Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Martha-Isabel Estupiñán Executive Director at Tribu Evolución	The DNA of the Digital Tribes Human beings are organized in tribes, from the natives to the urban, rural, digital and therefore, the Tribes Evolve, have their culture, their origins and impact entire communities. In today’s times, digital tribes transform realities. The inclusion of women in technology requires working with a gender perspective and the prevention of different types of violence. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Linda-katerin Patiño Subeditora of Technology at EL TIEMPO	Online violence against women and digital transformation The absent of women in different tech areas is making them invisible in the new reality that development is creating. As it happened before, when women couldn't vote or go to school, if the voice of the half of the humanity is not being heard, then the discrimination will arise stronger with the current tools. In this talk I would highlight how normalized is the online violence against women in social media and how important is to create trust and safe environments to allow women to grow into the technical paths but also for the diversity of data, for the good of the society and the… read more
Stephanie LeBlanc-Godfrey Global Head, Inclusion Programs for Women of Color at Google	Parenting Backwards Parenting Backwards is an interactive session for parents in the fast paced tech world who are always investing in themselves and their careers and want to bring that level of intentionality to their parenting. Have you considered how your upbringing or current season in life impacts how your children behave and react to their environment? Have you heard your kids talking to a sibling or a toy and you watch in horror as they repeat something you've said when disciplining them? Kids will hold up a mirror to reflect how we are showing up for them and it's not always pretty. In this… read more
Rosario B Casas Co-Founder & CEO at VR Americas LLC	#AugmentedHumans The new stage of human evolution. Its challenges and opportunities Presenting the audience the great opportunity offered by exponential technologies as a tool to enhance our capabilities and skills. Leave a reflection on the challenges we face and our individual commitment required. * Context: 3.8 billion years have brought us to where we are. * Evolutionary trends and the evolution of technology: how we got to the 4th Industrial Revolution * New Opportunities: the digital reality of tomorrow (always includes specific examples from the event industry) * How to take advantage of today's tools. * Learning, sense of… read more
Parveen Khan Senior Test Engineer at Square Marble Technology	Testing Tour: My journey of Pairing and Learning Have you ever attended a conference and got so inspired by a talk that you wanted to immediately implement the learnings in your projects and life as well? I was. Back in 2019, I attended my first conference and I was totally inspired by the talks. There was one talk by Lisi Hocke about how pairing with others helped in building skill set, confidence and helped in becoming a better tester. Being a solo tester for over 4 years of my testing career, I never got a chance to pair with anyone. This is why I got inspired to start my own Testing Tour. In this talk, I will share my… read more
Arti Venkatesh Director Delivery Management at Avanade	Unlock the value of Microsoft Cloud Businesses must respond in order to survive and thrive but most companies are not prepared to do so. In today’s market organizations need to be prepared for taking a holistic approach to business evolution. Being ready is about more than just cloud projects Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Nicole Scheffler Engineering Leader and Co-Founder at Cisco and Diva Tech Talk Podcast	How to be a Successful Super Woman in Technology As a woman with more than 15 years’ tenure in the industry, I’ve seen firsthand how gender parity in technology can amplify creativity and innovation. Beyond the altruistic case for equality, it is important to understand the proven business and societal benefits from increasing ratios of women in technology. Studies show workforce diversity boosts innovation, profitability, and progress. It’s clear that the global environmental outlook, among other worldwide issues, is of increasing concern to both prominent scientists worldwide and respected organizations, like the United Nations. We need… read more
Jayeeta Putatunda Data Scientist at Indellient US Inc.	Transfer Learning With BERT: Building a Text Classification Model The domain of Natural Language Processing have seen a tremendous amount of research and innovation in the past couple of years to tackle the problem of implementing high quality machine learning and AI solutions using natural text. Text Classification is one such area that is extremely important in all sectors like finance, media, product development, etc. Building up a text classification system from scratch for every use case can be challenging in terms of cost as well as resources, considering there is a good amount of dataset to begin training with. Here comes the concept… read more
Milu Franz Software Engineer at Mile Two LLC	Build a Culture of Belonging Within Your Organization Many organizations assist and encourage Employee Resource Group (ERG) programs to empower and support community groups within the company. ERGs are important to build a community and culture of belonging, provide support, and contribute to personal and professional development in the workplace. If your organization does not have a similar program established, join me in the exploration of ERGs while we define them, discuss the value they bring to you and your organization, consider resources to get executive sponsorship, and guide you through the process of starting and leading your own ERG.… read more
