Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Lizette Spangenberg Head of UX/UI Design at DVT	Designing UX for future products With all of the technological advances in the world, what will products and their UX look like in the near future? In this session, you will learn what will shape the UX landscape in coming years when every year brings new advances in technology and User Experience, changing the future for the better. It will provide the principles behind UX design and provide insights on redefining the user experience for users with the help of technology. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Lauren Abramsky Software Developer at Vault Platform	Empowering employees to speak up with tech Everyone deserves to feel safe at work. Yet 1 in 2 women in the UK have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace, according to research from the TUC. Harassment can be devastating to workers’ mental and physical health. Feelings of powerlessness and loneliness can then be amplified by an arduous reporting process. In the US, the EEOC estimates that 75% of all workplace harassment incidents go unreported. It’s clear that existing reporting tools and processes are not working. During this event, Lauren will share her story as someone who has experienced… read more
Nahia Orduña Manager Solution Architecture at Amazon Web Services	How to future-proof your career Last year, the World Economic Forum released a report estimating that by 2025, 85 million jobs may be displaced by a shift in labor division between humans and machines. But don’t panic just yet. The same report that predicts robots will soon steal our jobs also says that even more roles will open as a result of this shift — 97 million to be exact. These are the “jobs of the future,” and they are actually better opportunities. Ask yourself these three questions to identify the “jobs of tomorrow” worth applying to, and future-proof your career. Did you like this session… read more
Giovanna Faso Head of Engineering Operations at OLX Group	Why we need to talk Tech Excellence Good intentions and top talent alone will not drive your organisation to your goals and more often than not what is needed is nested under the categories of HR, Culture, Ops and Change management. Tech Excellence is the translation of Operational Excellence in the world of fast-moving high-growth organisations and this talk will wrap up the key themes that TechEx works in. Find out what TechEx is, how it helped us at OLX and how it might help you today! Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Maria Luisa Engels NeuroChangeSolutions Consultant at Maria Luisa Engels	Mindset matters: the neuroscience of change and transformation We live in a disruptive world of constant change and multiple challenges. How we adapt and progress depends a lot on how our brains are wired. We need to learn to be resilient and adapt intelligently in uncertain conditions. While designing and implementing new technologies is important to adquire the right mindset to develop them and make the best use of them to the service of others. In this talk I will show you how our brain and body work together and create your perception and how this perception conditions your decisions and results. Finally I will show you how a change… read more
Erina Haile Certified High Performance Coach	Simple Secrets to Amplifying Joy, Confidence, and Meaning in Our Lives Living fulfilled in every area of our lives doesn't have to be so difficult. Most of us try the typical path of Start something->be passionate and work hard->focus on strength->practice, be grateful, and stick to it. Then we discover that what leads to initial success is not sufficient for long-term success. The good news is there is a scientifically researched process that can result in us getting what we want so long as we show up and work for it. That process is what I want to teach you. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Helen Laktionova Solutions Architect at Spryker	Order Management System in E-Commerce There is no doubt that the Order Management System (OMS) is the heart of the majority of E-commerce projects. But what is the best way to implement it? In this talk, we will have a look at the implementation in general, discuss alternatives and check some basic examples. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Leonor Frias Senior Software Engineer at Ocado Technology	Building a path to technical leadership Recently, I had the opportunity to take on a temporary leadership role. This was my first time leading a team, although I have always had a leader's character: eager to organise events, lead initiatives, proactive attitude, build connections and, most importantly, caring for those around me. In this talk, I will share some of the lessons learnt on this path (that I'm still building) and, hopefully, this will encourage those of you who are currently hesitant about aspiring to leadership roles. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Richlyn Tamm International Team Lead of Product & Technology at idealo internet GmbH	How To Keep & Develop Tech Talent Using EQ In a world where everything is shaken and divided, find out how you can create an emotionally intelligent environment, that not only attracts and keeps talent but develops their EQ to help navigate such challenging times. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
ANIL BRUG Co-Founder/ Growth Business Development Head at MiniBold	Digital Parenting and Digital Ethics on Datascience The importance of our breathing quality and the mindful technology are important concepts in the Age of Instagram for adults, children and teens. Digital Apnea is the 2nd worst thing that we can do to our body, mind and spirit. Let's play together and let's have some fun with breathing games for our digital wellbeing. You will find many critics about digital ethics and data science in this playful end joyful presentation. Anil Altas Brug has introduced the concept of Digital Apnea in her book ‘Breathe With Me’. In her studies, she drew attention to the digital… read more
