Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Anuradha Dodda Head of Engineering at Thomson Reuters	Leading yourself with purpose, passion and perseverance In this talk, I will share my journey as a leader in technology coming from diverse background and ethnicity on how I persevered to overcome adversity with a growth mindset. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Suba Vasudevan Vice President at Meta	Building trust among diverse leaders and groups Bringing together diverse groups to form leadership teams can come at a high cost. Driving trust upfront requires intention, focus, and an appetite for failure. In this talk we will discuss a few examples, pitfalls and strategies for putting together high performing leadership/management/senior cross functional groups while addressing trust deficit challenges upfront. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ashley J. Smith, PhD Smith Licensed Psychologist, Co-founder at Peak Mind: The Center for Psychological Strength	Thriving Through Uncertainty There's no question that we've all faced a tremendous amount of uncertainty and volatility in the last couple of years. As it turns out, our minds hate uncertainty, and they respond in some predictable...and not very helpful ways. But, by practicing psychological strength, you can navigate uncertain waters with more confidence and more peace. In this workshop, we will cover some key principles about the mind that help us understand why uncertainty and volatility can be so upsetting. Many times, if we can understand why we're having a difficult time, we can practice more… read more
Suzette Johnson NG Fellow, Lean-Agile at Northrop Grumman	Power of Pivotal Moments Those small moments that can make a difference. Those pivotal moments. It’s a question asked, or a decision made that, when nurtured, provides the opportunity to transform into something you couldn’t have imagined at that moment. That moment today can have a great impact tomorrow. We all have pivotal moments. I have reflected on my Lean-Agile journey that started over 15 years ago and will share with you some of my pivotal moments. I will share what the moment was, the lesson, and the impact. While my moments are different than your moments, we can learn from each other and… read more
Kaitki Agarwal Founder, President and CTO at A5G Networks, Inc.	Leading with Curiosity As a kid, I used to go on road trips with my dad. They were usually 4-5 hours car rides passing through many small towns and countryside in India. I got to see interesting things during the trips; there were always activities happening on the sides of the road (even highways) and in the towns. I was always inquisitive and used to ask many questions. Even as adults, our key to success is to stay curious, challenge the status quo, learn, and create opportunities. Success is not a destination; it is a journey where you continue to move forward to achieve the next thing and realize… read more
Karen Gondoly CEO at Leostream	The Pros, Cons, and Lessons Learned on Leveraging the Cloud to support a Hybrid Enterprise Workforce Implementing a robust remote access strategy is a strategic imperative for modern organizations. Taking a hybrid cloud approach when doing so, has become almost the de facto standard. Join this session to find out why now is the perfect time to embark on the journey to a hybrid cloud for your end-user workflows. In this session, remote access vendor Leostream provides an overview of the pros and cons of moving end-use computing use cases into a public cloud. We will discuss topics such as: 1. Key considerations when choosing the appropriate cloud for your end users 2. How… read more
Alexandra Robertson SVP of Growth at Visory Health	Building Health Tech From Home: Balancing Family and Executive Life In The Remote Work World It’s no easy task working as an executive in a male-dominated industry, but add being a mother to the list and it can sometimes feel near impossible. Alexandra Robertson, VP of Growth and Innovation at Visory Health, will present anecdotes from her past that will serve as examples of how women can succeed in the throes of juggling WFH, and balancing motherhood, and how personal development can serve women and their careers. Alexandra will share her philosophies on work-life harmony, what she is teaching her daughters through her work ethic and how she navigates to maintain a strong reputation… read more
Sireesha Chilakamarri CTO at AdMedia	Let's drive your own event driven application! I will discuss and walk the audience through a design of event driven architecture system with simple modules - no coding experience needed Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Aditi Sharma Managing Director at Accenture	Modern Data Platforms Point of view on Platform Modernizations and cloud Journeys clients are taking. Key challenges on realizing the value of cloud. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Alexa Robinson Scrum Master II at EPAM	Agile, Diversity, and How to Thrive in a Complex World Agile is a mindset that helps navigate complex situations. It is often leveraged in software development for business purposes, but it can also reinforce your diversity initiatives. Embracing agile and a diverse workforce change the ways of working to be more equitable and ultimately lead to more innovation and revenue. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Virginia Mayo Distinguished Engineer Security & Resiliency at Kyndryl	Cyber Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World Navigating through the post-pandemic business disruption requires leadership to be more agile because the old playbook no longer works. Many changes the pandemic brought into the work environment are likely here to stay. As businesses shifted their workers to work from home, safely, the explosion of personal devices – mobile phone, tablets, home computer – connecting to enterprise networks has introduced new threats to corporate security. The byproduct of this challenge is that the pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of companies. Investments in cloud, AI and automation is in… read more
