GROUP 1

 Cademia, Alliah O.
 Dollete, Jose Timog
 Hashim, Pabznher
 Maru, Chloi
 Valdez, Ashbee

Direction: Collect and appreciate women’s contribution to the world in digital and all forms of
technology. Collect their stories with picture at least 10.

 According to a 2016 report from NCWIT, “even fewer women are found in software
development, technology leadership, or the other kinds of key roles that have a significant influence on
future innovation.”

1. Marian Croak (Networking Maven)

When Marian Croak started at AT&T in 1982 (at Bell Laboratories), there were not a lot of
female engineers. However, as she told online lifestyle
journal Madamenoire in 2014, Croak made her voice heard,
and, in the mid-1990s, along with a few other
colleagues, successfully advocated for AT&T to replace
wireline telephony with Internet Protocol, the foundation
of today’s modern networks.

Croak knows a thing or two about network

technology. Over the course of her career, she has
been granted or applied for more than 350 patents, many
of which deal with the foundations of modern networks.
She has received or applied for more than 100 patents on
Voice over IP technology, and holds patents on everything
from “assessing the installation of a component in a packet-
switched network” to “dynamically adjusting broadband
access bandwidth.”

At the end of her 32-year career at AT&T, Croak

had been serving as senior vice president of Domain 2.0
architecture and advanced services development. In that role, she led AT&T’s efforts to adopt software-
defined networking and network functions such as virtualization technology. She managed a team of
more than 2,000 engineers, developers, designers and other innovation experts.
In 2013, Croak was inducted into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame.
2. Myra Haggerty (iPhone Touchscreen Virtuoso)

You have likely never seen her appear on stage alongside Tim
Cook, Jony Ive or other Apple executives at the unveiling of a
new iPhone, but Myra Haggerty has been an essential player
in the development of Apple’s smartphone and other
products, including the Mac.

Haggerty, vice president of sensor software and UX

prototyping, has been with Apple since 1993 and is one of
their chief user experience engineers. Haggerty has
been granted or applied for 30 patents, and has been granted
10, including “gesturing with a multipoint sensing
device,” which is why you can pinch and zoom on an iPhone.
Another patent she has been granted covers “detecting and
interpreting real-world and security gestures on touch and
hover sensitive devices,” allowing computers and
smartphones to pick up gestures that can include, but are not
limited to, “OK gestures,” “grasp everything gestures,” “stamp of approval gestures,” “circle select
gestures,” “X to delete gestures,” “knock to inquire gestures,” “hitchhiker directional gestures,” and
“shape gestures.”

Any time you’ve marveled at the gestures and input methods behind Apple’s wide array of
devices, Haggerty and her team probably had something to do with it.

3. Rebecca Kersch (CEO and Founder of FinTech Tang)

Rebecca Kersch graduated from Harvard Kennedy

School in 2020 with a Master’s in Public Administration.
During her time at the Kennedy School, she was also a
member of the Fall 2019 Leadership Development Cohort of
the Center for Public Leadership. Rebecca is the CEO and
founder of FinTech Tang, a social venture that is focused on
providing access to financial services to the millions of adults
without bank accounts in the Philippines. Tang is an
international peer-to-peer mobile payment app. It connects
remittances to last-mile daily e-payments. The platform sits
at the cross-section of using business and technology for
social innovation and strives to bring about sustainable
change.

Rebecca is Dutch-Filipina and was born and raised in

the Netherlands, but she spent a lot of time in the Philippines
growing up and seeing the vast inequality. Her personal
connection to Filipino migrant workers and passion to fix the system for Filipinos abroad and in
the Philippines, are why she founded Tang. Prior to HKS, Rebecca worked for the UN, a non-
 profit, in strategy consulting, and she was also a career coach, and she wrote the case book for
the Oxford Saïd Business School. Her experience in the public sector, academic world, and
business, as well as emerging markets, Europe, and the US, are what uniquely shape Tang.
Rebecca speaks four languages, and her peers describe her as an energetic, fun, relentless, but
also compassionate social entrepreneur.

