Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Beatris Mendez-Gandica Founder Nuevo Foundation, Program Manager at Microsoft	Following your passion! Technology is all around us but sometimes we take it for granted. I'd like to inspire you to give back and help those that might not have a role model in their surroundings. Bringing others to tech is everyone's responsibility. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Morvareed Salehpour Tech Attorney/Managing Partner at Salehpour Legal Consulting	Emerging Tech and the Law In this session, we’ll be discussing the legal implications of the latest emerging technologies, including AI, blockchain and IoT, including how to address issues with jurisdiction, liability, releases and contracts with respect to disputes that arise involving such advances. Specifically, as the real-world begins to use these emerging technologies, what are the ramifications in responsibility, liability, and more that we should be thinking about, both as producers and users of these new technologies. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Nicole Trick-Steinbach Global Career Coaching & Change Management Consultant at Trick Steinbach LLC	How to Build Your Brave To create the career – and life - of your dreams, we will need to take chances, mess up, fail, succeed, learn, and be ever more brave. This is even more true in the time of Covid19, as we navigate a situation that is new to every single one of us. In this interactive session, you will learn one, simple, reusable framework for how to build your brave, with an emphasis on how to bravely navigate change over time. Please bring a topic or goal that you are committed to working towards so that you can gain a working understanding of the model AND a personalized, specific action… read more
Dilruba Malik Software QA Manager at Palo Alto Networks	Own Your Dream Ask for what you want to do in your career. No one will give you the opportunity unless you ask Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Vartika Manasvi Founder & CEO at StackRaft	Science of remote recruiting intelligence to build a borderless team Today, many organizations tolerate the use of fuzzy and imprecise wording, typically in the form of buzzwords and jargon. As those organizations hire people who communicate in a similar way, it increases the amount of fuzzy thinking, making the overall organization "dumber." Recruiting is a scientific method to assess candidate's ability to write and speak with precision and clarity. The hiring process can be progressively "smarter" with remote recruiting intelligence Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Tomomi Tsuchio Personal trainer/owner/author at 1Stop-fitness	What is Beauty? “Start valuing inner beauty more than external beauty!!” We have this idea that if we lose weight and change our appearance, we will feel good about ourselves. Is it true? Of course, we feel great about accomplishments, and I am not against that. But the concept of placing so much importance on physical appearance is out of balance. We should place more value on being who we are, no matter what. This topic doesn't require any tools or a specific level of knowledge. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
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