Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Ana Marin Head of Marketing at levva	Join the orchestra: how to orchestrate complex B2B sales with ABM 🎼 Discover how to orchestrate a seamless and highly personalized customer journey with ABM, which acts as the maestro of your sales process. Explore the key elements of ABM, including aligning your marketing and sales teams, creating custom content for key accounts, and measuring touchpoints to continuously improve the customer experience. Get ready to transform the way you sell to large companies and bring ABM to life in your organization. Join the orchestra, let’s play it together 🪄🎼 Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Tara Myshrall Regional Vice President Talend Canada and North US at Talend Inc.	Unleash The power of feminine leadership There is a difference between how men are supposed to act and how women are expected to behave. Whether it is correct or not, our society labels certain qualities as masculine and others as feminine. I learned in my early career that if I wanted to get ahead in life, masculine qualities were my ticket to success. Work hard, be smart, and gain a powerful position. Emulating those around me Working in a male-dominated industry, I followed the process that was laid out for me and did what my male counterparts did. I laughed at sexist jokes, drank scotch, smoked… read more
Karen Hough Chief Culture and Experience Officer at ImprovEdge	Lead Like an Improviser: Flexibility, Influence and Change Improvisers play, lean on their team and prepare relentlessly. Those behaviors also build incredibly strong leaders and allow people and organizations to navigate change effectively. This engaging, interactive experience explores four principles from improvisation that allow performers to embrace change, drop assumptions and influence outcomes – the secret is these same behaviors are seen in high-performing leaders and teams – across industries, no matter the size of the company. Leaders across the globe use the principles of improvisation to be flexible and agile in any situation. This… read more
Evelyn Chou Product at Coursera	Your toolkit to navigate the next reorg Organizational restructuring (reorg) affects employees who are on the receiving end of the changes. Having recently gone through this process, I reflect on my own experience and share a pragmatic approach to managing the uncertainties that come with it. I break down the process of gathering information in organizational turmoil into two categories and use a 2x2 matrix to assess our knowledge and awareness of the reorg. Only after we clearly recognize our agency can we start to focus on career growth. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Diana Kelley CSO at Cybrize	Threat Modeling AI and ML for Resilience Science fiction books and movies are full of general knowledge AI - hyper-smart, independent systems that can think for themselves and even repair themselves in a malfunction occurs. The reality is that while AI and ML can accomplish a dazzling array of sophisticated tasks, they are not sentient and unless some element of self-healing functionality is built in, they are not going to be able to fix themselves if something goes awry. Using a published framework for reference, we will explain what causes AI & ML to fail and enumerate intentional failures that can occur when a criminal or… read more
Svetlana Zuravela Business and Executive Coach/Owner at PMProfs LTD	Breaking Barriers: Achieving Impossible Results in Business with Strategies for Success and Well-being Achieving the impossible in business requires more than just skills and strategies - it requires a resilient mindset and a well-balanced approach to life. In this workshop, you'll learn how to become the real achiever, thus overcoming common barriers such as fear of failure, burnout, and imposter syndrome. Through real-world examples and practical tools, you'll gain insights on how to unleash your true potential and achieve remarkable results while maintaining balance in your life. Attendees will leave with a renewed sense of confidence, inspiration,… read more
Josephine Kim Business Manager at True North Advisory	Becoming a Manager How do you pivot from an individual contributor to a manager? Josephine will address the key elements to help stand out from the team that put forward leadership qualities and how to prepare yourself for the managerial role. In many instances, individual contributors struggle to find their role as a manager and usually experience challenges when trying to bring together their team. Find out how to pivot and grow in your role as manager. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Anju Sharma Founder at Enlightened Energies	The Importance of No Code Tools for Founders in Tech In the process of building and growing a startup in technology, validating and delivering the product vision rapidly is of the utmost importance. In order to achieve this, utilizing the right no code tools will give the founders a massive advantage over others. These no code tools can increase innovation and empower founders to launch new digital products quickly in order to bring their ideas to life and make a powerful impact on their users. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Krithika Balasubramanian Senior Software Engineering Manager at The Home Depot	How to be an Ally? During this presentation, we will suggest strategies on how to be an ally for people from diverse groups and backgrounds in the technology environment, which will increase your network, productivity, and partnerships to accomplish common goals. The target audience is all technology associates looking to create partnerships and increase their impact by being an ally. We want the attendees to walk away, understanding that creating positive impact, increasing partnerships, and productivity can be achieved by being an ally to all the associates surrounding you… read more
