Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Sasha Sternik International Development Consultant / VC specialist	Why it is crucial to bring more women in technology, and how it works in Central Asia This talk is dedicated to gender issues from the Central Asian perspective – why there are problems, how is the situation now, and what we can do to make it better. And most importantly – why should we anything at all? During the talk, listeners will learn about the rising importance of the region, initiatives on the ground (including Tumaris Tech – the first region-wide initiative empowering girls and women in IT), and how states handle the situation. They will also learn about the technological development in Central Asia, including the VC perspective. Did you like this session?… read more
Sophie Theen Chief People Officer at Oakam	Start driving your career now! Often being a woman in tech meant we're overshadowed by the other dominance in the industry. The time to end this is now. Women are just as qualified, resilient, and most of all, are holding crucially important leadership roles in tech. So via a mastery framework for career management, let's learn to put ourselves back in the driver seat. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Swathi Shyam Sunder Technical Project Manager at Siemens AG	Navigating Global Diverse Teams Do you work in projects where even small delays and changes could result in significant impact and costs to the involved stakeholders? Do you drive strategic projects with practical implications for end-users and businesses? Then you are most likely aware of the kinds of difficult situations team members and project managers are confronted with. Moreover, owing to the current uncertain times, remote work has become the norm for more than a year now. This change brings with it different opportunities as well as challenges, one of which is working and collaborating with virtual… read more
Ieva Dvilinskiene Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer at FlowSpace	Future of Work is local and brings more gender equality Future of work is flexible, empowering and local. It's time to reimagine our work week, work life balance and more sustainable living. Think about a 15 min city vision - where you live, work and operate within 15 minutes of your home. You stay local and build your life in your community. You live more sustainably and don’t waste hours travelling to that unnecessary meeting in the city centre. Instead you work to your own schedule finding your flow, so you can be more productive and accomplish more of your best work, and create work-life flow. Office, as we know it,… read more
Ekaterina Matveeva CEO at Amolingua Ltd	How to Manage International Teams Forging connections and acknowledging similarities will lead to attitudes and behaviours that capitalise on human differences for organisational success. We will discuss CQ - Cultural Intelligence - and how to apply it to global teams stretching through multiple time zones and cultural capitals. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Monika Bercu Chief Technology and Product Officer at Demandoo Insurance	Digital innovation in "old" industries "Old" industries need to keep up with the new generations in order to stay relevant, insurance as an example, need to disturb itself to provide the best personal solutions to z generation Did you like this session? Share to vote.
María Grandury Machine Learning Research Engineer at neurocat GmbH	Hands-on NLP with Hugging Face Hands-on introduction to the state-of-the-art Hugging Face NLP libraries. Natural Language Processing (NLP) has evolved greatly and become increasingly popular in recent years, especially since the introduction in 2017 of the Transformer architecture. Thanks to the open-source Hugging Face libraries, we all have access to cutting-edge NLP models that can be easily used to address a wide range of tasks. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Shivangi Aneja PhD Student at Technical University of Munich, Germany	Catching Out-of-Context Misinformation with Self-supervised Learning Despite the recent attention to DeepFakes and other forms of image manipulations, one of the most prevalent ways to mislead audiences on social media is the use of unaltered images in a new but false context, commonly known as out-of-context image use. The danger of out-of-context images is that little technical expertise is required, as one can simply take an image from a different event and create a highly convincing but potentially misleading message. At the same time, it is extremely challenging to detect misinformation based on out-of-context images given that the visual content by… read more
Jeannette Gorzala Attorney at Law I Head of AI, Digital Regulatory & FinTech at SVLaw	Legal design building blocks of future tech business models New technologies, such as blockchain technologies and artificial intelligence, are emerging rapidly. With new developments and business models comes the question on which key issues need to be observed from a legal perspective. Even though frameworks are currently still being refined, certain legal design cornerstones are significant internationally. To get an overview of selected significant legal trends and key aspects, join this session with Jeannette. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sumana Saha Software Engineer at Ratepay GmbH	Test Driven Development (TDD) in practice TDD is a design technique that guides the development of software through testing. With TDD, test cases are written before the code which they test, in a technique called test-first programming, which forces the developer to think about what could possibly go wrong even before the implementation itself begins. Experiments and observations in the industry have shown that TDD increases code quality and reduces defect density. In this session, we will see how exactly we can achieve this design technique for a working software / API. The idea behind Red-Green-Refactor will be discussed… read more
