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2018 Event Highlights

Videos from WT2's Emerging Leadership, Executive Leadership, Diversity & Inclustion and Technical Tracks
Opening keynote by Laila Ali and closing keynote by Megan Smith recordings will not be available
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11:00-12:00pm Inclusion in Action Panel

Moderator: Lori Nishiura Mackenzie
Panelists: Michelle Angier, Connie Guglielmo, Bask Iyer and Erin Yang
Session time: 1 hour
More details for this session here 
 

1:00-2:00 

Emerging Leadership Track - Speaker #1
Lead with your Super Power: the Resilience Factor
Session time: 20 minutes
Pattie Vargas, Principal, The Vargas Group
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Emerging Leadership Track - Speaker #2
Fast Tracking Your Leadership Career
Session time: 20 minutes
Rashim Mogha, Senior Director, Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle
More details here

Emerging Leadership Track - Speaker #3
Stand Up, Stand Out: How to become an advocate for change in the workplace
Session time: 20 minutes
Caroline Hubbard, LinkedIn 
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Executive Leadership Track
The Way We Work: Innovating Better Together
Jennifer Kenny, Speaker | Mentor | Trainer | Facilitator
More details and handouts for this session here
 

Technical Track - Speaker #1
Inclusive and Accessible: Tooling Large Scale Web Apps for the Blind and Visually-impaired
Session time: 30 minutes
Soo-Rae Hong, Scribd
More details  here
 
Technical Track - Speaker #2
Startup Lessons for Technologists
Session time: 30 minutes
Nina Bhatti, Founder, Kokko Inc. 
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Diversity & Inclusion Track
Design Lab: Creating Inclusive Conversations
Session time: 1 hour
Lori Nishiura Mackenzie, Executive Director, The Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Stacy Blake-Beard, Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor of Women and Leadership, and Sr. Faculty Affiliate, Center for Gender in Organizations
More detail for this session here

2:30-3:30

Emerging Leadership Track
Present with Impact
Session time: 1 hour
Tina Jackson, Clarity Consulting & Joy Leach, Professional Resources Initiatives, Inc.
More details here
 

Executive Leadership Track
Speaker #1 Lessons Learned from Adobe's Transformation to the Cloud - Ashley Still 
​Session Time: 30 minutes
More information about this session can be found here
Speaker #2 Barbara Adey
Navigating Politics for Impact
Session time: 30 minutes
More information about this session here 
 

Technical Track
Women in IT & Cybersecurity Panel: Impacting the Present and the Future
Session time: 1 Hour
Moderator: Lisa Jiggetts, Founder & CEO of the Women's Society of Cyberjutsu (WSC)
Soledad Antelada Toledano, Cybersecurity Engineer, Cyber Security Division, Lawrence Berkeley National National Laboratory, Department of Energy & Founder of GirlsCanHack
Maria Bisaga, Software Test Engineer, BioFire Diagnostics
Shannon Lietz, DevSecOps Leader, Intuit
More details for this session here

Diversity & Inclusion Track
Intersectionality in the 21st Century Workplace 
Session time: 1 hour
Melissa V Abad, PhD
Research Associate, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University

More details for this session here
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