation Capital where she is evaluating startups, advising teams and building out potential ideas, all in the AI domain. She was recently a Director of Product at Salesforce leading Einstein - AI for Salesforce platform. Salesforce nominated her for Top Women Engineers of 2017. Previously, she founded Parable, a creative photo network featured by Apple in #1 spot for photo & video and social networking. Before Parable, Natalia led buyer search experience at eBay which accounts for over 70% of all site traffic. Prior to eBay, she worked on Microsoft’s search engine Bing where she shipped a number of innovative search experiences. Natalia started her career as a software engineer after having completed a Bachelors degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics at University of Washington. You can view her LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliaburina/
Panel Moderator:
Julianne Gsell is the Director of Sales for Mid-Market at Databricks. Prior to Databricks, she spent 9 years in sales at Box, both as an individual contributor and Director on the Enterprise sales team. You can view her LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliannegsell/
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At Databricks, we believe increasing gender diversity in big data will fuel innovation, help attract top talent, and increase market share. As part of our mission to make big data more inclusive, we have partnered with Looker (https://looker.com/) and Foundation Capital (https://foundationcapital.com/) to bring this exciting event to the San Francisco and Silicon Valley tech community!
This event is designed for anyone interested in building a career in big data and open to women and men of all professional backgrounds.
Please join us for an evening of lively and thought provoking conversation with 3 female leaders in big data and their career journey.
Agenda:
5:30-6:30 pm Registration & Networking with Cocktails and Appetizers provided by Databricks
6:30-7:30 pm Women in Big Data Panel and Open Q&A
Panel Participants:
Heather Akuiyibo, VP of Sales, Databricks
Jen Grant, Chief Marketing Officer, Looker
Natalia Burina, Enterpreneur in Residence, Foundation Capital
About our panelists:
Heather Akuiyibo is the VP of Commercial and Mid-Market Sales at Databricks, the company behind the Unified Analytics Platform. Prior to Databricks, she spent 5 years building the high growth sales team at Zendesk. She has also held Sales and Support leadership roles at Google and developed her early sales career at Sun Microsystems. Heather is a proud working mom to three children who regularly ask to come to the Databricks office...for the snacks. You can view her LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hakuiyibo/
Jen Grant spent the last 15 years building powerhouse brands from the ground-up. As the first executive marketing hire at Box, she oversaw its growth from a small “consumer back-up” start-up to an industry-leading enterprise content collaboration company used by the majority of the Fortune 500. After Box, she spent a few years advising Homebrew’s portfolio, on the board of directors of nonprofit K-12 Team, and led the rebranding of Elastic as CMO. Prior to Box, Grant spent 4 years at Google leading the Google Apps EDU, Gmail and Book Search marketing teams. You can view her LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jencgrant/
Natalia Burina is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Foundation Capital where she is evaluating startups, advising teams and building out potential ideas, all in the AI domain. She was recently a Director of Product at Salesforce leading Einstein - AI for Salesforce platform. Salesforce nominated her for Top Women Engineers of 2017. Previously, she founded Parable, a creative photo network featured by Apple in #1 spot for photo & video and social networking. Before Parable, Natalia led buyer search experience at eBay which accounts for over 70% of all site traffic. Prior to eBay, she worked on Microsoft’s search engine Bing where she shipped a number of innovative search experiences. Natalia started her career as a software engineer after having completed a Bachelors degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics at University of Washington. You can view her LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliaburina/
Panel Moderator:
Julianne Gsell is the Director of Sales for Mid-Market at Databricks. Prior to Databricks, she spent 9 years in sales at Box, both as an individual contributor and Director on the Enterprise sales team. You can view her LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliannegsell/
According to US census data, nearly half of the total labor force in the US is female and yet only 25% of technical roles are filled by women.
At Databricks, we believe increasing gender diversity in big data will fuel innovation, help attract top talent, and increase market share. As part of our mission to make big data more inclusive, we have partnered with Looker (https://looker.com/) and Foundation Capital (https://foundationcapital.com/) to bring this exciting event to the San Francisco and Silicon Valley tech community!
This event is designed for anyone interested in building a career in big data and open to women and men of all professional backgrounds.
Please join us for an evening of lively and thought provoking conversation with 3 female leaders in big data and their career journey.
