Sessions: WomenTech Global Conference

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Neeti Patel Founder/GTM Advisor at Mosaic Growth Solutions	Back to Basics: The GTM Fundamentals That Unlock Scalable Growth In a market flooded with new tools, channels, and AI-powered tactics, many organizations are trying to “optimize” their way to growth — without realizing their go-to-market foundation is fundamentally broken. In this session, Neeti Patel, co-founder of Mosaic Growth Solutions, walks leaders through the GTM fundamentals that consistently separate teams that scale from those that stall. Drawing on nearly a decade of hands-on work with B2B and PE-backed growth companies, Neeti breaks down how to think about go-to-market as a system — not a set of disconnected tactics. Did… read more
Chiddy Onyia General Counsel / Founder at Agnes Health	Building Tech in Regulated Industries Without Slowing Innovation Regulation is often treated as an obstacle to innovation—but it doesn’t have to be. This talk shares practical frameworks for founders building in regulated sectors to manage risk early, move fast with confidence, and avoid regulatory surprises that stall growth or fundraising. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Mina Abdulla Founder & CEO of Genee	Designing Conversational AI with the HCMI Framework: From UX Patterns to Trustworthy Experiences Conversational AI succeeds when it blends human-centered UX with measurable impact and responsible guardrails. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll apply the HCMI framework (Human-Centered, Measurable, Intent-aware) to design and evaluate real chat and voice experiences. We’ll cover interaction patterns (turn-taking, error recovery, clarifying questions), prompt and persona design, safety/ethics considerations, and lightweight analytics that map conversations to outcomes. Participants will work through a guided canvas: define user intents, craft multi-turn flows, establish trust signals, and… read more
Nixalkumar Patel Sr. Product Manager at LG Electronics	From Product Page to Purchase: A Governed Operating Model for AI-Assisted Conversational Commerce Digital commerce organizations often introduce chat as a customer engagement channel, but many struggle to operationalize it as a scalable, governed conversion system. Traffic remains low, conversations are generic, product intent is lost across handoffs, and human experts become a constrained resource. This session presents a practical operating model for transforming product-page browsing into intent-qualified, context-preserving conversations that can progress toward resolution and purchase without restarting the journey. The session outlines a reusable reference model built… read more
Christina Garcia SVP, Head of Engineering & Technology at Echo Global Logistics	The AI Investment Gap: Why Your Pilots Succeed and Your Deployments Fail AI adoption doesn't fail because of technology. It fails because we invest in tools and pilots but not in the organizational transformation required to bring AI to life at scale. Drawing from a live transformation at a 3PL company, this talk reveals the investment gap: we buy the partnership but don't invest in redesigning the relationship. Learn why trust and process redesign are inseparable—you can't build one without the other. Discover how to weave human judgment and machine capability together at the DNA level, creating processes more robust than either could achieve alone… read more
Duygu Ozen CEO at WE7 AI	Carbon-First Marketing & Decision Intelligence Marketing is one of the fastest-growing sources of Scope 3 emissions — yet it remains largely invisible in strategic climate decisions. Today, many leading brands are already making carbon-aware marketing choices, but they do so manually, inconsistently, and without a scalable system. In this talk, Duygu Özen explores how carbon-first thinking changes the role of marketing from a campaign execution function into a decision-intelligent operating system. She will unpack why measuring impact after campaigns is no longer enough, how moving carbon analysis upstream protects ROI and… read more
Dr. Cynthia Sutherland Chief Information Security Officer at BlackCrest Cyber, LLC	Tech Without Burnout in the Age of AI In today’s high-stakes cyber landscape, speed is everything—but it’s costing us more than we realize. As organizations rush to integrate AI and secure digital systems, the pressure on cybersecurity teams has quietly reached a breaking point. Burnout is no longer an exception—it’s becoming operational risk. In this timely leadership talk, Dr. Cynthia Sutherland, former CISO for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and FEMA, introduces the A.I.R. Framework™: Aligning Innovation with Empathy, Integrating Innovation with Intention, and Recovering with Permission. Rooted in lived… read more
Amreetha Nagaraj Head of Box Consulting, US East & Canada at Box, Inc	The AI-Powered Leader: Redesigning How We Work, Decide, and Lead This session explores how leaders can thoughtfully use AI to optimize workflows, elevate strategic thinking, and lead more effectively in complex environments. Drawing from real leadership experience, I’ll share how AI can become a trusted partner in productivity, communication, and execution—without sacrificing authenticity or trust. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Sandhya Pillay VP Equipment Innovation & Freestyle Operations at The Coca-Cola Company	Verbs vs. Nouns Owning our careers, choices and consequences through empathy, curiosity and generosity - of ourselves and others. Hear stories of multiple career pivots which span countries, functions and companies while navigating parenting and all-round adulting! Did you like this session? Share to vote.
