Women Techmakers Montreal 2024
as the organisers put it
Impacter l’avenir CONFÉRENCE WTM Conférence WTM Événement en personne le 6 avril 2024 @ServiceNow, Montréal WOMEN TECHMAKERS MONTREAL Women Techmakers est un programme créé par Google afin de souligner le talent des femmes dans le milieu de l’informatique. […]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Building a secure future using DEVSECOPS practices and technologies | Darlene Wilson | 32m |
Equifax exposes 147 million Equifax accounts because Apache Struts went unpatched within 48 hours, Uber leaks 57 million via credentials left on GitHub, and… | ||
| ME, MYSELF AND AI | Noemí Hernández | 36m |
Demonstrates concrete use of GitHub Copilot inside VS Code by editing an open‑source office booking app (add/modify bookings), auto‑generating docs and unit… | ||
| Fluttering forward: Building a cross-platform app | Dominique Vigeant | 49m |
Builds a cross‑platform Flutter app (Dart) from a repo QR to a working quiz called Whata thinking that cycles four images of a cat and scores answers. Uses VS… | ||
| Towards Inclusive AI: Understanding bias in ML models | Afaf Taïk, Khaoula Chehbouni | 42m |
Machine learning pipelines amplify societal bias despite safety layers and the talk tests that with a Llama 2 case study and a manual audit of 20,000 model… | ||
| Brick-by-brick: Exploring Apache Kafka® | Danica Fine | 56m |
Rebuilds Apache Kafka as a Lego set: describes topics as append‑only logs, partitions for parallelism (example three partitions on a three‑node cluster), and… | ||
| PANEL : EMPOWERING WOMEN: STORIES OF GROWTH & TRANSFORMATION | Stéphanie Jecrois, Émilie Paquin, Pamela Rivera Badillo, Virginie Villatte, Stella Filippatos | 55m |
Panel documents actionable steps: recommend auditing training data and following a UNESCO manifesto for reduced AI gender bias; require full applicant lists… | ||
| Overcoming Social Identity Threat in Tech Teams | Carine Mizero Kizito | 32m |
Recounts 15 years in software development with concrete stakes: only woman in a 10+ team and once the only woman on a floor of ~50, repeated microaggressions… | ||
| CTRL+ALT+DEPRESSION | Manon Gruaz | 39m |
Manon Gruaz discusses how women in tech face unique pressures that double their risk of depression, highlighting perfectionism and stigma as key contributors… | ||
| DEAR JUNIOR DEVELOPER ME | Beatrice Lopez | 31m |
Argues that dropping the label “junior” helps tackle real problems, and gives concrete habits: pair programming for learning seniors' workflows, ask managers… | ||
| The Human Potential and AI | Delphine Le Serre | 54m |
Claims that the heart creates a magnetic field five times stronger than the brain and that heart‑brain signals support intuition and stored heart memory; cites… | ||
| Disability and Tech: Can we combine them for a more inclusive world? | Maria Julia G. | 29m |
Companies build concrete tools: a Montreal startup is developing a smart treated glove that detects and prevents dangerous drops in hand blood flow and targets… | ||
| Opening Women Techmakers Montreal 2024 - Impact the Future | 22m | |
Ninth edition sells out after four months of organizing, reports doubled engagement and over 2K reach while adding a careers panel that collected 45 questions… | ||
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