4. Jewel Burks Solomon (Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist)

Jewel Burks Solomon is a 31-year-old Black woman heading a key division of Google; she
works every day to try to make the tech industry
more diverse and accessible to all people, of every
gender, race, nationality, age, and socio-economic
level.
Burks Solomon has been business-minded for as
long as she can remember. Her mother, Valinda
Burks, has been running her own insurance agency
for 25 years, and her father, William Burks,
managed convenient stores, a laundromat, and real
estate properties that his father owned. Burks
Solomon's grandfather first began his collection of
businesses in the 1960s in Mobile, Alabama.

Her family's businesses, "probably from the time

that I could speak and count," she says. As a kid, "I really didn't have exposure to much else
besides business," says Burks Solomon. "So I always knew that I was going to be an
entrepreneur. That was the goal from an early age."
To help reach that goal, Burks Solomon studied business at Howard University in Washington,
D.C., during which time she interned at Google in Mountain View, California. After graduating in
2010, she returned to work at Google in sales through 2012.
Solomon took a job as a customer service manager at a company that sells industrial parts to
other businesses. Working there, she realized how hard it was for suppliers to identify the parts
that their customers were looking for — a fact that hit home when her grandfather's tractor
broke down and she couldn't even help him figure out what part was needed to fix it. So in
2013, at age 23, Burks Solomon decided to create a business that solved the problem.

At Google, she had exposure to the idea of technology being used to solve problems.
Burks Solomon decided to she could use some kind of visual recognition technology to help ease
the search for hardware and mechanical parts.
Which leads Burks to be a maker, first and foremost. WIRED featured her in our 25th
anniversary issue as someone who will “shake up the next 25 years” of tech. She was nominated
by Reddit and Initialized Capital cofounder Alexis Ohanian, who first met Burks when she
launched a cutting-edge computer vision app called PARTPIC- Partpic lets you use a smartphone
to snap a picture of a mechanical part you need to replace, and then it helps you order those
parts. Though Burks had no background in computer vision, she recognized there was a need for
such an app and taught herself how to build it. Partpic went on to raise more than $2 million in
venture capital—especially notable given that women, and especially women of color, often
face difficulty getting funded. Burks then sold the company to Amazon, where its technology is
 used to power replacement-part searches in Amazon’s shopping app. Burks now leads a team
inside Amazon and advocates for racial and gender inclusion in her industry.

5. Anjali Sud (The Queen of Vimeo)

The leading all-in-one video software provider in the world, Vimeo (NASDAQ:VMEO), is led by
Anjali Sud. Anjali is the leader of a team that works internationally to provide businesses and
professionals with the means to produce, share,
and interact via video. Anjali formerly held the
positions of General Manager and Head of
Marketing at Vimeo, where she supervised
the platform's expansion to more than 260
million users. Prior to that, she worked for
Amazon and Time Warner in a variety of e-
commerce, financial, and media roles. Anjali
has been listed in several lists, including The
Hollywood Reporter's Next Gen Under 35,
Adweek's Power List, and Fortune's 40 Under
40. She is a member of the Dolby Laboratories
Board of Directors and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum (NYSE:DLB).

6. Rana el Kaliouby and Rosalind Picard (Emotional Intelligence Expert)

Rana el Kaliouby, left, told The New Yorker in 2015: “I think that, 10 years down the line, we
won’t remember what it was like when we
couldn’t just frown at our device, and our
device would say, ‘Oh, you didn’t like that,
did you?’”

Kaliouby has good reason to think that.

Along with her mentor, Rosalind Picard, a
professor at the MIT Media Lab, she
founded Affectiva, a company that
measures emotions of users and allows
computers to recognize human emotions
based on facial expressions or
physiological responses.

