Diversity Luncheon - Raquel Breternitz, Denise Yu, Therese Stowell, Paula Kennedy, Cornelia Davis...
Channel: Cloud Foundry
Date: 2019-04-17

Diversity Luncheon

Our bi-annual luncheon celebrating diversity and inclusivity. This year’s lunch will feature panelists from a variety of diverse backgrounds discussing their unique experiences navigating the tech and open source industries. Come hear the individual stories that combine together to create the true narrative of our open source community.

Schedule:
Introduction provided by Caitlyn O'Connell
Lightning Talk on Digital Accessibility - Raquel Breternitz
Lightning Talk on Mentorship + Advocacy - Denise Yu
Panel on Gender Equity in Tech - Paula Kennedy, Cornelia Davis, Genevieve L’Esperance & Hannah Foxwell
Fireside chat on Returning to the Workplace - Therese Stowell

About Therese Stowell
Director, Product Management, Cloud R&D, Pivotal
Therese Stowell is Director, Product Management at Pivotal. She has worked in the software industry for 20+ years as programmer, interface designer, and product manager. She developed the command line environment in Windows, founded a successful social enterprise, and was part of... 

About Genevieve L'Esperance
Engineering Manager, Pivotal

About Raquel Breternitz
Senior Designer, Pivotal
Accessibility, design, inclusion, diversity, and memes.

About Paula Kennedy
Senior Director, PCF Solutions & Education EMEA, Pivotal
Paula joined Pivotal in 2015 and in her current role as Senior Director of Pivotal Cloud Foundry Solutions & Education in EMEA she is focused on working together with clients to drive innovation, transformation and business outcomes. Paula was previously Chief Operating Officer and... 

About Cornelia Davis
Vice President, Technology, Pivotal
Cornelia Davis is Vice President of Technology at Pivotal, where she works on the technology strategy for both Pivotal and for Pivotal customers. Currently she is working on ways to bring the various cloud-computing models of Infrastructure as a Service, Application as a Service... 

About Denise Yu
Senior Software Engineer, Pivotal
Denise is a Senior Software Engineer at Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) in Toronto. In her time at Pivotal she has worked on a variety of open source and enterprise products, served briefly as the Product Manager of Pivotal's On-Demand Service Broker SDK, then moved across an ocean to... 

About Hannah Foxwell
Manager, Pivotal
Hannah Foxwell is a manger in Pivotal Cloud Foundry Solutions EMEA, where she helps build wildly successful platform teams with Pivotal Cloud Foundry. A HumanOps champion, a HugOps evangelist, and a DevOps believer, Hannah has spent most of her career trying to create great working...