Category: Interviews and Guest Speaking

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Opening Keynote: Women of Silicon Valley Conference 2019

May 2, 2019

Rachana delivered the opening keynote at Women of Silicon Valley, in a talk focused on empathy in technical workspaces.

Through a case study leveraging design thinking principles, Rachana illustrates how to effectively engage men and women as gender partners. Topic highlights include:

🎾 How we can meet men (and all humans) where they are around the topic of diversity

🎾 About 5 stages of product design, illuminated through a real example

🎾 The tennis match that influenced the movement!

View “The Empathy Imperative: How Human-Centered Insights Shape Inclusive Workplaces.”

Courtesy of Women in Tech World Series

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LA Galaxy in Partnership with The Corner of the Court Project

April 25, 2019

The below excerpt is from the LA Galaxy website. View the full press release.

In partnership with Women in Sports & Events (WISE) Los Angeles and Dignity Health Sports Park, the LA Galaxy hosted a Women & Men at Work: Celebrating Male Allies & Advocates event at Palihouse on Thursday, April 25th in continuation of the LA Galaxy Women’s Leadership Series. This member-only event featured Katie Pandolfo, General Manager of Dignity Health Sports Park (DHSP), and Chris Klein, LA Galaxy President, and special guest Rachana Bhide for an evening of strategy-building and storytelling about the importance of male allies in the collaboration and development of female career advancement.

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Bloomberg Live: Rebuilding Public Education Moderator

March 19. 2019

Bloomberg Live hosted leading educators, philanthropists, and policy makers for a half-day discussion about the future of public education.

Jessica Lindl, Unity Technologies

Rachana’s panel titled, “A New Kind of Classroom” posed essential questions for modern education: What skills do students need for the future of work? Coding, AR/VR, cybersecurity? How do we integrate problem solving, creativity and collaboration?

Guests discussed real examples of afterschool programming, equipping teachers to support technical learning, interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving, and the imperative of scaling opportunities across economic demographics.

Panelists: Michael Milken, Chairman, Milken Institute, Jessica Lindl, Global Head of Education, Unity Technologies, Jonathan Rochelle, Director of Product Management, Google.

Michael Milken, Milken Institute
Jonathan Rochelle, Google

View the program agenda and panel playback:

https://www.bloomberglive.com/rebuilding-public-education/

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Bloomberg Women in FinTech: Artificial Intelligence Program Host & Moderator

March 12, 2019

Bloomberg Chairman, Peter Grauer, made opening remarks for Bloomberg’s Women in FinTech special Women’s History Month panel about Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Rachana hosted and moderated the program discussion. Panelists Lena Mass-Cresnik (Moelis) Carson Kahn (Volley), and Amanda Stent (Bloomberg) offered insights about the landscape of AI and machine learning in finance.

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G7 Women in Business: Economic Club of New York Closing Moderator

March 11, 2019

During the first week of the 63rd UN Commission on the Status of Women, the Consulate General of France, the Consulate General of Canada, and The Economic Club of New York co-hosted the second edition of their cycle of conferences on women in business.

Rachana hosted the closing panel with esteemed speakers: The Honorable Maryam Monsef, Minister of Status of Women and Gender Equality & Minister of International Development, Government of Canada
Marlène Schiappa, Minister of State for Gender Equality, France
Cristina Shapiro, Head of 10,000 Women, Goldman Sachs.

Rachana Bhide, Consul General of Canada Phyllis Yaffe, and MSNBC’s Ali Velshi.

View the event recap and full videos at https://www.econclubny.org/blogs/-/blogs/g7-women-in-business

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Master of Ceremonies: The Better Man Conference NYC

November 2018, New York City

Rachana was truly grateful to play a role at the inaugural NYC Better Man Conference, serving as master of ceremonies for the day’s events!

The conference hosted over 120 men (and women!) committed to discussing men’s authentic journeys.

Rachana Bhide and Ray Arata, Founder of Better Man

Special thanks to Ray Arata (pictured with Rachana) for his truly tireless work in making this movement and conference happen. View more at https://bettermanconference.com

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Bloomberg & The Canada Artificial Intelligence Summit

October 2018

O Canada! Bloomberg hosted the Canadian Government for the Canada AI Summit, which opened with an evening panel discussion moderated by Rachana. Some spirited and relevant takeaways from the session included:

– The “Drake Effect”: Canada on the world stage as a draw for young AI and tech talent – more growth in Toronto last year than NYC and Silicon Valley combined

– Geopolitics and immigration: Canadian visas for startups can be obtained in as few as 10 days

– Canada is the first country to launch a national AI strategy

– Added insights on machines, ethics, investment strategies, and the role of government in policy, education for the future of work

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Bloomberg Live: The Future of Crowdfunding

On October 30, 2018, Bloomberg convened investors, c-level executives, advisers and entrepreneurs to share their insights on how to utilize crowd-sourcing to raise capital, invest and contribute to society.

View the morning session “Financing A Diverse Future” that Rachana moderated with the following guests:

Bloomberg Live Event Recording – Watch Here!
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Bloomberg Live – Power Moves

Leading Diversity in the Workplace with Bloomberg Live

July 19, 2018
San Francisco

I moderated a panel and presented an interactive activity around bias for 120+ C-level participants at the annual “Power Moves” conference sponsored by AIG and Bloomberg Live.

 

 

Our guests spoke of empowerment, HR and the C-Level’s role in keeping momentum for belonging, and building cohesive cultures in a world of rapidly-evolving tech.