Anu Jain, Sr. Director of Big Data Platforms, Target Twitter: @anu_jain01 As Sr Director, Data Engineering@Target, Anu has overall responsibility for the Big data platforms and products. Anu has spent 20+ years working in the technology industry with companies ranging from start-up to Fortune 50 companies. Anu’s passion is making petabyte scale analytics possible and increasing the productivity of data scientists and data engineers by building solutions which are highly available, scalable and easy to use.

Suja Viswesan, Sr. Engineering Manager, LinkedIn Twitter: @sujaviswesan Suja Viswesan leads engineering teams that are responsible for the Big Data Platform at LinkedIn. The team is responsible for the entire ecosystem including Data Management, Hadoop as a Service, Core Hadoop, Spark, etc. This platform is leveraged by LinkedIn to make key business decisions. This platform also powers products like 'People You May Know', Feed relevance to name a few. Some of the open source contributions from the team include Gobblin, Azkaban, Dr.Elephant,Hadoop gradle plugin. Prior to joining LinkedIn, Suja led BigInsights Hadoop team, Database teams at IBM. Suja holds an MS in computer Engineering. Suja is very passionate about Women in tech and has participated in various panels at Girls Who Code, LeanIn, Girls Scout and Universities.

Radhika Rangarajan, Dir of Big Data Technologies, Intel Twitter: @RadhikaRangaraj Radhika is a leader in Software, Product and Process Engineering with 16 years of industry experience. She is passionate about leading and leveraging team strength to achieving great results. At Intel, Radhika leads the Big Data Ecosystem Engagement team forging customer/partner collaborations and academic engagement programs.  Radhika is a co-founder of Women in Big Data and serves as the Director for the West coast chapter. 

Alison Biggan, Global head of Platform Marketing, SAP Twitter: @abiggan_sap Alison Biggan is the global head of Platform Marketing at SAP, responsible for product and solution marketing across all technology topics including Analytics, Database & Data Management (SAP HANA), and SAP Cloud. Through product launches and campaigns; product communications, core product messaging and competitive differentiation; as well as go-to-market strategy, Alison and her team enable people and organizations to achieve digital business transformation with modern technology delivered through simple and powerful tools that help organizations drive more and greater innovation.  Alison joined SAP in 2007 with its acquisition of Business Objects and has held global leadership roles in the Platform business since 2010. 

Tendü Yoğurtçu, Ph.D., CTO of Syncsort Twitter: @TenduYogurtcu Tendü Yoğurtçu, Ph.D., is Syncsort’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO). She has 20+ years of software industry experience, including extensive Big Data and Hadoop industry knowledge. As CTO, Tendu directs the company’s technology strategy and innovation, leading all product research and development programs. Prior to her CTO role, Tendü has served as Syncsort’s General Manager of Big Data, leading the global software business for Data Integration, Hadoop and Cloud, including sales, marketing, engineering and support. Tendu has held several engineering management roles where she directed the development of ETL, Sort, and Application Modernization products for Syncsort’s Data Integration business. She also was an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Computer Science Department at Stevens Institute of Technology. Tendü is a dedicated advocate for STEM education for women and diversity.