Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Amanda Obidike Founder and Strategy Lead at STEMi Makers Africa	Future-focused Options and technology hacks to be self-reliant Looking at the technology growth and world trends over the past decade, we can clearly see the massive progress we have made in terms of new technology and its applications in our everyday lives as well as in business/ organizations. This proposed topic is to prepare the audience to see how they can leverage and apply future technology inventions in their business, academics and community. We will be looking at some hacks and future technology predictions they can harness to be self-reliant, innovative and problem solvers. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sofia Michili Service Designer	Unhooked - How to spot and reverse addictive technologies Big Tech has become part of our daily lives, making us give our attention and energy while sometimes ignoring our own goals or becoming depressed on the way. How did these technologies become so addictive? It's not by accident, but by design. Addictive technologies know exactly what triggers us and have mastered the art of behavior change and influence while using the ease of technology to access our attention all day long. Both as designers and as individuals, we have the responsibility to understand the mechanics of these technologies and be transparent when we use them. This talk will… read more
Agne Nainyte Digital Transformation Consultant at Schuberg Philis	How a watermelon got stuck in a ‘millennial crisis’ In 2019 I was faced with what I call “millennial crisis”. This was the time when I realized that an imaginary perfect life (i.e. graduate from a prestigious university, get a good job, connect with cool friends and don’t ever have to worry about what you wish to buy) didn’t work for me anymore. So I quitted my corporate job at Maersk and went to rural Uganda to volunteer with women. I strongly believed that working in an NGO would naturally bring me my purpose. Unfortunately that didn’t happen so easily… but it did taught me a lot! During my talk I share with my personal insights and… read more
Nicole van der Hoeven Developer Advocate (Performance Testing) at k6.io	The Convergence of Code and Speech Programming code and human speech are often seen as being positioned at different ends of the spectrum. At one end, code is terse, strictly logical, and limited. On the other end, speech is unbounded and often verbose. However, the gap between the two is narrowing. Programming languages are becoming more and more abstracted, and writing tools are becoming more and more action-oriented. How can we prepare for a future where coding and writing are the same thing? Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Darien Maples Managing Director at Girls in Tech Dallas	Finding your place in Tech Sharing my journey through tech with no tech background. Showing the growth in the community through volunteering and using your network. Empowering women all over to try the tech space and learn more. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Anna Sroka IT Service Manager at Oerlikon	Leadership with Empathy Empathy means being able to understand the needs of others. Empathy cultivates better communicator. It times of crisis Emphatic Leader is the Best Leader. My speach will be about how empathetic teams managed in the covid era and how to be an empathetic leader. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Alina Kornienko COO, co-founder at Quppy	Financial Digitalization and Disruption in post-COVID world Fintech development is inseparable from remote presence and localization in all industrial and economic spheres. Working for a better living of every customer, enabling hyper personalized banking and financial experience, fintech field will continue boosting demand for expertise in software development, especially in Big data. Thus, fintech would create both directly and indirectly higher tech expertise and workplaces which is one of the top priorities in post-pandemic and post-crisis world. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Precious Kolawole Data Scientist/ Machine Learning Engineer at Lendsqr	Explain Machine Learning as to a kid Machine Learning programs today can learn to identify objects in images, videos, translate between languages, even master arcade and board games. In some cases, like DeepMind’s AlphaGo program, the AI even exceeds top humans at the task at hand! However, Machine Learning and AI are nothing more than buzz words. Let's learn it here together in its simplest form. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Precious Kolawole Data Scientist/ Machine Learning Engineer at Lendsqr	Explain Machine Learning as to a kid Machine Learning programs today can learn to identify objects in images, videos, translate between languages, even master arcade and board games. In some cases, like DeepMind’s AlphaGo program, the AI even exceeds top humans at the task at hand! However, Machine Learning and AI are nothing more than buzz words. Let's learn it here together in its simplest form. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Cristina Baldi Blockchain Manager and Trainer at Blockchain Era	The blockchain: the new trustless paradigm outside and inside the business value What is blockchain? Why is blockchain important in the supply chain? How does it allow the company to gain a competitive advantage on the market? What are the steps for the introduction of blockchain in the company? Transparent and immutable records, cost reductions, interoperable data creation, digital agreement management and value sharing are the traits that characterize blockchain technology. The aim of the webinar is to highlight the most significant features of the technology defined as the new internet, the methods for its implementation and the opportunities offered by the market for… read more
Kristina Maria Brandstetter & Astrid Wieland Head of Marketing and Communications at #TheNewITGirls	Diversity instead of simplicity. Why diversity promotes innovation and what you can do for it Companies thrive on innovation, and innovation thrives on diversity. A better working atmosphere, higher reputation and more extensive market coverage are just a few of the arguments that should convince companies of the added value of diversity. And the advantages of a diverse work environment can also be measured quantitatively. Companies that have a high proportion of women in managerial positions, for example, generate higher returns on average. Diversity has a decisive influence on the innovation performance of a company: "Industry affiliation",… read more
