Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Sandrine Pons MD France, GM Iberia and BeNeLux at SNP	Leading Cultural Transformation – A 30-Year Journey of Overcoming Challenges With over 30 years of experience in C-level leadership roles across global tech giants like #EY, #SAP, and #SNP Group, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power—and challenges—of shaping company culture. In this session, I will share my insights on the key hurdles executives face when driving cultural change and the strategies I’ve used to overcome them. From navigating resistance to change to aligning diverse teams around a unified vision, I’ll offer practical lessons learned during high-stakes transformation journeys. Attendees will gain actionable frameworks to tackle the… read more
Sarah Touzani CEO/CO-Founder at Waggle AI	Beyond Automation: How AI Reveals Hidden Team Performance While everyone races to automate with AI, they're missing its greatest potential: revealing how work actually flows through organizations. Learn how leading companies use AI to predict performance issues six months before traditional metrics can spot them. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Eleanor Lomas Vice President, People Partner, EMEA at Synopsys Inc.	Building and Thriving in Winning Cultures "Building and Thriving in Winning Cultures" explores how intentional culture-building drives innovation, resilience, and growth—especially in fast-paced tech environments. This talk defines a winning culture, how to build and sustain it across teams, and how every individual—regardless of role—can be a culture carrier. With insights on leadership, inclusion, and values-driven collaboration, attendees will leave inspired to actively shape a culture where bold ideas and people thrive. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sandrine Pons MD France, Iberia, BeNeLux at SNP Group	Leading Cultural Transformation for Resilience: How Courage and Diversity Drive Innovation in the Tech Industry In this inspiring keynote, Sandrine Pons shares her 30-year journey of navigating, challenging, and shaping organisational culture across continents and industries. She emphasises that true transformation and resilience are fostered in quiet moments of courage, in hallways and personal conversations, not just in boardrooms. Drawing from her experience leading global initiatives—such as mentorship programmes, diversity empowerment, and inclusive innovation forums—she illustrates how courageous leadership, diverse teams, and a human-centred approach build resilient organisations capable… read more
SAMIA ARFAOUI Country Manager at Targa Telematics	Why Smart People Struggle to Decide in Times of Change (and What Resilience Really Looks Like) We live in an era of constant transformation. New technologies, new tools, new frameworks, more data than ever and yet, decision-making feels increasingly difficult. In this session, I explore why highly competent professionals often hesitate, delay, or delegate decisions in times of change. Not because they lack skills or intelligence, but because transformation creates invisible psychological, cultural, and narrative tensions that organizations rarely address. Drawing from my experience as a tech leader and as an author studying decision-making… read more
Corina Taban Founder, Researcher and Behavioral Strategist at 934 Leadership Advisors	Brave, Bold, Visible: Redefining Confidence in Tech Confidence is often misunderstood. It’s treated as a personality trait, rather than a skill shaped by context, norms, and opportunity. This misconception disproportionately holds women back, rewarding visibility over value and conformity over impact. In this session, we’ll reframe confidence as a behavioral and strategic capability that can be developed like a muscle. Drawing on behavioral science, organizational psychology, and experience leading high-stakes negotiations, we’ll explore why competence alone rarely translates into influence, and what actually changes that dynamic.… read more
Annapurna Pradhan CNRS Postdoctoral Fellow at ETIS Lab, ENSEA, France	Toward AI-Native 6G: Secure, Reliable, and Context-Aware Future Wireless Networks AI-native 6G is increasingly conceptualized as an intelligent and context-centric networking paradigm that couples communication with computation, control, and learning, shifting the objective from transporting bits to delivering task-relevant meaning with measurable effectiveness under stringent URLLC constraints. Emerging communication frameworks where AI is built into the network as a foundational design principle, like semantic communication, propose representation and intelligent radio resource management strategies that exploit context to prioritize information that maximizes task… read more
Marie Kuter Founder & app-maker at Unitipi	Tribe Check - Your secret safety net Tribe Check is the mobile app that calls for help when you can't. Whether you are unconscious, confused or threatened, your loved ones receive an alert with the useful information you've decided to share if you miss a checkin. Tribe Check proposes a new approach to personal safety: proactive, anonymous and emergency-driven. Safety without paranoia Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Ana Ciumac Co-founder, CPO at Kidomo	The Missing Foundation: Financial Literacy as a Core Life Skill in the Digital Age Financial decisions are now embedded into everyday digital experiences — yet financial education is still treated as an optional skill introduced far too late. By the time most people encounter formal financial literacy, habits, biases, and anxiety around money are already deeply formed. This talk explores why financial education must begin in early childhood and be treated as foundational infrastructure for long-term economic resilience. Drawing from hands-on work with families and early-stage deployments of child-focused learning tools, the session examines how money mindsets… read more
Erin Dahl Founder at Co Labs	Field Notes on Building Non-Extractive Consumer AI: Trust + Early Validation From day one, we've been building around a clear goal: support human flourishing through the relationships that shape daily life. That means treating trust and ethics as part of the product, not a layer we add later. Alongside design and engineering, we’ve brought various experts into the building process early, and in a way that's compatible with startup pace. In this session, I’ll share quick notes from the field: the principles we’ve operationalized and the parameters we’ve kept an eye on as we iterate. I’ll also walk through how we’re approaching early external… read more