The two are experts in the field of “affective computing,” a realm of computer science Picard
pioneered, which is the study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret,
process, and simulate human affects. Picard believes, as The New Yorker notes, that emotional
reasoning is necessary for true machine intelligence. At the Media Lab, the two worked in tandem on
devices that tracked emotion based on physiologic factors such as skin conductance, an indication of
psychological or physiologic arousal.

Kaliouby’s software, called MindReader, “a program that could track several complex emotions
in relatively unstructured settings,” in the words of The New Yorker  article, attracted interest from the
likes of Microsoft, Helett-Packard, Yamaha, Honda, Gibson, Hallmark, NASA, Nokia, Bank of America and
Pepsi.

In 2009, Kaliouby and Picard decided to spin out their project from the Media Lab and rebuilt
the company’s MindReader software, which eventually became known as Affdex, which is now available
as a software development kit. The software can help advertisers determine how target audiences are
feeling when they get pitched. Picard, the company’s chief scientist, was pushed out of the company in
2013, but Kaliouby is now the company’s CEO. In May 2016 it raised $14 million in a Series D round of
venture capital funding led by Fenox Venture Capital.

According to the company, Affectiva’s technology is used by one-third of the Fortune Global 100

and 1,400+ brands. The company says leading market research firms like Millward Brown, LRW, Added
Value and Unruly, and brands like Mars, Kellogg’s and CBS, use its technology “to measure consumer
emotion responses to digital content.”

7. Lisa Seacat Deluca (Prolific Innovator)

Where does one start with Lisa Seacat DeLuca? DeLuca, a

technology strategist for IBM Watson Customer Engagement, is, at
34, the most prolific female inventor in IBM history.
According to WITI, she is one of the youngest inventors at IBM ever to
reach the 100th Invention Plateau Award (an IBM internal patent
award system). “DeLuca’s innovation portfolio includes over 600
patent applications filed within the United States and abroad, of
which 250 have been granted to date,” WITI said in its citation of her
induction this year into the Women in Technology Hall of Fame. She
holds 70 U.S. patents.

According to the MIT Technology Review, DeLuca’s

“inventions include a way for people on conference calls to get alerts
when a certain topic comes up or a certain person starts talking; a
system that can guide cell-phone users as they walk and talk so they
don’t lose service; a necklace that lights up every time a given Twitter hashtag is used; and a locator
service in cars that can track items like, say, a wallet that falls under the seat.”

However, she also has patented technologies that are less sexy but critical to businesses. One of
them is a “license handling information handling system” that lets users at companies request and
accept the shifting of software licenses among each other for temporary periods of time. That can
potentially save organizations millions on software licensing costs.
DeLuca has won widespread attention and acclaim in the tech world. In 2016, she was named one of the
Most Influential Women in IoT by the Internet of Things Institute. Before that, DeLuca was named one
of MIT's 35 Innovators Under 35 and one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business.

8. Tamar Bercovici (Cloud Standout)

Tamar Bercovici, born in Israel, joined cloud storage provider Box in February 2011 as the first
woman hired to its infrastructure department, known as the
“Backend Engineering” team, according to Business Insider.
Since then, she has risen through the ranks at Box, and is now
the company’s director of engineering, where she leads the
Distributed Data and Compute team, which is scaling Box’s
database, cache, messaging and compute infrastructure.
In January, Bercovici, who holds a Ph.D. in computer science
from the Israel’s renowned Technion Institute of Technology,
was granted her first patent, which covers “scalability
improvement in a system which incrementally updates clients
with events that occurred in a cloud-based collaboration
platform.” What does that mean in English? When a user is in
a cloud-based platform (for example, Box), the system then
notifies other users of those actions. Those notifications or
“events” can be broken down into different types and stored
in a database within a designated amount of time, and can then by
read by other users.

The patent notes that the technology provides “enhancement in scalability, robustness and
availability for cloud-based collaboration platforms with large numbers of collaborators by incorporating
mechanisms to divide-and-conquer the workload of event updates in such platforms.”
An inventor and leader within Box’s IT structure, Bercovici is active on the speaking circuit, imparting
words of wisdom at Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Percona Live and Velocity
Europe, Business Insider notes.

