Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Sarah Wall Senior Program Manager, Connections at Amazon	It's not personal, it's just business: understanding the value of empathy on teams Every business decision affects people. Personal relationships are critical to successful organizations. People can be reluctant to express any type of emotion in the workplace because ‘it’s just business.’ In an organization without empathy the focus is often on achieving goals no matter what the cost to employees. This is harmful to the wellbeing of employees, leadership, and the success of the organization. Empathy is the ability to put yourself into someone else’s shoes, to be aware of their feelings and understand their needs. In the workplace, empathic… read more
Nicole Scheffler Director at Palo Alto Networks	How to Become a Super Woman in Technology Interactive Workshop • In this session, we start with the why by showcasing the data specifically behind women in technology careers and how this is what can help lead the next digital revolution. Then, we have an interactive session around the Tech Diva Success Formula. You will leave the talk building 5 strengths that can help you set goals and guide your success as a super women in technology! Nicole Scheffler is on a mission to spark success for women in tech by leading and serving. She is an engineering manager at VMware, but speaks frequently on a variety of platforms to inspire women in… read more
Sophia Lopez Founder and President at kaleido.io	State of Blockchain and Web3 Adoption in Enterprise Today, new industry ecosystems are being formed on top of new technologies such as blockchain and digital assets that are digitally transforming how data and value flow. Learn about global companies and business networks in production today that are leveraging digital assets, fungible and nonfungible tokens, and decentralized technologies to evolve legacy business processes and revolutionize business models. While blockchain offers significant promise to enterprises, what’s less well known is that the development of most enterprise use cases get stuck due to the challenges of… read more
Heather Dahl CEO at Indicio	The impact of decentralized identity solutions in the marketplace, insights and lessons Long theorized as the solution to the verification problem on the internet, decentralized identity has now achieved lift-off in the marketplace. In this workshop, we’ll explain who’s interested, why, and what we learned building a series of solutions for global enterprises in the finance, health, and travel sectors. We’ll explain how Cardea, an open source project at Linux Foundation Public Health, is providing a complete, ready to deploy, secure Trusted Data Ecosystem that can connect a person to multiple businesses and jurisdictions without sharing private health information. In this… read more
Kaeli O'Connell Marketing Programs Manager at OneScreen.ai	Letting Go of the Perfect Resume Early on, we have a vision of the perfect career and how it will evolve through the years. However, COVID and its associated challenges with layoffs, remote work, and keeping spirits up have brought other plans in many cases. Embracing her fourth job in the last two years, Kaeli O'Connell, Marketing Programs Manager at OneScreen.ai, has learned how to let go of her perfect resume. Despite unprecedented challenges, she has accepted the fact that career paths aren’t always linear and has moved forward with a rewarding career that is setting her up for advancement. Her resume is not focused… read more
Leslie Smith National Director at GET Cities	The Spoof of Imposter Syndrome, And How This Pathology Has Been Gaslighting Women In The Workplace For Decades Imposter Syndrome, the act of doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud at work, is a diagnosis often given to women. However, the fact that this is considered a legitimate diagnosis is in itself the problem. The concept of imposter syndrome was derived in the 1970s, and the development of this theory wholly excluded the effects of systemic racism, classism, xenophobia, workplace micro-aggressions, and other biases. This theme of imposter syndrome has taken a fairly universal feeling of discomfort, second-guessing, and mild anxiety in the workplace and pathologized it, especially for… read more
Irene Yu CEO & Software Engineer at Skiplevel LLC	Technical Literacy for Non-Engineering Roles Having effective technical skills is highly sought after in the tech industry. Most people think being technical means knowing how to code. In reality, coding and being technical are two different things. It's like saying you have to be a basketball player to know what a free throw is! Coding is the least effective way to become more technical. In this presentation, we'll talk about what it actually means to be technical, the 4 technical skills, what topics to focus on when becoming more technical, and action items to take to immediately become more technical. … read more
Angelique Mohring CEO, Founder at GainX	Liberating Leaders With Artificial Intelligence Pre-pandemic, transformation was incredibly complex, costing £2T a year globally, and increasing year-over-year. Roughly 70% of all transformation efforts failed to achieve targets – that’s a lot of wasted company money and diluted ROI. In 2021, governments and organisations have more debt than they have had since the world wars, and I don’t think we’ve seen the bottom. Today, the need to change your business operating models and accelerate transformation is non-negotiable. Moreover, the market demands that transformation be underpinned by cutting costs and… read more
Vidya Thangirala Software Engineering Consultant at Software Improvement Group	Lessons learned from analyzing 60 billion lines of code: how to build maintainable software architectures. Since the early 2000's Software Improvement Group's certified software analysis laboratory has analyzed over 7,000 enterprise software systems totaling 60 billion lines of code. Based on this experience, Vidya Thangirala will share key insights and best practices on building a maintainable software architecture. In this talk, you will learn about the following: + Industry trends for software landscapes and the problems arising from a large portfolio of systems. + How to use appropriate metrics to assess and improve software landscapes. + Understanding dynamic… read more
Aruna Jayanthi Managing Director, Latin America and Canada at Capgemini	The time is now for businesses to lead the way in the climate revolution We’ve reached a point in this climate crisis where businesses can no longer stand idle and wait for climate policies to be passed. If we want to create a more sustainable and livable future we can no longer rely on incremental changes. We are in desperate need of a climate revolution and businesses need to lead the way. While government leaders consider solutions to solve the world’s greatest challenges, businesses need to charge forward and take an active, or in many cases, leading role in fighting climate change. In a session, Aruna Jayanthi, Head of Canada and Latin America markets at… read more
