Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Jill Lublin 4x Best-Selling Author, International Speaker, Master Publicity Strategist at Promising Promotion	Guerrilla Publicity = Get Known Everywhere If you want to be the #1 influencer in your industry, you've got to get bigger media visibility. Based on her international bestseller, Guerrilla Publicity, Jill shares simple strategies to help you go from unknown to newsworthy. Sharing her proven secrets to understanding what the media wants, Jill provides you with short-term, doable tactics that boost visibility for you and your brand. Now more than ever it’s important to stretch your message so that your visibility factor stays constant. Join publicity expert Jill Lublin as she shares new powerful tips and strategies… read more
Julia Gilinets Vice President of Sales at CodeSee	Reselling Sales I started out as a developer, and today am a VP of Sales, scaling revenue for developer tools organizations. It was long journey to get here, one rooted in the belief that Sales is a dirty word. Dirty, pushy used car salesman, right? Sales is for aggressive, sleazy, don't take no as an answer golf playing men, right? But it's not. Sales, when done right, is teaching (ironically a typically female role). It's teaching value, and helping someone navigate the easiest path to optimize the time to that value. Sales is an art, and a science, utilizing listening skills, curiosity, and… read more
Vidhi Jindal Program Manager 2 at Microsoft	PM is not a failed Dev Imagine a developer asking if they should become a PM, what will you ask next? "Are you bad at coding? Oh, you can't code?" No, these questions shouldn't even come to your mind. PMs are not developer who can't code. Program/Product Management is a different discipline which requires a diverse set of skills. In the era where humongous data is just a click away, but girls/women find it tough to make career transition. The lack of support from higher ups/family and glorification of SDE role adds undue pressure. … read more
Zhichun Li GM of Rapid at Scale AI	Unlocking ML Experimentation by Providing the “Accessible Luxury” of Data For many machine learning (ML) teams at scrappy startups and research organizations, acquiring high-quality labeled data is a key barrier to ML. These teams are often locked out of this experimentation due to a lack of resources, financing or headcount to build, monitor and evolve production-quality data pipelines. In this talk, Zhichun Li, GM of Rapid at Scale AI will shine a light on the barriers to acquiring production-level data and how expanding access to high-quality data will help companies of all sizes bootstrap their ML efforts and stay agile. Using Scale Rapid as an… read more
Ridhima Ahuja Kahn VP, BD/Strategic Partnerships at Dapper Labs	Why Blockchain I will give an overview of blockchain and why it's relevant and important. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Melisa Tokmak GM, Document AI at Scale AI	Unlocking Trapped Data with AI It is no secret that technology has so much potential to transform the way enterprises innovate, operate and serve customers but one of the areas that can benefit the most from AI/ML can be overlooked by organizations - document processing. Today, businesses have mass amounts of data stored in complex documents that require time-intensive manual labor to extract. These processes are inefficient and are not only wasting employees' time but the end consumer’s time - therefore losing organizations’ money. In this talk, Melisa Tokmak, GM of Document AI for Scale AI will… read more
Emilie Joly CEO at Zoe Immersive Inc	Becoming a Tech Entrepreneur and Having your First Kid: You Can Do It! We all know that founding a tech startup is hard, time consuming and most of the time stressful. So is giving birth and raising a child! Both are also extremely rewarding. As young women we are told being an entrepreneur and having a family is not compatible, resulting in a lack of young women making the decision to become a founder, especially in the tech world. Emilie Joly, CEO of Zoe Immersive Inc, founded her first startup when she was still at university in Switzerland, moved to the US to develop the business and 10 years later recently became a mom. … read more
Samira Khan Director, Citizenship at Microsoft	Empathy in Tech for Impact From my experience at both Salesforce and Microsoft, discussing the role empathy has in tech for impact policy, strategy, and design. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Alexis Snelling CEO Founder at WeTransact	A Cooperative Approach to Foster Global Impact from Your Local Communities Discuss the necessary frame shifts and mindset needed to create lasting and meaningful impact in the world from idea to world changing achievements. Are you thinking about how to great and positive impact in your own life, your community, and the world? This session is going to provide you with tools and resources to take that next step and break thru the many challenges ahead. Everything we do is tied to impact when you lead with HER: humanity, empathy and responsibility. Shared Talk Resources: https://bit.ly/womentech22 Did you like this session? Share to vote.… read more
Beatie Wolfe Artist and Innovator	Activating Awareness: The Power of Art & Tech UN Women role model for innovation, Beatie Wolfe, named by WIRED Magazine as one of "22 people changing the world,” talks about "Activating Awareness: The Power of Art" and how we can make vast and abstract data around global issues feel relatable, evocative, and inspire change. Taking her latest project 'From Green to Red' (built using 800,000 years of NASA's climate data) as a case study, the artist and activist will share how she explores the myriad of ways art and technology can be used to communicate complex data to activate awareness and inspire action on a… read more
Jess Vice Strategy Director at Struck	Accessibility is a design and UX responsibility: How to run an Accessibility workshop Designing for Accessibility requires due diligence, optimizing for edge cases, and deeply understanding all the ways all people need the product to serve them. In this presentation/talk with industry veteran and Strategy Director Jess Vice, we’ll learn step by step how creatives can design a targeted and interactive accessibility workshop for their clients, and build. As we learn how to better understand what others are experiencing, we begin to develop awareness and empathy, which can be designed to input directly into user experience. Did you like this… read more
