"Katica Roy delivered a powerful keynote that resonated across our organization. Her data-driven approach to gender equity, combined with compelling storytelling, sparked important conversations and inspired real momentum. A true catalyst for change."
-United Way Worldwide"Katica brought expertise, energy, and enthusiasm to her speaking engagements at SXSW. These are the three most important qualities I am looking for when booking content for our event."
-SXSW"Katica Roy delivered groundbreaking insights with ease, made information relatable and digestible, and did an excellent job weaving in storytelling with cold, hard facts and data. Aside from the content of her presentation, her knowledge and presence were captivating. The audience felt engaged, educated, and compelled to act. Katica possesses the rare trait of combining storytelling, research, and solutions into a symphony of hope for everyone who bears witness."
-Women’s Foundation of Alabama"Katica is a friendly, confident, and engaging speaker, bringing relevant examples and anecdotes to the audience. She is also flexible in terms of speaking – given we had to quickly mock up a temporary stage, she was happy and quick to adapt to the surroundings and deliver her input."
-Thomson Reuters Foundation"Katica provided our audience with timely, essential insight into the role AI should play in reducing gender inequality in organizations. Her talk was entertaining, educational, and digestible – which is what event producers and their audiences are looking for. The conversation around ensuring the benefits of AI are shared equitably across society (and within organizations) has never been more important. It will only grow in importance. Our event is predominantly an enterprise AI event and the content was well-tailored to this audience."
-AI Summit"Katica has spoken at several Techonomy and Worth events in recent years about a range of topics including artificial intelligence as a tool for gender equity and the importance of gender equity in the fight against climate change. Katica has a fantastic stage presence and has the ability to explore complex topics with clarity and nuance. She is an engaging, dynamic speaker and a pleasure to work with. We hope to have her back again soon!"
-Techonomy"Firstly, Katica knows what she is talking about making her instantly credible and enjoyable to listen to. Secondly, she captures a large audience and grasps their attention quickly and effectively. Lastly, Katica enjoys public speaking and is comfortable in front of a large audience."
-Web Summit, The World's Largest Technology Conference"I had the pleasure of hearing Katica Roy speak at a women’s summit at Florida Institute of Technology a few years back. Blown away is putting it mildly. She put DEI in real, quantitative, and meaningful terms, confirming the bias I have experienced my entire career and proving the impact of women in the workplace, marketplace, and at home. That experience flipped a switch for me, empowering me to amplifying my voice around, for, and in honor of women. She lit a fire in me. Take a moment and fling open the door to learning. She is brilliant, articulate, and worth your time."
-Keynote Audience Member, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe Pink Tax 2.0: How Tariffs Penalize Women Consumers
The Cost of Silencing DEI: What America Stands to Lose
Women in Power: The Political Engine for a Future-Ready Workforce
Authoritarianism and the Economic Rollback of Women’s Rights
When the Government Stops Working, Women Pay the Price
From Margins to Markets: Why Gender Equity is Critical to Growth
Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: How Gender Inequity Is Costing the U.S. Trillions
The Economic Case for Gender Equity: Why Men Must Be Part of the Conversation
The Cost of Inequity: What Gender Gaps Are Doing to Your Region, State, or Industry
The Throughline: How Gender Equity Connects America’s Most Pressing Issues
Engineering Equity: How AI Can Help Build the Workforce of the Future
The Future of DEI Is Financial: Turning Equity Into Economic Strategy
Katica Roy is an award-winning gender economist, former Global 500 global executive, programmer, data scientist, and the CEO and founder of an award-winning SaaS company, Pipeline.
CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Bloomberg, Cheddar, MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, Wharton Business, Newsy, and NBC have sought Katica for her sharp and unconventional take on the day’s headlines. She has interviewed former President Biden, former Vice President Harris,Senators Booker and Gillibrand, former Secretary Pete, Canadian Pay Equity Commissioner Karen Jensen, Sophia Bush, Eve Rodsky, Gretchen Carlson, and Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings.
She has spoken on over 100 of the top stages across the world, including major stages at SXSW,CES, Web Summit, and for major corporations such as BNP Paribas, JP Morgan, P&G, Cisco, Google, and Microsoft.
Her high-octane, visionary articles have been published by the World Economic Forum, Fast Company, Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg, NBC, Entrepreneur, The Hill, The Advocate, Harvard Business Review, and MorningConsult. Her articles have garnered over 2.9 billion impressions.
Katica is the flagship expert columnist for Equity Observer, a new vertical from Design Observer led by Editor-in-Chief Ellen McGirt, the former Fortune editor and creator of the award-winning RaceAhead newsletter.
Her biweekly column, Equity by Design™, explores how equity must be intentionally built into the foundations of business, technology, policy, and the economy. Katica’s
work has been cited by multiple New York Times bestselling authors across more than 10 books. Her research has also been cited in multiple U.S. congressional publications and proceedings, and she serves as a resource to policymakers.
In 2017 Katica was named a Luminary by the Colorado Technology Association; in 2018 a Colorado Governors' Fellow; in 2019 a Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Business and awarded the Stevie Entrepreneur of the Year—Gold Award; in 2020 she was named the Colorado Entrepreneur of the Year; in 2022 a LinkedIn Top Influencer for gender equity. She is a member of Fast Company’s Impact Council, Bloomberg’s New Economy Forum, The Aspen Institute's Tech Accountability Coalition, and the US Small Business Administration’s National Women’s Business Council (where she advises the President, Congress, and the SBA on funding female entrepreneurs—including oversight of the $34 billion in federal contracting set-asides earmarked each year for female founders).
Pipeline uses advanced technology to make intersectional gender parity a reality in our lifetime. Under Katica’s leadership, Pipeline created the first gender equity app on Salesforce’s AppExchange and was named one of TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2019.
The company has also been recognized on Fast Company’s lists 2020 and 2023 World’s Most Innovative Companies, 2021 Next Big Things in Tech and 2022 World Changing Ideas.
In recognition of Pipeline’s groundbreaking work to close the gender equity gap, Governor John Hickenlooper officially declared April 10 “Equity for All® Day” in the State of Colorado.
Katica’s passion for equity is deeply personal. She is the daughter of an immigrant and a refugee, plus a proud, breadwinner mother raising a teenage daughter and son.
Nearly 60 years to the day after her father and sisters climbed the stairs of Air Force One to freedom—thanks to the humanitarian intervention of President Eisenhower—Katica received a letter from another U.S. President, Barack Obama, thanking her for standing up and speaking out. It was a full-circle moment that underscored the generational impact of her work.