Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Frances West Founder, FrancesWest&Co, Former IBM Chief Accessibility Officer	Taking It Personally: Leveraging Strength from Your Ethnicity, Your Culture to Lead Authentically In this timely talk, Frances speaks about why bringing your whole life to work strengthens your inner compass and helps manage the challenges of adversity and the disruption of the unknown, based on her personal journey as a trailblazing woman in tech from non-English speaking Asian immigrant to the C-suite at IBM. She covers how to lead as woman in times of change or crisis. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Alina Vandenberghe Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer at Chili Piper	Examples By Action: How I Enacted Gender Pay Equity in My Tech Company As a female entrepreneur and programmer who grew up in communist Romania, Chili Piper’s CXO Alina Vandenberghe has overcome her share of discrimination in tech. Now at the helm of two successful B2B companies, Alina and her cofounder husband are aggressively enacting change and setting an example by action, including closing a 17% gender pay gap. Externally, they emerged as one of the largest funders of women-run communities in SaaS, including the premier sponsor for Women in Sales, SheSells, Women Sales Pros. Alina will share practical ways we can all pin the needle toward DEI in tech.… read more
Natalie Egan Founder & CEO at Translator, Inc.	How Tech Can Spark Conversations for Change (Empathy + Tech = Change) As an openly trans woman with decades of experience in the corporate tech space, Natalie has a unique vantage point when it comes to merging the human-centric importance of diversity, equity, & inclusion with the analytical needs of businesses. Our identities, challenges, traumas, privileges, and everything else that makes us who we are, don't leave us when we walk through the door of our workplace. Rather than hiding the most human parts of ourselves, it's time to create work environments that not only respect the individualities of their employees but actively seek to… read more
Kelley Kage CIO, Surety Technology at Liberty Mutual Insurance	How YOU can influence change and drive equity in your organization Are you wondering how you can make a change at your company, in society, and in the world? Not sure where to start? Or you have an idea but don't know how to scale it? Kelley Kage is going to share her story about following her passion of helping others and how she was able to drive significant organizational change with focus on equity, and how she has expanded that work nationally and globally. She will share actionable tips and tricks that you can use to do the same. Creating equity and driving change, especially in tech, is up to all of us. Did you like this session? Share… read more
Amy Forando Computer Engineer at UL LLC	Exponential Earth Day - an inclusive initiative to return to our roots, build bridges between old & new, and maximize the impact of individual action This talk is your invitation to use technology for good. Exponential Earth Day is an experiment designed to challenge us to work with each other rather than work around each other. In 1970, the modern Earth Day seed was planted. It has grown into the largest secular observance in the world with more than a billion people around the globe taking action to change human behavior and advocate for global, national and local policy changes. 50 years later, technology has changed the way we connect to each other, share information and meet our basic needs. The… read more
Pinar Oncu Co-Founder at Atlas Space	Dancing with the Change; Evolution of Metaverse for Future of Work Tech people; can you really remember how different your workspace was just 3 years ago? The pace of change has the incredible increase at certain industries with today's accesibility to information and developing communication technologies. Our habits are in constant evolution in our professional and casual lives. As an XR entrepreneurs, we have witnessed the evolution of future of work from sufferinf for persuading people for videocalls to creating a metaverse for businesses and receiving demand without even any marketing campaign. In our session, we will… read more
Natasha Rabsatt Founder and CEO, Experience Designer, and XR Strategist at NAR Creative LLC	Bending the Curve with Our Thinking about Design Foundations We hear a lot about design and how it is important to the creation or enhancement of systems, products, and even immersive experiences (also in the metaverse) - but how do we truly design better, more comprehensively, more inclusively, or more accessibly in today's tech-driven world? How do we begin to affect meaningful change in organizations and businesses? Let’s explore how the understanding of strategic design and how knowledge around schemas and mental models support and elevate design program foundations, which ultimately enable us to design better and innovate in today’s tech-… read more
Desiree Young Executive Vice President Of Global Partnerships and Strategic Innovation	Equity In Access In Action Our new normal in the post-Covid remote/hybrid world has put a spotlight on both Accessibility & Inclusion. Whether you are a student, employee, or employer, unlocking and opening the doors for Accessibility & Inclusion is more possible than ever. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Heather Cronin Manager of Engineering, Android at Mahana Therapeutics	A Software Development Journey in Self Confidence This talk will be about my journey to becoming a skilled android engineer and engineering manager. I did not have the tools or resources early on as a kid to set myself up for success. In fact, I did not find my passion in computer science until I was about 20. By a pure independent nature a desire for something better in life did I get to where I am today. This talk will talk about how even as humble beginnings as I came from, any woman can create change. You can change your future. You can change the future of others; the first step in getting there is believing that you can. Did… read more
