Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Misty Mastracco Sr Advisor @ Splunk/Cisco; Founder of Stacked	Get Promoted, Get Paid: A System for Building Your Case and Negotiating What You're Worth This is not another "Lean In" session. And you don't need another pep talk telling you to "speak up more" while also, somehow, being "less aggressive." Here's the real issue: women underestimate their performance by 33%, and when we do negotiate, we're 30% more likely to be labeled "aggressive." So we wait. We hope good work speaks for itself. And by the time the promotion conversation or salary review comes around, we've forgotten half of what we accomplished; and the half we remember, we can't quantify. That… read more
Sharda Caro Del Castillo Chief Legal & Business Officer at Catena Labs	The Third Path: Innovating Ahead of Regulation Without Losing Trust Across the last two decades, many of the most consequential technologies in finance and commerce -- from digital wallets and instant payments to global marketplaces and, now, AI agents -- have launched well before clear regulatory frameworks existed. In these moments, leaders are often told they face a binary choice: slow innovation until rules catch up, or move fast and risk eroding trust. Sharda Caro Del Castillo argues there is a third path. Drawing on her experience shaping payments and compliance strategies at PayPal, Square (now Block), Airbnb, and Affirm -- and now… read more
Marina Spyrou CIO at PPFA	When Finance and Technology Lead Together: Creating Enterprise Value Through Digital Transformation This presentation highlights how sustained CIO–CFO partnership can fundamentally reshape the finance function and deliver measurable enterprise value. It will showcase how the CIO and CFO can move beyond traditional role boundaries to jointly lead a digital transformation of finance—reimagining financial processes, modernizing technology platforms, and building the digital capabilities of the finance workforce. Rather than treating transformation as a series of system implementations, aligning investment decisions, talent strategy, and governance under a shared vision focused on… read more
Sonali Bhavsar Chief Data and AI Officer at GEP	The "Black Box" Jury: Why We Need Explanability The urgent frontier of Data and AI Governance, moving beyond simple privacy to the "Right to Explanation." The focus will be why explainability is not just a technical feature. By introducing concepts like "Model Nutrition Labels" and "Auditability by Design," this talk challenges leaders, developers, and citizens to demand AI that doesn't just give us an answer, but has the courage to tell us how it got there. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ankita Upadhyay Sr Director , AI Enablement at Thomson Reuters	The Human Multiplier: Leading through the Era of Proprietary Intelligence & Agentic Teams As general-purpose AI models become a commodity, an organization’s true competitive advantage lies in its "Proprietary Intelligence"—the unique combination of its private data and the domain expertise of its people. For leaders, the challenge has shifted from managing tasks to orchestrating a hybrid workforce of humans and autonomous agents. In this session, we move beyond "replacement anxiety" to explore the "Human Multiplier" effect. We will discuss how to architect a leadership style that leverages AI to amplify human subject matter expertise,… read more
Shailja Gupta AI/ML Product Leader at ADP	Building the Right AI Products: A First Principles Approach In a world filled with AI hype, how do you know if you're building the right product—and building it right? This talk introduces first-principles thinking for AI Product Managers: a clear, actionable framework to evaluate when and how to apply AI, balance innovation with responsibility, and lead high-impact teams without drowning in technical complexity. Drawing from real-world experiences building AI platforms used by millions, we’ll explore decision frameworks for responsible innovation, system design trade-offs, and embedding ethics into the product lifecycle from day one. … read more
Madhushree Kumari Staff Software Engineer at Visa Inc.	Building Digital Borders for Cloud Data In today’s cloud-driven world, data often travels across the globe without us realizing it. However, new privacy laws now require that personal information stay within specific national borders. This creates a major challenge for distributed systems: how do we keep data localized without losing the reliability and speed we expect from the cloud? This talk introduces a "Location-Aware" storage system that solves this problem. By rewriting the rules of how data is copied and stored, we’ve built a system that treats geographic boundaries as hard limits. We will explore how "… read more
Archana Choudhary Vice President at Deutsche Bank	Thinking Clearly About AI: What Project Managers Must Understand to Lead in an AI-Driven World We have moved past the "magic" phase of Artificial Intelligence. In 2026, AI is no longer a futuristic concept, it is a functional utility that is fundamentally reshaping the Project Management landscape. However, for many project leaders, the noise of "hype" often drowns out the path to "utility." This session is designed to help Project Managers cut through the technical jargon and think clearly about the strategic role of AI. We will move beyond basic automation to explore how AI acts as a force multiplier across the project lifecycle from… read more
Neeti Patel Founder/GTM Advisor at Mosaic Growth Solutions	Back to Basics: The GTM Fundamentals That Unlock Scalable Growth In a market flooded with new tools, channels, and AI-powered tactics, many organizations are trying to “optimize” their way to growth — without realizing their go-to-market foundation is fundamentally broken. In this session, Neeti Patel, co-founder of Mosaic Growth Solutions, walks leaders through the GTM fundamentals that consistently separate teams that scale from those that stall. Drawing on nearly a decade of hands-on work with B2B and PE-backed growth companies, Neeti breaks down how to think about go-to-market as a system — not a set of disconnected tactics. Did… read more
