2025 Annual Meeting Information

  • Friday, February 28th in Barnard Hall 347
  • Remote Attendees: Ananya Chowdhury (Data and AI Architect at Microsoft, Guest), Devin Gray, Daniel Smith, Mike Woodring
  • In-Person Attendees: Chris Conlon, Lindsey Hanna, Rob Irizarry, Margaret Mitchell, Chris Omland, Penny Porterfield, Andreas Scherer, Chris Walch
  • Guests: Bruce McGaughy (Director of Engineering, Amazon Redshift at AWS), Kevin McGibben (CEO, xurrent), Fletcher Phillips (Product Manager, Land ID
  • Regrets: Lee Cook

2025 Agenda

  • 9:30 a.m. - Informal Meet and Greet
  • 10:00 a.m. - School of Computing News and Discussion
  • 11:00 a.m. - Center for Inclusive Computing Findings Discussion
  • Noon - Catered Lunch
  • 1:00 p.m. - Discussion with Data Science Majors
  • 2:00 p.m. - College of Engineering News and Discussion
  • 3:00 p.m. - Job Seeking Advice for Students Struggling in the Current Market
  • 4:30 p.m. - Conclusion
  • TBD - Gianforte Hall Viewing

Advisory Board Members

Member Name Affiliation Title
Philip Brittan

The Innovation Ranch

General Partner
Chris Conlon

wolfSSL

Engineering Manager
Lee Cook

Tadpull

Director of Data Science
Devin Gray

Figure

Director of Engineering

Lindsey Hanna

Women Techmakers Bozeman WTM Ambassador,
Bozeman Chapter Founder

Rob Irizarry

Oracle Senior Director,
Customer Experience Optimization

Margaret Mitchell

Resonea, Inc. CIO

Chris Omland

workiva VP Product Management
Bill O'Neill

Quiq

VP Engineering & Co-Founder

Laura Orvidas

onX CEO

Penny Porterfield

ZaneRay Group VP Operations & Business Development
Tony Rosanova

Retired

Former President and CTO,
Zoot Enterprises
Andreas Scherer

Golden Helix

President and CEO
Ambika Sharma

U.S. Bank

Global Product Manager

Daniel Smith

CSL Head of Technology
Jason Taylor

Washington Post

Director, Security and Technology

Jeff Trom

Ex Officio Former Executive VP and CTO workiva

David Vap

Founding Partner Yellowstone Growth Partners
Mike Woodring CodePath.org Technical Advisor