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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In the current fast evolving product and tech ecosystem, it’s important to differentiate and emphasize what makes a strong product manager, as well as how to train and practice those skills if not given. I will also focus on explaining the difference between the product and a feature team and do a fun exercise to determine whether you are currently working in a product team or in a feature team. Join me if you want to find that out :) If you are currently working in a feature team, I will share some tips/learnings on how you can start the transformation into becoming a product team.
 
Session Key takeaways:

• Discover the top skills to focus on as a Product Manager
• Gain an understanding on whether your organization works with Product Teams or with Feature Teams
• Tips on how to transition from a Feature Organization into a Product Organization

Who is this session perfect for? 
Anybody working in Product, tech design, analytics or research

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.

Diversity, inclusion and social responsibility have somehow turned into buzzwords in the professional and labour market context. The main way of implementing them in work places is to track down the multidimensional diversity categories at workplaces and to address them. One of those multidimensional categories is “female immigrant professional”. These professionals bring with them unprecedented chances for the labour and entrepreneurship market. Their potentials and needs are to be understood by the employers and investors. These women are the mothers and sisters to the coming divers generations and bring with them a high potential of impacting workplaces in a positive way.  

Session Key takeaways:

• Get an insight into female immigrant professionals‘ backgrounds and challenges in workplaces.
• Explore the reasons behind these challenges and how to help such individuals to tackle them.
• Learn how to integrate female immigrant professional into your teams and make it a win win situation for them, the companies and the society.

This session is for you if… 

• You have or wish to have a diverse team and need to know what aspects about Your female immigrant colleagues are to be considered in everyday work place.
• you are an employer or investor and want to have a comprehensive introduction to diversity from a female immigrant professional’s point of view.
• You are a female immigrant professional and want to observe yourself from another perspective.

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.

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!  

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.

The Why: There will be inevitable rise of Autonomous Finance in next 3 years. As per Gartner, 50% of large finance organization by 2023 will use AI/ ML in their finance processes.

Session Key Takeaways:

• World is moving beyond digitally enabled towards fully autonomous
• The question is not “if” but “how” and “when” to prepare for
• Autonomous Finance Operations
• Shift to Autonomous Finance is Digital Finance journey and you need to understand where is ‘Your’ organization stands in that journey

This session is for you if… you belong / interested in any of the below areas

• Digital
• Transformation
• Finance
• FinTech
• Al/ ML
• Operations

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

In this workshop, you will get the opportunity to diversify how you interpret, relate and label your career and what methods you need to employ to get there. Your career isn't just a case of the job you do - but the sum of how you spend your professional time. Thinking differently about your time can unlock your career.

Workshop Activities: 

You can expect to participate in smaller conversations with your peers, take time to conduct a self-reflection, participate or observe co-sharing moments, witness mirroring and validation, and connect over similar struggles, questions and insights.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Validating what we do in the present in order to match how we see our future selves
• A personalized label for your own career journey and the methods you can employ to get there
• Identify what skills you need in order to have your idea days, weeks, months and years

Who is this session perfect for?

If you want to expand and diversify the toolbox you have around your career or your current perspectives. It is also for you if you're open-minded to what your career can look like and not just an upward line.

At the end of the day, the great aim of education is not knowledge but action. While there are some making an investment in training these ladies, there are fewer opportunities for them to act on their knowledge attained.

Why do I represent African women in technology? Africa’s greatest resource is human capital and it offers a tremendous untapped economic potential that is women. If properly equipped and economically empowered, women could substantially contribute to the growth of the economy at household and national levels. That being said, there is a significant shortage of IT professionals in Europe today why not look at Africa as an alternative for sourcing tech talent? These female developers are continuously upskilling themselves but lack opportunities to compete at an international level. The world has opened up to remote work and many African countries are in the same time zone as many of the Nordic countries, with a time difference of 1-3 hours, which allows them to work in real-time. We need to extend and open up opportunities in internships, entry-level, junior, and intermediate roles to these women in IT and have extremely brilliant developers joining your team remotely, and support in building your products while they get an opportunity to work in a challenging environment and get paid at above market value.

Session Key takeaways:

• Learn how do we support African Women in Technology?  
• Learn why Africa should be looked at as an alternative for sourcing tech talent to resolve IT professional shortage in Europe.

Who is this session perfect for?
This session is for small and medium enterprise companies, CTOs, CEOs, Founders, Women Entrepreneurs, and Edutech companies, StartUps.

This talk aims to give you, as business leaders and managers, an overview of Cyber Security operational resilience and provide actionable steps to plan and mitigate impact so that you can keep delivering your business. This session is appropriate for those who do not have a technical background.

