Speaker Details

For over two decades, Tassoula Kokkoris has led teams with her creative, inventive approach to marketing. Starting her career as a fashion copywriter at Nordstrom she then managed award-winning public relations teams in the education and financial sectors before joining the tech industry with Blue Box in 2014. Since her arrival at IBM, she has ignited the OpenStack Seattle community by reviving their monthly meetups, increasing attendance by over 60%. She's also been featured in Startup Champ, The Brainyard, Information Week and readwrite.com. In her spare time, she can be found following the band U2 on their world tour and writing about them on atu2.