Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Alexa Reubens Chief of Staff, Information Security at Citrix	I Am Not a Glitch - I Am a Zero-Day We all know the drill…It always starts with reconnaissance. We learn the landscape, we network, and gather intelligence. When we find the vulnerabilities, we use our tools to find ways to gain access, we build backdoors, our skills to maintain and advance it from there. Sound familiar? This isn’t penetration testing. This is career development. Our best exploit is ourselves. We can grow in our infosec career by being the presence that fills the gap. The InfoSecurity industry is expanding in ways that companies need to address – a few recent examples: social media exploits… read more
Rachel DeAlto Relationship Expert and Professional Speaker at Rachel DeAlto LLC	Inspiring a Relatable Workplace The Coronavirus changed nearly everything about the way we relate to one another at home and at work, exchanging hugs for elbow bumps, smiles for masks, and groups for solitude. One area that’s likely changed for good is the workplace, with millions of employees working from home in 2020 and beyond at least part-time. Google has extended its hybrid workplace model until September 2021, and Facebook has announced plans for nearly half of its employees to work remotely in the next decade. As companies embrace work-at-home options, the workplace is changing, with hybrid in-… read more
Angel Jones Associate Partner - Federal Cloud Offering Leader at IBM Corporation	The Shift to OpenShift: A look at Red Hat OCP A High-level overview of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. We will review the basics of container technology and the differences between containers and virtual machines, the benefits of containerization and of using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in different use cases. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Dee Luo Product Manager at Tech Matters	Creating Shared Platforms for the Social Sector This session will explore the challenges related to co-creating platforms designed to be used by hundreds or thousands of NGOs to maximize and support collective action. We will focus on Aselo, a shared cloud contact center (based on Twilio’s Flex communications platform as a service technology) being co-developed with child helplines, many of which struggled with capacity even before the pandemic. Children and youth have moved to social media channels, creating additional challenges for what have historically been voice-based helplines. This session will share the approaches to user-informed… read more
Aurelie Hélouis CEO & Founder at infinityQ	Finding passion in entrepreneurship at any stage of your career Thinking about a career as an entrepreneur? Everyday, more and more women are taking the decision to become their own boss. Yet there is still a large number of women who have never considered the option of becoming an entrepreneur or who may not think it’s possible due to their current life, career, or experience. My journey started with the goal of a smooth transition from a military career into civilian life. At that time, my best experience as a leader was as the head of the department for jet engine maintenance in the French Navy - I was 24 and in charge of 80+ technicians. … read more
Nancy Sansom Chief Commercial Officer at PlanSource	Collaboration and Leadership: Driving Business Forward with Female Representation Join Nancy Sansom, Chief Commercial Officer at PlanSource, to hear why it is essential that organizations increase female representation at the executive and leadership levels through both mentorships and by recruiting and championing female talent and growth. A passionate mentor, Nancy will share a framework that positively leverages collaboration and leadership to positively impact women in technology and their career trajectory. From her experience as a female leader in technology, Nancy will offer real-life insights into effective team building, team management, and how… read more
Rachmawati Ari Taurisia Advisor cloud computing learning path at Bangkit Academy	The Reason You Should Upgrade Skills In Google Cloud Technology Do You Want to Upgrade Your New Skills This Year? Let’s get started to learn and build your new skills with high demand in the IT Job Market This session suitable for beginners who want to start to learn and build skills in Cloud Technology You will get insights The reason you should Upgrade Skills in Google Cloud Technology today Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Susi Burke Chief Impact Officer at Phin	The Future of Team Building: Connecting through Purpose and Fun Engaging employees and creating strong teams is more critical now then ever before. According to a study from Morgan Stanley, companies that are better at retaining employees outperform others by 25%. So how do you keep employees and create an engaging team atmosphere when distance, politics, and culture can divide? Especially in a remote or hybrid environment? Top ways teams can connect are having a shared purpose, a commitment to doing good together and celebrations of creativity, innovation and effort. Come learn about some unique ways to foster team unity and create a culture of fun,… read more
Lamia Makkar Social Entrepreneur	Leveraging Technology for Social Impact We often find it so daunting or inaccessible to tackle social problems that we scare ourselves out of any action at all. This session will cover how to use the Facilitator Approach for social impact in order to build accessible, context-informed tech solutions to complex social problems. This session will cover: - the importance and impact of tech solutions in accelerating development in emerging markets - considerations for tech solutions to social problems - using the Facilitator Approach to develop inclusive tech solutions with users rather than for… read more
Lamia Makkar Social Entrepreneur	Leveraging Technology for Social Impact We often find it so daunting or inaccessible to tackle social problems that we scare ourselves out of any action at all. This session will cover how to use the Facilitator Approach for social impact in order to build accessible, context-informed tech solutions to complex social problems. This session will cover: - the importance and impact of tech solutions in accelerating development in emerging markets - considerations for tech solutions to social problems - using the Facilitator Approach to develop inclusive tech solutions with users rather than for… read more
