Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Fiona Lin COO at inTune	The Five Essential Drivers and its Hidden Barriers of a Successful Transformation Explore the critical elements that drive transformation success and learn to anticipate hidden barriers before they derail progress. Drawing on two decades of cross-industry experience, the presenter shares actionable insights from product innovation, agile delivery, and digital transformation initiatives. Attendees will leave with pragmatic strategies to accelerate outcomes and strengthen executive alignment, while also fostering an adaptive culture and mitigating possible setbacks. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Stela Fink VP Security Operations at Secret City Tech	Transforming Threat Detection and Response in your SOC with AI AI is growing by leaps and bounds reshaping the Information Security landscape with rapid advancements in innovations, security automation, predictive analytics, and response strategies. This session will explore the benefits, challenges, and future of AI in Security. AI significantly enhances information security by improving threat detection, automating incident response, predicting potential attacks, and enabling proactive defense strategies. Its ability to analyze massive datasets, learn from patterns, and adapt to emerging threats makes AI a critical tool in today’s… read more
Stacy Bishop Founder & Partnership Strategist at Selling Fintech	The Hidden Skill in Scaling: Teaching Your Market How to Buy You Most startups stall not because their product lacks features, but because their market doesn’t understand how to buy it. In this talk, Stacy Bishop shares what she has learned helping fintech founders sell breakthrough technology to some of the most traditional buyers in the world: banks. Drawing on two decades in financial technology and her experience building go-to-market motions that bridge innovation and trust, she reframes scaling as an act of education, not just execution. You will learn how to: - Recognize when your growth challenge is… read more
Monique Montanino Tech Executive Career Coach at Resumé Tech Guru	57% Invisible: Why Your Online Brand Is Blocking Career Growth In today’s digital-first world, visibility is no longer optional, it’s the gateway to influence, opportunity, and legacy. Yet 57% of employers admit they won’t interview candidates they can’t find online. This presentation explores the hidden cost of poor personal branding for women in tech, from entry-level professionals to seasoned executives. Through data-backed insights, real-world case studies, and a scalable framework called the Visibility Stack, Monique reveals how strategic online presence drives hiring, promotions, board invitations, and thought leadership. Attendees will… read more
Ashley Hromatko FinOps Engineering Product Lead at Corteva	FinOps for AI & AI for FinOps: Driving Governance, Efficiency & Business Value in the AI Era AI is exploding across the enterprise—and so are the bills. GPUs, tokens. AI platforms introduce new cost drivers that traditional FinOps wasn’t designed for. At the same time, AI gives FinOps new superpowers in automation, forecasting, and anomaly detection. This session shows how to evolve FinOps for AI and use AI to scale FinOps. We’ll cover: AI governance & FinOps’ role – where FinOps plugs into AI standards, policies, and guardrails. AI inventory & token-based showback – tracking AI apps, token usage, and cost per… read more
Swathi Adimulam OCI Cloud & AI Architect at Oracle	Smarter, Not Hotter : Green Principles for AI Design This session invites product managers, engineers, and AI practitioners to critically examine the growing environmental cost of generative AI and large language models (LLMs)—a concern often overshadowed by excitement around innovation and productivity. As AI becomes embedded in everyday tools and workflows, I see many organizations and developers adopt LLMs by default, frequently without fully considering whether these high-energy models are necessary or sustainable for the task at hand. I will begin by grounding the audience in real-world data, such as how training a single… read more
Paula Sappington Sr. Director, Digital Research & Experimentation at Hilton	Synchronized Success: The Evolution of Hilton's Research & Experimentation Program Learn how Paula evolved her organization from one part-time optimizer to a pivotal, integrated team of qualitative and quantitative researchers. Discover how this intrepid team de-risks the design process, explores new opportunities for innovation, optimizes the customer journey, and enhances experiences for guests around the globe. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
TRANG WATSON CFO at Lumae.ai	Being a CFO in the Age of AI: The Chief AI Financial Translator In an AI company disrupting a regulated industry, my job is to speak three languages fluently: what the technology can actually do, what regulators and capital markets need to hear, and what customers are apprehensive about. That translation layer is where deals get done, and trust gets built. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Meghali Brahmbhatt Global Program Manager at Schneider Electric	From Contributor to Leader: Redefining Your Next Chapter Stepping into leadership is one of the most exciting—and disorienting—career shifts you can make. I’ve been through it myself, moving from being the person who delivered the work to the person responsible for guiding, enabling, and protecting a whole team. This session is a candid conversation about what that transition really feels like and how to navigate it with confidence and clarity. We’ll explore the mindset shift from “doing” to “leading,” how to set boundaries early, and how to lead with authority even before you feel it internally. Most importantly, we’ll talk about how to… read more
