Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Martine Antonio IP Sales Director Europe and Israel at Synopsys	Why Building Diversity and Parity Teams in High Tech Matters Sharing experience on building an international team including diversity and gender parity and the value it adds to a company Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Orlaith O'Sullivan Mindfulness & happiness cultivator / Founder at Dr Orlaith O'Sullivan: Mindfulness Training & Consultancy	Don't wait to be happy Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh says, 'There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.' Often we wait for something to change before we can let ourselves feel easeful and happy. But we can train ourselves to wake up and notice the goodness in this perfectly imperfect moment. This is a practical session for us to explore mindfulness & happiness practices that can establish us in this moment with clarity and openness. That's where the best decisions and planning come from! From this foundation, we are able to say 'no' with an open heart and know that… read more
Ozioma Egwuonwu Chief Strategic Transformation Officer at BurnBright International	Reinventing Company Culture A revolution is taking place in the workplace. Every organization is being invited, in fact, compelled to transform. The increasingly pervasive call for more diverse, inclusive, adaptive, and collaborative company cultures is finally being heard. In order to answer this call, companies and leaders will need to embrace new mindsets, motivations, models, and methods to move their organizations forward. In this transformational talk, cultural strategy expert, Ozioma Egwuonwu will present a powerful framework and offer transformative insights that will help ignite a fresh perspective and approach… read more
Tara Osullivan Chief marketing officer at Immedis	Getting more women in leadership positions COVID has had a negative impact on women in the workforce, with our involvement dropping to 46%. This session covers very practical ways to recover from this disaster. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Joanna Płaskonka Scrum Master at Nomagic	Scrum meets Robotics - welcome to #Nomagic world! Some people claim that Agile might be beneficial for software teams only. Nothing could be more wrong! For sure some of the challenges differ, especially when you have a tangible, physical product like a robot. But still Professional Scrum, its pillars and values can be your compass on a way of creating valuable, usable products by great teams. Looking for inspiration on how to work in an iterative and incremental way with a focus on a culture of openness, experimentation and data-driven approach? You should not miss that talk! Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Meiraj Ahmed Global Brand Development Specialist	Growing up around 40+ Women and How that pushed to changed the world and make it a better place My mum was an Entrepreneur, she used to run a hostel for over 50 working women and students every year, I grew up learning, listening and solving different problems. Today as a global brand specialist, I have supported brands, leaders ajd startups to unleash their fullest potential with brand development, marketing communication and creative campaigns. My childhood steered me towards working on women empowerment, diversity and inclusion campaigns and events as an external consultant for global brands like Accenture, Qualcomm, General Electric, Diageo etc. I also developed an… read more
Lena Reinhard Vice President, Product Engineering at CircleCI	Showing up as a Leader in Times of Change It is said that fast-growing startups are basically new companies at every new stage of growth. As someone who has experienced frequent change - in both my personal career and my leadership role at CircleCI - I have come accustomed to it and have learned not only how to adapt, but to thrive in the face of change and rapid growth. In this talk, I will share the many personas of rapid growth (what it can look and feel like), along with tips and strategies to help keep a high-performing team unwavered in any instance of growth and change, while helping them come out stronger on… read more
Antea Ivanovic Management Consulting Manager at Accenture	Rapid Reskilling - When Creativity Meets Complexity Emerging digital technologies and the new business landscape are radically disrupting traditional ways of organizing work and workforce expectations, driving the need for digitally enabled capability development models. How to build right customized learning experiences that enable rapid reskilling and upskilling of the workforce and empower them to rotate to the new? How to build a high performing workforce and improve performance through effective, new age, digital learning solutions? Digital disruption and current circumstances are changing the nature of work, requiring the workforce to… read more
Susanna Kosic Tech Lead at Playtech	Craft a bullet proof components library Do you ever feel like your team is fixing same bugs over and over across multiple views of your application? Is your frontend development time taking longer than expected? Are you tired of reimplementing the wheel? Would you like to be able to quickly build new views reusing components and scale UI in a robust way? In this session we are going to discuss the importance of applying SOLID principles to frontend development / UI using React and Storybook to build reusable components. - Challenges of frontend/UI development - Applying SOLID principles to UI… read more
Stephanie Jakoubi co-founder sec4dev Conference and Bootcamp at SBA Research	200 Stories - of women in IT. We Are No Aliens! The talk will tell 200 stories of women in IT. Stories about: - when and through whom they got in touch with IT the first time - what they love about their job in IT - advice for young girls - mentors, role models, and the power of networks - recommended networks I want to empower women to get into IT and to embrace their possibilities of thousands of specializations and fields of expertise in IT. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Beatrix Willburger Medical Developer	Against all odds - Why endurance is a worthy challenge Much is said today about diversity & inclusion, a topic women face on a daily basis. With a severe physical handicap one is facing unique and additional challenges in daily life, in society, as well as in the world of work. At some point, when my handicap got worse over a period of 15 years, I was forced to give up my job. I was able to overcome this situation: I was fighting for a live changing surgery that reduced my spasticity and I spent countless hours on my workouts. Endurance was one of the main factors that helped me reach my goals. Finally I improved my health… read more
