2019 Keynote Speakers

Meico Whitlock

Meico Marquette Whitlock, Founder and CEO of Mindful Techie, is a speaker and trainer on mindfulness, technology, and productivity. Mindful Techie is an organization focused on helping purpose-driven professionals and organizations boost their personal and professional effectiveness and increase productivity and work-­life balance in a digital world. Through talks, workshops, and trainings, Mindful Techie helps purpose-driven professionals and organizations integrate purpose, intention, and mindfulness into their day-to-day work in order to increase employee satisfaction, productivity, and work-­life balance, and more […]

Tiffani L. Williams

Keynote Speaker Tiffani L. Williams is the Director of Computer Science Programs and Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University’s College of Computer and Information Science in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she will lead the Master of Science in Computer Science (MSCS) and ALIGN MSCS programs. Before joining Northeastern, Williams was a member of the faculty at Texas A&M University, most recently as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and as an affiliated faculty member […]

Sandra Johnson

Sandra K. Johnson

Keynote Speaker Sandra K. Johnson is the Founder and CEO of SKJ Visioneering, LLC, a global technology development, consulting and services company. A “hidden figure”, she is formerly the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), IBM Central, East and West Africa, and was based in Nairobi, Kenya.  She has conducted research in a number of computer related areas and was part of the design team that developed the prototype for the IBM Scalable Parallel Processor (SP2), the base machine for “Deep Blue”, IBM’s world famous chess […]