Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Sharon Leigh Partner, Chief Strategist, Precision Mentoring at PolePosition4Life, GmbH	The Magic Quest for an Agile Mindset! I will lead a quest: I will begin my SHE-roic journey tour by guiding the SHEroes-to-be down a well-known path of chronic cultural frustrations. We will enter the cave of Should & Must and we’ll follow a tunnel which displays old depictions of thread-worn facts, decaying methods and crumbling systems of management. Don’t be afraid! The fire from our powerful torches will be shining light into the darkest shadows. We are thought warriors! We will emerge from the cave of past horrors into bright fields of new realities, walking through new perspective-blossoms of curiosity… read more
Malaika Vardak Google DSC Lead	How Leading a Google Community in a Foreign Land taught me the Company Culture In this talk, I will be sharing my experience of leading a Google club in my university and working with people in a foreign country. I will be sharing my leadership experience and also the smallest ways in which one can figure out the company culture in a foreign land. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Timea Turdean Social Entrepreneur at BELONGin.work	Why too many women leave Tech? Gender Equality in the US is said to be reached only in 208 years (https://hbr.org/video/6089754490001/when-will-we-reach-gender-equality). A big part of it is the under-representation of women in STEM field. It is sad to read about the fact that 50% of women in Tech leave the domain mid-career and that there is a leaky pipeline. In my talk I will present my findings on the topic of why this phenomenon happens. Raising awareness of what the problems are is a powerful start towards positive change. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ekaterina Voronkova Tech Entrepreneur and Mentor	How to generate new ideas and create successful technological innovations fast I will cover the following: - How to start generating good ideas for innovations even if you have never worked in technologies - How to test hypothesis so that you know that your ideas will potentially work or not without spending huge budgets - How to make a decision with which idea to go on with if all the data is collected and verified and you are still in doubts Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Emma Cowling Leadership Coach at Emma Cowling Coaching	Being Your Authentic Self It can be challenging to be yourself when you feel different from everyone else. It's so easy to end up trying to be someone you’re not in order to fit in. But this can take a massive toll on us. It may start small, but continuously having to prove ourselves builds up and drains our energy. It makes us less creative and intuitive, affects our performance and our ability to shine. When we show up in life with authenticity, we take on a different persona. The people we engage with see this and are drawn to us in… read more
Klaudyna Wrochna Drone and Data Systems Specialist at WeRobotics	Shifting the Power to Local Drone Experts (Drones for Social Good) It’s not about the robots, it’s all about humans and access. This sentence perfectly captures the spirit of the network of Flying Labs, which are local knowledge hubs in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The goal of Flying Labs is to accelerate the positive impact of humanitarian, health, development, and environmental solutions locally. Flying Labs also expand local markets by creating new jobs and businesses that offer robotics as a service and support local ecosystems. Through the Flying Labs network, we shift power from the global back to the local by ensuring that local… read more
Jo Riches Founder \| Life Coach \| Mentor at Ayres Consulting Ltd	Standing Tall - A mindset, not a measure In this session I will share insight and experiences from women in the IT/tech space, together with my own personal experiences, about what it means to lead with confidence, to have self-awareness and to know when you walk in a room, you totally own it from within. Looking at what experience has taught us; how we’ve overcome imposter syndrome, lack of self-belief, what we’ve learnt from our mistakes and the advice we wished we’d had earlier in our careers. This talk will provide you with 3 takeaway techniques to help you feel more resilient, have greater… read more
Nicola Martin MBCS Head of Quality at Adarga	We Need To Talk About Quality Quality is the responsibility of everyone, not just QA teams, so how do we ensure that everyone understands quality goals? How we communicate can mean success or failure for projects. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Hatixhe Bilibashi Founder/CEO at Make With ICT/Albanian ICT Academy	The Importance of Digital Education in Early Age This year all understood how important technology is the use of mass and by anyone. Life turned virtual in almost every aspect. The benefits of the technology using are indescribable for all. This facts showed us the importance of digital education in early age. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Rosana de Oliveira Gomes Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Omdena	AI & Society: How can technology make the world a better place? AI is commonly know for its great potential in industry applications such as costumer behavior, marketing, among others. However, these same technologies and methods can also be used for the better good of society and not only for profit. In talk, I'll provide an overview about the many challenges that society faces in the 21st century and how AI and other technologies can help us to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. I will present different AI and Machine Learning techniques and discuss their potential and several sectors such as energies and environment,… read more
