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Upasna Gautam


Product Manager at CNN

Become a Conference Speaker

Women, on average, make up only 25% of all keynote or stand-alone speakers at tech conferences. This aligns with the tech industry’s larger gender gap issues, where only 20% of tech jobs are held by women.

My mission is to galvanize women to cultivate the confidence and seek the opportunities that will amplify our representation on the speaker rosters in the tech conference circuit. As a seasoned public speaker, TED talker, and Shine Bootcamp Speaker Coach, I’ve put together the templates, resources, and guides from my own experiences so that you can kickstart your own journey… read more
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Upasna Gautam


Product Manager at CNN

Mindfulness for Remote Work Success

Since the pandemic started, we have been carrying remarkable levels of fear and anxiety - more than ever before. Many of us feel like the workday never ends as we scramble to shift from home life to work life and back again, trying to keep our sanity afloat. It’s an equally poignant burden for those who are single, as they are more susceptible to feelings of loneliness, isolation, and depression. As a Product Manager, seasoned remote worker, and a Mindfulness and Meditation teacher, I am here to offer my pragmatic approach to infusing mindfulness in your everyday life through your space, body… read more
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Dixie Rowlette-Jeffery


Certified Professional Coach at Take the Wheel Coaching

What does mentally healthy look like?

What does mentally healthy look like? How do we achieve and sustain it? Let's look at self image, health, design and practical simple tools that we can use to improve our mental health.

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Huda Saleh


Mental Health Counseling Masters Student

Let Go of a Negative Mindset

We need to be aware of how we tend to limit ourselves and our potential for MORE by saying we “can’t” do something. It is so important to realize the difference between saying you don’t want to do something versus you CAN’T do something.

If you want to do something, you’re going to find every reason to do it. If you don’t want to do something, you’re going to find every excuse NOT to do it.

No one could have anticipated this virus taking over the world. No one could have anticipated everything being shut down. No one could have possibly anticipated becoming… read more
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Mayuri Madhur


Software Developement Engineer at Flipkart

But what is Machine Learning? : A complete starter pack

The main topics to be discussed:
Machine Learning : What is it and why it matter?
Learning vs Intelligence
Main types of Machine Learning :
i) Classical ML
ii) Reinforcement Learning
iii) Ensembles
iv) Neural Networks
The complete picture



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Shraddha Nair


Senior Infrastructure Developer at Cognizant Technology Solutions

Growth: Personal, Professional and Beyond 9-5

My talk will briefly cover areas of growth in career at work and beyond those business hours. Having a job is not enough, we should have a career that makes us feel fulfilled as someone who has walked the face of the earth for greater things beyond doing dishes and paying bills. Additionally, I will also be covering about the effects of poor networking and social connections that has a detrimental effect on a woman's soft skills. I hope to inspire atleast a few women to be integral leaders at their own workplace or society.

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Erika Gerdes


Founder | Authenticity Advocate at Erika Gerdes International

The Art Of Undoing: Undoing barriers to authenticity & impact

We're being asked to do more than ever and burn-out rates are at an all time high. We have access to so many tools that promise to help us feel better, but with so little time, how do we prioritize? And will the changes actually stick?

The good news is, feeling better doesn't require doing more. By practicing the Art of Undoing, you can do less and be more. The result is employees with greater confidence and well-being, teams with greater diversity and collaboration, and companies with improved bottom line, innovation and culture.

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Lisa Bien


CEO at Lisa Bien Entreprises, LLC

Your Voice Matters: From the Bedroom to the Boardroom

How many times have you told yourself, today is the day I am going to do it? Then the day slips by with whatever “it” is still on the to-do list.
For most of us, there are times in life when we really want to do or say something, but we don’t. Why not? Many times, I can almost guarantee, it is because we listen to our critical inner voice that says, “You can’t. You are not enough.”
If this sounds familiar then this presentation is for you- Your Voice Matters: From the Bedroom to the Boardroom is for you.
Doesn’t it get old listening to the opinions of others, or… read more
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Nathalia Silva


Ambassador at Women TechMakers

The Power of Your Personal Brand

Personal branding helps individuals to expand horizons while building a plan to achieve bigger career goals. This presentation will show you how to improve your brand by simply following 5 easy steps.


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Lucinda Duncalfe


CEO and Founder at AboveBoard

The Lack of Diversity in Tech Isn’t a ‘Pipeline’ Problem, It’s a Network Problem

While companies have set ‘diversity goals’ for decades, little progress has been achieved. Data from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shows only 3% of top-paying jobs are held by Black executives. Women lead under 6% of the top 3,000 U.S. companies.

This summer, in the wake of the tragic murder of George Floyd, we saw a true sense of urgency to address systemic inequalities. With a new roster of public hiring goals, we are in a decisive moment. There are a number of reasons to be optimistic that this will be a turning point for not only the tech industry, but… read more
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Deepthi Goguri


SQL Database Administrator at Intone networks Inc.

