Ability to foster innovation in Engineering teams is key to business success, but deadlines, customer commitments and deliverables, operational burden and staffing frequently prevent us from fostering a culture of experimentation and innovation. During this panel, a diverse group of engineering leaders will share their experience and highlight tips and tricks of empowering innovation on their technical teams.
Event Overview Refreshments will be served Our Speakers Irina Krechmer is Blue Apron’s Chief Technology Officer. Before joining Blue Apron in June 2019, she most recently served as VP of Engineering at XO Group Inc., the premier technology company that helps millions of couples navigate and enjoy life's biggest moments through industry-leading digital brands, including The Knot, The Bump, The Nest and GigMasters. Prior to XO Group, Irina was Executive Director of Engineering at Amplify, a curriculum and assessment company where she focused on designing tools and services to improve educators' ability to teach and test students. Before that, Irina was a Director of Enterprise Platform Engineering at Redcats USA, a global online home shopping retailer with a number of sites and brands, where she spearheaded its global e-commerce platform implementation. Irina holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Odessa National ‘I.I. Mecnikov’ University in UkraineMona Soni is a technology leader with experience in building large, efficient and cohesive teams. She is the VP of Engineering at Dow Jones and in her role heads the shared services and platform teams. Before Dow Jones she worked at various startups building game changing software. She is an active leader in tech community and shares her experiences as a speaker at conferences and through her blog. She is the founder of DJ women in tech community championing diversity for all technology teams. Outside of work she enjoys painting and spending time with her little daughters at their home in CTBlaga Lund is VP of Engineering for Intent, the data science company for the world’s leading online travel brands. Blaga has a background in building and managing high growth teams and products. As well as an extensive history in developing scalable solutions for Fortune 500 companies such as Ford and General Dynamics. Prior to Intent, Blaga was a founding member of Voyat, a guest retention platform for the hospitality industry, which was acquired by Intent in 2016.Tatyana Kravtsov is a Director of QA at Audible, helping to build a new QA org to support innovative web product development at scale. Previously, as the head of automation and continuous delivery at ROKITT, Senior QA Manager at Syncsort and VP at Morgan Stanley, Tanya focused on Quality, Automation and DevOps practices and worked with internal and external customers to transform development and testing processes. Tanya is passionate about process automation, which encompasses test, data, and environment automation, as well as continuous integration and continuous delivery. She has extensive experience building and training new teams and helping organizations adapt Agile practices. Tanya is a founder of the DevOpsQA NJ 
