Do you feel like meditation isn’t for you? Or it IS for you, but you never have the time? Join Headspace Meditation Teacher, Ria Ingleby, for a brief introduction to the practice and how just 10 minutes of meditation per day can reduce stress, increase focus and improve resilience. Hear about the extraordinary impact meditation has had on Ria’s personal journey and finish off with a 10 minute meditation to help you make the most of the day.

Powerful Storytelling informs, inspires, and motivates people to action. It is your master weapon to convey your ideas, energize your team and ultimately drive success. Come and meet PowerSpeaking Inc’s Master Facilitator Sarah Palmer for a fun, empowering and highly experiential Workshop to transform your business stories.

Session Key takeaways:

• A clear, systematic storytelling framework
• An understanding of what makes a successful story
• Enthusiasm to put what you have learnt into practice immediately!

Who is this session perfect for?

Anyone wishing to employ stories to become a more relatable presenter, and to persuade and energize your team.

The Career Advice Clinic will allow you to meet with industry leaders who are making themselves available to offer career advice and tips!

Each meeting will run for 10 minutes and will operate on a first come first serve basis. Booking slots open September 20th.

Each speaker will run 4 121 sessions within the hour.

Speaker expertise to be announced.

The Career Advice Clinic will allow you to meet with industry leaders who are making themselves available to offer career advice and tips!

Each meeting will run for 10 minutes and will operate on a first come first serve basis. Booking slots open September 20th.

Each speaker will run 4 121 sessions within the hour.

Mathew has a background in quantitative biomedical sciences.

Areas of Expertise:

• Machine Learning 
• Data Science
• Data Science skill sets 
• Digital Innovation

The Career Advice Clinic will allow you to meet with industry leaders who are making themselves available to offer career advice and tips!

Each meeting will run for 10 minutes and will operate on a first come first serve basis. Booking slots open September 20th.

Each speaker will run 4 121 sessions within the hour.

Speaker expertise:

• Product management

• Remote team leadership and facilitation

• New product development 

• User experience research

Automation was supposedly the force reshaping the future of work – turns out it wasn’t technology, but a virus that disrupted everything. The digital workplace is changing and there are significant implications for employees, offices, and skills people need in an increasingly automated, remote, globalised workforce. This session will cover the D’s that are shaping the emerging digital workplace, based on research from MIT, London Business School, Cambridge University and Lancaster University, as well as practical lessons from BT and clients in many sectors across the world. It will also explore the hype around ‘hybrid’ work and the implications of divorcing work from both space and time.

Session Key Takeaways:

• The rise of Disruption, Diversity and Digital: lessons from the global remote working “experiment” – and how workplaces may evolve into the future.
• The death of Dilbert, Dolly and Distance – what function do offices play if most of us can work from home?
• If the future of work is hybrid, how do we prevent “horrible hybrids” forming?
• How do we use technology to make digital collaboration more like face-to-face?
• How do we cope with “living at work”? The rise of the Droid - is AI/ automation still going to transform the workplace?

This virtual meet up is a chance to introduce yourself, access career advice and meet others on a similar trajectory. This session is is for our European community, so if you're looking for your tribe, a mentor, or a mentee, join us and harness the power of your local network.

Sarah Tulip, our head of Digital Transformation and CEO of Wild Digital will tell us about her experience of the challenges she has faced being a woman in Tech and how she has navigated them so far. We will then have 5 breakout rooms, where you can pick the one that resonates with you the most. Following that we will then talk the questions through in a small team to break these problems down and collaboratively work together to discuss and workshop this problem.

Menopause and your career

Room 1 - Laura Casci, Head of Delivery in Scotland Menopause and your career.

Can you achieve your goals in your current role?

Room 2 -  Kam Bhatoa, Head of Government

Role models, do you have any, how can they can impact your career?

Room 3 -  Ellie Cottrell, Recruitment Manager

The characteristics of leadership, what are the true traits of leadership, and do we feel that we have those?

Room 4 -  Natasha Lal, Head of Innovation

How to build your network and find your people?

Room 5 -  Sarah Tulip, Head of Digital Transformation

How to build your network and find your people? We aim for this session to be open, honest, interactive, and meaningful. Walking away from this, we want you to feel empowered for sharing and to take-away confidence, ideas and energy for the future. Not only that, we want you to feel you have gone home as part of a community, and we will be setting-up sessions following this event to continue the discussion.

Session Key takeaways:

• Hearing the stories of your peers, their challenges, and potential solutions.
• Understanding the perspective of many different voices.
• Feeling empowered and becoming part of a community.

Who is this session perfect for? If you are looking for a space to share, learn and give a voice to your peers.

Why you need to attend this session

You are looking for motivation to make changes, even though the past year has made you guarded when it comes to change. You forgot the importance of adapting and need to find your why again. You want to learn how to adapt and sustain adaptability throughout your career

Session Key takeaways:

• The importance of continuously reflecting and identifying changes you need to make within your career
• The importance of preparing yourself to do what is necessary, to make the changes required achieve your career goals
• The importance of continuously adapting to ensure career success and longevity

Who is this session perfect for?

