Session

Inclusive Leadership in Action: Shaping Strategy, Driving Innovation, and Delivering Enterprise Impact
Women in Technology Roundtable

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Starts: October 14, 2026 2:00 pm
Ends: 3:00 pm
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Abstract:

As enterprises navigate accelerating digital transformation, heightened risk environments, and increasing demands for measurable business outcomes, inclusive leadership has emerged as a critical driver of enterprise performance. Women in technology leadership roles continue to shape how organizations define strategy, execute transformation, and sustain innovation across IT, cybersecurity, and digital functions.

This panel brings together senior women technology leaders to explore how inclusive leadership practices are influencing decision-making at the highest levels of the enterprise. The discussion will examine how leaders are aligning technology initiatives with business priorities, driving large-scale transformation, and ensuring organizations remain agile and resilient in the face of constant change.

Panelists will also share how they are engaging executive stakeholders and boards, navigating complex trade-offs in high-pressure environments, and building cultures that support accountability, performance, and long-term talent development. The conversation will highlight how inclusive leadership is not only a cultural strength, but also a measurable driver of innovation, resilience, and enterprise value.

Key Takeaways:

  • Inclusive Leadership as Strategy: How diverse leadership perspectives are shaping enterprise decision-making and business outcomes
  • Driving Enterprise Transformation: Approaches to leading large-scale technology change while balancing innovation, risk, and execution
  • Executive Engagement: Best practices for influencing C-suite and board-level discussions with clarity and impact
  • Building Resilient Organizations: Creating high-performing teams that adapt effectively in complex and evolving environments
  • Talent and Culture Advantage: How inclusive leadership strengthens talent development, retention, and organizational performance
  • Measurable Business Impact: The link between inclusive leadership, innovation outcomes, and sustained enterprise value
Host

Prachi Choudhari Jha

Senior Information Security Program Manager, eBay

With over 6 years of hands-on experience driving and delivering complex cybersecurity initiatives and over 8 years of experience managing large scale projects. I currently lead multiple high-impact security programs at eBay, including AI Security, SIEM, Security Operations, Vulnerability Management, and GRC. My focus is on aligning technical security efforts with strategic business goals — ensuring scalable, resilient, and compliant systems in an evolving threat landscape. What sets me apart is my ability to bridge technical depth with agile execution. As a Certified Scrum Master and SAFe Agilist, I thrive in dynamic environments, fostering cross-functional collaboration and delivering measurable outcomes across globally distributed teams. 🔹 Passionate about securing innovation — especially at the intersection of AI, cloud, and compliance. 🔹 Known for transforming complex security challenges into actionable roadmaps. 🔹 Committed to continuous learning, leadership, and driving security culture across the organization. 🔹 Managing AI Security Programs to implement protect AI solutions that will prevent Model Injection Vulnerability. 🔹 Managing AI Security Programs to prevent PII data leakage in training model dataset. 🔹 Managed multiple security compliance audits, e.g., PCI, SOX, SWIFT, NACHA and SOC2. 🔹 Certified Scrum Master and Certified SAFe 5 practitioner 🔹 Programming Languages – SQL and Python 🔹 Proficient in MS Project, Microsoft Office – Excel, Word and PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint, Smartsheet , Service Now and Google docs.

Speakers

Narinder Kaur

Vice President, WiCyS Western Washington Affiliate

Mentor experience: WiCys (Women in Cybersecurity), EWF(Executive Women's Forum), Microsoft Mentoring Rings, Mentorcruise https://mentorcruise.com/mentor/narinderkaur/. Finalist for WIC Mentor of the year 2026 award. Co-chaired Microsoft Women/ERG Mentoring rings, Leadership development programs, Manager Excellence programs, ERG Speaking events. Extensive hiring experience at Microsoft for Engineers/Architects and driving Engineering role transformations.

Aruna Veerappan

Sr. Director of Engineering, Upwork

Highly accomplished and results-driven engineering leader with 23+ years of experience building and scaling high-performing teams, driving innovation, and delivering customer-centric solutions across media, communications, entertainment, and supply chain industries. Proven track record in aligning engineering strategy with business objectives, optimizing operations, and fostering a culture of technical excellence. Adept at leading large engineering organizations, executing complex roadmaps, and driving cross-functional collaboration to accelerate time-to-market and improve system reliability. Passionate about automation, eliminating inefficiencies, and building resilient, self-healing, and auto-scaling systems. Strong advocate for shift-left strategies, site reliability, and AI-driven automation to enhance developer productivity and operational efficiency. Experienced in balancing technical vision with business outcomes, managing budgets, scaling teams, and leading organizations through transformation to drive continuous improvement and engineering excellence.

Jenny Moshea

AI Advisory & Industry Champion - Enterprise Solutions, RapidCanvas.AI

Jenny Moshea is a former CIO, enterprise AI advisor, and transformation leader who has spent over two decades helping organizations turn technology into business impact. Her career has spanned nearly every layer of enterprise technology, from translating human processes into system logic as a business analyst to leading award winning enterprise transformation as a Chief Information Officer. She has led organizations through data modernization, cybersecurity hardening, scaling of teams, and complex change, while shaping patent pending innovations and using emerging technology to create new business value. She also advises AI technology startups, mentors students at the UW Foster School of Business, co-founded the Seattle Enterprise AI Roundtable, and serves on the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council. Today, Jenny advises executives on enterprise AI strategy and helps organizations move from experimentation to measurable impact through her work at RapidCanvas.ai. She is known for translating complexity into clarity and challenging leaders to think beyond technology implementation to what changes for the business, the workforce, and the customer. Jenny has also navigated significant personal disruption while leading at the highest levels. Through both experiences, she discovered that the skills required to transform an organization and navigate transformation in your own life are not as different as most people expect. Her perspective centers on using disruption as an invitation to expand, and leading through change with courage, curiosity, and creativity.

Dora Cheng

Principal Fraud Specialist & Product Manager, Microsoft

Dora Cheng is a Principal Product Manager and anti-fraud leader at Microsoft, where Dora leads initiatives to protect customers from increasingly sophisticated fraud and scams across Microsoft products. By harnessing data, AI, and platform innovation, Dora drives cross-company programs and strategies that strengthen trust, reduce risk, and enable secure growth at scale. A former compliance expert and product leader, Dora brings a multidisciplinary perspective to trust and safety and product management, with credentials spanning cybersecurity, privacy, audit, and risk management, including CISSP, CISA, CIPP/E, and CPA. In previous roles, Dora built products that helped organizations manage third-party risk and protect global supply chains from human rights violations. Outside of work, Dora partners with nonprofit organizations to develop technology that helps combat human trafficking.