Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Anupama Pathirage Director of Engineering/ Engineering Manager of the Open Source Project at WSO2 (PVT) Limited	Ballerina: Cloud-Native Middleware as a Programming Language Ballerina is a cloud-native open source programming language tailored for network awareness and microservices development. The language is uniquely positioned in the cloud-native domain and focuses on boosting developer productivity in highly disaggregated architectures. With the traditional programming languages, solving Integration problems and dealing with the complexities of distributed programming models is not that easy. The inherently complex nature of integration problems and infrastructure requirements of cloud-era applications can challenge the success of digital… read more
Rajneet Kaur Senior Technical Project Manager - AI/ML at Persistent Systems	Spreadsheet Modeling Allows analytics and business professionals alike to conduct data science in MS Excel. 700+ professionals have benefited from it so far. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Swathi Shyam Sunder Project Portfolio Manager	How to transition from a developer to Project Manager In this talk, I will take you through the journey from being a developer to managing a team. Having worked on multiple projects while communicating with people spread across different countries, I have gone through the challenges of being a developer to being a project manager. I will share my insights and also showcase the non-conventional approach regarding my journey. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Natalie Richardson Head of Client Delivery at Inkling Group	How to get a piece of the PIE: Why you need more than CAKE to get to the C-Suite The technology industry has a challenge – but also an opportunity – when it comes to gender diversity at the top: just as they are in many sectors, women are underrepresented. According to the US Federal Bureau of Labour Statistics, women make up almost half (47%) of the US workforce but occupy less than 15% of executive roles in the technology sector. So, why are so many women in tech mired in the middle, and what must happen to take them to the top? The problem with women in leadership isn’t women – it’s the structures and narratives around them creating barriers on their… read more
Mansi Mittal Incoming Product Manager	Road to Product Management In May '21, I left my job as a senior developer at Visa and took the risk to pursue a PM internship for a startup. Fast Forward to Jan '22 and I have bagged a full-time role as PM II at Microsoft. Through the platform of the Women Tech Network Conference, I want to share the specific steps, the do's & don'ts of this journey that helped me cover the marathon's distance in a sprint. This talk is for early PM career candidates and junior PMs looking to make the switch and lacking the required guidance. Did you like this session… read more
Puspanjali Sarma Practice Lead - Data and AI at Rackspace Technology	Technical Leadership in the Era of Digital Transformation I will share my experience as a Woman Leader in Data and AI world and what challenges I see industry-wide. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Shweta Sharma Senior Software Engineer at Intuit	Observability in today's complex systems Today when we are moving from monolith to micro-service architecture development practices, it is important to have end to end visibility of the system. I will talk about, how you can help measure a system's current state based on the data, such as logs, metrics, and traces. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Asma Zeeshan Circle Technology Head at Telenor Pakistan	Breaking the Bias I would like to talk about how women can accept the challenge of working in different industries and start their learning from zero. How they can lead a big workforce with their leadership style, how they can impact the society and environment with a sustainable approach, how non tech women can actually lead in technology. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Aarti Sabhaney Head of Enterprise Communications for Asia Pacific and Japan at Dell Technologies	Want to do better in your technology career? Look for ways to increase your sense of belonging and network Highly talented women can feel like failures in male-dominated professional cultures. Gender studies blame stereotype threat, bias, and tokenism for the underrepresentation of women in these domains. Navigating these challenges exposes women to more stressors and can lower their engagement. By increasing their sense of belonging within professional settings, women can enhance their sense of well-being and perform better. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Dr. Shivani Sharma Principal Technical Consultant at Hitachi Energy	Scaling up your Carbon Expenses to (Net) Zero: Impactful Purpose for us, generations to come Against the backdrop of turbulence in 2020 from pandemic, social and political unrest, and economic downturn, one field emerged stronger than before: sustainability. Sustainability is a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all, and its high time we as Women Leaders have to strongly drive various innovations and Impactful implementation in our organizations, neighborhoods, communities, personal lives. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Rajni Mishra Technical Product Manager at GE Healthcare	Take a risk in your career: My transition from Architecture to Product Management Understand the know-how of Product Management and my personal journey to transition from technical roles to product management. