Amy O'Callaghan

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Amy has over a decade of product adventures spanning B2B and B2C digital experiences in community publishing, HR tech, SaaS, marketplaces, communication, and retail eCommerce. She is a well-regarded mentor and speaker. Want to see her get really nerdy? Suggested topics include (but are not limited to): building resilient teams, the value and execution of discovery, cool looking rocks, and finding powerful remote working models.

Abhi Agrawal

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Session: Building Healthy Product Teams

Abhi Agrawal is the VP of Product Management at Ceridian, where he leads the Dayforce Wallet Product. He got his start in Product Management at Capital One after a long career in Finance including stops on Wall St, Consumer Credit Card, Retail Banking, and Coffee Shops (seriously). He’s a big believer in the value of experiential learning in product, and owes a karmic debt to the folks who helped him get into product. If he can help you in any way, he’d be delighted! Just reach out.

Victoria Lawson

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Victoria Lawson is a Director of Product Management at CarMax, the nation’s largest retailer of used cars and one of the Fortune “100 Best Companies to Work For” for 17 consecutive years. Lawson is responsible for determining and executing digital strategies that deliver maximum value to customers and the business. Her current focus is on Digital Merchandising and Native App products. She has over 14 years of marketing and product strategy experience with concentrations in digital and technology innovation. Prior to joining CarMax in 2011, Lawson was the director of marketing for Dozier Internet Law, P.C. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Jordan Silton

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Jordan Silton leads the product organization for Apartments.com at CoStar Group, including the product management, user experience design (UX), search engine optimization (SEO), and content practice areas for the Apartments.com Network of rental marketplaces including Apartments.com™, ForRent.com®, Apartment Finder™, ApartmentHomeLiving.com™, Apartamentos.com™, WestsideRentals.com™, ForRentUniversity.com®, AFTER55.com™ and CorporateHousing.com™.

An accomplished professional, Jordan previously crafted and executed SEO, digital media, and analytics strategies for clients such as Alston & Bird, AT&T U-verse, Atlanta Ballet, Ashton Woods Homes, Cartoon Network, GameStop, Kimberly-Clark, Lowe’s, NASCAR and Zaxby’s. Jordan holds degrees in Marketing and Organization & Management from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School and Theater Studies from Emory College.

Grayson Scott

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Grayson Scott is the Director of Product Design at Sony Music in New York City. Grayson has spent the last 30 years leading design teams in San Francisco, Washington D.C., and New York City. He has worked for multiple Fortune 100 companies, early-stage start-ups, and Federal Government and Regulatory agencies. Additionally, Grayson has been a stand-up comedian for the last 10 years, performing at The Stand, Broadway Comedy Club, and The Comedy Cellar. Grayson studied at San Francisco’s Academy of Art, and he passionately believes artists and design-based thinking is essential for reimagining corporate organizational behavior.

Shannon Eastwood

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As a Digital Strategist, my work is driven by the need to improve the human condition, and the environment in which we live, through our daily interactions with each other and the technology that powers us.

With 20 years of industry experience, my professional background includes Brand Management, Product Development, Product Strategy, Technical Design, Global Sourcing, and Project Management.

Currently I am working with Aquent as a Senior Product Manager, collaborating across design, engineering & business services. My role supports the Scout brand which is a web application designed to bring Clients and Partners together through the hiring process.

I am also a Chapter Organizer for OpenIDEO, a global community of design thinkers who create change within their own communities by leveraging human centered design process.

I am a champion of diversity, inclusion & equity and seek to be a change for good.

Lauren Fox

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Session: The Path to Yes

Lauren Fox is a product and risk management leader at Capital One who loves to challenge the status quo and encourage people to think differently about problems – from their relationship with work to bringing human-centered design to non-traditional areas. Lauren has spent the last 10 years leading teams across a variety of functions and sizes and has seen firsthand the critical differentiators of success in the workplace. She loves to share those insights to help others build their path to success. Lauren is a recovering science nerd, earning her BS in Molecular Biology from William and Mary followed by an MBA from Fuqua School of Business. She is now in the DC area with her husband, two daughters, and two dogs.

Garret Westlake

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Session: RVA as a Product Town – Past, Present + Future

Dr. Garret Westlake is leading the transformation of Virginia Commonwealth University into one of the nation’s leading universities for cross-disciplinary collaboration and innovation. As executive director of the da Vinci Center for Innovation, Dr. Westlake leads the 1st Master of Product Innovation program in the United States, and advances university-wide student innovation and entrepreneurship. As a former founder, he launched social impact company that employed individuals on the autism spectrum in technology. A trained facilitator in design thinking, Dr. Westlake also consults with industry and higher education institutions. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at Northern Michigan University’s SISU Institute for Innovation and Educational Transformation.

