Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Windy Nicholson VP Tech & Product - Mergers & Acquisitions at Salesforce	Surviving in Tech While Female and Black 1) Surviving in Tech While Female and Black - Working in corporate America can be difficult when there are not enough underrepresented groups in leadership for representation or sponsorship. Having grit and the ability to mentor greatly help the next generations and provide diversity to help companies grow. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Liji Thomas Manager, Data + AI at Valorem Reply	Generative AI: The advent of Creative Machines 2023 is heralded as the year of AI, particularly Generative AI. What began with the generation of realistic content that did not previously exist has now moved on to win art competitions and deliver parliament speeches. In this session, we will discuss Generative AI-the technology that powers creative machines, the impact, the applications and the ethical concerns. Lets talk about talking to machines. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Kate Koraia VP of Tech at Kiwi Partners/Arabella Advisors	Cryptocurrency and Nonprofits Organization. Blockchain is game changer. Cryptocurrency is rapidly moving beyond early adoption and becoming gradually mainstream as more people want to do transactions, investments, and crypto donations. In 2021, cryptocurrency contributions to charity surged by 1,558 %. Crypto donations grew to $330M over the past two years, which underlines a high concentration of funds for those institutions that have adopted cryptocurrency systems. Thus, cryptocurrency is a fast-expanding form of charitable contributions that enables charities to reach a new demographic of contributors. Early adopters will be part of the first… read more
Tissa Richards CEO at Tissa Richards Leadership	How to Accelerate Your Way to a Board Director Role If you’ve ever thought, “There’s no place on a corporate board for someone with my background,” you're wrong. The time is now for CTOs, CSOs and CISOs to take a seat at the table. Boards are identifying and bringing on more directors than ever before with technology and security expertise, strategizing how to protect brand reputation, revenue, continuity and resilience. Learn proven strategies to launch your board journey or expand your existing board portfolio from a repeat cybersecurity tech founder, former CEO, and leadership expert, Tissa Richards. Tissa works with the world’s… read more
Claudia MARQUESANI CIO at Petz	Past, Present and Future of Women in Organizations: Factors That Promote and Challenge Gender Equality in IT As a Tech C-level, the question I always faced was: how did you get there? Why do so many of us women drop out along the tech career path? Why so few women in this segment? This talk is about gender equality in Technology. It´s a result of my master's study, research carried out with women and men and which seeks to determine the factors that drive and hinder the career of women in technology, in the different stages of their journey: beginning, intermediate (between 5 and 10 years) and in the ascension to leadership. An amazing conversation for girls, women and executives, which… read more
Julie Casteel Chief Strategic Accounts Officer and CMO at ibex	How To Level Up Your Career Path and Maximize Your Personal Growth Opportunities A study by McKinsey research revealed that women in technical roles consistently lose ground in the step up to a managerial position. While companies should do more to close this gap, there are steps women can take to level up their career path by shifting out of their comfort zone. Julie Casteel, Chief Strategic Accounts Officer and CMO at ibex, will discuss best practices and real life examples that she has implemented over the course of her career – including how she reached the c-suite in a male dominated industry by being curious and taking the road less traveled in… read more
Sabrina Macpherson Director of Product Development, Climate Solutions at Sustainalytics Morningstar	The Care & Keeping of Baby Elephants: how to successfully manage long-duration product development. Product management is most exciting when you're building and releasing new things. But sometimes, technology or data projects can take a long time to build and deliver. How do you handle it? In this talk, you'll learn about how to manage communications and project planning for long-duration product development. You'll learn about how to take these from concept to launch, and how to shift to successful maintenance and growth once the release is finally completed. You'll also learn a few fun facts about elephants, which are a fun way to remember these ideas and make them… read more
Sanskriti Thakur Chief Growth Officer at Medable	Who will ensure inclusivity in science and medicine? Equitable access to medicine has been a long-standing concern within research. While many proposals have been considered to address the issue, none have created long-lasting change. In many ways, new technology is seen as a trusted bridge. Yet, it is only one part of the needed set of actions. This discussion seeks to determine if research has truly entered a “new” era, one where sustainable change is probable. Specifically, it will explore the actions needed to support inclusivity in medicine through the suggested collaboration of industry, health systems, providers and new-tech leaders.… read more
Bhuva Shakti Chief Ethics & Culture Officer (CECO) at Women in AI	Advancing Women's Inclusion in Sustainable FinTech Startups Women's Financial Inclusion - why it matters? Closing the gender gap in financial inclusion is likely to create multiple positive effects on growth of women-led businesses and household income, including micro-finance revolution and macro-economic advancements. Providing diverse women worldwide with affordable digital tools to advance financial wellness, pursue entrepreneurship and raise capital is critical to both impact communities and empower innovation. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Pooja Kelgaonkar Senior Data Architect at Rackspace Technology	Choose to Challenge! This session talks about the most common challenges women and specifically working mothers face to balance between life & career. Most of the time, tend to choose life/kids over other or if chosen career then feel guilty for not spending time with kids, see them growing. Instead of choosing either of them, we can choose both, choose to challenge and continue to work/grow in career without a pause or break! breaks are good specially when we do it for family and kids however this should be our own happy choice than a compromise or settlement. Did you like this session? Share to… read more
