Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Marti Grimminck Founder & CEO at International Connector	What to know about the global workforce? Our world continues to shift drastically overnight making planning, development and hiring difficult for many companies. According to Fiverr, “73% of U.S. workers plan to freelance this year with similar data emerging globally.” Through our direct, daily collaborations with diverse GenZs worldwide, we bring trends, signals and applicable data for companies regarding the future of work. From social impact and ESG initiatives, to mental health and DEI programs, to hybrid work, AI and the metaverse, what can we learn from and share with different regions of the world? What is happening in other… read more
Stacy Salvi VP Strategy at Movano Health	How wearables can bridge the healthcare gap for women while ensuring data privacy At Movano Health, we are designing a health wearable with women in mind, focusing on specifically addressing their unique health needs. Keeping women at the forefront of every product & UX decision is critical to deliver a product that can not only help make women healthier, but also bring them an experience that they will enjoy using. To get there, we continuously engage with a diverse set of women to better understand what we should prioritize. Sometimes these unique needs or insights are at odds with what’s been done before, the easiest path forward, or the most cost-effective option.… read more
Jackie Palmer VP Product and Industry Marketing at Demandbase	Championing Your Team: The Secrets to Success The secret to any great leader is her team. Leading a team shouldn’t be about how hard the team works on meeting KPI’s. Sure, that is an important aspect, but all too often it is the only thing that is focused on, especially in the fast paced technology industry. But what if there was a better way to get even bigger results from your team and it had nothing to do with how hard they worked or micromanaging their KPI’s? In this session, Demandbase’s VP of Product and Industry Marketing Jackie Palmer will share the keys to her more than two decades of success with mentoring and leading teams to… read more
Jenny Strauss Sr. Director, Employee Experience and DE&I at Demandbase	From the Outside In: Being Real to Build Culture What does a welcoming company culture look like? If you asked ten people you’d likely get 10 different answers. However, some things often resonate - the need to feel included, be heard, and be counted. Creating a culture that is open and welcoming doesn’t require expensive events or high profile speakers, it’s about asking for and responding to feedback, and creating space for people to be real. It’s about showing up authentically and creating space for employees to come together in ways that recognize the fullness of their experiences and lives, giving them confidence to share their own… read more
Meenakshi Kaushik Senior Manager, Product Management at Cisco	Expanding Your Application Security: Integrating CNAPP and API Security for Improved Risk Analysis The presentation demonstrates how to enhance your application security beyond conventional CNAPP (cloud native application protection platform) workload and supply chain security, by incorporating API security. Also, it will highlight how a combined CNAPP and API security analysis can lead to fewer false notifications and provide a more comprehensive and precise risk analysis of your application’s security posture. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Grace Andrews Principal Product Evangelist at Equinix	Unlocking business impact through digital transformation Digital transformation is more than just the technology that powers a company; it’s a holistic approach that impacts the technological stack, team practices and overall culture of an organization. Given that digital transformation requires a companywide commitment, organizations must assess all work streams and operations to prioritize the digital initiatives that will create the strongest business impact. In this session, Grace will discuss the definition of digital transformation, the tools needed to start the digital transformation journey, and the applicable models used by… read more
Katherine Castro DEIB Practitioner, Founder of Diversity Community Group, Founder of Castro Career Consulting	Coins and Consciousness, How to Build Your Career While Keeping True to Who You Are Teach my audience how to avoid the pitfalls of giving our entire worth and financial goals to one organization. Share how to pinpoint resources outside of the educational system or your job that is best for you. It helps to have a career coach navigate these turbulent times. But during COVID, everyone became a career coach; how do you know to who to give your time or money? Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Dilruba Malik Senior SQA Manager at Palo Alto Networks	The Future of QA Quality Assurance is a process of qualifying software applications and their components to ensure that they work as per the specification and do not contain any errors. It is an essential part of software development, specially in the early stages of development. Unit testing can be performed by developers, overall testing is by QA engineers. It can be manual or automated, depending on the type of application being tested and the level of risk involved with its release. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ashley Hromatko VP of Operations at FinOps Foundation	Framework for managing variable cost of Cloud With significant inflation putting pressure on many businesses, organization are looking inward for opportunities to reduce spending or improve efficiency. Cloud spend is both an operating expense but can be used as a lever to unlock immediate savings. The FinOps Foundation would like to introduce FinOps - a evolving cloud financial management discipline and cultural practice that helps enables organizations to get maximum business value by helping engineering, finance and business teams to collaborate on data-driven spending decisions. We will provide an overview of the FinOps… read more
Ana-Maria Istrate Senior Research Scientist at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative	NLP 101: Natural Language Processing and The Era of Transformer Models Machine Learning, AI and NLP have become part of the daily tech vocabulary. Companies use ML techniques to acquire users, drive revenue and increase profits. It seems that ML is everywhere. But what are the types of things you can do with machine learning, in particularly natural language processing? What exactly is NLP? How does it work? What are transformer models? How does the chatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) model work? If you’re new to the NLP space, and would like to understand more about what is going on under the hood, or the types of things you… read more
