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Finding Your Voice: Lessons in Growth and Influence

Wednesday, October 1, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
Webinar
118 attending
Sponsored by
Sonatype
Sonatype
Finding Your Voice: Lessons in Growth and Influence
WEBINAR
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
Sponsored by
Sonatype
Sonatype

Event details

You’re invited to a powerful panel conversation with women leaders from across Sonatype. In this candid session, panelists will share the real stories behind their career journeys, the highs, the lows, and everything in between. In a field where women are still underrepresented, they’ll open up about how they built confidence, found their voice, and turned challenges into opportunities for growth. Whether you’re just beginning your career or planning your next move, this webinar will offer practical wisdom and relatable insights to help you shape a path that’s truly your own. During this webinar, you’ll learn how to:

  • Build unshakable confidence and turn self-doubt into a strength

  • Find your voice and grow your influence

  • Recognize and leverage your unique strengths, passions, and values

  • Navigate challenges with resilience

  • Build a network of meaningful support

  • Embrace and lead with your authentic self


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Meet the speakers

Abby Murray, Senior Talent Development Specialist | DEI Lead, Sonatype

Abby Murray

Senior Talent Development Specialist | DEI Lead, Sonatype

Abby Murray

Senior Talent Development Specialist | DEI Lead, Sonatype

Abby is a Senior Talent Development Specialist and DEI Lead at Sonatype, where she designs and delivers programs that support employee growth, engagement and belonging across the organization's global workforce. She is passionate about helping individuals find their voice, build confidence, and move forward in ways that best support their career goals. Outside of work, Abby enjoys giving back through volunteering and co-leads a nonprofit supporting the homeless community in Raleigh-Durham. She also loves staying active through boxing, ...

Kimberly Watson , Director, Customer Education, Sonatype

Kimberly Watson

Director, Customer Education, Sonatype

Kimberly Watson

Director, Customer Education, Sonatype

Kimberly is Sonatype's Customer Education Director overseeing all customer-facing technical success content, the Sonatype Community, and Innovate, the Sonatype advocacy program. With over 25 years of experience and a PhD in Computer Science, Kimberly draws on her prior roles with NetApp, Splunk, and Fast Lane to bring the best in enterprise software development, SaaS engineering, and product development to customers seeking value from their Sonatype products by way of innovative education offerings and upskilling. Pre-Sonatype, Kimberly ...

Ali Beares, Senior Manager, Human Resources, Sonatype

Ali Beares

Senior Manager, Human Resources, Sonatype

Ali Beares

Senior Manager, Human Resources, Sonatype

Ali is a seasoned Human Resources professional with over 15 years of experience helping organizations navigate growth and change, and has built her career partnering with business leaders to align people strategy with organizational goals. Ali finds the most meaning in work that blends strategic problem-solving with fairness and transparency, and she thrives when she can create clarity in complex situations. What she enjoys most about her role is building trust, fostering collaboration, and shaping an employee experience where people feel ...

Priya Choudhary, Human Resources Manager, Sonatype

Priya Choudhary

Human Resources Manager, Sonatype

Priya Choudhary

Human Resources Manager, Sonatype

Priya Choudhary is an HR leader with over 15 years of experience shaping people practices across technology and consulting industries. In her current role as HR Manager for Sonatype India, she partners with global and local leadership to establish HR operations, drive talent development, and create engagement programs that align people strategy with business outcomes. She is passionate about blending structure with empathy, simplifying complex processes, and building workplaces where people feel valued and inspired to grow. She is single ...

Abby Murray, Senior Talent Development Specialist | DEI Lead, Sonatype

Abby Murray

Senior Talent Development Specialist | DEI Lead, Sonatype

Abby is a Senior Talent Development Specialist and DEI Lead at Sonatype, where she designs and delivers programs that support employee growth, engagement and belonging across the organization's global workforce. She is passionate about helping individuals find their voice, build confidence, and move forward in ways that best support their career goals. Outside of work, Abby enjoys giving back through volunteering and co-leads a nonprofit supporting the homeless community in Raleigh-Durham. She also loves staying active through boxing, weight lifting, kayaking, and roller blading, and spending time with her pup and fiancée.
Kimberly Watson , Director, Customer Education, Sonatype

Kimberly Watson

Director, Customer Education, Sonatype

Kimberly is Sonatype's Customer Education Director overseeing all customer-facing technical success content, the Sonatype Community, and Innovate, the Sonatype advocacy program. With over 25 years of experience and a PhD in Computer Science, Kimberly draws on her prior roles with NetApp, Splunk, and Fast Lane to bring the best in enterprise software development, SaaS engineering, and product development to customers seeking value from their Sonatype products by way of innovative education offerings and upskilling. Pre-Sonatype, Kimberly led global development, engineering, professional services, and the PMO for Fast Lane as their Senior Vice President of Services. With her keen programming and DevOps background, she brings corporate technical value recognition strategy, leadership development, sales and customer service success, and many additional skills to her work for Sonatype. Kimberly has presented at numerous technical and education conferences and is an avid learner. She holds BA, MIT, MS, and PhD degrees, and is a huge fan of her alma mater, North Carolina State University's Heart Attack Pack. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Crape Myrtle Festival. She enjoys beach living in North Carolina with her "couch hippo" rescue dog, Selkie.
Ali Beares, Senior Manager, Human Resources, Sonatype

Ali Beares

Senior Manager, Human Resources, Sonatype

Ali is a seasoned Human Resources professional with over 15 years of experience helping organizations navigate growth and change, and has built her career partnering with business leaders to align people strategy with organizational goals. Ali finds the most meaning in work that blends strategic problem-solving with fairness and transparency, and she thrives when she can create clarity in complex situations. What she enjoys most about her role is building trust, fostering collaboration, and shaping an employee experience where people feel valued and empowered to grow. She lives in Maryland with her husband and four children, and holds a Master of Science in Human Resources Development from McDaniel College
Priya Choudhary, Human Resources Manager, Sonatype

Priya Choudhary

Human Resources Manager, Sonatype

Priya Choudhary is an HR leader with over 15 years of experience shaping people practices across technology and consulting industries. In her current role as HR Manager for Sonatype India, she partners with global and local leadership to establish HR operations, drive talent development, and create engagement programs that align people strategy with business outcomes. She is passionate about blending structure with empathy, simplifying complex processes, and building workplaces where people feel valued and inspired to grow. She is single and lives in Hyderabad, holding a Master’s degree in Management from Prestige Institute of Management, along with certifications from XLRI Jamshedpur and IIM Indore. Beyond work, Priya enjoys exploring new ideas, mentoring talent, and supporting community initiatives. She strongly believes that HR’s role goes beyond managing processes — it is about connecting, inspiring, and enabling people to find meaning in their work.

Sponsored by Sonatype

Sonatype
Sonatype is an industry-leading software supply chain management company. They empower developers and security professionals with intelligent tools to innovate more securely at scale, helping more than 2,000 organizations and 15 million software developers deliver and maintain exceptional and secure software. In short, Sonatype is laser focused on helping organizations continuously harness all of the good that open source has to offer, without any of the risk. For employees, Sonatype offers a community culture that is vibrant and all inclusive — no matter where you’re located. Whether it is at company meet-ups, happy hours after work, charity fundraisers, or just day-to-day, employees love working at Sonatype!

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