This workshop is brought to you by 2 women entrepreneurs, passionate about life, passionate about technology and passionate about achieving their dreams. They worked and lived around the globe and despite coming from different parts of the world, have so much in common – in lessons learnt, especially those learnt from failures, that turned into successes:

1. Niv Dasgupta was a student of English literature and one day she stopped by at the University Computer Center, that hosted several enormous mainframe computers. She found herself drawn to those attractive, red blinking machines. She was fascinated and something inside her, told her that these machines will control the world one day. To the horror of her mentors, family and friends, she dropped her Master’s in English and jumped into a then unknown career, in Technology.

Niv started her programming career with with IBM in India in 1979. She then left India to join the the largest steel manufacturer in the world and worked for 9 years with this group, as Head of IT. Following her entrepreneurial heart and spirit, she came to the US, where she started her own Technology consulting business, growing operations from ground zero. Today, she is living between Luxembourg and US, managing global clients delivering multiple complex projects.

2. Anna Hakobyan lived and worked across the world.  Her life experience spans from the USA to Canada, Russia, Latin America as well as Eastern Europe. Over the past 15 years she has worked with United Nations agencies, International Organizations such as IATA, large-scale technology companies such as SAP, governments and non-profits, just to name a few.

She strongly believes that passion leads to success and that breaking rules but not principles leads to new opportunities. Currently she is heading North American operations for Pyxis, Uruguayan technology company that helps companies thrive instead of surviving in the world of rapidly changing technologies.