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Kanika Tolver is a Senior AI Product Manager, Certified Agile Facilitator, and founder of Career Rehab, LLC. With over 15 years of experience across government and private-sector tech, she brings bold insights on product development, AI integration, and career transformation. She's the author of Career Rehab and has been featured on CNN, CNBC, and The Washington Post. Kanika empowers professionals to rethink how they work and thrive in the digital age making her a sought-after speaker at tech and career development conferences.
Anna McDougall grew up in Sydney, Australia, and moved to Germany in 2015 to pursue a career as an opera singer. At 32, she rediscovered her love for code and technology and made the switch to software engineering. She quickly discovered her mix of technical and social skills made her perfect for technical leadership, and she now works as Director, Product and Engineering (Projects and Organisation) for the tech subsidiary of Europe's largest media publisher, Axel Springer National Media & Tech, based in Berlin, Germany. Anna has helped hundreds of career changers pursue new careers in tech, with her book "You Belong in Tech: How to Go from Zero Programming Knowledge to Hired" quickly hitting #1 on Amazon for Career Guide New Releases in July 2022. In 2023, she delivered her TEDx Talk for the Technical University of Berlin, titled "Finding and Proving Your Value as a Career Changer".
Swizec is a software engineer, author, and conference speaker. He's published books on modern web technologies, data visualization, and productivity, and has trained engineering teams at companies big and small. He’s on a mission to distill 20 years of tacit experience into actionable steps.