Women Leading Travel & Hospitality is heading to Dallas next month for our final Roundtable of the year, and we’re thrilled to announce Lauren Woods, Southwest Airlines’ senior vice president of technology and chief information officer, will be giving the opening keynote.

Woods joined the airline in 2010 and has been providing strategic and innovative leadership ever since then. She’s led key initiatives across Southwest Airlines’ technology department, supporting the airline’s digital and customer channels as well as various operations teams and platforms. Woods was instrumental in establishing Southwest’s Amazon Web Services Cloud Infrastructure, creating a new development and delivery platform for complex application ecosystems. She also focused heavily on the transformation of Southwest’s enterprise data platforms that drive the company’s data science, analytics, optimization and system integrations.

The Women Leading Travel & Hospitality Roundtable will also feature a panel of industry speakers as well as opportunities for networking. The Roundtable will be held from 2-6 p.m. on Dec. 5 at The Adolphus Hotel in Dallas. Tickets are still available but going fast; the event is free for Women Leading Travel & Hospitality members. We hope you can join us!