Channel - VU Women in Tech Conference - 2020
This year VU Women in Tech celebrate our 5th anniversary by exploring the progress made in the last five years and challenging ourselves to push more limits in the next five years. The agenda is filled with over 24 speakers and 12 breakout sessions covering topics from AI and analytics to ethics and leadership.
1/22/2022 6:49:47 AM
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Imagine: Empathy & Equity at Scale
SPEAKER
Natalie Egan ‘08 MBA - CEO & Founder, Translator
MODERATOR
Amy Galette ‘15 CLAS - University Advancement
Experience Translator, an enterprise Diversity & Inclusion software designed to empower organizations with real-time tools that enable cultural change. Learn how Egan leveraged her technical acumen, entrepreneurial spirit, and personal journey transitioning from male to female to develop a tool used across corporate America. Prior to Translator, Egan was CEO and Founder of PeopleLinx, a social selling technology solution, and worked in leadership positions at LinkedIn, Autonomy, and Ecolab.
Natalie Egan
2/1/2020 2:55:00 PM
Afternoon Keynote – Virginia Eubanks Ph.D.
VIRGINIA EUBANKS, PhD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY, SUNY
Eubanks is renowned for her research about technology and social justice. Her writings have appeared in Scientific American, The Nation, Harper’s, and Wired. Eubanks will discuss her most recent book Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor that systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. For two decades, Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice movements
Virginia Eubank
1/23/2020 2:15:00 PM
Imagine: Applied Virtual Reality
SPEAKER
Katelyn Coghlan – Head of Marketing, The Glimpse Group
MODERATOR
Alicia Strandberg, PhD ‘03 MSAS – Associate Professor NT, Management & Operations
Virtual Reality (VR) is contributing to meaningful applications and adding value for brands. Coghlan not only heads marketing but also is general Manager of Glimpse subsidiary Mezmos and will explain what is happening regarding VR as it relates to integration into mainstream business practices. She will discuss what is hindering and propelling its adoption via real usage examples and demo D6, a data visualization VR solution. Come imagine the possibilities of VR.
Katelyn Coghlan
1/23/2020 2:38:00 PM
Imagine: May AI Help You?
SPEAKERS
Purna Virji - Senior Manager Global Engagements, Microsoft
MODERATOR
Raisa Velthuis, PhD - Assistant Professor, Finance
Technology has completely transformed the search experience. Increasingly conversational, intelligent, and visual, search engines are adapting to become the centerpiece of consumer engagement, as well as a virtually new tool for marketers. Just how should brands leverage these new technologies to better engage their audiences? Microsoft’s Virji will break down ways you can use AI today to deliver more personalized experiences for your customers, supporting accessibility, earning loyalty and increasing profits.
Purna Virji
2/1/2020 6:43:00 PM
Inspire: Careers After VU
SPEAKERS
Madeline Cohen ‘19 CLAS – Project Manager, Bank of America
Wanda Edmonson ‘19 CPS – Network Coordinator, Verizon Wireless
Kristin Prautzsch ‘11 VSB – Senior Manager, Visualization & Insights at PwC
Maria Sauer ‘12 COE – Vice President, BlackRock
MODERATOR
Megan Townsend ‘04 CLAS – Director, Women in Technology at PwC
Five amazing VU alumni will inspire you by sharing the progress they’ve made in the past five years and the limits they intend to push in the next five. Moderated by Townsend, the panelists will tell how they “took a seat” in tech and will encourage you to do the same.
Megan Townsend
2/1/2020 6:43:00 PM
Inspire: Journey in the Cloud
SPEAKER
Robin Allen, ‘05 MBA – Senior Director, Vertex Inc.
MODERATOR
Alice Faraone - Asst. Director of Business Intelligence and Database Administration Five years ago, Allen became a virtual CIO. In that role, she had to evaluate whether the cloud was a viable option for the companies she served while considering factors such as size, financials, budget, capacity, and technology. Allen strategized with each organization, as well as multiple levels of leaders, to build and deploy a cloud strategy. Five years later, Allen runs program management for commercial
software at Vertex, an industry leader in indirect tax software. She supports the development of products that are hosted in the cloud. Allen is leveraging her experience in all her roles to enhance and lead the development of tax technology used by the largest global retailers to calculate tax a million times over each day. Come hear about her journey as a woman in technology and how she came from a very small, but diverse pool of talent to succeed as a tech leader.
Alice Faraone
2/1/2020 4:10:00 PM
Inspire: Making Data Talk: Finding Your Voice in Data and Life
SPEAKER
Laura Jones, ‘03 VSB – Executive Strategy Director, BAV Group
MODERATOR
Meredith Lockyer - Director, Center for Business Analytics
Jones left Villanova armed with a marketing major and a communications minor. Come hear the story of how she blazed her own career path combining both data and creativity. She will offer up helpful advice for turning data into actionable insights as well the importance of using data to find and raise your voice as you advocate for yourself and others throughout life.
