Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Hristina Nedkova Senior Engineering Manager at Paysafe	Transform your teams to effective engineering community A team is a group of people who work together to achieve a shared goal. Despite where in the org chart they are or what technologies they use, they are trying to achieve something and be successful. In this talk, Hristina will cover the realities of shipping code for a mobile app. She will walk you through stories of Skrill’s releases, process and infrastructure challenges that she and her teams figured out how to overcome to enable the mobile engineers be more productive, ship more regularly and, last but not least, dream for the apps’ future growth. And how their journey… read more
Jitka Steinmetz Managing Director Germany at DXC Luxoft	Going beyond engaging women in Computer Sciences in higher education In the past decades, the focus was on engaging (inspiring, encouraging) women in Computer Science. However, changing attitudes is not enough. Women tend to learn, frame and problem solve differently. Different learning styles and female mentoring in higher education is critical to enable women to make Computer Science their own. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Top Chef Yuka Top Chef Instructor at ChefPassport SàRL	Teriyaki Lunch Menu with ChefPassport CHICKEN / TOFU TERIYAKI MENU - Serving 2 INGREDIENTS: 1-1.5 cups uncooked rice (approx 150g - 225g) For Chicken Teriyaki: 300 grams skin-on boneless chicken thighs 1/4 tsp salt 4 tbsp soy sauce 2 tbsp Mirin/brown sugar 2 tbsp sake Spring Onion for 2-3 stalks Optional grated ginger For Tofu Teriyaki 300 grams firm tofu 1/4 tsp salt 4 tbsp soy sauce 2 tbsp Mirin/brown sugar 2 tbsp sake Any mushrooms (one packet depending on the type, please note that mushrooms… read more
Svetlana Stankovic Director SEO at Global Savings Group	Career in SEO: a road less obvious when starting in digital marketing How to kickstart your career in SEO and discover the beauty in cross-functional technical marketing world. What should be your first steps, how to gather experience and professionalize your knowledge and skills to become and SEO rockstar. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Tayana Bellis VP Client Services at Egress Software Technologies	Myth Busting: Challenging stereotypes and grasping opportunities As women in tech, the stereotypes put upon us – and particularly those we accept, internalise and resign ourselves to can become the mantras of our whole careers. From “not being technically minded enough” to being “unable to cope with the demands of the job”, our gender and ethnicities can dictate the positions we apply for and hold, and how far we’ll climb. Join Tayana Bellis for this presentation, in which she’ll debunk some of the common myths believed about women in tech (and that we sometimes believe about ourselves!), and provide practical strategies for how to overcome these… read more
Michelle Coombs Director at The Tech Leader Network	The Unconscious Use of Hands and How They Add or Detract From Your Message Have you ever watched a video/presentation with the sound off and you think it is a standup comedy you are watching as people's arms are waving around, and then you turn the sound on to find out that actually, it is something quite serious? Or ever wondered why you don't get the outcome you expect to get when you are presenting? It might not be the words that are the problem. It's estimated that 7% of communication is through words, 38% is the tone of voice and 55% is body language. So, as over half of the communication is picked up through body… read more
Patrice Caire Consulting scientist, writer and Ethical-AI advocate	Does Artificial Intelligence (AI) Support Diversity, Equity and Inclusion? Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is deployed everywhere—from smartphones to search engines—raising ethical questions particularly concerning women and minorities. However, governments and companies have been slow to address AI biases and discriminations. In this talk, I focus on the question whether AI supports diversity, equity, and inclusion. Using daily life use cases and examples, I illustrate the significance of the input data while training models. Then I stress the importance to recognize, understand and remove biases in this input. All along, I present recommendations like… read more
Patrice Caire Consulting scientist, writer and Ethical-AI advocate	Does Artificial Intelligence (AI) Support Diversity, Equity and Inclusion? Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is deployed everywhere—from smartphones to search engines—raising ethical questions particularly concerning women and minorities. However, governments and companies have been slow to address AI biases and discriminations. In this talk, I focus on the question whether AI supports diversity, equity, and inclusion. Using daily life use cases and examples, I illustrate the significance of the input data while training models. Then I stress the importance to recognize, understand and remove biases in this input. All along, I present recommendations like… read more
Emma Donery Software Engineer at OpalQuick Limited	How To Design and build scalable APIs and Why it Matters APIs are the core mechanism for Decoupling front ends from back ends and for decomposing monolithic infrastructures into composable enterprises. APIs enable teams to focus on their core value proposition while allowing customers to achieve bigger goals by connecting to data and functionality with tools they prefer to use. But to deliver on these myriad benefits and objectives, teams must design APIs with scale in mind. APIs that are built without scale as a consideration will suffer from poor usability, have limited availability, are open to security issues, and more. Hence, there is need to… read more
