We took HumanizeHer to the SheTO Ignite Summit 2025 and rolled out our own red carpet to catch some of tech's most brilliant women…twirls, crowns, capes, and all! 🦸‍♀️

SheTO is the premier global network for women and non-binary engineering leaders, and the SheTO Ignite Summit is all about celebrating the people who are actually building the industry. Founder Nidhi Gupta built SheTO from a single "let's do something big" dinner-table idea into a massive movement across dozens of countries. Her vision anchors the entire event - a room full of brilliant women who, for once, get to drop the burden of being "the only," and can simply connect, learn, and step into their power.

Our red carpet chats captured the summit's best takeaways in real time with our very own Erica Lockheimer, Founder and CEO of HumanizeHer. We spoke with attendees about the evolving landscape of engineering leadership, from building workplace trust and practicing radical candor, to the technical realities of taking AI from prompt to production. The conversations at the 2025 Summit were as dynamic as the women themselves, touching on storytelling with Emmy-winning journalist Ann Curry, navigating women's health at work with our past podcast guest Joanna Strober, the importance of a well-deserved career break, or how confidence shows up in your wardrobe - we caught all the brilliance as it happened.

Featured Powerhouse Women:

Nidhi Gupta | Founder & CEO, SheTO

Ann Curry | Emmy Award-Winning Journalist

Monica Bajaj | VP of Engineering, Okta (SheTO Board Member)

Aarathi Vidyasagar | VP of Engineering, Uber

Ajita Thomas | Director of Engineering, LinkedIn Business platform

Kamal Singla | Director of Software Engineering, LinkedIn

Minda Harts | Author & Keynote Speaker (Talk to Me Nice)

Daisy Tinsley Barnett | CEO & Co-Founder, The Daisy Edit

Maddie Brauer | Enterprise Account Executive, Serval

Kara Vitale | Enterprise Account Executive at Moveworks by ServiceNow

Polina Stepanova | Engineering Manager at Pilot

Guo Li | Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn

Lisa Dodge | Senior Director of Engineering

Jing S | Engineering Leader, Uber

Shruti Patil | Engineering Leader, Uber

Priya Rangaiah | Senior Staff TPM, Uber

🎟️ Get your tickets to the 2026 SheTO Summit: https://www.sheto.org/summit