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Welcome to Women in Tech Boston 2023! Join us for the official opening and welcome remarks to kick-start your day with inspiration and empowerment!

Our two-day agenda is filled with expert-led sessions designed to help you learn how to start putting in the building blocks toward the future and securing your position as a futurist leader in tech and strategy.

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9:30am
Keynote

Thrifty Innovation: How To Innovate More With Less

30 mins
  • Digital Transformation
  • Keynote
  • Non-Technical

Despite shrinking IT spending, organizations will remain focused on driving teams to develop new products and generate higher revenue without increasing costs, risk and headcount. This strain on resources will require leaders everywhere to lean on creativity and a greater sense of scrutiny to minimize churn and increase software optimization in areas that will drive the greatest value to the business. Join this session to hear how leaders are adapting to the challenges arising from economic instability and how to become a highly focused optimized organization with limited resources.

Key Takeaways:

  • Understanding the technical needs of the business, prioritizing, and creating solutions.
  • Utilizing creative solutions to overcome tech challenges despite limited resources.
  • Minimizing churn and increasing software optimization in the areas that drive value.
10:00am
Keynote

What The Future of AI Means For You

30 mins
  • Advanced Technology
  • AI
  • Keynote

It should go without saying that AI technology is not new, but the race and fast pace of acceleration of recent months is coming from how businesses can now easily apply and scale AI, yet we find ourselves having the same conversation. In this session, we’ll explore the recent innovative applications of Generative AI and further demystify that age-old question – will AI replace my job?

Key Takeaways:

  • Learn how Generative AI is changing your role and organization.
  • Understand the morals and ethics in AI and Natural Language Processing.
  • How to stay ahead of the curve and develop your skills along with the pace of AI adoption to broaden your skillset.
10:30am
Keynote

Knowing The Pulse Of Your Business Is Key To Your Future Tech Strategy

30 mins
  • Digital Transformation
  • Keynote
  • Non-Technical

Technology is an enabler, but you can’t build good technical solutions without understanding and knowing your business. The future of technical skills includes business literacy and to remain ahead in your career, it’s critical to understand business processes, pain points, and areas of opportunities to capture the most value from what you’re developing or adopting. As IT budgets go under greater scrutiny, the ability to talk and map out the business will enable you to build a strategy to adopt new technology in a way that is reliable, secure, and scalable with a clear ROI to your leadership team.

Key Takeaways:

  • Learning the business behind tech applications.
  • Identifying the value streams of tech in business.
  • How to communicate ROI and the value of technology to non-technical leaders.
9:15am
Keynote

Welcome Remarks

15 mins
  • Keynote
  • Carrie Beckstrom

    Chief Executive Officer

    PowerSpeaking

Join us for the day two welcome remarks to kick-start your day with inspiration and empowerment!

Our two-day agenda is filled with expert-led sessions designed to help you learn how to start putting in the building blocks toward the future and securing your position as a futurist leader in tech and strategy.

9:30am
Keynote

Technology as Critical Infrastructure: Preparing For The National Cybersecurity Strategy

30 mins
  • Keynote
  • Leadership

Innovation has always outpaced policy, leaving opportunities for a lack of standardization and requirements providing huge security risks. With the release of the National Cybersecurity Strategy, it has been designed with the aim to create a safe and secure digital ecosystem. Join this session to unpack what the Strategy will mean for you and your organization, and identify lessons learned internationally from the implementation of similar policies to ensure that you’re prepared for what’s to come.

Key Takeaways:

  • Unpacking the key pillars of the National Cybersecurity Strategy on technology and our critical infrastructure.
  • Learn the new requirements and legal implications required.
  • Understanding the lessons learned from international policy frameworks such as GDPR and DORA.
10:00am
Keynote

Becoming a Futurist Against The Challenges of Today

30 mins
  • Keynote
  • Leadership

When working in technology you always want to be focused on designing for the future and implementing technology that will make long-lasting change; but as recent years have proven, the future is near impossible to predict, and the challenges we now face go beyond a bug in the system. Plans will inevitably evolve, and business priorities will endlessly pivot so how can you innovate against constant uncertainty? Join this session to learn how to position yourself as a futurist in your organization and build a culture of innovation within the remits of what you can control.

Key Takeaways:

  • How to create a plan for the future that leaves room for the unexpected.
  • Learn the attributes of becoming a futurist leader.
  • Building a culture of innovation within the remits of what you can control.
10:30am
Keynote

Who Will Lead Us Now? Building The Next Generation of Women C-Suite in Tech

30 mins
  • Diversity Equity & Inclusion
  • Keynote

Over the past year, we’ve seen the resignation of a number of key influential senior women in technology who have been role models for many. Tech has long been lagging behind other industries in the representation of women in leadership and for the most part, the positions left open in these key roles are being filled by men. In this session, we’ll explore the journey and skills required to make it to the C-suite and the importance of not just getting women into tech but retaining and building them into senior roles to create the next generation of women C-suite in tech.

Key Takeaways:

  • Building the next generation of influential women leaders in technology.
  • Investing in initiatives to not only increase the representation of diversity but retention and promotion.
  • Learn what it takes to make it to the C-suite.

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