Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Nadia Milani Marketing Director at TeraGo	The Pursuit of Perfection: Why it's Killing You and Your Team Nadia Milani is a career marketer who has worked in marketing tech roles at companies big and small, in various categories and segments. Over the years she led many different teams and has observed companies strive for perfection - negatively impacting projects, teams, and most importantly culture. Nadia will walk you through how to break through your own pursuit of perfection and achieve things you, your team, and organization have never imagined (even through a pandemic). Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Lisa-Mo Wagner Head of Consumer & Apps at moebel.de	Strategic Skills for Product Leaders You can learn any framework like OKRs for example but to be the best product leader you need more than that! You need the strategic skills to lead without authority, to inspire and to empower. Let’s talk about how to become the most successful product leader while balancing stakeholder, team member and customer needs easily. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ximena Velasquez Life & Wellness Coach and Consultant/CEO at EnergyMDT Corporation	How To Be Mentally Prepared For Success Boosting your Mental Fitness requires building powerful new muscles in your brain, not just insight. If you’re physically fit, you can climb steep hills without physical stress. If you’re mentally fit, you can handle life’s great challenges without mental stress or other negative emotions and you can be happier as well as perform better in all areas of your life! Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ariel Naftali Founder, Purpose Coach at Perform With Purpose	Uncover Your Purpose Uncovering our purpose is the most important work we can do if we want to lead fulfilling lives. The purpose of this session is to demystify what a life purpose actually is and provide tangible suggestions for how to go about uncovering it. The first part of the presentation will draw a connection between our purpose and personal branding. We will talk about what it means to embody the fullest expression of ourselves and how that adds the greatest value to others. The second part of the presentation will dive into the three elements of purpose that we must know in order to live and work in… read more
Sreenidhi Vedartham Software/Electrical Engineer at Ivani LLC	Servant Leadership Leadership is an everchanging area and there Is always something new to learn about. Servant Leadership is one such concept that is gaining steady followers. Servant leadership means the leader should serve first. Let us learn who a servant leader is, what are their characteristics, and how you can be one. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Alison Paprica Assistant Professor/Scientist at University of Toronto	Building and Maintaining Public Trust in Data Sharing In order to build and maintain trust related to data sharing, we need to engage with and listen to members of the public AND act on what we hear. This talk will present the findings of qualitative research studies that describe the conditions under which members of the public supported the use of health data for R&D. The talk will conclude with examples of activities that use advice from the members of the public to increase the transparency and trustworthiness data sharing and data use. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Utkarsha Bakshi Software Engineer at BioRender	Open Source: Why, How and When? There is a lot of ambiguity around how to get started with Open Source and is it even worth it. Open Source is for everyone and it can be part of your routine even if you have a full-time job. This talk will include how to get started with open source, what are its benefits, why would you contribute, and what is the best time to contribute? Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Julia Naomi Boeira Senior Specialist Engineer	Why we need another time serial database? Currently most time serial databases have 2 restrictions. First one is that they are coupled with Clojure's ecosystem, and second is that they do not serve general purpose requirements, like Prometheus. So WooriDB's objectives are to create a database that can be adapted to any ecosystem, supports generals purpose usage, some relational algebra and has time serial support for its entities. One great usage of a time serial database is in the financial system as it usually required to map users' information in the past and as time ranges, as well as detecting frauds. In this… read more
Velera Wilson Founder/CEO at Positive Identity	Shifting from Self-Doubt to Undeniable Confidence Today women are accomplishing more than ever – but for every woman advancing, many also struggle with believing in themselves despite having external success and possessing wildly ambitious goals. With a matter-of-fact, straight-to-the-chase session, your audience will walk away with: Greater insight into the “internal chatter” and behaviors that uproot their confidence Ways to break ties with self-sabotaging, limiting beliefs Undeniable reasons they are worth what they desire most Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Shreya Prasad Digital Marketing Consultant & Yoga Teacher at LeanIn Austin- Director of Marketing and National Leader Partner	Yin Yoga for Chronic Pain & Stress Management Join an exclusive yin yoga class and explore a passive practice with all poses held while seated or laying down. Holding poses for time provides a deep stretch into the connective tissue, allowing body and mind to relax. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
