Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Camille McKinney Leadership Coach at Camille McKinney - Leadership Coach	Leading from the Inside Out: Explore, Embody and Express Your Unique Leadership Brand The glass ceiling -- the invisible barrier that prevents women from ascending to the career of their dreams. Gratefully, more or more women are adding their crack to that ceiling, creating opportunities for the women who are coming after them. There's another ceiling, the self-imposed drop ceiling that each of us erects with our own self-limiting habits and beliefs. It's as prickly and scratchy as the walls of our soft and cozy comfort zone. While breaking through each of these 'top limits' seem out of reach, there ARE steps we can take to… read more
Fiona Tan CTO at Wayfair	How AI Can Enhance the Customer Experience Initial success applying AI/ML to marketing, led to AI adoption throughout Wayfair in traditional and nontraditional applications. From marketing to search performance, personalization and more recently supply chain challenges, AI has helped the business grow and adapt to new challenges. Fiona Tan can speak broadly to these themes or focus specifically on one in depth to match one of the talking tracks above. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Anna Fowler Director IT & Cybersecurity Assurance at Second Front Systems	Addressing Supply Chain Data Risk with Structured Data Security Architecture Framework When considering assets that may need protection, the mind begins to contemplate homes, cars, and investment funds. In most cases, protection of those assets can be covered through security systems and insurance. Data is not the first thought that comes to mind that would need protection, even though data is at the core of most supply chain operations. It includes trade secrets, management of personal identifiable information (PII), and consumer data that can be used to enhance the overall experience. Data is considered a critical element of success for supply chains and should be one of the… read more
Krithika Manikavasagam Sr.Manager II Product Management (MFC Product Leader) at Walmart Labs	Women Make Great Product Managers How Women make a great product managers and want to enlighten to all inspiring mom and women, Let’s pat our back and support each other. Women keep asking ourselves "Are we making the right choice or are we going the right things" or we have to stop the career or stop our dreams. This talk is going more focus on highlighting and helping them to focus on certain things in our journey of pursuing our passion Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ingrid Polini CEO at SafetyDocs Global	From Latin America to Canada: An Entrepreneurship Story and Lessons Learned This talk will tell the story of building up an enterprise software startup twice: In Brazil and in Canada. As a woman who started her business young, Ingrid has had many challenges being taken seriously in this market and has learned my lessons along the way. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Vatsala Sarathy Managing Director, Finance and Technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business	Data-curious: How to create a data-driven culture in your organization Organizations with a strong data culture can synthesize information effectively, and glean insights at scale, giving them an incredible edge over their competition. Some of the challenges that organizations face in their efforts to build a data-driven culture are around data silos, data hygiene, data transparency and data literacy. To solve for these challenges, I will share a three-pronged strategy that organizations can use to weave data-driven values into the fabric of the organization’s being and build a strong data-culture. Did you like this session? Share to vote. … read more
Lorie Reichel-Howe Founder, Senior Trainer at Conversations In The Workplace	Making Difficult Conversations, Safe Conversations: When Dialogue Trumps Technology In every workplace, you will face challenges. Whether dealing with problems to solve or challenging interactions and behaviors, it’s the way you respond in these situations that will increase or decrease your success. While technical skills are highly valued and land people jobs, they are not enough. Solving problems requires making it safe to dialogue at times when opinions differ, when breakdowns occur, and when conflicting views put relationships at risk. When people learn to engage in Safe Conversations – transformative dialogue that uncovers hidden workplace issues, they… read more
Grace Cupat Engineering Manager - Web at ViewSonic	The journey of 10,000 steps to success The journey to success as a women in tech is not always a straight path. Finding your passion may pivot several times throughout one’s career, but there is one’s thing is certain. It’s okay fail. It is through those failures can we learn, grow and define our future and how we can impact others along the way. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Frost Li Founder & CEO at Social Chat	Why Live Streaming is the Future of Ecommerce In the new cookieless world, brands will need to find other ways to understand who their audience is so they can continue to deliver personalized experiences. Social commerce is on the rise, but when brands use social media platforms they have to rely on third-party data, putting them in the tricky position of having access to their customers, but no ownership of their data. Frost will discuss how with live streaming shopping, Social Chat enables brands to run live shopping events directly on their websites, and bring their audiences together in one place while collecting first-party data.… read more
Jocelyne Morin-Nurse CEO at Loxentus Inc.	Embracing Healthy Conflict as a Tool for Team Growth As leaders, we must learn to navigate thorny situations and guide contrasting points of views. This could be with clients, team members, business partners, even individuals who have positional power over us. How can we deal with those difficult conversations in a way that increases the likelihood of a positive outcome? In her talk, Embracing Healthy Conflict as a Tool for Team Growth, CEO Jocelyne Morin-Nurse draws from her own experience and shares: · the nuances of unhealthy conflict vs healthy conflict, · how healthy conflict… read more
