Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Parul Gupta Production Engineer at Meta	Early Career Mentorship: My Journey from Mentee to Mentor As a female in tech, I learnt about mentorship opportunities the hard way -- purely through personal experience. I hoped someone had told me about what to expect and how to approach others sooner to excel and utilize my strong skillsets in most effective manner. Through this talk, I will discuss my personal recollections of the myths and realities of mentoring, its importance in early career and fruitful mentoring experiences in my career journey so far. Additionally, I want to inspire the young female computer enthusiasts to get involved in mentorship, both as a mentee… read more
Puja Sharma Senior Technical Program Manager	EQ as the new IQ To be successful in today’s tech world, you need to be trilingual: you have to speak code, client, and colleague. We can have the best people, the right tools, and the greatest environment, but it still takes a certain kind of magic to get them to work together, deliver timely results, and build amazing relationships with our clients. We believe that this magic is called emotional intelligence. In this ted-talk, we will share with you what emotional intelligence in tech is, how to develop it, and the positive difference it makes. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Lauren Sweeney Vice President of Business Development at Rise Up For You	Emotional Intelligence: The Core Competency to Company Success Do you know what Emotional Intelligence is, really? Today EQ is thrown around like another buzz word gaining an increasingly shallow definition and understanding. The biggest challenge we see is that most people don't really know what EQ is and how it can support their team, culture, and organizational development. The most successful companies and individuals are the ones that adapt their culture and communication around the key elements of Emotional Intelligence (EI). Many experts contend that EI is more important than the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and actually accounts… read more
Eva Nahari Principal at DNX Ventures	Be a circle in a world of squares I'll share my story and how all the winding roads and saying yes to opportunities (against my better judgement) lead me to where I am today. Starting out as an inventor and ML-geek (before it was cool), then a product manager in big and small companies, followed by a unicorn journey. My most recent game-changer was to shift to a VC role. I will particularly focus on when I struggled with 'the glass ceiling' and how I found my way - with hopes that it will inspire other brave young women to make their journeys happen! Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Alexandra Weaver Solution Architect at Semperis	Defending Critical Infrastructure From Cyberattacks SESSION QUICK ABSTART: The session will review security designs and controls, along with best practices to help to prevent a cyberattack. SESSION ABSTRACT: The security designs for critical infrastructure that includes Defense-in-Depth, Zero Trust strategies all to keep critical infrastructure like Active Directory, the keys to the kingdom secure. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Mrinal Karvir Senior Cloud Software Engineering Manager at Intel Corporation	Practical Approaches To Responsible AI Everyone has a role to play in making the usage of Artificial Intelligence ethical and responsible as users and developers of the technology. As per Morning Consult’s IBM Global AI Index 2021, over 90 percent of businesses using AI say Trustworthy and explainable AI is critical to business. More than half of companies cite significant barriers to getting there including a lack of skills, inflexible governance tools, biased data, and more. Enabling ethical and equitable AI requires a comprehensive approach around people, processes, systems, data and algorithms. How can we incorporate… read more
Cristiana Principato, PhD Sr. Data Scientist at Compass Pathways	AI Prediction of Clinical Outcome in Psilocybin Therapy Psychedelic therapy is a promising avenue for mental health treatment, but its potential has only recently begun to be understood through rigorous research. Join this session to explore how AI and machine learning can be integrated into mental health therapy to predict patient outcomes, enabling a more personalized, predictive, and preventative care model. Discover how a machine learning algorithm, utilizing NLP, voice features, and survey data, can accurately predict long-term patient responses, providing rapid prognostication of personalized response to treatment and offering… read more
Laura Velasquez Herrera President & Co-Founder at Arkangel.AI	I'm not a physician, I didn't know how to write a line of code but I built and AI company to save lives. how the value of technology can impact millions of people, and how to take the risk of implementing IA without knowing anything about technology. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Martyna Shallenberg Director, Software Engineering at Myriad Genetics	Frenemies: Growth Mindset and Imposter Syndrome A growth mindset lets us view all the paths on even ground, fearlessly and with a bigger picture in mind. Each path is littered with unknowns and embedded with challenges, and it’s a growth mindset that lets us tread forward courageously. No matter how confident we are in our next move, imposter syndrome is close by, whispering in our ear that we’re not good enough and not worthy. A growth mindset can keep imposter syndrome at bay, but it is imposter syndrome that can help us cultivate a stronger growth mindset. Growing up I always felt like an imposter. Frequent moves brought new… read more
