Women Transforming Technology Conference 2021
2021-05-04..2021-05-11
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Career Exploration Welcome and Job Search Overview | Olivia Shen Green | 21m |
Conference adds a Career Exploration Day focused on Resilience, with an expanded agenda of practical job-hunt workshops, networking rooms and an employer… | ||
| Rock Your Profile: Unleash Your Wonder Woman on LinkedIn | Lauren Jehl | 26m |
LinkedIn research shows women have shorter profile summaries and about 11 fewer skills listed than men, plus smaller networks; profiles with photos get up to… | ||
| How to GET YOUR RESUME NOTICED and land that interview! | Melissa Crignis | 24m |
Claims that up to 75% of applications never get reviewed and recruiters spend about 10 seconds per resume drive the advice: always apply through the ATS then… | ||
| Mastering the Virtual Technical Interview | Lauren Cooley, Haritha Tapa | 26m |
Recruiter and hiring-manager perspectives give concrete tactics: how many technical rounds to expect, which platforms are used (example: HackerRank), how to… | ||
| Virtual Job Interviews for Anyone | Dee Houlihan | 24m |
Covers concrete virtual-interview practices: test the meeting link, camera and headset minutes before; join early to set camera angle; mute after speaking; use… | ||
| Building an Expansive Career | Erin Yang | 28m |
Career advice grounded in concrete moves: take roles that feel beyond current skills to accelerate learning, rotate horizontally across product engineering… | ||
| How to Be the Go-To in Your Field | Theresa Lina | 26m |
Presents a pragmatic four-part recipe that claims to make you the default expert: pick an urgent market problem, design a tightly focused solution, prove… | ||
| Projecting for Success | Anita Jindal | 24m |
Framework lays out five principles for projecting impact: use LinkedIn to list quantified results and cross-team outcomes so recruiters find concrete… | ||
| "Hack" your Present to Build the Future you Want | Celine Pypaert | 31m |
Returns to university at 29 and teaches herself Linux and basic pen‑testing by setting up virtualized lab environments and using CTFs and bug bounty platforms… | ||
| Applying A Technical Brain To Organizational Design | Nazneen Rupawalla | 26m |
Applied software engineering practices to redesign and scale an entry-level technical onboarding program into a repeatable change initiative, using… | ||
| Demystifying Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Careers | Andrea G. Tatum | 27m |
Indeed reports a 56% increase in DEI job postings between Sep 2019 and Sep 2020. Corporate roles break down into specific jobs: DEI analyst (builds dashboards… | ||
| Electrify Your Product Management Career | Lauren Chan Lee | 26m |
A career framework called Product Decagon maps product work into 10 disciplines (discovery & execution, people management, leadership, communication, strategy… | ||
| Career Growth: A Journey to Zen | Susan Aoki | 25m |
A practical career framework: self-discovery, explore, position, land, accelerate with concrete moves—leaving a 20-year company for startups and later… | ||
| The Five Habits of Intentional Influencers – Leading in a Global Organisation | Kasia Gurgul | 27m |
Five concrete habits drive influence in a global matrix: connection — build networks across silos, show appreciation and be present on calls; curiosity — ask… | ||
| Understand and Optimize Your Compensation | Malini Bhandaru | 29m |
Explains how to value base pay, bonus, RSUs and vest schedules (example: Amazon 5/15/40/40), 401(k) match and vacation as cash, and why stock vesting timing… | ||
| Strategies to Thrive in a Male Dominated Workplace | Elaine Montilla | 27m |
Offers concrete tactics: meditation for fear management, emotional‑intelligence training to be assertive not aggressive, and a routine of block an hour for… | ||
| Embrace Your Inner Imposter | Aly Konary | 27m |
Claims that imposter feelings persist despite clear accomplishments and that about 85 percent of people experience them; evidence cites Harvard Business Review… | ||
| Leading with Empathy in a Volatile Environment | Vinita Vasudevan | 28m |
Career stories show that empathetic leadership raises retention and attraction: a brutal early boss drives high performers away while a considerate leader wins… | ||
| Women in Supply Chain and Logistics: Making Moves in this Trending Industry | Casey Billings, Cristina Aguilar, Lydia Bouaricha, Carlisha Evans, Maja Konrad, Chantra Park | 57m |
A panel from a fulfillment company explains how its Shipwire SaaS platform adds omnichannel reporting, automated B2B dropship and returns, plus a… | ||
| Expand Your Ability and Build Your Own Board of Advisor | Jiazhi Ma | 25m |
Defines growth mindset versus fixed mindset and adds a design mindset that insists on curiosity, small experiments and accepting failure as learning… | ||
| Open Source as a Means of Foolproofing Your Career | Carlisia Thompson | 28m |
