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Puja Sharma


Staff Technical Program Manager at Intuit

GenAI for Technical Program Managers

Technical Program Managers (TPMs) juggle complex projects, navigate shifting priorities, and wrangle stakeholders. Generative AI is here to revolutionize your toolkit! This session dives into practical applications of GenAI designed to boost TPM effectiveness. Learn how to:

Automate the mundane: Generate project documentation, meeting summaries, and status reports in a fraction of the time.
Unblock your teams: Use AI for rapid risk assessment, dependency identification, and solution brainstorming.
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Ivna Curi


Managing Director, Speaker, Podcast Host, Author at Assertive Way Institute

Speak To Influence: Balancing Authority and Connection in Hard Conversations

Ever felt like you're speaking, but no one in the room is truly listening? Women experience being interrupted or spoken over twice as much as men. If your expertise and contributions are overlooked, it can threaten your career success and your ability to influence outcomes. This session offers a solution through a unique framework for balanced, assertive communication. Learn to avoid common pitfalls and command attention with our Direct, Definitive, Decisive approach. Enhance your ability to connect without compromising authority. Be heard, earn respect, and drive impact.

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Manasi Sharma


Principal engineering manager at Microsoft

Empowering the Enterprise: The Role of AI Agents in Decision-Making and Insights

This talk explores the transformative potential of AI agents in the modern workplace. This session delves into how intelligent agents integrate into collaboration platforms, such as Microsoft Teams, to automate workflows, enhance productivity, and provide actionable insights. Attendees will gain insights into the architecture, scalability, and ethical considerations of building AI agents that proactively assist in decision-making, task management, and real-time collaboration. Learn how these agents are shaping the future of work by enabling seamless human-machine interaction and driving… read more
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Tara Rezvani


Head of UTM Software Engineering at Wing (Alphabet)

Level Up Your Career: Design your Plan for Peak Performance

What if I told you that prioritizing your wellbeing is the key to unlocking your career potential? Join Tara Rezvani for an interactive workshop where you'll design a personalized plan to unlock peak performance and achieve your goals. You’ll leave this workshop with actionable strategies to boost your energy, focus, and productivity. This is your opportunity to invest in yourself and unlock your full potential at work and in life.

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Pratibha Basrao


VP, Applied Technology Office Director at HDR Inc.

Strategies for driving organizational change; insights from fighting the good fight in an industry that is slow(er) to change

Traditional industries like architecture and engineering firms, railroads, government agencies are slower to change and have their unique set of challenges. Glean insights on how to reach the right people at leadership levels and get them excited/cautiously optimistic about disruption. Learn how to plan for long-term strategic and tactical change management planning so the organization is aware of what to expect and when to expect. And finally, learn how to train staff to expect and embrace change keeping generational, varying tech capabilities and evolving tech landscape in mind.
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Sandra Carvalho


SVP - Marketing / Chief Marketing Officer at Xperi

Take Control of Your Career

Learn how to build a strong personal brand driving your career in the Tech industry
- The power of your personal brand
- Find your voice
- Communicate your value
- Build allyship and pay it forward


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Julia Kraft


Founder at Speak To Inspire Coaching

How to Get Rid of Speaking Nerves and Get Better At High-Stakes Communications

Learn step-by-step how to transform your mindset and nervous system so that you can be confident, authentic and fully expressed in the spotlight.
Being a confident communicator is not just the way you act, talk, and look. It’s a habitual way of thinking and reacting to various life situations.
You’ll learn how to become an engaging and influential leader and learn the communication tools you need to effectively share your ideas. You’ll learn how to break down the barriers, misconceptions, and fears that prevent people from being fully heard.
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Khyati Srivastava


Sr Director, Marketing at VGS

Personalized products and marketing that's also efficient? Unlock both with AI as your strategic co-pilot

AI can be your strategic co-pilot, brainstorming partner, and always-on assistant—far beyond just content generation. Whether revolutionizing research, enabling personalized customer products, or transforming sales enablement, AI’s real power lies in unlocking new levels of creativity and efficiency. In this session, I’ll share real-world examples of how AI has driven scalable innovation. We’ll also discuss how to harness AI’s power while preserving your human creativity, ensuring your expertise remains the ultimate differentiator in this AI-driven world.


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Rita Munarwi


Director Technical Program Manager - Compute Silicon at Microsoft

Embrace Your Uniqueness: The Ugly Duckling of Tech Career

"Embracing Your Uniqueness: The Ugly Duckling of Tech Careers" draws inspiration from the children's story "The Ugly Duckling." It encourages individuals to recognize and celebrate their unique traits and strengths. This metaphor underscores embracing differences and leveraging them as strengths in the tech industry, much like the ugly duckling's transformation into a beautiful swan.

