#ESGT23 brings together leaders across regulatory, industry, investment and technology sectors tasked with driving measurable ESG results and reporting.
For the first time, #ESGT23 will bring together the tech industry, ESG, CSR and sustainability leaders, innovators, investors, regulators, and policy decision makers together to seize the opportunity and strengthen the sustainable technology ecosystem. Come be a part of the biggest economic shift toward impact-first technologies and lead this generational transformation.
Dominique (who also goes by Dom) is a creative and passionate product and operations leader with more than 18 years of online experience both in North American and Global product management, customer experience and operations, and software development. She has led and managed the product management, UX design, engineering, data science, IT, analytics and insights, and customer service functions with revenue and cost directed responsibilities. Currently, Dom oversees the Conversational Commerce team for Walmart. In this role she is responsible for all parts of Walmarts conversational experiences including Voice and Text Commerce. Responsible for changing how people interact and shop with Walmart. She was previously the Chief Product Officer of Jetblack, a members-only shopping service that was the first portfolio company within Store Nº8, the incubation arm of Walmart. She joined Walmart through their acquisition of Bonobos where she was the Chief Experience Officer. Prior to that she was VP of product and user experience at Gilt Group, and spent 12 years leading product teams at Travelocity. Dominique graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Duke University where she also served as captain of their NCAA Women's Varsity Volleyball team. She currently lives in Larchmont, NY with her husband and two sons.
Ryan Steelberg is a seasoned technology executive and pioneer of digital and data-driven businesses. He is currently the co-founder and President of Veritone, Inc., a public company on NASDAQ. He also serves on its Board of Directors. Previously, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Steelberg served as the Head of Broadcast at Google Inc. From 2002 to 2007, he was the co-founder and President of dMarc Broadcasting, an advertising company that was acquired by Google Inc. in 2006. From 1998 to 2000, he served as President and CEO of 2CAN Media, a company that was acquired by CMGi. From 1995 to 1998 he served as President of AdForce, a company that was also acquired by CMGi in September of 1999, after its IPO earlier that year.
Shyamala is a seasoned conversational AI expert. Having led initiatives across connected homes, automotive, and wearables - just to name a few, she's put her work on research into usability, accessibility, speech recognition, and multimodal voice user interfaces, and has even been published internationally across publications like Forbes. Outside of her research, she's spent the last 18 years designing mobile, web, desktop, and smart TV interfaces and has most recently joined NVIDIA to own their roadmap for Speech AI tools.
Christopher is a long-time geek who's spent the bulk of his career training, supporting and upskilling developers. He's a web developer at heart with passions which span from Python to DevOps to TypeScript to AI. In his current role as an Enterprise Advocate for GitHub he seeks to help organizations improve their DevOps process and culture. When not found writing code he can be found running, playing Civilization, or spending time with his partner and their four-legged child (a rescue mutt).
Swapna is a Principal Product Lead at Microsoft, currently leading enterprise search & productivity experiences for enterprise users and has previously led OEM partnerships for OneDrive that served 50M+ users worldwide. In her previous life, Swapna led products in the fintech space at a Canadian bank, involving R&D innovation in digital payments, cards and emerging technologies. While at RBC, Swapna also led experiences in the financial planning & personal investments space.
Kate Bradley Chernis is the Founder & CEO of Lately.AI, an AI-powered content repurposing engine and a social media management, employee advocacy and sales enablement syndication platform. Thanks to nine years of its own proprietary machine learning and natural language processing data, Lately is able to pinpoint the ideas, words and phrases that will get any target audience to click, like or share. It also learns the unique voice of any brand or individual and transfers the style of that voice into social posts. Lately then splices up longform text, audio or video content into dozens of high-performing social posts – which include audiograms and video clips – based on your unique writing model. As a former rock 'n' roll dj, Kate served 20 million listeners as Music Director and on-air host at Sirius/XM. She’s also an award-winning radio producer, engineer and voice talent with 25 years of national broadcast communications, brand-building, sales and marketing expertise. What she learned in radio about the neuroscience of music helps fuel Lately's artificial intelligence.
Nick Dokich is an enterprise voice/chat bot building expert. For Nick, it is all about getting the right information, to the right person, in the right way, at the right time. With over 7 years of experience, Nick is focused on building the world's largest and most complex voice/chat experiences. His bots have interacted with over 1/3 of the US population. Currently working for Google, Nick is passionate about helping enterprises build successful voice experiences. He believes that voicebots have the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with technology, and he is committed to helping businesses realize that potential. He has worked with Fortune 500, start-ups, and government organizations, focused on engaging experiences that produce tangible ROI. His voice/chat experiences contain millions of calls each month while providing immensely engaging experiences.
Sara is the Chief Product Owner for Contact Center Transformation and Robotics in Prudential. In this role, Sara has overall vision, strategy, and execution responsibility for transforming the contact center capabilities to one with increased focused on customers through intelligent call routing, conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI), digital self-service options and chat to name a few. Prior to joining Prudential, Sara held various leadership roles at MassMutual Financial Group for more than 14 years with a focus of digitizing and improving customer experiences. These initiatives included capabilities like, Conversational AI, Algorithmic Underwriting, Fluid-less underwriting, Electronic Health Data, eDelivery and Robotics. Sara received her Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Computing & Information Systems from Saint Mary’s University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Greg Bennett is Director of Conversation Design at Salesforce, where he founded and leads the company’s first dedicated Conversation Design practice since its inception. As a sociolinguist, he shepherds a product and design vision at Salesforce that helps teams across the entire product portfolio create inclusive experiences that feel natural, helpful, and meaningful, and manages an international team of Conversation Designers who work with Salesforce’s Product leaders to define the future of conversational AI
Noelle Russell is a multi-award-winning technologist with an entrepreneurial spirit who specializes in helping companies with emerging technology, cloud, AI and Web 3.0. She has led teams at NPR, Microsoft, IBM, AWS and Amazon Alexa, and is a consistent champion for Data and AI literacy. She has built over 100 conversational AI applications since 2014 and has over 2 million unique users on Amazon Alexa. She also influenced almost $1 billion in revenue for Microsoft AI during her tenure there speaking to Fortune 500 executives, running whiteboarding technical sessions, and leading internal hackathons for her customers. In the last year, she was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Artificial Intelligence (for the 2nd year) as well as VentureBeat’s Women in AI Responsibility and Ethics award.
Jay is a manager of Content and Conversation Design at Capital One. With 15 years experience supporting Contact Centers, Jay is passionate about building connected experiences across user journeys.
Most of the wins in my career have come from connecting people and information they need. In the last 9 years with Capital One, I've been a Conversation Designer and Communications Strategist. My superpowers are storytelling and strategizing.
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