Vaishali Paliwal Director of Program Operations at Larta Institute	Using individuality and purpose for impactful careers Three years ago, I made a decision to change careers. I had spent more than 14 years successfully working in the aerospace industry as a program management expert but needed a new challenge that was more closely aligned to the impact I wanted to make and the personal meaning my work gave me. I joined the Larta Institute, a nonprofit that nurtures scientific and technology innovation to solve some of the biggest challenges faced by humanity and our planet. In doing so, I’ve taken my innate passion and drive to align my purpose and my skillset with my work that I do at Larta and with up-and-… read more
Deborah Nitka Manager, Cybersecurity, Technology Risk and Privacy at CohnReznick LLP	The Convergence of Cybersecurity and Data Privacy At its most basic level, privacy has historically been defined as the right to be left alone. As companies increasingly adopt emerging technologies such as AI, virtual reality, and IoT, the concept of data privacy has come to mean accountability for how personal information is used by the organizations that collect it. Once the data resides on enterprise systems, a connection between data privacy and cybersecurity is formed. The company is accountable for designing cybersecurity controls and programs that protect personal information from theft, unauthorized access, and damage. Did… read more
Paola Doebel SVP & Managing Director of North America at Ensono	Private Equity Operating Companies and Women Executives: Did the game change and we missed it? The number of females in the C-suite of public companies has slowly increased in recent years with a record number of women now running Fortune 500 companies (41). For as long as this discussion has been in the public arena, the goal was for women to achieve coveted executive and C-suite positions in the world’s most recognizable public companies. But, why? Why were those positions at those companies the focus? We all want to see more women with a voice in powerful positions. We want to see more women rewarded for their talent and compensated fairly, and we want to see women have a chance to… read more
Cindy Joung Product Inclusion PM at Snap	Product Inclusion: Why You Need to Build WITH Not FOR Building for a diverse and inclusive audience is a good thing, but do you know why? Is it simply to feel good about the product you ship? Did you know there are tangible business metrics that can be positively affected by intentionally prioritizing underrepresented users? In this talk, you will learn what Product Inclusion is, why it should be integral to the product development life cycle, how to make a case for it in your org or team, and some simple ways to start building inclusively. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Anastasia Lalamentik Full Stack Engineer	Build Ethereum Web3 apps quickly using the latest tools Build Ethereum Web3 and other popular Layer 1 blockchain apps quickly using the latest tools(Kaleido & Hyperledger FireFly). It’s well known that blockchain offers significant promise to enterprises. What’s less well known is that the development of most enterprise use cases gets stuck due to the challenges of new Web3 programming models and to tackling the multi-party data flows, tokens, privacy, and more. The blockchain itself accounts for just 5-10% of a multi-party business process, while cross-party data flows makeup as much as 75% of the solution. Learn how to build digital… read more
Kelley Kage CIO, Surety Technology at Liberty Mutual Insurance	Amplify Your Voice -- Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and Owning Your Career Kelley has firsthand experience with Imposter Syndrome, but has been able to overcome those challenges to get to her executive role. She will help you identify what imposter syndrome can feel like, share stories of her experiences as a woman in tech, and give actionable tips on how you can overcome Imposter Syndrome and be an ally and to help others overcome it too. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Caroline Brethenoux Chief Strategy Officer at Cien+ and Culturintel	How to use A.I. and big data to serve Humanity Our lives have become increasingly datafied. Every day, we are giving away a multitude of data about who we are, how we behave, and what we think and believe in through connected devices and our online conversations. We are not lacking data anymore to understand people. Social listening tools and big data tools, have enabled us to access real-time dashboards to keep a pulse on what people are doing, saying, feeling. However, can our individual and communal human experience be reduced to a collection of data points? We need more than machine learning, A.I… read more
Cat Fletcher VP, Engineering	Overcoming imposter syndrome: How to get that job you’re terrified to apply for (and make sure it’s right for you) Have you ever read a job description and thought, “Wow, that sounds like a great opportunity!” Then you read further and the self-doubt started to creep in? You start to think, “There’s no way I’d qualify with all of these requirements. I can’t do it.” Particularly for women and members of underrepresented groups in tech (or anyone who struggles with imposter syndrome), it can be easy to succumb to self-doubt and let potentially life-changing opportunities pass us by. It’s time to quiet that internal narrative and instead, get organized! I will guide… read more
Woody Walker Digital Sales Leader, North America at Avanade	Sponsoring Women in STEM and Teaching Grit Women are getting more degrees in the STEM field and graduating percentages are rising but the quit rate of women in technology is almost twice as high as that of men. In the STEM sector, the quit rate for women is astonishing: 41%. Compare that to men’s quit rate, which is at just 17%. The female quit rate is even higher in the technology sector, compared to science and engineering. 56% of women quit their technology jobs. The number of women who leave their STEM jobs is 53%. In comparison, that number for men is 31%. We need to understand how to mentor and… read more
Ami Shah CEO at Steward	How much is enough?: True Measures of Money and Life and Investing with Confidence Some of the topics we'll cover are: How much is enough? How should I think about when and how much it'll take to have the option not to work and to focus on what I'm truly passionate about? What are the personal finance topics I should be thinking about on my path to "enough"? What are common personal financial mistakes made and how do I avoid them? How can I invest more confidently for my household to accelerate my path to "enough"? What are trustworthy tools / tech to use? What (if any) support do I need and when… read more