Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Lamia Makkar Social Entrepreneur	Leveraging Technology for Social Impact We often find it so daunting or inaccessible to tackle social problems that we scare ourselves out of any action at all. This session will cover how to use the Facilitator Approach for social impact in order to build accessible, context-informed tech solutions to complex social problems. This session will cover: - the importance and impact of tech solutions in accelerating development in emerging markets - considerations for tech solutions to social problems - using the Facilitator Approach to develop inclusive tech solutions with users rather than for… read more
Lamia Makkar Social Entrepreneur	Leveraging Technology for Social Impact We often find it so daunting or inaccessible to tackle social problems that we scare ourselves out of any action at all. This session will cover how to use the Facilitator Approach for social impact in order to build accessible, context-informed tech solutions to complex social problems. This session will cover: - the importance and impact of tech solutions in accelerating development in emerging markets - considerations for tech solutions to social problems - using the Facilitator Approach to develop inclusive tech solutions with users rather than for… read more
Tosin Aje-Adegbite Senior Director of Product Management at EAB	Building Inclusive Products Product managers love to create solutions to solve problems. To deliver the right solution it is important to understand a customer’s pain points. However, implicit biases can sometimes get in the way of building products that are inclusive. This will be fun and interactive talk that addresses a serious topic. We will discuss everything from accessibility standards, artificial intelligence and automation to how data can sometimes lead us down a path of building products that are not inclusive. We will define what it means to build inclusive products but also provide some tactical tools that… read more
Marcia Tal CEO at Tal Solutions, LLC	Voice as Data: Why Customer Complaints are the Key to Solving Systemic Issues Customers’ voices have been powerful forces for change since the beginning of recorded history – yet is the data we gather from customer complaints effectively analyzed? By approaching customer voice as data and applying machine learning, businesses can reveal the key drivers of business risk and solve systemic issues, improve processes, and provide excellent customer experience. Explore how customers are using their voices to complain to institutions and discover how those voices can be turned into data to power business success. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
AKHILESH SHARMA MBA Student, Hult - Boston \| Class of 2021 at SheforceWIT - A Global WIT Initiative	Salesforce - The Future of Emerging Trends & Technologies The COVID19 Impact has re-defined the future and trends of emerging technologies and the Cloud Platform is one of the key focus areas of today's world. Salesforce - A Leading CRM Platform has disrupted the Cloud Computing World through its various Solution Offerings. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Kamila Oliveira Microsoft MVP, Backend Developer at Ame Digital	JVM architecture and how it works let's talk about jvm, how it works and what is its architecture. Let's see what are class loader, method area, heap, execution engine, Native method interfaces and libraries and what all this does in the process of compiling our applications. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Kamila Oliveira Microsoft MVP, Backend Developer at Ame Digital	First steps with reactive programming in Java Let's talk about the principles of reactive programming and how Java has evolved since object orientation, the concepts of reactive programming that started to come with Java 8 and how this led to the emergence of Webflux. And we will see an example of an API with Spring Webflux using the Reactor library and the asynchronous server Netty. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
ZABEEN MIRZA Founder & CEO at Jobs.mom	Why Diversity is Good for Business, Why Inclusivity Breeds Innovation Issues around diversity, equity, and inclusivity have been at the forefront of many a conversation in the last year, with companies coming forth to pledge commitments to equal opportunity in their workforce as well as their support for social justice issues. And while much of the seactions can seem performative and even hypocritical (ie companies investing in super bowl ads, and and large spreads in glossy magazine to make promise about inclusivity, when they have no maternity leave policy and and an abysmal number of Black and Brown women in leadership position), there is a a real business… read more
Mila DeChant Diversity Scientist at Chief of Hearts	Acceptance - The Missing Piece to Belonging and Inclusion There is a crucial piece that truly separates organisations, societies, and communities of practise that truly want to challenge the status quo and push the diversity needle from those who maintain the status quo. Diversity is a non linear narrative. Diversity is a language that is localized and globalized in intersectional environments. Diversity isn’t an isolated theme but an integral and integrated theme into every facet of what we do. It is the heartbeat to ensure people are alive with life. The topic of diversity is an ongoing discussion and intentional… read more
Kavya Krishna Co-founder at Society of Women Coders	Changing lives from your couch The talk will touch topics on how the pandemic changed the narrative for Social Impact Initiatives. There is a new way of giving back and making a difference in the lives of others. I will also be talking about how Social Impact has become more than PR for big corporations. Investors and Consumers are striving for impact driven corporations. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Melissa Swisher Chief Revenue Officer at Socrates.ai	Creating Your Path to Leadership: Lessons from a Technology Leader’s Journey An advocate for women in technology, Melissa Swisher, co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Socrates.ai, will share her path to leadership. Eight years after college, Melissa was still working for the same company, but wasn’t feeling challenged in the ways that fostered growth. She decided to leave the comfort of this position to work for a startup organization, and quickly learned that the sales strategies that had proved successful at an established organization didn’t work in her new environment. Melissa started to doubt herself and realized she had to push through it with resiliency and… read more