Swapna Malekar Principal Product Lead at Microsoft	Becoming Best Friends with Imposter Syndrome Hiking in the Pacific Northwest weather over the last one year has taught me more than just tying my shoelaces right. It has given me some insight on how I can embrace and own my imposter syndrome in more ways than one. So when feelings of doubt and low self-confidence raise their ugly head, how can you make this Imposter Syndrome work for you, rather than desperately try to overcome it? It can be a source of strength in your chest of armor, more like an ally that always brings out the best in you. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Aishwarya Naresh Reganti Applied Scientist at Amazon/Search Science and AI	Building Scalable Graph Models for Search and Recommendation Graph based neural models have garnered a lot of attention over the past few years especially in Search and Recommendation technology. Large global web companies like Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google use graph based models both in production and offline to develop robust representations of their existing knowledge graph systems. In this talk, I will be going over the foundations of GNNs (Graph Neural Networks) and methods to build scalable graph based models for downstream production applications. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ronke Majekodunmi Director of Product at Promevo	The Lessons of Perseverance in Leadership as Women Perseverance in leadership is a hard-learned lesson but is immensely rewarded. We must all learn just how important it is to continue in our journey of excellence, despite any setbacks or missed opportunities. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Izabela Lundberg Founder & CEO at Legacy Leaders Institute	Champion Culture: From Great Resignation to the Great Reinvention If you are looking for an effective path forward in solving the root cause of the Great Resignation this session is for you and your leadership team. Antidote for Great Resignation is not Restructuring - It Is Reinvention! Ready to discover what it takes to make successful reinvention while creating a thriving organization? Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Alisa Bonsignore Founder at Clarifying Complex Ideas, LLC	The Impact of Digital Content: Mitigating Your Carbon Emissions The accelerating wave of digital content is increasing the energy demands on an already overextended planet. There is a perception that digital is less environmentally costly than cutting down trees for paper. Yet the energy costs for our digital lives can be steep. Every byte is energy, and energy has a carbon cost. And our digital footprints are ever-increasing. In 2018, Forbes reported that the world is generating more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created annually, no doubt a significant contributor to the fact that the world has almost doubled its energy consumption… read more
Sonia Hunt Health & Wellness Futurist, Chief Marketing Officer, #1 Best-Selling Author, TEDx (w/1M+ views)	Designing a Well-being Playbook to Thrive in Life We are all on a unique journey to be our best and live our best lives. The past few years have taken a toll on our whole-body and has validated that we no longer have separate work and play lives, we just have one life. In that life, we’ve become stressed to the max trying to balance family, relationships, social lives, happiness, finances, relevancy, and fulfillment, alongside demanding careers. That balance is rooted in our ability to be healthy and well, which unfortunately, has taken a big hit. Today, we’re more stressed, anxiety ridden and physically… read more
Monique Montanino Tech Executive Career Coach at Resume Tech Guru	Becoming a Tech Executive Recruiter Click Magnet Have you ever wondered what tech executive recruiters seek in candidates for director, general manager, and CXO roles? This discussion provides insight into building and optimizing your professional personal brand to become a recruiter click magnet. What does your team or boss say about you when you are not in the room? That, my friend, describes your personal brand. It doubles as the key to your superpower for career moves within the tech industry. In this workshop, Monique Montanino will highlight industry research, share tech executive client stories of female… read more
Dr Neryl East Credibility expert at Neryl East Communications Pty Limited	The Keys to Building Trust Under Pressure Changed work environments mean many people are feeling disengaged and tired of change; perhaps caught in an endless cycle of virtual meetings. Turnover is at an all-time high. Leaders and teams are crumbling under the extra pressure. Now, more than ever, women leaders in technology need outstanding skills as credible and influential communicators. Poor communication is crippling organizations and hindering careers. Across every sector including IT, shrinking confidence is holding women leaders back from performing at their best, especially when the pressure is on… read more
Kelly Gonzalez Director, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Employee Experience	Assessing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in your Next Career Move Many companies say they value diversity, equity, and inclusion. In this session, you will learn how to evaluate if a company you are interviewing with is genuine and has put actions in their commitment to DEI. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Reedhima Mandlik Technical Program Manager, Cybersecurity at Slalom Consulting	The Rise of Deepfakes What do you do when you can no longer trust your eyes and ears? How did deepfakes come to be, what are they, and what can we do to stop them before they influence us beyond repair? This presentation takes a deep dive into the technology behind deepfakes (“deep learning” and “fake”), which are media that take a person in an existing image or video and replace them with someone else's likeness using artificial neural networks. We will look into the history of deepfakes, how they are made, and how they are being used now in social media and society as a whole. Did you like this… read more
Yuying Chen-Wynn Managing Director CPO/AI Strategy at Wittingly Ventures	AI Productization - Lessons Learned Lessons learned building AI products from my years working in EdTech and profiling AI companies and startups across multiple industries, including generative AI products. Did you like this session? Share to vote.