Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Nritya Ganesh Director, Edison Accelerators at GE Healthcare	Edison Accelerator: working with founders and start-ups to be stronger together Edison TM Accelerator is GE Healthcare’s collaboration program, allowing start-ups to collaborate with GE Healthcare on areas of mutual interest to co-develop solutions that can then be jointly taken to market. The start-ups learn from the Healthcare and Information Technology expertise for which GE Healthcare is well known and thus enhance the value proposition of their business ideas. The aim and the purpose of the program is to create advanced health tech solutions that will help healthcare providers deliver precision health across the care continuum, with better outcomes and experiences… read more
Anshul Agarwal Principal Design Researcher at Intuit	The most important tool in a researcher’s toolkit: Listening skills More often than not, we listen just enough to go by in the conversations. Just heard enough to find a pointer so we could speak in meetings. Just heard enough to find a commonality so we could share our stories in friendships. Just heard enough to get a signal to get our work done. As a user experience researcher for top companies, namely Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Intuit, I’ve spent a decade moderating hundreds of interviews with participants to uncover how people think about a product and how their real-life context impacts how they use a product. Listening skills have formed 90% of… read more
Vilma Mattila CBO at 5ire	Blockchain and Sustainability No one can deny the benefits achieved through technological advances. However, the growth rate and momentum of the fourth industrial revolution raised questions about the directions it is leaning toward and about the lack of control over it as it is wrapped in a for-profit paradigm that only focuses on maximization and economic profit while ignoring sustainability and service of humanity. On the other hand, Blockchains have demonstrated an impressive ability in bringing people to consensus and unity of purpose. Nevertheless, present-day state-of-art and implementations face many challenges… read more
Sue Lynn Withrow Scrum Master and Holistic Productivity Coach at Withrow Consulting	Staying motivated and achieving Holistic Productivity using Agile principals As a scrum master and Holistic Productivity coach, I make my living by helping others follow a framework to be their most productive selves. I combined my professional day job with holistic principles to create a balanced framework that can be applied not only to software development companies but to all of us, remote workers, entrepreneurs, and even students at college! Scrum is a lightweight framework that allows us to get twice the work done in half the time. I found that combined with my methods, I can decrease people's stress and anxiety levels. This is especially useful in… read more
Trista Pan Co-Founder & CTO at SphereEx	From IC to CTO, the thinking and story of this title change from woman perspective She is the CTO and Co-Founder of an open source SaaS commercial start-up that has received seed funding from some of the world’s top VCs. Her light speed, and empowering entrepreneurial journey started just half a year ago – when open source enthusiast, Apache member, distributed database developer, and DBA were the hats she was wearing. Having gone from being a woman developer in the open source world to CTO, didn’t simply mean a change in her title: it brought deep changes starting from her perspectives on technology, the open source community, and approaches to… read more
Harsha Ravindran CEO & Co-Founder at Ascendance	Organizational Culture - The voice of Gen Z Harsha has connected with over 35,000 Gen Zs over the past 7 years, in her role as CEO and Co-Founder of Ascendance, an international youth movement. She has also interviewed over 100+ C-Suite Executives from Meta, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Disney, Google etc to hear the concerns regarding Gen Zs and the Great Reshuffle. Being a Gen Z herself, she has spoken at conference on what engages the Gen Z at work and the vision of the future with Gen Zs. She shares the optimal culture to bring out the best in Gen Zs which also prepares the organization to meet ESG requirements too. … read more
Aparna Shah Account Manager at Big 4	DE&I Conscious Technology With a magnified focus on DE&I across industries, it is imperative that technology enables a firm's vision on Trustworthy and Ethical commitments. The session will focus on how to enable and enhance this journey of incorporating the ethical perspective to technology for a future readiness. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Usha Khatiwada Dr. at NRN Infrastructure & Development Limited	The need of digital marketing and technology in a developing country We are living in an era of a technological revolution that is disrupting and transforming business, government and society alike. All are being challenged to adapt and keep up with the change. This is especially true of governments, which have struggled to deliver growth and prosperity, are trapped in inefficient and obsolete development models, and now have a responsibility to lead digital transformation. So digital marketing becomes a necessity. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Rittika Basu Visual Designer at Merkle - A Dentsu Company	Age and Interface: Equipping Older Adults with Technological Tools Older adults are an integral part of any family, community and country. They can provide knowledge, experience, support and love to younger family members and friends. However, we often observe our grandparents struggling with smartphones and computers. In 2015 according to Pew Research Center, 11% of older adults do not feel confident when using modern electronics. The objective of this talk is to promote digital literacy, bridge the digital divide, empower as well as build confidence among older adults and elderly netizens. Additionally, embracing technology will help in reducing… read more
