Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Becky Gandillon Practice Lead, Data & Analytics at Centric Consulting	Hacking Your Vacation: Using Data Science For Fun Data can be powerful, meaningful, AND fun. Making data-driven decisions can level up your family vacation from awful to awesome. In this session, attendees will walk through a specific example showing how to analyze various data sources to avoid crowds, save money, and piece together a Disney World vacation that's more enjoyable for everyone. By walking through this process, attendees will learn the three keys to approaching data science problems: set goals, identify data sources, and then use results to get curious and ask more questions! Did you like this session? Share to… read more
Basia Coulter Lead, Business Hacking for Life Sciences at Globant	Hacking the Gap Between Business and Technology We're living through a time of extraordinary changes: technological, climate, and societal. Last year’s "IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry" predicted that 65% of global GDP will have been digitized by 2022. To adapt to the ongoing external change, and to become future-ready, organizations reinvent their business and operating models by leveraging modern technologies. And yet, 70% of change efforts fail to achieve their goals, largely due to lack of adoption. To reinvent themselves and to drive adoption of change from within, companies must rethink how they work. That… read more
Kaitki Agarwal Founder, President and CTO at A5G Networks	Career growth and moving up in corporate ladder Career growth and moving up in the corporate ladder is a big challenge that a lot of women face. It is a complex problem that is influenced by a lot of factors. On one hand, women are expected to be likable, gentle, and typical stereotypical personalities, on the other hand, they need to lead, make tough calls as per their professional job responsibilities. Women do not need to feel pressured to be what others are expecting. They need to know what they want to be, strategize and build a path to get to their goals. They don’t have to be likable, stereotypical people that… read more
Colleen Tartow, Ph.D. Director of Engineering at Starburst	Data Mesh and the Modern Data Stack Since the onset of modern computing, practices around data management for business analytics have largely been dictated by hardware constraints. As these constraints are lifted through the introduction of cloud computing and managed services, managing data infrastructure has become far less challenging, while performance and scalability have increased manifold across technology stacks. However, the so-called “modern data stack” is still predicated on the same legacy paradigm, simply with modern infrastructure. The concept remains unchanged: move data away from the source in order to do… read more
Shafia Zubair Manager, Information Security	Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - Contextualizing security risks High Level Summary of the presentation: This presentation will introduce to the audience how Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning can be used to improve cyber security as well as how it makes us vulnerable to additional cyber attacks. Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) coupled with Machine Learning (ML) has a tremendous potential to increase business value and create disruptive solutions, but the benefits of ML/AI must be contextualized against the risks it poses. The usage of ML/AI has increased exponentially over the last decade but security and… read more
Gladis Araujo Global Quality Vicepresident at Mattel	Skills for the Future of Work As the digital revolution continues to progress, the shortage of labor, global disruptions (COVID), aging society, accelerating climate change, a “skills gap” crisis is evolving affecting the future of work. Everyone will be impacted, but women more significantly. Many jobs will be displaced globally (46% according to Mckinsey & 70% according to Manpower in Mexico & LATAM) and many others will be created, but the necessary skills will not be there. Many of today jobs, will not exist tomorrow. There is an urgent need to continuously upskilling and… read more
Deepthi Goguri SQL Server DBA at Intone networks Inc.	SQL Notebooks to DBA's and Developers Organizing and documenting the scripts we reuse regularly is challenging to many data professionals. Do you usually get requests like "Hey, can you please pull up the audit report and attach the results to this email, please?" You are frustrated by looking at how many scripts you need to search and run? Copy, paste over and over again as you keep getting those types of requests. I totally understand and your frustrations are completely valid. No more frustrations. Empty those word documents and start using the hassle-free SQL Notebooks! How? Notebooks can help… read more
Roxane Sanguinetti Head of Stratgey at GHCO	Women in the investment industry: Why I left my high-flying career in trading to join a fintech start-up In 2019, I was rung up by a former colleague who asked me to join a fintech start-up. Many might think it was too risky to leave my trading job at a leading bank to get involved in a fintech project, but I saw it as an opportunity to build an exciting company to disrupt the ETF industry. Today, I would like to tell you a bit more about my journey and why women are still underrepresented in the investment industry. I will be talking about the initiatives I have supported to educate, encourage and empower women to take care of their finances and my time as an… read more
Lara Meadows VP, Sales Engineering	Channeling Passion to Drive Success I'm an engineering people leader who likes to grow individuals while also growing our team. I believe that every person within an organization can make an impact, no matter the size of the contribution or the size of the company. I love empowering my team to build and be a part of growing our company, giving them visibility to higher parts of the organization. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Jamie Martin Leadership Coach at Jamie Martin Coach	How to Make Time For Your Goals, When You’re Drowning in To-Do’s Time is the most important resource we have… but many people find themselves strapped for it. You’ve tried it all before - calendar blocking, to-do lists, trello and every other system under the sun to break out of the “no time” cycle. You end up overwhelmed and exhausted with nothing left to give to our own goals. It doesn’t have to be that way. Come and learn some simple solutions so you can find the time and the energy to go after YOUR goals. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Nelly Yusupova CTO, Startup Tech Advisor, Founder of TechSpeak.co at TechSpeak.co	How to Cut Product Development Costs by up to 50% There is a difference between releasing code and releasing code effectively and efficiently. That difference is an efficient process. A repeatable way to produce consistent results over and over again. Join Nelly Yusupova, CTO with 18 years experience, Startup Tech Advisor, and creator of TechSpeak for Entrepreneurs, where she will share the process she uses to manage teams and projects to deliver projects on time and on budget. You will learn: The lean vs. traditional way of building products Two money saving things you should do before you build… read more
