Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Lauren Ackroyd Agile Coach at Capgemini Invent	It’s not you, it’s me. Have you considered disrupting your ways of working to improve your teams? I want to talk to you about how our focus is on improving our teams, how we can change them, how we can experiment with them, how we can make them more efficient whilst delivering more value, and whether you could make a greater impact by changing that focus. What if you’re the problem? Maybe with a little more self-awareness you could have a greater impact. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Tarin Rickett Software Engineer at Reddit	Lifting as You Climb: How Giving Back Can Propel Your Career What if the secret to growing your career wasn't about climbing alone, but about bringing others with you? In this session, we'll dive into how using your skills for good– through volunteering like mentorship, advocacy, and community building– can be a powerful catalyst for your own career growth. We'll connect giving back to getting ahead, showing you how this work naturally expands your network, develops your leadership, builds your personal brand, and helps you find deeper purpose. You’ll get actionable steps on how to identify the technical and soft skills… read more
Madhura Chaganty Engineering Manager at Elliptic	Hacking Team Creativity in the Age of AI As AI tools become part of everyday software and product development, teams move faster and produce more. With similar tools and workflows everywhere, most teams can ship quickly. When speed becomes easy, it’s tempting to let the tools do more of the thinking, and creativity can slip into autopilot. In this session, I will share practical ways to keep creativity active while working with AI. Drawing from improv comedy, game design, and patterns found in nature, we will look at techniques teams can actually use. This includes “Yes, And” sessions with AI to extend ideas rather… read more
Juliana Smith Project Controls Manager at Turner & Townsend	You Are Not Your Job: Building a Purpose-Driven Personal Brand with Ikigai In a tech industry that often equates success with titles, certifications, and technical mastery, it’s easy to lose sight of what truly defines our value. Our worth isn’t in the job title we hold, it’s in the work we’re meant to do. In this session, I’ll share how the Japanese concept of Ikigai, meaning “reason for being”, reshaped my approach to personal branding. From navigating a career crisis to becoming an international speaker and STEM changemaker, I’ll walk you through how aligning with purpose transformed my visibility, impact, and career direction. … read more
Merve Ugurlu Senior Manager - Data, Privacy and AI Governance Lead, Protiviti	AI Governance and Strategy: Where to start & How to make it work As AI adoption accelerates across industries, organisations face growing pressure to implement effective governance and strategic oversight. This session offers a practical roadmap for initiating AI governance, aligning it with business objectives, and embedding it into current data and risk governance frameworks. It aims to explore key principles, common pitfalls, and proven approaches to ensure responsible, scalable, and value-driven AI deployment. Whether the organisations are just starting or refining their strategy, this talk will equip them with actionable insights to make AI governance… read more
Preeti Gupta Test Automation Lead at Barclays	Fail Forward: How Setbacks Made Me a Stronger Technologist In this story-driven talk, I would share personal experiences of professional setbacks, unexpected challenges, and moments that tested my resilience. You’ll hear how embracing failure, learning quickly, and pivoting strategically transformed obstacles into opportunities for growth, innovation, and leadership. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sam Padmore Experience Strategy Director at Capgemini	Who's in Charge? Designing Trustworthy Agentic Experiences As artificial intelligence moves beyond chatbots toward agentic systems that can plan, act, and collaborate on our behalf, UX faces a profound shift. Designing for agentic AI requires more than conversational interfaces, it demands new patterns of interaction, oversight, and ethical responsibility. In my session I explore three interlocking challenges in shaping human–AI collaboration: • From assistants to collaborators: How do UX patterns change when AI takes initiative, negotiates, and works on behalf and alongside us rather than simply responding to our inputs?… read more
Jo Larby Accessibility Community Lead at Leighton	Moving from Compliance to Culture through Design Systems Accessibility is often an afterthought, being retrofitted into a product to satisfy a checklist that was at the bottom of a list of go-live requirements. It divides teams into those that want to make their products usable for all and those that see it as a tedious task that ruins their streamlined code base through sticky-plaster fixes. In this talk, we’ll discuss how Design Systems can play a part in keeping your development team at ease, your timelines on track and compliance achieved. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sonali Goel Software Development Engineer \|\|\| at Tesco Technology	Skill Stacking in the Age of AI: Reinventing How We Learn, Work, and Grow In the AI era, success isn’t about mastering a single skill—it’s about continuously evolving through a powerful combination of technical depth, creative problem-solving, and adaptability. This session is about sharing a practical Skill Stacking Framework that I designed to build and sustain a growth mindset in an AI-driven world. We’ll explore how to identify complementary skills, layer technical and strategic capabilities, and use AI itself as a learning catalyst. This talk is for anyone seeking to future-proof their career through intentional, lifelong learning in the age of AI.… read more
Tara Lawrence Founder at Origo Consulting	The Science of Reinvention: From Biochemist to Tech Leader After earning a PhD in Plant Genetics and working in a multidisciplinary research group at the University of Nottingham, I took a career break to raise my children. Returning to the workforce was not a straight line, but it was transformative. My journey from research scientist to CEO of a software company, and now founder of a tech consultancy, has been shaped by curiosity, adaptability, and a willingness to start again. This lightning talk explores how to navigate career transitions with confidence: recognising transferable skills, reframing setbacks as… read more
