Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Miri Rodriguez Head of Global Internships at Microsoft Corporation	Elevate your personal brand with storytelling The moments and lived experiences that have shaped and influenced who you are today are the very foundation of your personal brand story and what makes it unique. In this insightful and lighthearted session, Miri offers personal examples and key strategies for building and leveraging your origin story with to effectively elevate your brand for success. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Kathryn Thornton Chair, Board of Directors / Professor Emeritus at Space Foundation / University of Virginia	Awards Program Keynote Dr. Thornton will share her background as an astronaut, educator and aerospace community leader and the lessons learned along the way. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Narjes Boufaden CEO at Keatext	Inclusion and diversity in AI Artificial intelligence is transforming every walk of life, from banking to telecommunications, social media to e-commerce. But as with any technological advancement, its development comes with questions and challenges about ethics, diversity, and inclusion. Since AI mimics human cognition, do these technologies reproduce the human biases observed in society? Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Kuppulakshmi Krishnamoorthy Global Head at Zoho for Startups	How Software Applications Intersect With Women in Tech, D&I, Emotional Intelligence, and the Future of Work Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Nicole Helmer Future Workforce Needs at SAP	Finding the Root Cause of the Ethics Crisis in Tech Observing the symptoms of the ethics crisis in tech is easy - fake news, echo chambers, lack of regulation. But determining how to address these before they start requires deeper evaluation of the root cause. Relying on time-tested business theories we identify the source and from there we can more effectively debate solutions. Please join me for an engaging presentation and discussion on how to address the ethics crisis in tech. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Mary Spio CEO at CEEK VR	Innovation is Not Rocket Science Did you like this session? Share to vote.
D'Lovely Gibson Delivery & Operations Director	Building and Sustaining High Performing Teams You have a gold mine of talent on your team. Today more than ever, making time to engage your team, highlight their successes, dig in to resolve obstacles and add support where needed builds trust and enhances their commitment to keep striving for the best outcomes possible. It is critical that as leaders, we don't lose site of the rockstars that bring it, day in and day out, to build the technology needed to meet and exceed our customers' expectations. When it comes to building new teams, it is just as important to set the tone as not just a director, but as a… read more
Blessing Adogame Student	Putting the Personal in Personal Branding As much as you spray impressive keywords on your LinkedIn profile, it's your personality and character that ultimately reveals itself. Once we look past your title, achievements and status, we just see you. Your story is a key ingredient in your personal brand, so this session will dive into how you can build your brand on the foundation of your personality, potential, presence, pain, passion and people. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Natoshia Anderson CEO at Smart STEM. LLC.	Lead Like a Woman In STEM Leading like a woman in STEM is about honing those leadership techniques and skills that you probably already have but didn't know you'd need in leadership. Its more important than ever that we have women in leadership within STEM. If we hope to increase the numbers of women in STEM in general, we must have good, resourceful, powerful, and thoughtful women in leadership within STEM. This session will give some good tips to begin your leadership journey. You will learn about the C3PN system to leadership. This session is for those looking to become leaders or are new in a… read more
YURY NIÑO Site Reliability Engineer at ADL	Resilience Engineering: Why Break your Software with Chaos Engineering? Web applications live in an imperfect world in which outages are around the corner. Recording, triaging, tracking, and measure the incidents that impact our applications is difficult, time-consuming, and requires talent and experienced engineering. Aware of this, Chaos Engineering introduces the injection of failures as a discipline for building confidence in the resilience capability of the systems.. We would like to tell about our journey, sharing our experience, what we learned and the challenges that we identified. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Melonie deGuzman Co-Founder of Rogers Women in Tech, Agile Project Manager, Mentor, Public Speaker	Breaking through your limiting beliefs I’ll be sharing my story on how I pushed through my limiting beliefs in order to start advocating not just for myself, but for women in tech. This is going to be an interactive session, where I will be asking questions throughout the talk, and you’re encouraged to participate. I'm excited to hear all of your thoughts and opinions. At the end, you'll be given a list of tasks to do (please bring a pen and paper) in order to start implementing what you've learned, and there will be time for Q&A. Did you like this session… read more