J. Kelly Hoey Author at Build Your Dream Network	The Networks Women Need For Career Success Have you played it safe with your career in the old boys' club-but dream about a network of like-minded women who support your ambitions? Are you thinking about taking a courageous leap with your career, business, or life, but lacking the support network to make the transition? The path to success for women is paved by not simply HOW they are networking but rather, how they are BUILDING the network they need for career success. In this motivating talk, J. Kelly Hoey focuses on the unique opportunities women have today to proactively create the focused career network they… read more
Elizabeth Gulliver CEO at Elizabeth Gulliver	A Blueprint for Virtual Hallways: Creating Kismet Inside Your Company Future-proofing your firm requires transforming your company into a community. The war for talent will be won by companies that lead with a 'people first' approach and give their employees space and time to connect. Companies are driven by what we do & build together. Since you can no longer wander the office hallways hoping you bump into the right people, organizations must build new Virtual Hallways that connect your people to your people. Organizations must meet their people wherever they are. Solutions like open floor plans & ping-pong tables have fallen… read more
Jeannette Grace CEO at Expressive! Communication Consulting & Training	What Psychological Safety Has to Do with IT The workplace has changed and so have employee needs. Remote work has removed geographic barriers and increased access to your talent. What is preventing your best people from leaving? What are you doing to create environments where employees do their best work and produce best results? Research shows us that the answer is to create psychological safety. Learn what you need to do. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Jeannette Grace CEO at Expressive! Communication Consulting & Training	Secrets of People We Like to Work for and With The company you want to work for. The leader whose team you want to be on. The coworker you want to collaborate with. These are all people with G Factor – gravitational pull. It is what makes people trust you and want to work with you or for you. Over 800 working people across the United States were surveyed, uncovering the secrets of people with G Factor. Learn if you have it and how to get more of it. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sheena Franklin Founder, CEO at K'ept Health	Designing w/ a User Centric Approach for Better Adoption Presentation based on recent research and company internal research of 2K women to discuss and debunk long-held beliefs about design and adoption. The discussion will include examples and practical steps on how to use a user-centric model to create products with better engagement and brand affinity. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
AL-Nisa McNealy Sr. Agile Product Owner at Blue Cross Blue Shield & Woman Business & CONVO Podcast Host	3, 2, 1 THRIVE! Determining your individual Value Proposition, Conquering fear associated with career transitions, Improving Self Confidence ( SWOT Analysis), Change Management. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Morgan Newman Director - Investments at Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.	Women & Money - Take Control of Your Financial Future Money - the thing we don't want to talk about but has a major impact on our lives. Knowing where to turn to get the right information for you, especially in male-dominated fields like tech, can be overwhelming and intimidating. Through this workshop, we'll do a deep dive on the relationship between women & money, providing you with a roadmap to take charge of your financial future. While women today have never been in a better position to achieve financial security for themselves or their families, women face unique financial challenges - even more so during the COVID-19 "… read more
Adriana Romero Soriano Research Scientist / Adjunct Professor at Facebook AI Research / McGill University	Seeing the unseen: inferring unobserved information from multi-modal data As humans we can never fully observe the world around us and yet we are able to build remarkably useful models of it from our limited sensory data. Machine learning systems are often required to operate in a similar setup, that is the one of inferring unobserved information from the observed one. Partial observations entail data uncertainty, which may hinder the quality of the model predictions. In this talk, we will discuss two strategies to mitigate this problem: (1) leveraging the complementarity of different data modalities, and (2) actively acquiring additional information from the same… read more
Simone Ross Founder, CEO, Community Leader, Entrepreneur at Simone D. Ross LLC.	Talking About Race at Work Diversity in the workforce is no longer just about including different types of people, it’s about creating space to share different ideas and valuing different perspectives within a diverse workforce. Diversity creates dimension in an organization and translates into greater innovation, enhanced decision-making, and more thorough problem solving for those that embrace it well. During this session, Simone will address how to create intersectional workforces and share her passion around building empowered, educated, and safe communities that inspire all for… read more
Shawn Wildermuth Educator/Filmmaker at Wilder Minds LLC	Diversity for Better Software: Pragmatic Reasons to Have Diverse Teams In my past five years, I’ve been investigating and interviewing a series of developers about the problems of diversity in software. Both women and people of color still represent a smaller share of developers than they should. In this keynote, Shawn will talk about pragmatic reasons to diversity and add inclusion to make software better, not just for the social justice reasons. This is an extension of my documentary film called "Hello World". Did you like this session? Share to vote.