Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Shriti Laxmidas Director of International Supply \| Diversity & Inclusion Champion at Farfetch	Living the Farfetch values In this Meet&Greet session, Shriti Laxmidas, Director of International Supply and Champion of Diversity and Inclusion at FARFETCH, will share her journey through the very beginning of the company, passing along the most important marks of the history of FARFETCH, and will speak about what it means to live the company’s values to the fullest and what makes FARFETCH culture unique. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Brigita Bizjak Business Intelligence Administrator at Adyen	Unobvious decision of transitioning into data Women are still underrepresented not only in data field, but overall in tech industry as well. In this talk, you will get to know more not only as how to enter that exciting field, potential challenges encountered along the way, but also why being part of tech is genuinely rewarding. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Rebecca Taylor Threat Intelligence Knowledge Manager at Secureworks	Inclusive Cyber Intelligence Without doubt the cyber community is dedicated to increasing diversity and fostering inclusion. However, the tools, teams, language and efforts supporting cyber intelligence can be built and perform in such a way they do the exact opposite. This session will reference functions, processes and terminology often seen in the cybersecurity space, and highlight how both teams and individuals can practice active inclusion through adaptations, organisational improvements and behavioural changes. This presentation will pull on real-life examples, provide evidence of impact, and sew… read more
Gill Bennet Delivery and Leadership Consultant	Leading from the Middle When you hear the word ‘leader’, you immediately think of people who are owners of a company, Presidents or Prime Ministers or even people in senior leadership positions. However, people can show leadership in any role. It doesn’t matter what job we are in or where we sit in the hierarchy; we all collaborate and work with people to achieve our end goal. In the majority of cases, 90% of everything we do is people management. Most of us manage from the middle, with little or no authority but a great need to inspire and motivate those around us. Did you like this session? Share to vote… read more
Jessica Rangel Senior Devops at Workday	Alpaca - How workday handles with SSL/TLS connections With the advent of public and private clouds, Kubernetes and microservices, Workday faced a real challenge to leverage an authentication solution and maintain confidentiality across different platforms and thousands of servers and APIs. Alpaca is our in-house certificate authority solution, to enable dev teams and acquired companies to securely create and manage certificates. Successfully served more than 20M internal digital certificates, we will briefly mention the PKI and JWT fundamentals, decision behind to create our own solution, key functionalities, technical choices, aspects of design… read more
Sandrine Pons Regional Vice President, Head of Solutions Sales & Innovation, SAP MidMarket EMEA North at SAP	Channelling the power of difference to grow stronger for the future What is the biggest obstacle in attracting more women to tech? The lack of female tech leaders. But Sandrine Pons is trying to change the tides. ‘Our strength is our difference, and our difference makes us stronger.’ Sandrine Pons is a powerhouse of a businesswoman who has been pioneering the importance of D&I for the last 15 years in the tech industry. Over 30 years ago, Sandrine left her hometown in the South of France and embarked on an international career spanning many industries and yet despite her respectable achievements – she has experienced difficulties at times… read more
Sandra Bauer Partner AI & Data at Deloitte	Operationalizing AI at Scale Artificial Intelligence (AI) drives competitive advantage and is a catalyst for transformation and is rapidly making an impact across every industry, every day. The path to MLOps and more effective ML development and deployment hinges on selecting the right people, processes, technologies, and operating models with a clear linkage to business issues and outcomes. To be effective, organizations must strike a balance between accelerating the use of AI and having the right AI infrastructure in place to operationalize and drive sustainable outcomes. Did you like this session? Share to… read more
Diana Verde Nieto Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Positive Luxury	Transparency, Disclosure and Sustainability Value: Solutions to Stakeholder Demands Stakeholder demands are firmly focused on sustainability, transparency and business adaptation and this will only intensify given the forthcoming regulatory and disclosure mandates. Positive Luxury’s Co-Founder, Diana Verde Nieto, will discuss what businesses need to consider, to address stakeholder demands, the benefits of sustainability disclosure and how to drive sustainable economic business growth. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Marina Velikova Founder & CEO of Creazzia \| AI expert \| Educator at Creazzia	Enabling Circular Leadership through co-creation between industry and education Technology, globalization and personal purpose hunt have turned life into a web of endless possibilities for personal growth and career choices. Learning can be anywhere, anytime, with anyone, at any age, jobs appear and fade away, and partnerships go beyond borders. At the same time, shortage of tech professionals and tech teachers show that the traditional growth path from education to job fails to keep-up with the latest developments. How do we then effectively and efficiently prepare tech talent in finding their authentic way in this "life web"? This talk outlines… read more
