Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Katrin Sturm Founder & CEO at The Best Possible You	Communicating & Negotiating without feeling like an Imposter Do you want to speak up with confidence, be heard and influence others? Do you want to negotiate your salary, go for that promotion or sell your idea and intentions? In this high energy masterclass we conquer any feeling of self-doubt together and talk through insights and techniques in order to achieve the above as a woman in tech. Katrin Sturm, Founder & CEO of The Best Possible You, will be sharing a number of practical tips and tricks on how women in tech can use their communication effectively to get what they want. You… read more
Victoria Ortigosa Senior Manager - Core Voice Strategic Initiatives at BT	Can women have it all? Short presentation . What does having it all mean? Do we feel there is a checklist that as women we must achieve? Are we made to feel guilty for making choices? How do we measure this? Have we ever thought that Having It All could be really simple? How can we motivate ourselves to feeling that we have achieved everything and that we have it all? What can we do to making it happen? Will include the following:- - Personal experiences about juggling the guilt of being a mother and having a career and personal hobbies… read more
Zana Pekmez Head of Customer Intelligence Analytics / Retail Customer Engagement IT Tribe Lead at Raiffeisen Bank International	Assembling Customer 360 in Cloud to Achieve Customer Centricity Customer data has a vast monetization potential through customer centricity and personalized services. Cloud technology and analytics tools are great enablers for enterprises to leverage on these technologies to decrease the effort and costs required for data collection, processing and consumption. The presentation focuses on hands-on example of Customer Analytical Record for fast and specific analytics and reflects how technologies and agile delivery approach enabled a large Banking Group to centralize customer data in cloud from its 13 different operating market network. … read more
Jenya Sargsyan Software Engineering Manager at Synopsys Inc.	Breaking Into Tech: 3 Tips for Women to Succeed in Tech Why Tech is one of the most promising career paths for women? What are specific tips to succeed? How your “Yes, if” mindset can help you to change impossible to possible? This session will provide insights on a specific framework to manage work-life balance, prioritize the work and build a successful career for women in tech. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Michelle Gyimah Gender & ethnicity pay gaps consultant, Negotiation Coach, Keynote speaker at Equality Pays	How to negotiate away your personal gender pay gap The current gender pay gap is going to take over 100 years to close at its current rate (and this was before the pandemic hit). A combination of opaque pay systems, pay secrecy in the workplace, lower numbers of women negotiating for better career benefits and higher pushback rates for women who do, will keep the gender pay gap thriving for many years to come. The pandemic has highlighted just how fragile gender equality is as well as how much of our career options have been decided by our employers and not by us. This talk will equip attendees with the skills to negotiate for more in their… read more
Ingrid Toppelberg Chief Product Officer at Cybint	Cybersecurity as a future-proof career for women With over 4M unfilled positions worldwide, cybersecurity is one of the most lucrative in-demand careers today. With competitive compensation and high demand, this career path has seen a steady rise in popularity, and yet women comprise less than 20% of the cybersecurity workforce. Due to the dynamic nature of evolving threats in the security industry, more diversity is essential to successfully protecting individuals and organizations from cyberattacks. Since traditional forms of education are often out of touch and not a realistic option for many women, accelerated learning… read more
Claire Thornewill Senior Web Performance Consultant at Netcentric GmbH	Know your worth I have grown up with the privilege that my parents both worked hard, full-time and with two kids, long before the days of home office. Neither of my parents went to University when they were young and so they did everything in their power to give me the best start in life and stability. Stability to Gen X means find a job and stay there forever, or at least until you retire. I have changed5 jobs times in 5 years I know what you must be thinking, commitment issues. Quite the opposite - I am committed to myself, my learning and my wellbeing. What I… read more
Uzoma Agba Business Strategist at Technovation	We are Digital: The Future is Now Businesses have to innovate or go extinct by using technology as their core functions so that they can disrupt the norms and challenge the status quo. Because Digital transformation evolves around employees, products, channels, operations, customers and competitors, it changes corporate strategy, business processes, marketing capabilities, roles and skills. For lead generation and customer acquisition, Businesses should infuse neuro marketing which is the new science of customer decisions because buyers purchase products based on emotions i.e. connection to the brand. When businesses apply… read more
Silvia Bellucci Customer Engineer for Public Sector at Google	Cloud myths and the new normal I will demystify some common cloud myths (automatic cost saving, security, easiness) analysing them and explain why cloud can be instrumental in the transformation that the pandemic situation is forcing us to go through Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Abir Ghenaiet Full Stack Web Developer at Admidio	Digital and Data Literacy: Robot-Assisted Education (RAE) Under the vigorous development of worldwide anticipatory computing in recent years, there have been numerous applications of AI (AI) in people’s daily lives. Learning analytics of big data can assist students, teachers, and faculty administrators to realize new knowledge and estimate learning information; successively , the improved education contributes to the rapid development of science and technology. Education is sustainable life learning, also because the most vital promoter of science and technology worldwide. In recent years, an outsized number of anticipatory computing applications… read more
