Senior Engineering Manager at Etsy |
In tech, we often talk about failing fast. I want to share how my team recovered from failing really slowly: we launched a high-profile product that didn’t meet customer needs after doing a 9-month waterfall buildout. I don’t want to talk about all of the mistakes we made along the way, although I’m sure that would be a fun talk in and of itself. I want to focus on how we set ourselves up for success in the rapid pivot that followed by capitalizing on our learnings, bringing engineering to the forefront of the decision making process, and empowering those focused on technical execution. My… read more |
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Educator/Filmmaker at Wilder Minds LLC |
In my past five years, I’ve been investigating and interviewing a series of developers about the problems of diversity in software. Both women and people of color still represent a smaller share of developers than they should. In this keynote, Shawn will talk about pragmatic reasons to diversity and add inclusion to make software better, not just for the social justice reasons. This is an extension of my documentary film called "Hello World".
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CEO and Founder at Activate World Wide LLC. |
Discussion around productivity, priority, and overcoming obstacles and challenges for personal and professional development.
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Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer at Boostr |
Any woman who has made it in tech has run the requisite gauntlet of male dominated boardrooms, striving to hide emotions in the face of underestimation, disregard, or intimidation. There are few female executives who have not wanted to shout out “I don't want to join this f*@king call" at one time or another. When a young female cutting her teeth at IBM inadvertently said exactly such a thing to a room of male executives, she had no idea that the faux-pas would teach her a lesson that would inform her fundamental leadership philosophy until this very day. How should young, capable… read more |
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Sr. Technical Product Manager at Ocrolus |
The Machine Learning Fly Wheel: Optimizing the process of creating a set of training for continuous machine learning
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Data Engineering Tech Lead at Ocrolus |
Hiring, developing and challenging a diverse workforce.
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Co-Founder & CEO at This Dot Labs |
We are all too familiar with projects and companies that only seem to be able to support senior developers, but this can get expensive, unsustainable, and your team can begin to look very myopic. Teams engage in groupthink, ideas become stale, and it can be difficult to reinvigorate the growing sense of mundane development. It doesn't have to be this way. In fact, creating an inclusive architecture can help development go faster and become more cost effective.
It's not difficult to begin adjusting your sails and beginning to create an architecture that is inclusive in… read more |
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Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft CSE |
Often people avoid having difficult conversations or are simply overwhelmed by the prospect of having one. Sara will share practical steps she has learned over her career to address some common hard conversation stressors and ways to make these discussions less contentious and more productive. She will address tactics for different audiences, such as employee vs employer; how to prepare; timing; and how to ensure that both you and the audience get what you want and need from the conversation.
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Chief Data Officer at Microsoft CSE |
In order to effective change to occur in the tech industry, to correct the representation disparity, the ‘value of diversity has to be part of every single persons’ impact at work. It is important for everyone’s career to include “And”. “And” be an ally, “and” speak up to get other’s voice heard at the table, “and” make choices that further inclusion for yourself and others. In this talk, Hernan will share his career journey, looking back over the amazing and powerful women that have shaped his life, and how he is using his position now to share that same support for future women in… read more |
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Chief of Staff, Information Security at Citrix |
We all know the drill…It always starts with reconnaissance. We learn the landscape, we network, and gather intelligence. When we find the vulnerabilities, we use our tools to find ways to gain access, we build backdoors, our skills to maintain and advance it from there. Sound familiar? This isn’t penetration testing. This is career development.
Our best exploit is ourselves. We can grow in our infosec career by being the presence that fills the gap. The InfoSecurity industry is expanding in ways that companies need to address – a few recent examples: social media exploits… read more |
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Senior Vice President, Customer Experience & Operations at Ellucian |
For women in technology careers, hard work is table stakes. To be successful, you need more than the hard skills. In this session, Titina will share her journey and lessons from life on a farm to senior leadership roles at top technology companies. Learn about networking and the power of relationships -- what it takes beyond the hard skills and the work you deliver -- to be successful in today’s technology careers.
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Global Cyber Leader at Deloitte |
This shift of the global workforce looks to be a permanent change. Despite widespread Zoom fatigue, it seems like users generally like it. The move to cloud and hybrid IT environments—along with increasing numbers of cloud-based systems, remote workers, and connected devices—are constantly expanding and dissolving the network perimeter. It wasn’t that long ago that a typical user would enter a building, go to a workstation, login and access everything they needed via on-premises servers. As digital strategy and cloud adoption increased, the way in which users accessed their IT resources is… read more |
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Sr Project Manager; Global Technology DEI Champion at Morningstar Inc |
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts have historically been grass-roots programs managed by affected employees, creating a tax on the under-represented. How can we make sure everyone is getting engaged in DEI efforts in a tangible way? Find out how Morningstar is increasing DEI engagement with a program based on role playing games.
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Chief Compliance Officer at Clear Street |
Finance and tech – two male-dominated industries. Christy Moccia, Chief Compliance Officer at Clear Street, a capital markets fintech, will share key learnings from her own career journey. How she was able to pivot her career to develop a new passion and enter the world of compliance with little previous experience after taking a break to raise children. Now as CCO, she’ll share how she was able to elevate her role and be one of the few women in the industry to get a seat at the leadership table. Hint – mentorship is not the only advocate junior employees should be searching for.
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Head of Engineering: Legal Practice & Productivity at Thomson Reuters |
Our world is increasingly running on AI services. As this state transitions from pervasive to ubiquitous, what will it mean for society? As technologists we play a pivotal role in this unique time in history, to use this power to shape a better world. Let's talk about how we do that! It starts with committing time and effort to deeply understand the implications of this powerful technology and using this knowledge to guide it into ethical use.
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Head Of Cybersecurity and Tech Controls for Latam and Canada |
"The threat of a cyber attack may very well be the biggest threat to the U.S. financial system." - Jamie Dimon
JPMorgan Chase is leading the effort in ensuring data security and mitigating risk of cyber attacks. Proper adoption of Emerging Technologies is more critical than ever, especially as we identify the impacts of Covid 19. Claudia Minzi will talk about the top cyber threats and how JPMorgan Chase is investing in Cybersecurity.
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Vice President, Product - Legal Practice and Productivity at Thomson Reuters |
A look at how technology and product teams can truly partner to deliver amazing solutions.
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Practice Lead, Data & Analytics at Centric Consulting |
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!
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Chief Technology Officer, Worldwide Defense & Intelligence at Microsoft |
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.
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IT Senior Associate Director at Boehringer Ingelheim US |
Join this exciting session where we share the secret for unlocking your team members to their full potential. This will include:
How to keep team members aligned to strategic goals
The importance of focusing on employee development
Building a flexible team to keep up with the changing with the needs of the business
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