Malia Lym Savvy LeadHER CEO at Retired Oil & Gas Engineering SME	Expanding Opportunities in Tech Through the Empowerment of Women To improve the tech industry, we must help the entire workforce understand exactly what transformation needs to happen to encourage an equitable, and ultimately more creative, workplace—whether the work happens on location, remotely, or in a hybrid model. Smaller steps, like encouraging flexible work options such as encouraging men to leave work early to pick up their children, will help set the stage for bigger steps toward better wellness for women in tech. Combined with access to better resources, lived experience displayed through storytelling can work toward decreasing… read more
Malia Lym Savvy LeadHER CEO, Oil & Gas Engineering SME at Savvy LeadHER	Understanding the Worth of Individuals in the World of Tech It has been a struggle for many women to understand and display their own worth in the workplace, and this is especially true for those in the tech industry. In addition, there is a need for leadership to help employees understand their own value through mentorship, sponsorship, and allyship as these tools will create more supportive relationships at work. While there has been a lot of discussion about whether or not women, especially in the tech industry, feel respected, what is truly needed is for professionals to learn how to identify and respond to the challenge of not… read more
Jessica McAulay Consultant, Revenue Operations & Business Intelligence at Inflectiv	Neurodivergence in Women in Tech – Superpowers on the Squad 1/5 of women working in tech are neurodivergent. I am one of them. In this presentation, I share the story of how I have survived and thrived in my technology career, despite living with a mix of complex diagnoses including ADHD, dyslexia and dual exceptionality. I will cover: - Being a neurodivergent woman in a male-dominated, neurotypical industry - How COVID and TikTok contributed to normalizing neurodivergence - The special skills neurodivergent women can bring to tech roles - Tips for success: how I summon (and manage) my… read more
Jill O'Boyle Founder / CEO at Jill O'Boyle Communications	3 Productivity Habits to Work Less, Get More Done & Reignite Passion & Purpose Have you ever found yourself in a state where you feel completely burned out, have a lack of focus, and feel completely disconnected from the world? Many of us have had a time in our life where we feel this pain and pressure to be in control, taking on one stress after another until we reach a breaking point. This cycle of burnout has a huge effect on our mind and body and can lead to an unhealthy lifestyle if we don’t put a hard stop to it. What if we could effectively learn how to deal with the stress and demands that life throws at us. What if we could banish burnout and start… read more
Ana Marin Head of Marketing at levva	Join the orchestra: how to orchestrate complex B2B sales with ABM 🎼 Discover how to orchestrate a seamless and highly personalized customer journey with ABM, which acts as the maestro of your sales process. Explore the key elements of ABM, including aligning your marketing and sales teams, creating custom content for key accounts, and measuring touchpoints to continuously improve the customer experience. Get ready to transform the way you sell to large companies and bring ABM to life in your organization. Join the orchestra, let’s play it together 🪄🎼 Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Tara Myshrall Regional Vice President Talend Canada and North US at Talend Inc.	Unleash The power of feminine leadership There is a difference between how men are supposed to act and how women are expected to behave. Whether it is correct or not, our society labels certain qualities as masculine and others as feminine. I learned in my early career that if I wanted to get ahead in life, masculine qualities were my ticket to success. Work hard, be smart, and gain a powerful position. Emulating those around me Working in a male-dominated industry, I followed the process that was laid out for me and did what my male counterparts did. I laughed at sexist jokes, drank scotch, smoked… read more
Karen Hough Chief Culture and Experience Officer at ImprovEdge	Lead Like an Improviser: Flexibility, Influence and Change Improvisers play, lean on their team and prepare relentlessly. Those behaviors also build incredibly strong leaders and allow people and organizations to navigate change effectively. This engaging, interactive experience explores four principles from improvisation that allow performers to embrace change, drop assumptions and influence outcomes – the secret is these same behaviors are seen in high-performing leaders and teams – across industries, no matter the size of the company. Leaders across the globe use the principles of improvisation to be flexible and agile in any situation. This… read more
Evelyn Chou Product at Coursera	Your toolkit to navigate the next reorg Organizational restructuring (reorg) affects employees who are on the receiving end of the changes. Having recently gone through this process, I reflect on my own experience and share a pragmatic approach to managing the uncertainties that come with it. I break down the process of gathering information in organizational turmoil into two categories and use a 2x2 matrix to assess our knowledge and awareness of the reorg. Only after we clearly recognize our agency can we start to focus on career growth. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Diana Kelley CSO at Cybrize	Threat Modeling AI and ML for Resilience Science fiction books and movies are full of general knowledge AI - hyper-smart, independent systems that can think for themselves and even repair themselves in a malfunction occurs. The reality is that while AI and ML can accomplish a dazzling array of sophisticated tasks, they are not sentient and unless some element of self-healing functionality is built in, they are not going to be able to fix themselves if something goes awry. Using a published framework for reference, we will explain what causes AI & ML to fail and enumerate intentional failures that can occur when a criminal or… read more