Elena Cureva Chief Financial Officer \| FinTech professional	Digital transformation in financial services provider to create impact and icrease financial inclusion in less developed countries • Digital transformation - a necessity for sustainable growth and improve the access to financial services. • Opportunities and Threats arose from digital transformation • Discussion on Technology implementation and expected progress. • Discussion on potential risks (financial, operational, material risks) Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Joy Poole Co-Founder / Executive Coach at Emergence Partners	Conquering Techposter Syndrome (TM) In this talk, I guide techy and non-techy professionals alike through a powerful framework designed to unlearn the fear of not knowing 'enough' about technology and how to begin to leverage tech to its fullest. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Anh Tran Senior Data Scientist at DevoTeam	Decision Making: Why the last mile of analytics should be your first priority? Organizations are making massive investment in digital transformation but many stumble and fall to achieve the expected return. Only few who target much of this budget towards the toughest challenge companies face in extracting value from analytics -the last mile- could improve decision making process and consequently better business outcomes. This session reveals that secret- the last mile- which 90% of organizations that significantly outperform peers have in common through addressing: What is the last mile of analytics? Why the last mile of analytics could make big returns?… read more
Nazneen Rupawalla Lead Security Consultant at Thoughtworks	Organizational Change Through The Power Of Why It’s an oft-repeated mantra around here that security is everyone’s responsibility. Unfortunately, it’s easier said than done and this talk will describe how we introduced a new security approach to empower product teams, enable accountability among team leads and ensure teams and leadership are jointly informed about and responsible for risks. This cross functional requirement, which can impact the reputation and financial status of any company, being reactively implemented across most teams highlights a process gap. That is what we sought out to solve and a… read more
Cosima von Kries Director, Solution Engineering EMEA at Nintex	The Future is Female - Advancing as a Women in Tech Leadership Once I had a dream as a little girl to become a Powerful Woman in Tech and I dreamt even bigger - a Woman in Tech Leadership before my 30s. Facing the reality of looking into the Tech Leaders in various companies you rarely find a woman in this position and even less a young one. During this session I want to take you on my journey going above and beyond, never giving up to prove that the next generation of successful Tech Leaders are female including tips about how to be confident and believe in yourself, what skills are required, how to get back to motivation if everyone tells you that you… read more
Katharina Mueller Founder at Power of World Women	You are POWWerful! If you could start all over again, what would you do differently? What are your unfulfilled dreams? Where do you face limitations, internally or externally? How do you contribute to a more equal, diverse and inclusive community? Women and marginalised groups experience inequality and exclusion on a regular basis. Internal limitations and self-doubts add up to it, making it very difficult to turn our dreams into reality, fulfil our potential, and be mindful. Listen, you got this! You are POWWerful, exactly for who and how you are. We see you, we hear you, we want to support you.… read more
Sarah Njamu CEO & Founder at Compu-Connect Education	The impact of Robotic Process Automation on the future of work The future of work is now, the vision of a robot for every person is becoming real and a top priority on many companies agenda as new technologies such as RPA promise high productivity, cost efficiency and better customer experience. RPA is taking many industries by storm and this technology is here to stay, the people who will win and survive in the 4IR economy and beyond are the ones who are open to the new changes of using Bots, which shortly will become the new normal for every organisation. How will human beings be impacted working side by side with robots? Did you like this… read more
Candyce Costa Digital Marketeer, NFT Investor and Chief Editor Female Tech Leaders at Female Tech Leaders	NFT - The Next Investment Trend Discussion about the future of NFT (Non-fungible token), what is NFT, NFT for beginners, reasons and where to invest, the next generation of risk investment. The talk will bring 3 top female techs involved in the sector. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Didem Un Ates Head of Applied Strategy, Data & AI, CDO Office at Microsoft	Operationalizing Responsible AI The EU AI Act is expected to be implemented by 2023, and it will change how businesses develop and utilize AI. Any business that offers an AI application to EU citizens or organizations will need to ensure its applications are aligned with EU Charter of Rights and various other laws, including ones in relation to discrimination and privacy. These applications will have to abide by the framework of “trustworthy AI” set forth by the Act. One major area of change will be responsible AI (“RAI”). Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Arzu Çöltekin Professor of Human Computer Interaction and Extended Reality at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland	How unconscious is unconscious bias? Giving examples from visual illusions that I study in my own work, I illustrate the concept of cognitive bias. Then I draw links between such illusions and unconscious bias in work contexts. The visual illusion examples disarm everyone who might not 'buy' the unconscious bias stories as a possibly harmful source of behavior. At the same time, it encourages taking responsibility without taking the blame, inviting us all to think what we can do to live a better life. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Maria Korneeva Frontend Technology Lead at Aleri Solutions GmbH	Tools and frameworks to accelerate frontend development „A 10x developer is an individual who is thought to be as productive as 10 others in his or her field. The 10x developer would produce 10 times the outcomes of other colleagues, in a production, engineering or software design environment.“ Do you want to become one? In my talk I'm going to address concepts, tooling, and step-by-step automation for faster frontend development. You will learn how you can speed up your software delivery and make it more efficient. After all, 10x development is not only about skills but also about the right processes and tools. Did… read more