SPEAKING

PAST CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS & MENTORSHIP PROGRAMS 

Google Events

Panelist for Impact Panel with Ads on Search & Google Experience UX - 2023 (Mountain View, CA)

Mixed@ Heritage Week Video Vignette - 2023 (Mountain View, CA)

External Only Facebook & Lean In Events

Speaker for Facebook HBCU Presidents and Leadership Summit - 2020 (Washington DC)

Panelist for UIDP Panel How Can Industry and Academia Partner Together to Solve the Diversity Crisis in Tech? - 2020 (Bay Area)

Host and curator for Women in AI Summit - 2019 (Facebook, Menlo Park)

Speaker for Wisconsin School of Business Meets Facebook - 2019 (Madison)

Moderator and co-organizer for NCWIT Bay Area AiC Award Ceremony - 2019 (Santa Clara University)

Speaker for CRA URMD - 2019 (Hilo, Hawaii)

Speaker for Be Bold, Be Inclusive Panel for Emerging Scholars 2018, 2019 (Facebook, Menlo Park)

Host and speaker for London Geekettes Lean In - 2018 (Facebook, London)

Speaker for Women in Research Lean In (WiRL) for PhDs - Lean In Circle Intro workshop - 2017, 2018, 2019 (Facebook, Menlo Park) - ”The Lean In Circle workshop was a hit as usual - has the highest average rating of any element of our programming” - in partnership with Sheryl Sandberg

Speaker and co-host for Introduction to co-taught AI Curriculum at Georgia Tech - 2019 (Atlanta)

Speaker for Lean In CS&E Session at Georgia Tech - 2017 (Atlanta)  

Co-host and speaker for Hack, Grow, Create > Lean In CS&E Summit - 2017 (Atlanta)

Co-host and speaker for Decoding Tech: Lean In CS&E Session at University of Minnesota - 2017 (Twin Cities)

Participant and speaker for BRAID Summit in partnership with ABI & Harvey Mudd College (Claremont)

Host for Lean in CS&E Meetup at GHC - 2017 (Orlando)

Host and speaker for Lean IN-terns Closing Event - 2017 (Facebook, Menlo Park) with Sheryl Sandberg

Speaker for Lean IN-terns Kickoff Event - 2017 (LinkedIn HQ, Sunnyvale)

Host for Lean In CS&E Meetup at F8 - 2017 (San Jose)

Speaker for Lean In Circles Presentation - 2017 (San Jose State University)

Speaker for Lean In CS&E Presentation - 2017 (UCSD)

Speaker for smaller Lean In Livestreams 2017

TEDx Talks, Conferences, Panels, Keynotes

Panelist for Quant UX Con Career Panel - 2023 (Virtual)

Panelist for Braze’s AAPI Heritage Month Panel - 2022 (Virtual)

Panelist for Startup Culture in Germany - 2021 (Harvard Club of Munich - Virtual)

Minerva University Talk: What I've Learned: 9 Cities, 5 Jobs Later - 2019 (San Francisco)

Panelist for Twin Cities Startup Week - 2019 (St. Paul, Minnesota)

Host and Panelist for Berlin Diversity & Entrepreneurship Summit - 2016 (Berlin, Factory)

Host and Panelist for NYC Diversity & Entrepreneurship Summit - 2015 (NYC, Digital Ocean)

Speaker for Girls Leadership Academy Meetup (GLAM) - 2018 (Sunnyvale, Microsoft)

Panelist for Connecting Unicorns LGBT Conference - 2016 (Berlin)

Panelist for Tech Bay Area Advocates with Andy Whittaker, British Counsel General of San Francisco - 2016 (Kapor Capital/Oakland)

500 Startups PR Training for Batches 10, 11, 12 2015 (SF & Mountain View)

Speaker for Heureka Conference 2015 (Berlin) 

Speaker for Google's Campus Seoul "Connect: Diversity Together" 2015 (Seoul) 

Speaker for Valley in Berlin 2015 (Berlin) (Video

Speaker for StartupCon 2015 (Seoul) 

Speaker for Women 2.0 City Meetup 2015 (Mountain View) 

Panelist for UCLA's Rethinking Strategies to Advance Women in Technology 2015 (Los Angeles) 

Judge for Social Good Tech Week 2015 (San Francisco) 

Speaker for NEXT B2B FORUM 2014 - World Economic Forum (Frankfurt, Germany) 

Judge for 'Start-up Pitch 1' NEXT Conference (Berlin, Germany) 

Panelist for FridayatSix: the Berlin startup tech talkshow (Berlin, Germany)

Panelist for "Heavyweight round “Big vs. Small = Slow vs. Fast?”  Lange Nacht (Berlin, Germany)

Voted Panelist for "Berlin, a Founder's Paradise?" SXSW (Austin, Texas) 

Moderator for "How to go Global and Deal with Copycats" SXSW (Austin, Texas)

Moderator for "Perspectives in Careers in Technology from Women Technology Entrepreneurs" Google (Berlin, Germany)

Speaker for "The Spark" TEDxYouthBerlin (Berlin, Germany) 

