Featured Speaker(s)

Jay Krishnan - Sr. Product Marketing Manager & Innovation Catalyst
Jay Krishnan has over 12 years of experience in technology, SaaS and B2B offerings . She joined Intuit with the acquisition of a startup company 3 1/2 years ago. After a sensational time at the startup, a similar journey continues at Intuit as a Sr. Product Marketing Manager for the App Store Channel team where she empowers all mobile teams to drive mobile innovation to delight customers, build a mobile community and work with our App Store partners to bring commercial success for Intuit apps. Jay coaches mobile teams on product strategy, messaging, app store guidelines and other mobile best practices. In addition, Jay is also an Innovation Catalyst at Intuit. In this role, she enables everyone across Intuit to apply design thinking by helping them understand deep customer empathy and rapid experimentation with customers to quickly test, learn, fail, iterate and innovate.

Carol Howe - Senior Product Manager, Intuit
As the Sr. Product Manager for TurboTax Mobile Applications, Carol is responsible for developing, launching and improving consumer tax-related smartphone and tablet apps. Over the past three years, she has launched a suite of mobile apps including TurboTax SnapTax, TurboTax TaxCaster, TurboTax MyTaxRefund and TurboTax for iPad. Carol received Intuit’s prestigious Innovation Award for her recent work and leadership on TurboTax SnapTax, the first start-to-finish tap preparation app. She frequently speaks on the topics of mobile apps and mobile user research. Carol has contributed to several articles and books, including Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, WSJ All Things Digital and The Lean Startup (by Eric Ries).

Arline Gunter, PMP, CSM - Senior Development Manager - TurboTax Mac & iPad
Arline is a business and technology leader with over twenty years experience in premier software and consulting companies. Her career spans Software Development, Client Services and Consulting within Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Financial Services and the Telecommunications industries. She has worked with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), HNC Software and been an Independent Consultant. Currently, she is a Senior Program Manager at Intuit leading a software development team responsible for the delivery of TurboTax for Mac, and the innovative TurboTax for the iPad.