June 18, 2025 – Reframe App to Drink Less Vedant Pradeep and First Female VP’s 8 Tips for Females in Tech Dagnija “Daggie” Lacis

Vedant 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 alcohol, empowering them to lead lives—whether with or without alcohol—that feel fulfilling and aligned with their goals. Developed in collaboration with leading experts from Emory and Harvard Universities, as well as our in-house scientific team and hundreds of industry specialists, Reframe offers the most effective alcohol reduction program available today. We believe in science, not stigma. Research, not rules. And everything we do is designed to help you thrive. Dagnija “Daggie” Lacis – First Female Vice President at Burroughs Corporation and Author of The Wall Falls, a Woman Rises, a Memoir: How a U.S. Tech Entrepreneur Broke the Glass Ceiling and Helped Modernize Latvia

In 1950, at age seven, Dagnija 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 Dagnija back to her homeland in 1990 as the first official visitor from the West? THE WALL FALLS, A WOMAN RISES, A Memoir: How a U. S. Tech Entrepreneur Broke the Glass Ceiling and Helped Modernize Latvia  is the story of this trailblazer, Dagnija Lacis: The first woman programmer at the Burroughs Corporation, the second-largest IT company in the world at the time. The first female line vice president at Burroughs Corporation was in 1984 when most men did not want or expect a woman as their boss. A refugee who fled Latvia in her mother’s arms in 1944 as the Communists took over and went on to become a leading IT executive. In 1990, she returned to her homeland at the request of the newly freed country’s prime minister. She brought with her technology experts, systems, and training that helped prepare Latvia for early acceptance into NATO and the EU following its independence. The entrepreneur who launched an international technology company in 1991 was one of the first to employ remote workers—several years before the World Wide Web was available. A woman on the front lines, experiencing THREE major world events Dagnija Lacis shares her insights and strategic thinking as she recounts her journey of breaking through the glass ceilings in the male-dominated IT industry. She tells how she introduced the most advanced IT systems to her newly liberated homeland, Latvia, enabling the country to engage in business with the West. Her memoir features over 150 photographs and illustrates how Dagnija and her team utilized strategy, intelligence, energy, expertise, and passion to modernize Latvia’s technology. Additionally, it details her experience launching her own international IT company in 1991. Dagnija (also known as “Daggie”) was only a year old in 1944 when her parents fled their beloved Latvia, driven by fear of being sent to Siberia by the advancing Russian Communist forces. After spending five years in a displaced persons camp in Germany, her family was offered a home in Indianapolis, Indiana,