A fan of the social web, building things, and making information beautiful, Julie Ann Horvath works as a designer and front-end developer at &yet She was an early employee at GitHub, Cherry and Yammer and is the host and organizer of the all-woman talk series Passion Projects designed to surface and celebrate the work of incredible women in technology. She spends a lot of her time speaking at conferences about design, open source software, and people-first teams, as well as volunteering to teach (more) women to code.

Vanessa is founder and CEO of theMIX agency, a full-service marketing and communications boutique based in San Francisco and Los Angeles. She’s been working in high-tech public relations and strategic communications for more than 15 years, advising a wide range of clients, from established brands like Pixar, Cisco, and Orange, to scrappy startups like Code School and Amber Case’s Geoloqi. Despite the male bias of Silicon Valley culture, Vanessa Camones has earned a preeminent place as a highly respected insider’s insider—not just for her work in communications, but for her frank and honest advice, which is sought after by both tech journalists and executives alike. In 2011, she wrote a famous editorial (“Entrepreneurs Should Say No To Silicon Valley’s Bully”) challenging Michael Arrington, then the tech world’s most powerful blogger, and received a tremendous amount of accolades for being brave enough to speak up.