Speakers for this event

• Henna Inam

  Henna Inam

  CEO, Transformational Leadership Inc, Author of Wired for Disruption

  Henna Inam is an executive coach, global speaker and the author of the book Wired for Disruption. A 20-year veteran of Fortune 500 companies she has seen first-hand the pressures of leading in times of disruption. Her book details the five shifts in agility and 15 Agility Accelerators (tools and practices) to help activate our innate agility and be a force for good in times of disruption. Her neuroscience-based research shows that agility is already built into our DNA. In the book, she shares how these shifts are within our control and promote well-being to help us thrive in the future of work. Together, we can create workplaces and a world that work better for all.

  CEO, Transformational Leadership Inc, Author of Wired for Disruption

• Reshma Hyder

  Reshma Hyder

  Chair of the board and interim CDO, ZenSpace

  Reshma Hyder serves as Chair of the Board and interim CEO at www.zenspace.io , an on demand workspace
  solution in the hybrid work space. She completed her board term at Edvon Robotics recently which is an edtech startup in Pakistan. She has an extensive background in Finance with a former career in financial services industry as a licensed professional with New York Life. She is a Women & Youth initiative advisor and advocate for women in STEM.
  Reshma is a charter member at the OPENSV chapter and has been with Open since it’s inception. She confounded
  ocial enterprise NISA and several technology startups around lifestyle and edtech serving digital natives.
  Reshma has lived in the Bay Area for over 30 years and has lived through the semiconductor boom, the internet and real estate boom to being a part of several national community faith based organizations such as CAIR, ING, IMRC,etc.
  Reshma has been the longest serving executive board member at her local public school PTA spanning 23 years that has helped her serve in diverse board positions.
  She has also been the first female elected on the board of directors of a Bay Area masjid.
  She is a mother of 6 and mother in law of 3 and a proud grandma to two. She mentors Muslim youth on academic and career pathways as well as startup founders as strategic advisor and angel investor.
  As a technology advisor, Reshma continues executive educational programs and recently completed a data science and data visualization certificate from UC Berkeley. She holds a certificate in non profit and Govt accounting from USC, a BSC in Accounting and Finance from San Jose State and BSC I Biochemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, India.

  Chair of the board and interim CDO, ZenSpace

• Zahra Shah

  Zahra Shah

  Expert Member, Technology Advisory Panel (TAP)

  Zahra Shah serves as an Expert Member of the Technology Advisory Panel (TAP) at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) – U.K. privacy regulator. She is the Co-Founder, Non-Executive Director & Investor at Seers (privacy & consent management platform). She also serves as a Senior Board Advisor & Investment Committee at TeamUp Ventures (venture capital fund focused on tech ventures in the MENA region).

  She has a background in Management Consultancy with over a decade of experience at Accenture within the Financial Services – Capital Markets practice area. She helped global Investment Banking clients (e.g. Credit Suisse, UBS, HSBC, RBS, Lloyds Banking Group) on high-impact, strategic projects to achieve compliance with various regulatory requirements (e.g. KYC, AML, Basel 3, MiFID, Cross Border Sanctions etc.) through the application of innovative FinTech & RegTech solutions.

  She also serves as a Trustee of the British Pakistan Foundation, Board Advisor to TeamUp Angels, Co-Chair for TIE London Women and leads a Europe-wide female founders support group initiative as a Google female founder alumnus.

  She is a frequent speaker at global conferences on topics such as: child privacy, cybersecurity, privacy and compliance, technology, RegTech, FinTech, entrepreneurship, women in technology, women empowerment, rights of underrepresented communities etc. She has spoken at various global conferences including: FinCrime World Forum Global Conference, PrivSec Global Conference, London Tech Week, FinTech Week London, Google Women Techmakers European Conference, AMCOB Global Conference, Channel 5 Immigration Debate, Women Tech Quest Global Conference etc. She has served as a judge at the Entrepreneurs Collective London Pitch Competition and has also been featured in Sifted, eWEEK UK and Compliance Week for her contribution to the RegTech and FinTech sector as a female leader from an ethnic minority background.

  She has an MSc. Analysis, Design & Management of Information Systems and an MBA (Essentials Certification) both from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She recently completed the Financial Times Non- Executive Director Diploma.

  Expert Member, Technology Advisory Panel (TAP)