Keynote Speaker
Ritcha Ranjan
Vice President
Microsoft Office Copilot Experiences
Bio
Ritcha is a technology leader, with over 20 years of experience growing products at scale and building revenue streams. Currently she is the VP of Microsoft Office Copilot Experiences, running a multi-disciplinary (engineering, data, design and product) team to build new AI productivity experiences. Prior to Microsoft, Ritcha held various leadership positions in Google Workspace, Ads and Payments. She has also held leadership positions at Yahoo and was a co-Founder and CEO of Five Pumpkins, a not for profit early childhood educational company. She has been recognized for her product work with a Google Founder’s award and holds several patents.
Ritcha has experience in corporate governance, having been a member of the BrightCove board, Promotion and Hiring committees at Google, and Product Leadership Committee at Microsoft.
Ritcha earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a Bachelors in Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Conference Speakers
Dawn Bonnell
Senior Vice Provost for Research at Penn and the Henry Robinson Towne Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at Penn EngineeringBio
Dr. Bonnell shapes policy and advances administrative initiatives for the University’s $2 billion research enterprise as well as plays a leadership role in strategic planning for research and administers the development of new research facilities.
She also helps to oversee campus-wide research planning efforts, linkages between the University and industry, and the transfer of technologies from university laboratories to the public sector. In addition, she governs the research activities of Provostial Centers and Institutes, particularly those involving interdisciplinary collaboration.
Dr. Lindsey Cameron
Assistant Professor of Management, Dorinda and Mark Winkelman Distinguished Faculty ScholarBio
Lindsey D. Cameron is an assistant professor of management and sociology at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She is also a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, the home of Albert Einstein. She received her Ph.D. in management from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on how algorithmic management is changing the modern workplace, especially individual’s behaviors at work.
Professor Cameron has an on-going, seven-year ethnography of the largest employer in the gig economy, the ride-hailing industry, exploring how algorithms are fundamentally reshaping the nature of managerial control. She has studied how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting gig workers on different platforms (e.g., TaskRabbit, Instacart, AmazonFlex) and is currently examining how ride-hailing drivers on three continents navigate disputes.
Professor Cameron’s work has been published in leading academic journals, including Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Process, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, and proceedings of the Association of Computing Machinery and the Academy of Management. She was awarded Poet and Quants Award, 40 under 40 award for MBA teaching.
Angela Chen
University of Pennsylvania StudentBio
Angela Chen is an MD/PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is pursuing her doctorate in Health Care Management and Economics at the Wharton School. Her research focuses on examining the impact of financial incentives in health care, improving access to care, and exploring surgical practice patterns. Angela was part of the inaugural Schwarzman Scholars cohort at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Prior to returning to Penn, she conducted orthopedic research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and collaborated with the China Health Partnership at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Angela earned her undergraduate degree from Wharton in 2016.
Natalie Gilbert
Senior Data Scientist at AT&T Chief Data Office, M.S. Candidate, Data Science, Penn EngineeringBio
Natalie Gilbert is a second-year DATS student at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Data Scientist at AT&T’s Chief Data Office. There, she drives the development of innovative generative AI applications for various AT&T business units. Currently, she leads a major generative AI project designed to personalize training and coaching plans for all 30,000 of AT&T’s frontline employees, based on individual seller performance metrics.
Prior to her work in generative AI, Natalie spent four years at AT&T as a data engineer, tackling complex challenges in fraud and cybersecurity. Her focus was automating the end-to-end machine learning model development lifecycle to enable real-time fraud detection. Passionate about feature engineering and data quality analysis, she even spent time in call centers and retail stores to gain firsthand insights into fraudulent behavior and proactively develop new features.
Natalie holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Tufts University. She currently resides in Dallas, TX, where she actively mentors local high school students and data science students from Southern Methodist University. She is excited to be graduating with her master’s degree this coming spring and use what she’s learned to make a bigger impact on the field of data science.
Carleigh Jaques
SVP, Global Head of Risk & Identity Visa, Inc.Bio
Carleigh Jaques was most recently, SVP, Global Head of Risk & Identity at Visa, Inc. During the course of her 15 year career at Visa, Ms. Jaques led a number of scaled strategic businesses and functions. In her role as Global Head of Risk & Identity, Ms. Jaques was responsible for all aspects of the business which blocked over $40 billion in payments fraud annually across a number of sophisticated platforms including leading edge AI platforms. Prior to that, Ms. Jaques was the SVP, Global Head of Acceptance Solutions driving double digit growth across digital transactions, face to face acceptance, transit solutions and the Tap to Phone product lines. She also led Visa’s Strategy, Corporate Development and Venture activity from 2008 to 2016.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Jaques was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. focusing on financing and mergers & acquisitions for technology companies across enterprise software, data center, cybersecurity, mobile and hardware. Ms. Jaques has received numerous awards including being named among the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business, Most Influential Women in Payments and a Top 100 Dealmaker. Ms. Jaques has spoken at The Wharton School as well as Stanford Law School on topics ranging from AI/ML to Innovation to Merger & Acquisitions.