She has offered strong and incisive advice to women in tech on how to succeed in a male-
dominated environment. “One of the main reasons I wanted to work at a startup was the idea of
working somewhere dynamic where you end up doing anything and everything you’re capable of,” she
wrote in a guest post for the website VentureBeat in 2013. “So if you hear about an interesting meeting,
ask to join. Don’t know what the cool projects are? Just talk to people. Ask what they’re working on.
Take an interest.” She also said women need to own their story and make themselves known as
someone working on an interesting project. And she said that she worked twice as hard because she
was new at Box and needed to earn the respect of her peers. “Bias is surmountable,” she wrote. “You
own that.”

9. Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook)

Sheryl Sandberg is the Chief Operating Officer (COO)

of Facebook and one of the most powerful women in
technology. She is also an author and has written books
such as "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead".
Sandberg has been a vocal advocate for women in
technology and has pushed for greater diversity in the
industry. Sheryl Sandberg is widely known for her role
as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Facebook, a
position she has held since 2008. Throughout her
career, she has made significant contributions to both
Facebook and the tech industry as a whole, as well as to
various philanthropic and advocacy efforts. Here are some
of her notable contributions:

Leadership at Facebook: As COO, Sandberg has been instrumental in overseeing the growth of
Facebook's business operations, including the expansion of its advertising platform and the
development of new products such as Instagram and WhatsApp. She has also been a key advocate
for Facebook's diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Women in Tech: Sandberg is a vocal advocate for women in technology, and has spoken extensively
on the challenges that women face in the industry. In 2013, she published the book "Lean In," which
became a bestseller and sparked a national conversation on gender equality in the workplace.

Philanthropy: Sandberg is also a dedicated philanthropist. In 2015, she launched the "Lean In"
Foundation, which aims to support women in their career goals and promote gender equality. She
has also donated millions of dollars to various causes, including education and health.
 Public Service: Sandberg has served on a number of public boards and committees, including the
board of the Walt Disney Company and the Council on Foreign Relations. She has also advised
several political campaigns, including Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.

Overall, Sandberg has been a powerful advocate for women in tech, a successful business
leader, and a committed philanthropist. Her contributions have had a significant impact both within
Facebook and in the broader tech industry.

10. Megan Smith (former Vice President of Google)

Megan Smith is a former Vice President

at Google and the former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the United States under President Obama.
She has been a vocal advocate for diversity in technology and has worked to increase opportunities for
women and minorities in the industry. Megan Smith is a technology entrepreneur, engineer, and former
Vice President at Google. She has made significant contributions to the technology industry, particularly
in the areas of innovation, diversity, and public service. Here are some of her notable contributions:

Google X: Smith was instrumental in launching Google X, the company's innovation lab, which was
responsible for developing some of the company's most ambitious projects, such as self-driving cars and
Google Glass.

Diversity and Inclusion: Smith has been a vocal advocate for diversity and inclusion in the technology
industry. While at Google, she led the company's diversity and inclusion efforts, and helped to launch
the "Made with Code" initiative to inspire girls to pursue careers in technology. She has also spoken
publicly about the need for more women and minorities in the technology industry.
Public Service: Smith has also contributed to public service. She served as the Chief Technology Officer
of the United States under President Obama from 2014 to 2017, where she worked to improve the
government's use of technology and promote innovation in public service. She also helped to launch the
White House's "TechHire" initiative, which aimed to increase access to technology jobs for underserved
communities.

Tech4Good: Smith is a firm believer in the potential of technology to do good in the world. She has been
involved in several initiatives focused on using technology to address social and environmental
challenges. For example, she co-founded the Malala Fund, which works to provide education to girls
around the world, and she has been involved in efforts to use technology to combat climate change.

Overall, Megan Smith has made significant contributions to the technology industry and public
service. Her work has focused on promoting innovation, diversity, and inclusion, and using technology to
make a positive impact on the world.