Amanda is an accomplished Global Business Transformation Executive who leads the acceleration and adoption of enterprise digital solutions for increased Customer Experience. For Bionano, she is the global customer leader delivering field technical, data, and application science to increase optical genome mapping technology availability. Amanda is skilled at creating transformational solutions for transparent, aligned, and automated operating environments. Utilizing innovative technologies, programs, and data analytics, she improves global customer-centricity, scalability, and profitability.

Janice Omadeke is the CEO and Founder of The Mentor Method, an enterprise platform helping companies keep and develop their diverse talent using the proven power of mentorship. The company recently raised over $1M in Seed funding, making US history as one of the first 100 Black women to raise over $1M in institutional VC funding. Black Enterprise recognizes Janice as one of DC’s top 5 black women in tech. She has also been featured in Forbes' as - Forbes Next 1000 class of 2021, Entrepreneur magazine, and she was a subject matter expert at the 2016 White House Summit on Building the Tech Workforce of Tomorrow. Janice is certified in Entrepreneurship from MIT, and is PMP certified with over 10 years of corporate leadership experience for Fortune 500 companies.

Lavanya is a results driven technology executive with 18+ years of experience in business strategy, supply chain operations, and professional services. She has a strong track record of building global top talent teams, with particular experience in setting up centers of excellence in India, China, Poland, and USA. At Cisco, she has an exceptional record of leading complex, global organizations from vision to execution to achieve extraordinary business results. Lavanya is a frequent Keynote speaker and has presented at Industry wide conferences.

Scott is a proven Senior Executive with a consistent track record of leading corporate-wide strategic, operational, and global customer initiatives. He serves as NI's global leader for all product development initiatives, and is responsible for the ~1500 person R&D team. Scott is also accomplished in scaling up teams and processes to achieve profitable growth, and is well versed in creative partnering with strategic customers to identify business development opportunities, driving commercially successful products from concept to release.

Dr. Jose Morey, also known as Dr. Intergalactic, is the founder and CEO of Ad Astra Media; a Latino owned media company focusing on creating diverse STEAM educational content from K to career. A team of diverse individuals seeking to inspire underrepresented communities to pursue science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. He is an Zhi-XIng Eisenhower Fellow, Co-Founder and Chief Health Officer of Ever Medical and Director of Innovation and Chief Engineering Council/Innovation Lead of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. He is the Senior Advisor to the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology for the CORD19 Project and is Senior Advisor to the NASA AI Breathing Space Initiative.

Sheryl is the VP of Marketing and Communications at TA Group Holdings, where she leads the Department of Why: strategic communications and marketing for the leading Veteran-Owned venture capital group and portfolio of brands. Sheryl is the Global Advisor and President Emeritus for mBolden Non-Profit, and founded the mBolden_Seattle Chapter, in addition to the Seattle Mobile Mixer. She is a Board Member for Tilson Technology Management, and is a champion for women leaders in STEAM.