Life Cycle of a Query in SQL Server

Many DBAs and Developers work with SQL Server but don’t fully understand how it really works behind the scenes. Join Deepthi on her dive into the internals of SQL Server to explain why knowing what goes on under the covers will help you make better decisions quickly when solving performance problems in SQL Server. This session will cover ACID properties, key components of the Relational Engine, Storage engine, Cache and the Transaction manager. We will also cover what happens under the covers during read and write operations within SQL Server.
Deepthi will show you how the SQL engine… read more
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Deepthi Goguri


SQL Database Administrator at Intone networks Inc.

Decoding Statistics in SQL Server

Are you new to performance tuning and confounded by statistics? Do you wonder where these statistics come from, and how the optimizer gets the estimates from statistics?

Join me as we dive deep into cardinality estimation, how SQL Server uses statistics to build execution plans, where to find information about how statistics got used and why managing statistics is vital to performance.
This session will have awesome demos showcasing practical examples of how the optimizer uses statistical information for all those crazy queries you write.

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Farhat Siddiqui


Engineering Leader, AI Research labs & Product Innovation at ETS

How to get a started and get ahead in AI & Data Science

Are you interested in breaking in or moving ahead in the field of data science or machine learning? Come join me as I share tips from 20+ years in the tech field.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, data science is one of the fastest-growing careers in the country, projected to grow by more than 30% over the next decade. Data science has also topped LinkedIn’s Emerging Jobs Report for three years running, with the job title “Machine Intelligence Specialist” growing an incredible 74% over the past four years.

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Sree Ratnasinghe


Director, Solutions Architecture at Amazon Web Services

Panel: Transforming Organizational Skills and Culture in the Era of Cloud and AI

This panel session is targeted at humans in mid to senior level leadership roles, who are charged with leading transformation, and growing and building organizational skills, all while rapidly delivering results.

As the saying goes, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. How do you build a resilient culture and skills in your organization, that can grow, thrive and transform to keep up with the pace of change? These transformational leaders each have a history of growing empowered organizations that drive both entrepreneurial and enterprise transformation initiatives.… read more
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Susanne Althoff


Author at Launching While Female

How to Be a Better Ally for Women Entrepreneurs

Women entrepreneurs face hurdles related to start-up capital, mentorship, bias, sexual harassment, and other factors. The result is a gender gap in entrepreneurship, resulting in fewer jobs, less innovation, and a weaker economy for all of us. Entrepreneurs can address some hurdles on their own, but they also need effective allies. Now is not the time for performative allyship that delivers no real results. Here are the tools to do better. This action plan is based on Susanne’s years spent interviewing 100+ women and nonbinary entrepreneurs for her new book LAUNCHING WHILE FEMALE: Smashing… read more
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Maryna Burushkina


Founder & CEO at Growth Channel

Startup Growth Marketing in 2021

Traditional marketing focuses on the top of the funnel, often with activities that drive short-term wins for acquisition. Growth marketing, on the other hand, requires you to focus on the full funnel. It's a data-driven approach to find innovative ways to drive user acquisition, keep customers engaged, retain them, and ultimately turn them into brand champions. The session will introduce the concept and show how to get started and apply growth marketing into your operations using technology.

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Sarah Aviram


Remote Work Thought Leader | Speaker | Author at Sarah Aviram

The Six Ways to Unlock Your Why

When remote workers identify their reasons for working, they can learn how to activate and manage six core motivators to their benefit.

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Kim Trevisan


Chief Information Officer at Oldcastle APG

You cant have it all

Many women in their 40's face a sort of maliase as they grapple with living up to the promises their mother made them about being able to have it all.

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Sree Ratnasinghe


Director, Solutions Architecture at Amazon Web Services

Want to reach your full potential? How to lead in Cloud and AI! #Leadershipgoals

Every one is a natural leader to make a decision from what Ice cream to eat, which school to go or lead a strategic program to create exponential value to the firm. Even the Natural leaders need to learn how to harness and bring out the best, especially when you are in customer or partner facing role.

During this session, the Presenters, who are experienced executives building and leading customer facing teams faced on Hybrid Cloud and AI, will focus on 


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Gayatri Iyengar


Sr Manager Engineering at Uber

"Life - Work” Harmony and Staying motivated through the pandemic

So how do you plan your day? Do you wake up in the morning and do all your work and then spend the day at work looking forward to being at home and not working?

We all have heard about work-life balance. This sounds like a great idea but it can also imply that we should dedicate at least half of our time to work–and sacrifice time for our “personal life”. To me, that seems… off balance. Because, the truth is, it’s nearly impossible to split your time equally between the two. And, you may end up stressing out if you’re not able to meet that expectation of balance.
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