Speaking & Community Leadership
Events, Speaking & Program Direction
Invited speaker at international conferences and founder & program director of ACM-IEEE Twin Cities — an official chapter within ACM’s global Local Network of 33 professional communities. Designs monthly programs, curates speakers, and delivers keynotes at the intersection of AI, platform engineering, and technology leadership.
ACM-IEEE Twin Cities — Founder & Program Director
ACM-IEEE Twin Cities Founder & Organizer
Official chapter within ACM’s global Local Network of 33 professional communities. Lakshmi Priya designs the full monthly curriculum, curates and selects speakers from industry and academia, delivers keynotes, and builds the Twin Cities professional technology community. Monthly events at Minneapolis Central Library covering AI, open source, DevSecOps, data science, and engineering leadership.
OpenClaw, AI Agents & Open Source Roundtable Upcoming
Keynote: Lakshmi Priya Gopalsamy · Speaker: Sowmya Podila, Sr AI Scientist – Target · Moderator: Sai Vineela Ganti, Sr Engineer – Target
Tue Apr 28 · 5:30 PM · Minneapolis Central Library · Register ↗
UPCOMING 2026
Welcome and KeyNote at ACM – IEEE Twin Cities
Apr 28, 2026
ACM – IEEE WIE Twin Cities Chapter
Minneapolis – USA
Invited
May 13, 2026
WomenTech Global
Global
Accepted
Scaling Security with Guardrails and Decision Flow
June 4, 2026
SecretCon 4 2026
National
Accepted
AI-Accelerated Delivery Needs Refactoring: The CATS Guardrails Framework
June 22, 2026
PlatformCon 2026
International
Accepted
Lakshmi Priya Gopalsamy — Resilient Platforms, Real Impact 