Tackling Intractable Problems: Design Thinking Deep in our Technology
We rely on systems to accomplish our work. These systems grow organically as we define new jobs to be done and new processes to support our work. Each new job and new process makes sense… until the…
Building your Brand by Creating your Signature Talk
Over the last three years, Innovation Women founder Bobbie Carlton has been a regular speaker at the Women in Tech Summit events. Her "No Excuses: How to Get Yourself on Stage" presentation has been…
The Remote Teams Toolkit: Tips on Leading from Afar
As of 2019, the number of companies with remote workforce is getting bigger — 66% of companies allow remote work and 16% are fully remote. In our digital world, managing a distributed and remote…
The Lego™ Way To Transform Your Business
Understanding your company's capabilities is one of the first steps in being able to begin the digital transformation your company is likely embarking upon (or thinking about if they haven't yet…
Basics of Setting up a Drupal Website
Drupal is becoming a content management system of choice for governments, academia, membership associations, and non-profit organizations because of its security, stability, and ease of integrating…
Confluence 101
This workshop is a high-level 101 course and will cover the basic things you need to know to use Confluence and then will put these lessons to action. This includes basics of the tool, how to use and…
Pocket AI and IoT: Turn Your Phone Into a Smart Fitness Tracker
Want to learn more about trends like AI, IoT and wearable tech? In this workshop, we engage beginner and intermediate participants interested in getting started with sensors, data acquisition, sensor…
Empathy for the User: Why Research Matters
Making sure you know there is a market for your product or service is important, but what comes after you launch? You need deeper insights into how real people are actually using your products – what…
Empathy is a Technical Skill
Empathy is a technical skill. Don’t worry. You read that correctly. While empathy is often cited as a critical “soft skill,” it doesn’t stop there. Empathy is also an incredibly technical topic that…
Secrets of Being a Great Software Engineer
Who is your "hero" engineer? What is it they do that makes them so great? Do you want to up your game so you can be someone else's hero? Or maybe you just want to work smarter and not harder? Join me…
ML/AI Shaping the World of Retail and Supporting Associates
How Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence can empower associates, boost efficiency and increase customer engagement in the brave new world of retail.
Conquering Continuous Integration & Deployment
Continuous Integration is becoming an important part of the development process. However, to some, the how and why are still a bit fuzzy. This session talks about the natural progression of a…
Match-making Passengers and Vehicles in Ride-Sharing
We will give an overview of the components of ride-sharing software systems, and dive into how match-making is performed for passengers and vehicles. We will also identify different metrics to…
Building Organization and Culture for Developer Innovation
This talk will cover -Challenges with keeping big tech systems running while also wanting to be disruptive. -How an innovation lab can be built amidst this to get the best of both worlds -Share the…
Effective Feedback: Simple Techniques That Have A Big Impact
Giving and receiving feedback is hard. We avoid it because we do not want to confront our peers or team members and make workplace interactions awkward. It does not have to be this way. Attendees…
Peaks or Valleys? The power of Scaling Agility in the alphabet soup of Government agencies
Do you feel like Agile Scaling has become a goal rather than the means to an end for your organization? To determine where you stand on the Scaling spectrum, ask yourself a few soul-searching…
To Pair or Not to Pair
Pair programming is the most controversial element of Extreme programming in terms of team productivity. Indeed’s Challenge Market Initiatives team started full pair rotation from February 2019, and…
Build a Strategy to Improve Customer Experience with Bots
In this Salesforce hands-on bots workshop, we will lead you down a path to faster, smarter customer engagement. You’ll explore the intelligent customer service technology behind Einstein Bots that…
Journeying Into Uncharted Territory with Flying Robots: An Intersectional Perspective on the Drone Industry
Today’s drones are reaching unparalleled heights of sophistication. Not only is the hardware getting smaller, better, and faster, but advanced autonomy is allowing flying robots to explore places and…
I Hack, You Hack, We All Hack! … or Why Cybersecurity Is Great for Underrepresented Communities
This will start with a short high level talk about hacking/cybersecurity (do you like puzzles?) then lead into an open discussion about how people in various underrepresented communities can…
How we can use Social Media and Machine Learning to detect Human Trafficking
Social media plays a significant role in our everyday communication. With the astronomical amounts of data, we have passed through the web at any given second; it’s almost overwhelming to distill…
How to Get Users to Trust You
Getting users to provide actionable feedback can be stressful when conducting user research and user testing. Gaining user trust and building rapport is vital to gathering user insights. This talk is…
The Future of Work: Designing VR for Productivity, Collaboration, and Inclusivity
Once considered as a device for entertainment and gaming, VR has capabilities for improving how we work including training, collaboration, and co-location. This talk will discuss the current…
Mentors, Coaches, Sponsors, oh my!
When you want to get a seat at the table, you’ll need more than a good performance review and a strong work ethic, especially when combating all the road blocks in your way. It’s time to take…