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2020 WT2 Guide

Women Transforming Technology Agenda
​Tuesday May 5 2020
All times are Pacific


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9:00a - 10:00a
Keynote: Kathryn Finney, Founder/CEO digitalundivided (details)

Note: Keynote sessions are not recorded! Please plan to attend this session live!
Session Ended

10:00a-10:30a             Break

10:30a -12:00p
Workshop - Emerging Leaders: Managing Self to Managing Others
Sabrina Coleman, Multicultural Leadership Coach, Facilitator and Consultant
Time: 90 minutes (details)
Session ended

10:30a -12:00p
Workshop - Attract the Advocacy of Influential Sponsors
Jo MIller, Author, #1 bestselling Amazon new release Woman Of Influence: 9 Steps to Build Your Brand, Establish Your Legacy, & Thrive (McGraw-Hill) • Award-winning speaker & researcher
Time: 90 minutes  (details)
session ended

10:30a-12:00p
Workshop - Presentation Skills for Brainiacs
Laura M. Foley, Owner, Laura M. Foley Design
Time: 90 minutes (details)
session ended

10:30a-12:00p
Workshop - Designing Our Lives
Virginia Rath, PhD, MBA Co-founder Back Porch
Barbara Waugh, PhD Author, Co-founder Back Porch

Time: 90 Minutes (details)
Session ended

12:00p - 1:00p 
Working Guilt-Free During the Pandemic? 
Connie Guglielmo Editor-in-Chief, CNET
Laura Katen, Author, Keynote Speaker, Founder/CEO KATEN CONSULTING
Carolina Milanesi, Founder & Principal Analyst, The Heart of Tech

Time: 1 hour (details)
Session ended

1:00p-2:00p
Emotional Health @ Work During Challenge And Uncertainty
Nataly Kogan, Creator of the Happier Method™, founder and CEO of Happier, author of Happier Now
​Time: 60 Minutes (details)
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1:00p-2:00p
Emerging Leadership Track (2 Talks)

How & Why We Rise: Reframing the “Why” to Harness Sponsorship for Yourself & Others 
Natalie Bonifede, Diversity & Inclusion Leader
Time: 30 minutes (details)

Leaders Don’t Wait for Permission: Take Charge of Your Career Growth 
Snehal Khandkar , Sr. Engineering Manager, Rubrik Inc
Time: 30 minutes (details)
Session ended

1:00p-2:00p
Executive Leadership Track (2 Talks)

Managing Your Sabotaging Voice— Name it. Tame it. Send it Away 
Sarah Benenson Goldberg, SBG Leadership Coaching and Consulting
Time: 30 minutes (details) 

Innovation in large companies – What is the panacea? 
* Monica Shen Knotts, Director, Strategy & Alignment, Cisco
* Minny Walia, Senior Director, Business Readiness, VMware
* Claudia Galvan, Technical Advisor, Early Stage Innovation
​* Jin Zhang, Director of Engineering, Facebook
Time: 30 minutes (details)

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1:00p-2:00p
Technical Track (2 Talks)

Building and Managing Training Datasets for ML with Snorkel 
Paroma Varma, Research Assistant, Stanford University
Time: 30 minutes 
(details)

DevSecOps - Security Automation in Large Codebase 
​Sanya Ralhan, Member of Technical Staff, VMware
Time: 30 minutes (details)

session ended

1:00p-2:00p
Diversity & Inclusion Track

Equity and Inclusion During a Global Crisis: Supporting Employees in Unprecedented Times 
* Dr. Marianne Cooper, Sr. Research Scholar, VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab at Stanford University
​* Dr. Alison Wynn, Research Associate, VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab at Stanford University
Time: 60 minutes (details)

session ended

2:00p - 2:30p           Break

2:30p-3:30p
Emerging Leadership Track

Embracing Ourselves and our Talents Lightning Talks 

* Grit and Persistence: Key Attributes for Advancement
  - Dr. Anita Jindal, Sr Director of Engineering, VMware

​* Rising Against the Odds – Climbing the Corporate Ladder
  - Kavita Ryali, Senior Technical Program Manager, INRIX (Ex-Microsoft)
*​ “Am I good enough?” Managing Self-Doubt and Feelings of Inadequacy at Work
  - Meriem Bekka, Senior Program Manager, VMware Foundation
* 
Blame it on Her Juice & the Power of her Professional Brand
  - Jennifer Tacheff, Founder & Partner, Manifest Advisors
* Weirdos Rule the World: Why Being Different Makes You Invaluable
  - Peipei Yu, Senior Director of Engineering Strategy and Operations, Box
*  If I’m Shining: Reconnecting with My True Talents
  - Sharon Park, President, Sage Digital Marketing

Each talk - 6 minutes (details)
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2:30p-3:30p
Executive Leadership Track (2 Talks)

Speak Up Stand Out Be Heard 
Charmaine McClarie Author, C-suite advisor, Keynote speaker, & Executive coach, Leadership presence authority, President, McClarie Group 
Time: 30 minutes (details)

How to Win a Rebellion of One: An Insider’s Guide to Advancing Your Tech Career 
Amy Kardel, Vice President, Strategic Workforce Relationships, CompTIA 
Time: 30 minutes (details)

session ended

2:30p-3:30p
Technical Track (3 Talks)

Application Aware Intrusion Detection System 
Dhivya Srinivasan, Staff Software Engineer, VMware
Rajitha Arcot, Staff Software Engineer, VMware 
Time: 20 minutes (details)


What Happens When Compute Meets Storage? – Computational Storage TWG
Leah Schoeb, Sr. Developer Relations Manager, AMD 
Time: 20 minutes (details)

​Outsource the Mundane: Build a Digital Workforce
Rashim Mogha, Founder eWOW
​Time: 20 minutes (details)
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2:30p-3:30p
Diversity & Inclusion Track

Employee Activism: Forces for Change 
- Dr. Melissa Abad, Research Associate, VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab at Stanford Lab
- Dr. Marianne Cooper, Sr. Research Scholar, VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab at Stanford University
Time: 60 minutes (details)
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3:30p-4:00p            Break

4:00p-5:00p
Closing Keynote

Laura Dern, Academy Award Winning American Actress, Director, Producer, and Activist 
Time: 60 minutes (details)

Note: Keynote sessions are not recorded! Please plan to attend this session live!
Session ended

End. We hope you enjoyed the Conference! Stay well and stay connected!
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