Women in Tech Global Conference 2024
2024-04-23..2024-04-25
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Generative AI in Financial Industry | Supriya Raman | 18m |
Overview of concrete LLM use cases in finance: building customer chatbots by prompt engineering or fine‑tuning on proprietary repos, auto‑generating localized… | ||
| Data is the Future, Future already started | Patricia Rodrigues | 16m |
Builds a reliable, unified data foundation that replaces fragile spreadsheets by launching the Data Excellence initiative to harmonize data from several tools… | ||
| Are You Ready to Sustainably Create and/or Consume, and at the Speed of Light? | Rika Nakazawa | 18m |
Claims that global data will grow 16X by 2030 while energy needs could grow 13X, and that shifting from electrical to photonic networking cuts transmission… | ||
| How to Be an Organizational Change Maker | Kate Prouty | 20m |
Joined Akamai in 1999 and now CIO, recounts how culture shifts accompany scale: company grows to over 12,000 employees, early perks and 15‑hour office days… | ||
| Onboarding or How to Train Your Champions of Tomorrow | Alexia Proulx | 24m |
Built a centralized onboarding program called Petal Academy that rolls new hires through a three‑week path with day‑one hardware, assigned vetted mentors… | ||
| Visionary Leadership: Shaping the Future of Business with AI and Emerging Technologies | Poonam Garg, Linda Yao | 21m |
Companies report concrete results: Lenovo deploys generative AI across a contact center at scale, software engineering workflows and factory computer-vision… | ||
| Unleash the Power of Endless Learning | Archana Jain | 15m |
Women make up 35% of the tech workforce but hold less than 20% of tech leadership and progress requires measurable actions not platitudes. Examples include… | ||
| Guide to Become a Full Stack Web Developer in 2024 | Swetha Chandrasekhar | 26m |
Begins with a clear roadmap: learn internet fundamentals, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, then React and TypeScript, add Node.js backend, Postgres or MongoDB, caching… | ||
| Intersection of AI + Quantum Computing | KRISTIN M. GILKES | 18m |
Claims that industry already reaches quantum utility while still short of quantum advantage, and that EY’s Global Quantum Technology Lab builds hybrid… | ||
| How Cox Automotive’s Client-Obsession Led to Digital Transformation and Innovation | Kelly Mulroney | 20m |
Cox Automotive describes moving from 50 data centers to 3 in five years by starting with lift-and-shift to the cloud, then teaching teams cloud-native… | ||
| Responsible consumption of open source | Stephanie Domas | 19m |
Covers concrete risks and steps: claims that 96% of codebases use OSS and up to 99.9% in commercial apps, cites a Harvard estimate of supply-side $4B and… | ||
| AI Unleashed: Forging the Future of Rapid Innovation and Growth | Elaine Zhou | 18m |
Cites concrete results: industry studies report AI adoption 23% in 2024 and AI tools reduce development time by up to 50% (McKinsey), IBM claims 40% shorter… | ||
| AI and the Enterprise | Christine Sarros | 24m |
Enterprise deploys combine semantic search, vector DBs, fine-tuned LLMs and RAG to serve 170,000 employees through portals with 5 million monthly hits and… | ||
| Developing women leaders: Luxoft's vision and approach | Elena Goryunova | 18m |
Luxoft frames leadership development as internal, practical, measurable programs: the High Performers Club (since 2012) selects top mid‑level engineers into… | ||
| Spark the Future: A Fireside Chat on Women, AI, and the Data Revolution | Haiyan Song | 18m |
NetApp runs a Data Explorers program that teaches K–12 data literacy through partner nonprofits, trains educators, and measures success by increased local… | ||
| Principles for Designing Generative AI Powered Products | Seyda Ülgen | 17m |
Zalando builds a GPT-powered product called Zalando assistant that integrates large language models into search to let customers describe items in full… | ||
| Diversity, Empathy & Balance: Fostering Inclusivity in a Modern Workplace | Judy Dinn | 20m |
25 years in tech and a decade‑old outreach program called think about math that places girls into the STEM pipeline are cited as proof that feeding the talent… | ||
| Can Processes Save the World? - Navigating Sustainability in Hypergrowth | Janina Bauer | 19m |
Company uses Process Intelligence — process mining plus AI — to build a living digital twin of end-to-end workflows, harmonizing ERP, emissions and supplier… | ||
| Beyond Bits and Bytes: The Strategic Role of Digital Platform Leaders | Anjali Bhangay | 18m |
Argues that platform leaders must deliver measurable outcomes by adopting specific tools and guardrails: deploy GitHub with Copilot and automation dashboards… | ||
| Redesigning the Playing Field for Real Results | Siri Chilazi | 17m |
Claims that changing people’s minds will fix inequity are wrong; decades of research (50–60 years on bias training) show trainings score high on satisfaction… | ||
| How do you get 50k employees to work towards the same goal? | Erin Angel | 19m |
GE Healthcare becomes an independent 50,000-person company and adopts a single purpose — create a world where Healthcare has no limits — then builds a… | ||
| Leveraging AI and Emerging Technologies for Competitive Advantage | Fiona Tan, Michelle grover, Sheila Jordan | 39m |
Consulting firm carves out internal budget to run generative AI pilots for legal and HR, using LLM summarization to cut external counsel work; e‑commerce uses… | ||
| Embedding risk management in business operations a key enabler of sustainable growth | Zellah Fuphe | 22m |
Claims that Enterprise Risk Management shifts from insurance and loss prevention to a growth enabler, moving from formal frameworks in the 2000s to resilience… | ||
| Women in Tech ERG | Svitlana Borzenko, Darya Dedik, Nour Karessli | 26m |
