Sampada Basarkar is a Director of Products and Platform Engineering at Vodafone. She is a senior executive with a passion for building high-performing teams and delivering results in complex and high-ambiguity environments. Focused on vision, execution and operational excellence, Sampada has experience delivering large-scale, cross,-functional, deadline-driven initiatives as well as iterative, growth, and experimentation initiatives. Throughout her 23 + years of managing software development and support, she has worked with a large subset of Fortune 500 companies and large enterprises. She is also passionate about helping women help advance their careers and sponsors programs for their growth.