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School for Startups RadioJune 18, 2025 – Reframe App to Drink Less Vedant Pradeep and First Female VP’s 8 Tips for Females in Tech Dagnija “Daggie” LacisVedant Pradeep – CEO/Co-Founder of Reframe App
Vedant Pradeep is the CEO and Co-Founder of Reframe, an app designed to help people become the best versions of themselves. Reframe is a neuroscience-based habit change program focused on helping individuals transform their relationship with alcohol—whether that means cutting back or choosing complete abstinence. At its core, Reframe recognizes that there’s no single “right” way to drink less. The journey toward a healthier relationship with alcohol is deeply personal and unique to each individual. Reframe equips users with the knowledge and tools needed to make informed decisions about alcoh...
2025-06-1853 min
CCOM Pawcast | Butler University"Daggie" Lacis '64 discusses her new book and how she help modernize Latvia.In 1950, at age seven, Dagnija "Daggie" Lacis came to America with her parents as a refugee from Communist ruled Latvia. How did it happen that the Prime Minister of newly freed Latvia would invite Daggie back to her homeland in 1990 as the first official visitor from the West?Listen to the story from Daggie, who, upon graduating cum laude from Butler in June of 1964, crashed her first glass ceiling: she began her career in computers as the first woman programmer at the Burroughs Corporation, then the second-largest IT company worldwide. She stresses how Butler (mathematics, chemis...
2025-05-2026 min
The Dad & Daughter ConnectionFrom Latvia to Leadership: A Daughter’s Journey and Her Father’s Lasting InfluenceHow can fathers truly empower their daughters to become confident, independent women? The latest episode of the Dad and Daughter Connection, featuring trailblazer Dagnija “Daggie” Lacis, author of The Wall Falls, A Woman Rises, A Memoir: How a U.S. Tech Entrepreneur Broke the Glass Ceiling and Helped Modernize Latvia. She is an inspiring masterclass in building meaningful, lasting relationships between dads and daughters. In this moving conversation with host Dr. Christopher Lewis, Daggie Lacis shares her extraordinary life story, beginning with her family's flight from Latvia during WWII, their years in a displaced persons camp, and star...
2025-05-1229 min
2B Bolder Podcast : Career Insights & Advice from Successful Women in Business & Tech#123 Dagnija 'Daggie' Lacis, A Pioneer in Tech: From Refugee to VPDaggie Lacey's life reads like a Hollywood script, yet her remarkable journey from refugee to tech pioneer is 100% real. In this captivating conversation, Daggie shares how fleeing Latvia as a one-year-old set her on an unexpected path toward breaking unimaginable barriers in the technology industry.With disarming candor, she reveals how she became the first female programmer at Burroughs Corporation based on a $25 monthly salary difference—a decision that led to a series of glass-ceiling-shattering achievements. She recalls the moment when her boss confessed they'd never hired a female programmer before, explaining the battery of special tests sh...
2025-03-0731 min
Women in TechnologyBreaking Glass Ceilings: Dagnija Lacis on Women in Tech & Modernizing LatviaIn celebration of Women's History Month, Tech Simplified is honored to welcome Dagnija "Daggie" Lacis, a true trailblazer in the technology industry. From becoming one of the first female programmers in the U.S. to making history as the first female vice president at Unisys, Daggie’s career has paved the way for generations of women in tech.Daggie shares her incredible journey—from breaking into the male-dominated IT world in the 1960s, to helping modernize Latvia’s IT infrastructure after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Her memoir, The Wall Falls, A Woman Rises...
2025-03-0333 min