Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Ana-Maria Istrate Research Scientist at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation	Using transformer models for your own NLP task - building an NLP model End To End Transformer models have revolutionized the NLP field and are currently state-of-the art on a variety of tasks, such as named entity recognition, language inference or question answering. With new, more performant models being continuously developed (BERT, RoBERTa, AlBERT, ELECTRA, ERNIE, etc), these models are ubiquitous in virtually all domains that make use of natural language processing. So how can you apply these models on your own task? In this talk, we will go over the process of using state-of-the-art transformer models for your own NLP task. We will discuss the entire… read more
Ana-Maria Istrate Research Scientist at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation	Using transformer models for your own NLP task - building an NLP model End To End Transformer models have revolutionized the NLP field and are currently state-of-the art on a variety of tasks, such as named entity recognition, language inference or question answering. With new, more performant models being continuously developed (BERT, RoBERTa, AlBERT, ELECTRA, ERNIE, etc), these models are ubiquitous in virtually all domains that make use of natural language processing. So how can you apply these models on your own task? In this talk, we will go over the process of using state-of-the-art transformer models for your own NLP task. We will discuss the entire… read more
Jossie Haines VP of Software Engineering at Tile	DEI-logue: Moving Beyond the Checkbox as an Engineering Leader DE&I has been the buzzword for the last several years. Many companies across the globe have DE&I heads and initiatives. But more often than not, DE&I initiatives end up with checking the basic checkboxes. How do you, as a non-HR leader, lead with DE&I principles. How does one incorporate DE&I DNA into the heart and soul of a company. Beyond the company culture, how does one, as a leader, show up, and embody the values of DE&I. As an R&D leader, how do you make sure that the product you are building is equitable? Join Jossie Haines, VP of Software Engineering at… read more
Madeline Carson Engineering Director at MetaLab Design	How to become a successful leader of engineers In this talk I will discuss: - How to make the career progression from engineer to engineering leadership - Key responsibilities of successful engineering leadership - The traits and skills of an effective leader that you can learn and perform while being your authentic self. - What good engineering leadership means - what you can give to your project, stakeholders, and team. - Reflections on my own journey and learnings from individual contributor software developer to leading teams to leading departments. Did you like this session? Share… read more
Claire Hough Chief Technology Officer at Carbon Health	Leveraging Data and Technology to Bring Efficiency to Healthcare In the ever-changing technology industry, it has become increasingly clear one sector in particular is falling behind in adopting the latest advancements - healthcare. Today, the healthcare experience for both providers and patients is laborious - from providers spending hours filling out forms in outdated systems and patching various third party software, to patients losing time on the phone to make appointments and filling out their information numerous times on paperwork. The healthcare stack needs re-engineering to automate many of the tasks physicians lose time on, ultimately losing time… read more
Poonam Garg Vice President at U.S Bancorp	Change Management - Decoding leadership skills & styles for driving digital transformation In the rapidly changing world, organizations need to do things differently to be successful. As per my work experience, organizations are often hooked up in hiring change leaders instead of building middle managers as influential leaders. To be an effective leader, the individual must have many strengths such as communication skills, motivation, etc. A leader should have more qualities such as social skills, team player, coach, etc. To influence own people & follow him, be good a team player, and guide in achieving goals that tie to change management strategy. From my… read more
Anna Scott Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer at Project Canary	Why quality data holds the key to solving our energy crisis We’re living in the golden age of what’s been coined as the measurement economy. But when it comes to climate change, there’s a significant lack of data. This lack of real-time data has far-rippling repercussions, and we cannot measure or eliminate environmental impact without high-fidelity data that helps operators and leaders make actual informed decisions. Simply put: you can’t improve upon what you can’t measure. Data is king, and we can use it to hold companies and governments accountable. Anna can unwrap the complicated challenges of data in the energy sector, talk about the new… read more
Nilima Achwal Founder at The Female Founders Lab	Pitch Like a Goddess - how pre-seed founders with a vision for humanity can defy the stats, and magnetize millions If you've been building your venture for a little while, chances are, you are feeling tired, under-resourced, and pretty lonely. Worst of all, you're scared to dip your toe into raising the necessary "first round" $500k-$2m for your venture. The reason you're scared has nothing to do with the quality of your vision or venture. It's because you have not yet mastered how to "pitch like a goddess" - to anchor deeply into your highest vision for humanity, and then communicate it with authority and clarity to invite others to join you.… read more
Kara Kennedy Digital Skills Trainer	Harnessing the power of automation to streamline your workflows and save time Looking to tap into the benefits of automation? We’ll go over the basics of Microsoft’s easy-to-use Power Automate software so you can begin automating the repetitive tasks and processes in your work or home life. Automation saves you time by streamlining your workflows and frees you up to focus on other things. For instance, instead of having to sort through all of your emails for that attachment you need, you can have all attachments automatically sent to an easily searchable folder. Or rather than have every employee call or email you to approve a request, you can set up a process so you… read more