Sarah Moody CEO & Founder at Sarah Moody Coaching	Future Proof Your Workforce\| Change The Mindset "Working Hard + Long is A Badge of Honor" A strategy for tech companies to future proof their workforce is to change the company culture + mindset that overworking is a "badge of honor." This mindset is subtle and most companies don't know it exists. Leaders have an opportunity to be an example of what’s possible and highlight and shift the belief that “working hard and long hours” is a badge of honor. Overworking, and the lack of balance between work and life is the #1 reason for burnout and women exiting the tech industry. Post pandemic, the importance of our… read more
Rebel Brown Vice President of Strategy at Quantum Computing Inc.	An Introduction to Quantum Computing: How This Emerging Technology May Be the Key to Optimizing FEMA Relief Effects and Emergency Response Every year seems to bring more global unrest, terrorist activity, and catastrophic weather. We are currently experiencing a true humanitarian disaster as scores of Ukrainians are forced to leave their homes and find amnesty in other nations. It is absolutely essential that the U.S. government have the most powerful tools at its disposal to assist refugees from Ukraine and elsewhere, as well as the victims of hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, and acts of terrorism on U.S. soil. In this session, I will explain how a powerful new emerging technology called quantum computing may… read more
Anwaya Aras Engineering Manager at Uber Technologies, San Francisco	To Manage or Not to Manage Navigating across the decision of different career paths is a hard problem especially when you are battling the headwinds of uncertainty and apprehension. In this talk, I will go through how you should decide if you want to move to the management track from an Individual Contributor role. I will also talk about some common challenges new managers or tech leads face and provide the audience with frameworks for overcoming them. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Banafsheh Fathieh Head of Investments, Americas at Prosus Ventures	Web3 and Freedom: Democratizing Access to Finance Web3 has the potential to be a sea-change in how the Internet works, pushing away from central control of data and services to a decentralized architecture that enables greater degrees of individual control for marginalized groups. With Web3, the metaverse and crypto-based digital economy offers a neutral space which do not encourage censorship and reduces the influence of governments and large corporations. This talk will look at how Web3 will allow for the establishment of new forms of trust, privacy, safety, and infrastructure stability, enabling all individuals to benefit worldwide.… read more
Vrushali Patil Head of Platform Engineering at Front	How a people-first product leads to better work/life balance Front is on a mission to make work happier by meaningfully connecting teams and customers, regardless of workplace. One place it gets truly reflected is in the way Engineering, Product and Design operate as one team. Join us as Kaitlin and Vrushali talk about how they use Front’s company values around collaboration, low-ego and transparency in their day-to-day interactions and the product Front is building. Vrushali and Kaitlin will discuss the benefits of harnessing the power of the product they are building firsthand and how they and their team use Front’s company values to… read more
Jennifer Glenski AI and Machine Learning Practice Lead at IntelliDyne	Trivia on Technology Trends Join us for a fun, interactive trivia game on technology trends for your chance to win a 1-year Premium Membership to WomenTech Network! Plus, walk away with interesting, fun facts about trends in technology to impress your friends and coworkers. We’ll play 3 rounds of trivia, with 10 questions each. The top scorers of each round will receive a 1-year Premium Membership to WomenTech Network, so there are plenty of chances to win! The trivia game will be administered using Kahoot. Participants can easily join the trivia game by visiting https://kahoot.it in a web… read more
Jennifer Glenski AI and Machine Learning Practice Lead at IntelliDyne	Trivia on Women in Technology Join us for a fun, interactive trivia game on women in technology for your chance to win a 1-year Premium Membership to WomenTech Network! Plus, walk away with interesting, fun facts about women in technology to impress your friends and coworkers. We’ll play 3 rounds of trivia, with 10 questions each. The top scorers of each round will receive a 1-year Premium Membership to WomenTech Network, so there are plenty of chances to win! The trivia game will be administered using Kahoot. Participants can easily join the trivia game by visiting https://kahoot.it in a web… read more
Wendi Whitmore Senior Vice President, Cyber Consulting & Threat Intelligence	Women in Cyber - The Evolving Landscape and the Impact of Diversity in the Workplace It’s no secret that cybersecurity employers have long struggled to address the gender gap facing the industry. In fact, in 2021 the ISC(2) Cybersecurity Workforce Report on Women in Cybersecurity reported that women only make up 24% of the cyber workforce. With an acknowledged skills shortage in the industry, we as leaders must consider the steps we can take to address the needs of employers not just to secure cyber talent, but to close the gender gap and encourage more diverse candidates to join our industry. During this session, Wendi Whitmore, SVP of Unit… read more
Sunitha Narayan Investor	Human Rights and Responsible AI Communication and free speech are basic human rights. Though digital communication has made our communication efficient, it has also made it vulnerable to censorship. In this session, we will understand the scope and scale of internet shutdowns, censorship and surveillance that attempts to challenge the open and trusted internet. This quick overview will include an introduction to the underlying cryptographic primitives and how they are often used in these systems. The session will include the example of the Russia-Ukraine war to discuss the surge in usage of end-to-end encrypted (E2E)… read more