It’s a fact, the female work force was hit hard during the COVID 19 pandemic. So how do we take something as disruptive as a global pandemic or a recession and use this moment to plunge into new entrepreneurial opportunities or transition into new roles? The Big Pivot premieres as the first of a limited series focusing on providing the tools, resources, and networking tactics to be effective and efficient during professional transitions.

This digital conversation with entrepreneurial panelists Kaitki Agarwal and Kelly Mittal will address what it takes to swing the pendulum professionally. Geetha Sreedhar, a seasoned entrepreneur will moderate the highly anticipated event.

Registered ticket holders will receive the event access link pre-event.

More on the panelists:

Kaitki Agarwal

Kaitki is the co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at A5G Networks (a startup set to transform 5G mobile network infrastructure with autonomous network vision). Kaitki is responsible for leading technology, strategy, and operations.

Before that Kaitki founded Parallel Wireless in 2012. As a co-founder and Chief Product Officer Kaitki led the disruption of the traditional RAN market and positioned Parallel Wireless as one of the Open RAN leaders with a strong customer base. Kaitki led and built geographically distributed operations and product teams.

Prior to that, she led teams and several customer wins in various areas of telecom at Starent Networks/Cisco and Lucent.

Kaitki has 50+ US patents pending and granted. Kaitki holds BS in Computer Science from IIT Roorkee, MBA from Babson College, and product strategy from Kellogg.

Kelly Mittal

Kelly Mittal is the founder and CEO of myKidzDay, an innovative mobile platform for early care and education industry. myKidzDay uniquely integrates ubiquity of mobile technology and user centered design to address the substantial need for better parent communication. This facilitates a high-quality early intervention, minimizes potential developmental delay, and reduces educational costs to our society. Her personal social mission is to deliver peace of mind to parents globally by helping them stay informed, included and re-assured in real time while their children are in the care of a care provider. She has 15+ years of software engineering experience with leading technology companies like Intel and AMD. myKidzDay was a 2017 finalist in Mass challenge – a leading global startup accelerator.

Geetha Sreedhar

Geetha is corporate executive turned entrepreneur. She has had leadership roles in the large financial institutions in the Boston area before becoming an entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and COO of Tarmika, an insurtech start-up offering a digital marketplace that brings together a number of insurance companies and top insurance agencies in the US to streamline the insurance purchase process.