Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Eve Psalti Senior Engineering Director at Microsoft	How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Way we Work & Live -AI trends & future innovations Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) is the next explosive growth area in technology relevant to every business in every industry on the planet. The data economy is already booming, and there are currently 35 zettabytes of data generated by 50 billion connected devices. From these mountains of data, AI and ML are harvesting valuable predictive signals and patterns that fundamentally transform the face of every business and our daily life. From large language models that rapidly process billions of entries and automatically provide summarization services to… read more
Monica Koedel Leader of Cisco's digital Customer Experience organization at Cisco Systems	Scaling Customer Experience through Digital and Partners Your CX practice needs to reach all of your customers, not just your largest. To do that cost effectively, companies must scale digitally, and with their channel partners. In this presentation, you’ll learn how Cisco leverages both approaches with personalized outreach to hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide and with 7,000 partners. Cisco gives partners visibility into customer adoption and renewal data, insights, and information to help them lead customers through the lifecycle and scale their customer success practices. At the same time, we connect partner and Cisco… read more
Ronit Bohrer Hillel VP of Engineering/Career Coach at ex Smartsheet, ex Amazon	Giving women a Voice. How to build a Grassroot Women@ Employee Resource Group (ERG) Promoting Women in Tech is on top of our mind. Companies have learned to acknowledge the value that diverse workforce brings and therefore invest in DEI, however this only creates a top down paradigm of enablement and awareness. What is still missing is allowing women to connect and build their own community within the organization and shape it the way best supports, empower and serve them as a community. In this session you will get inspired as well as receive practical tools on how to create a Women@ grassroot group within your organization. An affinity led by the community, open to allies… read more
Carrie Nedrow VP Information Tech and Corporate Applications	Meditating through a Merger Mergers are on the rise and there is no sign of it slowing down, even in these uncertain economic times. Carrie shares how your organization can be more prepared for mergers and acquisitions and how to build your own personal strength to ensure that you thrive as you navigate tricky situations. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Jennifer McVicker Senior Enterprise Technical Architect at Atlassian	Accelerating value delivery by empowering autonomous teams Reduce time to market and minimize the risk of deployment failure while lowering change management overhead and providing greater autonomy to engineering teams. Sound too good to be true? It's not -- by building and documenting a loosely-coupled architecture, classifying services into tiers, and adopting standard DevOps practices you can reach this software nirvana. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Swathi Sundar Head of Scientific Modalities Engineering at Benchling	Executing in times of chaos From recent layoffs, recessions, covid, to leadership/ management/ roadmap/ people changes, there is so much that happens in the life of an engineering leader . These are "unprecedented changes", or are they? As a leader, you face a lot of changes that are preceded by other changes. It's your job to not only manage yourself, but also your team members. How can you continue to execute when there is so much noise? What can you do to make sure your team is not only surviving but thriving through the chaos? Come hear about strategies that you can apply to help your team to march… read more
Anais Lempereur SVP Finance - Streaming at Paramount	Building resilient teams Talent and building teams that are able to rise to the occasion is now more important than ever. Let’s chat about how we can hire and retain the talent we need in good times and keep them motivated during times of recession and mass uncertainty across technology. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Jessica Wicks Director of Marketing at Proprio	Big Goals Lead to Bigger Returns; Courageously Leading by Example The technology and healthcare industries are notorious for being overwhelmingly male-dominated. Like in many industries, the loudest voice in the room can oftentimes be seen as the most influential voice in the room, and therefore, the most effective leader. Add to that the status quo that women are often expected to wear heels, be selectively assertive, and wait, rather than demand well-deserved promotions and raises. There is an abundance of barriers that women face when searching for opportunities in leadership. This presentation will focus on how women in the technology… read more
Prashanthi Raman Vice President of Global Government Affairs at Cruise	Transforming The Transportation Status Quo with Self-Driving Vehicles Road fatalities are unacceptably high across the United States, and have gotten remarkably worse since the start of the pandemic in both rates of fatalities per mile and overall deaths. Transportation today is not as inclusive as it can and should be. For too long, people with disabilities have faced barriers to reliable, affordable, equitable transportation options. These worrying trends are compounded by the effects of harmful emissions from combustion-engine vehicles and truck traffic –– with transportation emissions being the single largest contributor to climate change. … read more