Amy Yip Somatic Life Transformation & Mental Fitness Coach at Amy Yip Coaching	Mastering the Art of Celebrating Yourself Reflecting on your achievements– big or small– improves your physical and mental well-being, fast-tracks your career advancement, and builds your self-confidence. In fact, celebrating even the small wins stimulates dopamine release in the brain. This feel-good chemical reinforces the learning experience (spoiler alert: change and growth are promoted through positive emotions more so than through discipline). The experience of true celebration also strengthens our sense of connection to colleagues. Yet, most of us don’t celebrate ourselves nearly enough. Women in particular don… read more
Vakassia Niles Career Strategist & Coach at The Niles Group	Owning your Career Journey for The Ultimate Career Leap For the professional who has gotten to mid management but can’t seem to get to the next level it can be very frustrating. You start to feel unappreciated; you don’t feel like you’re being authentic, and your career has become stagnant. You want to move your career forward but just aren’t sure how to position yourself. Professionals learn how to keep their career fluid and moving forward. This session is designed to help women who want to grow and develop within their organizations, increase their visibility, maintain their authenticity, and position themselves for more opportunities. … read more
Joffy John Director at InCan Infotech	Intuitive APPs for Data Driven Decision Making A brief overview and demo on some of the leading Low Code No Code, Visual Workflow – Analytics platforms like Alteryx, Knime, SAP Build with guidance on learning paths. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Kinga Mnich CEO / Founder at Social Psychologist / Community Builder	How Tech can close the gender gap Biasis and lack of visibility are 2 of the biggest obstacles women must overcome when building their businesses, applying for funding, and gaining VC support. Through storytelling and the ability to create a virtual network, we can redesign how women are portrayed in history and the present moment. By changing narratives, we change how women are perceived. And open doors that usually stay closed. Let's imagine algorithms and how we use the virtual space to change how to support and speak about women. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Cindy Goldberg VP Silicon Alliances at Canonical	The Next Breakthrough in Open Source Open source has been a magical accelerant for innovation in software; with the mesmerizing sophistication of AI chatbots, as the latest example. Developers from every corner of the planet can contribute and benefit from open source projects. A given open source package could have a hundred dependencies- each of those dependencies has a version that is subject to updates and security patching. So how can you be sure that your open source project and all of its dependencies will work and be secure for a decade? The next frontier in open source will be eradicating the hidden… read more
Olha Boiko VP Brand & Communications at Innovecs	Well-being as a Lifestyle: How to Assure Employees Health & Happiness As A Leader Are you a woman in tech leadership looking for ways to build and promote well-being in the workplace? Join this talk on prioritizing well-being as a lifestyle! Discover strategies to create an inclusive workplace culture that values well-being and demonstrates a commitment to promoting it both inside and outside the organization. Learn from successful wellness programs, flexible work arrangements, and employee benefits that promote work-life balance. With a case study on the success of Innovecs' InnoClub program, you'll gain practical… read more
Pinar Oncu Co-Founder & COO at Atlas Space	Transition to Web3 for Companies Companies are conscious about the future of Web3 and Metaverse. During the first wave of these technologies, regardless of the size and industry of the companies, they experienced various plaforms and use cases. With the light of their experiences until now, and the predictions about the future of this technology, we will discuss; - Change of web perception; web2 vs web3, - Best time to adapt, - Finding the right purpose in metaverse technologies, - Effect of engagement and immersive experiences for businesses, - Metaverse as a Service solutions for… read more
Annie Rhodes CEO at Wishes	Disrupting Social Good Tech How often have we looked at a problem and only saw one solution? How do we look at that same problem from a different viewpoint to devise a different solution based on the newer tech available today? I'll share with you an example of how we are looking at Social Good Tech from a payments lens to get the funds to those who need them faster. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sabah Qazi Senior Product Manager at Yelp	Four key skills to career success for & by women of color 2023 has been a tumultuous year so far, and as we step into it, we see roles come and go, companies come and go, but what’s imperative is – “To build yourself”. Numbers show that in the tech layoffs, the impacted constitute women with 70% of representation, which hurts!! Over the course of my career of 8+ years, I have switched roles and organizations only to see commonalities and differences in what a woman in tech and product performs to be. As a woman of color from a minority, underrepresented community, that is, as a south Asian Muslim woman, an immigrant in the country, it… read more
Erin Buonomo Director of Design, IBM Sustainability Software at IBM	Leading Transformation with a Human Centered Mindset Today's clients expect more. These expectations are rapidly changing and calling for companies to pursue new business models and digital transformation initiatives that improve the client experience and drive future innovation and growth. That being said, 70% of transformations fall short of their objectives, many due to a lack of focus on the human element of the equation. This session will highlight why human centered design is a critical ingredient to ensuring a more balanced approach to solving complex challenges and implementing successful processes, solutions, and… read more
Stephanie Tang Founder, CEO at The Percentage Project	Exploring Data Driven Advocacy Introduction to The Percentage Project and our Speakers. Details about Our Approach, Our Data, Methodology, Metrics, Demographics and Survey Results. Exaplanation of Data-Driven Advocacy for Students, Faculty, and Working Professionals and details on how to get involved. Did you like this session? Share to vote.