Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Daniela Herrera Director, Recruitment Operations and EDI at R/GA	Is your Interview Process (Really) Inclusive? Hiring a diverse team is imperative and needed –– but how do you, as a Leader, make sure that your hiring processes are intentionally inclusive? In this talk, we'll uncover how to identify inherent biases in your interview process, break down your talent attraction and hiring process to identify inclusivity opportunities, and discuss methods for expanding your talent pool. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sarah Baldeo CEO at ID Quotient	Digital Identity - Enabling the Metaverse This talk will focus on how digital identity will enable and inform a metaverse-focused Future of Work for AR/VR. As industries continue to evolve and undergo digital transformation change management strategies include establishing guardrails around remote work, fraud detection and cybersecurity. The intersectionality of digital identity and the metaverse bridge the gaps in building a foundation for decentralized approaches to a virtual social infrastructure. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Karime Salomon Quality Assurance Manager & Automation advisor	When leadership is the recipe and mentorship is the icing on the cake Leadership is a never ending learning process, no matter how many years of experience you have, if you are just starting or if you already have a relevant amount of years as a leader in different fields, this is a place where we are always learning, the world is evolving and many things have changed so our path as leaders should evolve too, one of my main points to talk about is about the importance of mentorship and how easy could be for us as leaders to use the GROW model for mentorship. From my experience this is the best way to keep learning, whenever you offer your guidance to somebody… read more
Brittany Sherell Executive Coach + TEDx Speaker at Elam & Co.	How to Overcome the Fear of Promoting Yourself This session is for women executives and entrepreneurs who know they need to "put themselves out there" more to grow their leadership and/or business but anxiety, fear and insecurity seem to make your stomach do flips to even think about it. You see others in your industry showing up big and crushing it, and you're tired of secretly wishing you knew their secrets to confidence. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Nickoria Johnson Chief Diversity Officer and Partner at Credera	The Intersectionality of Being a Black Woman in Tech: Take a walk with me Growing up as a young Black girl pursing an education and career in technology, I have faced many barriers and challenges along the way, unique to my intersectional identity. I wrote an open letter to my Black Girls in Tech which I would start with. I hope that sharing my personal journey, lessons learned, and data points around walking this walk hopefully will foster a new thread of empathy, inspire others to persevere, lean in, and uplift others, regardless of their race or gender. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Becky Gandillon Practice Lead, Data & Analytics at Centric Consulting	Hacking Your Vacation: Using Data Science For Fun Data can be powerful, meaningful, AND fun. Making data-driven decisions can level up your family vacation from awful to awesome. In this session, attendees will walk through a specific example showing how to analyze various data sources to avoid crowds, save money, and piece together a Disney World vacation that's more enjoyable for everyone. By walking through this process, attendees will learn the three keys to approaching data science problems: set goals, identify data sources, and then use results to get curious and ask more questions! Did you like this session? Share to… read more
Basia Coulter Lead, Business Hacking for Life Sciences at Globant	Hacking the Gap Between Business and Technology We're living through a time of extraordinary changes: technological, climate, and societal. Last year’s "IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry" predicted that 65% of global GDP will have been digitized by 2022. To adapt to the ongoing external change, and to become future-ready, organizations reinvent their business and operating models by leveraging modern technologies. And yet, 70% of change efforts fail to achieve their goals, largely due to lack of adoption. To reinvent themselves and to drive adoption of change from within, companies must rethink how they work. That… read more
Kaitki Agarwal Founder, President and CTO at A5G Networks	Career growth and moving up in corporate ladder Career growth and moving up in the corporate ladder is a big challenge that a lot of women face. It is a complex problem that is influenced by a lot of factors. On one hand, women are expected to be likable, gentle, and typical stereotypical personalities, on the other hand, they need to lead, make tough calls as per their professional job responsibilities. Women do not need to feel pressured to be what others are expecting. They need to know what they want to be, strategize and build a path to get to their goals. They don’t have to be likable, stereotypical people that… read more
Colleen Tartow, Ph.D. Director of Engineering at Starburst	Data Mesh and the Modern Data Stack Since the onset of modern computing, practices around data management for business analytics have largely been dictated by hardware constraints. As these constraints are lifted through the introduction of cloud computing and managed services, managing data infrastructure has become far less challenging, while performance and scalability have increased manifold across technology stacks. However, the so-called “modern data stack” is still predicated on the same legacy paradigm, simply with modern infrastructure. The concept remains unchanged: move data away from the source in order to do… read more
Shafia Zubair Manager, Information Security	Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - Contextualizing security risks High Level Summary of the presentation: This presentation will introduce to the audience how Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning can be used to improve cyber security as well as how it makes us vulnerable to additional cyber attacks. Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) coupled with Machine Learning (ML) has a tremendous potential to increase business value and create disruptive solutions, but the benefits of ML/AI must be contextualized against the risks it poses. The usage of ML/AI has increased exponentially over the last decade but security and… read more