MarKeisha Snaith Director, AI Security Governance at Xire	From Chaos to Clarity: A Practical AI Governance Playbook for Security and Tech Teams Everyone is talking about “responsible AI,” yet many teams are still guessing their way through risk assessments, approvals, and documentation. This session gives you a practical, non‑academic AI governance playbook you can start using the same day. Drawing on real experience standing up governance for cloud security tools and AI initiatives, I’ll walk through how to turn high‑level principles into lightweight guardrails that engineers, analysts, and product owners will actually follow. We’ll map a sample AI use case to a simple lifecycle (idea, design, build, deploy, monitor)… read more
Arpna Aggarwal Senior IT Auditor	The Accountability Blindspot: Auditing AI Before It Audits Us AI is being implemented across all industries, yet much of it remains fundamentally unauditable. This keynote introduces the Accountability Blindspot, which is the critical gap between AI capability and AI governance. I present a strong case for Audit-First AI, where cybersecurity, responsible intelligence, and data governance form the foundation of trust. This presentation does not only focus on ethics. It is the blueprint for the next layer of infrastructure in civilization. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Parna Sarkar-Basu Founder & CEO at B&B Consulting	Scaling Beyond $1M: Lessons, Pitfalls & Growth Strategies Hitting $1M in revenue is a big milestone — but scaling beyond it requires new systems, sharper focus, and tough choices. In the startup world, reaching $1M in revenue is a milestone, but getting to $5M is a transformation. It requires new systems, sharper focus and tough choices. This interactive discussion will bring together founders and investors who will share candid stories about what worked, where they stumbled and what they would do differently. You’ll walk away with practical frameworks for breaking through the $1M barrier and pitfalls to avoid –from expanding teams to… read more
Raluca Apostol Chief Product Officer at Nestor	The Day Skills Became Strategic: Agentic AI and the Future of Talent Efficiency As innovation cycles accelerate and cost pressures intensify, organizations can no longer afford underutilized skills or fragmented talent decisions. This talk explores how agentic AI elevates skills into a strategic operating layer - continuously optimizing how talent is deployed, developed, and scaled across the organization. Moving beyond skills visibility and task automation, agentic AI actively aligns workforce capabilities with business priorities, unlocking faster innovation, higher talent utilization, and measurable cost efficiency. For C-level leaders, this marks a… read more
Dunia Alsaffar Software Engineer Lead at Bank of America	AI Doesn't Fail. Bad Delivery Does. Let Us Fix It. Blame the technology all you want—95% of AI failures come down to execution, not innovation. Poor planning. Weak leadership. Broken processes. This session arms you with the hybrid agile frameworks that eliminate excuses and drive results. Together, we'll explore how to lead AI delivery with clarity and confidence, and become known as leaders who ship when others stumble. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Dunia Alsaffar Software Engineer Lead at Bank of America	AI Doesn't Fail. Bad Delivery Does. Let Us Fix It. Blame the technology all you want—95% of AI failures come down to execution, not innovation. Poor planning. Weak leadership. Broken processes. This session arms you with the hybrid agile frameworks that eliminate excuses and drive results. Together, we'll explore how to lead AI delivery with clarity and confidence, and become known as leaders who ship when others stumble. Did you like this session? Share to vote.
Hemang Upadhyay Senior Product Manager at LG Electronics USA	From Signals to Decisions: Designing AI-Driven Fraud Detection and Real-Time Risk Forecasting Systems Real-time financial transactions demand decisions in milliseconds, yet most fraud systems still rely on static rules, delayed batch models, or opaque scoring mechanisms that struggle to adapt to evolving threats. This session presents a practical, production-grade AI framework for fraud detection and risk forecasting built for real-time transaction flows. We will break down how machine learning, streaming architectures, and behavioral signals can be orchestrated to move from reactive fraud prevention to predictive, risk-aware decisioning. Attendees will learn how… read more
Amelia Newbury Founder & CEO at Kaleidocent	From Vision to Scale: Making Innovation Operational and Fundable Innovation does not fail because of weak ideas. It fails when strategy, execution, and capital readiness are misaligned. This session explores how founders and ecosystem leaders can bridge the gap between bold vision and operational reality. Drawing from hands-on work with startups and growth-stage companies, I will share practical insights on translating strategy into scalable infrastructure, leading change during rapid growth, and strengthening investor narratives to improve funding outcomes. Attendees will walk away with a clearer framework for making… read more
Pimmi Malhotra Head of Cloud Office at IBM CIO	Agentic AI applied to real enterprise systems at scale AI is no longer a future capability. It is a leadership test. While many organizations experiment with generative and agentic AI, few succeed in turning innovation into sustained enterprise impact. The difference is rarely the technology itself. It is how leaders guide people, decisions, and accountability in an AI enabled world. In this session, I share lessons from leading AI first cloud operations across complex, multi cloud enterprise environments, where AI was embedded into daily work rather than treated as a side experiment. Today, agentic AI supports and automates about 20% of… read more
Panagiota Dafniotis Chief Legal & Intellectual Property Officer at Strix Aero	Courage to Reinvent: Leading, Growing, and Thriving Through Transformation in Tech In the technology sector, disruption is constant — and so is opportunity. The most resilient and impactful leaders are those who have the courage to reinvent themselves. Drawing on decades of experience at the intersection of innovation, intellectual property, and emerging technologies, this session explores how women can: • Leading and navigating through industry transformation • Strategically reposition your career • Reinventing from subject-matter expert to enterprise leader • Leading through AI disruption, digital transformation, and regulatory shifts… read more
Ramona Cedeno Founder & CEO at FiBrick	The Capital Readiness Framework: How Founders Build Businesses That Attract Capital Technology founders are building products that are changing how we live and work. What often trips them up is not the product or the market, it is the financial infrastructure underneath. This session introduces the Capital Readiness Framework, a set of financial operating standards that founders can build into their companies from day one, long before any raise. Drawing on 20+ years in finance and executive leadership, Ramona Cedeño will walk founders through what capital evaluators actually look for beyond the pitch, the financial blind spots that most commonly stall growth, and how to… read more