Within this fireside chat you will hear from two women from Booking.com, Adrienne Enggist, Senior Director of Product, and Ashley Bellview, Senior Director, Global Communications. Adrienne will tell you all about her unique career journey in tech, the challenges and successes she has faced, as well as provide personal reflections on what it means to discover oneself in a world of tech

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And what about the importance of diversity, female talent, inclusive behaviors and equity? How do they play their role in that same transition?

During this session you will hear about what it takes to truly be data driven organization and what architecture is needed. We'll explore how data accelerates the energy transition and enhances the digitalization transformation. Plus the role developing female talents plays, and how Shell support this.

Who is this session perfect for?

If you want to understand more about energy transitions, data driven organisations, technology enablement and the role diversity, equity and inclusion play in this transformation, Then this keynote is for you.

As threats grow exponentially and digital transformations requires mitigation of a variety of risks, hear how Divya tackles security and data privacy across the globe.

From planning & management, digital development, to assets cyber security programmes need continous and proactive engagement from the CFO's, discover how Divya collaborates with other executives and IT leads, whilst analysing what technology is needed to overcome security challenges.

All these questions will be answered in under 30 minutes as Jess gives insight into her journey as a sponsor and takes you through the world of sponsorship: the types of sponsors, how everyone can make an impact, and how you can adopt practical behaviours to start making that impact today.

Session Key Takeaways:

• It is a myth that only senior people can be sponsors - you can make a positive change no matter where you are in your career
• We must consciously sponsor to fight our own and others affinity bias
• You don't need to be mentored to be a sponsor - you just need to care about others and have the will to make a difference"

Session Key Takeaways:

• Learn how machine learning will affect your business and your organization.
• Understand what changes are required in order for Data & Technology to thrive
• Understand how to create a culture of understanding and a human-centred approach to the adoption of machine learning.

With more than 3 billion players worldwide, video games have become a major cultural force, generating more revenue than any other sector of entertainment and driving forward innovative technologies. Join this session to learn how developers bring games to life and discover the role that video games can play in shaping the tech industry as a whole.

Session Key takeaways:

1. Understand the cultural reach of video games and how they impact the daily lives of players (and non-players) around the world
2. Discover what goes into making a game, including the different technologies and areas of expertise required to create an immersive and memorable gaming experience
3. Learn how video games are playing a role in the future of tech, including the metaverse

Who is this session perfect for?

You’ve watched your friends or kids play games and you want to know what keeps them playing!  

From the very beginning, the vision of the Impress founders was to introduce a different business model with a strong focus on medical experience and digitalization.

Discover how Impress is transforming the oral healthcare industry, building a medical company with design, experience and digitalization at the core.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Discover how to build, scale and retain a growing team. Impress grew from 25 to 650 people within 20 months
• Discover how Impress leaned on Technology to innovate a traditional sector

Who is this session perfect for?

Startup founders, angel investors, and anyone interested in innovation, the medical sector, or who want to start their own company.

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In this talk, we will share our story, the bad and the ugly moving from a monolith to a microservice architecture in Golang. You will discover the do’s and the don't’s we learned from our journey, from a technical and organisational perspective.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Discover why we chose to Go to take the best of its simplicity
• Learn how to make a team responsible for their work
• Get a reminder of why you should make automation a priority

Digital transformation is up there on the 'post-pandemic' poster phrases along with 'new normal', 'different normal', 'digitization' and 'data defined everything', buzzword bingo abounds, but the reality is we are fundamentally changed by the last two years, personally, professionally, operationally and technically. This massive acceleration in the technification of our daily lives, our organizations and businesses, has brought some stark realisations on our relationship to technology, but we are still slow to learn those lessons and to effect the change that is needed to truly fly given our new freedoms (yes freedoms!) . In this session Vicky will share some of what she has learned from living inside the Great Digital Transformation.

Who is this session perfect for?

You are making technology decisions to future proof your organization, you are working on your Digital Transformation and you need to set yourself up for ongoing success as technology evolves.

Technology advancements are setting new standards and expectations, offering a new level of autonomy and transforming how patients, doctors and pharmacists access and interact with services.

Patients are becoming more and more digitally savvy, already embedding apps and technologies in their daily lives that can optimise their health and treatment regimes. 

Within this session, we'll explore how we adopted the Design Thinking methodology to build an agile, highly collaborative digital organisation to meet new client needs and expectations.