Zalando describes a Women in Tech ERG that measures current representation (company tech roles 25.9% women, 18.3% software engineers, 22.3% applied science)… | ||
| Navigating the Fast Lane Senior Leadership Onboarding in High Speed Startups | Austeja Zymantaite | 20m |
Claims that executive onboarding is often absent in high-speed startups and that success hinges on the first three months, with a concrete expectation of goals… | ||
| Opportunities for Women in Tech | Dora Csordas, Carolina Chavez-Pierce, Stella Siming Tang, Elisa Hernandez, Didem Oguz Haydn | 29m |
IAEA hires for IT roles in Vienna and field offices and reports over 250 staff from 110 of 176 member states and 46% women across the organization. Work ranges… | ||
| Who, Why, and How | Brielle Irving, Brad Eiben | 31m |
Ten years in HR and talent acquisition turns into a focused product-management pivot after an August 2023 layoff: completes a 10-week Python course, applies to… | ||
| What Do Career Journeys Have To Do With Harry Potter and Katniss Everdeen? | Reetal Pai | 15m |
Narrative maps a personal career arc onto the hero's journey claiming a single organizing aim one purpose: be the best version, details an international leap… | ||
| Doubt to Dominance: Overcoming Inferiority Complex | Sadhana Gupta | 31m |
Product managers at large companies report feeling inadequate when managing cross‑functional work with hundreds of stakeholders—one example cites coordinating… | ||
| How to prepare for a United Nations style Interview | Dora Csordas | 16m |
UN applications demand concrete preparation: set aside 2 hours to complete essay-style questions, expect an assessment stage that may include an asynchronous… | ||
| Curiosity, Purpose, and Lifelong Learning Key Pillars of an Impactful Career | Devi Kyanam | 19m |
Built a machine learning price forecasting engine with a University and World Bank partnership that advised marginal farmers on whether to sell or hold crops… | ||
| Reinventing Yourself Empowering Women in Tech | Lucinda Cross | 18m |
Argues three concrete moves: do an edit of your life across personal, professional and business lines; use journaling, therapy and basic financial literacy to… | ||
| Empowering Your Future: Journeys of Young Women Product Managers | Sadhana Gupta, Snigdha Gupta, Vanessa Manz | 30m |
Carnegie Mellon’s MSPM frames a one‑year, practical route for switching into product roles: a software developer wins a tech PM internship at Autodesk after… | ||
| Career Journey | Subha Tatavarti | 18m |
CTO at Wipro describes a 28‑year path from C++ classes and Solaris backends at AOL to building product and infrastructure at PayPal and Walmart and now leading… | ||
| Empowering Excellence: Meet & Greet the Women of | Naima Sabeg | 24m |
Leads a team of senior talent advisers across EMEA and scales a Women in Technology community that delivers mentoring, coaching and measurable women reporting… | ||
| Getting out of your way, how to build your personal brand and advance your career | Penny Izlakar | 08m |
Start by mapping a three‑to‑five year career path (not a resume) and writing two to three elevator pitch options tied to clear strengths and gaps. Use LinkedIn… | ||
| The Only Woman in the Room | Bo English-Wiczling | 22m |
Career highlights include leading a Developer Relations org, starting engineering teams of ~450, building the first mobile activation platform used by 29… | ||
| You Are Enough: Bringing your Whole Self To Your Career | Alison Magyari | 19m |
Company-level design thinking rollout in 2018 focuses on empathy iteration and invention and is credited with shifting how IT builds solutions. Practical… | ||
| Looking towards Career Growth! Get Inspired by Ambitious leaders | Aruna Narayanan, Sabitha Donapati, Lu Lu, Sheila Washburn | 28m |
Four leaders describe concrete wins and tactics: building a Patient Data Store on cloud and using the Edison AI platform to deploy models at scale; launching… | ||
| Invisible No More | Bo English-Wiczling | 33m |
Session names impostor syndrome types from Claire Josa’s 2019 study, points to an online quiz, and labels the coping styles as perfectionism procrastination… | ||
| Charting Your Course Navigating Choices in a Fast Paced Era | TEREZA DRIENDL | 21m |
A personal hiring choice after COVID prompts a distinction between reversible vs irreversible decisions and a claim that 35 years of studies show faster… | ||
| Fostering learning, career development and belonging in a multigenerational workforce | Anneliese Olson, Marah Edelen | 19m |
Programs described include a 2017 catalyst pairing and recent mentoring circles where 200 people raised hands and formed 100 pairs using a facilitation guide… | ||
| Grow Your Career in Technology | ANDRA EHLERT | 20m |
From engineer to VP level at NTT DATA this recounts concrete moves: built a European automation practice then moved to a global enablement role that places… | ||
| Positively Impacting Communities AND Succeeding as a Woman in Tech: How You Can Aim for Both | Wendy Gonzalez | 18m |
Sama runs a data‑annotation platform that sells work to AI teams at Google, Microsoft and Walmart while hiring and training marginalized workers at living… | ||
| From the Bench to the Boardroom | Leslie Vander Baan | 17m |
Bootstraps a peer-to-peer automotive marketplace that scales nationally in 12 months, runs backend operations for major vehicle search platforms, and survives… | ||
| Energize your career! | Monica Howell, Kelli Shumate, Maebh Larkin, Cassie Utt | 31m |
Panel describes concrete work at Eaton: teams embed AI on devices and design neural processing units for smart cameras, a Dublin R&D hub called the Centre for… | ||
| From Roadblocks to Roadmaps: Women's Inspiring Tech & Auto Trajectories | Nazia Ali, Erum Alim | 31m |
Two women map concrete moves: one leads a 170-person org that runs Salesforce for 5–6k users across sales, marketing and contact centers and is piloting… | ||
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