Debbie Munoz Trainer at Lone Star College-University Park	Close Your Adaptability Debt: Meta-skills for Rapid Reskilling Companies scaling with AI are drowning in Adaptability Debt, the staggering cost of obsolete skills and lagging organizational resilience. This session delivers the Closure Framework. Learn to implement foundational meta-skills for continuous employee relevance. Leave with the strategic plan to make your talent strategy debt-free. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Jasleen Bedi Software Engineer at Discover	From Prompt to Product: How Engineers Can Use AI as a System, Not a Shortcut Artificial intelligence is everywhere, from writing code to shaping portfolios, but using AI effectively requires more than good prompts. It requires engineering judgment. In this talk, I will share a practical, system-level perspective on using AI as a partner in building, rather than as a shortcut that replaces thinking. Drawing from real-world experiences across engineering, security, and mentoring, I will explore how AI fits into the journey from idea to product and where human decision-making will continue to matter most. I will discuss how to think about AI… read more
Aashita Jain Senior Privacy Analyst at Informatica by Salesforce	Beyond the Checklist: Integrating Privacy Threat Modeling into AI DPIAs As AI incidents surged 56.4% in 2024, organizations face a critical gap: translating abstract privacy risks into concrete mitigation strategies. High-level policies are no longer enough to satisfy the EU AI Act’s conformity assessments or the 1,000+ AI-related laws proposed globally in 2025 alone. This session bridges the theory-practice divide. We will explore how to integrate adversarial privacy threat modeling directly into Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) and AI risk classification frameworks—turning compliance obligations into competitive advantage. Drawing on… read more
Liji Thomas Manager, Generative AI at H&R Block	Evaluation-Driven Development: Turning AI Demos into Real Products If you want to move POCs into production, they have to do more than impress. They have to work. Generative AI demos can feel powerful- fast, fluent, and full of potential. But capability alone doesn’t scale. Without measurement, prototypes stall, trust erodes, and systems never make it to production. The gap between a compelling demo and a reliable product is rarely the model. It’s the absence of evaluation. To build enterprise-grade AI, you have to measure what you build. This session introduces the Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluation libraries,… read more
Jennifer Pestikas CEO at Brave Women at Work	Ten Tips to Advocate for Yourself and Get Paid What You're Worth As of 2025, women earn 83 cents for every dollar a man earns for the same job on average in the U.S. A 20-year old woman starting a full-time, year-round position in 2025 may lose $407,760 over a 40-year career compared to her male counterparts. By learning how to negotiate early and often, women can continue to fight to close the gap on compensation in the workplace. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Krystal Tristan Founder and CEO at OneHaven	The sandwich generation is under digital attack and how we fix what tech missed Many women today are part of the sandwich generation caring for children while also supporting aging parents, all while working in demanding roles in tech. At the same time, digital threats like scams, grooming, AI-driven fraud, and misinformation are increasingly targeting families across every generation. This lightning talk looks at why today’s safety tools are fragmented and why responsibility has quietly fallen on caregivers, often women, to manage digital risk across devices, platforms, and age groups. Rather than treating digital safety as a parenting failure or user… read more
RINU ABRAHAM Director, Program Management at Visa	Turning Chaos into Predictability for a Program Manager In fast-moving organizations, programs often feel chaotic—shifting priorities, unclear ownership, and constant surprises. This talk explores how program managers create predictability without slowing teams down.In a chaotic payments environment, effective decision-making comes from clear ownership, fast access to the right data, right resources and predefined guardrails for risk, compliance, and cost. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Twisha Shah Brandenburg Senior Principal, Enterprise UX at Target	Design Is the Missing Operating System: Why AI, UX, and Digital Transformation Keep Breaking As organizations race to adopt AI, redesign customer experiences, and modernize their tech stacks, many are hitting the same wall: the technology works, but the experience doesn’t. This talk argues that the biggest failures in UX, CX, and AI transformation are not technical problems. They are design failures at the system level. Drawing from real-world experience inside complex, digital-first organizations, this session reframes design as the connective tissue that aligns people, processes, data, and technology. Attendees will learn how invisible work—handoffs,… read more
Dorian Stewart Author, Speaker & Career Readiness Strategist at Dorian Inspires, LLC	How NOT to Get Hired: The Career Mistakes Smart Women Still Make and How to Fix Them Despite talent, education, and ambition, many women in tech are unknowingly making career mistakes that cost them interviews, promotions, and leadership opportunities. This talk pulls back the curtain on the unspoken hiring expectations that resumes, interviews, and online profiles are silently judged by every day. Drawing from real-world hiring insights and her book How NOT to Get Hired, Dorian Stewart shares practical, eye-opening lessons on what employers actually look for, common missteps high-performing women make, and how to reposition experience with confidence and… read more
Zinet Kemal Senior Cloud Security Engineer \| Tedx Speaker \| Author \| Instructor	Journey of Career Reinvention: Discovering & Thriving in Cybersecurity This session shares my personal journey of transitioning into cybersecurity from a non-traditional background, navigating certifications, industry challenges, and personal growth along the way. Attendees will gain insights on how to reinvent their careers, overcome obstacles in male-dominated fields, and leverage their unique experiences to thrive in tech. I will also highlight practical strategies for continuous learning, networking, and leadership that helped me advance while advocating for online safety for children and families. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Kimberly Bailey VP of IT & CIO at Lemoyne-Owen College	A Seat in the C-Suite This will be a deep dive into the perspective of women in tech on leadership, advancement, and how AI is shaping the landscape of leadership. Did you like this session? Share to vote.