Tosin Aje-Adegbite Senior Director of Product Management at EAB	Building Inclusive Products Product managers love to create solutions to solve problems. To deliver the right solution it is important to understand a customer’s pain points. However, implicit biases can sometimes get in the way of building products that are inclusive. This will be fun and interactive talk that addresses a serious topic. We will discuss everything from accessibility standards, artificial intelligence and automation to how data can sometimes lead us down a path of building products that are not inclusive. We will define what it means to build inclusive products but also provide some tactical tools that… read more
Marcia Tal CEO at Tal Solutions, LLC	Voice as Data: Why Customer Complaints are the Key to Solving Systemic Issues Customers’ voices have been powerful forces for change since the beginning of recorded history – yet is the data we gather from customer complaints effectively analyzed? By approaching customer voice as data and applying machine learning, businesses can reveal the key drivers of business risk and solve systemic issues, improve processes, and provide excellent customer experience. Explore how customers are using their voices to complain to institutions and discover how those voices can be turned into data to power business success. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
AKHILESH SHARMA MBA Student, Hult - Boston \| Class of 2021 at SheforceWIT - A Global WIT Initiative	Salesforce - The Future of Emerging Trends & Technologies The COVID19 Impact has re-defined the future and trends of emerging technologies and the Cloud Platform is one of the key focus areas of today's world. Salesforce - A Leading CRM Platform has disrupted the Cloud Computing World through its various Solution Offerings. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Kamila Oliveira Microsoft MVP, Backend Developer at Ame Digital	JVM architecture and how it works let's talk about jvm, how it works and what is its architecture. Let's see what are class loader, method area, heap, execution engine, Native method interfaces and libraries and what all this does in the process of compiling our applications. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Kamila Oliveira Microsoft MVP, Backend Developer at Ame Digital	First steps with reactive programming in Java Let's talk about the principles of reactive programming and how Java has evolved since object orientation, the concepts of reactive programming that started to come with Java 8 and how this led to the emergence of Webflux. And we will see an example of an API with Spring Webflux using the Reactor library and the asynchronous server Netty. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
ZABEEN MIRZA Founder & CEO at Jobs.mom	Why Diversity is Good for Business, Why Inclusivity Breeds Innovation Issues around diversity, equity, and inclusivity have been at the forefront of many a conversation in the last year, with companies coming forth to pledge commitments to equal opportunity in their workforce as well as their support for social justice issues. And while much of the seactions can seem performative and even hypocritical (ie companies investing in super bowl ads, and and large spreads in glossy magazine to make promise about inclusivity, when they have no maternity leave policy and and an abysmal number of Black and Brown women in leadership position), there is a a real business… read more
Mila DeChant Diversity Scientist at Chief of Hearts	Acceptance - The Missing Piece to Belonging and Inclusion There is a crucial piece that truly separates organisations, societies, and communities of practise that truly want to challenge the status quo and push the diversity needle from those who maintain the status quo. Diversity is a non linear narrative. Diversity is a language that is localized and globalized in intersectional environments. Diversity isn’t an isolated theme but an integral and integrated theme into every facet of what we do. It is the heartbeat to ensure people are alive with life. The topic of diversity is an ongoing discussion and intentional… read more
Kavya Krishna Co-founder at Society of Women Coders	Changing lives from your couch The talk will touch topics on how the pandemic changed the narrative for Social Impact Initiatives. There is a new way of giving back and making a difference in the lives of others. I will also be talking about how Social Impact has become more than PR for big corporations. Investors and Consumers are striving for impact driven corporations. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Melissa Swisher Chief Revenue Officer at Socrates.ai	Creating Your Path to Leadership: Lessons from a Technology Leader’s Journey An advocate for women in technology, Melissa Swisher, co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Socrates.ai, will share her path to leadership. Eight years after college, Melissa was still working for the same company, but wasn’t feeling challenged in the ways that fostered growth. She decided to leave the comfort of this position to work for a startup organization, and quickly learned that the sales strategies that had proved successful at an established organization didn’t work in her new environment. Melissa started to doubt herself and realized she had to push through it with resiliency and… read more
Ingrid Gonzalez President and Chairwoman/Head of Sales at Positive Planet US/Google Cloud	Collaborative Leadership: Leading With Our Whole Selves Being the leader through collaboration, compassion and communication. Today, women at work have the opportunity to lead in a new way. We will celebrate the strengths we innately bring to work—collaboration, compassion, and communication— as the traits most needed in leadership. How can we harness what comes naturally to us so that we can lead with our whole selves? How can we nurture those we lead as we support the next generation of leaders? Did you like this session? Share to vote.