Jill Lublin 4x Best-Selling Author, International Speaker, Master Publicity Strategist at Promising Promotion	Guerrilla Publicity = Get Known Everywhere If you want to be the #1 influencer in your industry, you've got to get bigger media visibility. Based on her international bestseller, Guerrilla Publicity, Jill shares simple strategies to help you go from unknown to newsworthy. Sharing her proven secrets to understanding what the media wants, Jill provides you with short-term, doable tactics that boost visibility for you and your brand. Now more than ever it’s important to stretch your message so that your visibility factor stays constant. Join publicity expert Jill Lublin as she shares new powerful tips and strategies… read more
Julia Gilinets Vice President of Sales at CodeSee	Reselling Sales I started out as a developer, and today am a VP of Sales, scaling revenue for developer tools organizations. It was long journey to get here, one rooted in the belief that Sales is a dirty word. Dirty, pushy used car salesman, right? Sales is for aggressive, sleazy, don't take no as an answer golf playing men, right? But it's not. Sales, when done right, is teaching (ironically a typically female role). It's teaching value, and helping someone navigate the easiest path to optimize the time to that value. Sales is an art, and a science, utilizing listening skills, curiosity, and… read more
Vidhi Jindal Program Manager 2 at Microsoft	PM is not a failed Dev Imagine a developer asking if they should become a PM, what will you ask next? "Are you bad at coding? Oh, you can't code?" No, these questions shouldn't even come to your mind. PMs are not developer who can't code. Program/Product Management is a different discipline which requires a diverse set of skills. In the era where humongous data is just a click away, but girls/women find it tough to make career transition. The lack of support from higher ups/family and glorification of SDE role adds undue pressure. … read more
Zhichun Li GM of Rapid at Scale AI	Unlocking ML Experimentation by Providing the “Accessible Luxury” of Data For many machine learning (ML) teams at scrappy startups and research organizations, acquiring high-quality labeled data is a key barrier to ML. These teams are often locked out of this experimentation due to a lack of resources, financing or headcount to build, monitor and evolve production-quality data pipelines. In this talk, Zhichun Li, GM of Rapid at Scale AI will shine a light on the barriers to acquiring production-level data and how expanding access to high-quality data will help companies of all sizes bootstrap their ML efforts and stay agile. Using Scale Rapid as an… read more
Ridhima Ahuja Kahn VP, BD/Strategic Partnerships at Dapper Labs	Why Blockchain I will give an overview of blockchain and why it's relevant and important. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Melisa Tokmak GM, Document AI at Scale AI	Unlocking Trapped Data with AI It is no secret that technology has so much potential to transform the way enterprises innovate, operate and serve customers but one of the areas that can benefit the most from AI/ML can be overlooked by organizations - document processing. Today, businesses have mass amounts of data stored in complex documents that require time-intensive manual labor to extract. These processes are inefficient and are not only wasting employees' time but the end consumer’s time - therefore losing organizations’ money. In this talk, Melisa Tokmak, GM of Document AI for Scale AI will… read more
Emilie Joly CEO at Zoe Immersive Inc	Becoming a Tech Entrepreneur and Having your First Kid: You Can Do It! We all know that founding a tech startup is hard, time consuming and most of the time stressful. So is giving birth and raising a child! Both are also extremely rewarding. As young women we are told being an entrepreneur and having a family is not compatible, resulting in a lack of young women making the decision to become a founder, especially in the tech world. Emilie Joly, CEO of Zoe Immersive Inc, founded her first startup when she was still at university in Switzerland, moved to the US to develop the business and 10 years later recently became a mom. … read more
Samira Khan Director, Citizenship at Microsoft	Empathy in Tech for Impact From my experience at both Salesforce and Microsoft, discussing the role empathy has in tech for impact policy, strategy, and design. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Alexis Snelling CEO Founder at WeTransact	A Cooperative Approach to Foster Global Impact from Your Local Communities Discuss the necessary frame shifts and mindset needed to create lasting and meaningful impact in the world from idea to world changing achievements. Are you thinking about how to great and positive impact in your own life, your community, and the world? This session is going to provide you with tools and resources to take that next step and break thru the many challenges ahead. Everything we do is tied to impact when you lead with HER: humanity, empathy and responsibility. Shared Talk Resources: https://bit.ly/womentech22 Did you like this session? Share to vote.… read more
Beatie Wolfe Artist and Innovator	Activating Awareness: The Power of Art & Tech UN Women role model for innovation, Beatie Wolfe, named by WIRED Magazine as one of "22 people changing the world,” talks about "Activating Awareness: The Power of Art" and how we can make vast and abstract data around global issues feel relatable, evocative, and inspire change. Taking her latest project 'From Green to Red' (built using 800,000 years of NASA's climate data) as a case study, the artist and activist will share how she explores the myriad of ways art and technology can be used to communicate complex data to activate awareness and inspire action on a… read more
Jess Vice Strategy Director at Struck	Accessibility is a design and UX responsibility: How to run an Accessibility workshop Designing for Accessibility requires due diligence, optimizing for edge cases, and deeply understanding all the ways all people need the product to serve them. In this presentation/talk with industry veteran and Strategy Director Jess Vice, we’ll learn step by step how creatives can design a targeted and interactive accessibility workshop for their clients, and build. As we learn how to better understand what others are experiencing, we begin to develop awareness and empathy, which can be designed to input directly into user experience. Did you like this… read more