Open source acts as a career accelerator by turning contributions into public work: three years of work on valero and contributions to Kubernetes produce… | ||
| How to move between tech & non-tech roles to accelerate your tech career | Sandy Simcox, Chris Noon | 26m |
Describes a practical path: join a rotational grad scheme, take small steps into product roles, and learn cloud on the job rather than retraining entirely… | ||
| Attaining Successful Careers in Tech: Voices from The Field | Nicole Reineke | 51m |
Panel gives concrete career moves: put your name in for any role you’re remotely qualified for, learn technical skills by shadowing or taking early-morning… | ||
| Career - a Journey Full of Crossroads and No Map. Bring Your Compass with You | Olga Specjalska | 19m |
Career path shows a concrete three-step rule: know your destination (set a true north), follow your ikigai (map what you love, are good at, what the world… | ||
| Get Your Shift Together: 5 Ways to Shift From Doing to Leading | Jo Miller | 01h 32m |
Five concrete shifts with exercises and outcomes: a time portfolio exercise (color-code one month of calendar hours) and three daily strategy questions (time… | ||
| 5 Lightning Talks – Theme “Resilience” | Sarah Egan Warren, Sarah Glova, Rachel Onamusi, Harninder Bassi, Olga Specjalska, Mamta Suri | 01h 02m |
Five lightning pieces deliver concrete tools: a guided virtual reframing exercise that produces a personal definition plus three deployable “frames” and a… | ||
| SPARKing Career Resilience | Rajini Rajendran | 38m |
SPARK presents a practical resilience method: name automatic thoughts with Parrots of Perception and put them on trial using the S P A R K steps Situation… | ||
| Holding Your Own: How to Overcome Gender Bias and Thrive in Tech | Linda Lubin Thompson | 01h 01m |
Summarizes research showing gender bias persists: a Yale study of 100 STEM professors favors “John” over “Jennifer” and offers thousands of dollars more… | ||
| Identify Transferrable Skillsets to Land Your Dream Role | Madhuri Murlikrishna | 23m |
Actionable five-step method that claims to turn current work into a new role: five-step career navigation hack (find your why; map transferable skills; build… | ||
| A Primer on AI Powered Conversational Experiences and Language Models | Mamtha Banerjee | 58m |
Covers a concrete flow: build an NLU bot with Dialogflow to extract intents, entities and slot filling and deploy it multi‑channel (voice, chat, email) at… | ||
| Demystifying Observability and Monitoring | Saqi Liu | 40m |
Explains why observability vs monitoring matters by naming concrete practices: use Prometheus and Grafana for time‑series metrics and dashboards, track a… | ||
| One Universal Language for All Machine Learning Models | Anna Jung | 54m |
Deep learning models trained in TensorFlow, PyTorch or Keras export to a common protobuf file that expresses a computational graph and standardized operators… | ||
| Account Takeover Attack, It's Detection & Relevance | Dibya Mukhopadhyay | 35m |
Workday defends payroll account takeover by combining a rules engine with a machine learning pipeline that runs an XGBoost classifier on access logs. Key… | ||
| A Thin Line Between Love and K8s | Ramona Jackson | 18m |
Kubernetes provides an open control loop that constantly reconciles a control loop desired-state and an extensible API ecosystem of monitoring, CI/CD and… | ||
| Resilience and Allyship during Covid (30 minutes) | Rupa Dachere | 01h 03m |
Covid drives one in four women to consider leaving the workforce and produces burnout rates 1.5–2.5x higher than men, with Black women feeling least supported… | ||
| Taking an Idea to a Conversation to a Global Community | Naomi Molefe | 01h 03m |
Grassroots community starts in 2015 with a question and a LinkedIn forum, partners with Cloudera/SAP/IBM/MapR, runs a first hands-on Apache Hadoop workshop (40… | ||
| Catalyzing Change to Create Cohesive Communities | Rebecca Tom | 32m |
Company expands from five to 13 employee networks and builds a global virtual hub, the Dolby Anywhere platform, that runs 90+ coffee breaks and curated events… | ||
| Language of Leadership | Lori Nishihara Macken | 01h 01m |
Research shows managers give women feedback that is vaguer and less technical and resume audits find assumed-male names get hired at 72% vs 44% while a major… | ||
| Resilience: Two Sides of the Same Coin | Melissa V. Abad, PhD | 01h 02m |
Data show unemployment spiking to nearly 16% after the pandemic and Black and Latinx women each losing over half a million jobs, while almost 1 million mothers… | ||
| Assignments: A Key to Resilience | Gabi Gall | 01h 01m |
Claims that stretch assignments provide roughly the lion’s share of career development (the 70/20/10 framing), that they deliver visibility, learning and… | ||
| Thriving in Tech with an Unconventional Career Trajectory | Allison Henry | 26m |
An unconventional path: philosophy degree, preschool teacher and yoga instructor before moving into field engineering at Jaybridge Robotics and robotics… | ||
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