Gladis Araujo Global Quality Vicepresident at Mattel	Skills for the Future of Work As the digital revolution continues to progress, the shortage of labor, global disruptions (COVID), aging society, accelerating climate change, a “skills gap” crisis is evolving affecting the future of work. Everyone will be impacted, but women more significantly. Many jobs will be displaced globally (46% according to Mckinsey & 70% according to Manpower in Mexico & LATAM) and many others will be created, but the necessary skills will not be there. Many of today jobs, will not exist tomorrow. There is an urgent need to continuously upskilling and… read more
Deepthi Goguri SQL Server DBA at Intone networks Inc.	SQL Notebooks to DBA's and Developers Organizing and documenting the scripts we reuse regularly is challenging to many data professionals. Do you usually get requests like "Hey, can you please pull up the audit report and attach the results to this email, please?" You are frustrated by looking at how many scripts you need to search and run? Copy, paste over and over again as you keep getting those types of requests. I totally understand and your frustrations are completely valid. No more frustrations. Empty those word documents and start using the hassle-free SQL Notebooks! How? Notebooks can help… read more
Roxane Sanguinetti Head of Stratgey at GHCO	Women in the investment industry: Why I left my high-flying career in trading to join a fintech start-up In 2019, I was rung up by a former colleague who asked me to join a fintech start-up. Many might think it was too risky to leave my trading job at a leading bank to get involved in a fintech project, but I saw it as an opportunity to build an exciting company to disrupt the ETF industry. Today, I would like to tell you a bit more about my journey and why women are still underrepresented in the investment industry. I will be talking about the initiatives I have supported to educate, encourage and empower women to take care of their finances and my time as an… read more
Lara Meadows VP, Sales Engineering	Channeling Passion to Drive Success I'm an engineering people leader who likes to grow individuals while also growing our team. I believe that every person within an organization can make an impact, no matter the size of the contribution or the size of the company. I love empowering my team to build and be a part of growing our company, giving them visibility to higher parts of the organization. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Jamie Martin Leadership Coach at Jamie Martin Coach	How to Make Time For Your Goals, When You’re Drowning in To-Do’s Time is the most important resource we have… but many people find themselves strapped for it. You’ve tried it all before - calendar blocking, to-do lists, trello and every other system under the sun to break out of the “no time” cycle. You end up overwhelmed and exhausted with nothing left to give to our own goals. It doesn’t have to be that way. Come and learn some simple solutions so you can find the time and the energy to go after YOUR goals. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Nelly Yusupova CTO, Startup Tech Advisor, Founder of TechSpeak.co at TechSpeak.co	How to Cut Product Development Costs by up to 50% There is a difference between releasing code and releasing code effectively and efficiently. That difference is an efficient process. A repeatable way to produce consistent results over and over again. Join Nelly Yusupova, CTO with 18 years experience, Startup Tech Advisor, and creator of TechSpeak for Entrepreneurs, where she will share the process she uses to manage teams and projects to deliver projects on time and on budget. You will learn: The lean vs. traditional way of building products Two money saving things you should do before you build… read more
Joanna Lovering Founder and CEO at Copper + Rise	Return to Work With Presence After multiple years of the pandemic WFH life, the thought of returning to an office can be daunting. While we did it for decades before COVID, suddenly being thrust back into in-person meetings in conference rooms, navigating a corporate culture, random (yet impactful) water-cooler talk, and even dressing like a leader can feel like skills we haven't practiced in quite a long while. This is where executive presence comes in. Executive presence as how you speak, how you act, and how you look. Using concepts from executive presence coaching, you can get rid of distractions… read more
Sabrina Macpherson Senior Product Manager, Enterprise Data Platform at Morningstar	Meaningful Impact: Making the Case for DEI Programs I spend a lot of time and energy promoting psychological safety and diversity to business audiences, and I work to execute programs that achieve equity and inclusion in meaningful ways. For those people who don’t have the perspective that I do, or who only ever see the performative programs run in some organizations, I think it’s fair to lay out the case for why a well-run DEI program should be a key part of every organization’s strategic objectives. I want to answer the question: “Why do we take it for granted that this work should be done in a professional environment?” I’ll… read more
Kate Maxwell Chief Technology Officer, Worldwide Defense & Intelligence at Microsoft	Cultural drivers for digital transformation  Companies and organizations around the globe are leaning into digital transformation initiatives. As part of that journey, it’s important to recognize that digital transformation is not just a technology story - it's also about people, process, and culture. In this session, we'll talk through some cultural enablers to focus on throughout your digital transformation journey, as well as best practices to set your transformation up for success. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Kaoutar El Maghraoui Principal Research Staff Member at IBM Research	Powering the Future of Sustainable AI through Specialized AI hardware Accelerators AI and especially deep learning have achieved incredible performances in numerous fields including Computer Vision, Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing etc. However, with this huge success, comes the increased size and complexity of AI models which both translate into high computational and increased carbon footprint. To address these challenges, there is Cambrian explosion of innovative AI hardware-accelerator architectures optimized for deep learning and machine learning across cloud and edge platforms. Purpose-built hardware will shift the traditional balances between cloud and… read more