Chiddy Onyia General Counsel / Founder at Agnes Health	Building Tech in Regulated Industries Without Slowing Innovation Regulation is often treated as an obstacle to innovation—but it doesn’t have to be. This talk shares practical frameworks for founders building in regulated sectors to manage risk early, move fast with confidence, and avoid regulatory surprises that stall growth or fundraising. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Mina Abdulla Founder & CEO of Genee	Designing Conversational AI with the HCMI Framework: From UX Patterns to Trustworthy Experiences Conversational AI succeeds when it blends human-centered UX with measurable impact and responsible guardrails. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll apply the HCMI framework (Human-Centered, Measurable, Intent-aware) to design and evaluate real chat and voice experiences. We’ll cover interaction patterns (turn-taking, error recovery, clarifying questions), prompt and persona design, safety/ethics considerations, and lightweight analytics that map conversations to outcomes. Participants will work through a guided canvas: define user intents, craft multi-turn flows, establish trust signals, and… read more
Nixalkumar Patel Sr. Product Manager at LG Electronics	From Product Page to Purchase: A Governed Operating Model for AI-Assisted Conversational Commerce Digital commerce organizations often introduce chat as a customer engagement channel, but many struggle to operationalize it as a scalable, governed conversion system. Traffic remains low, conversations are generic, product intent is lost across handoffs, and human experts become a constrained resource. This session presents a practical operating model for transforming product-page browsing into intent-qualified, context-preserving conversations that can progress toward resolution and purchase without restarting the journey. The session outlines a reusable reference model built… read more
Christina Garcia SVP, Head of Engineering & Technology at Echo Global Logistics	The AI Investment Gap: Why Your Pilots Succeed and Your Deployments Fail AI adoption doesn't fail because of technology. It fails because we invest in tools and pilots but not in the organizational transformation required to bring AI to life at scale. Drawing from a live transformation at a 3PL company, this talk reveals the investment gap: we buy the partnership but don't invest in redesigning the relationship. Learn why trust and process redesign are inseparable—you can't build one without the other. Discover how to weave human judgment and machine capability together at the DNA level, creating processes more robust than either could achieve alone… read more
Christina Garcia SVP, Head of Engineering & Technology at Echo Global Logistics	The AI Investment Gap: Why Your Pilots Succeed and Your Deployments Fail AI adoption doesn't fail because of technology. It fails because we invest in tools and pilots but not in the organizational transformation required to bring AI to life at scale. Drawing from a live transformation at a 3PL company, this talk reveals the investment gap: we buy the partnership but don't invest in redesigning the relationship. Learn why trust and process redesign are inseparable—you can't build one without the other. Discover how to weave human judgment and machine capability together at the DNA level, creating processes more robust than either could achieve alone… read more
Dr. Cynthia Sutherland Chief Information Security Officer at BlackCrest Cyber, LLC	Tech Without Burnout in the Age of AI In today’s high-stakes cyber landscape, speed is everything—but it’s costing us more than we realize. As organizations rush to integrate AI and secure digital systems, the pressure on cybersecurity teams has quietly reached a breaking point. Burnout is no longer an exception—it’s becoming operational risk. In this timely leadership talk, Dr. Cynthia Sutherland, former CISO for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and FEMA, introduces the A.I.R. Framework™: Aligning Innovation with Empathy, Integrating Innovation with Intention, and Recovering with Permission. Rooted in lived… read more
Amreetha Nagaraj Head of Box Consulting, US East & Canada at Box, Inc	The AI-Powered Leader: Redesigning How We Work, Decide, and Lead This session explores how leaders can thoughtfully use AI to optimize workflows, elevate strategic thinking, and lead more effectively in complex environments. Drawing from real leadership experience, I’ll share how AI can become a trusted partner in productivity, communication, and execution—without sacrificing authenticity or trust. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sandhya Pillay VP Equipment Innovation & Freestyle Operations at The Coca-Cola Company	Verbs vs. Nouns Owning our careers, choices and consequences through empathy, curiosity and generosity - of ourselves and others. Hear stories of multiple career pivots which span countries, functions and companies while navigating parenting and all-round adulting! Did you like this session? Share to vote.
MarKeisha Snaith Director, AI Security Governance at Xire	From Chaos to Clarity: A Practical AI Governance Playbook for Security and Tech Teams Everyone is talking about “responsible AI,” yet many teams are still guessing their way through risk assessments, approvals, and documentation. This session gives you a practical, non‑academic AI governance playbook you can start using the same day. Drawing on real experience standing up governance for cloud security tools and AI initiatives, I’ll walk through how to turn high‑level principles into lightweight guardrails that engineers, analysts, and product owners will actually follow. We’ll map a sample AI use case to a simple lifecycle (idea, design, build, deploy, monitor)… read more
Arpna Aggarwal Senior IT Auditor	The Accountability Blindspot: Auditing AI Before It Audits Us AI is being implemented across all industries, yet much of it remains fundamentally unauditable. This keynote introduces the Accountability Blindspot, which is the critical gap between AI capability and AI governance. I present a strong case for Audit-First AI, where cybersecurity, responsible intelligence, and data governance form the foundation of trust. This presentation does not only focus on ethics. It is the blueprint for the next layer of infrastructure in civilization. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Parna Sarkar-Basu Founder & CEO at B&B Consulting	Scaling Beyond $1M: Lessons, Pitfalls & Growth Strategies Hitting $1M in revenue is a big milestone — but scaling beyond it requires new systems, sharper focus, and tough choices. In the startup world, reaching $1M in revenue is a milestone, but getting to $5M is a transformation. It requires new systems, sharper focus and tough choices. As part of the “Architecting What’s Next” series, this interactive roundtable will bring together founders and experts to share candid stories about what worked, where they stumbled and what they would do differently. You’ll walk away with practical frameworks for breaking through the $1M barrier,… read more