Workato AI BuildHERs
BuildHERS: An All-Women Builders Meetup at Workato
BuildHERS is a meetup for women in tech, by women in tech — a space to share what we're building, learn from each other, and geek out over technical work without having to justify our seat at the table.
Hosted at the Workato AI Hub, each session features engineers, builders, and technologists presenting on topics they're genuinely excited about — from scrappy side projects to production-grade systems. No topic is too niche, no project too weird. If you built it and you're proud of it (or still debugging it), there's a place for it here.
This session's lineup:
- Leila Rishniw & Chloe Condon — presenting their Digital Closet app, a real-life (slightly less magical, way more technical) take on Cher's iconic digital closet from Clueless. Come see how they are building an actual "what should I wear" AI-powered wardrobe assistant with Workato.
- A second speaker, TBA — stay tuned!
Whether you're a seasoned engineer, just starting out, or simply curious about what women in tech are building, BuildHERS is designed to be a welcoming, low-pressure space to connect, ask questions, and be inspired. Bring your curiosity, your questions, and your favorite "I can't believe I built that" story — we want to hear it.
Food, drinks, and good company included.
Who This Event Is For
This series is for women who want to get hands-on with AI, including trans and non-binary professionals who identify with this community.
Featured Speakers
Chloe Condon, Senior Developer Advocate at Workato
Chloe Condon is a Bay Area–based Senior Developer Advocate at Workato, where she helps developers build with AI, automation, and agents. Previously, she was a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud, where she created video content for the Google Cloud Tech YouTube channel (1M+ subscribers) and co-hosted the developer keynote at Google Cloud Next. Before that, she worked at Microsoft (yes, with Clippy) and Sentry.io, where she created the award-winning Sentry Scouts program—a camp-themed meetup complete with merit badges, s'mores, giant squirrel costumes, and hot chocolate. Her projects have ranged from fake boyfriend alerts to Mario Kart "astrology," earning coverage from VICE, The New York Times, and even Smash Mouth's Twitter account, and she was featured by AnitaB.org in the Grace Hopper Celebration 2018 gallery honoring 15 influential women in STEM. Chloe holds a BA in Drama from San Francisco State University and is a graduate of Hackbright Academy. A proud non-traditional engineer, she's likely one of the only people in tech who has professionally played an ogre, a crayon, and the back end of a cow on stage. She hopes to bring more artists into tech—and more engineers into the arts.
Leila Rishniw, Associate Strategic Events Manager at Workato
Leila Rishniw is the Associate Strategic Events Manager at Workato, with a background in fashion and technology. Spending her time outside of Workato as a stylist, Leila has worked on Paris Fashion Week and spent years in the retail industry at establishments such as Aritzia. While events-focused, Leila loves taking on technical projects to automate workflows for the team. Her current passion project is building a personal stylist (as seen famously on TV) with Workato.
Event Schedule
5:30-6:00 pm: Doors Open & Check-in
6:00-7:30 pm: Welcome to Workato + Presentation from Chloe & Leila (Digital Closet)
7:30-8:00pm: Presenter TBA
8:00-8:30pm: Networking & Crafts
Host
Workato delivers enterprise infrastructure for the agentic era, redefining iPaaS and helping enterprises unify data, applications, processes, and AI into a single, governed platform. A leader in Enterprise MCP and orchestration, and trusted by half of the Fortune 500, Workato’s cloud-native architecture connects every application, data source, and process to power real-time orchestration at scale. With enterprise-grade security and continuous innovation at its core, Workato provides the trusted foundation for organizations to automate with confidence and operationalize AI across the business. You can explore Workato's end-to-end capabilities in our developer sandbox here.