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Here are the sessions for Mar 5-9 2018. You can add Any Session  to your personal calendar to remind you when to join!

Session 1

​Mon March 5, 2018 7:00 PST
Duration: 30 minutes
The Power of Hackathons: How to Leverage Short-Term Development
​Cycles to Your Advantage
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Amanda Sopkin, Coach for Major League Hacking and Software Engineer
​“Hackathons” are events centered around projects designed to be completed quickly. They often take place in the course of only a weekend. Planning a hackathon can be a great way to accelerate innovation and foster a sense of community across teams. In addition to holding our own hackathons, we can learn valuable ways to move faster in our normal development cycles from these events. This presentation will inform attendees about the growing hackathon culture in technology and show them practical ways to leverage this culture at their workplaces.

About Amanda: Amanda attended her first hackathon as a freshman in college and fell in love with the innovative fast-paced dynamic. She was able to gain confidence, build lasting friendships, and learn skills she would not have developed in a classroom setting because of her experiences at hackathons. She became a coach for Major League Hacking to attend events and help organizers create good experiences for their attendees. She is excited about the potential of this concept and the growth of community continues to experience every year.

Session 2

Mon March 9 8:00 PST
Mon March 9 11:00 EST
Mon March 9 15:00 UTC
Mon March 9 20:30 IST
Tue March 10 2:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
The Art of Strategic Networking
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Susan Lucas-Conwell, Innovation Catalyst/CEO/Game-Changer, Growth Resources, Inc.
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Session 3

Mon March 9 9:00 PST
Mon March 9 12:00 EST
Mon March 9 16:00 UTC
Mon March 9 21:30 IST
Tue March 10 3:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
Innovation – A Destination and a Journey
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Valeria Mihalache, Xilinx
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Session 4

Mon March 9 10:00 PST
Mon March 9 13:00 EST
Mon March 9 17:00 UTC
Tue March 10 22:30 IST
Tue March 10 4:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
Empowering Women Technology Startup Founders to Succeed
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Ari Horie, CEO & Founder, Women's Startup Lab
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Session 5

Mon March 9 11:00 PST
Mon March 9 14:00 EST
Mon March 9 18:00 UTC
Mon March 9 23:30 IST
Tue March 10 5:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
Spatial Temporal Reasoning Over Play-Scripts for Artificially Intelligent Characters
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Christine Talbot, University of North Carolina
​/Salesforce.com
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Session 6

Mon March 9 13:00 PST
Mon March 9 16:00 EST
Mon March 9 20:00 UTC
Tue March 10 1:30 IST
Tue March 10 7:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
Communications Platform Provides "Your School at your Fingertips" for Busy Parents
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Nirupama Mallavarupu, MobileArq
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Session 7

Mon March 9 14:00 PST
Mon March 9 17:00 EST
Mon March 9 21:00 UTC
Tue March 10 2:30 IST
Tue March 10 8:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
Your Roadmap for an Extraordinary Future
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Shawna Corden PCC, PMP, Executive Coach at Hewlett-Packard
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Session 8

Mon March 9 15:00 PST
Mon March 9 18:00 EST
Mon March 9 22:00 UTC
Tue March 10 3:30 IST
Tue March 10 9:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
The Confidence Gap:  Igniting Brilliance through Feminine Leadership
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Lisa Marie Jenkins, Cisco Systems, Lisa Marie Jenkins Consulting
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Session 9

Mon March 9 16:00 PST
Mon March 9 19:00 EST
Mon March 9 23:00 UTC
Tue March 10 4:30 IST
Tue March 10 10:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
Strategies for Keeping a Laser Focus On Your Vision Without Going Crazy
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Lisa Kaczmarczyk, PhD, Program Evaluation and Assessment Consulting
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Session 10

Mon March 9 23:00 PST
Tue March 10 2:00 EST
Tue March 10 6:00 UTC
Tue March 10 11:30 IST
Tue March 10 17:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
Women and CS, Lessons Learned From Turkey
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Dr. Umit Yalcinalp, Architect
Dr. Gokcen Cilingir, Senior Software Engineer
Dr. Gulustan Dogan, Associate Professor
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Session 11

Tue March 10 19:00 PST
Tue March 10  22:00 EST
Wed March 11 2:00 UTC
Wed March 11 7:30 IST
Wed March 11 13:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
Agility and Cloud Computing
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Ambs Kesavan, Xilinx
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Session 12