Joanna Lovering Founder and CEO at Copper + Rise	Return to Work With Presence After multiple years of the pandemic WFH life, the thought of returning to an office can be daunting. While we did it for decades before COVID, suddenly being thrust back into in-person meetings in conference rooms, navigating a corporate culture, random (yet impactful) water-cooler talk, and even dressing like a leader can feel like skills we haven't practiced in quite a long while. This is where executive presence comes in. Executive presence as how you speak, how you act, and how you look. Using concepts from executive presence coaching, you can get rid of distractions… read more
Sabrina Macpherson Senior Product Manager, Enterprise Data Platform at Morningstar	Meaningful Impact: Making the Case for DEI Programs I spend a lot of time and energy promoting psychological safety and diversity to business audiences, and I work to execute programs that achieve equity and inclusion in meaningful ways. For those people who don’t have the perspective that I do, or who only ever see the performative programs run in some organizations, I think it’s fair to lay out the case for why a well-run DEI program should be a key part of every organization’s strategic objectives. I want to answer the question: “Why do we take it for granted that this work should be done in a professional environment?” I’ll… read more
Kate Maxwell Chief Technology Officer, Worldwide Defense & Intelligence at Microsoft	Cultural drivers for digital transformation  Companies and organizations around the globe are leaning into digital transformation initiatives. As part of that journey, it’s important to recognize that digital transformation is not just a technology story - it's also about people, process, and culture. In this session, we'll talk through some cultural enablers to focus on throughout your digital transformation journey, as well as best practices to set your transformation up for success. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Kaoutar El Maghraoui Principal Research Staff Member at IBM Research	Powering the Future of Sustainable AI through Specialized AI hardware Accelerators AI and especially deep learning have achieved incredible performances in numerous fields including Computer Vision, Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing etc. However, with this huge success, comes the increased size and complexity of AI models which both translate into high computational and increased carbon footprint. To address these challenges, there is Cambrian explosion of innovative AI hardware-accelerator architectures optimized for deep learning and machine learning across cloud and edge platforms. Purpose-built hardware will shift the traditional balances between cloud and… read more
Yanique Williams Technologist & Founder at Young Ambitious One (YAO)	Leveling Up In Business & Technology! Career Advancement #WomenEmpowerment Leveling up In business & technology focuses on how to advance your career in the business and technology industry. During her #WTGC2022 session, Yanique Williams will discuss her journey of navigating Wall Street, finding the way in the male-dominated industry of fintech, specializing in data privacy, cybersecurity, career development, and empowering the next generation of women & diverse leaders to remain ambitious. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Lisa Schneider Chief Product Officer	Leveraging the Product Mindset for Leadership Driving good product strategy and product-led growth depends on more than 'just' doing product well. Learn how you can pivot the skills you already have—the product mindset—to leadership roles and be successful working with the c-suite and your board, steering cross-functional strategy, and being a successful change agent. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Akanksha Gupta Engineering Manager at Robinhood	Rapid Iterations with Server Driven UI How do we ship faster and better products to our customers? In the traditional software development, the data is driven by a backend service while the load of UI resides on the clients. As we scale, all our clients (IOS, Web, Android) end up with custom logic residing at client side. This can cause logic to diverge across platforms. Further, things become ugly if there is a new bug or feature needed as the app needs to follow a full release cycle on App Store. This often takes weeks to get the changes out to production in customer’s hand. Next, we are at the mercy of our… read more
Jean Foster Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications at Consumer Technology Association	Marketing in Tech: Leading Through Digital Transformation Technology has the power to change people’s lives for the better and create a healthier, more sustainable and more accessible world for millions. At the same time, growing skepticism around big tech is driving a renewed push for regulation that could stifle innovation. In this environment, it’s critical that technology leaders advance a clear “tech for good” narrative and effectively communicate the value of tech innovation to a broad audience. With better communication comes understanding, and understanding creates a freer marketplace ripe for innovation. COVID forced the… read more
Rebecca Gasser Chief Information Officer	Family first in the C-Suite Raising a family while elevating your career is a delicate balance. It takes the right company culture, the right partner in life and your priorities in order. By ensuring your foundation is sound, your expectations are set and you allow for vulnerability in the workplace, you can succeed. Did you like this session? Share to vote.