Sasha Sternik International Development Consultant / VC specialist	Why it is crucial to bring more women in technology, and how it works in Central Asia This talk is dedicated to gender issues from the Central Asian perspective – why there are problems, how is the situation now, and what we can do to make it better. And most importantly – why should we anything at all? During the talk, listeners will learn about the rising importance of the region, initiatives on the ground (including Tumaris Tech – the first region-wide initiative empowering girls and women in IT), and how states handle the situation. They will also learn about the technological development in Central Asia, including the VC perspective. Did you like this session?… read more
Sophie Theen Chief People Officer at Oakam	Start driving your career now! Often being a woman in tech meant we're overshadowed by the other dominance in the industry. The time to end this is now. Women are just as qualified, resilient, and most of all, are holding crucially important leadership roles in tech. So via a mastery framework for career management, let's learn to put ourselves back in the driver seat. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Swathi Shyam Sunder Technical Project Manager at Siemens AG	Navigating Global Diverse Teams Do you work in projects where even small delays and changes could result in significant impact and costs to the involved stakeholders? Do you drive strategic projects with practical implications for end-users and businesses? Then you are most likely aware of the kinds of difficult situations team members and project managers are confronted with. Moreover, owing to the current uncertain times, remote work has become the norm for more than a year now. This change brings with it different opportunities as well as challenges, one of which is working and collaborating with virtual… read more
Ieva Dvilinskiene Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer at FlowSpace	Future of Work is local and brings more gender equality Future of work is flexible, empowering and local. It's time to reimagine our work week, work life balance and more sustainable living. Think about a 15 min city vision - where you live, work and operate within 15 minutes of your home. You stay local and build your life in your community. You live more sustainably and don’t waste hours travelling to that unnecessary meeting in the city centre. Instead you work to your own schedule finding your flow, so you can be more productive and accomplish more of your best work, and create work-life flow. Office, as we know it,… read more
Ekaterina Matveeva CEO at Amolingua Ltd	How to Manage International Teams Forging connections and acknowledging similarities will lead to attitudes and behaviours that capitalise on human differences for organisational success. We will discuss CQ - Cultural Intelligence - and how to apply it to global teams stretching through multiple time zones and cultural capitals. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Monika Bercu Chief Technology and Product Officer at Demandoo Insurance	Digital innovation in "old" industries "Old" industries need to keep up with the new generations in order to stay relevant, insurance as an example, need to disturb itself to provide the best personal solutions to z generation Did you like this session? Share to vote.
María Grandury Machine Learning Research Engineer at neurocat GmbH	Hands-on NLP with Hugging Face Hands-on introduction to the state-of-the-art Hugging Face NLP libraries. Natural Language Processing (NLP) has evolved greatly and become increasingly popular in recent years, especially since the introduction in 2017 of the Transformer architecture. Thanks to the open-source Hugging Face libraries, we all have access to cutting-edge NLP models that can be easily used to address a wide range of tasks. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Shivangi Aneja PhD Student at Technical University of Munich, Germany	Catching Out-of-Context Misinformation with Self-supervised Learning Despite the recent attention to DeepFakes and other forms of image manipulations, one of the most prevalent ways to mislead audiences on social media is the use of unaltered images in a new but false context, commonly known as out-of-context image use. The danger of out-of-context images is that little technical expertise is required, as one can simply take an image from a different event and create a highly convincing but potentially misleading message. At the same time, it is extremely challenging to detect misinformation based on out-of-context images given that the visual content by… read more
Jeannette Gorzala Attorney at Law I Head of AI, Digital Regulatory & FinTech at SVLaw	Legal design building blocks of future tech business models New technologies, such as blockchain technologies and artificial intelligence, are emerging rapidly. With new developments and business models comes the question on which key issues need to be observed from a legal perspective. Even though frameworks are currently still being refined, certain legal design cornerstones are significant internationally. To get an overview of selected significant legal trends and key aspects, join this session with Jeannette. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sumana Saha Software Engineer at Ratepay GmbH	Test Driven Development (TDD) in practice TDD is a design technique that guides the development of software through testing. With TDD, test cases are written before the code which they test, in a technique called test-first programming, which forces the developer to think about what could possibly go wrong even before the implementation itself begins. Experiments and observations in the industry have shown that TDD increases code quality and reduces defect density. In this session, we will see how exactly we can achieve this design technique for a working software / API. The idea behind Red-Green-Refactor will be discussed… read more