Kim Seeling Smith CEO & Founder at Ignite Global	The 5 Step Roadmap to a Future Fit Organization This program is perfect for: Senior leaders Executive teams Boards of Directors HR Professionals …whose success depends on understanding and navigating the new world of work. The audience will leave with: Research, case studies and stories to help them understand the 3 disruptions that businesses are facing in the post-pandemic world and how these are affecting the workplace and workforce. A roadmap of best practices and specific action items to help them build and retain a future fit workforce. A list of… read more
Jennifer Bittinger President at Narrativa	Supercharging the Clinical Trial Process Through the Power of AI With the rapid increase of global pandemics, epidemics and developing nations needing more assistance with healthcare and pharmaceuticals, the Life Sciences Industry is at a pivotal moment in time where the advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) can help to speed up the time it takes for drugs to get to market while reducing cost and mitigating risk. Due to newly passed legislation to reduce the cost of pharmaceuticals and the immediate need for vaccines and pharmaceuticals the world experienced during the COVID-19 Pandemic, AI is now the most prominent disruptor of the Life Sciences… read more
Emily Super Psychologist + Fashion Futurist	Fashion’s Big Opportunity with Technology Between avatars, virtual try-on, AR/VR capabilities and the slow transformation of the digital shopping experience, fashion is at a critical point in it’s development process. With companies unwilling to walk the plank, be bold and try new experiential technology, fashion is stalling on the many ways of the future. I hope to explore the most exciting and cutting edge opportunity in technology, how they pertain to fashion and what we, as women in technology can do to aid its development. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
AmyJune Hineline Senior Community Manager for Opensource.com at Red Hat	Contributing to Open Source Open Source thrives on community contributions in the form of event organization, marketing, communications, volunteering, and yes, even code. This helps the projects move forward and stay relevant. Not everyone who works on open source projects is a coder or developer. Smaller tasks help people increase confidence and gain experience, which, in turn, leads to more contributions. Code is very important and so are all the other parts. Contributing back to Open Source helps folks to feel connected with their community. A more polished project leads to a better overall experience… read more
Yeruwelle de Rouen Founder & CEO at Intersectional Innovatons Consulting	DEI Culture Design: Infusing inclusion into tech spaces and work culture The unpredictable stress experienced these past three years has created collective vulnerability and emotional dysregulation. The patterns of stress, compiled with the many changes in our private lives, are making it even harder to attract and retain women, BIPOC, first gen, LGBTQ+, and other silenced identities within tech industries. Tech industries and STEM ed continue to see an exodus of diverse talent, despite the resources and efforts to address the exclusion. By centering wellness, working with employees, and creating psychological safety you combat vulnerability. Let’s… read more
Jen Buck Professional Speaker, Chief Communications Officer at One Hundred Angels Foundation	Becoming A Woman Of Impact The future is female. And so is much of our past. When we look at social change and the myriad contributions women have made, both to historical events and to the society that shapes our modern world, it’s a woman’s social and emotional compass that is often guiding us. There has truly never been a better time for women to take the lead in creating massive social impact than right this very moment. We are watching more women open organizations, more women lead companies, and more countries with women at the helm-- these are exciting times as we watch women take center stage and stand in their… read more
Anya Cheng CEO of Taelor at Lecturer of Northwestern University	Product Strategy — Target & Meta Case Studies Building the right product can have a big impact on a technology company's performance. Girls in Tech 40 Under 40 and Webby Award winner Anya Cheng, who led product teams for Meta, eBay, Target and now runs an early AI startup Taelor, talks about how Target and Meta built successful products and how companies with limited resource can do the same. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Parul Gupta Production Engineer at Meta	Early Career Mentorship: My Journey from Mentee to Mentor As a female in tech, I learnt about mentorship opportunities the hard way -- purely through personal experience. I hoped someone had told me about what to expect and how to approach others sooner to excel and utilize my strong skillsets in most effective manner. Through this talk, I will discuss my personal recollections of the myths and realities of mentoring, its importance in early career and fruitful mentoring experiences in my career journey so far. Additionally, I want to inspire the young female computer enthusiasts to get involved in mentorship, both as a mentee… read more
Puja Sharma Senior Technical Program Manager	EQ as the new IQ To be successful in today’s tech world, you need to be trilingual: you have to speak code, client, and colleague. We can have the best people, the right tools, and the greatest environment, but it still takes a certain kind of magic to get them to work together, deliver timely results, and build amazing relationships with our clients. We believe that this magic is called emotional intelligence. In this ted-talk, we will share with you what emotional intelligence in tech is, how to develop it, and the positive difference it makes. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Lauren Sweeney Vice President of Business Development at Rise Up For You	Emotional Intelligence: The Core Competency to Company Success Do you know what Emotional Intelligence is, really? Today EQ is thrown around like another buzz word gaining an increasingly shallow definition and understanding. The biggest challenge we see is that most people don't really know what EQ is and how it can support their team, culture, and organizational development. The most successful companies and individuals are the ones that adapt their culture and communication around the key elements of Emotional Intelligence (EI). Many experts contend that EI is more important than the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and actually accounts… read more