Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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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.
Ebony Young Deputy Borough President at Queens Borough Presidents Office	Diversifying the tech ecosystem Breaking barriers to entry in tech and creating systemic change starts with an authentic understanding of under represented people. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Yuquan Holloway Principal Consultant at Holloway Consulting Group, LLC	Risk is Relentless. Strategies for Managing Risk In working in technology and with people, there is a lot of risk. There is risk in procuring the right resources; risks that things will happen in the world that we don't expect, Risks that certain types of errors will happen. All kinds of risks. During the workshop, I will share tools and tactics to help you know which risks deserve attention. We will discuss the following: Collecting Risks Evaluating Risks Prioritizing Effectively Addressing Risks Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Patricia Mayers Sr. Manager - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Seismic	The Impact of Culture: One Size Does Not Fit All This session will allow attendees to understand culture, utilize a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) lens to understand personal and organizational culture. The cultural environment in the workplace will either inhibit or advance DEI elements throughout the organization. These elements are systems, processes, behaviors, values, mission and vision. This session will provide a summary of behaviors and actions to drive inclusion and belonging in the workplace and how to treat each other with kindness, curiosity, humility and human-centered behaviors. Did you like this session?… read more
Sherri Langburt CEO & Founder at BabbleBoxx	How to Leverage Influencers to Drive Omnichannel Marketing Creating high-quality experiences, across all touchpoints, is critical for digital marketers. In this session, we’ll demonstrate ways in which marketers can utilize influencers across the entire customer journey. This omnichannel approach to influencer marketing will increase efficiencies, ensure consistency and help create a cohesive, unified journey for each customer across brand channels. After this session, you’ll be able to • Understand how to fully integrate influencers into your digital marketing plans • Identify new application areas for… read more
Janine Darling CEO at Stash Global Inc.	The Secrets to being a Great Woman Leader of a Diverse Company When we think of leadership, we often picture those in positions of authority--CEOs, founders, directors, etc. And while those at the top certainly have an obligation to lead, it is not their responsibility alone; it's everyones. The phrase "you can only lead if people will follow you" is a misnomer. Today, leaders must foster the inclusiveness, individuality, independence, and courage of people who want to walk beside a leader and help to lead not from behind, but beside and with. Women Leaders are uniquely qualified to do this well - IF they… read more