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sivani Peesapati Director - Cyber Security at GE Healthcare	Curious about a career in Cyber Security? We will talk about what is cyber security, why cyber security? Couple of interesting attacks , will tools alone save the world? , Human intervention and skills needed, What skills and how will u solve these cyber attacks, What is PEN testing, what skills do you need?, what is malware forensics and what skills you need, the careers in cyber security and how to get there. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Nritya Ganesh Director, Edison Accelerators at GE Healthcare	Edison Accelerator: working with founders and start-ups to be stronger together Edison TM Accelerator is GE Healthcare’s collaboration program, allowing start-ups to collaborate with GE Healthcare on areas of mutual interest to co-develop solutions that can then be jointly taken to market. The start-ups learn from the Healthcare and Information Technology expertise for which GE Healthcare is well known and thus enhance the value proposition of their business ideas. The aim and the purpose of the program is to create advanced health tech solutions that will help healthcare providers deliver precision health across the care continuum, with better outcomes and experiences… read more
Anshul Agarwal Principal Design Researcher at Intuit	The most important tool in a researcher’s toolkit: Listening skills More often than not, we listen just enough to go by in the conversations. Just heard enough to find a pointer so we could speak in meetings. Just heard enough to find a commonality so we could share our stories in friendships. Just heard enough to get a signal to get our work done. As a user experience researcher for top companies, namely Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Intuit, I’ve spent a decade moderating hundreds of interviews with participants to uncover how people think about a product and how their real-life context impacts how they use a product. Listening skills have formed 90% of… read more
Vilma Mattila CBO at 5ire	Blockchain and Sustainability No one can deny the benefits achieved through technological advances. However, the growth rate and momentum of the fourth industrial revolution raised questions about the directions it is leaning toward and about the lack of control over it as it is wrapped in a for-profit paradigm that only focuses on maximization and economic profit while ignoring sustainability and service of humanity. On the other hand, Blockchains have demonstrated an impressive ability in bringing people to consensus and unity of purpose. Nevertheless, present-day state-of-art and implementations face many challenges… read more
Sue Lynn Withrow Scrum Master and Holistic Productivity Coach at Withrow Consulting	Staying motivated and achieving Holistic Productivity using Agile principals As a scrum master and Holistic Productivity coach, I make my living by helping others follow a framework to be their most productive selves. I combined my professional day job with holistic principles to create a balanced framework that can be applied not only to software development companies but to all of us, remote workers, entrepreneurs, and even students at college! Scrum is a lightweight framework that allows us to get twice the work done in half the time. I found that combined with my methods, I can decrease people's stress and anxiety levels. This is especially useful in… read more
Trista Pan Co-Founder & CTO at SphereEx	From IC to CTO, the thinking and story of this title change from woman perspective She is the CTO and Co-Founder of an open source SaaS commercial start-up that has received seed funding from some of the world’s top VCs. Her light speed, and empowering entrepreneurial journey started just half a year ago – when open source enthusiast, Apache member, distributed database developer, and DBA were the hats she was wearing. Having gone from being a woman developer in the open source world to CTO, didn’t simply mean a change in her title: it brought deep changes starting from her perspectives on technology, the open source community, and approaches to… read more
Harsha Ravindran CEO & Co-Founder at Ascendance	Organizational Culture - The voice of Gen Z Harsha has connected with over 35,000 Gen Zs over the past 7 years, in her role as CEO and Co-Founder of Ascendance, an international youth movement. She has also interviewed over 100+ C-Suite Executives from Meta, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Disney, Google etc to hear the concerns regarding Gen Zs and the Great Reshuffle. Being a Gen Z herself, she has spoken at conference on what engages the Gen Z at work and the vision of the future with Gen Zs. She shares the optimal culture to bring out the best in Gen Zs which also prepares the organization to meet ESG requirements too. … read more
Aparna Shah Account Manager at Big 4	DE&I Conscious Technology With a magnified focus on DE&I across industries, it is imperative that technology enables a firm's vision on Trustworthy and Ethical commitments. The session will focus on how to enable and enhance this journey of incorporating the ethical perspective to technology for a future readiness. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Usha Khatiwada Dr. at NRN Infrastructure & Development Limited	The need of digital marketing and technology in a developing country We are living in an era of a technological revolution that is disrupting and transforming business, government and society alike. All are being challenged to adapt and keep up with the change. This is especially true of governments, which have struggled to deliver growth and prosperity, are trapped in inefficient and obsolete development models, and now have a responsibility to lead digital transformation. So digital marketing becomes a necessity. Did you like this session? Share to vote.