Julie Larson-Green is known for her mantra “people first, technology second”. It is the foundation in her role at Qualtrics as the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) and her position as Chief Experience Officer over many application experiences in 25 years at Microsoft. At Microsoft she built product teams that now touch more than a billion people every day! Her passion of building technology, that gets out of the way so you can focus on what matters most, is very obvious in her builds including Microsoft Office, Windows, Internet Explorer, Xbox, and Surface. She believes that as a leader it is important to create a culture where the best ideas can come from anyone and anywhere. She does this by always having an open door and embracing everyone’s individual perspective, personality, style and abilities. This has earned her a reputation as an even-handed, experienced executive who is widely respected and trusted. She is excited to bring these experiences from her career to a company like Qualtrics. Here, she is uniting universal listening with meaningful action across the company and then in turn having a greater impact with Qualtrics, an Experience Management platform, uniting experiences across employees, product, brand, and customers, in over 8500 companies around the world! Outside of Qualtrics, Julie advises multiple startup companies and is on the board of Goleadoras, a non-profit that seeks to battle gender disparity by empowering young women in personal and intuitive ways. Julie was recently named as a top most powerful female engineer in 2018 by Business Insider and lives in Seattle Washington with her family. Connect with her on LinkedIn or Twitter to find out more about her impact on global experiences.

Lisa founded Simplicity Consulting in 2006 to provide a better way for clients and consultants to thrive in the changing workplace. Building business is her passion. After 14 years of managing and growing strategic multi million dollar accounts for corporations she found herself at a career crossroads and wanted to create more flexibility in her life and leverage her skills to add value to business. The result was founding Simplicity Consulting with the vision of helping people find significance and success at work. She loves facilitating the matchmaking process including coaching professionals who choose to maximize their expertise and transition to project work and helping companies achieve their goals faster and with greater impact than traditional models. She writes about what she has observed over the years and is passionate about making a difference and helping professionals succeed at work. Her first book, “Be You: Five Steps to Ignite your Personal Brand”, guides people to understand and communicate their unique skills and passion. Her second book, “Navigating the Talent Shift”, shows managers how they can easily build on-demand teams.

Todd Bishop is co-founder and editor of GeekWire, a longtime technology journalist who covers subjects including cloud tech, e-commerce, virtual reality, devices, apps and tech giants such as Amazon.com, Apple, Microsoft and Google. A native of Orland, Calif., he has worked as a reporter for publications including The Philadelphia Inquirer, Puget Sound Business Journal and Seattle P-I.

Dina Bass is a Technology Reporter and the Seattle Bureau Chief for Bloomberg News, where she covers Microsoft and the broader software industry.

Dan Levitan has over 25 years of collective experience in venture capital and investing, specializing in leading consumer and retail businesses. Eager to help innovative companies realize their full potential, Dan launched Maveron, in 1998, with Howard Schultz, former CEO and Executive Chairman of Starbucks Coffee Company.

Kate Clark is a reporter at TechCrunch covering venture capital. She’s interested in diversity & inclusion, e-commerce, transportation and more.
She previously wrote about VC for PitchBook News.
A Seattle native, she graduated from the University of Washington in 2016 after completing a double major in Journalism and International Studies.

Jessie Woolley-Wilson is the President, CEO, and Board Chair of DreamBox. She has worked in K-12 educational technology for nearly 20 years, and she has worked at DreamBox Netflix and Facebook since 2010.

Rajeev Singh is Chief Executive Officer at Accolade, the leading technology-enabled consumer healthcare engagement services company for large employers, payers and provider organizations.

As Managing Director, Hope identifies and leads new investments, provides strategic and operational advice to Madrona portfolio companies, and fosters corporate and strategic business development relationships with larger companies and investors. Hope led Madrona’s early investment in The Riveter while a Venture Partner and also spearheads Madrona’s leadership in the OnBoarding Women program which is focused on a business first education for prospective women corporate board members. Hope serves on the boards of three public companies, Hasbro, Inc, MongoDB and NewRelic.

Amy McCullough is a Managing Director and member of Trilogy’s investing team. She joined Trilogy in 2007 after four years in the investment bank of JPMorgan Chase in New York. Amy was an equity research analyst covering the Small and Mid Cap Applied Technologies sector which included more than 35 companies with a combined market capitalization of over $70B. Prior to being an equity analyst, Amy was an Assistant Treasurer in the Treasury and Security Services division of Chase where her primary responsibilities included derivatives and equities consulting services for clients of the firm. A Seattle native, Amy began her career in Microsoft’s Treasury department working with the Treasury Operations team and the Portfolio Management Group.