Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Mansi Mittal Incoming Product Manager	Road to Product Management In May '21, I left my job as a senior developer at Visa and took the risk to pursue a PM internship for a startup. Fast Forward to Jan '22 and I have bagged a full-time role as PM II at Microsoft. Through the platform of the Women Tech Network Conference, I want to share the specific steps, the do's & don'ts of this journey that helped me cover the marathon's distance in a sprint. This talk is for early PM career candidates and junior PMs looking to make the switch and lacking the required guidance. Did you like this session… read more
Puspanjali Sarma Practice Lead - Data and AI at Rackspace Technology	Technical Leadership in the Era of Digital Transformation I will share my experience as a Woman Leader in Data and AI world and what challenges I see industry-wide. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Shweta Sharma Senior Software Engineer at Intuit	Observability in today's complex systems Today when we are moving from monolith to micro-service architecture development practices, it is important to have end to end visibility of the system. I will talk about, how you can help measure a system's current state based on the data, such as logs, metrics, and traces. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Asma Zeeshan Circle Technology Head at Telenor Pakistan	Breaking the Bias I would like to talk about how women can accept the challenge of working in different industries and start their learning from zero. How they can lead a big workforce with their leadership style, how they can impact the society and environment with a sustainable approach, how non tech women can actually lead in technology. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Aarti Sabhaney Head of Enterprise Communications for Asia Pacific and Japan at Dell Technologies	Want to do better in your technology career? Look for ways to increase your sense of belonging and network Highly talented women can feel like failures in male-dominated professional cultures. Gender studies blame stereotype threat, bias, and tokenism for the underrepresentation of women in these domains. Navigating these challenges exposes women to more stressors and can lower their engagement. By increasing their sense of belonging within professional settings, women can enhance their sense of well-being and perform better. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Dr. Shivani Sharma Principal Technical Consultant at Hitachi Energy	Scaling up your Carbon Expenses to (Net) Zero: Impactful Purpose for us, generations to come Against the backdrop of turbulence in 2020 from pandemic, social and political unrest, and economic downturn, one field emerged stronger than before: sustainability. Sustainability is a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all, and its high time we as Women Leaders have to strongly drive various innovations and Impactful implementation in our organizations, neighborhoods, communities, personal lives. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Rajni Mishra Technical Product Manager at GE Healthcare	Take a risk in your career: My transition from Architecture to Product Management Understand the know-how of Product Management and my personal journey to transition from technical roles to product management. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sivani Peesapati Director - Cyber Security at GE Healthcare	Curious about a career in Cyber Security? We will talk about what is cyber security, why cyber security? Couple of interesting attacks , will tools alone save the world? , Human intervention and skills needed, What skills and how will u solve these cyber attacks, What is PEN testing, what skills do you need?, what is malware forensics and what skills you need, the careers in cyber security and how to get there. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Nritya Ganesh Director, Edison Accelerators at GE Healthcare	Edison Accelerator: working with founders and start-ups to be stronger together Edison TM Accelerator is GE Healthcare’s collaboration program, allowing start-ups to collaborate with GE Healthcare on areas of mutual interest to co-develop solutions that can then be jointly taken to market. The start-ups learn from the Healthcare and Information Technology expertise for which GE Healthcare is well known and thus enhance the value proposition of their business ideas. The aim and the purpose of the program is to create advanced health tech solutions that will help healthcare providers deliver precision health across the care continuum, with better outcomes and experiences… read more
Anshul Agarwal Principal Design Researcher at Intuit	The most important tool in a researcher’s toolkit: Listening skills More often than not, we listen just enough to go by in the conversations. Just heard enough to find a pointer so we could speak in meetings. Just heard enough to find a commonality so we could share our stories in friendships. Just heard enough to get a signal to get our work done. As a user experience researcher for top companies, namely Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Intuit, I’ve spent a decade moderating hundreds of interviews with participants to uncover how people think about a product and how their real-life context impacts how they use a product. Listening skills have formed 90% of… read more
Vilma Mattila CBO at 5ire	Blockchain and Sustainability No one can deny the benefits achieved through technological advances. However, the growth rate and momentum of the fourth industrial revolution raised questions about the directions it is leaning toward and about the lack of control over it as it is wrapped in a for-profit paradigm that only focuses on maximization and economic profit while ignoring sustainability and service of humanity. On the other hand, Blockchains have demonstrated an impressive ability in bringing people to consensus and unity of purpose. Nevertheless, present-day state-of-art and implementations face many challenges… read more
