Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Ria Bhatia Software Engineer	Database Replication 101: A Beginner's Guide to Building High-Availability Systems In today's fast-paced business environment, ensuring the availability and consistency of data is crucial for organizations of all sizes. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is through the use of database replication. This talk will provide an overview of the different types of replication available, including master-slave, master-master, and multi-master replication. It will also discuss the benefits and trade-offs of each approach, and elaborate strategies for dealing with issues such as replication lag and conflict resolution. Attendees will leave with a good understanding… read more
Anshu Toppo Manager at PWC	Code Best practices Code Best practices that developers should follow. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sharmistha Chatterjee Executive Manager at Commonwealth Bank of Australia	Role of Digital Twin towards Sustainability The talk will start with an introduction to the concept of digital twins and the role of digital twins in identifying and addressing sustainability challenges, some of which include forecasting and monitoring floods, predicting network changes and helping load distribution, and building resilience in communities and supply chain networks. In this talk, we choose one application of digital twin to understand how it can solve live networks (be it 2G, 3G, 4G, or 5G) issues. Further, it will also focus on the architectural ecosystem with data aggregation and ML modeling techniques… read more
Manasi Gupta Founder & Executive Director at Huesofthemind Foundation	Leveraging Technology for Social Impact Technology has the power to create impactful change. In this talk, the participants would explore the different ways in which they can leverage technology to deliver impact for the causes they care about. From youth and community engagement initiatives to data analytics and artificial intelligence, the talk would dive into the different technologies and their potential use cases for positive impact. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Shirsha Ray Chaudhuri Director of Research Engineering, Thomson Reuters Labs at Thomson Reuters	Stories from the battlefront: What it takes to build AI into products for long-time companies? In this talk I wish to take the audience through:- 1. Status of IT systems and internal tools and platforms for companies that have been selling software solutions since a long-time 2. Challenges to bringing in AI into such an IT ecosystems 3. Planning and estimating for such transformation 4. Path to success Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Mirza Rayana Sanzana Researcher at University of Nottingham Malaysia	Why should women pursue Machine Learning as a career I come from a region where being a doctor and an engineer is mostly cherished, and if not, a woman should focus on household chores. It was quite uncommon for a woman like me to go for Computer Science, and then continue to be doing research with Machine Learning under Artificial Intelligence for a greener environment. From my perspective, not many women are in the Machine Learning field despite the advancement of diverse, and inclusive workplaces. I can understand that when some women would want to go for this field, they might get negative feedback or even find the field to be intimidating… read more
Nishi Garg Technical Learning & Enablement manager at Alteryx	Testing for Speed to Market The software world is constantly under pressure of ‘speed to market’, which impacts each stage of software development. Software testing is not left untouched by this constant hustle and hence has every reason to evolve and adapt! Testers look outwards for priorities, collaboration and transparency; while they look inwards to reimagine processes, templatise lightweight documentation and recreate their own way of life in the testing world! Let us discuss ways we can plan, strategise and conduct software testing that befits this fast pace of software delivery and upholds the quality standards… read more
Namrta Sharma Sr. Principal Solutions Engineer at Cadence Design Systems	Careers in Semiconductor chip design This session will talk about various types of roles that are available in the semiconductor chip design. It will give a sneak peek into the life of a semiconductor chip, and what are the different types of engineers who design and validate the chip before it hits the market. This is best suited for students, or for engineers who want to move to semiconductor industry. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Mahe Zehra Husain CEO at FiveRivers Technologies	CEO Perspective: Essential Skills For Success in the Age of Ideas and Action Young women lack mentors. They are passionate and they want to create a career and a life they love but they don’t know how to do it. More importantly, there is no one to guide them over the invisible barriers so they can set themselves up for success. Our society raises girls to be a certain way, to fit a certain role and there are many soft skills that are never taught. Many basic ideas were never discussed. If women need to excel in the Age of Ideas they need to know how and when to take action. They need to know the skills to nurture and how to negotiate the course to… read more
