Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Yaroslava Marushchak Lead Quality Assurance Engineer at Exadel	How to become a successful quality assurance engineer from scratch? I want to share my experience of the process of training interns in the field of software testing without a professional and educational level in the field of IT. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Lilia Gorbachik Product Manager at Intermedia	Product Manager. Expectation vs reality. The talk is about the most common misconceptions about the product manager's role. PM role is a hot topic now. It looks glamourous and desirable. I see a lot of people at the beginning of their career who are burnt out and doubt that PM is the best role for them. I'll review the most common misconceptions of a PM role and other circumstances that impact our perception and satisfaction of the PM role. I hope it will allow Product Managers to see the bigger picture and chose a company and product that meet expectations. Did you… read more
Tuuli-Anna Tiuttu CEO & Co-Founder at SDG Monitor	Bring your sustainability data alive Communication is a key in sustainability and it does matter how efficiently and transparently companies do it. Stakeholders are increasingly requiring companies to show impacts and measure progress towards the sustainability goals. Integrating sustainability plans to a global framework, such as the SDGs bring global aspect to what you are doing. Thus, technology plays an important role in visualizing timely data and presenting it in a coherent way. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ioana Muresan Founder at Transition Into Tech	Landing your first job in tech as a mid-career transitioner Join me in exploring some of the things you can do increase your chances of landing your dream job as a mid-career transitioner. We'll look at tried and true approaches for bypassing the dreaded applicant tracking system, getting noticed and invited to that first interview. Tips extracted from interviewing 25 successful career transitioners. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ruxandra Dariescu AI-ready Digital Transformation Scale-up Consultant and High-Performance Coach at The Product Schools	Deliverability® - the future of sustainable productivity Have you ever asked your colleagues how do they want to change the world? What if everyone can become a player conscious of the interaction's interconnection patterns in a project team that works together towards a common purpose? Picture a project team breathless, inundated in misunderstandings, conflicts, delays, overrunning costs, and unnecessary changes. Now fire up your imagination to picture all the possibilities available to solve the problems. Transform each individual's possibility into probabilities, and the team can breathe again. My… read more
Valencia Cleinwerck Pre Sales Manager at IOCO Qlik	The World is Shifting - Cloud Technology and Working at Home is the New Norm. How can I help you? The World is Shifting - Cloud Technology and Working at Home is the New Norm. How can i help you? As a woman in Tech, a leader in Business Intelligence, and a single mom I understand the value of time, goals and purppose. In our new Norm of COVID19 business want to save software cost but continue to push revenue . But Business Need Data and Insight in order to transform their business. In our personal lifes we need to wear many hats working from home.Business as Usual has become very Unusual. How can Technology help us make these Shifts.… read more
Rutuja Joshi Agile Coach at LogMeIn	Design effective OKRs for your team OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) is a goal management framework helping companies focus on the things that matter. By aligning teams, departments and individuals, OKRs provide a framework for measurable strategic outcomes to stretch and motivate, improving performance and growth. Progress is tracked and realised in a regular, repeated cycle of target and achievement. In this OKR Session, I will provide a comprehensive overview to the audience to the method that originated at Intel, were taken up by Google and are now the goal setting tool of choice at many well-known… read more
Mar Llambi Business Applications Architect at KPMG	Democratization of Technology through the Low Code In a world in constant change and with organizations forced to take disruptive decisions, technology is becoming less vertical to become a totally horizontal necessity. The opportunity to approach application development meets the need for many profiles to acquire technical skills: is there really a right way to achieve it? In this session I want to share with you the vision of Microsoft and how the thousands of partners around the world are we contributing to the #LowCode revolution. The most surprising point is that this revolution is not only changing the organizations from the… read more
Joanie Fredericks Founder and CEO at Ladies Own Transport Services	Passion, Humanity and Collaboration The issue of Violence Against Women has been a BURNING ISSUE for so many years that the lack of protection of women and the silence from law makers is a confirmation of the Patriarchal system that is still rampant in South Africa. Women's safety on public transport has always been a contentious situation and government is not doing anything about it. It became the elephant in the room, something that everyone knows about, few talks about and fewer still do something about. South Africa with its most Advanced Constitution is revered to in every single Gender Based Violence conversation -… read more