The Why: Your business relies on technology - you need a plan of action for when you can't access it.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Understanding the scope of potential loss
• Key aspects of a resiliency plan
• Crisis communications 101

This session is for you if… you're a manager or leader of a startup / SME and want to make sure your business keeps going if systems go down.

In this fireside chat, Head of Agile Caterina Moraga Pizarro and Global CIO Julia Hempel will discuss what it means to set up a global CIO function while maintaining critical BAU services for 8,000+ people. Julia will share the successes as well as the challenges she’s faced and how she’s overcome them. She will also reflect on her career as a woman in tech and how her experiences have helped her to develop and adapt.


Session key takeaways:

• Understand what to prioritise in a global CIO function in 2022
• Learn how to set up and run a global CIO function in a time of change
• Discover the potential opportunities in the new CIO function of the future

Session Key takeaways: 

• learn the key ingredients to build an innovation team
• How to identify what is not working when launching a new product
• How to adapt your execution to validate an MVP faster

Who is this session perfect for?

If you work in product development and seek to innovate your product portfolio, or if you are thinking of a career change into product

You’ll see step by step how our product team ideated, implemented, & analyzed the impact of this change using data and more. You’ll also learn about the surprising results we saw and our process to deep dive into these results. Hint: It wasn’t easy!

Who is this session perfect for?

• You’re interested in D&I
• You’re interested in product or working cross functionally as part of a product team (design, engineering, UX research, marketing, data science, + more)
• You want to learn more about how product teams make decisions that impact countries with vastly different languages and cultures

With new privacy technologies, organizations can collaborate on sensitive data without the risk of exposing source data. This enables collaboration on a level that was previously impossible, especially in the domain of public safety and crime. Our cryptography and development team will share two impact stories: (1) collecting cyber threat intelligence, and (2) protecting informants in human trafficking.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Understand how new privacy tech is disrupting how organizations collaborate on sensitive data
• Discover the new technologies that are keeping data safer, simplifying the legal process, and enabling ground-breaking forms of collaboration
• Next time you think about a sensitive data collaboration, think about multi-party computation

 Who is this session perfect for?

If you are curious about cutting edge technology; if you work with big data and/or sensitive personal data, if you wonder what it’s like to work for an innovative tech start-up.

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.

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.

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

So how do we harness the positive momentum when most women will continue to be the only one – or one of few – in spaces that were not designed for us?

In this session, we will discuss how to best navigate cultures with deeply embedded power structures, sharing real stories and pragmatic actions. It starts with understanding the power that comes from recognizing our own value and silencing self-doubt – the power of one. Leveraging that confidence, we start to use our voice – for ourselves and others. But there is strength in numbers, so we must amplify our voice through a strategically curated community.

Session Key Takeaways:

• How to challenge our most damaging bias – understand why it exists, accept it, and learn how to minimize it
• How to shift the power dynamic and take back our narrative by using our voice – for ourselves and others
• How to create a personal Advisory Board to amplify your voice

Who is this session perfect for?

This session is for everyone – we all have a role to play in creating a more inclusive culture for our organization.

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.

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.

When the boundaries are unknown how do you stay secure? With the Internet of Everything, everything is part of one blended interconnected world. When good and malicious players are in the same place how do you create a safe place? There is nowhere to hide and no such concept as a complete disconnect. We are kidding ourselves if we believe local policy enforcement can work or that endpoint security alone is sufficient.

This is a world where private information no longer exists. It resides in different services worldwide and we are collectively responsible for securing this landscape. Application creators, service providers, product development and cloud platforms all need security by design. Security planning and integration from the outset. The Internet of Everything offers everyone – good or bad – opportunities to explore and develop. The stakes are much higher. We need to rethink security. We need a new security mindset.

Session Key Takeaways

• Develop a greater understanding of the current global threat landscape and step inside the world of the hacker.
• Hear about the opportunities to co-secure across the technology ecosystem.
• Return to your own personal and business environment with thoughts of how we can come together to build a safer world for the future.

Who is this session perfect for?

This session is for everyone - whether you have a laptop, you set the policies for technical advancement or are responsible for a part of a the supply or development chain for a product or service. We all wish our families, friends and colleagues to live in a secure world and we can do this by all working together and seeing the dawn of a new security mindset.

Utilising a Service Design approach can not only create great user experiences but also build impactful growth beyond revenue. Using brand case studies, we’ll learn about tools and methods including value proposition maps, customer journeys and problem statements that can be used to develop solutions that benefit users as well as challenging business goals.