Session Key takeaways: 

• Understand what Digital Health is and how it is transforming the patient experience
• Learn about the role of the big pharma companies within the healthcare ecosystem 
• Discover the biggest digital challenges upcoming for the pharma industry  

Who is this session perfect for?

You are interested in how digital technologies are changing the game in healthcare.

About 70% of businesses are particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks through their supply chains. According to institutes, such as the Dutch National Intelligence Services and ENISA, this number is rising and poses a threat to the continuity of businesses.

In this session, Suzanne Rijnbergen will focus on examples of supply chain attacks by cybercriminals that illustrate the challenges organisations face. She will detail different national and international initiatives ongoing in this area and provide insightful knowledge on how organizations can start securing their supply chain themselves.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Understand the importance of collaborating with the cyber security community to combat cyberattacks
• Discover effective controls to manage supply chains risks and weaknesses
• Discover simplified and concrete information. Do not let complexity stop your efforts and objectives in securing your supply chain

Who is this session perfect for?

If you're are responsible for business strategy and/or security strategy and/or have a responsibility in managing risk or managing third-party suppliers (contracts) and/or are involved in digital transformation projects.

So how can we expect this trend to revolutionise the way we work and produce work in a post pandemic era?

Session Key Takeaways:

• How will blockchain technology underpin metaverse and assist in the creation of a sustainable environment for all of its participants?
• How will traditional jobs or activities that are fairly typical fare today will be impacted by the metaverse?
• How can metaverse revolutionise sectors even further by introducing virtual reality (VR) based wearables that will introduce its users to an alternate virtual world from the confines of their homes?

Discover how to build a CDC archive pipeline and the journey that led us to reconsider how we manage our data and eventually led to our adoption of Apache Iceberg. We'll explore scale, privacy, security, data residency, and future work when creating compacted tables.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Understand what Apache Iceberg is, and where it fits into your data stack
• Understand if you should migrate to Apache Iceberg
• Understand the trade-offs of complexities and security when choosing how and where you store your data

Who is this session perfect for?
Data Engineers, Those interested in data residency, privacy, storage and table formats.

We exist in an era where change is the only constant and keeping up is no longer enough. Business expectation, competition and disruption have jumped to warp speed and success requires the adoption of new business models and technologies.

Understanding how we can make the most of these new intelligent technologies and merging technology with your existing workforce is crucial for success at speed. Only with a value-driven tech ecosystem can you generate significant value within your core business and future growth opportunities.

Using our real-world experience and expertise, we will explore these issues and share our insight to help drive your digital transformation forward for greater efficiency, productivity, and performance.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Taking your digital transformation to the Next Level – what Intelligent Automation can do for your business regardless of your automation stage and explore the benefits of a value-driven tech ecosystem
• The future of work - how organizations can survive, adapt and thrive
  6 actions you can do today to get started with changing the way we work

This session is for you if… You're seeking a competitive, cultural or cost advantage for your business, by enhancing your business readiness for the future digital transformation. Maybe you hold a role within Business Development, Process Management, Operational Excellence, Head of Emerging Technologies, or just find Intelligent Automation interesting.

Session Key Takeaways

• Discover how you can build incredible personal resilience
• Explore what's needed to build societal and enterprise resilience
• How to create a better world with technology for good

Who is this session perfect for?

This session is for you if you are interested in learning about incredible personal resilience and powering societal and enterprise resilience through technology.

Tech talent shortages have skyrocketed as the battle for talent gets fiercer and we have witnessed the landscape transform as new ways of organising work emerged. The future looks to be hybrid and European organisations have the opportunity to tap into international talent pools to attract the worlds best talent. Discover the different working models and flexibility organisations will need to offer to retain the best and brightest.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Learn how to attract and retain top international candidates
• Discover how to facilitate effective talent mobility and remote work
• Understand the benefits of international talent and the importance of identifying global knowledge skills

To truly stretch ourselves in our career path, we need to understand what a fulfilled life really means to us. We'll uncover our inner saboteurs and core beliefs and then apply tools and techniques to stretch ourselves into the unknown. We'll use Chatham House rules, which means that what is being shared in the room, stays in the room.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Discover what is holding you back
• Understand your value and what you already have got to give
• Understand that life is too short to not live it to its full potential

Who is this session perfect for?

• You are (secretly) stuck in a rut and long for a breakthrough.
• You are ready to think truly expansive and outrageous.
• You want to unleash your inner creativity during that journey.