Speaker for "PR Like a Boss" TEDxAthensSalon (Athens, Greece) 

Speaker for "NEXT100 Ignite talk" NEXT Conference (Berlin, Germany)

Curated/Panelist for "Women in Tech Panel" Campus Party Europe (Berlin, Germany)

Speaker for "Startup Public Relations" Telefonica Campus Party Europe (Berlin, Germany) 

Moderator for "Web meets Games – Entrepreneurship, technology, Connectedness" Deutsche Gamestage (Berlin, Germany) 

Speaker for "10 Reasons Why We Need More Women in Technology" Lang Nacht der Startups (Berlin, Germany)

Moderator for "A Conversation with Lars Hinrichs", Moderator for "Localize.Socialize.Mobilize" Panelist for "Entrepreneurial Cities Panel" Pioneers (Vienna, Austria) 

Finalist for "Vodafone Clicks Competition" Picnic (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 

Moderator for "SEO/SEM Panel" Tech Open Air (Berlin, Germany)   

Speaker for "Startup Public Relations" Switch Conference (Lisbon, Portugal) 

Panelist for "Startup PR 101" Pirate Summit (Cologne, Germany) 

Judge for Startup Pitches - Dublin Web Summit 2013

Speaker for "10 Reasons Why We Need More Women in Technology" Twilio Conference (London)

Speaker for 'Why We Need More Women in Tech' Sticks & Stones (Berlin, Germany)

Speaker for COSMOTE Startup Investors Day (Athens, Greece) 

Speaker for Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (Munich, Germany) 


Geekettes Workshops/Events

Private Geekettes Roundtable + Lean In with Sheryl Sandberg in Berlin

Curator and Host for Berlin Geekettes (Women in Music Technology) Kantine am Berghain

Building a Successful Startup: Berlin Geekettes Presents Frestyl (Apple Store Berlin - Kurfurstendamm)

Curator and Moderator for "Women Who Are Creating Positive Change Through Technology" Panel (Apple Store Berlin - Kurfurstendamm)

Co-curator for IOS Bootcamp with CodeCoalition & Berlin Geekettes (Apple Store Berlin - Kurfurstendamm)

Curator for Berlin Geekettes Presents She++ Screening Hosted By Google + Factory

Speaker/Host for Hamburg Geekettes Kickoff at Facebook office in Hamburg

Speaker for Munich Geekettes Kickoff in Munich

London Geekettes Lean In at Facebook office in London

Twin Cities Launch Party (virtual)

NYC Geekettes Launch Party at Shutterstock HQ in NYC

London Geekettes Launch Party at Facebook office in London

Curator and Moderator for Berlin Geekettes: University Edition

Co-Curator and Speaker for 360 Degrees of Communication - Social Media Week 

Curator and Speaker for Berlin Geekettes Workshop At Next Berlin + Raffle

Curator and Moderator for Facebook Engineering Panel  

Curator and Host for Berlin Geekettes Summer Meetup @Google   

Curator, Co-organizer and Co-host for 1st Berlin Geekettes Hackathon  

Curator, Co-organizer and co-host for 2nd Berlin Geekettes Hackathon 

Co-Curator and co-host for SAP + Geekettes Hackathon

Curator and Instructor for MISS REPRESENTATION SCREENING + PR & MEDIA WORKSHOP  

Curator and Instructor for two 'Berlin Geekettes, Ready To Lean In? '

Workshop Speaker and host for Lean In Berlin Geekettes Event - 2016 (Berlin, Rocket Internet)



Meetups around Berlin/Greater Germany 

Moderator for "Lead a More Productive Work/Life with Evernote" Apple Store Berlin

Curator and Speaker Women In Tech Panel @Social Media Week Berlin (2012) 

Speaker for “Working international – Successful PR and Launches from Berlin” Geek Girl Dinner Berlin 

Moderator for TU Inspiration Day 

Speaker for 'The importance of building strong communities in the context of informal learning processes' Potsdam University 

Co-curator and Speaker for '360 Degrees of Communication' Social Media Week Berlin

Speaker for '10 Tips That Will Help You Land a Dream Job' Uncubed 

Judge for 'Evernote + Deutsche Telekom' Hackathon

Judge for 'BeMyApp Music' Hackathon  

Speaker for 'Introduction' Girl Geek Meetup 

Speaker for 'Is setting up a technology business rocket science? Why your next start-up could be a tech one and what it takes to launch it successfully' The Berlin Women in Business Annual Entrepreneurship


 Mentorship Sessions Across Europe

Mentor for Startup Bootcamp (Berlin, Germany)

Mentor for Hub:raum Accelerator (Berlin, Germany)

Mentor for Microsoft Ventures Accelerator (Berlin, Germany) 

Mentor for Startup Live Vienna #6 (Vienna, Austria)

Mentor for Pioneers Unplugged Copenhagen #1 (Copenhagen, Denmark)  

Mentor for Startup Live Athens (Athens, Greece) 

Mentor for H-Farm Incubator  (Tenuta Ca' Tron, Italy)


For videos of past speaking gigs, please visit my youtube channel