Featured Speaker(s)

Isabelle Guis, Chief Strategy Officer, Egnyte

Isabelle Guis is the Chief Strategy Officer at Egnyte, overseeing all global marketing, go-to-market, partnership and product strategies. She previously served as EMC’s vice president of Marketing for the Public Cloud Solutions Group and Enterprise Storage Division, driving cloud buyer and service provider segmentations, as well as messaging, product positioning and go-to-market strategies for the company’s core storage solutions. Isabelle has also held leadership positions at Avaya, Big Switch Networks, Cisco Systems, and Nortel Networks. She holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Supelec (France), and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Maryanna Saenko, Investment Partner, Airbus Ventures

Maryanna is an Investment Partner for Airbus Ventures focused on developing and supporting seed-stage investments in aerospace and adjacent domains. Before joining Airbus Ventures Maryanna led Lux Research’s autonomous systems group where she traveled the world and spoke about robots. Maryanna completed her undergraduate and Master’s degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, following which she became a research engineer and worked on projects ranging from autonomous vehicles to MEMS devices for wireless power transfer. Maryanna is passionate about helping emerging technologies progress into viable business models. When she’s not out finding cool start-ups you can find her kiteboarding, climbing, and pursuing type II fun in the backcountry.

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Tara Scarrow, Director of Programs, Heartwood 3d

Tara Scarrow is Director of Programs at Heartwood 3D, a developer of 3D interactive training applications utilizing mobile and VR/AR technology. Tara leads the company’s development team and is well known in the industry for driving a relentless quest for quality. Right beside that passion, her purpose is to take the notion of customer service to a level that is almost inspirational. She emphasizes that “a customer is never out of warranty, even if the product is.”
On a day to day level, she facilitates communication to align with customers’ vision and creates processes that empower the team to develop innovative, intuitive and simple-to-use applications. Being customer-obsessed, she is able to hold that vision while encouraging the team to push the limits of the technology. Most weekends, she may be found taking in the glory of the Northern California outdoors or enjoying one of the many local festivals.

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Angela Tran Kingyens, PhD, Seed investor, Version One Ventures

Angela is an early-stage / seed investor at Version One Ventures, focusing on companies that leverage network effects. Prior to VC, she was a founding team member of Insight Data Science, a program designed to help PhDs transition from academia to industry. Angela has a PhD in operations research and financial engineering, and is also a member of the Next Gen Computer History Museum board.



Juhi Chandalia, Senior data scientist, Sentient Technologies


Juhi Chandalia is a senior data scientist at Sentient Technologies, where she applies deep learning to data science problems. She focuses specifically on rapidly prototyping solutions for new business use cases. Before relocating to the Bay Area, she ran a data science consulting company in Boston. Juhi has degrees in physics (BS and MS) and electrical engineering (BS) from MIT. When she's not doing data science, you can find her enjoying the outdoors, making art, or eating tasty food