Ana Butara Product Marketing Manager at Infobip	How Can Habits Improve your Life Why are habits so important? How do you build good ones while removing bad ones? I've learned a lot about building habits in the last 3 years and it all started when I broke my leg. Literally. 📅 During my 4-month recovery, if I wanted to be able to walk again, I needed to go all-in: change my habits and show up every day, no excuses. This showed me the importance of consistency and the big impact of small steps you do every day. It led to more significant results, and I managed to change my lifestyle along the way, which improved my life… read more
Catharina Due Bøhler CEO at Sarepta studio AS	Using technology and art to create real impact A large mobile game, a digital teaching tool, a documentary film - and finally a new humanitarian organization. Elin Festøy and Catharina Due Bøhler present how a flexible and experimental collaboration between two companies ended up in a six year long collaboration and the founding of The Children Born of War Foundation. Glued together by strong mutual motivation and a short list of guiding goals, the companies Teknopilot and Sarepta Studio have created visibility for the children of enemy soldiers for millions of players and produced the BAFTA-winning mobile game My Child Lebensborn. A… read more
Yemurayi Chinyande Payments Product Manager at Cassava Smartech	The Art of Getting Ahead: From Software Engineer to Product Manager In this talk, I will share how I levelled up from a software engineer to a product manager. This session is specifically for those who are no longer satisfied with their current position and want to advance to the next, because there is always more! Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Juliana Rabbi Carer Coach for Remote Jobs at My own company	What nobody told you about remote jobs What nobody told you about remote jobs In this talk, we will cover the following: - Myths around remote jobs. - Is it worth paying for remote job websites to find the best options? - What recruiters do not want to hear during a remote job interview. - The one thing you can make to get a big advantage over other candidates. - The best moment to start searching for a remote job. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Kamila Wosińska Group Client Compliance Manager at GFT	Talent-based Career Development Even among the most successful women, those occupying the highest, exposed positions, who are family and professional role models, the same dilemmas often return: - Self-esteem and self-confidence - Being aware of and using individual talents - Choosing the direction of further development and professional career That's why I decided to share my experiences with you. The ways I have developed to deal with these situations. Is this a magic success pill? NO! Working on yourself is hard work and nobody promised it would be easy… read more
Shivani Aggarwal AI Project Leader at DXC Technology	AI & Blockchain Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence are two of the hottest technology trends right now. Even though the two technologies have highly different developing parties and applications, researchers have been discussing and exploring their combination. AI is providing real, tangible value in many myriad ways we talk about every day. Likewise, blockchain is starting to show value across a range of applications and industries. So, perhaps combining AI and blockchain will also show twice the value combined together. In my talk, I will explain the power of these technologies using an… read more
Marlen von Roth Sales Director Cloud EMEA and APJ at SUSE	Is Imposter Syndrome holding you back? This session is for introverts (and extroverts) who experience imposter syndrome. Do you ever feel invisible in meetings? Do you feel others oversee you. Do you suffer from chronic self-doubt and a sense of intellectual fraudulence that override any feelings of success or external proof of your competence and that at any minute you are going to be found out? Then this session is for you. After completing this session, you will have simple advice on how to: 1. Define imposter syndrome and ways it can manifest. 2. Identify risk factors… read more
Caroline De Vos COO at SatADSL	Women in Space In a sphere typically dominated by men, a female COO is spearheading one of the most significant disruptions to the satellite connectivity industry. Caroline De Vos is co-founder of SatADSL, the creators of neXat, a disruptive satellite service aggregator billing itself as the first “booking.com” of satellite services – a marketplace for teleport and satellite operators to resell their satellite capacity. In this talk, Caroline will discuss the challenges she overcame to achieve her goals and what it means to represent women in the space industry. From breaking into the ‘boys… read more
Mrids Palat-Becker Founder and CEO Women Ask for More at Women Ask for More & Savingswize	How to successfully negotiate & ask for more using your mindset, money story, negotiation skills and techniques I founded the Women in Business, Ask for More program to mentor women to ask for more, to negotiate better for themselves, overcome mindset and money stories, provide the skills and tools needed. Hundreds of women have gone through the program and are leading very successful lives today. My topic: How to successfully negotiate & ask for more using your mindset, money story, negotiation skills and techniques * Women are chronic under askers, 8/10 times we walk away without asking for what we deserve, without negotiating. * Most people are blown away… read more
Lenka Zajacova Business Owner / Diversity Ambassador at Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia	Agile LSD - How woman leader can create an agile working environment Agile LSD is the basis that have worked to create an agile working environment. What stands behind? Learn more on the basis of personal stories to get tips and tricks for your personal use. Did you like this session? Share to vote.