Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Joan Bajorek CEO & Head of Conversational Research & Strategy at Women in Voice/VERSA	Voice AI: The Future is By Everyone and For Everyone Voice AI is increasingly ubiquitous and democratized, voice AI is shifting from a glitchy IVR world to more and more human-like, sophisticated, multi-turn interactions. The ubiquity of these products cannot be underestimated, i.e. Google Assistant will replace voice search in the Chrome browser in 2020 (Voicebot.ai, 2020). Yet it is an open question whether voice AI supports users everywhere and how far we are from supporting a mission of everyone and everywhere. While significant financial opportunities alone may be enough for some companies to consider demographics during research and… read more
Jasmine Orange UX Designer at Ernst & Young	Designing For The Ten Percent: How To Unbias Your Designs Have you ever thought about how shorter people have to bring their seats so close to the steering wheel (and subsequently, the airbag) when driving? Have you noticed some people choose their phone based on what can comfortably fit in their hand and not the features? What about people who don’t fit the “societal ideal body type” and the difficulty in finding clothes? Have you noticed that websites of major companies are being sued for things like the color of text? Our society, and the people in it, have biases. And because design is people-centric, it can also have biases. In… read more
Jessi Beyer Speaker, Author, and Mental Health Advocate at Jessi Beyer International, LLC	How To Safely and Successfully Support Someone Who's Struggling With Their Mental Health When someone you love is struggling with their mental health, it’s understandable that the very first thing you want to do is jump right in an support them. Unfortunately, some of the most common things you’ll do and say can actually drive a wedge between you and your loved one and cause you to no longer be a trusted support system for them. Jessi knows this firsthand. When she was in high school, she struggled with her mental health. She was depressed, self-harming, and in a very co-dependent relationship with someone else who was also struggling. This relationship ended with… read more
Raluca Apostol Chief Product Officer at Nestor	Humans before Employees - Could AI change mindsets and make people happier? AI and new job models reconfigure the business world, lifelong learning has become an economic imperative. 80% of executives believe the need for new skills has become their biggest business challenge. Could AI connect business needs with people's happiness and desire to embrace change? This talk is about how AI technology helps people change their mindsets, adopt a habit of learning new skills, increase their happiness, and increase business ROI. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Stacy Kirk CEO at QualityWorks Consulting Group, LLC	Diversity of Perspective drives Quality and Innovation With over 20 experience as a leader in technology, Stacy has experienced the impact of diversity on building and delivering great products. These perspectives directly link with the ability to build quality-driven apps with the core component of innovation. As the diversity of our technical teams expands, learn how to leverage perspectives to create a culture of continuous innovation focused on customer value. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Jessica Hartley Vice President of Strategy at Instrument	Empathic Marketing in the Age of a Pandemic Walking the line between selling your products and services and recognizing the delicate state of the economy is truly a balancing act. Even companies that have experienced a boon for what they have to offer have also struggled with finding the right tone and words to target existing and new customers. What does it mean to truly understand your customers during a time of prolonged crisis? How do you navigate the murky waters of needs for safety, security and shelter versus the creature comforts and impulse buys that drove the economy of yesterday? This session will provide advice and… read more
Yada Pruksachatkun Machine Learning Researcher	Machine Learning + Healthcare: Opportunities and challenges Healthcare has become a hot application topic for machine learning researchers and practitioners in recent years. From breast cancer detection to detecting depression on twitter (public health) to mining for insights in the massive archives of COVID-related literature on the internet, there are a myriad of ways that machine learning has been employed to help aid healthcare workers and scientists. However, because of the complex and critical nature of healthcare, there are many challenges to deploying models in real time, including mitigating risk and providing sufficient explainability. In… read more
Megan Beatty Product Manager at Microsoft/ Azure Networking	The Product Pivot: Fearlessly Navigating Your Way into Product Management The Product Pivot is a conversation about how to fearlessly embrace your own pivot and successfully navigate the process. Product remains one of the most interdisciplinary fields in the tech industry. What one does as a product manager changes from day-to-day and from company-to-company. Seemingly then, individuals of a variety of backgrounds would make good product managers. Nonetheless, for those without a traditional computer science background, it remains a role that’s extremely difficult to break into. In this presentation, I will share how I pivoted from my career in finance to one in… read more
Dr.Danielle Jenkins CEO at Integrity Management & Consulting Group	Strategies for Emerging Tech Leaders The underrepresentation in top management positions has made women’s status in the tech industry a great concern. In fact, just 26.8% of women are in entry level tech leadership roles compared to 14.1% at the executive level. This workshop will focus on strategies, leadership best practices, and recommendation for emerging female leaders in tech on how to advance in their careers. AUDIENCE The proposed audience for this workshop is for attendees that are in a supervisory or management-level capacity. Specifically, this workshop is designed for individuals that have started their… read more
