Kesha Williams is an award-winning software engineering manager with over 20 years’ experience. She began her career with the National Security Agency (NSA) and has worked for the US Air Force, Delta Air Lines, McKesson Information Systems, and Chick-fil-A. She's passionate about emerging technologies, speaking, teaching, and mentoring. She's trained thousands of software engineers in the US, Europe, and Asia while teaching for the University of California. She routinely leads innovation teams in proving out emerging technologies and shares her learnings at technical conferences around the globe and even on the TED stage as a winner of their Spotlight Presentation Academy. She recently won the Ada Lovelace Award in Computer Engineering from Look Far and the Think Different Innovation Award from Chick-fil-A for her work with Artificial Intelligence (AI). She was recently featured in Amazon's "Alexa Women of Voice" campaign and named an "Alexa Champion".  In her spare time, she leads the Georgia chapter of Technovation, writes technology news for InfoQ, authors video courses, mentors women in tech, and conducts free coding workshops for children at her local library.