Dr. Diana Nanova is the Head of Customer Engineering for Startups & Scaleups at Google Cloud, based in Berlin's thriving tech startup scene. She leads a team that empowers startups across diverse sectors to harness the power of Google Cloud, focusing on building cloud-native solutions. A passionate advocate for women in tech, Diana actively contributes as a mentor and coach. As a physicist by heart and training, Diana is passionate about data and AI, and is part of a technical working group exploring applications of Quantum Computing. Before Google, Diana was a hardware engineer for processor physical design at IBM R&D and later a technical consultant at IBM Consulting, where she designed and built AI/ML solutions for customers. Diana holds a Master's degree in physics and a PhD with a specialization in semiconductor physics from Heidelberg University in Germany.