Our 5th annual ELEVATE Conference sessions are online! Watch the conference talks on our YouTube playlist. Scroll through the speaker highlights below as we’ve re-watched, conducted attendee surveys, and found you the BEST sessions to watch from Elevate 2022!
We’ve compiled the best of 2022 Tech Talks, from NEW TECHNOLOGY (and the latest startups), to tactical advice for ENGINEERING LEADERS – both individual contributors and managers!
#1 – Michelle Yi, Senior Director of Applied AI at RelationalAI, talks about why knowledge is the future of data. Harnessing knowledge and data together leads teams to faster modeling and insights. In this session, she demos relational knowledge graphs.
#2 – Julie Choi, Chief Growth Officer at MosaicML, in conversation with Laura Florescu, AI Researcher at MosaicML, about their unique career paths to machine learning. Laura is working on accelerating neural network training with research in natural language processing and computer vision, combining multiple algorithms to train models faster. Check out the Composer open source ML library on GitHub.
#3 – Izzy Clemenson, Senior Staff Engineer at Slack, talks about leading and launching a product as a IC, along with Tracy Stampfli, Principal Engineer at Slack. The engineers talk about large projects they led at Slack, tips for getting stake-holder buy-in, and metrics.
#4 – Melissa Andrews, Sales Engineering Manager at Splunk, talks about Sales Engineering (SE) as a career for mid-career women with a curiosity for tech. She talks about the confusing set of job titles SEs can have, the skills and activities for the role, and how to get started!
#5 – Maria Lucena and Divya Mahajan, Directors of Architecture at Fidelity Investments, discuss AWS, GraphQL, with Apollo: Vue.JS delivering enterprise grade-applications. They review the architecture for a project, explaining the decision-making process behind the tech stack.
#6 – Ashu Ravichander, Principal Product Manager at Workday, builds resiliency into her professional life to successfully navigate the ups and downs of a mood disorder. She lays out tried-and-true toolkits, playbooks, and best practices for setting herself for success on bad mental health days to bring her best self to work, every day she needs to.
#7 – Ali Littman, Director of Engineering at Modern Health, shares scaffolding for getting promoted. She lays out alignment with manager, understanding the career path at your company, having a growth plan, asking for regular feedback, and effectively sharing your achievements across all levels (manager, department, and company).
#8 – Jen-Mei Wu, Community Organizer and Founder, balances healthy skepticism with her excitement for the web3 opportunity to address financial inequity. She reveals different ways to make a difference with a small and mighty entrepreneurial team (e.g. decentralized finance helping fund non-profits, dealing with carbon).
#9 – Arquay Harris, VP of Engineering at Webflow, asks how do you know what is the “right” decision? Which actions are easily reversible and which cause irreparable harm? Perfect is not the goal.
#10 – Mina Hsiang, Administrator at the United States Digital Service, and Clare Martorana, Federal CIO, discuss the challenges of government tech, and how they are building a team transforming government services for millions by putting people at the center of everything they do.
Check out the top 10 ways our speakers spoke about interrupting bias (this year’s #IWD2022 theme) and blazing a new path forward. 🏆
Our 5th annual Girl Geek X: ELEVATE Conference on March 8, 2022 in celebration of International Women’s Day hosted over 3,600 around the world. By the numbers, Elevate hosted 45 speakers across 23 sessions, supported by 14 sponsors (they are actively hiring, check out their jobs!)