In the competitive tech landscape, embracing uniqueness is crucial as it fosters innovation, creativity, and personal growth. It empowers individuals to leverage their… read more
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Maithri Venkat


Manager, Battery Cell Engineering at Lucid Motors

Women at the Wheel: Transforming Automotive Leadership in Tech

From redefining vehicle design with electric powertrains to advancing autonomous technologies, women are playing a vital role in revolutionizing the automotive landscape. This shift demands new skill sets, innovative leadership, and diverse perspectives to address challenges and drive progress. We will explore how women can strategically upskill to lead this revolution—focusing on areas such as advanced battery technology, AI for autonomous systems, and sustainability innovation. By preparing for the future today, women can not only thrive in this evolving landscape but also redefine the… read more
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Rashi Agrawal


Senior Engineering Manager at Goodleap

Building AI Teams and Strategies at scale

In an era where AI dominates the innovation landscape, building a capable and impactful AI organization is both an art and a science. In this talk, I will share my journey of creating and scaling an AI enablement organization within GoodLeap, a high-growth FinTech startup. From defining the AI vision, strategy and aligning it with business goals to driving cross-functional collaboration between engineering, product management, and leadership, the road to successful AI adoption is as much about people as it is about technology.


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Angela Jajko


Public Cloud Channel Development Sr. Manager at Ensono

Navigating Grief in the Workplace

Grief is a universal experience but is rarely discussed as part of our lives in the workplace, except for "bereavement" days in the employee handbook. This session will share personal experience with navigating grief in the workplace, learnings about how it affects mental, emotional, and physical health, and best practices for managers supporting employees through loss.

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Manasa Hari


Software Engineer III, Digital Experience at Adobe Inc.

Real-Time Data Pipelines: Leveraging Kafka, Delta Lake, and AI for Fast Insights

In the age of real-time decision-making, data pipelines must be fast, reliable, and scalable. This session explores how technologies like Apache Kafka and Delta Lake can power efficient real-time data systems.

We'll dive into real-world case studies, demonstrating how to integrate AI-driven analytics into streaming pipelines for actionable insights. Attendees will leave with a comprehensive understanding of designing, implementing, and optimizing real-time data flows for business success.

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Joyce Li


CEO and Chief AI Strategist at Averanda Partners

From ROI to Risk Management: What Finance Leaders Must Get Right About AI

As boards and C-suite leaders face increasing pressure to leverage AI, what should they prioritize? Drawing from experience advising boards and business leaders, I'll address key considerations for financial leadership in evaluating and overseeing AI initiatives. This talk focuses on governance frameworks, risk management, and strategic decision-making that enable effective AI adoption while maintaining financial discipline.

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Priyanka Shinde


Founder CEO at imPriSe Solutions

The Business Case for Belonging: How Inclusive Cultures Drive Results

As companies scale back DEIB efforts, many leaders find themselves grappling with how to foster inclusion and belonging in a climate where DEI has become a contentious term. Yet, inclusion and belonging are more than just buzzwords—they are essential for building empowering workplace cultures that drive innovation, resilience, and long-term success.. This session explores the undeniable business case for fostering belonging, offering practical strategies to embed inclusion into company culture, and how inclusive leadership can inspire trust and unlock the potential of diverse teams.
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Alexandra Weaver


Sr Solution Architect at Semperis

Protecting Identity

I would like to present on the importance of protecting the identity within an organization and various ways to protect the identity. The main identity store is Active Directory, and it holds the keys to the kingdom so I will focus on the importance of Active Directory, common attack vectors, and some basic "how to" of cleaning up and protecting Active Directory.

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JoAnn Yamani


Vice President, Marketing & Communications at Adeia

Breaking Barriers: Leadership, Innovation, and the Future of Tech

Join four pioneering tech leaders as they share their journeys, insights, and strategies for succeeding in today's rapidly evolving technology landscape. This candid discussion will explore overcoming challenges, driving innovation, and creating inclusive environments that empower the next generation of tech leaders.

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Anusha Musunuri


Senior Data Scientist at Snap Inc

An Improved AI Framework for Automating Exploratory Data Analysis

The rapid growth of Digital Advertising has led to an explosion of data, making manual exploratory data analysis (EDA) increasingly inefficient and unsustainable. This presentation introduces an advanced AI framework designed to automate EDA, streamlining processes such as data cleaning, feature extraction, and pattern identification. By eliminating manual bottlenecks, the framework enables businesses to uncover actionable insights at scale. The proposed framework is scalable, adapts to changing data trends, and delivers high accuracy in its predictions.

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Priyanka Neelakrishnan


Principal Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks

Balancing Innovation and Security in the Age of AI

As AI-driven technologies reshape industries, they bring unprecedented opportunities for innovation but also introduce complex cybersecurity risks. Leaders must navigate this dynamic age with a strategic approach that fosters innovation while safeguarding their organizations. This session will provide executives with actionable insights into understanding AI’s impact on cybersecurity, implementing effective governance frameworks, and fostering a culture of security-driven innovation. Attendees will leave equipped to lead their organizations with confidence in an era where the stakes for trust… read more
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Selu Gupta


Engineering Manager at Tektronix

Give yourself permission to lead

Women, especially in technical fields where they might be "the only", hold back on leadership opportunities. They may discredit themselves before anyone else has a chance too. However, in today's technical industries, good leadership goes beyond technical skills and needs more soft skills which may not get the same importance. This presentation takes a look at the skills that future leaders need, how to recognize them, develop them and then set yourself on the path to career progression.

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