Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Adrienne Youdim Triple Board-Certified Physician \| Forbes Health Advisor \| Human Performance Expert at Dr. Adrienne Youdim MD	Resilient Not Reactive: Leading with Clarity, Confidence, and Agility In a world marked by uncertainty and change, female entrepreneurs don’t struggle because they lack drive — they struggle navigating relentless demands rapid pivots, and sustained focus across multiple domains of life. Resilience isn’t about pushing harder. It’s about maintaining clarity and composure as the stakes increase. In this science-based and deeply human keynote, Dr. Adrienne Youdim — triple board-certified physician, former Medical Director at Cedars-Sinai, and certified in Mind–Body Medicine — brings physiology and psychology to entrepreneurial leadership. Drawing on two… read more
Ishita Verma Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Netflix	Practical Lessons from Building and Scaling AI Systems This talk shares real-world lessons from building and scaling AI systems in large consumer products. Drawing on experience from recommendation and generative AI use cases, it covers how to move from promising models to reliable production systems, balance offline metrics with online impact, and navigate challenges around data quality, experimentation, and global user behavior. The focus is on pragmatic takeaways that teams can apply when deploying AI at scale. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Claudia Natasia Co-Founder and CEO at Riley AI	Decisions Don’t Fail; Ownership Does Why No One Is Accountable for the Hardest Calls in Modern Companies When a decision goes wrong, companies blame the data, the forecast, or the market, but rarely the system that produced the decision. This talk argues that most organizations have no clear ownership over decisions that span Product, CX, and Revenue, leaving critical calls to be negotiated rather than made. Claudia introduces decision intelligence as a way to encode ownership, assumptions, and tradeoffs directly into the system—not into meetings. The result is faster action, fewer reversals, and decisions that… read more
Deepika Katake Lead Software Engineer at Biofourmis	Predictive Care at Scale: How RPM and AI Are Rewriting the Rules of Health Healthcare is entering a new era where care moves from reactive to predictive, powered by AI driven Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM). In this session, I will explore how scalable RPM systems are transforming patient outcomes, reducing hospital readmissions, and enabling continuous, personalized care. Attendees will gain actionable insights from real - world implementations, including how to overcome challenges in data integration, interoperability, and patient engagement. I will share practical strategies for scaling predictive care across startups and enterprise health systems,… read more
DMA Anderson CEO at Korgi	Welcome to “Vibe Productivity”: Plan, execute, and deliver projects instantly with Korgi’s AI-generated project boards – using your own trusted apps and drives. Quick check: how many tabs, windows, and apps do you have open right now? How many places do you jump between throughout the day to find files, track to-dos, and communicate – especially with team members, contractors, and clients spread across time zones? In this 10-minute demo, you’ll see how Korgi's “vibe productivity” speeds up and centralizes work. Enter a simple chat prompt into Korgi (or pick a prebuilt board template), and AI generates a complete project board in under a minute – with clear steps, links, and resources so you can take action immediately. Then see… read more
Rashi Agrawal Head of AI at Hinge Health	Beyond the Pilot: Strategies for Reliable AI at Enterprise Scale Many companies are stuck in a cycle of endless AI pilots that never see production. The move from a successful proof-of-concept to a reliable, enterprise-wide deployment requires a different set of leadership and engineering skills. This session focuses on solving the "hallucination problem" through better evaluation frameworks and guardrails. We will discuss the operational shifts needed to support AI in production, including monitoring, versioning, and cost management. This is a practical guide for executives who are ready to stop experimenting and start delivering at scale. … read more
Deepti Bahel Senior Data Engineer at Gifthealth	MediMate: An AI Health Companion Built from Lived Experience, Not a Pitch Deck MediMate is a mobile-first, AI-powered companion built to support people like me — and the caregivers who walk alongside them. After my kidney transplant, I realized how fragile real-world medication adherence, emotional health tracking, and caregiver communication actually are. Most tools either feel clinical, fragmented, or overwhelming. Patients and caregivers are left juggling pill schedules, lab reports, side effects, mood swings, and missed-dose anxiety with no single place to make sense of it all. MediMate is raw, early, and scrappy — but it’s already… read more
Alana Bagby-Leonard Founder at Aurah	The Leadership Debt Hiding in Your Cap Table: A Diagnostic Framework for Scaling Startups Technical debt is a well-understood concept in venture-backed startups, shortcuts taken early that compound over time and eventually demand repayment. But there’s another form of debt that’s harder to see and more expensive to fix: leadership debt. Leadership debt manifests as the organizational shortcuts founders make while racing to product-market fit—flat structures that worked at 10 people but break at 50, decision-making patterns that bottleneck at the CEO, accountability systems built on personal relationships rather than clear metrics. Like technical debt, these shortcuts are… read more
Sreeja Nair Director, Product Management at Qualcomm	Beyond the Algorithms : What AI teaches me about Product and Organizational Leadership AI has changed the nature of leadership, without changing its fundamentals. While AI can accelerate analysis and execution, it cannot define the right problem, make meaningful tradeoffs, or take accountability when constraints appear. Those responsibilities still sit squarely with leaders. Using concrete examples from building and scaling products, the session connects AI and product fundamentals such as overfitting, ensemble learning, problem framing, evaluation, user empathy, and systems thinking to modern leadership challenges. It shows how the same principles that drive product… read more