Lena Thompson Founder and Keynote Speaker	The New Age of Productivity - How to Harness Your Energy And Take Back Your Time The changes in work brought in by the lockdown have forced us all to look at how we work in a totally different way. Many of the conventional approaches will no longer work - because they are not designed around individuals. In order to engage and inspire people, companies & leaders must understand what lies below the surface of each individual and how they are energetically wired to succeed. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Madhuparna Datta Application Engineer Architect at Cadence Design Systems	Journey of an Accidental Engineer The talk will go through the key learnings gained through working in different geographies and on broad spectrum of technologies. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Marzena Ołubek Data Scientist at Orange Innovation	AI for Anomaly detection in network area Have you ever wondered how AI is used in the telco network area? Orange, as data-driven and AI-powered telco company, place Data and AI at the heart of our innovations for Smarter Networks. In that case, network management is supported by Machine Learning models for detecting anomalies based on different types of network data. During this presentation we will zoom on Predictive Network Maintenance based on network data. Our aim is to shorten root cause analysis with Explainable AI to improve network experts daily job. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Gissel Velarde Senior Expert Data Scientist at Vodafone	Optimizing Machine Learning-Based Detection Systems Detection systems are one of the industry's most profitable and widely used types of machine learning solutions. Therefore, its proper deployment is of extreme importance for a wide range of applications. Detection systems face several challenges when the data presents a highly imbalanced class distribution. In this talk, Gissel Velarde will share seven key points to achieve optimal performance in real-world detection problems for binary classification. She will describe relevant tasks that include understanding the business use case, exploring the data, exploring previous solutions,… read more
Alka Patel CEO and Founder of Lifestyle First, Lifestyle Medicine Doctor, Longevity Coach	Stay Alive - how to reverse ageing and live longer, younger We are living in a time of incredible tech...and incredible stress. And as Women in Tech you have incredible skills, talents and creations to share without letting the stress of success hinder your. Remember though that the most incredible piece of tech that will ever be created is your mind and your body and your greatest responsibility is to take utmost care of this tech so you can live your longest, healthiest life and continue to share your gifts and passions for as long as possible. Reversing ageing is now possible and I'll be sharing with you how to be 10, 20,30 years younger using… read more
Heidi Pech Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Futurice	From passion project to boardroom: Key learnings from creating an award-winning DEI approach in a tech consultancy Futurice In this talk I will share my key learnings and insights based on my experience of spearheading the transformation of a Nordic tech consultancy into an inclusive organisation with award-winning DEI practices. I will show with concrete examples which projects were the most impactful in making the change happen both culturally but also in the business. You'll walk away with an understanding of how to increase inclusion with simple and adaptable actions, and an open-source tool to create more inclusive digital products and services in a business savvy way. Did you like this session… read more
Sandra Kolb CEO & Values Ambassador at MOVE development	VALUES & NEUROPSYCHOLOGY - color your company or team for success There is no humanistic technology without a heartbeat. 20 years of experience have shown me: Tech is the tool, and Values are the heartbeat. Neuropsychological findings confirm that. Literally color your company, team, or personal life with an acknowledged concept and unleash the full potential of tech. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Mariken Jansen van Vuuren Co-Founder/COO/CMO at Quantumflux Digital	The Future of Finance and the 100 Year Life Picture yourself in 5 years' time. What does that look like? What will you eat? Where will you be? What will you do? How is your quality of life? Are you able to live a life without limitation? Now add 10 years and ask yourself the same questions. Add another 20 years. What would life look like for you when you turn 100? The ageing society narrative is often conflated with a crisis scenario where a ‘grey tsunami’ engulfs the economy. The insolvency of pension funds and social security that dries up before your end of life are the main fears propagated by many. What gives… read more
Teresa Wu VP of Software Engineer	How to succeed in technical interviews Lessons I have learnt in the past from the game on both side: being an interviewer and being an interviewee, is that interviewing is a hard work, and I would like to share my experiences of successes and failures, starting from writing up your resume, giving an analysis of criteria that companies are looking for, in various technical background: junior, senior and lead engineers. Furthermore, this talk continues to discuss ways to improve your portfolio and one key thing to remember that your career is both inside and outside your day to day job. Did you like this… read more
Jasmin Guthmann Vice President and Executive Board Member at MACH Alliance	The Women in Mach Manifesto for Gender Equality In this session, we take a closer look at the first-ever Women in MACH Manifesto for Gender Equality. MACH stands for Microservices based, API- first, Cloud native SaaS and Headless. The MACH Alliance advocates for the best-of breed application of this principle to future-proof businesses across all industries. Women play a significant role in the tech industry, and diverse teams are scientifically proven to produce better results. Yet, women remain the underrepresented minority. Learn how we brought 100 leading women in tech and a few select male allies together in September 2022 to create… read more
Anna Sroka IT Service Manager at Oerlikon	Servant Leadership - Become a better leader by putting others first To be a leader does not only mean to lead, but also to serve and support. Ken Blanchard said, “Leadership is like the banks of a river. Without the banks, the river would be just a puddle, and the banks allow it to flow. " From this session you will learn what servant leadership is, its principles and what you can achieve by working in this way. Did you like this session? Share to vote.