Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Frances Donegan-Ryan VP People, Culture & Community at Indicio	Don't get left behind! Inclusiveness strategies you can launch today. It is a mistake to lag behind your peers and competitors when it comes to building and implementing culture and employee relations practices and behaviors. Company culture affects all parts of your organization from the technology you build, the success of your customers, the happiness of your employees, and the people you attract. Without focus and dedication on building and maintaining it, data shows you’ll earn less profit, you’ll sign-on fewer customers, and you'll struggle to retain and hire top talent. Building a positive and welcoming company culture should be a… read more
Keely Cat-Wells Founder at C Talent at Whalar	How the creator economy is democratising employment for Disabled people “They call us the “chronically online,” those who “need to touch grass,” the people who need to “log off,” but for Disabled people, online spaces have been a lifeline in a world that seeks to erase and eradicate us. Even prior to the pandemic, platforms like Twitter helped us to feel less alone and gaslit by our experiences and allowed us to contextualize our experiences in a way that gave us peace.” - Imani Barbarin Disabled people have long faced barriers to employment, with a double unemployment rate compared to non-disabled people. The rise of the creator economy offers… read more
Daniela Barbosa General Manager, Blockchain and Identity, and Hyperledger Foundation Executive Director at Linux Foundation	Breaking the Internet: How open source, Web3 technologies can help level the playing field (and smash the tech patriarchy) Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos and, now, Elon Musk. These are the men at the center of the current Internet. Ironic given the network was very intentionally developed to survive and thrive as a distributed communications system. But, thanks to the evolution of web technologies, the data, and therefore the power, is largely centralized on a few key platforms. At first glance, that might seem okay. You can log in with a Facebook or Google account to sites around the world and go about your business without added effort. However, where the data goes, the money goes. And the influence… read more
Paula Reina FOUNDER & CEO at Audiochain & Proliphiq	Emerging Technologies for a Creator Economy Emerging technology for a Creator Ecosystem will shed light on blockchain technology and its peer-to-peer opportunities to increase direct to consumer strategies as well as enterprise level software and tools for this new and growing space. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Lisa Kostova CEO and Founder at CareerClimb® Co	Recession-proof Your Career - a Plan to Make Yourself Indispensable in a Tough Market It's easy to feel scared in this market, especially if it's your first time seeing mass layoffs in the news. Join us for a talk on how to stay focused on the prize and keep doing all the right actions that will make you indispensable and recession-proof your career. At this time, more than ever, especially if you're mid-career or senior, you'll need to think and act in a contrarian way to ensure you're not swept up by the layoff tide. For an even deeper dive into how to recession-proof your career, join my free live challenge at… read more
Becca Savino Organizational Health Consultant	Stop Having Crappy Meetings - You're Killing the Team Why does everyone hate meetings? Because most people do not run meetings effectively, which kills all productivity, innovation and the ability to get s*** done. I'm here to help you understand why your meetings suck and arm you with tools to combat the endless tyranny that is horrendous, soul sucking, and motivation crushing meetings. Together we can whip those meetings to be insanely productive, effective and dare I say it, FUN. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Belle Walker Founder and Lead Consultant at Belleview Consulting	From A Players to an A Team We all know that small organizations rely on independent rockstars who simply "make it happen" while larger organizations crumble without effective collaboration and communication but when does a company need to make that transition? How do you do it? I'll give you a hint: letting it happen "organically" rarely succeeds. Leaders must make a proactive decision to reshape their organization's operating model and shift from a collection of "A players" to a true A team. This talk is all about identifying when that transition is needed and… read more
JeanAnn Nichols Principal at Prismwork	Modern Leadership for the New World of Work With ongoing political unrest, technological disruption, global pandemic, the ‘great resignation,’ “bossism” and the rise of an increasingly diverse and multigenerational workforce, a new kind of leadership is required for success. Today’s leaders must shift from fostering hierarchical, product-focused, profit-driven, office-based cultures to creating democratic, people-focused, people-driven cultures that empower teams across a myriad of locations. Those who master Modern Leadership skills will thrive in the new environment and draw the best talent to their teams. This session is designed… read more
Marti Grimminck Founder & CEO at International Connector	What to know about the global workforce? Our world continues to shift drastically overnight making planning, development and hiring difficult for many companies. According to Fiverr, “73% of U.S. workers plan to freelance this year with similar data emerging globally.” Through our direct, daily collaborations with diverse GenZs worldwide, we bring trends, signals and applicable data for companies regarding the future of work. From social impact and ESG initiatives, to mental health and DEI programs, to hybrid work, AI and the metaverse, what can we learn from and share with different regions of the world? What is happening in other… read more
Stacy Salvi VP Strategy at Movano Health	How wearables can bridge the healthcare gap for women while ensuring data privacy At Movano Health, we are designing a health wearable with women in mind, focusing on specifically addressing their unique health needs. Keeping women at the forefront of every product & UX decision is critical to deliver a product that can not only help make women healthier, but also bring them an experience that they will enjoy using. To get there, we continuously engage with a diverse set of women to better understand what we should prioritize. Sometimes these unique needs or insights are at odds with what’s been done before, the easiest path forward, or the most cost-effective option.… read more
