Shefali Bansal
Shefali would like to introduce herself as a technology enthusiast, curious lifelong learner, innovator & enabler, mentor & a coach, volunteer & yoga proponent, author and vociferous reader;
Shefali is Global Engineering Director at Red Hat responsible for bootstrapping and growing OpenShift Engineering teams in Asia Pacific, Europe & North America regions. She is leading the product engineering teams responsible for OpenShift platform for Edge devices, Customer Focused and core OpenShift Engineering teams globally. She is also member of Bangalore Leadership Council at Red Hat responsible for the growth of the Bangalore site.
A seasoned IT professional with over two decades of experience, Shefali has donned various hats spanning management, strategy, product management, product engineering, solutioning & professional services working with Customers, System Integrators, Business Partners and ecosystem teams.
An active speaker at industry and technology conferences, Shefali is very passionate about incubations and first-of-a-kind software & product development in the areas of AI/ML, IoT & Hybrid Cloud platforms.
Ms. Bansal is an IIM Bangalore Alumni and an Engineering graduate from NIT Bhopal with specialization in Computer Science. She is plateau holder in patents and has external publications in areas of Reliability Analytics, and awards like 'Best of Business Analytics', “Outstanding Technical Achievement Award”, “Client Success Awards”, “Industry Academy membership” & Industry recognitions like “Women in Technology” from Zinnov & “AI Game Changer” award from NASSCOM to her credit.
Her Inspiration story has been featured in India’s leading newspaper “Times of India”.
As a budding author, she has published three books “Rediscovery journey of a corporate persona”, “Parijaat…The evening flower” & “Tapestry of Life”.
Outside work, she loves to travel and volunteers for STEM education through an NGO.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shefali-bansal-6860611/
Red Hat
Job title –Director Engineering, OpenShift
Session
We still have challenges to attract, retain, grow our diversity talent in Technology industry. This session can be covered as a lightening talk or a talk depending on how the program structure evolves. The purpose of this talk is to delve on the problem space in limited duration but focus more on what disruptive ideas we can adopt to bring about solution to this challenge. These ideas have been picked from what companies in this sectors are doing. Having myself being recognised as "women in tech" from Zinnov and and off late struggling to hire senior technical diversity talent, it pains me to see that not enough has been done in this space while everyone understand the business benefits of increasing diversity. I hope to shake off some prejudices and inspire the young talent to grow in technology