Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Divya Rao Senior Engineering Manager at Dover Corporation	Transformational Leadership (Navigating Through the Current Times) Transformational Leadership - Navigating Through the Current Times, is designed for anyone managing & navigating through the dynamic changes in the industry. The session explores transformational leadership in detail, highlighting core principles, leadership in the current environment, strategies for effective leadership, and actionable steps for leaders. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Anuradha A Executive Partner at IBM	Quiet Power: Leadership Lessons from a Life Fully Lived In technology leadership, success is often associated with visibility, speed, and constant growth Yet many women lead differently—through steadiness, responsibility, and values-driven choices that shape outcomes without demanding attention. Quiet Power explores this often-unseen dimension of leadership. Drawing on my over three decades of experience leading large, global technology organizations, this talk reflects on what it means to build influence without hardness, authority without self-promotion, and ambition without sacrificing Authenticity. It surfaces the invisible… read more
Anita K Manda Executive Vice President at Broadridge Financial Solutions	The Sticky Ladder and Uncharted Detours: How Do Women Leaders Navigate Life Events? Women enter technology careers in large numbers, yet senior leadership remains disproportionately male. While much of the conversation focuses on structural barriers such as the glass ceiling, this talk brings a different lens to the foreground: life events as a critical and underexplored driver of women’s career trajectories. Drawing on interviews with 35 senior women leaders across industries and geographies, the session explores how events such as caregiving, childbirth, bereavement, illness, relocation, and divorce disrupt careers—and how women respond to these moments over… read more
Parna Mehta AI Ops Engineer at AWS	Beyond Prompts: Context Engineering for Intelligent Systems In 2026's AI landscape, Context Engineering has become the defining factor between experimental prototypes and production-grade systems. Prompt Engineering is out, and Context Engineering is in. While clever phrasing once defined AI success, production-grade reliability now depends on the quality, structure, and timing of the data reaching the model. Context engineering is the core of building Agentic AI systems. As enterprises deploy sophisticated RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and multi-modal applications, success depends less on model selection and more on how… read more
Nandini Tayal Lead Engineer at Agilon Health	What I Wish I Knew at the Start of My Tech Career (and What Actually Mattered) Early in our tech careers, we focus heavily on learning tools, technologies, and frameworks, believing that technical excellence alone will guide our growth. But over time, many women in tech realize that career progress is shaped just as much by decisions, mindset, visibility, and conviction as it is by skills. In this talk, I will share the lessons I wish I had known, my experiences at the very start of my tech journey. From choosing the right opportunities, to building confidence, navigating expectations, and staying disciplined when motivation fades, importance of personal… read more
Geethanjali G SME – Leading Telecom GCC India	Agentic Commerce Revolution: Leading the Shift in Next Tech-Wave The Agentic Commerce Revolution: Leading the Shift in the Next Tech-Wave There's a third great shift in digital trade, a paradigm shift - First came the storefront, then the search engine, and now: Agentic Commerce. As AI agents transition from simple chatbots to autonomous decision-makers, the way consumers discover, evaluate, and purchase is fundamentally changing. This session explores the seismic shift from Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to Generative Experience Optimization (GEO). We will deconstruct why traditional "blue link" rankings are losing… read more
Payal Nanjiani CEO and Founder at www.payalnanjiani.com	Make it to the top - What it takes to Get to the Next Level You are working hard. You are sustaining your job. You are doing well in your field. Life seems fine. But there is something that’s holding you back from making it to the top in your field of work. What is that something? All of us want promotions and salary increases. We desire to make it to the top. But most of us don't realize that these things cannot be asked for by putting your hands out. Hard work and efforts is not equal to promotion and growth. You get that promotion, the salary raise, the new project, the visibility, the sponsors, the… read more
Merry Mathew India Lead, Sales Effectiveness at Palo Alto Networks	From Non-Linear Careers to Confident Leadership: The Myth of Feeling Ready Careers rarely follow a straight line. Yet many of us wait to feel “ready” before taking the next step. In this talk, Merry Mathew challenges that belief and explores why feeling ready is often a myth. Drawing from her own journey, from stepping into a people manager role on her very first day back from maternity leave to navigating multiple career transitions. Merry shares how some of the most defining moments of growth begin before clarity and confidence fully arrive. Through honest stories and practical insights, this session invites… read more
Ramya Authappan QE Architect/Independent Consultant	Self Healing Playwright Test Workflow using Github Actions and Claude Agent SDK Modern web applications demand robust end-to-end test coverage, yet maintaining Playwright test suites at scale remains a persistent engineering challenge. Flaky tests, selector drift, and timing issues can consume significant developer time—time better spent on feature development.In this talk, I'll share how we built a fully autonomous test healing pipeline that transforms how our team handles E2E test failures. Our system leverages the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to create an intelligent agent that doesn't just identify failures—it fixes them.What you'll learn: … read more
Sheetal Kale Managing Director at DataArt	How can women stay relevant during these AI times For women professionals, staying relevant means continuously upgrading skills, embracing AI as a productivity partner, and leaning into uniquely human strengths like critical thinking, creativity, empathy, and leadership. This session explores how adaptability, lifelong learning, confidence in one’s voice, and access to the right opportunities can help women not just survive, but lead in the age of AI. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Roopa Jayaraman Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Odessa	Platform Thinking in Action: Driving Product, People & Tech Alignment at Enterprise Scale As organizations grow, complexity grows faster—across products, teams, and technology stacks. Platform thinking offers a powerful way to cut through this complexity and scale with intent. In this session, I will unpack what platforms and platform thinking really mean beyond the buzzwords. We’ll demystify core platform first principles and explore how they show up across different platform models—internal platforms, ecosystem platforms, and marketplace-driven platforms. From a platform management lens, I’ll share the foundational building blocks I’ve seen… read more