Ms. Jaques holds a BA from the University of Michigan Honors Program in Political Science and French Language and an MBA from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania.
Joyce Kline
Global Industrials Data &AI Lead, AccentureBio
Joyce Kline is Accenture’s Global Industrials Data & AI Lead.
Joyce has been helping clients define their digital capabilities across the extended organization, including how to become a data driven enterprise, how to derive benefits from AI and GenAI powered solutions, and how to embark on a digital transformation.
Prior to her current role, Joyce worked with Aerospace and Defense clients on various supply chain, customer service, and aftermarket projects. During the 20+ years with Accenture, Joyce has partnered with global organizations to drive business transformation, revenue growth, and operational improvements.
Prior to joining Accenture, Joyce was employed at four different GE businesses and held various positions in manufacturing, sourcing and quality.
Joyce holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a BSME from WPI. Joyce is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Marylyn D Ritchie, PhD
Vice Dean of Artificial Intelligence and Computing, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of MedicineBio
Edward Rose, M.D. and Elizabeth Kirk Rose, M.D. Professor
Director, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
Vice President for Research Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Health System
Director, Division of Informatics, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
Vice Dean of Artificial Intelligence and Computing, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
Dr. Ragini Verma
Professor of Radiology & Associate Vice Chair of Translation and Commercialization, University of PennsylvaniaBio
Ragini Verma, PhD, is a tenured professor of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Verma is also the Associate Vice Chair of Radiology for Translation and Commercialization. Dr. Verma leads the Diffusion & Connectomics In Precision Healthcare Research (DiCIPHR) lab (https://www.diciphrlab.com/), building on her foundational training in math and computer science.
Dr. Verma focuses on patient-oriented neuroimaging research, aiming to understand disease-related, developmental and sex-based structural and functional connectivity alterations in the brain. She leads multisite clinical studies in autism, brain tumors and traumatic brain injury, as well as pre-clinical studies to understand mechanistic underpinnings of neuroimaging findings.
Monica Vyavahare
MBA Candidate at The Wharton SchoolBio
Monica Vyavahare is currently pursuing an MBA at The Wharton School, majoring in Finance and Management. Prior to Wharton, she worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Robotics, and holds both a BSE and MSE in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, with a specialized focus on Data Science.
Lynn Wu
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, University of PennsylvaniaBio
Lynn Wu is an associate professor at the Wharton School. She teaches MBA, undergraduate and PhD classes about the use and impact of emerging technologies on business.
Her research examines how emerging information technologies, such as artificial intelligence and analytics, affect innovation, business strategy, and productivity. Specifically, her work follows three streams. In the first stream, she examines how data analytics and artificial intelligence affect firm innovation, business strategy, labor outcomes, and productivity for both large firms and startups. In her second stream, she studies how enterprise social media and online platforms affect work performance, career trajectories, entrepreneurship success, and the formation of new type of biases that arise from using technologies. In her third stream of research, Lynn leverages fine-grained nanodata available through online digital traces to predict economic indicators such as real estate trends, labor trends and product adoption.
Conference Co-Chairs
Susan Davidson
Weiss Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of PennsylvaniaBio
Susan B. Davidson is an American computer scientist known for work in databases and bioinformatics. She is Weiss Professor of Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation work on distributed databases included results on statistical and mathematical techniques for data resolution as well as mechanisms to avoid database conflicts.
Susan has also done research in bioinformatics, where her work (with collaborators) on data integration was commercialized by GeneticXChange. She also serves on the board of the Computing Research Association.
Linda Zhao
Professor of Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton SchoolBio
Linda Zhao is a Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Linda specializes in modern machine learning methods.
After getting her PhD in Mathematics/Statistics from Cornell University, Linda taught in UCLA, Los Angeles for one year. She joined the Wharton School in 1994. She obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from the Mathematics department of Nankai University, China.
Linda’s research area covers from Bayesian analysis, nonparametric analysis and numerical computation. She mainly publishes in international leading journals. Current on going projects include forecasting house prices, inference for high dimensional data, data with measurement errors and post model selection inferences. Linda also enjoys teaching very much.