Daniela Schardinger CEO & Founder at ELAFY Consulting	Scaling Medtech Without Burning Markets: Lessons From 30 Launches Launching a medtech product is often treated as a milestone. In reality, it is a point of no return. Once commercialization begins, expectations reset, regulatory scrutiny intensifies, early numbers shape long-term narratives, and markets develop memory that is difficult to undo. In this keynote, Daniela Schardinger shares practical lessons from launching medical technologies across nearly 30 global markets, through both distributor networks and direct commercial efforts. Drawing on real-world experiences from Europe, Asia, and the United States, she explores what founders… read more
Lisa Chamberlain Strategic Growth Advisor at Lisa M Chamberlain LLC	The Quiet Levers: What Actually Creates Value and Successful Exits Most startup advice focuses on fundraising milestones or growth-at-all-costs tactics. But the lever that most impacted the value of our acquisitions? Customer Advocacy. Value creation happens in the moments before the metrics prove you right. Drawing from my experience leading growth, operations, and product from early traction through exit, I'll share what actually compounded value versus what simply looked impressive. This talk focuses on repeatable patterns: identifying real customer value, designing growth systems that scale without burning out teams, and building strategic… read more
Kimberly Kearney Founder, Managing Director at INICIO Executive Consulting	Trust Under Fire: What Espionage Can Teach You about Leading in Uncertain Times In intelligence work, the ability to navigate ambiguity is often the difference between success and failure. Those same principles apply to how we approach the world today, and yet most people have never paused to think about how to develop trust as a risk management skill. Learn actionable frameworks to think about trust in your own life, your team, and your organizations. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Pooja Tejura Senior Director of Engineering at Walmart Global Tech	Retail in the Age of Delegation: Agentic Commerce & Community As AI agents begin to shop for customers, trust becomes the new currency. This session looks at how agentic commerce and exclusive online communities together redefine loyalty, convenience, and competitive advantage in retail. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Lauren Wu Founder & CEO / Adjunct Professor of Law at Heart Led Leadership / Northwestern Pritzker School of Law	Still Here, Still Working: Designing Accessible Leadership with AI and Empathy As organizations face increasing pressure to move faster and deliver more, traditional leadership models built on constant capacity are showing their limits. This session explores how disability — particularly invisible disability — challenges conventional assumptions about productivity, presence, and performance, and how leaders can respond through better system design rather than individual resilience. Drawing on lived experience recovering from a major health event, occupational therapy principles, and the practical use of AI as an accessibility tool, this talk reframes leadership… read more
Gunjan Mundhra Director, Commercial Transformation Strategy at Microsoft	Vibecoding an App: Building personal scalable systems with AI I built a fully functional AI-powered habit-tracking app for myself without a technical background—not by learning to code the traditional way, but by “vibecoding”: using structured thinking, clear goals, and iterative experimentation to create a tool that serves real outcomes. This session begins with my consulting years, where rigid structure was the only way to operate at the highest level of performance amid constant demands. I’ll share how frameworks from books like Atomic Habits, Why We Sleep, and Deep Work inspired me to design a simple habit framework that brought… read more
Susmita Singh Senior software engineer at Google	Beyond the Prototype: Building Resilient, Non-Hallucinating AI Agents at Google Scale Building an AI agent prototype is often just 5% of the journey. The challenge lies in the remaining 95%, transforming that prototype into a resilient, inclusive, production-ready system capable of serving millions of users without hallucinating. From the real-world experiences of building agents, this session explores the engineering required to bridge the prototype to production gap. We will dive into the critical pillars of production-grade AI: building robust evaluation frameworks to tame non-determinism, implementing multi-layered safety (redactions, citations, and consent) and… read more
Parisa Moazeni Principle ISV Generative AI AM at AWS	Revenue, Influence & AI: How Women Lead in the New Tech Economy How GenAI changes go-to-market models • Partnering with CTOs vs CFOs • Avoiding being sidelined in deep technical conversations • Owning the narrative when the room is 90% male engineers • Where women should position themselves in AI (sales, product, strategy) Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Snow Zhao Founder & CEO at AIgentic	Break the Cloud Lock-in: Building Adaptive Intelligence Orchestration with DIO AIaas are often stuck in a binary choice: pay the "token tax" for convenient Cloud APIs or manage the complexity of local open-source models (Llama/Mistral) yourself. The future belongs to a hybrid architecture—but the routing logic shouldn't be spaghetti code. In this session, we introduce DIO (Distributed Intelligence Orchestration), a new open-source framework designed to bridge on-premise infrastructure and cloud capabilities. We will move beyond theory and look at the code behind the Federated Decision Engine (FDE)—the algorithm that allows you to dynamically route prompts… read more
Ramya Narasimha Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft	Architecting Reliability: Moving Beyond the 'Perfect Answer' in AI Evaluation In 2026, the challenge with AI isn’t just generating correct answers—it’s knowing when to trust them. Most AI evaluation today still centers on a narrow set of metrics: accuracy, latency, and fluency. While these are easy to measure, they say very little about how an AI system actually behaves when information is incomplete, signals conflict, or verification fails. This talk explores why current evaluators are poorly equipped to assess reasoning quality and user trust, and why evaluating internal chains of thought is neither stable nor sufficient. Instead, we’ll examine a shift toward… read more
Harshita Lall Product Leader	How AI Systems Accidentally Manipulate Humans — and Why It Backfires AI products are scaling fast. Trust is not. As AI moves from experimentation to monetized, enterprise-scale deployment, a critical risk is emerging: most systems optimize for engagement, conversion, or efficiency — but not for long-term human trust. In high-stakes domains like commerce, finance, healthcare, and enterprise software, this misalignment creates subtle but compounding consequences. Optimization loops amplify persuasion. Confident model outputs trigger authority bias. Reinforcement systems reward short-term gains while quietly eroding credibility.… read more