Dr. Kendra Cabler

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Activate. Engage. Empower. Dr. Kendra Cabler is passionate about all things diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a learning and development professional, she specializes at the intersection of leadership and diversity, equity, and inclusion within communities and organizations. An experienced facilitator, instructor, and educator; she holds a Ph.D. in Adult Learning and Organizational Leadership. Dr. Kendra has worked with senior leaders in corporate, higher education, non-profit, and government sectors to explore what it means to cultivate and facilitate a culture of inclusion across the organization. She currently serves as the Senior Manager of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Etsy.

Isaiah Harvin

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Sitting at the intersection of design, business, and technology, Isaiah Harvin is a product leader that has a passion for bringing ideas to life, focusing on research, agile methodologies, people, and products. These focuses allow him to understand and gain experience building and scaling products and brands to market.

Isaiah has a broad range of experience working on flagship brands in corporate settings, researching, designing, and building for social good. He is now shaping culture and conversation through product with his role at HBO Max, leading app growth and experimentation. Isaiah believes tools and technology can transform the way products are built and how they are received. He brings a multi-faceted set of skills, strategy, and perspective to everything he does.

Charlotte Dales

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Charlotte Dales is an entrepreneur, leader and visionary for impactful change. Charlotte started her career in finance with Deutsche Bank in London working with trading desks around the world. After five years, she left her bank job and co-founded her first company, CAKE Technologies, a mobile payment and reservation application for restaurants and bars which scaled to over 200 restaurants in London and was acquired by American Express. Charlotte is currently leading her second technology start up Inclusively, inspired by her cousin, Cameron Northun who became the first licensed aesthetician in the state of Florida with Down syndrome.

Casey Humphries

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Casey Humphries leads the Logistical Products service line at United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the Richmond non-profit responsible for running the U.S. transplant system. In this role, her team plays in the intersection of tech and transplantation to transform how donated organs are moved across the country for transplant. Prior to this Casey spent several years running the UNOSLabs innovation and R&D program. She brings an analytical approach and a voracious appetite for learning to everything she touches. Casey holds her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering from VCU with a specialty in biomechanics.

Shannon Morales

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Shannon Morales is a proud Afro Latina, mother of 3 daughters, and social entrepreneur. She started her first company, Tribaja, after experiencing unconscious bias in the workplace. Tribajas double sided marketplace connects pre-vetted diverse talent with inclusive tech companies.

By combining “tribe” and trabaja, the Spanish word for “work,” Tribaja is a name that reflects the business’ shift into a “community” of people with an interest in tech & startup careers, including an active Slack group. Shannon realized that other recruiting platforms are built exclusively upon acquiring clients. Instead, she focused on Tribaja’s ability to develop & upskill the community before all else.

Shannon has successfully scaled Tribaja to a global tech talent network that propels the growth of companies such as Lyft, Microsoft, Comcast, and many more. Her most notable accomplishments to date include being named Hispanic Business of the Year in Philadelphia, making Forbes Next 1000 small businesses list, and expanding to her second sales office in Richmond.

Bill Harney

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Bill Harney is the owner and CEO of Keeping Current Matters, the premier educational content company serving the residential real estate industry. KCM has been recognized 5 times by Fortune Magazine as a Top 100 Small Workplace in America and in 2021 Richmond BizSense ranked KCM the 9th fastest growing company in the Richmond area. While today KCM helps families make powerful and confident housing decisions, the company’s vision for the future is to empower confidence for families in any major decision they may make

Ann Marie Guzzi

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Ann Marie is on the product team at Koalafi, a point of sale financing firm based in Richmond. She is currently leading Koalafi’s expansion into financing home improvement projects – give her a call if your A/C breaks this summer and you’d like to finance it.

Prior to Koalafi, Ann Marie did stints at Mastercard and Applied Predictive Technologies, where she worked on products that helped businesses run experiments & make sense of both their data & Mastercard’s data to help drive business decisions. Ann Marie went to college at Duke and studied mechanical engineering.

Odean Maye

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Odean Maye is an entrepreneur, a technologist and a financier with experience in many areas including data platforms.

He led the API management team at GSK enabling new digital experiences for Patients, Healthcare Providers and a global workforce. Before joining GSK, he served as a lead engineer building the Capital One DevExchange API platform. He is currently the Director of Customer Success for Data Exchange Platforms at Capital One.

Chandler Tyler

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With a background in digital strategy and over 9 years of experience managing projects and products, Chandler enjoys the challenge of architecting the best solutions to the toughest problems. At Shockoe, he works as a Product Strategist helping clients define, track, and accomplish their product goals through activities like collaborative workshops, user journey mapping, product briefs, user testing, and more. Chandler’s expertise in success metrics provides an objective method to properly understand the product’s impact on the business and the end user.