Sophia Priyadarshini Customer Success Growth Manager at InstaSafe	The What, Why and How of implementing a Zero Trust Security Model A Zero Trust Security Model employs concepts beyond the traditional confines of network security. Trust is not an entitlement. Access needs to be gained through a comprehensive process. Let’s explore Zero Trust and how enterprises can leverage security solutions as a foundational step in their journey. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Jency Stella Lead QA Engineer at Billennium IT Services (M) Sdn. Bhd.	Codeless Testing with POSTMAN Abstract: APIs are one of the limelight topics in recent years, everywhere we can hear this term. Even though APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have existed ever since software existed, in recent years it has become a critical requirement for being able to scale and grow your Product. APIs allow pieces of code to bridge together as applications so they can work cohesively together. API Testing has reached stardom nowadays. This process helps to ensure that performance, functionality, security, and reliability of software meet expectations - in other words, that… read more
Kalpana Bansal Solution Head - skills & talent at DarwinBox	Adding Intelligence to Talent As organisations evolve, managing talent becomes critical to scale and profitability. With the evolution of the workforce and the challenges of location and decide agnostic work, matching opportunities to talent has been a field of interest for multiple organsiations. AI is helping organsiations rediscover their human inventories and reinvent them for jobs of the future. Additionally jobs may be displaced as a result of Ai How does one marry technology with humans to be abreast of continuously evolving needs Did you like this session? Share to vote.… read more
Pricilla Bilavendran Team Leader at Billennium	A WholeHearted Approach to Technical Leadership Did you inherit a new engineering team, while gaining additional leadership responsibilities during this global pandemic? As an engineering leader, I knew that I would have to rely on more than just my technical knowledge to integrate and scale my teams, while also focusing on building an inclusive, EQ-savvy global workforce. Emotional intelligence, as cited by Harvard Business Review, accounts for nearly 90 percent of what sets high performers apart from peers with similar technical skills and knowledge. In this talk, I will share my personal experiences as a technical leader… read more
Shruti Sharma BXD/Manager at Consulting Services Firm (digital)	My learnings - Product Management in Consulting Product management is the buzz career these days and I have been at the intersection of building products over and over again but for our clients - How do we really put into practice everything that we read about being a PM? Is the theory enough to get into this role? What are some of the things that you really need to know that no books or learning courses can tell you about being a PM - That's what i have summarised from my personal experience in this presentation Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Richa Tamhane Data Engineer at Accenture	A Roadmap to become a Data Scientist My talk will have a clear roadmap to develop skills on the journey of becoming a Data Scientist. It will include everything from scratch - which programming language to master, how much statistics and maths to be learned, learning about databases, the use of machine learning algorithms and much more along with the free resources to learn from. It will also include how will it be possible to understand the responsibility to use data to develop solutions tailored to meet the organisation’s unique needs. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Annapurna Pradhan PhD Research Scholar at National Institute of Technology,Rourkela, India	Machine learning for Reliable Communication in 5G and 6G wireless systems About the Presentation: Machine Learning (ML) has shown a great potential in revolutionizing communication system worldwide. The ever-increasing complexity of the wireless network, and the emergence of novel use cases such as autonomous cars, industrial automation, virtual reality, e-health, and several intelligent applications, machine learning (ML) is expected to be essential to assist in making the 5G vision conceivable. The cognitive optimization of essential radio resources for efficient end-to-end communication, enabling improvement in conventional communication theories and new… read more
Shweta Sharma Senior Software Engineer at Intuit	You are beyond defeat, get ready for your next phase now! Mid-career professionals are often met with challenges when reentering the workforce. Employers view candidates with a career break as a high-risk proposition while individuals on a career break can have doubts about their abilities to relaunch their careers. The disconnect is a problem and can be solved through two career avenues for career reentry: direct hire route and returnship programs. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Renuka Reddy Director of Engineering at Contentstack	Microservices - Doing it right Have you ever been in situations where your software development cycle is slowing down, your application is buggy, and you find it difficult to release features without the risk of introducing more bugs. Are you considering moving from monolith to microservices to solve these problems? Have you already started that process and still are not able to get enough tangible benefits? Well, then that’s because you aren’t building microservices the right way! Microservices, if done right, can overcome all these typical problems and let you and your teams focus on what… read more
Aftab Ara Assistant Professor, Business Department, University of Hail,Saudi Arabia	The Opportunities of Explainable AI in Healthcare In healthcare, AI has deep penetration to improve the analytics and prediction models and identify anomalies and diagnosis patterns. Thus, AI use-cases in healthcare image classification, segmentation, and disease predictions [verma et al. 2022]. However, AI decisions in healthcare are critical, and EXAI plays an essential role in healthcare. With the use of aided technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, and assisted networking channels, healthcare 5.0 focuses on real-time patient monitoring, ambient control and well-being, and privacy… read more
Swati Bansal Software Engineering Manager	Leading Through Uncertainty: Strategies for Keeping Teams Inspired and Motivated in Difficult Times In this session, you will learn how to lead a team in uncertainties and always encourage your team members: - How to be a good leader in a time of uncertainties and challenges? - How to be calm in case of lots of changes, restructuring, and keep up your team morale Did you like this session? Share to vote.