Agenda:
5:30-6:30 pm Registration & Networking with Cocktails and Appetizers provided by Databricks
6:30-7:30 pm Women in Big Data Panel and Open Q&A
Panel Participants:
Heather Akuiyibo, VP of Sales, Databricks
Jen Grant, Chief Marketing Officer, Looker
Natalia Burina, Enterpreneur in Residence, Foundation Capital
About our panelists:
Heather Akuiyibo is the VP of Commercial and Mid-Market Sales at Databricks, the company behind the Unified Analytics Platform. Prior to Databricks, she spent 5 years building the high growth sales team at Zendesk. She has also held Sales and Support leadership roles at Google and developed her early sales career at Sun Microsystems. Heather is a proud working mom to three children who regularly ask to come to the Databricks office...for the snacks. You can view her LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hakuiyibo/
Jen Grant spent the last 15 years building powerhouse brands from the ground-up. As the first executive marketing hire at Box, she oversaw its growth from a small “consumer back-up” start-up to an industry-leading enterprise content collaboration company used by the majority of the Fortune 500. After Box, she spent a few years advising Homebrew’s portfolio, on the board of directors of nonprofit K-12 Team, and led the rebranding of Elastic as CMO. Prior to Box, Grant spent 4 years at Google leading the Google Apps EDU, Gmail and Book Search marketing teams. You can view her LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jencgrant/
Natalia Burina is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Foundation Capital where she is evaluating startups, advising teams and building out potential ideas, all in the AI domain. She was recently a Director of Product at Salesforce leading Einstein - AI for Salesforce platform. Salesforce nominated her for Top Women Engineers of 2017. Previously, she founded Parable, a creative photo network featured by Apple in #1 spot for photo & video and social networking. Before Parable, Natalia led buyer search experience at eBay which accounts for over 70% of all site traffic. Prior to eBay, she worked on Microsoft’s search engine Bing where she shipped a number of innovative search experiences. Natalia started her career as a software engineer after having completed a Bachelors degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics at University of Washington. You can view her LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliaburina/
Panel Moderator:
Julianne Gsell is the Director of Sales for Mid-Market at Databricks. Prior to Databricks, she spent 9 years in sales at Box, both as an individual contributor and Director on the Enterprise sales team. You can view her LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliannegsell/
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At Databricks, we believe increasing gender diversity in big data will fuel innovation, help attract top talent, and increase market share. As part of our mission to make big data more inclusive, we have partnered with Looker (https://looker.com/) and Foundation Capital (https://foundationcapital.com/) to bring this exciting event to the San Francisco and Silicon Valley tech community!
This event is designed for anyone interested in building a career in big data and open to women and men of all professional backgrounds.
Please join us for an evening of lively and thought provoking conversation with 3 female leaders in big data and their career journey.
Agenda:
5:30-6:30 pm Registration & Networking with Cocktails and Appetizers provided by Databricks
6:30-7:30 pm Women in Big Data Panel and Open Q&A
Panel Participants:
Heather Akuiyibo, VP of Sales, Databricks
Jen Grant, Chief Marketing Officer, Looker
Natalia Burina, Enterpreneur in Residence, Foundation Capital
About our panelists:
Heather Akuiyibo is the VP of Commercial and Mid-Market Sales at Databricks, the company behind the Unified Analytics Platform. Prior to Databricks, she spent 5 years building the high growth sales team at Zendesk. She has also held Sales and Support leadership roles at Google and developed her early sales career at Sun Microsystems. Heather is a proud working mom to three children who regularly ask to come to the Databricks office...for the snacks. You can view her LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hakuiyibo/
Jen Grant spent the last 15 years building powerhouse brands from the ground-up. As the first executive marketing hire at Box, she oversaw its growth from a small “consumer back-up” start-up to an industry-leading enterprise content collaboration company used by the majority of the Fortune 500. After Box, she spent a few years advising Homebrew’s portfolio, on the board of directors of nonprofit K-12 Team, and led the rebranding of Elastic as CMO. Prior to Box, Grant spent 4 years at Google leading the Google Apps EDU, Gmail and Book Search marketing teams. You can view her LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jencgrant/
Natalia Burina is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Foundation Capital where she is evaluating startups, advising teams and building out potential ideas, all in the AI domain. She was recently a Director of Product at Salesforce leading Einstein - AI for Salesforce platform. Salesforce nominated her for Top Women Engineers of 2017. Previously, she founded Parable, a creative photo network featured by Apple in #1 spot for photo & video and social networking. Before Parable, Natalia led buyer search experience at eBay which accounts for over 70% of all site traffic. Prior to eBay, she worked on Microsoft’s search engine Bing where she shipped a number of innovative search experiences. Natalia started her career as a software engineer after having completed a Bachelors degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics at University of Washington. You can view her LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliaburina/
Panel Moderator:
Julianne Gsell is the Director of Sales for Mid-Market at Databricks. Prior to Databricks, she spent 9 years in sales at Box, both as an individual contributor and Director on the Enterprise sales team. You can view her LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliannegsell/
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