Tue March 10 20:00 PST
Tue March 10 23:00 EST
Wed March 11 3:00 UTC
Wed March 11 8:30 IST
Wed March 11 14:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
ASEAN Women in Tech
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Lucie Newcomb, CEO The NewComm Global Group Inc. (USA), Moderator
Nuraizah Shamsul Baharin, Managing Director of Madcat World Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia) 
Haslina Taib, CEO BAG Networks (Brunei)   
Jennifer Kenny, CEO BizTh!nk (Indonesia) 
Au Soriano, CEO Pinoy Travel (Philippines)
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Session 13

Tue March 10 21:30 PST
Wed March 11 0:30 EST
Wed March 11 4:30:00 UTC
Wed March 11 10:00 IST
Wed March 11 15:30 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
Optimal Execution Of MapReduce Jobs In Cloud
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Anshul Aggarwal, Software Engineer, Cisco Systems
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Session 14

Tue March 10 22:30 PST
Wed March 11 1:30 EST
Wed March 11 5:30 UTC
Wed March 11 11:00 IST

Wed March 11 16:30 Sydney
Agile: Savior in Todays Constrained World (30 minutes)
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Ruby Tomar, Hewlett-Packard



Session 15

Tue March 10 22:30 PST
Wed March 11 1:30 EST
Wed March 11 5:30 UTC
Wed March 11 11:00 IST

Wed March 11 16:30 Sydney
Sustaining Resiliency in Device – Cloud Connectivity - Session Recorded
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Arshiya P, Hewlett Packard

Session 16

Wed March 11 0:30 PST
Wed March 11 3:30 EST
Wed March 11 7:30 UTC
Wed March 11 13:00 IST

Wed March 11 19:30 Sydney
A Survey of Estimation and Optimization Techniques Used to Accelerate Design Closure in FPGAs
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Padmini Gopalakrishnan, Xilinx

Session 17

Wed March 11 2:30 PST
Wed March 11 5:30 EST
Wed March 11 9:30 UTC
Wed March 11 15:00 IST

Wed March 11 21:30 Sydney
Women Entrepreneurs in the Start-up Space
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Suseella Panguluri, Software Engineer, CSC. Winner at Start Up Weekend, Chennai Edition, 2014
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Session 18

Wed March 11 7:30 PST
Wed March 11 10:30 EST
Wed March 11 14:30 UTC
Wed March 11 20:00 IST

Thu March 12 1:30 Sydney
Trust as a Basis for Effectiveness of Remote/ Virtual Teams: Leading to the Success of the Global projects
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Inna Stelmukh, SGS UK Ltd
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Session 19

Wed March 11 8:30 PST
Wed March 11 11:30 EST
Wed March 11 15:30 UTC
Wed March 11 21:00 IST

Thu March 12 2:30 Sydney
Mentors and Role Models - Best Practices in Many Cultures
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Katy Dickinson, Founder, Mentoring Standard
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Session 20

Wed March 11 10:00 PST
Wed March 11 13:00 EST
Wed March 11 17:00 UTC
Wed March 11 22:30 IST

Thu March 12 4:00 Sydney
The Language of Leadership
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Caroline Simard, Research Director at Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University
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Session 21

Wed March 11 11:00 PST
Wed March 11 14:00 EST
Wed March 11 18:00 UTC
Wed March 11 23:30 IST

Thu March 12 5:00 Sydney
Women’s INpowerment: The First-ever Global Survey to Hear Voice, Value and Vision of Today’s Young Women
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Jin In, 4Girls GLocal Leadership (4GGL)
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Session 22

Thu March 12 7:00 PST
Thu March 12 10:00 EST
Thu March 12 14:00 UTC
Thu March 12 19:30 IST

Fri March 13 1:00 Sydney
How Can We Make Interacting with Technology and Science Exciting and Fun Experiences?

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Marjan Boorboor, Master of Technological Socio-Economical planing (Major in intelligent renewable energy system planning)
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Session 23

Thu March 12 8:00 PST
Thu March 12 11:00 EST
Thu March 12 15:00 UTC
Thu March 12 20:30 IST
Fri March 13 2:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
Change IT!
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S. Revi Sterling, University of Colorado Boulder
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Session 24

Thu March 12 10:00 PST
Thu March 12  13:00 EST
Thu March 12 17:00 UTC
Thu March 12 22:30 IST
Fri March 13 4:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
Building a Women in Technology Community in an Emerging Country
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Stephanie Frias, Women in Technology Peru
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Session 25

Thu March 12 13:00 PST
Thu March 12  16:00 EST
Thu March 12 20:00 UTC
Fri March 13 1:30 IST
Fri March 13 7:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
Heart Rate Variability and the Digital Health Revolution
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Ronda Collier, SweetWater Health
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Session 26