Ana-María Muñoz Director / Admin at Un Cuarto Tech and Makers Colombia	Colombian Makers; The Power of Communities The talk aims to provide a look at the power of communities and the impact of a decentralized network of more than 3000 makers that have come together nationwide to help fabricate 3D printed and laser cutted face shields for health professionals. This initiative has caught attention from the national government, the corporate world, the academy, and The United Nations Development Programme which have empowered the community with resources, logistics and connections to keep helping during the de covid-19 crisis. We are working to keep the community growing, working and… read more
Isa Valdez Project Scientist at Environmental Science International	Discover Your Professional Value Statement in 3 Simple Steps Learn HOW to Use Your Professional Value Statement to Stand Out & RISE! Maybe sometimes you find yourself frustrated by not "promoting" yourself and your accomplishments. Maybe this is costing promotions, not meeting KEY people in your field, or a dream job. That’s why the Professional Value Statement (PVS), in a couple of sentences you concisely communicate EXACTLY Who You Are as a Professional with a core message, using your authentic voice and describing your unique skills. By the end of this presentation, you 'll have a PVS that will show you know… read more
Sunita Shenoy Industrial IoT Technology Director at Intel Corporation	Industrial transformation in the time of COVID-19 The manufacturing sector has been in the middle of a paradigm shift to digitize the infrastructures. This is called the 4th industrial revolution which is about improving business outcomes such as Quality, Safety, Productivity applying Industrial of Things Technologies form AI to Deterministic Networking and Controls. No manufacturer is immune to the pandemic, and much of their ability to navigate through this moment and execute these pivots depends upon their Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) digital capabilities. Until COVID-19 occurred, there are parts… read more
Irina Truong Backend engineer at Parse.ly	How to create and publish a Python package Once you start writing Python code, there comes a moment when your code becomes useful enough, mature enough, and/or unique enough to share with the world. So where do you start, and what are the best practices for packaging and sharing your code? In this workshop, we're going to walk through creating and publishing a package, talk about development workflows, licensing, and answer various questions that might come up once you set out on this path. If you want to follow along and create a package, you will need: * a computer with wifi / internet access *… read more
Archana Newaskar IT Leader	Leading DevOps Transformation Prerequisites: Knowledge of software development and operations, agile and iterative approach With the change in the pace of IT development, it is imperative for organizations to change the way software has been built over the years – they will have to revisit the very traditional way of constructing and delivering software to remain competitive in the market place. The organizations need to think fast and move fast to change. As software development progresses from project-based delivery to the continuous iteration and evolution, it is crucial for organizations to… read more
Samah Gad Software Development Manager at Amazon	Delivery on your team goals during uncertain and stressful times Engineering teams main goal is delivering on features to meet their company goals. Uncertainty that engineering managers and engineers leader deal with were always there and they had many techniques to deal with these uncertainties. COVID-19 added hurdles like communication between team members became unintuitive, new members of the team are not easy to onboard, and brainstorming ideas is much harder. The talk will address the challenges and share some solutions to help leaders add some order back to their teams and have some certainty in an uncertain time. Did you like this session… read more
Hannah Glass Senior Associate at King & Wood Mallesons	Solving problems with new tech - the case for diverse teams We live in a world of ABCD - AI, blockchain, cloud and data. Whether it be AI helping scientific research, blockchain revolutionising supply chains, cloud computing helping governments manage tracing of Covid19 cases or the new data based economy, each of these technologies is heralded as the future of our society. But in our excitement about technology, we sometimes forget the true purpose of technology. Solving problems. This talk will consider how technology can be used to solve problems and the role of multifaceted, multi-disciplinary teams in making sure the right technology is used to… read more
Muazma Zahid Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft	Cloud Data Engineering With today’s surge of data comes the problems of processing that data, obtaining the correct skills to manage and analyze that data, and establishing rules to govern the data’s use and analytics. The big data technology stack is ever-growing and sometimes confusing, even more so when we add the complexities of setting up big data environments in the cloud. This talk will discuss different implementation patterns to solve the most common big data use cases and provide pros and cons for different cloud implementation and technology options. It will include a short demo for data ingest,… read more
Wendy Gonzalez President + Interim CEO at Samasource	Changing the World Through AI and Training Data In this session, President and interim CEO of Samasource, Wendy Gonzalez, will take a deep dive into the ways AI and machine learning are currently improving society, and how those technologies can be used to positively impact and change future outcomes -- from ending poverty to wildlife conservation. AI has the power to change the world as we know it. We’ve already witnessed AI being used within the healthcare industry to power chatbots that help citizens get accurate health information in real-time. Right now, it’s helping scientists diagnose and find vaccines and treatments… read more
Mani Anand CEO at Apphienz	Power of Virtualization in Technology Why Cloud? Today more than ever we need our information, our data, to be connected in a way that it makes sense, to grow and to make decisions. All this can only happen once we trust the data we have and have more confidence in it. This is an opportunity for women to dive in and take charge. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ying Zuo Principal Software Engineer at Workday	How To Become a Frontend Developer - Why should you be a frontend developer - What does a frontend developer do - What do you need to know to become a frontend developer - How do you find a job as a frontend developer Did you like this session? Share to vote.