Session Key takeaways:

• Learn why products and services that are useful, equitable and enjoyable improve clients’ ecosystems as a whole and help earn people’s valuable time.
• Understand why dark pattern solutions aimed to exploit human weaknesses only temporarily boost key metrics and yield only short-term results.
• Discover examples of best practices - privacy versus data for useful personalization, smooth options versus barriers to opt-out, transparent framing versus sneaky nudging.
• Understand how a Service Design approach contributes to great user experiences and impactful growth beyond revenue.
• Learn how value proposition maps, customer journeys and problem statements are tools and methods to develop solutions that benefit users as well as challenging business goals.
  
   

Who is this session perfect for?

Product and service owners and developers
Digital marketers and strategists
Agency teams
eCommerce managers
CX managers

Does a CTO always need to come from a purely technical background? Learn about one woman’s nonlinear path to becoming a CTO.

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.

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.

In this practical, hands on session you'll get to experience some of these games yourself, understand why they’re a useful tool, learn some Agile concepts, and hopefully have a fun time in the process!

We will run games with a small demo group of volunteers from the audience, talk through the game theory for the wider audience, and hopefully inspire you to use these games in your own workplace.

This session is for anyone looking to learn about Agile, or anyone looking for new ways to inject a little fun into their day to day.

This talk will focus on building the backend for a web-application using Python and FastAPI. Ashmi will explore simple CRUD operations using the different endpoints of the API and testing them using pytest, followed by a pros and cons analysis of the existing frameworks. Discover the software engineering best practices (patterns and anti-patterns) required to excel in web-development.

Session Key takeaways

1. Learn to use FastAPI and Python for developing your web-backend
2. How to efficiently manage a software repository and reduce anti-patterns such as code duplication and spaghetti
3. Test driven development Intended audience Programmers, web developers and anyone else who is interested in software development

The Why: The green transition requires new ways of doing business and developing products with a focus on resiliency.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Understanding of ESG and latest developments
• How companies can adapt for increased resiliency and better ESG performance
• Funding opportunities for green innovation

This session is for you if... you have innovative green projects needing funding and are wanting to keep up with the regulatory drivers in the pipeline to best position your business for the future.

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.

The danger of a biassed AI will have a fundamental effect on our lives and our future, so it is important for all of us to understand how we can contribute to the solution. In addition, some people fear that AI will take us over. Understanding the human edge will put your mind to ease.

With AI, humanity has reached its tipping point and will not need to invent anything else. Maybe a provocative thought, but certainly a further encouragement to make our potential last great invention as perfect as possible. For example, we have to make sure we are not embedding our own biases into these machines. A talk about ethics, morality, and what lies between them to try to answer some questions like: is it possible to create an Ethical AI? Is it even ethical? Why might removing biases be the wrong approach? What is the human edge when it comes to AI decision-making?

Session Key Takeaways:

• Understand the human edge in the age of AI
• Discover how the wisdom of the crowd can help us eliminate biases in AI
• Learn the difference between morality and ethics, and what our responsibility is when building an AI

This session is for you if:

Whether you are interested in the Philosophical theoretical aspects of Ethics and morality, you are using and building AI or are just interested in the future of humanity.

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.

Take a closer look at how Prime Video is leading the shift to live sports streaming through technological innovation across some of the most prestigious competitions in the world, from UEFA Champions League to the NFL.

In this session, we will explore the technologies that power these experiences and how they may alter our consumption of live sports in the future.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Learn about Prime Video’s rapid growth as a sports broadcaster
• Understand the technologies that power live streaming at scale
• Explore how these technologies could change how we consume live sports in the future

Internet data centres have received significant scientific, public and media attention due to the challenges associated with their greenhouse gas, water, and land footprint. This resource greedy data services sector continues to rapidly grow driven by data storage, data mining and file sharing activities by a wide range of end-users. A fundamentally important question then arises; what impact does data storage have on the environment and is it sustainable? Water is used extensively in data centres, both directly for liquid cooling and indirectly to generate electricity. Data centres house a huge number of servers, which consume a vast amount of energy to respond to information requests and store files and large amounts of resulting data. In this talk the environmental footprint of global data storage is examined to throw light on this data sustainability issue.

Who is this session perfect for? This session is for you if you are a sustainability or environmental manager and or Chief Technologist in any organization that has to manage storage of digital datasets.

To do this successfully, Katie will delve into how giving developers the power to do this rather than just tools is more impactful than you might think. 