Mila DeChant Culture Scientist & Founder at Chief of Hearts - A Culture Science Company	Changing The Narrative of "Future of Work" to "The NOW of Work" Most of us romanticize about the concept of " Future of Work" without wanting to realise that the future can only become possible when we focus on the now and take action in the now. The pandemic has made the invisible visible in many nuanced levels of what it means to be a human and how our people show up the way they are. It is time to remove our blinders and check our blind spots as leaders to embrace the invisible struggles of our people and change the narrative of " Future of Work" that covertly harbours "culture fit" and stagnation. We have… read more
Rana el Kaliouby Co-Founder & CEO at Affectiva	Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology During this session, Dr. el Kaliouby will share her life's work: to humanize technology before it dehumanizes us. She'll discuss the technology category she's pioneered, Emotion AI, and how her company Affectiva is enabling technology to have not only IQ, but EQ, or emotional intelligence. Emotion AI is already being applied across industries like automotive, mental health, media analytics and more; and now, amidst the global pandemic, Dr. el Kaliouby envisions future use cases for Emotion AI to help us maintain meaningful connections as we work, learn and socialize online.… read more
Shivani Mehta Graduate Student at University of Texas at Dallas and a current summer intern at Ericsson \| VP at WITI UTDallas \| Women Empowerment Advocate	Getting out of your comfort zone Being a woman in tech I understand how challenging it might seem at the beginning to pursue a career in tech space, I come from a small town in India and only thing that has helped me succeed is taking on challenges by getting out of my comfort zone. I would like to share my story with the young girls and women professionals who have been restricting themselves to get out there and follow their passion and interests. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Parul Gupta Student (Master of Science in Computer Science) at University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA	The (Un)Fair Machine Learning With the growing usage of machine learning and artificial intelligence in real lives, the need for incorporating mitigation of ethical and moral issues into Machine Learning models is rising at an alarming rate. We must develop tools to evaluate 'unfairness' in these models and help data scientists deal with them. By means of this talk, I want to spread the awareness of the biases that exist in machine learning - where they come from, how to evaluate them and various ways to mitigate them to make 'fair' and better real-life machine learning models. Did you… read more
Nikita Agarwal Student	Emergence of NLP for Finance This talk is an attempt to illustrate the journey of financial models and the impact of NLP on them. The work tries to show the evolution of both the financial models and the role played by NLP in those models by leveraging different financial textual sources. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Maria Paula Duque Chief Customer Experience at Avianca Holding	Defining a new corporate language based on women differential leadership skills In the post covid era women leadership stile and unique characteristics are going to become a critical approach to design a new way of working, collaborate, interact and redesign enterprises around the world. women leadership based on sorority, empathy, collaboration, would be critical to help companies to understand the new way of working and attracting talent. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ekaterina Stambolieva CEO at Nina Space	Tech Saves the World: a Space Tech case-study on fighting climate change I have seen a lot of work being done in the philanthropic / NGO sector, a lot of new advances being offered by technology - especially in emerging space tech, and a lot of talk on how humanity needs to save the environment and efforts on how to achieve the 2030 UN SDGs. There is still little intersection between these sectors, but it is there. I am here to share my experience with you that I collected over the last 5 years on how space tech projects protect the environment at scale and how a business can have a sustainable business model and be completely impact-driven to solve a… read more
Simran Yadav Data Analytics Masters student at Loyola University Chicago	Getting started with Data Science - Talking about how aspiring young women can get started in the field of Data Science - Share different sources and tips that will help women who are just starting their data science journey - Talking about my journey from being a humanities student to getting a Masters in Data Analytics. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Rachel Benyola Leadership Coach & Founder at Kova	Exceptional Product Design for Non-Technies Are you a non-technical professional looking to break into the tech scene? Do you have ideas for product design and innovation but lack confidence in bringing your concepts into reality? Rachel Benyola, a former therapist and psychology doctoral student dropout turned inventor & founder of Kova foldable helmets will show you how innovation can come from anywhere. Learn how this Forbes 30Under30 list maker designed a revolutionary patent pending safety helmet. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ngozi Bell Partner	The Perpetual Capacity for Relevant Leadership The power of uncertainty is its unfailing ability to create unanticipated change. This is where LEADERSHIP can come to thrive or be disrobed! This talk focuses the leader’s heart and mind regardless of sector to "the rudiments of the perpetual capacity for relevant leadership." In the transition from the Between-COVID (BC) era and the hope for an After-COVID (AC) era, complicated by the visible impact of racial politics and economics, how will the 4th economy fully emerge? What opportunities exist for you? Goals for this talk: 1-Define the tenets of the 4th Economy. 2-Explore the… read more
Abigail Geronimo Founder-CEO at Bycicle	Women TICs in the entreprises TensorFlow makes use of a graph framework. The graph gathers and describes all the series computations done during the training. In this talk about classified images with keras and Tensor flow to get label training. Did you like this session? Share to vote.