Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Shanthi Sivakumar Founder and AI Ethics Consultant at FairFrame AI Org	Designing for Intelligence Why High Performing AI Systems Still Fail Real People Most conversations about AI bias start in the wrong place. We argue about model accuracy and training data, while the real damage is already done much earlier in the data platform itself. After a decade designing and delivering enterprise and healthcare data systems, I have seen this pattern repeatedly. Systems that look intelligent at scale quietly fail the same users again and again. Not because the model is wrong, but because of everyday design decisions no one revisits. Which data arrives first. What gets aggregated away. Which workflows are optimized for speed instead of… read more
Madhangi Mahadevan Technical Program Manager at University of Illinois Chicago	From Chaos to Clarity: Designing AI-Powered Systems That Actually Work in the Real World AI is everywhere—but building AI systems that actually work in real organizations is still messy, political, and complex. In this talk, I share practical lessons from designing and implementing AI-powered and automated systems inside healthcare and enterprise environments, where constraints, compliance, and human behavior matter as much as the technology itself. Rather than focusing on hype or tools alone, this session breaks down how to translate AI ideas into usable systems: defining the right problem, designing workflows that humans trust, navigating… read more
Pragya Keshap Technical Lead / Architect at Charles Schwab	From Docs to Dialogue: Architecting AI Chatbots for Product Discovery on Google Cloud Most product documentation sits untouched — buried in PDFs, wikis, and portals that users never find. The real challenge is not writing better docs; it is turning them into a conversation. In this lightning talk, Pragya Keshap, Technical Architect and IEEE Senior Member, walks through the architecture of a product-aware AI chatbot built on Google Cloud — one that uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to ground every response in live product context rather than generic model knowledge. Drawing from enterprise API platform design and large-scale cloud-native systems, she… read more
Srilakshmi Bharadwaj Sr Software Engineer at Linkedin	Designing Systems That Scale: Real Lessons from Building Large Distributed Infrastructure Clean architectures look elegant in design documents. Real systems rarely behave that way. In this lightning talk, I will share practical lessons from building and operating large-scale distributed systems — from storage platforms to secure data infrastructure serving millions of users. I’ll cover: Why systems that perform well in controlled environments struggle in production How operational complexity grows faster than technical complexity The tradeoffs between speed, reliability, and compliance What engineers should consider when designing… read more
Aparna Dubey Board Member at Organization Development Network	Startup Success Is Not a Talent Problem. It’s a Behavior Problem. Startups often assume performance is a talent issue. Hire the smartest people and success will follow. Yet many startups filled with exceptional individuals still struggle with slow decisions, internal friction, and stalled growth. The difference is rarely capability. It is behavior. How teams make decisions, handle disagreement, share information, and hold accountability determines whether talent converts into performance. Applied behavioral science shows that these patterns emerge early and become embedded as companies scale. This session explores how startup… read more
Ponni Manivelan Vice President - Lead Software Engineer at U.S.Bank	From Legacy to Modern in 20 Minutes - Live-migrate an entire automation suite using GitHub Copilot and AI agents The Demo: I'll live-migrate an entire test automation suite using GitHub Copilot and AI agents, showing real-time code transformation, addressing edge cases on the fly, and executing the migrated tests in a CI pipeline—all in 20 minutes. Why It Matters: 68% of QA teams struggle with legacy frameworks. Manual migrations take weeks and introduce errors. This demo proves AI can reduce migration effort by 60%+ while improving test speed and reliability. What Attendees Get: Copy-paste AI prompts, framework comparison criteria, migration risk mitigation strategies… read more
Sowmya Podila Senior Applied AI Scientist at Fortune 50 Retail	Cutting LLM Inference Costs by 50–90%: Introduction to Caching in AI systems Enterprise AI systems are rapidly encountering scaling challenges rising costs, slower responses, and increasing complexity from long-context and multimodal inputs. Caching has emerged as one of the most effective strategies to address these issues, delivering dramatic improvements in both performance and cost efficiency. In this session, we explore how modern caching techniques ranging from model-level KV caching to prompt and semantic caching are transforming LLM system design. Through real-world examples and vendor benchmarks, we demonstrate how organizations are achieving… read more
Chathri Ali Co-Founder & CEO at Accel Health	Chloe in Action: A Live Demo of the AI Agent Transforming Physician Recruiting In this session, we'll walk through how we built and launched Chloe, an AI agent, who automates the end-to-end process of sourcing, matching, and engaging physician candidates at scale. You'll leave with a real-world blueprint for deploying agentic AI in a high-stakes industry, from architecture decisions to production outcomes. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Devshree Golecha Founder and CEO at AI Made Fun	The World's First Character-Based AI Literacy Curriculum for Kids K–12 Most kids today use AI every single day — but nobody's teaching them how it actually works. AI Made Fun is changing that with the world's first character-based AI literacy curriculum for K–12 — where kids don't just learn about artificial intelligence, they learn with characters they love, through stories, missions, and hands-on challenges built for their grade level. In this lightning talk, Devshree Golecha — founder, data scientist, mom, and co-author of the award-winning Data Made Fun for Kids — will demo the platform, share the origin story, and show why character-… read more
