Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Carina Cortez Chief People Officer at Cornerstone	The People Have Spoken, and Talent Mobility is the Future: How to Create a Standout Growth Experience for Your Workforce The world of work continues to turn on a dime. Companies across industries are navigating the nuances of retaining, reskilling and remobilizing their employees to adapt to changing demands. One thing, however, still holds true: people want to grow. They want the freedom, the skills and the opportunities to pivot and stretch within their current companies. And, more importantly, they want transparency from their leaders on how to achieve it. So how do we create strong growth experiences for our people and properly equip them for this new way of working? Join Carina Cortez, Chief People Officer… read more
Christy Consler CEO and Founder at Sustainable Leadership Advisors, Inc	There Goes Another Great One: 3 Critical Strategies CEOs and CHROs Need to Implement Immediately to Reverse the Brain Drain of Next-In-Line Top Female Talent There Goes Another Great One: 3 Critical Strategies CEOs and CHROs Need to Implement Immediately to Reverse the Brain Drain of Next-In-Line Top Female Talent Talented women are fleeing their companies at twice the rate they’re getting promoted, despite the fact that companies have spent $8B every year on leadership diversity initiatives. Join 25-year leadership expert and award-winning C-suite executive Christy Consler, CEO of Sustainable Leadership Advisors, for this status quo-shattering session. For more than two decades, Christy has been at the forefront of helping… read more
Jo Ilfeld CEO at Incite To Leadership	Tough Love for Meetings: How Top Leadership Teams Drive More Quickly to What Matters When you find yourself bored in a meeting, it’s a sign. If you’re doing your “real work” at night because it’s the only time you don’t be interrupted, it’s a sign. If it’s the third time this week at a meeting with no agenda and no clear purpose, it’s definitely a sign. These are all signs that it’s time that your meetings need some tough love. And unfortunately, you’re in good company – according to a Harvard study, only 17% of senior executives report that their meetings are productive uses of group and individual time. So what can you do? Drawing from more than a decade of… read more
Sha Hurley Executive Coach/Leadership Development Consultant at Google	Positive Intelligence (Mental Fitness) Ways to train our mind and stop self sabotaging, so we can be our best self in both professional and personal lives even under stress. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Rocio Fernandez Director of Product at PlayMPE and CEO & Co-Founder at at Nova	What does your team need to thrive? Do you often wonder what you are lacking in order to ensure the success of your team? Having trouble enabling your team to perform at their best, reducing conflict, and avoiding working in silos without sacrificing speed? Here, I will share with you some of the tips, templates, workspaces, and team norms I have implemented in over ten different teams. Using these tips, you will be able to work effectively with your team. This is not a prescriptive solution, so you can pick whatever works best for you. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Alyssa Yell Senior Staff Technical Editor at Splunk	Words mean stuff: Develop a framework for removing biased language at your company With the increased focus on removing language that actively harms and degrades members of our global community, the tech industry has especially needed to make major changes in its written documentation and software. But how does one determine biased language when they work as a team of one or don’t have a sounding board for what is inclusive and exclusive? By the end of this talk, you’ll develop a framework of asking yourself important questions to determine whether language shows bias, you’ll rank-order the need to replace existing terminology based on the severity of harm,… read more
Sarah Kloepfer Executive Creative Director at Deeplocal	The Multi-Sensory Future: Customer, Employee, and Guest Engagement Sarah will give attendees a bird’s eye view of how blending research, architecture and design, and creative/ emergent technology are the secret sauce to creating lasting, emotional impact between businesses and their customers and employees. The blending of these disciplines is a burgeoning practice that will dominate physical spaces in the coming years and decades. In the past, we have created spaces, like offices and retail, as four walls and a roof – largely lacking in strategic design driven by brands’ key narratives. Sarah will challenge audiences and upend their thinking to see spaces… read more
Priyanka Shinde Founder CEO at Priyanka Shinde Coaching & Consulting	The hardcore soft skills you need to succeed in the modern workplace As a woman in today's modern workplace, it's not enough to just have the technical skills and dedication to excel in your job. Developing soft skills and getting out of one's comfort zone has become a requirement for success. From communication and collaboration to assertiveness and emotional intelligence, attendees will learn which skills are essential and how to develop and showcase these skills in order to thrive in their careers. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Betty K Y LO Chartered Engineer, Surveyor, PM and BIM Professional	Sustainable solutions to fast-track digital organization journey Industry practitioners have been well adapting to their dynamic markets from the fundamental training of their disciplines. As further triggered by the pandemic since 2019, great steps are taken in virtual environment and digital collaboration with stakeholders is strived by companies without boundaries. This talk is to share with the practitioners the insights into innovative actions on overcoming challenges to the digitalization process by integration of people and technology with the organization and business chain for enhancing governance, decision making, value for money; and achieving… read more