Ingrid Gonzalez President and Chairwoman/Head of Sales at Positive Planet US/Google Cloud	Collaborative Leadership: Leading With Our Whole Selves Being the leader through collaboration, compassion and communication. Today, women at work have the opportunity to lead in a new way. We will celebrate the strengths we innately bring to work—collaboration, compassion, and communication— as the traits most needed in leadership. How can we harness what comes naturally to us so that we can lead with our whole selves? How can we nurture those we lead as we support the next generation of leaders? Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Larissa Rosochansky Senior Manager, Digital Transformation and QA at CI&T	Change the focus in your career: a dream or a possibility? You have been working in the same area for some time, and you noticed that the path to work, is not as enjoyable as before... you start wandering more and more, and count the minutes until the end of the day. You start to ponder what might be happening, and you get to the conclusion that the problem is not your company and not your boss. The real issue is what you are doing every day. You want to do something else, what now? In this talk, Larissa will go through the feelings when that time comes, how we can address that, and create a feasible plan to understand what one wants to do… read more
Tiffany Guarnaccia CEO & Founder at Kite Hill PR	How to Create Communications Programs that Drive Your Business Forward in a Dynamic Market With massive shifts happening with privacy, a more consumer-led economy, the rising power of platforms (and misinformation being propagated on them), along with consolidation and unclear measurement parameters, leaders are struggling with how to plan solid frameworks for communications with stakeholders. Veteran PR pro and founder of Award Winning Kite Hill PR, Tiffany Guarnaccia offers a 4-part approach to how leaders can create proactive communications programs that both drive the business forward and factor in a dynamic market. The 4-part approach is purpose forward, thought leadership,… read more
Titina Ott Adams Senior Vice President, Customer Experience & Operations at Ellucian	Building Your Own Board of Directors – The Importance of Networking For women in technology careers, hard work is table stakes. To be successful, you need more than the hard skills. In this session, Titina will share her journey and lessons from life on a farm to senior leadership roles at top technology companies. Learn about networking and the power of relationships -- what it takes beyond the hard skills and the work you deliver -- to be successful in today’s technology careers. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Marie Roker-Jones Co-founder at Essteem	You're Not an Imposter, You're an Outlier in Tech A call to action to women feeling like an imposter inside their company and the tech industry. Your unique, non-conforming point of view is why you got into tech and why you should stay in the field. It's time to stop thinking of yourself as an imposter and start thinking of yourself as an outlier. No matter what your background or professional experience, there is a place for you in technology. You are on the brink of something great. You’re better than average and that’s what makes you an outlier. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Jennifer Flanagan President and CEO at Actua	Inspiring the next generation of women as STEM Leaders Many business leaders say that technology holds the key to economic recovery post-pandemic. But, while technology, and STEM more broadly, may play a critical role, there remains a significant problem threatening the potential of its workforce - the persistent and widening gender gap. For far too long, women have been underrepresented in STEM, and the ongoing pandemic has only exacerbated this gender gap. The good news? The pandemic has presented an opportunity to re-energize progress towards gender equality in STEM, which starts by making STEM more inclusive for the next generation. … read more
Ashley Fernandez Career Coach	Design a Career on Your Terms Learn about the key components to building a career that works for you not against you while understanding how to set a strategy, leverage your strengths and grow your network. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Bárbara Almeida Software Engineer at Cadence Design Systems	Collaboration: A strong ally to overcome the unknown COVID-19 has changed the way we work, but even before that, the collaboration between peers was already an important tool to tame challenges and guarantee fast deliveries. This is a talk on how pair programming, and collaboration in general, was used to achieve the delivery of a new feature, where developers didn't know much about the technology but had a hard deadline. Collaboration was a key part of the success of the delivery, but also served as a connection point between teammates, reducing solitude while working from home. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Khadija Moore Founder, Managing Director	Leading Innovation A culture of creativity and innovation is essential for long term business success and is therefore a top 3 strategic priority for the majority of companies globally, especially those within tech. This culture has to be driven by organizational leaders in order to be successful. They need both the technical know-how and the requisite soft skills to do this. How can you facilitate this in a uncomplicated and non-demanding way? Join me to find out. Did you like this session? Share to vote.