Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Erika Shepard CEO \| Founder \| Coach \| Healer at Erika Shepard LLC	Peace Over Perfect We live in a time of high achievement. We’re working long hours, have increased pressure to provide and perform and try to do everything “right.” With this comes a lot of pressure put on ourselves, increased stress, debilitating anxiety, and lack of joy. On the outside things can seem perfect, but on the inside, we can feel like we’re falling short. So how do we restore that feeling of good enough? In this talk, Erika shares simple practices to leave the perfectionism behind, maintain a healthy work performance, and invite you to reconnect to more peace, calm and joy in your everyday… read more
Kandis O’Brien Co-Founder at The SIX	Redesigning Your Organization for Innovation Delivery is hard and staying aligned is even harder especially as companies scale. In Redesigning Your Organization for Innovation, let’s explore how companies and teams can use the methods of design and vision sprints to co-create more adaptive and resilient organizations, improve ways of working and amplify your teams’ ability to define and achieve shared goals. Organizations are constantly evolving human networks. To shape their direction and momentum, leaders must address: -The five essential dimensions of organizational design -Balancing Alignment and… read more
Lucinda Cross CEO and Founder at Activate World Wide LLC.	Activate Your Life Discussion around productivity, priority, and overcoming obstacles and challenges for personal and professional development. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Katie Schuele Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer at Boostr	Did I Say That Out Loud?: How My Foot in Mouth Stepped Into Common Ground Any woman who has made it in tech has run the requisite gauntlet of male dominated boardrooms, striving to hide emotions in the face of underestimation, disregard, or intimidation. There are few female executives who have not wanted to shout out “I don't want to join this f*@king call" at one time or another. When a young female cutting her teeth at IBM inadvertently said exactly such a thing to a room of male executives, she had no idea that the faux-pas would teach her a lesson that would inform her fundamental leadership philosophy until this very day. How should young, capable… read more
Mikaela Pisani Sr Data Scientist @ Rootstrap & Managing Director at Girls In Tech Uruguay	How Women Need To Be Involved In Data Science To Prevent Bias In Algorithms Bias In Data Science: In Data Science, algorithmic bias refers to errors in the results of machine learning algorithms due to erroneous assumptions in the implementation of the solution. Several factors can influence algorithmic bias, some of them refer to the data presented, where others are a result of bias that humans already have. As data science is being applied in more and more industries, it’s important that we start this conversation around bias in data science to allow us to get ahead of the game and prevent as much of it as possible. People often ask me why… read more
Sharmeen Khan Founder/ CMO at OpsSmart Global	Interoperability Leads to Traceability A fishery knows what it caught. A processor knows what it receives and dispatches. A farmer provider knows what he is harvesting from his shrimp pond. And a retail store knows what inventory it’s holding. But the information is largely siloed within each supply chain player’s organization, making it hard to follow the custody of every item across its lifecycle. The lifecycle journey - from fin to plate is, for the vast majority of goods, a black hole of insight. In order, to create true farm to fork traceability each stakeholder must share their data with other stakeholders in the supply… read more
Evan Zhang Sr. Technical Product Manager at Ocrolus	Demonstrating the Machine Learning Cycle The Machine Learning Fly Wheel: Optimizing the process of creating a set of training for continuous machine learning Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ciera Lowe Data Engineering Tech Lead at Ocrolus	Diversity Leadership in Technology Hiring, developing and challenging a diverse workforce. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Shereen Anis Chief Technology Officer at Representation Counts	The old system isn't working. So I invented a new one How the old system has failed so many people, and how inclusion of women, BIPOC/POC requires a completely new system and fresh perspective to begin including more people. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Annie Scranton Founder & President at Pace Public Relations	What's BYOP? 5 Steps to Being Your Brand's Own Publicist Whether your startup has been around for six months, a year, even five years, there's one thing that every entrepreneur will enviably have trouble with — securing press for your company. A PR pro with nearly a decade of experience, Annie knows the ins and outs on how to obtain top press mentions for startups. From securing niche media mentions and leveraging them to bigger journalists to humanizing your pitch and creating unique narratives, Annie will provide 5 tactical tips on how to get your startup in the media. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sierra Sparks Incoming Doctoral Candidate, Department of Engineering Science at University of Oxford	A Designer's Responsibility for Inclusive Design in Tech The designs and products produced by engineers, designers, and developers inherently affect the societies in which they are implemented, whether for better or for worse. Often times, new designs and technologies are developed without fully addressing this impact, and without full consideration of the needs for inclusive designs - designs that consider a wide variety of end-users and that actively work to eliminate bias or discriminative designs in their technologies. A lack of consideration for discriminative design can result in a discriminatory society, and a lack of diversity in design… read more
