Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Holly Duckworth CEO at American Mindfulness Association	Everyday Mindfulness Creating Calm in Chaos There are good days and there are bad days. And, then there is everyday. The stress of living today requires us to have stress reduction and focus techniques. Science has proven that mindfulness based stress reduction is reducing health care costs and improving productivity and happiness. Mindfulness teaches you how to be present in both, experience both and use both to become your best self. This session teaches you to be mindful without doing yoga. It is applied mindfulness you can do at your desk, in your car, everywhere you go. In this keynote, you will learn many… read more
Julie Morris Thought Leadership Trainer at Persona Media	Yes, You Have to Become a Thought Leader. Here's How. Being visible and building influence will change your personal life, build a pipeline for your business, serve the field, and ensure career sustainability. Yet women leaders will avoid visibility out of concern for privacy, fear of criticism, and uncertainty of steps to take. Learn precise, simple, plans and tactics to steadily gain influence, level up in leadership, and mentor widely via LinkedIn and other vehicles for your thought leadership. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Hope Timberlake Communication Speaker, Trainer and Coach	Overcome Obstacles to Sharing Your Voice As a woman in STEM, you are smart, accomplished, and well-qualified to perform the job you were hired to do. But the reality is that the corporate rules are unwritten. The expectations at work are more than the bullet points written in your job description. Internal complications may arise including: - Overcoming imposter syndrome. - Discomfort sharing ideas when you aren’t prepared. - Nerves that cause you to mumble, speak fast or in a high-pitched voice, and so on. Then there are the external hurdles of being: - Interrupted,… read more
Divya Choudhary Senior Research Scientist (AI/ML) at Samsung Research America	The art of formulating a business desire to an AI Research Framework To implement and add a software/ML feature to an existing product requires development skills. We all can manage to learn that skill over time. However, problem solving - formulating a problem to its exact implementable components- in its broader sense is not just a skill but an art! It becomes even more nuanced in the space of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Having worked in the world of AI/ML for 6 years, defining unsolved problems of the industry for several startups and drilling down a new AI feature into implementable research components , I have developed an approach to… read more
Shrut Kirti Saksena Sr. User Experience Researcher at Adobe Systems	Is your product ready to be shipped?: Assessing product readiness by combining product metrics, qualitative & quantitative User experience research approaches Product teams, designers, and engineers often toil hard to assess if their product is ready to be shipped i.e., does it fulfill the needs of the users, is it reliable and performant, have the bugs been triaged and resolved, and to what extent are the customers satisfied with the entire offering and so on and so forth. Teams most commonly rely on bug triaging, NPS (Net Promoter Scores), CSAT (Customer Satisfaction) scores, or other readiness metrics to gate the accepted readiness levels for the product to be used by users. In this talk, we will be highlighting how qualitative, and quantitative… read more
Priyanka Kulkarni Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Adobe	On-device ML: Artificial Intelligence in your pocket AI is moving from the servers to our pockets, making the technology on our phones faster and more private. But how do you go from deploying a single machine learning model on the cloud to deploying millions of models around the world on every device in our customer's hands? A mobile device comes with incredibly constrained resources and it requires running the triathlon of memory, speed and privacy to bring the technology to our phones. Understand how to navigate this challenging journey and take the leap to on-device ML - because the future is at our fingertips.… read more
Tomika Russell President at Symbeo	Know Your Audience: The Role of Tech in Brand Ambassadorship Tech resources are often at a disadvantage, as it relates to working directly with end customers. The purpose of this talk is to create the outside-in perspective, while delivering an enhanced CX. Knowing the audience and the end game will ultimately lead to improved outcomes and greater profitability. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Karlyn Fischer Neural-optimization coach at Animology	Re-engineer your Headspace Everyone is passionate about mental health, but no one redirects that to optimize your mind. The under-thirties community is full of nervous system dysregulation and stories about triggers and anxiety. The talented ones don’t always make it, but it’s not because they aren’t tough enough or they don’t work hard enough. The lack of awareness about the science behind the mind cost me an auto-immune condition; what is it costing you and your audience? I was an overachiever in engineering school, too sick to roll over in bed for the water on my nightstand. I ignored my body’s… read more
Amy Quesenberry Consultant / Director of Training & Organizational Development at CEO Quesenberry Consulting & Creator of Start with Compassion (TM ) / RICK Engineering	Start with Compassion Imagine a world where we all made a conscious decision to Start with Compassion. We have DEI&B initiatives, Values initiatives and these are the what...but no one is talking about the how. I created a 10 point framework that helps people understand how to be more open minded, innovative and collaborative- these are key requirements for any successful technology environment. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Camille McKinney Leadership Coach at Camille McKinney - Leadership Coach	Leading from the Inside Out: Explore, Embody and Express Your Unique Leadership Brand The glass ceiling -- the invisible barrier that prevents women from ascending to the career of their dreams. Gratefully, more or more women are adding their crack to that ceiling, creating opportunities for the women who are coming after them. There's another ceiling, the self-imposed drop ceiling that each of us erects with our own self-limiting habits and beliefs. It's as prickly and scratchy as the walls of our soft and cozy comfort zone. While breaking through each of these 'top limits' seem out of reach, there ARE steps we can take to… read more