Jackie Palmer VP Product and Industry Marketing at Demandbase	Championing Your Team: The Secrets to Success The secret to any great leader is her team. Leading a team shouldn’t be about how hard the team works on meeting KPI’s. Sure, that is an important aspect, but all too often it is the only thing that is focused on, especially in the fast paced technology industry. But what if there was a better way to get even bigger results from your team and it had nothing to do with how hard they worked or micromanaging their KPI’s? In this session, Demandbase’s VP of Product and Industry Marketing Jackie Palmer will share the keys to her more than two decades of success with mentoring and leading teams to… read more
Jenny Strauss Sr. Director, Employee Experience and DE&I at Demandbase	From the Outside In: Being Real to Build Culture What does a welcoming company culture look like? If you asked ten people you’d likely get 10 different answers. However, some things often resonate - the need to feel included, be heard, and be counted. Creating a culture that is open and welcoming doesn’t require expensive events or high profile speakers, it’s about asking for and responding to feedback, and creating space for people to be real. It’s about showing up authentically and creating space for employees to come together in ways that recognize the fullness of their experiences and lives, giving them confidence to share their own… read more
Meenakshi Kaushik Senior Manager, Product Management at Cisco	Expanding Your Application Security: Integrating CNAPP and API Security for Improved Risk Analysis The presentation demonstrates how to enhance your application security beyond conventional CNAPP (cloud native application protection platform) workload and supply chain security, by incorporating API security. Also, it will highlight how a combined CNAPP and API security analysis can lead to fewer false notifications and provide a more comprehensive and precise risk analysis of your application’s security posture. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Grace Andrews Principal Product Evangelist at Equinix	Unlocking business impact through digital transformation Digital transformation is more than just the technology that powers a company; it’s a holistic approach that impacts the technological stack, team practices and overall culture of an organization. Given that digital transformation requires a companywide commitment, organizations must assess all work streams and operations to prioritize the digital initiatives that will create the strongest business impact. In this session, Grace will discuss the definition of digital transformation, the tools needed to start the digital transformation journey, and the applicable models used by… read more
Katherine Castro DEIB Practitioner, Founder of Diversity Community Group, Founder of Castro Career Consulting	Coins and Consciousness, How to Build Your Career While Keeping True to Who You Are Teach my audience how to avoid the pitfalls of giving our entire worth and financial goals to one organization. Share how to pinpoint resources outside of the educational system or your job that is best for you. It helps to have a career coach navigate these turbulent times. But during COVID, everyone became a career coach; how do you know to who to give your time or money? Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Dilruba Malik Senior SQA Manager at Palo Alto Networks	The Future of QA Quality Assurance is a process of qualifying software applications and their components to ensure that they work as per the specification and do not contain any errors. It is an essential part of software development, specially in the early stages of development. Unit testing can be performed by developers, overall testing is by QA engineers. It can be manual or automated, depending on the type of application being tested and the level of risk involved with its release. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ashley Hromatko VP of Operations at FinOps Foundation	Framework for managing variable cost of Cloud With significant inflation putting pressure on many businesses, organization are looking inward for opportunities to reduce spending or improve efficiency. Cloud spend is both an operating expense but can be used as a lever to unlock immediate savings. The FinOps Foundation would like to introduce FinOps - a evolving cloud financial management discipline and cultural practice that helps enables organizations to get maximum business value by helping engineering, finance and business teams to collaborate on data-driven spending decisions. We will provide an overview of the FinOps… read more
Ana-Maria Istrate Senior Research Scientist at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative	NLP 101: Natural Language Processing and The Era of Transformer Models Machine Learning, AI and NLP have become part of the daily tech vocabulary. Companies use ML techniques to acquire users, drive revenue and increase profits. It seems that ML is everywhere. But what are the types of things you can do with machine learning, in particularly natural language processing? What exactly is NLP? How does it work? What are transformer models? How does the chatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) model work? If you’re new to the NLP space, and would like to understand more about what is going on under the hood, or the types of things you… read more
Lani Dickinson Founder at Thrive.OnPurpose.	What it Takes to Break The Glass Ceiling (And Other Options Your Experience Creates That Don’t Require Regret in Your Life) The precursors to success fully breaking the glass ceiling - corporate leader or entrepreneurialism Pretty much the same! With that...you have choices and can be a smash hit in either place....so why not do the route that creates no regret....the one where you never have to miss the moments that matter! My climb to Fortune 175 CEO as a woman and a mom Life, entrepreneurialism, business coach & mentor (and health) after that How you can too! Critical points of success for entrepreneurs and life after… read more
Haniyeh Mahmoudian Global AI Ethicist at DataRobot	Building and Deploying AI Technologies Responsibly and Ethically AI ethics is more important than ever, especially with the Biden-Harris Administration’s recent Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. Haniyeh’s presentation will focus on ethical AI, and tackle the question of human involvement in AI and how AI ethics is too often an afterthought. Specifically, her presentation will discuss: How racial and gender discrimination are possible with AI models that are not subjected to ethical scrutiny How organizations can navigate and improve AI bias with a responsible AI system and framework. Broader best practices that… read more