Richa Daga WISE India Leader & Software Engineer at Cisco	Securing the Digital Era: Ethics and Zero-Trust Today’s digital transformation requires more than just compliance—it requires organizations to anticipate risks and embed ethical practices into every layer of cybersecurity and data governance. This session provides insights into advanced strategies for building digital trust, including real-world approaches to zero-trust architectures, privacy-enhancing technologies, and ethical AI integration. Drawing on global case studies, we’ll explore how organizations are measuring impact, addressing emerging threats, and fostering transparency from the supply chain to the C-suite. Participants will… read more
Preethi Guruswamy Founder & Executive Coach for Tech Leaders at Vision of Wisdom	From Authority to Impact: Redefining Strategic Presence for the Next Era of Leadership AI adoption, digital acceleration, regulatory complexity, and distributed workforces have fundamentally changed the demands placed on executive leaders. Authority and technical credibility are no longer differentiators — they are baseline expectations. What now distinguishes effective C-level leadership is strategic presence: the ability to influence systems, shape culture, and drive performance without creating organizational fragility or personal burnout. In AI-enabled environments, decision cycles are faster, visibility is constant, and stakeholder scrutiny is… read more
Parul Naib Post Doc Researcher at University of Central Florida	Hunting the Invisible: Learnings from building MuleHunter.ai to Detect Financial Crime at Scale Financial institutions are facing a rapidly evolving threat landscape where money mule networks have become a critical enabler of fraud at scale. These networks are highly adaptive, distributed, and increasingly difficult to detect using traditional rule-based systems. In this talk, we look at experiences from the development of MuleHunter.ai- an AI-driven platform built to uncover hidden mule activity by shifting the paradigm from transaction monitoring to behavioral and network intelligence. We will walk through how combining anomaly detection and supervised models enables the… read more
Nidhi Jain Global Talent Leader – Growth & Innovation at EY	How Mentorship Accelerates Growth and Sponsorship Unlocks Doors 1. Leadership vs Mentorship vs Sponsorship – Understanding the Distinction Set the foundation by clearly differentiating the three : leaders drive outcomes, mentors guide development, sponsors create opportunities. 2. Leading for Both Performance and Potential Great leaders don’t just deliver results, they actively invest in unlocking individual potential alongside team success. 3. Mentorship as a Development Accelerator Mentorship is not advice-giving, it’s about enabling thinking, building capability, and creating long-term growth pathways. 4.… read more
Urvashi Verma Head - Talent Acquisition (APAC) at Xperi Inc	Beyond Hard Work: How Women Can Strategically Grow Their Careers Hard work is essential—but it’s not always enough to accelerate career growth. Many talented women find themselves excelling in their roles yet struggling to gain visibility, access the right opportunities, or move into leadership positions. This session explores how to move beyond execution to intentional career strategy—focusing on building visibility, leveraging networks and sponsorship, and making confident, well-timed career moves. Through practical insights and real-world examples, participants will learn how to position themselves for growth and take ownership of their… read more
Yael Daihes Chief Data Scientist and Cybersecurity Leader \| Public Speaker	Hit the (ML) road(map) Jack With the advancement of AI, it seems there isn’t a task unsolvable by this amazing technology, and no wonder every type of product wants to leverage it. You hire the most brilliant researchers and wait for the magic to happen, but apparently, not every scientist can translate a business problem into a research task, and not every business leader can vividly define achievable goals for the ML organization. Imagine a digital health company that holds electronic medical records of thousands of patients. I believe we would all immediately assume their ML organization is creating… read more
Topaz Gilad VP of AI at Voyage81, ODDITY	MVP Mindset for Data Science Leads As data-science and machine-learning team leaders, we face the conflict between quick delivery and the uncertainty of the ML experimental nature. In this talk, Topaz will cover methodologies for improving focus, reducing uncertainty, and boosting your ability to transform algorithmic research into production. Using case studies from real-world data domains, this session covers data subsets, inner releases, data-driven scrum, and test-driven machine learning: Join the talk to learn about minimal viable product (MVP) and the different application aspects in your data… read more
Topaz Gilad VP R&D at Voyage81 \| ODDITY	The Leadership Algorithm: Applying AI Principles to Build Better Teams What if the principles we use to train AI models could also shape how we lead and manage engineering teams? From iterative feedback loops to continuous learning, the parallels between effective AI systems and successful leadership are striking. In this thought-provoking talk, we’ll explore how engineering managers can apply AI-inspired strategies to improve team dynamics, decision-making, and outcomes. Drawing from Topaz's extensive experience leading AI and algorithm teams, and as a VP at the forefront of cutting-edge AI product development, key takeaways will include: … read more
Moran Weber Founder of Women on Stage \| Software Engineer \| Social Psychologist at Women on Stage	How to Write the Perfect Tech Talk Submission (With or Without AI) Speaking at a major tech conference can be career-changing, yet even brilliant ideas often get rejected before they’re ever heard. Why? Because many speakers focus on perfecting their presentation while overlooking the real gatekeeper: the CFP (Call for Papers) submission. Writing a strong CFP is both an art and a skill: persuasive but not salesy, technical yet accessible, and aligned with what organizers and audiences truly value. And for many engineers and tech leaders, that kind of storytelling doesn’t come naturally. After reviewing and editing hundreds of CFPs, I’ve… read more