Prerna Mahajan Chief - Project Oversight and Technology Strategy at California Dept. of Social Services	Work with Purpose and Mindfulness This will help you to find the WHY behind what you do for work and also being mindful of your needs while giving your 100%. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Prerna Kaul Senior Technical Product Manager at Amazon	How to Lead in the Age of Superintelligence In an era where AI will work in tandem and at times supercede humans, this lightning talk will share a perspective on how product leaders can empower their employees, create psychological safety, and build products ethically. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Neethu Elizabeth Simon Senior Software Engineer at Intel Corporation	Unlock the Secrets to Enhancing your Personal Brand through Conference Speakership Similar to product branding, focusing on our individual brand value is very important to help us grow in our career. A personal brand is the unique combination of skills and experiences that makes us who we are. It’s what makes us unique, authentic and sets us apart from everyone else. In an era where people’s attention spans are getting shorter & shorter by the minute, the need to make an impression is more important than ever. Often times, women find it difficult to promote themselves & their work. Learn how speaker has unlocked the secrets to speaking at different conferences… read more
Diana Albarran Power Propulsion Element (PPE) Deputy Program Manager at Maxar	Cultivating Your Own Personal Board of Directors for Career Growth Mentorship, sponsorship and allyship are all vital elements of nurturing career environment, but it can be difficult to achieve the right balance between all three. Women tend to be over-mentored and under-sponsored, and far fewer have allies—even though it’s often the small steps through allyship that can really drive substantial shifts in a woman’s career. One of the best ways to address this gap is by cultivating a network of people—a personal Board of Directors—that can start off as mentors, evolve into allies and ultimately become sponsors. The Board can go beyond the traditional… read more
Arthi Chandran Divisional Vice President of Health Economics and Reimbursement	Healthcare Leaders: Leveraging Data, Emerging MedTech & Collaboration to Meet the Needs of Underserved Communities Healthcare products and medical technology are designed to diagnose, treat and support adherence to post-intervention care, ultimately changing the trajectory of one’s health and life experience. To increase affordability and accessibility, healthcare innovations must be backed by data to ensure products support every person. A cross-collaborative approach between clinical teams, researchers, regulatory and stakeholders is essential to satisfy and enhance patient outcomes. With over 15 years in the healthcare industry, Arthi Chandran designs pathways to success for patients… read more
Woodrie Burich Founder/CEO at The Integration Group	A Model To Set Boundaries: Energy + Choice = Power There is a lot of talk about overwhelm and burnout, and people keep missing the mark. We need to remind ourselves of the power we have to shift our situations – and realize the real impact that this shift can have on our personal and professional lives. I’ve been speaking and coaching in the stress management space for ten years, and the reality is that wellness programs aren’t working. Employees, managers and teams need to start addressing stress from a creativity drop perspective. They need to understand the impact this is having on their workloads and their performance – and from that lens… read more
Cindy Lin Product Management and Data Strategy Consultant at Cindy Lin Consulting	Modeling an Ethical Data Culture We rely on data to run all parts of our business: forecast growth, determine resourcing, improving product offerings, measure performance, and so much more. But do our coworkers and / or employees have the skills and tools to use that data, and as important, do they know how to use that data ethically? As women, we have likely experienced the impact of inequitable data systems and so we have a responsibility to model ethical data practices. This talk will cover what an ethical data culture consists of, how we model ethical data practices, and how being an ethical data user can also improve… read more
Meenakshi Jindal Staff Software Engineer at Netflix	Cost Effective Reliable and Scalable Services in Cloud Platform Cloud platforms provide us the flexibility to build scalable and reliable services with minimum infrastructure setup and management cost. Reliability term used in these offerings is actually very broad and includes most of the service level objectives. Depending on the business, services SLO (service level objectives) varies and defines the expected availability, security and performance. With flexible offerings of the cloud, initially we do not pay much attention to our SLOs and instead set up our services infrastructure using the best of the cloud offerings provided. Over time, this becomes… read more
Kelly C. Huang Executive/Leadership Coach at CoachKellyHuang.com/888	How to shatter the double-paned glass ceiling for Asian American women The glass ceiling for Asian American women is double-paned: One pane represents gender stereotypes and the other represents racial stereotypes. An Ascend study reported that while white women were also underrepresented at the highest levels, Asian women were the least likely to be executives, relative to their proportion of the workforce. Researchers wrote, “The ‘Asian effect’ is 3.7X greater than the ‘gender effect’ as a glass ceiling factor.” To better understand how Asian American women encounter the double-paned ceiling, we can examine the stereotypes and biases they… read more
Nancy Coblenz Vice President of Marketing at The ActOne Group	DEI&B and Digital Transformation in Tomorrow’s Workforce Technology will radically shape our future workforce, and if we implement it the right way, it will drive diverse and inclusive talent. Understanding how sustainable innovations like A.I., special computing, augmented and virtual reality, and robotics will transform the way we work is key to unlocking the potential of Web 3 and the next generation of workers. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Soni Jiandani Corporate Vice President at the AMD Networking Technology and Solutions Group	From stealth to acquisition: Lessons I learned as a female founder of nine successful tech startups Soni has built nine successful billion+ dollar product lines in her three decades in the tech industry, including Pensando Systems, which was acquired by AMD for nearly 2 billion dollars in 2022. Throughout her journey as a female entrepreneur in technology, Soni has gathered invaluable experience on how to scale a startup and strategically take it from stealth to acquisition. During her talk, Soni will share her knowledge based on relevant experiences and examples drawn from a long and illustrious career. She will speak to: -The importance of strategic partnerships between enterprises… read more