Yaroslava Marushchak Lead Quality Assurance Engineer at Exadel	How to become a successful quality assurance engineer from scratch? I want to share my experience of the process of training interns in the field of software testing without a professional and educational level in the field of IT. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Lilia Gorbachik Product Manager at Intermedia	Product Manager. Expectation vs reality. The talk is about the most common misconceptions about the product manager's role. PM role is a hot topic now. It looks glamourous and desirable. I see a lot of people at the beginning of their career who are burnt out and doubt that PM is the best role for them. I'll review the most common misconceptions of a PM role and other circumstances that impact our perception and satisfaction of the PM role. I hope it will allow Product Managers to see the bigger picture and chose a company and product that meet expectations. Did you… read more
Tuuli-Anna Tiuttu CEO & Co-Founder at SDG Monitor	Bring your sustainability data alive Communication is a key in sustainability and it does matter how efficiently and transparently companies do it. Stakeholders are increasingly requiring companies to show impacts and measure progress towards the sustainability goals. Integrating sustainability plans to a global framework, such as the SDGs bring global aspect to what you are doing. Thus, technology plays an important role in visualizing timely data and presenting it in a coherent way. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ioana Muresan Founder at Transition Into Tech	Landing your first job in tech as a mid-career transitioner Join me in exploring some of the things you can do increase your chances of landing your dream job as a mid-career transitioner. We'll look at tried and true approaches for bypassing the dreaded applicant tracking system, getting noticed and invited to that first interview. Tips extracted from interviewing 25 successful career transitioners. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ruxandra Dariescu AI-ready Digital Transformation Scale-up Consultant and High-Performance Coach at The Product Schools	Deliverability® - the future of sustainable productivity Have you ever asked your colleagues how do they want to change the world? What if everyone can become a player conscious of the interaction's interconnection patterns in a project team that works together towards a common purpose? Picture a project team breathless, inundated in misunderstandings, conflicts, delays, overrunning costs, and unnecessary changes. Now fire up your imagination to picture all the possibilities available to solve the problems. Transform each individual's possibility into probabilities, and the team can breathe again. My… read more
Valencia Cleinwerck Pre Sales Manager at IOCO Qlik	The World is Shifting - Cloud Technology and Working at Home is the New Norm. How can I help you? The World is Shifting - Cloud Technology and Working at Home is the New Norm. How can i help you? As a woman in Tech, a leader in Business Intelligence, and a single mom I understand the value of time, goals and purppose. In our new Norm of COVID19 business want to save software cost but continue to push revenue . But Business Need Data and Insight in order to transform their business. In our personal lifes we need to wear many hats working from home.Business as Usual has become very Unusual. How can Technology help us make these Shifts.… read more
Rutuja Joshi Agile Coach at LogMeIn	Design effective OKRs for your team OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) is a goal management framework helping companies focus on the things that matter. By aligning teams, departments and individuals, OKRs provide a framework for measurable strategic outcomes to stretch and motivate, improving performance and growth. Progress is tracked and realised in a regular, repeated cycle of target and achievement. In this OKR Session, I will provide a comprehensive overview to the audience to the method that originated at Intel, were taken up by Google and are now the goal setting tool of choice at many well-known… read more
Mar Llambi Business Applications Architect at KPMG	Democratization of Technology through the Low Code In a world in constant change and with organizations forced to take disruptive decisions, technology is becoming less vertical to become a totally horizontal necessity. The opportunity to approach application development meets the need for many profiles to acquire technical skills: is there really a right way to achieve it? In this session I want to share with you the vision of Microsoft and how the thousands of partners around the world are we contributing to the #LowCode revolution. The most surprising point is that this revolution is not only changing the organizations from the… read more
Joanie Fredericks Founder and CEO at Ladies Own Transport Services	Passion, Humanity and Collaboration The issue of Violence Against Women has been a BURNING ISSUE for so many years that the lack of protection of women and the silence from law makers is a confirmation of the Patriarchal system that is still rampant in South Africa. Women's safety on public transport has always been a contentious situation and government is not doing anything about it. It became the elephant in the room, something that everyone knows about, few talks about and fewer still do something about. South Africa with its most Advanced Constitution is revered to in every single Gender Based Violence conversation -… read more
Sherry Bevan Leadership consultant at The Confident Mother	Manage your career with confidence and purpose to realise your ambitions In an increasingly competitive and uncertain world, it's not enough to work hard and trust to fate that you will get the career success you deserve. You need to manage your career with confidence and purpose to realise your ambitions. In this talk I cover the 3 Cs of Clarity, Commitment and Community. Did you like this session? Share to vote.