2026 TRIBUTE TO WOMEN AWARD Janine Bruce, DrPH, MPH Co-Director, Office of Child Health Equity, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine Nancy Capelli Senior Director, Software Monetization, NVIDIA Nancy Darma Senior Director, Strategic Communications and Engagements, Cisco Heather Dickinson VP, Corporate and Product Communications, Cisco Amber Emery Project Executive, Blach Construction Mari Fuentes-Martin Vice President for Student Affairs, San José State University Kate Grasman Chief Information Officer, Heffernan Insurance Brokers Cristi Green Vice President of Cloud Sales, Seagate Technology Winnie Hsu Engineering Director - Embedded System Software, NVIDIA So Jung Kim Director, Pricing Head, Product Marketing, Applied Materials Natalie Komovich Director, Performance Laboratory, NVIDIA Mythili Kumar Artistic Director, Abhinaya Dance Company Kaitlin Lemei, MD Medical Director, Pediatric Urgent Care, Sutter Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group Tracey Lewis Taylor, MPH, FACHE Chief Operating Officer, El Camino Health
PRESENTED BY
Liana Louie Director of Inclusion & Belonging, Sutter Health - Palo Alto Medical Foundation Melina McLarty VP - Product Experience, HashiCorp, IBM Kate Nichols Partner, Cooley LLP Meena Pai, MD Physician in Chief, Kaiser Permanente Christine Santiago, MD, MPH Associate Chair of Community Partnership, Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine Annie Shain Vice President, Americas Services & Software, Cisco Kimberly Shiveley Director of Development, Security, and Content, IBM Arlene Spilker Advanced Practice Clinician Manager, Pediatrics, Sutter Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group Linda S Alexander Vice President, Democratic Activists for Women Now (DAWN) Sarah Wozny Senior Director, Advanced Packaging Disruptive Technology, Applied Materials
NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE AWARD Antoinette Renee Battiste Chair, Board of Directors, YWCA of the Mid-Peninsula Donor Advised Fund Keisha Browder Chief Executive Officer, United Way Bay Area Elise Lalor Executive Director, Monkey Tail Ranch
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Dr. Simone Lundquist, PhD Founder and Executive Director, Open Doors To Future Possibilities Lisa Mallette Executive Artistic Director, City Lights Theater Company
EMERGING LEADER AWARD Aliya Kassam, MEng Mechanical Engineer, Applied Materials Stella Landers Flagship Events Keynote Production Coordinator, Cisco Jennifer Nguyen Physical Therapist Assistant, Sutter Health - Palo Alto Medical Foundation Ranjani Ravindrabharathy Data Scientist, Applied Materials ALLY AWARD Ginger Bryan Director Non-Tech Project and Program Management, Applied Materials WOMEN ON THE RISE AWARD Sharon Chan MS CGC MPH Director, Clinical Genetics and Pharmacy Services, Sutter Health Palo Alto Medical Foundation Ganga Devadas Director, Hardware Engineering, Cisco Randa Hinton Head of AI Industry Thought Leadership, NVIDIA Seema Kumar Principal Engineer, NVIDIA Arlen McDaniel VP. Sr. Market Development Manager, Technology Credit Union (Tech CU) Hsinyu (Sidney) Tsai, PhD Principal Research Scientist, IBM Yan (Catherine) Wu Program Director, Db2 for z/OS, IBM
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