Vanessa
Little
Global CTO at Interdynamix Systems
"Be the Mentor You Always Wanted"
"Be the Mentor You Always Wanted"
07 - 2:00 PM EDT/New York (See in local time)
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05//2026 2:00 PM
05//2026 02:20 PM
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"Be the Mentor You Always Wanted"
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"Be the Mentor You Always Wanted"
"Be the Mentor You Always Wanted"
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Session: Be the Mentor You Always Wanted
Now more than ever it is important for women to be helping women advance their careers and be heard, especially in the tech field. This talk will focus on the responsibilities are for those of us who have broken that glass ceiling, how it will benefit current and future generations, and how it is going to transform the global culture going forward. This is also a call to action for women in tech of all levels to step up and contribute to the solution.Key Takeaways
- Only when everyone accepts their responsibility and their role in promoting inclusion and diversity will we see some actual change. We all play our part, do you know yours?
Bio
Vanessa (Van) has developed a diverse technology toolset in the last 25 years. She has experience in network and system architecture, mobile video system architecture and governance in both telco and retail sectors. She has consulted for nearly every telco as well as major retailers in North America and has worked as everything from unix sysadmin to Chief Technical Officer with a number of leadership and architectural roles in between, contributing to technologies from mobile, enterprise data centre, multi-national networks and beyond. Now as the Global CTO at Interdynamix Systems (www.interdynamix.com), Van is focused on creating leading innovative solutions that address the current and upcoming market.She is leveraging commercial hardware and software as well as Open Source technologies to solve for specific problems. This role has her speaking at conferences around the world and spreading the word about the next generation of technologies. A member of Women of Openstack, and Women in Comms, Van is active in showcasing and championing women in tech fields. Currently splitting her time in various open source communities, she was the Chair of the Technical Steering Committee of Open Source Mano. She is also a former member of the Layer 123 NFV advisory board as well as a Linux Foundation Board Member. In addition, she spearheaded the VNF Onboarding Open Source community focused on rapid templating and automation of virtualized network function workloads.
Van attended the University of Toronto where she majored in Computer Science and Astro-Physics. Vanessa currently makes her home in Toronto Canada, where she enjoys spending her free time playing hockey, tennis and fishing.