Lani Dickinson Founder at Thrive.OnPurpose.	What it Takes to Break The Glass Ceiling (And Other Options Your Experience Creates That Don’t Require Regret in Your Life) The precursors to success fully breaking the glass ceiling - corporate leader or entrepreneurialism Pretty much the same! With that...you have choices and can be a smash hit in either place....so why not do the route that creates no regret....the one where you never have to miss the moments that matter! My climb to Fortune 175 CEO as a woman and a mom Life, entrepreneurialism, business coach & mentor (and health) after that How you can too! Critical points of success for entrepreneurs and life after… read more
Haniyeh Mahmoudian Global AI Ethicist at DataRobot	Building and Deploying AI Technologies Responsibly and Ethically AI ethics is more important than ever, especially with the Biden-Harris Administration’s recent Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. Haniyeh’s presentation will focus on ethical AI, and tackle the question of human involvement in AI and how AI ethics is too often an afterthought. Specifically, her presentation will discuss: How racial and gender discrimination are possible with AI models that are not subjected to ethical scrutiny How organizations can navigate and improve AI bias with a responsible AI system and framework. Broader best practices that… read more
Jessica Kinman Director, Industry Solutions	Discovering the Power of Networking We hear and see events for networking, but what does that really mean? How do you network and why? Networking can be scary and intimidating, but when you have the tools to make a goal and understand how to execute, it can also be rewarding. I was able to raise my pay an average of nearly 50% and step into management roles utilizing my network. Join me for some tips and tricks on how I learned how to use my network to advance my career, improve my pay and open up opportunities that were never available to me. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Alexandra Navarro Chief of Staff at Paystand	Break into Tech: Insights from Silicon Valley Women Executives From speaker Alexandra Navarro: As a Latin-American woman in tech, and as the former chief of staff for the national nonprofit Latinas in Tech, I have consistently noticed how few Latinas advance to authority positions in their careers. In fact, a recent Latinas in Tech annual report suggested that even though many Latinas in their organization held academic degrees with years of experience, only 3% of those surveyed were in executive roles, while 56% were still working entry-level jobs. This statistic needs to change. In 2021, I took on the executive challenge… read more
Shibani Joshi National Business & Tech Journalist, Professional Speaker, Lecturer and Event Host	Redefining Success for Working Women Statistics show that the pandemic has stretched working women. Many women are using this time to realign how they work and to explore what they want. How can working women redefine success for themselves and create new definitions that include the roles we play as mothers, wives, caretakers, and more without giving up our work and dreams? How can we be more empowered across our lives? Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Shibani Joshi National Business & Tech Journalist, Professional Speaker, Lecturer and Event Host	Redefining Success for Working Women Statistics show that the pandemic has stretched working women. Many women are using this time to realign how they work and to explore what they want. How can working women redefine success for themselves and create new definitions that include the roles we play as mothers, wives, caretakers, and more without giving up our work and dreams? How can we be more empowered across our lives? Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Dr. Karen Ivy Department Chair - Technology Studies at University of Arizona Global Campus	Stand Out – Develop Your Personal Brand in the Tech Industry A strong brand stands out in the crowd, but branding isn’t just for companies. Want to stand out in your IT field? Want to connect with people in your industry and discover relevant professional opportunities? Then you need a personal brand. A personal brand is, quite simply, a presence either online or offline that represents you, your values, and what you have to offer. With high demand for IT jobs, it's important for you to stand out beyond your cover letter, resume and LinkedIn profile. If you are transitioning into a tech job or are currently working in… read more
Ishmeet Kaur Software Engineer	From Words to Understanding: Demystifying Machine Learning models in Advancing Language Processing In this talk, we will provide an introduction to machine learning and its applications in natural language processing. This hands-on tutorial aims to demystify large language models (LLMs) by providing participants with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts, tools, and techniques needed to understand and work with these models effectively.  We will start by defining what machine learning is and provide examples of its use in real-world scenarios. We will then discuss the different types of machine learning and will then dive into the concept of large language models, which are a type… read more
Kristen Brun Founder and Executive Coach at Emboldify	How Improvisational Thinking Makes You a Better Leader You may know about improv from Whose Line Is It Anyway?, or maybe you’ve seen a show at The Second City in Chicago. But improv isn’t just for actors and comedians. The skills you learn by doing improv increase your emotional intelligence, allow you to access your inner creativity and make you more resilient and adaptive when difficulties arise. The only problem? Psychologists estimate that 75% of people are afraid of public speaking, and you can imagine how high that percentage goes when you’re also making up everything on the spot. The vast majority of people will never take… read more
Melanie Margolin Chief Legal Officer at Thumbtack	How to be a Holistic Leader (And Why We Need More Holistic Leaders in Tech) The quality of leadership can make or break a company - it impacts everything from the products we build to the teams building them. But leadership doesn’t just fall on the C-Suite, it’s the responsibility of each one of us, regardless of job title or seniority. Enter the holistic leader - someone who inspires teams and seeks to serve in every capacity they can. Join Melanie Margolin, Thumbtack Chief Legal Officer and seasoned business leader and legal professional, to discuss the principles of holistic leadership and how it can help you build more successful, diverse and inclusive teams… read more