KATY LYNCH
HONOREE & KEYNOTE
Originally hailing from Edinburgh, Scotland, Katy Lynch is the Co-founder and CMO at Codeverse, the world's first fully interactive coding school for kids, that was founded on the mission to teach one billion children to code.
Prior to Codeverse, Katy was the CEO of Techweek, the nation's largest traveling technology festival, as well as the President and Co-founder of SocialKaty, a social media marketing agency. In 2014, SocialKaty was acquired by award-winning digital agency, Manifest Digital, creating one of the largest digital agencies in the Midwest.
Katy has appeared in Forbes, NBC, Inc, Huffington Post, FOX and Today.com, amongst others. Most recently, Katy was the recipient of the Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago "Smart Cookies" award, "Crain's Chicago Tech 50" award, and the Chicago Inno "50 on Fire" award.