Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Olha Trostianchuk Lead programmer	Not by code standards alone: why do tech specialists should be trained to use soft-skills. How to educate a team. In the IT community, the meaning of “soft-skills” acquired many extra details, quite often with negative meaning. People fully focused on the tech side of some system\product, can simply give up raising it, especially without formal “rules of the game” and with the permanent workload. As a team lead, facing both with the code and management tasks, the speaker found, how many failures can make developers, not ready and not properly prepared for justification their ideas in front of different level management. The topic, I want to present, is covered with the next parts: … read more
Micaela Romanini Business Development, Diversity, Event Director at VIGAMUS Foundation, Women in Games Italia, VLG Publishing,	Diversity and gender inclusion in the Games Industry. This is not a game! Diversity is a not only a ethical issue, but also an economic one. Over 10 years ago, according to the International Game Developers Association, only 11.5% of game developers identified as female. The number of women involved in all areas of the games industry has been creeping upwards, but, despite these encouraging statistics, women and people of color are particularly underrepresented in senior roles. But diversity in gaming isn’t about ‘political correctness’ or ‘pushing the gay agenda’, but more about people wanting to see themselves in video games. Games can help us approach… read more
Marina Petrakova Co-creator of Riga TechGirls, co-founder of XR Latvia and CEO of VReachApp at Women@EIT, Riga TechGirls	Community building and diverse content needs for sustainable women in tech growth Nowadays there are plenty of communities dedicated to support and inspire women in tech. Women, who start their career in tech. Women, who have already achieved their goals, but looking for inspiration to get to new level. So why do we need the community? If we can not support and inspire withouth community activities? Community building is the clearest bridge between inspirational examples, real needs, growth and practise. Growth can be achieved only in society, which we build. Than we turn to the next question - how should we build this bridge? With what kind of tools? So this bridge… read more
Neha Kumar Director of Product	How to define culture and build teams This session is for anyone thinking about how to build, hire, manage, mentor and retain a team. What happens when we go from 5 to 50 or 50 to 500? Attend this session for practical guidance on how to build and maintain culture. Key Takeaways: 1. Learn what culture is (and isn't) and how it determines who you hire, fire, promote 2. Practical steps for how to define what type of company you are 3. Understand how culture, processes and systems are connected 4. Who is responsible for building and maintaining culture - is this a single person's… read more
Ekaterina Petrova Director of GenerationS corporate accelerator at Russian Venture Company	Startup Accelerators amid a crisis During the session we will discuss the following topics: • Will the big companies still need an accelerators after the crisis is over and if yes, what this cooperation will look like? • Will there be a big demand for innovations after the crisis is over? • Besides startup scouting what other side innovation products and services can accelerator offer to a company? • Innovation corporate programs: how they are reshaping and what is the role of an accelerator. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Carolina Aguilar CEO & Co-Founder at INBRAIN Neuroelectronics using Graphene to decode brain signals into medical solutions	How to Engineer and Lead High-Performing Teams In Tech People makes companies and it's the most important asset of all. High performing teams can be engineered with high success’ probability. Diversity is actually one of the important drivers of high performance and superior decision making. However, diversity has been lagging behind in Medtech as historically most of the initial positions were filled by a quite uniform layer of engineers, most often mainly males. Over the years top and new Medtech companies have been putting a big effort on increasing diversity and is paying off. Diversity is a broad term but just taking gender In Medtech… read more
Mercedes Rodríguez Freelance chatbot & voice developer	Building Actions for Google Assistant from Scratch An intro about the voice sector, and how to build your first action for Google Assistant using Actions on Google and Dialogflow. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Megan Murphy Director of Product Management at Hotjar	Emerging trends from today's rapidly changing world, and how they impact the products we build for tomorrow The talk will focus on crucial signals emerging today that will affect the "why" behind which technologies we build for tomorrow. Some highlights include the following patterns that are surfacing as a response to the covid crisis: (1) Altruism everywhere, (2) The Darwinian effects of eCommerce favoring specific categories, (3) The shift from innovating on the new and frivolous to the necessary and value-based, and (4) opportunities presented from the largest work from home experiment in history. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Alenna-Dawn Magpantay Consultant for Digital Innovation Sandbox Program at Asian Development Bank	Building an impact driven society I’d like to talk about "Building an impact-driven society," my talk will be about using technology to align purpose and profit. This focuses on initiating innovative projects and solutions which combine economic sustainability with social and environmental impact. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Evelien Roos Agile Coach at Xebia	Building trust with online teambuilding In this interactive session we will discover why you need to take an extra effort when you want to build strong distributed teams. You will also experience a few ways you can use directly with your teams. They help you to build reliability, credibility and intimacy, the building blocks of trust. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Delia Mensitieri Motivation and Communication Coach	We starts with Me: living your values to create a brave new world When hearing about motivation, people often think about behaviors that motivates them. However, research shows that is not behavior that drives us, but values. This is one of the reasons why companies are focusing now on company values. A defined set of values, creates a company culture with a precise set of behaviors. But by doing so, companies don't realise they are creating clones. Creativity and innovation are driven by diversity, not by uniformity. The difference between coherence and alignement is the key here. In this talk we will explore your values, link them to your behavior… read more
