Kate Matsudaira

From Microsoft to Amazon, Kate Matsudaira has worked with an abundance of influential technology companies, a testament to her world renowned knowledge. Whether building large-scale web applications or managing a team of engineering experts, she maintains a level of work far superior than her competitors. Kate holds the key to high performance teams. Using her platform as a speaker to instil in her audience the strategies needed for team cohesion, she can re-energise a workplace, essential for producing innovative, unique ideas. Kate favours start ups, due to their rapid acceleration, so can inspire a fresh business mindset in larger corporations who may be in a rut.

Presenting her keynote speeches at events all around the world, Kate specialises in large scale websites, cloud computing, web services and large scale websites. For many businesses, their online presence can make or break their ROI, as the modern consumer favours digital purchasing. Though a good site, users can connect with international customers, it can also be difficult to sustain, so Kate provides strategies to maintain a thriving website while keeping up with the latest trends. Starting as a Software Engineer at Microsoft, Kate moved to Amazon in 2004 to be their Senior Manager of Software Development, Software Platform and Amazon's Web Services. In this role, she managed large teams and revolutionised their key processes.

As a speaker, Kate reflects upon this period of her life, offering after dinner audiences an insight into her technological journey. Highly insightful, her engaging talks will keep audiences hooked on her every word, eager to learn more about Amazon's day to day processes. For corporate audiences, a speaker like Kate can offer beneficial strategies that they may not have considered before. In 2006, eager to venture into start ups, she became a freelance consultant, working with nine different companies over a nine month period. Only a year later, Kate was called in to help Delve Network's struggling engineering team. Holding the key to corporate turnaround, she used her leadership strategies to reinvent the teams' processes.

In 2009, Kate was the VP Engineer for Moz, the SEO software company. Moving to Decide in 2011, again as a VP Engineer, she worked closely with data mining and machine learning to increase consumer relations with products. After a two year period founding Popforms, an online training source for employees, and Ink+Volt, she became Google's Director of Engineering in 2017. An incredible speaker, a booking opportunity like Kate is not to be missed.