Michelle Hua UK Global Talent Visa Coach & Recipient	UK Global Talent Tech Visa Do you want to move to the UK to build your tech career? Are you already in the UK building your tech career but you are restricted to move companies because of your visa? The UK Global Talent Tech Visa is a special visa for tech professionals, employees or founders that offers a flexible way to work in the UK tech sector without relying on company sponsorship. It also offers a route for you and your family to settle in the UK. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Nyree Basdeo Management Consultant at PA Consulting	AI Adoption: The key to unlocking value for organisations and leaders In an era where technology defines competitive advantage, Artificial Intelligence is reshaping how organisations grow, innovate, and lead. But beyond the algorithms and automation lies a more human story - one about leadership, opportunity, and impact. This session explores how AI adoption drives tangible value - not just in financial performance, but in the way leaders make decisions, teams collaborate, and innovation thrives. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
May Lalloo Director, Global Marketing Services Product Management at Mastercard	Reboot, Reimagine, Return: My Journey Through Tech, Motherhood, and Migration In this candid and inspiring session, May Lalloo shares her unconventional career journey — from designer to marketing leader to product management — and the pivotal moments that shaped her path. Through the lens of motherhood and migration, she explores how personal transformation and professional reinvention often go hand in hand. This talk is a reflection on resilience, identity, and the power of embracing change, offering insights for anyone navigating career pivots or life transitions. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Lilian Ho AI Program Director at ZIGURAT Institute of Technology	'When Buildings Begin to Think' As AI moves from digital interfaces into physical environments, a new paradigm is emerging — Vertical Intelligence. This concept explores how buildings can evolve from static structures into cognitive systems that perceive, learn and respond to their surroundings. Integrating AI, data and design, intelligent buildings are beginning to anticipate human needs, optimize energy use and even adapt their behavior in real time. This talk examines how architecture and technology converge to create environments that think with us, not just for us. Through case studies, research insights and future… read more
RASHDEEP Kelf Supplier Co-Innovation Director at RS Group	Digital Transformation: Enhancing the Customer Journey Utilising agile methodology, POC, test, iterate, and scale. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Jennifer Bryan Chief Empowerment Officer at ABChange Consultancy	The Unseen Power of Emotion in Technology Change Data and Al leaders own the biggest driver of change in business today - Al. What does it take to be successful today and stay successful in the coming years? How can you lead effectively in an environment of constant change, pressure, and complexity? In the world of digital transformation, we obsess over platforms, integrations, and roadmaps. We debate which tools to deploy, which systems to upgrade, and how to scale adoption. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: technology doesn’t fail because of bad code or weak infrastructure. It fails because we ignore emotion. Every system… read more
Shana Dacres-Lawrence Senior Principal Architect at Accenture	If It’s Not a Priority Until There’s a Breach, You Don’t Have Secure Architecture — You Have Hope Security failures don’t begin on the day of a breach. They start much earlier—when organisations quietly substitute hope for a strategy. Too often, that hope becomes an accepted risk on a register… and a future incident waiting to happen. This talk examines the priority gap: the space between what we know we should do and what we actually implement. We’ll explore why this gap forms, how attackers exploit it, and how modern defensive patterns can help to close it. By the end of the session, you’ll know how to embed resilient architecture and security patterns… read more
Sonika Janagill Lead Engineer at VML	Building Production AI with Gemini: Beyond Tutorials to Real-World Systems Most AI API tutorials end at "hello world" examples—but production AI systems require thoughtful architecture, robust error handling, and enterprise integration. This hands-on session bridges that gap by demonstrating practical patterns for building scalable AI applications with Google's Gemini API. I'll walk through real implementations: integrating Gemini into existing backend systems, handling multi-modal inputs (processing documents with embedded images and charts), implementing proper authentication and cost monitoring, and adding custom business logic that… read more
Denise Cardenas Lopez VP Strategic Capability and Integrated Delivery at Amentum	AI as Capability: Creating Cognitive Lift™ to Transform How Organisations Think, Lead, and Scale Artificial intelligence is no longer a technical initiative, it is a C-suite capability imperative. While leaders like Tristan Harris warn of cognitive overload and organisational turbulence, Satya Nadella highlights AI as the greatest amplifier of human capability in our lifetime. This keynote introduces Cognitive Lift™, the measurable rise in an organisation’s intelligence when AI frees human cognitive bandwidth and elevates decision-making. Denise Cárdenas López reframes AI as a core organisational capability, not a set of tools. Drawing from her Systems of Capability™… read more
Natalie Godec Senior Cloud Architect at Zencore	Secure By Design: Architecting your cloud and AI workloads from the perspective of infosec So you've vibe-coded your Super Smart AI Agentic App and are ready to set it free on the Internet. You are sure it will do well, it solves this amazing use-case, with such clever technology! You pick your favourite cloud provider, decide on a runtime - perhaps, Kubernetes or Cloud Run - buy a domain, ask Gemini to wire up a deployment pipeline. Happy days! But here's the thing. You can't vibe-code security. Every single thing you deploy to the cloud needs to be secured. And it's a hard task! Even for cybersecurity professionals. But fret not… read more