Claire Barrett Deputy CIO at NIST	Who Me? A CIO? How I Got Here and Where I'm Going Unconventional path into the IT field to the C-suite; how I got here, what worked, what didn't, what I'd do differently, what I'm doing now, and what I'm working towards for my future. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Heloisa Carbone Senior Software Engineer at Nubank	How to use Functional Programming with Clojure in Companies? Functional programming is a way of solving problems, in which we are able to have pure coding to increase the code encapsulation, reusability, test coverage and maintenance of systems. Moreover, Clojure is one of the best options of functional programming languages and it has many benefits to be chosen and used not only as a tool to learn FP, but also in the technology market as a fast learning language.. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Jenny Cones Senior Talent Attraction Advisor at SonicWall	You have not because you ask not - A recruiter's guide to salary negotiations It is time to give yourself a raise, and I can help you do just that! A 2007 Carnegie Mellon study found that only 7 percent of female MBA graduates had attempted to negotiate their starting salary, compared to 57 percent of their male counterparts. Even today, women leave thousands of salary dollars on the negotiation table annually. I will share proven techniques to give women in tech the power to get the raises and offers they deserve. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Nadia Clifford Sr Director, Engineering Program Management at Outfront Media	The Yin and the Yang of managing complex technical projects Nadia Clifford is a seasoned technology delivery leader. She has worked on highly complex projects - from a biotech science system to a crypto platform to the largest IoT network on public transit. As a result, Nadia knows firsthand the pitfalls of traditional linear thinking of fitting high complexity into the neat boxes of project milestones or even Agile sprints. In this talk, she reveals the secrets of approaching complexity in technology (and beyond) using the ancient philosophy of the Yin and the Yang, balancing Structure and Flow. Find out how this new old mindset can… read more
Ling Zhang Data Science & AI Leader	The Journey of Data Science - How Did It Iterate the Way to AI The talk is mainly focus on how data science has evolved into AI, its long journey from basic analytics to current state of AI, the driving forces behind and the key technology breakthroughs to make it iterate its way to AI, the lessons learned and the current state of AI. At the end, I will also share my insight about how women in AI & data science achieve success with a big picture mindset. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Roja Boina Software Engineering Senior Advisor	Data Literacy & Ways To Enhance Data Literacy Skills Data is a prized business asset in any organization. This means data literacy – the basic ability to understand and use data – is a vital workplace skill for people in all sorts of roles. To put it another way, organizations big and small will need data-literate individuals who can confidently work with data. Hence, it makes it crucial to learn data literacy skills. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Kimberley Lewis Parsons CEO at Bamboo Teaming	Less Talk, More Action: How to Amplify Inclusive Teaming While there has been an increased push of diversity initiatives in companies, diversity in and of itself is not enough. I suspect that you yearn, not just “a seat at the table”, but to feel as if you are fully accepted, understood, and valued by those you work with. In short, to be fully included. Because of this natural yearning we all have, a more powerful endgame for organizations is to grow from diversity to inclusion in order to maximize the engagement and talent of its people. How do you overcome the barriers that get in the way of moving from just an… read more
Stefanie Khan Director of Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics	Succeeding in a Male-Dominated Industry Strategies to be successful in the technology industry, while maintaining who you are. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Jeff Ludwig Managing Vice President, Risk Tech at Capital One	The Value of Mentorship Through Women Engineers' Careers Tonya, Nina, and Jeff will discuss the value and approach we take to mentorship at different stages of a woman technologist's career. Jeff has mentored several women engineers as a senior leader - Tonya as a mid-level manager has mentored and been mentored - Nina is relatively early in her career and has received some great mentorship and is getting to a stage of beginning to mentor others. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Lauren Goodwin Chief Executive Officer	Educational Neuroscience to Ensure Diversity in STEM Neurotechnology and artificial intelligence can unlock the power of the brain's biological learning patterns. Women and marginalized groups are often deterred from entering STEM careers. The origins of this off boarding is not a result of their inability to thrive in STEM disciplines. Learn how the science of the brain's learning process can unlock the opportunity to diversify STEM fields and help students of all ages from 2 to 102 be empowered to be lifelong learners based on the plasticity of the brain. The power of data, technology, and AI has created a scientific trifecta of… read more