Lisa Zeeveld COO at BELAY	Working Remotely, Effectively and Productively In the midst of COVID-19, many businesses are rounding a new curve of their own, learning how to operate effectively and productively at a distance. With all sectors of business impacted by quarantine and shelter-in-place mandates, how can businesses thrive during these unprecedented times? Lisa Zeeveld COO of BELAY can share successful strategies and insights on leading teams remotely. BELAY has been 100% remote for almost a decade and has created a vault of resources and tools to help companies stay ahead. Attendees will walk away with a better sense of: *How to choose the… read more
Kavya Krishna Co-founder at Society of Women Coders	Social Entrepreneurs and COVID19 Would be talking about the affect of COVID-19 on the biggest Tech+ social entrepreneurship projects of the world. It would be centered around case studies followed by the do's and donts. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Rocio Aldeco-Perez Research Associate Professor at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Why are there so few of us in Tech? Experiences from Latin America Have you wonder why there are so few women working in Science and Technology companies? In this talk, some factors are discussed and analyzed focusing on Latin America to later present some efforts, by different companies, governments and civil association including their results and impact. All of us have a common factor: the use of technology, and even more now. Finally, we will discuss how each of us can be part of this. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Brittany Sherell Coach + Speaker at Brittany Sherell Consulting	Save Yourself & Your Biz: Self-Care for Sustainability Employee burnout costs businesses an average $300 billion yearly in missed work and increased healthcare expenses. The undeniable sting of burnout leaves companies clamoring for resources to plug the talent leak. But the truth is, When employees do what they love, it shows in the work they do. Satisfied employees are 57 percent less likely to experience burnout. Enabling employees to work to their strengths helps to keep them engaged, improves their productivity, and increases the likelihood they remain in your organization. However, that’s just not the reality of the… read more
Cecilia Chapiro Founder at Yunus & Youth	Corporate Leaders Using Technology to Accelerate Youth Entrepreneurship in Times of COVID Unemployed youth has risen to over 71 million people worldwide. One and again we see that the younger generation of social entrepreneurs have great ideas with grassroots solutions to tackle innumerable social issues, and though they are equipped with much enthusiasm and desire to challenge the status quo, they lack the business tools and guidance to succeed. Simultaneously, corporate women tend to be more sympathetic about social issues, especially today when COVID-19 is spiking youth unemployment levels and they want to contribute their skills and expertise to support SDGs… read more
Dominique West Senior Cloud Security Consultant at Ernst and Young (EY)	Creating your cloud security strategy with a DevSecOps Mindset As enterprises increasingly seek the innovation & business growth opportunities cloud adoption can provide, many are discovering it comes with numerous new security challenges that stagnate, block or even reverse strategic digital transformation initiatives. This talk is aimed at answering the question of how security and IT teams can sufficiently prepare and monitor their environments to ensure the shift to the cloud be as clean, efficient and secure as possible with the agility of DevSecOps. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Kristina Azarenko eCommerce & Technical SEO Consultant at MarketingSyrup	Navigating the technical world of SEO as a woman - My back story that shows how I came to technical SEO and why I was always blaming myself for not being seen - How things changed in Canada. And how I found myself in the same situation again working in a company where I was the only female - What helped to realize that something was wrong - How an imposter syndrome plays a role in our lives making us undervalue our achievements - What helped me fight it and will help everyone as well - Which conclusions I came to and tips I can share with other women to help them feel valued and start cleaning their value… read more
Aashni Shah CEO at Elixir Labs	Hype Yourself, You're Worth It At some point in time in your career, you will have to prove your value, whether it's to get a new job, a promotion, or simply recognition for work you've done in the past. It can be very hard to talk about your accomplishments without either underselling yourself, or feel like you're boasting. Hype Docs are a living list of your achievements, and the best reminder about all the things you have accomplished! Learn some tips and tricks on how to start and use your Hype Doc. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Achia Nila Founder, Managing Director at Women in Digital	Empowering Women through Technology Access to technology, control of it, and the ability to create and shape it, is a fundamental issue of women’s human rights. Global Fund for Women’s Technology Initiative aims to help end the gender technology gap and empower women and girls to create innovative solutions to advance equality in their communities. Women can work from home by using technology. For instance, with a mobile phone, a pregnant woman in a rural area can stay connected to a midwife. For other women and girls, Internet access and a mobile phone can mean access to a bank account for the first time, a new tool to learn… read more