WOMEN TECH
GLOBAL CONFERENCE 2020

JUNE 10-12 VIRTUAL
 



Conference Tracks
 

Keynotes & Sessions​​​​
Summits & Training

This track is focusing on how work will evolve and how COVID-19 will influence the way we work. Some of the topics are: remote work, talent acquisition and retention, new jobs, job automation, home office, freelance, coworking and co-living, virtual assistants, 0 waste offices and more.

The career track is all about growing and succeeding professionally. Some of the topics are: work-life integration, family-work balance/integration, “side hustle”, career break, workforce reintegration, leadership, relocation and more.

Company culture is such an important yet often neglected topic. The talks and discussions will focus on: diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging, company values, cultural fit, talent, equal pay, generation gap, toxic job, supporting tech communities, employer branding, job interviewing and more. 

Frontier technologies are often cutting-edge and can provide large scale disruption and solutions to the burning issues or real-world problems at the same time. Some of the main categories and topics: Robotics and AI, Machine Learning, AI for Good, Drones, Blockchain Technology, Face Recognition, IoT, VAutonomous Vehicles and more.

Cloud computing is already an essential part for the majority of the businesses across the world, thanks to a high flexibility, little to no maintenance costs and a higher level of security. The three main areas of discussion are: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS.

Whether an end user, a business or an industry, it’s important to stay up-to-date with the recent innovations about the financial transactions and operations that become easier, faster, cheaper, better and more inclusive. Some of the topics: financial inclusion, the future of payments, non-card payment and more.
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What scientific breakthroughs will impact our lives tomorrow? And as remote learning has become the new normal, has the transformation of education started? Some of the topics we want to look into are Neuroscience, Edtech, Data science, distance learning and more.
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Cloud computing is already an essential part for the majority of the businesses across the world, thanks to a high flexibility, little to no maintenance costs and a higher level of security. The three main areas of discussion are: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS.

Social distancing, isolation, rapid change, unemployment, imposter syndrome, emotional stress, and other factors can cause severe harm to our overall state of being. How can we program our mindset to cope with these challenges and how can we ensure the social well-being and overall well-being of people while dealing with crisis, fear and grief.

Microservices, NOSQL, Tech Debt, APIs, Infrastructure, Open Source, Fullstack vs the rest, Scaling Tech, Drupal / Wordpress, Symfony, Micro Frontends. Coding for beginners / as essential skill for future work and other related topics.

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Soft skills, leadership, networking, personal branding, productivity, salary negotiation and personal financial planning/management and other related topics.
 

Pitching, fundraising & equity, hiring, Branding & UX, customer development, revenue, legal, product development and other related topics.



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MEET SOME OF OUR
INSPIRING SPEAKERS

Random order. More speakers to be announced soon. 
 

Tavonia Evans

Founder at Guap Coin

Dr. Terri Horton

Future of Work & AI Strategist, Forbes Contributor and Strategy Consultant at Stanford Seed

Shea Harty

Managing Director at Empowerment.work

Mary-Jo de Leeuw

Award-winning Cyber Security Expert

Rachel Sheppard

Co-creator Female Founder Initiative & Director Global Marketing at Founder Institute

Siri Chilazi

Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School

Katherine Mimnaugh

Virtual Reality and Robotics PhD Researcher

Brian Ballantyne

Senior Program Manager - Inclusion & Diversity at Amazon

KC Lathrop

Chief of Staff to the CIO at IBM

Nikkie Kent

CRO at Mamava

Dilruba Malik

Software Engineering Manager at Hitachi Vantara

Lubomila Jordanova

Founder & CEO at PlanA.Earth GmbH

Megan Murphy

Director of Product Management at Hotjar

Rana el Kaliouby

CEO at Affectiva | Author of Forthcoming Book "Girl Decoded" | Fortune 40 under 40| YGL at WEF

Megan Byrd-Sanicki

Manager, Research & Operations, Open Source Program Office at Google

Parneet Pal

Chief Science Officer at Wisdom Labs

Tara King

Full Stack Engineer, Developer Outreach Manager at Pantheon

Kristina Flora

Product Marketing @ Audible | Amazon

Vijaya Kaza

Chief Security Officer, Head of Eng & Data Science for Trust & Safety at Airbnb

Alexandria Butler

Senior Program Manager, Speaker and Freedom Fighter

Laurel Farrer

Remote Work Expert, Forbes Contributor

Emerald de Leeuw

Privacy and Data ethics Specialist at Logitech | Forbes Female Founder to Watch

D'Lovely Gibson

Business & Technology Operations Director | Delivery & Governance Diplomat

Edwige A. Robinson

Vice President, Mobile Engineering Services at Comcast NBC Universal

Mariah Lichtenstern

Aspen Tech Policy Fellow at The Aspen Institute

Sahiqa Bennett

Visionary Entrepreneur, CEO at Sarchie

Ann Rosenberg

TEDx Speaker | SVP for UN Partnerships at SAP | Purpose,Sustainability and Public Affairs Expert

Rachana Kumar

VP Of Engineering at Etsy

Michelle King

Advocate for fixing workplaces, not women, Director of Inclusion at Netflix

Yaliwe Soko

Chairwoman United Africa Blockchain Association

Tineke Bakker - van der Veen

Award-winning Tech Leader, prev. Managing Director Benelux & Nordics at Boeing

Avanti Sharma

Pre teen Technology Specialist, Workshop4Me

Annie Jean-Baptiste

Head of Product Inclusion at Google

Helen Altshuler

Engineering Leader @ Google

Furkan Karayel

Award-Winning CEO & Inclusive Leader Advisor - Founder Diversein.com-WomenInTech, Diversity & Female Founders Ambassador

Emilie Sydney-Smith

CEO at ExO Works

 

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