Laura Jones
1/23/2020 2:25:00 PM
Lead: Leveraging Tech with Core Expertise
SPEAKERS
Carolyn Gusick ‘07 COE - Sr. Manager, West Monroe Partners
Kathryn H Bowles, PhD, RN, FACMI, FAAN ‘90 MSN – Professor in Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Erin Arvedlund - Columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer
MODERATOR
Melissa O’Connor, PhD, RN – Associate Professor, Nursing
Join Arvedlund for a focused interview with our two panelists, Bowles and Gusick, on how they leveraged their expertise (nursing and engineering respectively) to break into the world of technology and become leaders. Learn from their success and discover the unique technology adoption challenges they must overcome.
Carolyn Gusick
2/1/2020 2:58:00 PM
Lead: Managing Bias in the Workplace
SPEAKER
Terry Nance, PhD - Associate Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
MODERATOR
Noelle Comolli, PhD - Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Why would a STEM or technology professional need to be concerned with leadership for diversity, equity, and inclusion? Aren’t these disciplines about objective facts? Nationally, women and members of minoritized groups are underrepresented in the STEM workforce. Improving the representation of women, members of underrepresented groups and those with intersectional identities within STEM fields are key competitive imperatives for the 21st century. Using case studies from industry and education, Nance will facilitate an active discussion on the essential roles played by tech leaders in promoting change.
Noelle Comolli
2/1/2020 6:40:00 PM
Lead: Whats Your Vision?
SPEAKERS
Danielle Ross - Assistant Director, Anne Welsh McNulty Institute for Women’s Leadership
Amanda Jeong ‘21 COE - McNulty Institute Lorenzini Leadership Ambassador
Mackenzie Jorgenson ‘20 CLAS - McNulty Institute Lorenzini Leadership Ambassador
To push limits and drive progress it’s important to develop a strong sense of who you are and what you stand for. This workshop leads participants through the process of identifying their own values and guiding principles and using them as the basis to craft their own personal leadership statement.
Danielle Deweese
2/1/2020 4:10:00 PM
Learn: Collaborate with Airtable
SPEAKER
Samantha Wheeler ‘12 VSB, ‘20 MBA
MODERATOR
Elen Spinnraker CPS
Unlike a traditional spreadsheet or project management system, Airtable gives you the power of a super-flexible database to connect your information —and design the perfect workflow—all in one place. Whether you’re opening a restaurant, designing a clothing line, wrangling cattle, or managing a record label, Airtable helps you create anything you can imagine and support the work that matters to you. Join Wheeler for a live session to see how quickly you can develop an Airtable base that matches your needs and helps to streamline processes, no matter the topic.
Sam Wheeler
2/1/2020 6:40:00 PM
Learn: Data Transformation with Alteryx
SPEAKERS
Caroline ‘87 CLAS, ‘20 MS – Data and Reporting Analyst, Commvault
MODERATOR
Erin Vaughan ‘12 CLAS - Director of Customer Success, Fishtown Analytics
Learn Alteryx – a code-free, drag and drop software tool for data analytics. Scales, a seasoned data scientist, will lead you through a data cleansing and normalization demonstration of the software. No coding experience necessary. Download a free trial of the software for this hands-on experience.
Caroline Scales
2/1/2020 2:55:00 PM
Learn: Gendered Political Perceptions: Using Tweets to Measure Warmth and Competence of Candidates_2/1/2020
SPEAKERS
Aronte Bennett, PhD - Associate Professor, Marketing & Business Law
Rachel Connor, PhD - Social Psychologist, Princeton University
Sue McFarland Metzger - Professor of Practice, Accounting & Information Systems
Do Tweets regarding female presidential candidates reference competence, warmth and/or appearance more than male presidential candidates? Our speakers have combined their talents and will share their methods, word dictionaries, and Amazon cloud computing solutions used to analyze over 10 Gigabytes of streaming data collected in the last 5 months. Come hear their preliminary findings!
Rachel Connor
2/1/2020 4:13:00 PM
Morning Keynote – Nance Dicciani Ph.D. ’69 COE
NANCE DICCIANI, Ph.D. ’69 COE
FOUNDER & CEO OF RTM VITAL SIGNS, LLC
Dicciani is one of Villanova’s most distinguished alumni, having served on the University’s Board of Trustees and the most recent recipient of its St. Thomas of Villanova Alumni Medal. Dicciani graduated Villanova with a chemical engineering degree and has gone on to hold significant leadership positions in business development, international operations, manufacturing, research & development, and engineering at Air Products, Honeywell, and Rohm and Hass. Dicciani has an MS in chemical engineering from the University of Virginia and earned both an MBA and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. She currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Linde PLC, Halliburton, LyondellBasell, AgroFresh Solutions, Rockwood Holdings, Inc., and PPL Corporation. It is no surprise that Dicciani has been named twice as one of “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” by Forbes magazine. Five years ago, Dicciani co-founded medical device startup company RTM Vital Signs which focuses on the development of a real-time, continuous monitoring system for vital signs of cardiac and respiratory health.
Nance Dicciani
1/23/2020 2:09:00 PM
Women are leading and innovating with technology across Villanova’s campus and alumnae base. VU Women in Tech is the platform for us to share experiences, highlight opportunities for women in technology, and motivate those who hesitate.
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