Thu March 12 14:00 PST
Thu March 12 17:00 EST
Thu March 12 21:00 UTC
Fri March 13 2:30 IST
Fri March 13 8:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
Continuous Integration in Agile
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Dhanashri Phadke, Symantec
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Session 27

Thu March 12 15:00 PST
Thu March 12 17:00 EST
Thu March 12 22:00 UTC
Fri March 13 3:30 IST

Fri March 13 9:00 Sydney

Empowering Middle School Girls to Change the World Using Computer Science and Technology
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Pooja Chandrashekar, ProjectCSGIRLS 
& Shreya Shankar, Camp Sci Girl

Session 28

Thu March 12 16:00 PST
Thu March 12 19:00 EST
Thu March 12 23:00 UTC
Fri March 13 4:30 IST

Fri March 13 10:00 Sydney
Duration: 1.00 Hour
Measure Impact, Not Activity
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Karen Catlin, Karen Catlin Consulting
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Session 29

Thu March 12 17:00 PST
Thu March 12 20:00 EST
Fri March 13 0:00 UTC
Fri March 13 5:30 IST

Fri March 13 11:00 Sydney
Duration: 1.00 Hour
Breaking the Code of Interview Implicit Bias to Value Different Gender Competencies
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Bonita Banducci, Banducci Consulting
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Session 30

Thu March 12 18:00 PST
Thu March 12  21:00 EST
Fri March 13 1:00 UTC
Fri March 13 6:30 IST
Fri March 13 12:00 Sydney
Duration: 1.00 Hour
Speak Out! How to Advance Your Ideas and Thinking, and Change the World as We Know It
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Roberta Guise, Guise Marketing & PR
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Session 31

Fri March 13 8:00 PST
Fri March 13 11:00 EST
Fri March 13 15:00 UTC
Sat March 14 20:30 IST
Sat March 14 2:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
How to Make it to 30+
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Kellie Conrad, Cisco Systems
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Session 32

Fri March 13 9:00 PST
Fri March 13 12:00 EST
Fri March 13 16:00 UTC
Sat March 14 21:30 IST
Sat March 14 3:00 Sydney
Duration: 1.00 Hour
Beyond Venture Capital: Exploring Funding Options for Female Entrepreneurs
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Jenn Viane Riese, Angel Investor with Pipeline Fellowship and Entrepreneur 
Natalia Oberti Noguera, Founder Pipeline Fellowship 

Vanessa Ting, CEO/Co-Founder, Buyerly and Women's Venture Development Leader

Session 33

Fri March 13 10:00 PST
Fri March 13 13:00 EST
Fri March 13 17:00 UTC
Fri March 13 22:30 IST
Sat March 14 4:00 Sydney

Duration: 2.00 Hours
Panel: Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Growing Female Technology Professionals
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Moderators: 
Margaret Resce Milkint, Managing Partner, The Jacobson Group; WING Co-Founder; ITF Board Member
David Mendelsohn, Managing Partner, DLA Piper; WING Co-Founder

Panelists:
Danelle Kent, Consultant¸ SWC Technology Partners 
Arti Arora, Aon
Deanne Hettich, Vice President Practice Leadership, Aon Hewitt
Cynthia Clarke, CIO, Mesirow Financial
Jeff Hughes, Vice President Information Technology, CNA
Marisa Cabrera, IT Rotational Program Participant, CNA

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Session 34

Fri March 13 12:00 PST
Fri March 13 15:00 EST
Fri March 13 19:00 UTC
Sat March 14 0:30 IST
Sat March 14 6:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
Career Boosting Tips for Millennials
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Jessica Johnson, Salesforce.com
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Session 35

Fri March 13 13:00 PST
Fri March 13 16:00 EST
Fri March 13 20:00 UTC
Sat March 14 1:30 IST
Sat March 14 7:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
How Cisco Improved Marketing Productivity Using Big Data
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Reena Tiwari, Cisco Systems
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Session 36

Fri March 13 14:00 PST
Fri March 13 17:00 EST
Fri March 13 21:00 UTC
Sat March 14 2:30 IST
Sat March 14 8:00 Sydney

Duration: 1.00 Hour
How to Remain Easy When You Are Busy  
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Punam Nagpal, Technical Leader and Global Chairperson for Cisco WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) ERO, Cisco Systems
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Session 37

Fri March 13 16:00 PST
Fri March 13 19:00 EST
Fri March 13 23:00 UTC
Sat March 14 4:30 IST
Sat March 14 10:00 Sydney


The Phases of Transition: The End is Just the Beginning
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Bertita Graebner, Ph.D: Author, Conversationalist, Listener
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END OF CONFERENCE - HOPE YOU ENJOYED VOICES 2015!

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