Session Key Takeaways:

• What is cross-platform development? 
• The pros and cons of cross-platform development 
• How empowering teams is your key to success 

Who is this session perfect for?

• You are unsure about what cross-platform development is or how to go about it
• You are wondering if cross-platform development could be right for your product 
• You are interested in how empowering teams works in practice, whether you are a developer or a manager

Companies increasingly depend on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to provide them with a competitive edge, as a consequence, ML models have become relatively fast and cheap to build. However, more than half of these machine learning models never make it into production, leading to a missed opportunity for the business. Automation and simplicity are key to drive impact at scale and this is where MLOps shines, with tools and methods that solve this problem in a reliable and automated way.

As exciting as this new era of artificial intelligence and machine learning may seem, with machine learning models running amok, this will have a significant impact on how we work, live, and interact with one another. Thus, transparency across the entire model lifecycle to not only better understand predictions, but also to find problem drivers will be crucial and Responsible AI will be a must.

Are you ready to unravel some black box models?

Session Key Takeaways:

• Explore what MLOps is and WHY you should care
• Understand the components of MLOps lifecycle and where to look for potential bottlenecks
• Learn how to push towards a more responsible approach to ML and AI for all our sakes!

The session is for you if:

• You're from any data related field: Data Engineer, Data Science, ML Engineer, Data Analyst, Platform Architect
• You're curious about AI, ML and data in general and would like to learn more

Within this session, Claudia will analyse a series of product and technology tales, highlighting how decisions were made using data, to indentify when a project should be stopped or when development should continue.

Agile teams struggle to get tech debt prioritised, and business functions have a hard time stopping projects that clearly have run over budget and bringing no ROI.

It is always hard to decide when to you start measuring and how to make decisions without emotions getting in the way. This is a guide on prioritization and saying no.

Session Key Takeaways:

• How to make a case for a tech debt or technology improvement
• How to let go of a project you have been involved in since the beginning
• How to make level-headed decisions without creating frictions in either tech or business departments

Who is this session perfect for?

if you have struggled to make your voice heard, or you feel no-one is listening to you when you say we really should just let this project fail, or if you really believe this functionality needs a revamp, and rewrite. Are you in a position where you need to make priority calls, and you have too many stakeholders, and cannot make everyone happy?

One hour is not enough to learn everything about AI, but it is plenty to get started! Liesbeth will get you familiar with the basics of AI, detail why you need to learn about AI, and what role you can play in creating impact through AI in your organisation. But you can't create impact by yourself. She'll discuss how to create a culture of AI learning within your organisation - and lets you practice your newly gained AI knowledge through an exercise.

Not knowing the basics of AI is a missed opportunity because the most impactful AI applications require a deep knowledge of a user or business problem, and you might be the expert on those problems.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Get familiar with the basics of AI
• Discover how to create an impact and evolve your organisation through AI
• There are many ways to start learning more about AI, discover the most effective formats

Who is this session perfect for?

• You're from any field: product management, engineering, learning & development or other
• You're curious about AI and would like to learn more

Imposter Syndrome is the buzzword of the moment, especially for women in Tech! But what if you don't prescribe to the concept of Imposter Syndrome? Join Lauren and Lindsay's workshop where you'll learn the truth about Imposter Syndrome, the system of inequity it's built on and most importantly of all - how you can change your story of Imposter Syndrome yourself.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Discover important statistics on how Imposter Syndrome is a concept based on systemic bias and how it impacts women in tech
• Tips on how to identify the true feelings behind Imposter Syndrome so you can work through self-doubt as it happens in the future
• A practical exercise where you’ll dive into an example of Imposter Syndrome, look at the facts vs feelings of the scenario and chat through any bias that might have led to that feeling. This will help you raise awareness of and work through feelings of self-doubt before you feel like an Imposter

Workshop activities:

1. In groups/pairs share an example of where you felt like an Imposter at work - Make a note on your worksheet and chat to your partner about how that situation made you feel.

2. Lauren and Lindsay will share practical tips they use to address and overcome feelings of self doubt that can lead to Imposter Syndrome.

3. Evaluate your Imposter Syndrome example. In this practical exercise, we will guide you through understanding the facts vs feelings in your example, how you can identify bias you may have experienced or may have yourself, and how you can change the narrative to influence a better outcome.

Who is this session perfect for?

If you've ever been told you have Imposter Syndrome, if you think you've experienced it yourself or if you’re a manager in any tech industry who is passionate about supporting women succeed this session is for you!

The combination of these sessions with the standard prep call led to more prepared candidates overall at the onsite stage as evidenced in a post interview survey. 100% of interviewer respondents felt that candidates were more prepared than during a standard interview loop.