Rashmi Kumari Principal Solution Advisor at SAP America	Modernize to Transform: Technology, Purpose, and Ethical AI Digital transformation is a strategic imperative. Modernization through cloud native platforms, modular architectures, and automation reduces technical debt, unlocks data, and speeds innovation. Technology becomes a strategic partner shaping business models, customer value, and workforce capability. Practical patterns such as platform thinking, API-led integration, and low-code governance drive faster outcomes with security and compliance. Ethical AI should augment human judgment, ensure fairness, transparency, and accountability, and include bias testing, explainability, human-in-the-loop… read more
Jessica Warren Founder, Agentic PMM	Hardening the Narrative: How to Align Product Reality with GTM Authority In the hyper-accelerated 2026 market, the greatest risk to a product’s success isn't a lack of features—it’s narrative leakage. When your product evolves at 100mph but the market story is stuck at 10mph, GTM friction skyrockets, sales cycles stall, and technical innovation is undervalued by the C-Suite. In this session, Jessica Warren (Founder of Agentic PMM™ and veteran of Coupa’s IPO) iintroduces the Narrative Hardening framework. For product leaders, this isn't about 'better messaging'—it’s about building a defensive, AI-integrated GTM architecture that… read more
Hima Bindu Yanala MTS 1, Software Engineer at eBay Inc.	Beyond the Emergency Backup: Building a Resilient Self-Service Search Architecture with a Dedicated Fallback Index Self-service search is the frontline of customer support, but it's also one of the most fragile. A single traffic spike or partial shard failure can silently return zero results to users, driving costly escalations to contact centers. This talk presents a production-grade architecture for resilient self-service search that treats the fallback index as a first-class reliability mechanism, not an afterthought. Attendees will learn how fan-out amplification can turn a rare outlier request into a widespread failure across large server deployments, and how a layered fallback strategy… read more
Tyrone Dobson Senior Employee Experience and Community Manager at New Relic	Meet New Relic! Join this session to learn more about New Relic. During our time, we will share more about New Relic, our culture, and what it's like to work here. C Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Vuslat Vuslat Vice President, Data and Services at Mastercard	The AI-Ready Leader Artificial intelligence is no longer experimental—it's a strategic and core to all business decisions. Yet many leaders struggle to move their organizations beyond pilots and fragmented initiatives. This discussion will focus on exploring ways female leaders can equip themselves with practical frameworks to evaluate AI investments, identify capability gaps, and align AI initiatives with enterprise strategy and risk. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Priyadarshni Natarajan Technical Fellow at Walmart	Mentorship and Sponsorship: Building the Next Generation of Women in Tech Effective ways to guide and elevate emerging talent in the technology sector. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Danielle Steed Head of Operations at ScreenSteps	Boost Manager Productivity by 25% By Eliminating Tribal Knowledge Do Managers, Directors, and VP's spend their time answering the same employee questions and the same mistakes? It's time to modernize how your team transfers knowledge from those who know to those who do. This session will discuss how to eliminate tribal knowledge, the power of mentoring women, and freeing up managers time to focus on what moves your business forward. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Daniela Mainieri Cyber Resiliency Architect at Kyndryl	Kyndryl Technical Women Advancement Program Kyndryl Technical advancement program is a internal initiative within Kyndryl to support the development of women in technical careers. This session is going to go over the motivation to create a program like that, how it works, the results achieved so far and also share tips on what went well and what did not. The idea is to share experiences with the audience so that other programs like that can be created to support women in IT. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Julia Satov Global Director of Diversity & Inclusion at Litera	Risk & Revolutions \| How Our Workforce Has Become the Unassuming Revolutionaries This dynamic session that weaves storytelling, research and data, challenges us to understand what’s the risk: As legal (and legal tech) professionals in the space of assessing risk, what do we not see, what have we not considered, what are we still missing? This session takes a view from 10,000 feet to 10 inches to explore how industries have had to react and evolve, how understanding current revolutions are fundamental to business continuity, and how organizational health, reputational brand and talent retention have become the drivers to competitive advantage. We have not only evolved, we… read more
Sultana Begum AI Product Manager at Intel Corporation	Competitive Semiconductor Product Management This talk provides insights from my book on competitive semiconductor product management published by Springer Nature-Apress. The talk demystifies the complex landscape of the semiconductor product industry today. With the emerging benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) today, the semiconductor industry is at crossroads of unprecedented demand, touching almost every product in the modern world. The talk describes the potential business and product development opportunities and provides technical and business details to help you gain a deep understanding of the semiconductor… read more
Viviana Siless Professor, CTO, Co-founder at Quipu Bank	Using AI and blockchain for an inclusive economy A dive into how alternative data and AI can lead the development of new tools for creating an inclusive economy. Did you like this session? Share to vote.