As a member of Nextiva’s Technology senior leadership, Ruth is responsible for ensuring that technologists have a consistently positive experience as part of a cohesive global team. Ruth strives to create a diverse, creative, and highly engaged global workforce. Her team is responsible for providing an amazing work experience and opportunities for growth and development in a challenging, fast-paced, and fun environment. Ruth combines her unique skills in engineering, leadership, and entrepreneurship with her passion for using technology to simplify the way we experience work. She is an advocate for expanding education and careers in STEM to women across the world.

Diana Vowels

Chair Invest Southwest Investments

Diana Vowels is a community builder, driving the tech ecosystem forward in Phoenix. Diana is a strategic leader with experience spanning various roles in Tech, Healthcare and Media sectors. She currently serves as Chair of Invest Southwest, which hosts Venture Madness, the largest capital conference in Arizona. She previously led Galvanize Phoenix, a dynamic learning community for technology, bringing industry and education together in urban campuses across the US. Prior to Galvanize, Diana launched Groupon in Arizona and led media and healthcare companies.

Cynthia Travis

Director, Global Solution Consultants VMware

Most of Cynthia’s 37 years of experience in IT has been spent building solutions for customers as a Solutions Architect at Unisys, Sun Microsystems, EMC and NetApp. In the last 10 years she has put more focus on Business Development, building out Channel led solutions, and leading teams of Solution Architects. The cornerstone of Cynthia’s technical background has been the focus on the Application Layer and how to build the solutions to best support that layer.

Sanchali Bhattacharjee PhD, MBA

Platform Architect, Director, GSC – Chiplet Strategy (Dis-aggregation)

Responsible for translating business/customer requirements into platform architecture encompassing hardware, software, SoCs and other components designed to support a variety of systems, solutions and applications. Leads architectural governance and decisions related to product technology and platform trade-offs as part of a cross functional architecture decision group. Provide technical direction for platform, SoC and component design activities. Influences the shaping of future products/solutions by significantly contributing to the architecture and technology employed throughout the compute continuum. Provides multilayered technical expertise for next generation initiatives. Engage with the earliest phases of product design and technology development to incorporate and amplify the “Design for the Supply Chain” point of view, and proactively prepare for new product and technology.