Marina Gerner Journalist & Academic	Why women need to invest in the stock market Tech innovation is driven by investment, and yet, women are still hugely underrepresented as investors, both on an institutional and individual level. Women lose millions of dollars by not investing in the stock market. At first glance, investing may seem like a man's world, but I will show how women have always been involved in the world of investment historically. I will explain how the stock market works and how investing works. If more women invest in companies, we're more likely to see the tech innovation we truly desire. Did you like this session? Share to vote. … read more
Patricia Gestoso Head of Scientific Support and Customer Operations	Regenerative business: Embedding ethics and inclusion in workplaces, products, and services In the name of efficiency, organizations divide their employee and customer experience into silos: HR is responsible for the workplace, R&D creates products based on ideal average personas, and service teams manage the mismatch of expectations between those products and existing customers. This results in employees disengaged, users inadvertently excluded, and the dilution of responsibility for unintended outcomes. What would it look like if businesses, with an eye on sustainability, asked ourselves instead: what are we leaving this planet? In this session, I’ll share a… read more
Shani Fargun Product innovation manager at Anthem	Leading digital Product innovation in large organizations From my personal perspective, I am going to talk about the main challenges and barriers in driving change in organizations and layout the role of the product innovation manager. How can data be utilized to design partnerships? And how to integrate novel solutions in a large organization? Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Shani Fargun Product innovation manager at Anthem	Leading digital Product innovation in large organizations From my personal perspective, I am going to talk about the main challenges and barriers in driving change in organizations and layout the role of the product innovation manager. How can data be utilized to design partnerships? And how to integrate novel solutions in a large organization? Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Alexandra Petrus Co-Founder / Strategist at Bucharest AI	Create a Community - that sticks, builds, consumes - and products worth building around Great products imply great communities forming. What if you start the other way around? What if you create a community first, and then something worth building a community around? Google, Apple, Microsoft, Unity, and fast-growing startups are making use of communities to build better, meaningful and unique products. Building a community around mundane and noise, no matter how hard you try, might be sisyphus work. What makes communities stick, build, disrupt, break the norm - together? Learn how to build, engage and use a community for building products or reinterpreting products in… read more
Hitomi Hamaba Product Manager at Sony	How to Lead Tech Teams as a Non-Techie When you’re leading tech teams but you don't have an engineering background, what should you be focusing on to be successful? As a former journalist who switched her career into tech (via MBA), Hitomi shares her experience and lessons learned. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Gigi Metuge Head of Software Applications Security & Vulnerability Management at Tech Stars 54	Breaking into the Cloud. Job and Training Resources available for women The talk is focused on the future of the Job market in Cloud technologies (cloud engineers, cloud security engineers, cloud solutions architect etc) and what resources are available for women to break into Cloud careers. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Gaby K Slezák Partner & Head of XR at Evenness	Future of Work: How to Get Started with VR and Virtual 3D Spaces with a Wow Factor With video meetings and training becoming the norm rather than the exception, the limits of remote collaboration with traditional tools have never been more apparent. Zoom fatigue is real. Corporations, small businesses, and individuals are turning to VR and AR collaboration tools to address the pain points of remote working. Advanced platforms for VR and Web-Based 3D allow for a more immersive work experience - it feels like being there, together. I will show use cases, how other companies are already levering VR/3D successfully and how VR and WebXR can make your next team meeting, training… read more
Paula Mertens Innovation Champion at Live Innovation Lab	How to train your Innovator's Mindset We all have heard the word innovation. Everyone is talking about it. Today, most organizations see innovation as the key to growth and even to survive in a constantly changing world. But what is innovation, really? How do we unfold the meaning of this popular yet abstract word? What makes a successful innovator? Are innovators born? Is it possible to accelerate innovation? We will explore in this talk the elements of innovation, how we can all become innovators, and the role of technology. The Innovator's Mindset is the heart of innovation. In the Innovator's… read more
Amadikwa Joy N Data Analyst at Data Science Nigeria	The beauty of data analyst Data analysis is one of the big thing in our society today. And data analyst serves as the brain behind the organizational data so that the stakeholders of the firm will be able to understand such data and use it for the good purpose of the company. This session will serve more as an insight on how to start your journey as a data analyst. And some useful tool needed. Did you like this session? Share to vote.