Sherry Bevan Leadership consultant at The Confident Mother	Manage your career with confidence and purpose to realise your ambitions In an increasingly competitive and uncertain world, it's not enough to work hard and trust to fate that you will get the career success you deserve. You need to manage your career with confidence and purpose to realise your ambitions. In this talk I cover the 3 Cs of Clarity, Commitment and Community. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Anusha Cheluvagopal Product Owner at Paysend	Dealing with relocation and a career break There are different phases one goes through when they intentionally or unintentionally take a career break. Some phases can be very dark and depressing. One might harbour fears of never working again. I've dealt with it and have some suggestions for how women can get through it and come out more confident than ever. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Louise Westra Naturopath & Women's Health & Well-being Strategist at Louise Westra Health	Three Lifetimes in One: Breaking The Cycle of Perpetual Overreaching In the 21st century women are now living the equivalent of 3 lifetimes in one. Whilst this is incredibly enriching in certain ways it also leaves us vulnerable to fatigue and exhaustion and on a trajectory to burnout if we don't know how to compensate. Using a modern functional approach alongside the wisdom women have gathered over time provides a pragmatic framework for success. It allows us to plan and strategise for ourselves and our biological needs so we don't inadvertently undermine our health and well-being and pay too high a… read more
Helen Packham Virtual communication strategist at Empowering Minds ltd	Virtual impact - the power of storytelling This talk explores the innate human skill of storytelling, what it looks like in a virtual working world and some immediate and practical takeaways that audience members can use to increase the impact of any virtual communication. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
HANNA KARPENKA Team Leader at Drug Design Group/ The united institute of informatics problems of National Academy of Sciences	Computer modeling of new drugs omputer molecular modeling techniques play an important role in research into the development of new drugs. The use of neural networks for these methods in the rational design of potential drugs can minimize the time and cost of searching for various targets and potential drugs! Such a computer model can, with high probability, predict the vulnerability in the structure of the infectious agent and indicate which chemical compound should be synthesized. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sarah Njamu CEO at Compu-Connect Education	The impact of Robotic Process Automation Robotic Process Automation also referred to as RPA, is not only making a difference in many industries, it is transforming the way we work. Companies of all sizes are looking to eliminate inefficiencies and increase productivity output in order to maintain a competitive advantage. RPA is helping to simplify processes, make interactions easier for both customers and employees by saving time, reducing costs and delivering greater accuracy. RPA is here to stay, it needs to be embraced as the new normal going forward. People who will win and conquer in the 4IR depensation or the digital economy… read more
Sara Sabin Leadership Coach & Consultant at Sara Sabin Transformational Coaching	Intelligent Leadership: Adapting to An Exponentially Changing Business World "Cleverness pursues its own little aims. Intelligence sees the larger whole in which all things are connected. Cleverness is motivated by self-interest, and it is extremely short sighted. Most politicians and businesspeople are clever. Very few are intelligent. Whatever is attained through cleverness is short lived and always turns out to be eventually self-defeating. Cleverness divides; intelligence includes." Quote from A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. So how do we create 'intelligent' leaders? I explore this. Outline: 1. Brief… read more
Karina Battaglia Customer Success Manager at Microsoft	Digital Leadership in the Future of Work Leadership in the digital world is not always easy, especially when managing remote or hybrid teams. Having a diverse team is only part of the equation, real impact only comes from inclusive teams. How can you lead such successful teams? In this session, we will review insights from research on this topic and what practices you can implement to be successful and productive with your team. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Emina Sikira Implementation Consultant at Infobip	IoT Narrative: Empowerment Edition "How the IoT can enable the spark for knowledge, and elevate the lives of future generations?" We're living in a fast-paced era, where the whole motto returned again to faster-stronger-better. This reproduced specific differences and inequalities among the countries, lifestyles, and even genders. On the other hand, we forgot that technology has a way to equalize a playing field a little bit. That being said, IoT as an idea, as a concept, as a philosophy is representing one of the few major breakouts there. It has the ability to enable inner creativity among the kids (as… read more
Eveline Oehrlich Chief Research Officer at DevOps Institute	The Skillful DevOps Human: SKIL Up Your DevOps Readiness in 2021 and Beyond The next normal requires good habits across all functions within an organization as the pandemic changed the priorities of organizations and customers. The good news is that IT has shifted to the forefront and digital services are essential across the globe and within all industries. Some organizations moved 20 times faster during the pandemic than before on increasing their data security or modifying or deploying new applications. 2021 will be a year of transition and your organization, your leaders and you should take this opportunity to look forward to shaping the future. The DevOps… read more
Rike Exner Software Engineer	Connecting 20k women in tech and banning the evil: How to build a friendly (Twitter) bot Bot technologies can help you reach more of the people you want to connect with and improve your audience's engagement. But why seem so many of them so spammy and untrustworthy? Is there a way to build a friendly Social Media bot? The Twitter account femtech_ was founded in 2019 and has built a large community of women in tech and STEM by merely conducting automated interactions. How does it work and how have spammers constantly been trying to abuse it? How does it support the tech women's community? This talk offers exclusive insights into an empowering, non-spammy Twitter… read more