Neeraja Ganesh Head - Education Initiatives, at Aspire For Her	What's your story? Do you have a High Recall Value? What is your Recall Value? Personal branding is for everyone. It's the differentiator you bring to the table, to the room, whether you are physically present there or not. Each of us already has a personal brand. Is that what we want as our recall value? Let's build a story about yourself! Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Priyanka Sharma Director- Digital Architecture at Firmenich	Beware of Biases We are training these systems based on how the world is currently, rather than how we want the world to be. If you ask a machine learning system to optimize advert placement to increase click-through rate, it will do exactly that. If you give the learning system a dataset that has females click on high-paying ads less frequently, the machine learning system will learn to exploit that fact to get closer to its goal. The consequence is that machine learning systems will perpetuate, or even exacerbate existing biases. The talk will expose many real-time examples of Machine Biases and how… read more
Mandira Anand Director - Partner Technology for ITeS Partners at Microsoft at Microsoft India Pvt. Ltd	Pledge to Progress with Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability ESG or Sustainability is no longer a side chat or a CSR conversation. It's on every enterprise's board room agenda today. In this 40 min session I would like to share Microsoft's position on Sustainability, how we’re using data-driven solutions to help us reach our own ambitious goals, and how we can apply the same technologies and frameworks to help our customers on the areas where we see opportunities to enable our partners and customers to achieve great outcomes. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Mehvash Khan Intelligent Automation - RPA Developer at Alphalake Ai	Intelligent Automation - RPA RPA, or Robotic Process Automation, is a technology that enables the automation of repetitive, rule-based tasks typically performed by humans. This session is all about RPA and how it supports digital transformation. It's impact on businesses along with use cases. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Neha Modi Engineering Teams	Women in SRE and DevOps Percentage of women is significantly low in SRE and DevOps world even after considering low numbers in technology as a whole. While some women are unclear about this career path, some who opt for it find it comparatively challenging to move forward than other technology streams. In this talk, I would love to share about starting your career with or transition to SRE/Devops world, bursting the myths and to become aware of expectations and challenges in this journey. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Tokzhan Oshkarova Lead Manager at National Information Technologies JCS	Innovations and digital transformation in public services and businesses Digitalization of public administration is aimed at improving public services. The focus is on the user's interests. Therefore, client-centricity comes to the fore not only in business, but also in public administration. The presentation will give general ideas about the clients of state organizations, about the standards governing client research. In addition, the basic principles of digital accessibility and ethics in the work of the researcher are considered. These methods can be applied both in the transformation of public services and in business. The report will help developers and… read more
Ambreen Kokab Shah AI & Analytics Solutions Architect at Ericsson	Leading Digital Transformation as Digital Champions Digital transformation isn’t the future—it’s here already! Our world is adapting new norms where technology is vital be it our personal, social, economic or work life and its imperative now more than ever to turn its disruption into opportunity wherever possible. However digital transformation is not just about technology and rather about fundamental shift in the culture, mindset, decision making and processes of a business in using technology. Our role as digital champions is critical in driving transformation in this ever-evolving world with a greater focus on industry leading success… read more
Robyn Cam Executive Coach at Intellect	3 challenges women face in the workplace and how to rise above them A vibrant and lively discussion about the added challenges women experience in business; exploring the glass ceiling and the glass cliff, considering women's natural depth and capacity for emotional intelligence, and being resilient can mean women are often tagged as the caretakers (at home and in the officer too). We'll also explore female stereotypes and expectations, and how we may acknowledge and embrace our feminine selves, while authentically and confidently, and strategically climbing the corporate ladder. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Asma Zeeshan Head of B2B Sales South at Telenor Pakistan Ltd	Going Beyond Connectivity in a B2B World I will be talking about going beyond connectivity in a B2B world. This the right time when Telcos need to go beyond connectivity for their B2B customers providing them one window/end to end solution to fulfil their business needs or to solve their complex business problems through products & solutions like IOT, M2M, Enterprise, Analytics & Digital. Telcos need to find new revenue streams to sustain & grow using their core infrastructure and building new non-core business. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Shijimol A K Cloud Specialist at Google	Cloud-Native Application security: Building Resilience in the face of emerging Cyber Threats The transition to cloud-native technology has disrupted how organizations create, distribute, and manage their applications. While the cloud has numerous advantages, it also presents new security concerns and difficulties that need to be resolved. This technical session will deep dive into the recent threats to cloud-native applications and best practices for defending against them Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Namrata Sherkhane Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft	Azure Open AI Use cases Discuss on OpenAI's powerful language models including the GPT-3, Codex and Embeddings model series. How Azure Open AI helps customers to solve for real enterprise use cases Did you like this session? Share to vote.