PRODUCT PRESENTATIONS BY:

Layla Sabourian-Tarwe is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at SAP Labs, and founder of First Thursdays Silicon Valley. After stints at LVMH, Yahoo!, and eBay, Layla joined SAP’s Apphaus initiative, a group that functions like a startup within the enterprise, focused on launching consumer facing mobile applications. Layla gets a regular dosage of ‘Design Thinking’ at the Appahus and was instrumental in launching SAP’s first consumer mobile app: Recalls Plus. Next week she will launch Care Circles: SAP’s first consumer health application and private social network aimed at meeting the needs of family caregivers.  Layla is passionate about empowering women all over the world realize their full potentials.

As a designer at Zappos Labs, Alice develops products through experimentation with emerging web technologies. Her focus is on the social domain and the challenge of integrating Zappos commerce with the leading social sites. Prior to Zappos, Alice has over 10 years of experience in designing across international markets for both the web and mobile platform. Outside of her professional life, she is an advocate for women in tech, a Broadway junkie, and according to her Mother, has a "great personality". 

Karen Catlin now focuses on developing powerful women leaders. She draws from her experience as an executive to coach individuals, catalyze women's affinity groups, and deliver inspirational talks. Karen also writes "Use Your Inside Voice," a blog about the intersection of parenting and leadership. n her prior role, Karen was a vice president in the CTO's office at Adobe Systems. While there, she co-founded the “Adobe & Women” initiative, focused on attracting, retaining, and providing career development opportunities for women at Adobe. Karen joined Adobe as part of the 2005 acquisition of Macromedia. While at Macromedia, she held a variety of management positions across engineering, including establishing the program management discipline for the company. Earlier in her career Karen worked for GO Corporation, Hitachi Europe Limited, and Brown University, where she received a B.S. in Computer Science.

Lorraine Sanders is a journalist, blogger, media consultant and author of Style Bytes, a regular San Francisco Chronicle column covering the intersection of fashion and technology. She is founder of Digital Style Digest and SF Indie Fashion and has written for Fast Company, 7×7, NBC Bay Area, KQED’s Spark!, Daily Candy, BUST and many others. She occasionally teaches in the fashion journalism department at Academy of Art University and regularly works with companies to hone their traditional and social media strategies. In 2010, Lorraine was selected as a news entrepreneurship fellow by the University of Southern California Knight Digital Media Center. She is a graduate of Brown University and holds a masters in communications from Stanford University. 

VANESSA SCHOTT, Public Relations Director, Vergence Labs and Epiphany Eyewear

Vanessa Schott is responsible for Public Relations, focused on establishing, creating and maintaining relationships for Vergence Labs, including with interested investors, PR professionals, potential developers or corporate partners, and other strategic business relationships. She is a natural born networker with a passion for building a better, brighter world for a better tomorrow. She is currently on two Advisory Boards for the Lifeboat foundation: The Futurists Board, where she advises on the achievable benefits for our future, and the Media & Arts Board, discussing effective ways to interact with the media. Vanessa has worked with companies including Intel, Abzoo and Simple Organic skin care on promotional materials used in corporate web sites and performing product presentations at major industry conferences & trade shows.

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