Sue Parker Founder of ELiTe, Data Leader & Coach at Empowered Leaders in Tech	Thriving in your First 30 days in Leadership As you transition into leadership, you can feel lonely & overwhelmed. You go from having many peers as sounding boards to being lonely, often in a male-dominated world. Outwardly you feel you ought to know all the answers and pressure to prove yourself can see 40% of new leaders fail. The reality is that this is a fantastic opportunity for ambitious professionals like you to have a huge impact, use your previously untapped potential and become a new generation of empowered leaders. A role model even. In this talk, I share powerful lessons so that you can… read more
Iuliia Martynovych Project Manager at EPAM	Challenges in IT mentoring female mentee During my 20+ years career in IT, unfortunately, a lot of times I observed a lot of female colleagues who sacrificed their professional career because of fear of not coping with balancing career/family. Sometimes they were afraid to even try a leader position. Others after a several-year-long career break were afraid to come back because they've forgotten everything they knew. As an active IT Mentor (a member of Women Who Code Ukraine) I help women to find themselves and start from scratch/come back to their careers in IT, as well as get a promotion to leadership positions.… read more
Nikhita Venkatesh Data Warehouse Engineer at Clearstream	Career Growth and Development - Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence is such an interesting topic. Imagine how does it feel to pursue your care in such an emerging field. So why delay let us understand the importance of hot topics like Machine Learning, Data Science and much more. Not only understanding them but also making your self ready in that industry. Come join the conference to know much about it and understand the gap between the academic world and Industry to sell yourselves. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Yoana Boyanova Software Development Team Lead at VMware	Make your Angular Application PWA Nowadays is crucial to develop apps with great UX and UI and to spend less time of developing a certain app for both web and mobile. In few simple steps you can make your existing Angular application act as a native app: work offline install it like desktop application send native notifications. If you're interested in how you can approach this, join me in my talk and learn about our journey with my team. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Barbara Rogoski Executive Speaker Coach and Mentor at Successful Speaker Now	Executive Presence for Women in Tech - How to Present Yourself Confidently Executive Presence is a skill that women need at every level of their career development, where they are conscious and intentional in everything they do at work. It is about building confidence in oneself and being able to communicate this in a variety of situations. In this presentation, executive speaker coach and senior TEDx speaker coach Barbara Rogoski will discuss what Executive Presence is, how to develop your own style and how we, as women can sabotage ourselves without even knowing it. It is an entertaining and empowering session with practical tips and insights for all who attend… read more
Maria Korneeva Frontend Tech Lead at Aleri Solutions GmbH	Crafting Frontend Strategy Predicting future is hard, yet every December we see plenty of blogs with titles like “Web Development Trends <put-next-year-here>”. Are they reliable enough to use them in your business forecast? In this talk I’m going to share my insights in crafting frontend strategy for a mid-sized IT company. You will learn about my way to tackle velocity and diversity of frontend technologies at the enterprise level. I want to discuss with you the “whats”, “whys” and “hows” of strategising, including some struggles that I faced, e.g. the soft "border" to other tech topics such as… read more
Amanda Brock CEO at OpenUK	The importance of global collaboration in a world of Brexit and Geo Political Shift The world is changing. We live in a time of shifts in long term political allegiances between governments, and political conscious decouplings of which Brexit was one of the clearest but very definitely only a part of the shifts happening across the globe. For the first time, Tech in inextricably linked to government and politics, through its provision of the State and economy's infrastructures and its shift through social media to providing the source of news and individuals' interactions with friends and family. Our Governments are calling for Digital and Data… read more
Linda Howson Physical Security Research Engineer at Nedap N.V.	Agile Physical Security And The Inevitable Paradigm Shift Physical security is, often, operationally focussed. While the organisational goals and strategy are used to form the initial security designs, many of the original driving factors become lost in the midst of time and change. How, then, can you be sure that the security decisions made today, provide the expected results? More importantly, how do you know that your current security organisation satisfies the needs of your rapidly developing business? As a security professional, you need an overview, a digital twin, that enables rapid response and provides… read more
Shalvi Mahajan Data Scientist	Natural Language Understanding and Inference Natural language processing is a commonly heard topic related to textual processing. But NLU or NLI are also the part of NLP which actually are the subtopics of NLP. Natural language understanding explains how the language needs to be understood before processing it. Natural language inference is the one where sentences from multiple languages can be processed using language-agnostic multilingual models and analyse how closely they are related to each other in a high dimensional space. This talk would be a general overview on how to distinguish between different concepts of NLP and… read more