This Interview Coaching workshop will help you prepare and interview as a leader or senior individual contributor in AWS/Amazon. It will provide additional details, exercises, best practices, preparation tips, and assist in interview engagement to help find you the right team at AWS. This interview workshop will also give you the tools you need to be a better advocate for yourself in the interviewing process especially if you have not interviewed recently.

These sessions focus in on behavioral style interviews and go into specific detail on how candidates can build their stories through the lens of Amazon’s Leadership Principles and advocate for themselves through the whole interviewing process. They were designed to assist candidates both passive and active to learn about the STAR method, any homework that may get assigned and best practices during an interview.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Discover how to lead with your key leadership highlights and be the best advocate of yourself.
• How to determine what your interview obstacles are
• How to build your story through the lenses of the leadership principle’s
  
  This session is for you if:
  
  You have not interviewed in years
  You have been at a company and been promoted in the same company.
  You self-select out of process – imposter syndrome

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.

We'll explore real world examples of Hyper Personalisation in large organisations. The reasons behind the models and the main applications and benefits from it.

Session key Takeaways:

• Discover Core Essentials of Hyper Personalisation
• Understand how to deliver meaniful service at scale
• Discover how to learn from your customers andunderstand what they want and where they want it. If you pay attention they will tell you!

Who is this session perfect for? If you are interested in the uses of data in the development of personalised treatment to the customer.

High-frequency trading systems are unique and complex environments, operating at high precision on the lowest latencies technology will allow, all while trying to outperform your competition.

When the stakes are this high, mistakes can be catastrophic and take down your company in a matter of minutes. Learn from the most infamous trading firm disaster, hear about the measures that have been put in place to prevent another one, and then be challenged to think differently about failure. What’s really the cause of incidents such as these, and what are we missing in our analysis?

Session key takeaways:

• Lessons learnt from one of the most expensive software failure cases in history
• Discover the potential errors that could impact your company and how to prevent them
• Learn how to think critically about the factors really impacting your team’s performance
  
  This session is for you if either:
• You work in a leadership or managerial position and are interested in how to set your team up for success
• You are interested in or work in the financial industry
• You are an operational support engineer
• You’re interested in hearing about the most infamous technological failure in the financial industry

Red Team? Blue Team? Purple Team? There are so many colours in the Cybersecurity world. Let’s deep dive into the purple team and learn how to optimize the offensive and defensive strategies, while remaining on top of detecting/protecting from a variety of attack vectors. During this session, you will learn what you need to consider in order to have a purple team, what skills you should look for in a purple teamer and learn from our experience in building such a team. 

Session Key Takeaways:

• Discover offensive and defensive strategies that could help you maximize the security posture in your company. 
• Optimize the collaboration between offensive and defensive security teams. Especially valuable for the companies that have one of the teams outsourced. 
• Learn how to build up a Purple team and the collaboration processes inside your company. 

Who is this session perfect for?

• If you are responsible for business strategy and/or security strategy 
• If you are in a leadership/management position and want to build a strong security team that provides value to the business 
• If you are interested in IT Security and want to learn more about this topic 

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

IKEA is undergoing the biggest digital transformation in its 80-year history. Join Divya Kumar, Global Digital CFO at Ingka Group (IKEA Retail) to hear how she views execution shift as a key component of this transformation.

Divya will speak about how successfully differentiating between what is needed for the long term, and what needs to remain flexible ultimately builds resilience.

Session Key takeaways:

• Understand the need to think of various parts of executing the transformation differently
• Learn what IKEA is doing to marry the old and new ways of working in a digital landscape
• Get a look under the hood of what it is like to lead the digital change at a global organization

Discover how EUROCONTROL is investing in innovation and technology to build the aviation systems of the future, including driving the digital transformation of the operational systems we use to manage Europe's traffic.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Which innovations we can expect to see in the coming years?
• How are systems contributing to achieving further efficiencies?
• What are EUROCONTROL's objectives as we embark on a journey of digital transformation?

Who is this session perfect for?

Anyone curious to discover what aviation is doing to build back better, how our organisation is contributing to this transformation – and how you could be part of this journey.

How did you end up in tech? Did you already get involved early in life? What choices did you make? I always liked techy stuff, but never considered a techy career since I had no role models. As such my first choice was to take the safe path, something I knew and so I ended up in Finance. But without taking the bold choices later in life, I would have never been where I am now! During this session I will talk you through choices I made during my career, what I’ve learned, and where those choices brought me.