Sue Lynn Withrow Scrum Master and Holistic Productivity Coach at Withrow Consulting	Staying motivated and achieving Holistic Productivity using Agile principals As a scrum master and Holistic Productivity coach, I make my living by helping others follow a framework to be their most productive selves. I combined my professional day job with holistic principles to create a balanced framework that can be applied not only to software development companies but to all of us, remote workers, entrepreneurs, and even students at college! Scrum is a lightweight framework that allows us to get twice the work done in half the time. I found that combined with my methods, I can decrease people's stress and anxiety levels. This is especially useful in… read more
Trista Pan Co-Founder & CTO at SphereEx	From IC to CTO, the thinking and story of this title change from woman perspective She is the CTO and Co-Founder of an open source SaaS commercial start-up that has received seed funding from some of the world’s top VCs. Her light speed, and empowering entrepreneurial journey started just half a year ago – when open source enthusiast, Apache member, distributed database developer, and DBA were the hats she was wearing. Having gone from being a woman developer in the open source world to CTO, didn’t simply mean a change in her title: it brought deep changes starting from her perspectives on technology, the open source community, and approaches to… read more
Harsha Ravindran CEO & Co-Founder at Ascendance	Organizational Culture - The voice of Gen Z Harsha has connected with over 35,000 Gen Zs over the past 7 years, in her role as CEO and Co-Founder of Ascendance, an international youth movement. She has also interviewed over 100+ C-Suite Executives from Meta, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Disney, Google etc to hear the concerns regarding Gen Zs and the Great Reshuffle. Being a Gen Z herself, she has spoken at conference on what engages the Gen Z at work and the vision of the future with Gen Zs. She shares the optimal culture to bring out the best in Gen Zs which also prepares the organization to meet ESG requirements too. … read more
Aparna Shah Account Manager at Big 4	DE&I Conscious Technology With a magnified focus on DE&I across industries, it is imperative that technology enables a firm's vision on Trustworthy and Ethical commitments. The session will focus on how to enable and enhance this journey of incorporating the ethical perspective to technology for a future readiness. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Usha Khatiwada Dr. at NRN Infrastructure & Development Limited	The need of digital marketing and technology in a developing country We are living in an era of a technological revolution that is disrupting and transforming business, government and society alike. All are being challenged to adapt and keep up with the change. This is especially true of governments, which have struggled to deliver growth and prosperity, are trapped in inefficient and obsolete development models, and now have a responsibility to lead digital transformation. So digital marketing becomes a necessity. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Rittika Basu Visual Designer at Merkle - A Dentsu Company	Age and Interface: Equipping Older Adults with Technological Tools Older adults are an integral part of any family, community and country. They can provide knowledge, experience, support and love to younger family members and friends. However, we often observe our grandparents struggling with smartphones and computers. In 2015 according to Pew Research Center, 11% of older adults do not feel confident when using modern electronics. The objective of this talk is to promote digital literacy, bridge the digital divide, empower as well as build confidence among older adults and elderly netizens. Additionally, embracing technology will help in reducing… read more
Sophia Priyadarshini Customer Success Growth Manager at InstaSafe	The What, Why and How of implementing a Zero Trust Security Model A Zero Trust Security Model employs concepts beyond the traditional confines of network security. Trust is not an entitlement. Access needs to be gained through a comprehensive process. Let’s explore Zero Trust and how enterprises can leverage security solutions as a foundational step in their journey. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Jency Stella Lead QA Engineer at Billennium IT Services (M) Sdn. Bhd.	Codeless Testing with POSTMAN Abstract: APIs are one of the limelight topics in recent years, everywhere we can hear this term. Even though APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have existed ever since software existed, in recent years it has become a critical requirement for being able to scale and grow your Product. APIs allow pieces of code to bridge together as applications so they can work cohesively together. API Testing has reached stardom nowadays. This process helps to ensure that performance, functionality, security, and reliability of software meet expectations - in other words, that… read more
Kalpana Bansal Solution Head - skills & talent at DarwinBox	Adding Intelligence to Talent As organisations evolve, managing talent becomes critical to scale and profitability. With the evolution of the workforce and the challenges of location and decide agnostic work, matching opportunities to talent has been a field of interest for multiple organsiations. AI is helping organsiations rediscover their human inventories and reinvent them for jobs of the future. Additionally jobs may be displaced as a result of Ai How does one marry technology with humans to be abreast of continuously evolving needs Did you like this session? Share to vote.… read more