Vanessa Little Global CTO at Interdynamix Systems	Be the Mentor You Always Wanted Now more than ever it is important for women to be helping women advance their careers and be heard, especially in the tech field. This talk will focus on the responsibilities are for those of us who have broken that glass ceiling, how it will benefit current and future generations, and how it is going to transform the global culture going forward. This is also a call to action for women in tech of all levels to step up and contribute to the solution. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Susanne South VP Software Engineering - Agility Lead at JPMorgan Chase	Why the Inverse Yak Theory is bad for business Leadership and culture can make or break a company. Learn how important to the development of junior leadership "Yak" behavior is. If you want to have seamless leadership transitions and leaders who are always ready to step up to the next challenge, embrace the Yak and ensure your company or group does not follow the Inverse Yak Theory. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sireesha Chilakamarri CTO at Admedia	Your inner (tech) beast We can all be technologists. Most times, out thoughts limit us from taking a step ahead to try something new. I will discuss reverse thought process so that "Act conquers terror" to become a technologist Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Victoria Wejchert Founder/CEO at Kinship	What it Means to be a Woman in the Pitching Room It’s time for a change in the male-dominated sector of investing. Join Founder and CEO of Kinship Systems Victoria Wejchert, who has been on both sides of investing, as she explores ways to involve more women in investing and demonstrates why women will add value to every aspect of business. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Angela Shaw IT Senior Associate Director at Boehringer Ingelheim US	Unlocking Your Team’s Potential Join this exciting session where we share the secret for unlocking your team members to their full potential. This will include:  How to keep team members aligned to strategic goals  The importance of focusing on employee development  Building a flexible team to keep up with the changing with the needs of the business Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Deborah Berebichez Lead Scientist in Quantum Computing at VTT	"Lead The Way: How to Succeed with Proactive Leadership." Deborah grew up in a conservative community that discouraged girls from pursuing a career in science, technology or engineering. In high school she was told that if she were too smart, she would never be liked and that it would be better for her to pursue a feminine career. But she wanted to understand how the world works, so she defied her parents and friends and studied physics becoming the first Mexican woman to graduate with a PhD in physics from Stanford. In this inspirational presentation, she shares the ups and downs of her path, which led her to becoming a physicist, a TV host of… read more
Alyssa Cox Founder at Blue Swift Consulting	Fueling with Failure Learning from failure is our last best opportunity to drive value from things that didn't go the way we wanted them to. By not taking an intentional approach to learning from failure, we not only lose out on the opportunity to learn, but we also make it more likely that the root causes of failure go unremediated and drive future failures. While "failing fast" is a core tenet of agile development, the agile revolution has yet to take hold on the business side of the house. In this talk, given by Alyssa Cox, founder of Blue Swift Consulting, we'll take a… read more
Jacqueline Smalls Chief Program Officer	The challenges and opportunities as a Black woman in Tech This session will focus on my journey from the classroom to the C-suite and the challenges as well as the opportunities I faced along the way as a Black woman. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Christy White Chief of Staff at Fullscript	Strategic Alignment, Driving Culture through Clarity When there is a lack of alignment on how to grow it cascades throughout the organization negatively impacting culture. People don’t understand the vision and they can’t connect their work to company growth. Building alignment in the strategy development process and constantly communicating this, in various formats, drives clarity and connection, ultimately driving a strong culture connected to the vision and mission of the company. The talk will cover, building alignment in your annual and quarterly strategy sessions, and cascading strategic vision throughout the company - long-form,… read more
Dar Miranda VP, Product, UX and Research at DailyPay	Survive and Thrive during challenging times We all talk about how challenging these past few years. And, we've made some things work and others not so much. What we know is that we've learned a lot along the way. So, how do we take the best parts and what we've learned to build new strategies for how we work. We accept that things have changed. Great! Now, how do we thrive? Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Kausheek Nandy Head of IT at Boehringer Ingelheim Canada	Boehringer Ingelheim Meet & Greet; Innovation & Opportunity for Tech in Pharma. Changing Lives for the Better! Speak about development and career growth- mentoring, networking and volunteering & innovation with Boehringer Ingelheim Did you like this session? Share to vote.