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The Long Game: Opportunity, Excellence and Institutional Power
Women Leaders in Science, Technology, Enterprise, and Industry
Speakers
Opportunity is abundant. Outcomes, however, are strategic.
The three women on this panel have navigated all of it. Venture capital and enterprise strategy. Global talent transformation. The slow, necessary work of making the technology industry legible to the women coming up behind them. Startups built from scratch and careers that kept becoming something new.
They have done this inside institutions that weren’t built for them, in markets that moved before they were ready, in moments that required a decision before the picture was clear. Together they examine how signals and opportunities are recognised, and sometimes missed. How excellence is sustained over decades, not just built in a moment. How to navigate boards, capital, and institutions. How and when to seek help from the mentors, sponsors, and allies who make the difference.
The answers come from lived experience. The lessons, hard-won as they are, turn out to be universal.
This event is a part of our programming to celebrate International Women’s Day. Music, theatre, and conversation: by women, for everyone.
Speakers
Nidhi Shanbhag
Nidhi is a stealth AI startup founder, based in the bay area. With past work ex including BCG, KKR, Sequoia. An alumnus of Harvard and IIT Bombay.
Veena Satish
Veena has expertise in implementing a transformational talent plan, which includes engaging, developing, and retaining the very best talent, providing proactive and strategic guidance for organizational planning and development initiatives at scale. Before Walmart, Veena has worked in leadership roles with the Human Resource functions at Bloom Energy and Cisco, ushering in HR transformation and strategy alignment with successful business results.
Shreya Krishnan
Shreya Krishnan currently serves as Managing Director, AnitaB.org India, and may also be recognized as a Co-Host at past Grace Hopper Celebration events. At a professional level, she was previously EVP Marketing and Communications at Aon India. She is a CSR specialist and a Corporate Grooming Consultant, and serves on the advisory boards of eight organizations and seven NGOs. Shreya is also an NLP Practitioner and Gestalt Master Therapist. That’s just one facet of who she is. A former Corporate Diva, Mrs. India Universe 2017 and Ms. Universal Empowerment 2024, she also works in the spaces of activism, dance, theatre, poetry, blogging, sustainability evangelism, modelling, and acting. She considers herself an Earth Warrior and is an event anchor and trainer.
Shreya is a champion of inclusion and diversity, and she co-authored the book Words Matter: The Language That Girls Need to Speak. The book is a compilation of forty words that encourage readers to choose their vocabulary in ways that help redefine how human beings are treated.
Shrinivas Gorur
Shrinivas Gorur is a practicing technologist who trained as an Aeronautical Engineer. He loves problem solving, especially when it involves innovatively using technology to solve problems with significant positive impact to society and community. His corporate career has spanned management consulting (incl the Big Four), some of the largest companies besides a startup. Shrini’s corporate career over the last decade is focused on technology in the retail industry. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay and has a Doctorate from Oxford University.