Recently, however, governments and universities are making strides to bring more women into the academic pipeline—but with degrees taking years to earn and underrepresentation by women in commercial enterprises, will these efforts be enough? In this session, Alessandra Sala, Director of AI and Data Science at Shutterstock and Global President of Women in AI, will share insights into what needs to be done five years in advance of this talent emerging to ensure women entering the industry are set up for success. She will share strategies for fostering the next generation of talent to promote a more balanced ecosystem in the world of artificial intelligence and data science.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Understand the measures that should be institutionalized in order to better platform women in the technology field
• Discover the progress that has been made is important, and the measures that will create long-term success
• Understand the outline that can be constructed in order to create a balanced ecosystem in the world of artificial intelligence and technology

Who is this session perfect for?

• AI & Data Science Professionals
• Young Professionals
• Junior Professionals
• AI & Data Directors
• AI & Data Managers

And even then it is still a struggle to balance product and engineering views regarding prioritization. IT departments like SRE, Data Engineering, Centers of Excellence for Automation, IT and many others alike are still working in silos, even though it has a direct impact on business performance.

In this session, we'll explore the main pitfalls which lead to poor collaboration and how to avoid or address them. Explore how different profiles of personnel impact collaboration. Also, through examples, we will navigate which structures set teams for success.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Discover the main reasons for collaboration pitfalls between business and IT
• Increase awareness of how different personality types affect collaboration
• Get advice on how to build a successful collaborative environment.

Who is this session perfect for?

• Leaders, struggling to get their teams to deliver
• Leaders, who are planning the next reorganization of their teams and areas
• IT Professionals, finding it difficult to align with business

Tanya Ponomareva, Creative Director at Boomerang, will talk about the changing needs of users and brands in social, making the transition from a typical ad model to an agile one, and the faster, more mobile methods of content production needed to stay on top in social. Touching on her work at Boomerang for Heineken as well as the Boomerang For Better initiative, the audience will learn about the why and how in creating proactive, culturally-relevant work for global clients and savvy consumers.

And while it may be obvious that those who are leaders (or on their path towards becoming leaders) absolutely have to hone their decision-making skills, the same holds true for anyone working on product and whose role requires that they make choices every day: from which business objectives to prioritize to which user needs to address, what to scope into a release, or, perhaps even more critically, what to scope out. What's more, making product decisions that are based on user insights with ease and confidence is also essential towards earning the type of autonomy and ownership most of us seek in our roles. So, overall, it’s an indispensable skill to grow, and this talk aims to shed light on how to do so by leveraging the power of evidence-based insights.

In most of today's ultra-fast-moving tech companies, timely and effective decisions can make the difference between sinking and swimming. And, decision-making is no longer just relegated to leaders and executives, but anyone seeking autonomy and ownership while working on and shipping products.

While effective decision-making can seem daunting, it's also something that's within everyone's reach. This talk will explore how to analyze the parameters of the day-to-day decisions that need to be made in a product development environment, as well as the types of questions, methods, and insights that can help provide the information we need to better inform those decisions. The goal is for anyone watching to walk away with a clear process for approaching decision-making with confidence and ease.

Session Key Takeaways:

• How to balance speed, risk, and completeness of information when deciding how to approach making a decision
• The questions to ask and insights to seek from your users and team in order to make effective decisions at every stage of product development
• How to mix quantitative and qualitative sources of information effectively in order to paint a better picture of the situation

Who is this session perfect for?

• You work on software product, and:
• You are in a role that requires that you make decisions regularly e.g. leader, product/project manager, designer, engineer, etc.
• You are in a role in which you inform decisions made by others e.g. researcher, analyst, data scientist, etc.

Session Key Takeaways:

• How to align DevOps Metrics with Business Goals
• How to enable effective user monitoring to identify and eliminate blind spots
• How to be more proactive in resolving incidents and safeguarding customer and employee services

Emerging technologies like cloud-based computing, the industrial Internet of things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, 5G-6G and quantum computing are believed to change our world. Simulation is the superpower that makes them all possible and shapes the future of innovation.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Understand the role of simulation in emerging technologies
• Explore a technique called agent-based modelling and its potential in designing processes
• Gain insight into what is driving innovation

Who is this session perfect for?

• If you're looking for innovative ways to transform your core business
• If you don’t want to get left behind by advanced technology.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Understand how re-commerce can contribute to a sustainable future
• Understand the role of personalisation in re-commerce
• Discover what's next for the future of personalisation?

Who is this session perfect for?
If you are looking for creating a tailored experience for your customers in buying and selling and making a lasting impact on the future.