Nadine Alameh CEO at Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)	The Power of Location It’s 2021 and the world is finally recognizing that Location indeed matters! There’s this energizing and undeniable recognition of the value of Location – now way beyond our traditional community of geospatial experts and users. With our collective appetite for – even reliance upon – data, the future is clearly in data integration, in creating knowledge and insights out of the overwhelming amount of data out there. As a community of geospatial experts, we have an opportunity, an incentive – an impetus, even – to make data integration as seamless as possible. Let’s together unleash the power… read more
Nathalie Lafaurie Technical Program Manager, Global Operations Engineering at Dell Technologies	Mentoring Around the World In this talk I will attempt to summarise what I learned from my mentees and the value add this Mentoring experience brought to my life. I am passionate about mentoring because I had amazing mentors who put me on the path to self-awareness, encouraged me to be brave and take action to attain my dreams, transform ambition into goals and tangible results. Nowadays I am mentoring others to pay it forward, I also encourage my mentees to become mentors. In those crazy times of Covid-19 I firmly believe that mentoring has never been more important, it is a tool to offer support, it is an avenue to… read more
Dr. Jenny Lind Elmaco Regional Coordinator at Euraxess worldwide	A Feminist Science Diplomacy in Tech and Research Closing the tech gender gap and increasing women’s representation in research needs an honest look at the challenges and opportunities of the tech sector which on one hand still has visible gender disparities that stifle innovation but has the potential to give the tools and capacity to create evidence-based solutions to bridge the space. In this session, we celebrate the broken glass ceilings but also address the leaky faucets by looking at entry points for collaboration and growth within the women tech community. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
KC Lathrop Strategy & Operations Lead & Chief of Staff at Cisco	The Practice is the Outcome Technology is constantly changing, so how do you keep up with the skills needed to be successful? More importantly, how do you stay inspired to learn? With learning comes a great deal of vulnerability and let's be honest, that's daunting. This talk is about knocking down limiting beliefs and building a creative practice that will help you continually grow and improve to be a better leader and happier human. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Maria Jones Operations Leader at Nerdy Industry, LLC	COOs in Tech Maria Jones describes Operations Executives as the “Innovators of execution.” This role is vital to business continuity and delivering on sales promises. Yet, many leaders don’t understand what they do and overlook operations as the core of any business. Maria debunks common myths about operations, using analogies and examples that make their value undeniable. She also will share how professionals may learn more about this career path. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sheri Kurdakul CEO at VictimsVoice	The Moral Considerations of Technology: Looking at the Whole Picture Technology has increasingly become a necessity for professionals, agencies, and organizations since the pandemic. The speed for which available tools come to market can cause confusion as to which ones should be recommended for vulnerable populations, especially victims and survivors of domestic violence. We will discuss vast considerations that should be vetted before a product or tool should be built, recommended, or used. This course will explore the governance that oversees victim data, describe the technology types used, look at liabilities faced by the developing and… read more
Keirra Woodard Marketing Consultant at Forward Launch	Marketing Content Strategy for Startups How to design a system for content strategy that’s flexible enough to meet startups’ needs as they grow. Content marketing is one of the most valuable things a business can do to ensure long term success. Content is an asset - you have access to it forever, and if done well, old pieces of content can bring you customers for years to come, so content creation has a better long term return on investment than most marketing activities. A lot of the advice on content marketing is geared towards larger organizations with larger teams, budgets, libraries of content to pull from, and… read more
Bhavika Chavda Data Science Graduate Student, Data Science Intern at DataDistillR, Inc.	Re-Start Your Career in Technology Re-starting your career or shifting your career field can be overwhelming and nerve wracking. My conversation lays the path to keep your motivation high and to seek excellence in a field overwhelmed with a plethora of technologies. My talk will lay down the tools and techniques you can use to find your talent area in the Tech industry wherein I aim to redefine the outmoded term called 'success' and strategies to emerge as a leader and achiever in Technology (and you do not need to be the smartest person in the room to achieve this). Did you like this session? Share to vote… read more
Alley Lyles Marketing Director at FemTech Focus	FemTech Innovation in a World Designed for Men With the rapid growth of the women’s health tech or “Femtech” market, an increasing number of entrepreneurs are developing digital health products for the unique needs of women or nonbinary users. Women were allowed in clinical trials starting in 1996, leaving only 25-years to invest in women-centered design. Digital product teams are working on cutting-edge digital health UX to innovate women's health. There are tenets for “good user experience" universally; however, digital health practices for women are behind. We will cover 3 case studies of award-winning FemTech… read more