Fiona Tan CTO at Wayfair	How AI Can Enhance the Customer Experience Initial success applying AI/ML to marketing, led to AI adoption throughout Wayfair in traditional and nontraditional applications. From marketing to search performance, personalization and more recently supply chain challenges, AI has helped the business grow and adapt to new challenges. Fiona Tan can speak broadly to these themes or focus specifically on one in depth to match one of the talking tracks above. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Anna Fowler Director IT & Cybersecurity Assurance at Second Front Systems	Addressing Supply Chain Data Risk with Structured Data Security Architecture Framework When considering assets that may need protection, the mind begins to contemplate homes, cars, and investment funds. In most cases, protection of those assets can be covered through security systems and insurance. Data is not the first thought that comes to mind that would need protection, even though data is at the core of most supply chain operations. It includes trade secrets, management of personal identifiable information (PII), and consumer data that can be used to enhance the overall experience. Data is considered a critical element of success for supply chains and should be one of the… read more
Krithika Manikavasagam Sr.Manager II Product Management (MFC Product Leader) at Walmart Labs	Women Make Great Product Managers How Women make a great product managers and want to enlighten to all inspiring mom and women, Let’s pat our back and support each other. Women keep asking ourselves "Are we making the right choice or are we going the right things" or we have to stop the career or stop our dreams. This talk is going more focus on highlighting and helping them to focus on certain things in our journey of pursuing our passion Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ingrid Polini CEO at SafetyDocs Global	From Latin America to Canada: An Entrepreneurship Story and Lessons Learned This talk will tell the story of building up an enterprise software startup twice: In Brazil and in Canada. As a woman who started her business young, Ingrid has had many challenges being taken seriously in this market and has learned my lessons along the way. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Vatsala Sarathy Managing Director, Finance and Technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business	Data-curious: How to create a data-driven culture in your organization Organizations with a strong data culture can synthesize information effectively, and glean insights at scale, giving them an incredible edge over their competition. Some of the challenges that organizations face in their efforts to build a data-driven culture are around data silos, data hygiene, data transparency and data literacy. To solve for these challenges, I will share a three-pronged strategy that organizations can use to weave data-driven values into the fabric of the organization’s being and build a strong data-culture. Did you like this session? Share to vote. … read more
Lorie Reichel-Howe Founder, Senior Trainer at Conversations In The Workplace	Making Difficult Conversations, Safe Conversations: When Dialogue Trumps Technology In every workplace, you will face challenges. Whether dealing with problems to solve or challenging interactions and behaviors, it’s the way you respond in these situations that will increase or decrease your success. While technical skills are highly valued and land people jobs, they are not enough. Solving problems requires making it safe to dialogue at times when opinions differ, when breakdowns occur, and when conflicting views put relationships at risk. When people learn to engage in Safe Conversations – transformative dialogue that uncovers hidden workplace issues, they… read more
Grace Cupat Engineering Manager - Web at ViewSonic	The journey of 10,000 steps to success The journey to success as a women in tech is not always a straight path. Finding your passion may pivot several times throughout one’s career, but there is one’s thing is certain. It’s okay fail. It is through those failures can we learn, grow and define our future and how we can impact others along the way. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Frost Li Founder & CEO at Social Chat	Why Live Streaming is the Future of Ecommerce In the new cookieless world, brands will need to find other ways to understand who their audience is so they can continue to deliver personalized experiences. Social commerce is on the rise, but when brands use social media platforms they have to rely on third-party data, putting them in the tricky position of having access to their customers, but no ownership of their data. Frost will discuss how with live streaming shopping, Social Chat enables brands to run live shopping events directly on their websites, and bring their audiences together in one place while collecting first-party data.… read more
Jocelyne Morin-Nurse CEO at Loxentus Inc.	Embracing Healthy Conflict as a Tool for Team Growth As leaders, we must learn to navigate thorny situations and guide contrasting points of views. This could be with clients, team members, business partners, even individuals who have positional power over us. How can we deal with those difficult conversations in a way that increases the likelihood of a positive outcome? In her talk, Embracing Healthy Conflict as a Tool for Team Growth, CEO Jocelyne Morin-Nurse draws from her own experience and shares: · the nuances of unhealthy conflict vs healthy conflict, · how healthy conflict… read more
Kim Seeling Smith CEO & Founder at Ignite Global	The 5 Step Roadmap to a Future Fit Organization This program is perfect for: Senior leaders Executive teams Boards of Directors HR Professionals …whose success depends on understanding and navigating the new world of work. The audience will leave with: Research, case studies and stories to help them understand the 3 disruptions that businesses are facing in the post-pandemic world and how these are affecting the workplace and workforce. A roadmap of best practices and specific action items to help them build and retain a future fit workforce. A list of… read more