Linh TRAN Lead Data & AI at French Ministry of Economics, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty	AI Is No Longer a Tech Topic: Why the C-Suite Must Own It — and Why Women CEOs Are Essential to Getting It Right AI is no longer a technical issue. It is a leadership and governance challenge. Today, many executives still delegate AI to IT or data teams, while the real risks — trust, bias, regulation, reputation, and long-term value — sit squarely at the C-suite and board level. When AI fails, it rarely fails because of technology. It fails because of leadership. This talk reframes AI as a CEO responsibility and explains why owning AI has become a core leadership skill. It also shows why women CEOs and executives are indispensable in the AI era — not for representation, but… read more
Ebony Belhumeur CEO at DappleAI	The AI Usability Crisis — and Why Inclusive Design Will Decide Who Benefits From the Future of Technology “The AI Usability Crisis: Why Inclusive Design Will Decide Who Benefits From the Future of Technology,” explores a growing issue in AI adoption: while models are becoming more powerful, the interfaces remain complex and exclusionary, unintentionally widening the gap between those who can leverage AI and those who cannot. One of the biggest stories in AI right now isn’t about model quality — it’s about usability. While the technical leaps are impressive, we’re seeing a massive drop-off in actual adoption, particularly among everyday users. At DappleAI, we refer to this as the AI Usability… read more
Ina Dalipi-Turquet Founder at MATRY AI	Using AI to Reach Product-Market Fit Faster Early-stage founders do not usually fail because they lack information. They fail because execution breaks down. In this talk, I’ll share what I’ve learned while building MATRY, an AI platform designed to help solo founders move from scattered ideas to structured action. I’ll talk about the real gap I kept seeing through customer conversations: founders often know what they should do, but they struggle to prioritize, follow through, and turn insight into momentum. This session explores how AI can support product-market fit in a more practical way, not by giving… read more
Oksana Rösch Founder & CEO at ANOX	From Linguistics to Autonomous Robotics: How a Non-Linear Career Became My Superpower Careers in tech are often expected to follow a linear path: study the “right” subject, build deep expertise early, and never deviate. But real innovation rarely follows a straight line. In this talk, I share my journey from linguistics to autonomous robotics, and how a path that once looked unfocused became my greatest advantage. Moving across disciplines, countries, and roles taught me how to think in systems, connect seemingly unrelated problems, and navigate uncertainty, skills that are essential in today’s fast-moving tech landscape. I will argue that non-… read more
Marta Ros Product Director, Infojobs at Adevinta	Aligning Product and Business Metrics One of the difficult conversations that we have in Product is about the business impact that our features or iterations have. I would like to explain the whole process that we have gone through in InfoJobs in order to have smother conversations by establishing a North Star Metric and building KPI Trees. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Virginia Diana Todea Site Reliability Engineer at Elastic	GenerativeAI: applications in the serverless world Generative AI is triggering great search capabilities and is conquering already new milestones in observability. This talk will walk you through current opportunities in the technology of Generative AI, which are unraveling with the help of vector databases, machine learning abilities, and transformer flexibility. We will examine the use cases of OpenTelemetry as the leading tool of observability within the serverless framework. The AI assistants on one side and the better log analysis on the other are accelerating the problem resolution in many industries. By the end of this talk, the… read more
Patricia Arboleda CEO & Founder - Executive Coach at Arboleda Coaching	Perfectionism: The Internal Glass Ceiling sabotaging career advancement for Women In Tech There’s a 13-letter word that is silently sabotaging millions of careers around the world. And it’s ‘something’ that has gone unnoticed and largely not talked about for decades. Yet, it could very well be THE single most reason why so many highly qualified women aren’t advancing in their corporate roles. Do you know what this culprit is? Perfectionism. In this empowering keynote, the speaker passionately addresses women in the tech industry, guiding them on a journey of self-discovery and recognition of their inherent value. The keynote aims to uplift and motivate women by… read more
Anna Teres Data Science Team Lead at Ocado Technology	Transitioning from leading a team of Engineers to lead a team of Data Scientists After some years leading a team of Engineers (building the team from scratch, growing it to a performance level, navigating through change with them and helping with their professional development, never forgetting the delivery and quality of the project) I needed a change. New challenges, a team that actually needed me, a way to prove my managerial and leadership skills to myself. So, I embarked in this adventure of leading a Data Science team, located in two different countries (plus me in a third one) A team with a great need of processes and ways of working to help them be productive and… read more
Diana Angelica Gamez Diaz Technical Director at Data & Analytics at SEAT CODE	How the dream of becoming tech director in data analytics came true A girl who studied artificial intelligence that always dreamed of working in this field never imagined she was going to work along an amazing team in the leadership track. She and the team would accomplish big things while taking care of their well-being. She wasn’t the only one who wanted to pursue this road, however, she had a lot of support and role models, specially her mom, to follow to be brave enough to take the opportunity. In this talk, we will talk about the road in leadership and the challenges we face in this process. Also, different people who took part of this road,… read more
Anemari Fiser Engineering Leader \| Career coach in tech at AF	How to land your first job in tech Tech is the place to be these days. Getting tech skills these days has become more accessible than ever: lots of self-learning online tools, bootcamp, workshops, mentors, communities are all great options to develop skills that before you could only get from a degree. So now that you have the skills, you are probably looking for that first tech role. Looking for a job is a full-time job and the old way of looking for jobs is dead. So let’s talk about what exactly will help you land that job these days. Did you like this session? Share to vote.