Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Margaux Miller Global Director of Community at Toptal	Welcome to the Women in Tech Global Conference Margaux is the virtual conference host and active contributor to WomenTech Global Network and is an overall advocate for diversity in tech as well as digital literacy and accessibility. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Lisa Youngers Vice President & International General Council at Tata Communications	Tata Communications Meet & Greet - Lisa Youngers We will get to know Lisa Youngers a two-time CEO, former Assistant Attorney General, who currently leads a team of 35 as Vice President and International General Counsel for Tata Communications. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Laurel Farrer Remote Work Expert, Forbes Contributor at Distribute Consulting	The Socioeconomic Impacts of Remote Work In March 2020, remote work transformed from an employment privilege into an international contingency plan. For years, experts have advocated for the potential impact of virtual jobs if adopted at scale, and now we're witnessing it. In this presentation, we'll explore how the ability to work from home is changing the lives of families, businesses, and communities around the world. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Lubomila Jordanova Founder & CEO at PlanA.Earth GmbH	Climate change will be solved only through collaboration What are the opportunities we can capture while addressing the issues of climate change? How can you engage the various stakeholders so they all fill the same sense of urgency? Lubomila will speak about the benefits of collaboration and how driving change requires more than investment and time. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Tineke Bakker - van der Veen Managing Director and Founder at Blue DragonFly Consultancy	The Future of Transport Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Furkan Karayel Award-Winning CEO & Inclusive Leader Advisor - Founder at Diversein.com	How to Build Your Leadership Profile as a Woman in Tech This session equips leaders and women who work in technology industry at all levels with the knowledge and skills to better understand how to overcome the challenges of career development for women from diverse backgrounds and build an effective leadership profile to lead across different cultures and build higher performing leaders and teams. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Yaliwe Soko South Africa Ecosystems Lead at cLabs working on Celo	Purpose vs evolution : How to thrive Every person has a unique purpose, but times and systems are constantly changing. How do you evolve without hurting your purpose? Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Emerald de-Leeuw Privacy & Data Ethics Specialist at Logitech	Privacy and Data ethics I will be sharing how advertising tech works, how the design of social media services is eroding our relationships, our mental health and societal fabric and what you can do to protect yourself and design products/services that are humane and ethically sound. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sahiqa Bennett Visionary Entrepreneur, CEO at Searchie, Mediscreen	Reopening Countries....Safely Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Katherine Mimnaugh Doctoral Researcher in Virtual Reality and Robotics at University of Oulu, Finland	Opportunities to Support Mental Health with Virtual Reality Nature Videos This talk will present scientific research exploring the mental and physical effects of being immersed in a panoramic nature video in virtual reality. I will explain the theories relating nature to human health, discuss the findings from research that was part of my master’s program and offer suggestions about opportunities for you to engage with this exciting new technology. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ime Linus Brown Software developer at MARITIME ACADEMY OF NIGERIA	STRIKING BALANCE AS A CAREER WIFE AND A TECH WOMAN My goal is to help women in technology build their career while they evolve with satisfaction. Technology is revolving, women can be part of the circle even with their kids, they can build their career in technology and stand out too. Every 8 women out of 10 women give up daily because they are overwhelmed, perhaps not accepted or they can not find the solution to that projects. There are easy steps to strike that balance and stay on top. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Elodie Lepaludier Senior Concept Designer/ Technology Lead at The LEGO group	Learning about technology through play. I'm passionate about new technologies. I believe that - through play - children can build a fundamental understanding of technology and develop skills that will benefit them later on in their life. I will talk about how learning through play is beneficial and see creative ways of applying it. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Elena Melashchenko Tech Team Leader at Moonfare	Bring the harmony with Domain-driven design (DDD) Building a big enterprise project can be quite a challenge, especially when the wrong direction has been taken from the very beginning. The reasons why projects might fail can be various. Amongst the most frequent ones lack of communication and engineers failing to understand how problems need to be solved can be listed. As a result - the written code is difficult to adjust and refactor, tasks are not finished on time and in general the code does not reflect what it was meant to. In “Domain Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software” written by Eric Evans… read more
Rachel Lawson Community Liaison at Drupal Association	Come for the Software, Stay for the Community. What makes the Drupal Community so special? "Come for the Software, Stay for the Community" has been a slogan used about the Drupal Community for many years. So what makes it so special? What is it that we do in Drupal that means thousands of people have decided to make it their home over the last 19 years? Rachel will talk about those things we have learned to do well, the places we have tripped up along the way and the things that we plan to do in the future to ensure that we always live up to our values and principles. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Aleksandra Swierzynska Director of Customer Centricity at OLX Group	Journey towards customer centricity Customer centricity is sometimes misused but a very straightforward and powerful term. It means to put the customer in the heart of the organization and make sure that every decision the company takes address customer well-being. And it pays off! Happy customers spread positive experiences, buy more and stay loyal. Join the session to understand what are the core principles to succeed in the tech world and beyond in creating a great customer experience. Get a glimps on how create culture, product and services that customers love. I will bring experience and best practices from… read more
Diana Stefanova Vice President of Global Site Strategy at VMware	What’s the Future of Work? As we navigate this global pandemic, the future of work is changing and permanently transforming the way we work, learn, connect and simply live in community with each other. Diana will discuss what are the challenges and opportunities ahead of us and how this change is going to impact women in tech. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sailaja Vadlamudi Director -Security, Data Privacy & Application Security Lead for India at SAP	Bounty Hunting in Physical Era – Bug Hunters in Digital Era The Covid-19 pandemic situation is lasting longer than we expected. On a positive note, the situation has fast-tracked digital transformation enabling most of us to work remotely. This has become the new NORMAL This opens many more opportunities to explore to secure landscapes and digital platforms need many more good actors alongside challenging malicious ones. Let us explore how cybersecurity and data privacy domains redefine job roles beyond freelancing in the talk "Bounty Hunting in Physical Era – Bug Hunters in the Digital Era." Did you like this session? Share to vote… read more
Floriane Gramlich Director Product and Managing Director at Naspers GmbH / OLX	OLX Group Info Session: What Covid-19 helped us to learn about leadership Leadership is now more important than ever. In times of crisis, you clearly see the good leaders or the absence of it. I look at difficult times as opportunities to learn - from good and bad examples - and to take the output to find your own leadership style and right values. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Inna Grynova Head of Support at Revolut	Managing Generation Z: What we all need to change in order to lead young professionals to success. Genration Z is the newest generation which is represented in your company by the young professionals in their early 20s. They are different from Millenials, hence applying classical managerial tools will no longer be so efficient. As a manager of 400+ people organization, which mostly consists of Gen Z, I will share my experience and the best practices in leading the new generation. Join this session to: - Understand the needs of Generation Z at work. - Learn the practical tools and solutions you can use to increase their motivation and success.… read more
Agata Fraszczak Product Manager - Data Products at OLX Group	Fast iteration and quick ideas validation in the Machine Learning world. Have you ever invested long days in building a feature or creating a Machine Learning Model that never ended up impacting the user behavior? Or as a Data Scientist, have you ever struggled with identifying the most effective parameters for your model? In our company we observed many situations like this, until the teams started applying the Experimentation approach to their product development. This concept is commonly known as AB testing, where user behavior is compared between groups using the changed and unchanged version of the product. Not only did it allow them to… read more