Hello! I’m Caitlin.
About Me
I am a proud wife and mother to an amazing daughter and two rescue pups. The greatest compliment I’ve ever received is that I make people feel like they can do anything.
I’m now lucky enough to get to do that professionally in my roles as a social enterprise venture builder, entrepreneurship-led economic developer, and innovation program leader. I am the Strategic Programs Director at IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization whose core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. Outside of work, I volunteer as a board member of the WISE Women’s Business Center that supports women entrepreneurs in Central New York and the Friends of the Baldwinsville Public Library.
I am also a speaker, guest lecturer, and workshop facilitator on a variety of innovation and entrepreneurship topics.
Past Speaking Engagements
Syracuse University
Delivered keynotes, led workshops, and been a guest lecturer for the iSchool and Newhouse’s Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship.
Cornell University
Careers in STEM Industry Panelist for the Graduate Society of Women Engineers
SUNY Oswego
Led Ideation Workshop for Fresh Water for All Grand Challenge and delivered entrepreneurship content asynchronously for their Innovation Challenge.
Fuzehub
Panelist representing The Tech Garden business incubator as its Director of Operations.
Women in Machine Learning and Data Science (WiMLDS)
Delivered keynote presentations for the Syracuse Chapter
Salt City Data Community
Delivered keynote as part of Changemakers in Data series.
Global Startup Ecosystem -GSE
Invited to participate in the Stakeholder Roundtable for startup innovation leaders and organizers.
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“Caitlin is an eloquent and insightful speaker with a clear passion for civic engagement. Her knowledge of business startups and social entrepreneurship is thought provoking in any context, to audiences of graduate students, practitioners and faculty alike. At the iSchool’s graduate seminars, Caitlin has been a wonderful adviser for collaborative student projects, and a key facilitator of discussions on how to foster creativity, curiosity, and technical entrepreneurship in communities.”
Margaret Craft
Syracuse University iSchool
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Caitlin is an incredible presenter and we were very lucky to host her in a series on changemakers in the tech world for Salt City Data Community. Caitlin embodies a multidisciplinary perspective when it comes to business innovation and motivators for social good. She bridged a connection for our audience between different data use cases and inspired us by sharing ideas for continuous improvement in business development.
Ashley Gingeleski
Osmose Utilities Services
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
No more upcoming 2025 events at this time. Please stay tuned for updates!