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Expand Your Career Horizons with Expedia Group

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Expand Your Career Horizons with Expedia Group
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Watch our networking event with Expedia Group.

Powered by more than 70+ terabytes of data and 20+ years of tech innovation, Expedia Group is one of the world’s largest travel platforms.

During this online networking session, you’ll go on an adventure with a few of Expedia Group’s tech leaders to hear about the company’s future, upcoming tech projects, and their mission to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.

This event is geared towards UI/UX Design Engineers, Software Engineers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Product/Program Managers.

You’ll:

  • Travel behind the scenes for a candid look at Expedia Group.
  • Gain career-propelling advice & insight from tech leaders.

Agenda:

  • 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT - PowerToFly Kickoff
  • 2:05 PM ET / 11:05 AM PT - Welcome Address from Sandy Anuras, SVP, Commercial Integrations
  • 2:15 PM ET / 11:15 AM PT - Panel Discussion & Audience Q+A Featuring:
  • 2:55 PM ET / 11:55 AM PT - Closing Remarks from PowerToFly
  • 3:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM PT - Breakout Sessions
  • 3:30 PM ET / 12:30 PM PT - Event Concludes

About Expedia Group: Expedia Group powers global travel for everyone everywhere, making it more enjoyable, more attainable, and more accessible. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, they help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. They provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Their extensive brand portfolio includes some of the world’s most trusted online travel brands including Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, Egencia®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire® and more.

About PowerToFly: PowerToFly is a women-run platform that works with companies to identify skilled professionals for networking and recruiting opportunities. Over the past few years, we’ve produced 1,000+ events across the world with brands like Facebook, Spotify, Microsoft, and Deloitte, resulting in countless hires.

About PowerToFly’s Events: All RSVP’d attendees are welcome, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, or age. If you require assistance to fully participate in this event, please email hi@powertofly.com, and we will contact you to discuss your specific needs.

Meet The Speakers

Sandy Anuras
Sandy Anuras
SVP, Commercial Integrations

Sandy is a seasoned technology executive with deep experience in building scalable, high performance teams. She is currently the SVP of Product and Technology for Global Marketing at Expedia Group. Sandy previously served as the VP Technology at Blokable, where she brought her broad engineering and operations experience together to lead development of the BlokSense Insights Dashboard, bringing integrated hardware and software to scalable housing creation and operations. Prior to Blokable, she was the CTO at Stash Hotel Rewards and a technology leader at Expedia with responsibilities leading technology teams for global expansion, loyalty programs, financial institution partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions. Sandy brings over 20 years of experience in engineering leadership and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University. When not hard at work, she enjoys playing the violin, traveling, and playing with her dog DanDan.

Danielle Johns
Danielle Johns
Marketing Analytics Manager/Data Scientist III

Danielle W. Johns is a Marketing Analytics Manager with Hotwire based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the Global Growth Chair for the Black Expedia Allied Movement (BEAM) Inclusion Business Group at Expedia Group. A boomerang employee, she previously worked for Expedia Group on the content/supply side based out of the Fort Lauderdale/Miami, FL Area.

Post her first stint with Expedia Group, she returned to graduate school for analytics, and also held analytical roles with Walmart eCommerce and Wells Fargo. Additionally, Danielle has prior non-tech experience, which includes working in government and international development. Outside of work she enjoys traveling, swimming, and learning languages. Danielle is a graduate of Duke University (BA), American University (MA), and the University of Miami (MS).

Angela Bultemeier
Angela Bultemeier
Senior Director, Technology

Angela Bultemeier is a technology leader with over 20 years of experience in solution development and delivery, business partnership development, team building, and mentorship. Angela has a passion and successful track record for leading and motivating large and small teams, program tracking and execution, and software development best practices and methodologies. Her career has included roles as a developer, dev manager, QA, product management, VP of Development, and finally her currently role as Senior Director in Expedia Group’s Search & Supply Technology team. She holds a BS in Industrial Management from Purdue University as well as an MBA from ESADE Business School. Angela is also a proud board member of the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center.

Patrick Bradley
Patrick Bradley
Director, Technology

Patrick Bradley is a Director of Technology at Expedia Group. He has been with the company for over 14 years. While completing his bachelors in Computer Science at McGill University Patrick began his career working in several dot-com startups, first in technical support, later as system administrator, a software developer, and then a development lead, before joining Expedia as a Technical Product Manager in 2007. He currently leads a team of developers responsible for providing all of the rich content about travel (text and images) that is so valuable to shopping for travel.

Desiree van den Goorbergh
Desiree van den Goorbergh
Senior Director, Product Management

Désirée heads up Lodging Supply product where she leads the product strategy for Expedia’s lodging pricing & inventory, booking and partner API connectivity solutions. Her team is charged with maximizing lodging partner engagement levels with the Expedia marketplace through seamless solutions for vacation rentals, independent properties to large chains covering over 2 million properties. As a member of the Expedia Group family for over 18 years, Désirée has overseen several key programs in strategy and business development roles in 3 different countries. Some examples are the launch of the Expedia Traveller Preference program, and the integration of the Venere.com supply platform into the Expedia lodging stack. She holds an MBA in Hotel Administration from ESSEC Business School in Paris, France and Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and a BA in Hotel Management from Maastricht Hotel Management School, Netherlands. She is based in Seattle, WA.