Joanna Otmianowska Frontend Engineer at OLX Group	Surprising skills that will make you a better software developer Is a non-technical background always bad for a software developer? How you can embrace your previous work experience and make use of it in a coding job? Even if this previous experience we are talking about is being a mystery shopper. Is it possible to master programming skills better thanks to learning a foreign language? What sales job has in common with your demo meeting? During my talk I would like to take you on a journey of surprising skills that will make you a better developer. By answering questions above, I will show you what you can do to be a programmer… read more
Orit Wasserman Openshift Container Storage Architect at Red Hat	Storing your data in the cloud: doing it right We all use cloud object storage extensively, like Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, and others. However, not many utilize its unique capabilities and advanced features, such as versioning, security, life cycle... Throughout my work developing Ceph object storage and supporting large customers, I’ve seen a lot of incorrect and suboptimal usage. This session will briefly discuss object storage design, highlight valuable features and review practical dos and don’ts. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Dominika Dudek Diversity & Inclusion Specialist at Monterail	How to build inclusive communication in an organization Communication is a powerful tool: it shapes attitudes, perceptions and behaviors; reflects the world, in which we would like to live and work. Words and pictures are important: if we are not aware of the thought patterns that make us choose a given language form or a given illustration, we can discriminate with communication. Language changes - words evolve, and the way we use them should evolve with them. Gender-sensitive or gender-neutral language, free from prejudices, allows us to move away from the old days’ ideas about men, women, people with disabilities, or other social… read more
Joana Socrates Software Engineer at Ocado Technology	Java Lambda expressions and Stream API: a performance analysis Java Lambda expressions and Streams API have been widely adopted and popular since their launch. They promote benefits like: conciseness, readability, code reuse and less error prone. Even though they are embraced by the community, many developers are not familiar with under the hood aspects of these syntactic sugar, neither performance considerations involved. GOALS This presentation has three main goals: Briefly explain under the hood compile and implementation of lambdas and streams. Present performance analysis of lambdas and… read more
Lizette Spangenberg Head of UX/UI Design at DVT	Designing UX for future products With all of the technological advances in the world, what will products and their UX look like in the near future? In this session, you will learn what will shape the UX landscape in coming years when every year brings new advances in technology and User Experience, changing the future for the better. It will provide the principles behind UX design and provide insights on redefining the user experience for users with the help of technology. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Lauren Abramsky Software Developer at Vault Platform	Empowering employees to speak up with tech Everyone deserves to feel safe at work. Yet 1 in 2 women in the UK have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace, according to research from the TUC. Harassment can be devastating to workers’ mental and physical health. Feelings of powerlessness and loneliness can then be amplified by an arduous reporting process. In the US, the EEOC estimates that 75% of all workplace harassment incidents go unreported. It’s clear that existing reporting tools and processes are not working. During this event, Lauren will share her story as someone who has experienced… read more
Nahia Orduña Manager Solution Architecture at Amazon Web Services	How to future-proof your career Last year, the World Economic Forum released a report estimating that by 2025, 85 million jobs may be displaced by a shift in labor division between humans and machines. But don’t panic just yet. The same report that predicts robots will soon steal our jobs also says that even more roles will open as a result of this shift — 97 million to be exact. These are the “jobs of the future,” and they are actually better opportunities. Ask yourself these three questions to identify the “jobs of tomorrow” worth applying to, and future-proof your career. Did you like this session… read more
Giovanna Faso Head of Engineering Operations at OLX Group	Why we need to talk Tech Excellence Good intentions and top talent alone will not drive your organisation to your goals and more often than not what is needed is nested under the categories of HR, Culture, Ops and Change management. Tech Excellence is the translation of Operational Excellence in the world of fast-moving high-growth organisations and this talk will wrap up the key themes that TechEx works in. Find out what TechEx is, how it helped us at OLX and how it might help you today! Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Maria Luisa Engels NeuroChangeSolutions Consultant at Maria Luisa Engels	Mindset matters: the neuroscience of change and transformation We live in a disruptive world of constant change and multiple challenges. How we adapt and progress depends a lot on how our brains are wired. We need to learn to be resilient and adapt intelligently in uncertain conditions. While designing and implementing new technologies is important to adquire the right mindset to develop them and make the best use of them to the service of others. In this talk I will show you how our brain and body work together and create your perception and how this perception conditions your decisions and results. Finally I will show you how a change… read more