Y'vonne Ormond CEO at 5P Consulting	30 year career in STEM: Learning/Creating/Sustaining Y'vonne will share what it's been like growing a 30-year career in tech, hitting on the discussion of balance. There is no balance; it's really about focus and priorities. She'll share her story, why she chose to move into different areas of my career, and how she let go of balance and just focused on priorities. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ramya Prabhakar Principal Product Manager	Managing Meetings Effectively for Better Balance Did you know that a huge population of tech-workers spend anywhere between 35% to 50% of the workdays in meetings? What is even more astonishing is that it could cost companies billions of dollars annually in terms of company time, if these meetings are not effective. Additionally, poorly conducted meetings over time, affect productivity and lead to work related stress and burnout. The issue is not in the number of meetings, but in the quality of the meetings. In this quick lightening session, I would like to share some strategies to make the most of the meetings. I hope to share 3 key take-… read more
Alison McCauley Chief Advocacy Officer at Unfinished	Forget everything you thought you knew about “crypto” Crypto has taken center stage in the media for many reasons in the recent months. But what most people overlook is that the underlying cryptocurrency technology—blockchain—is ushering in a new era of the web (“Web3”), that is changing how and where companies do business. This session will give a high-level overview of Web3, and how businesses are starting to embrace and explore it as part of their digital transformation. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Barbara Vibbert Manager, Solutions Engineering at SonicWall	Mitigating the Impact of Anchor Bias in Cyber Security Planning Anchor bias is especially prevalent in cyber security planning. To often, the most recent incident weighs disproportionately on risk calculations that drive spending. Being aware of anchor bias and talking about its impact when planning a cyber security program can empowers organizations to make more rational decisions. At its worst, anchor bias in cyber security planning facilitated a mindset where threats are viewed as atomic problems to be solved rather than complex, integrated systems to be understood, managed, and interacted with. Did you like this session? Share to vote. … read more
Amy Bunszel Executive Vice President, Architecture, Engineering and Construction Design Solutions at Autodesk	Maximize your impact: Opportunities for entrepreneurs to turn sustainable solutions into business offerings Solving the sustainability challenges the world is facing isn’t just good for the planet – it’s also good for businesses. Today’s sustainability challenges require entrepreneurs to drive innovation, news ways of working, and business model transformations. Amy will share examples from companies that have already imbedded sustainability solutions into their business offerings, what’s soon to come, and what the not so distant future could look like. Spoiler alert - the opportunities are huge. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Eve Psalti Senior Engineering Director at Microsoft	How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Way we Work & Live -AI trends & future innovations Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) is the next explosive growth area in technology relevant to every business in every industry on the planet. The data economy is already booming, and there are currently 35 zettabytes of data generated by 50 billion connected devices. From these mountains of data, AI and ML are harvesting valuable predictive signals and patterns that fundamentally transform the face of every business and our daily life. From large language models that rapidly process billions of entries and automatically provide summarization services to… read more
Monica Koedel Leader of Cisco's digital Customer Experience organization at Cisco Systems	Scaling Customer Experience through Digital and Partners Your CX practice needs to reach all of your customers, not just your largest. To do that cost effectively, companies must scale digitally, and with their channel partners. In this presentation, you’ll learn how Cisco leverages both approaches with personalized outreach to hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide and with 7,000 partners. Cisco gives partners visibility into customer adoption and renewal data, insights, and information to help them lead customers through the lifecycle and scale their customer success practices. At the same time, we connect partner and Cisco… read more
Ronit Bohrer Hillel VP of Engineering/Career Coach at ex Smartsheet, ex Amazon	Giving women a Voice. How to build a Grassroot Women@ Employee Resource Group (ERG) Promoting Women in Tech is on top of our mind. Companies have learned to acknowledge the value that diverse workforce brings and therefore invest in DEI, however this only creates a top down paradigm of enablement and awareness. What is still missing is allowing women to connect and build their own community within the organization and shape it the way best supports, empower and serve them as a community. In this session you will get inspired as well as receive practical tools on how to create a Women@ grassroot group within your organization. An affinity led by the community, open to allies… read more
Carrie Nedrow VP Information Tech and Corporate Applications	Meditating through a Merger Mergers are on the rise and there is no sign of it slowing down, even in these uncertain economic times. Carrie shares how your organization can be more prepared for mergers and acquisitions and how to build your own personal strength to ensure that you thrive as you navigate tricky situations. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Jennifer McVicker Senior Enterprise Technical Architect at Atlassian	Accelerating value delivery by empowering autonomous teams Reduce time to market and minimize the risk of deployment failure while lowering change management overhead and providing greater autonomy to engineering teams. Sound too good to be true? It's not -- by building and documenting a loosely-coupled architecture, classifying services into tiers, and adopting standard DevOps practices you can reach this software nirvana. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Swathi Sundar Head of Scientific Modalities Engineering at Benchling	Executing in times of chaos From recent layoffs, recessions, covid, to leadership/ management/ roadmap/ people changes, there is so much that happens in the life of an engineering leader . These are "unprecedented changes", or are they? As a leader, you face a lot of changes that are preceded by other changes. It's your job to not only manage yourself, but also your team members. How can you continue to execute when there is so much noise? What can you do to make sure your team is not only surviving but thriving through the chaos? Come hear about strategies that you can apply to help your team to march… read more