Anna Derinova-Hartmann Head of Charter Tech Business at FlixMobility Tech GmbH	Why gender should not matter for your career, but you do! Having worked as a people manager, especially in Tech environment for a while now, I have come across lots of gender stereotypes deeply ingrained in our subconscious. Some of them are based on historical traditions, social constructs, industrial and business development patterns, gender constants. However, some are being nourished by our lack of confidence, fears and doubts. Should we battle those? Not necessarily! First, we learn and use our experience as a guide to become stronger and more resilient. We discover new techniques and progress further with every set of the way. Second, we… read more
Ansoo Gupta Chief Operating Officer at Pinstorm Technologies	Technology of the future must evolve in harmony with the planet For years the streams of science, technology have evolved searately from humanity's overall well being. We have made great strides in controlling many natural factors, but our real progress will start when we start working in collaboration with the planet, rather than trying to control and rule it. As women, we are specially skilled at building this nurturing equation. Ancient Indian wellness sciences hold many a philosphical and physiological keys to align ourselves, our technologies better with our enviornment. It's not by chance that quantum physics and spirituality share… read more
Lisa-Mo Wagner Senior Product Manager at Finiata GmbH	WTFacilitation - Remote Edition Imagine you are sitting in the 5th meeting of the day, no one is listening, no one is participating. This sucks for everyone in that (virtual) room. What if I told you, it doesn’t have to be that way. My experience spans across a ton of more or less catastrophic meetings, workshops and just situations and I have learned one thing: If they are facilitated well, you can accomplish anything! I want to share some of my tips and tricks about in-person and, at the moment more importantly, virtual or remote facilitation. Good facilitation will lead to better alignment,… read more
Shea Harty Managing Director at Empower Amsterdam	Overcoming the Pain of Selling "I'm not ready. I can't manage objections. I don't want to bother anyone." When it comes to sales, women are statistically the best. We have an intuition that guides us, we read nuance well, we create relationships quickly, etc. However, we're often more afraid than men to get out there and sell. We come up with all kinds of blocks that stop us from selling for our business. In this talk, we'll discuss some of those blocks and the ways you can overcome them. We'll also discuss some strategies that help before you get in the room and once you… read more
Emma El-Karout Founder and CEO at One Circle	‘The End of Work as We Know It … Infinite Possibilities and a New World of Work’ The shifting nature of Work today is top of mind for global leaders as they struggle with its very meaning and how to best prepare their organizations for a future that is increasingly hard to predict. With advances in technology, coupled with significant changes in talent mix and required skill sets, we require today more than ever not only a holistic overhaul of the organization, but an overhaul of the very definition of work itself. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Iliada Kothra Business Consultant/ Digital Storyteller/ Founder of #dontacceptit campaign/Writer at www.living-postcards.com	''Coronavirus and working from home: A new challenge for ambitious women in order to prove their productivity '' A lot of women want to work remotely, but they’re less likely to be given the option. But in the days of coronavirus, ‘home office’ became the new normal for many of them. Can an ambitious woman stay productive and calm at the same time working from her kitchen table surrounded by kids? A bet that needs to be won. (And it is not the only bet we have to deal with.) Key points discussed will be: 1. ''Ambition''. Is it still a taboo word for women? Why it is so difficult to admit that “I deserve this, because I worked so hard to get it, and I want more?'… read more
Saskia Listle Consultant, Speaker, Expert on Digitalization as a Facilitator at SLKC	How the Digitalization changes our understanding of leadership The Digitalization has deconstructed and reassembled many areas of our live. The digital sphere has led us into a new cultural era. Yet many companies try to act as if this would not affect their leadership. But the truth is: For companies to win the war for talents we need to see how the times are changing, what new cultural influences drive the people and how leadership has to change in order to meet them. In this session we will review where we came from, where we are and where we are going to. You will see what possibilities arise from the use of technology and what… read more
Anna Agu Co-founder of Lex Law Office, co-organizer of CryptoFin Conference, public speaker at Lex Law Office. Lex Law Office is a leading law firm that specializes in legal assistance for blockchain and Fintech projects.	How crypto projects work with the fiat world in which no one expects them and adapt to regulation No need to have some special or extra preparation to understand the topic Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Victoria Gerukh CEO at uTrigg	How behavior of users changed after COVID? And how companies can grasp their clients` needs? Behavioral patterns of users are an important aspect of customer experience & customer journey. We invented a new type of method on how to get a non-verbal channel of communication just from an online interaction. Benefits for business - know their customers better (KYC tool), raise their conversions online, and enhance retention. Did you like this session? Share to vote.