• Those that need a bit of motivation as they re-enter the job market
• Those looking for that extra spark, needed to take on this “new normal”, revitalizing their pre/post pandemic career goals
• Those who want to learn and/or understand the importance of adaptability to your career success and longevity

This virtual meet up is a chance to discuss all things development. These sessions are lighted moderated but we encourage the conversation to be driven by you. Discuss the challenges and opportunities of the field, routes into the role, or even advice on what language you should build your services in.

This product vision session (and accompanying canvas) is the Swiss Army Knife of workshops. Use it for breaking down new features, crystallizing new product ideas, setting a quarterly vision for your existing product, or doing a 3-year envisioning exercise. By taking a user-centric approach and building on ideas from one column to the next, at the end of the workshop you’re sure to have a solid product vision and full-team alignment. This workshop is a ‘must have’ for any product manager’s toolkit.

Groups will work together to build product canvas' and can come up with a new product concepts, draw from a list of provided product concepts, or use something they’re currently considering in their workplaces.

Participants can take this template back into their workplaces and also learn when and why to use this type of activity with their teams.

The workshop product canvas includes the following columns: User groups, user needs, features, UVPs, Success metrics, and the Voice of the customer. Additionally, we’ll identify 3 experience principles and a product vision statement to round out the canvas.

Session Key Takeaways:

Participants will leave the workshop with the skills and confidence to facilitate the product vision workshop with their teams. Plus Participants will leave with a template for the canvas and instructions for the workshop facilitation.

Who is this workshop perfect for?

Product managers, business development managers, product designers, customer success managers

Dgraph is the world’s most advanced native GraphQL database with a Graph Backend. Nathalia will introduce you to Dgraph, the world’s most advanced native GraphQL database with a Graph Backend: yes, it is new, stable enough and growing very quickly. It’s the only open source native graph database. We will make a simple app so you can get started with Dgraph and Slash GraphQL. Within 40 minutes, you will have the entire structure of the data set with all the proper interactions captured in Dgraph.

Session Key takeaways:

• Why Dgraph and how it works : what makes it so unique and exciting? -
• How to generate a production-ready, scalable GraphQL backend with Slash GraphQL.
• Practical introductory understanding on how to build with top-tier tools including lambdas, authentication, real-time subscriptions, and custom logic.

Who is this masterclass perfect for?

This session is for you if you're a software engineer excited to build apps, rather than infrastructure: and if you're ever eager to adopt the newest game-changing technologies.

Are you frustrated with sitting all day while struggling with eye strain and worried about the health impact of overworking? Do you ever feel stressed from the demands of a packed meeting schedule and emotional burnout? Stress and a sedentary lifestyle double the risk of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and obesity.

For many professionals, the stress of long hours takes a toll on their health. This leaves them overrun with anxiety, weight issues and chronic diseases that are preventable. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Session Key Takeaways:

• Key health tools that will help overcome stress and burnout that are easy to implement.
• How to address health obstacles and interrupt mood responses like anxiety, depression and overwhelm.
• Action steps to overcome adverse health effects that are frequently caused by stress and a sedentary lifestyle.

In this session, we will explore what is needed to become a “Whole Leader” in adopting a holistic approach to people management. We'll be investigating what head, heart and guts mean and how organisations can help develop better leaders through the use of mindfulness. 

Session Key Takeaways:

• Understanding of what we mean by Head, Heart & Guts Leadership?
• How can organisations support and develop 'The whole Leader'? 
• What can derail us? 
• Tips on How to use Mindfulness techniques to improve yourself as a Leader.

Workshop Activities:

An interactive workshop where we will have a few activities to share your thoughts.

Online mini-quiz to look at your balance across Head, Heart & Guts.  

Pre-Work:

Please bring your mobile and have access to www.mentimeter.com

Awaiting Session Details

As cloud adoption increases, the demand for cloud experts and cloud computing skills increases. Large enterprises have been migrating their on-premises data center to cloud in the past several years. But the COVID 19 pandemic has forced many organizations to support remote / virtual work and this has caused positive growth spike in communications, media/entertainment, online retails industries and so on. This has increased cloud adoption exponentially during recent months. And so does the demand for cloud computing skills. In this session we will explore key cloud computing skills that would help build a career in cloud technology. 

Session Key Takeaways: 

• Main types of cloud services used by enterprises and how it aligns with their businesses
• Key cloud computing skills/ specializations and how it helps to deliver the business outcomes
• Some advanced cloud computing skills and how it aligns with business

Who is this session perfect for? 

If you are wondering what skills, specializations and expertise one must build to start a career in Cloud Computing world, this session will provide some insights. This session is perfect for anyone who wants to start fresh in cloud, or someone who wants to enhance their profile with more cloud skills. This session would also help organizations and leaders who like to grow their employee’s cloud skills and / or build a Cloud CoE (Centre of Excellence).

Why you need to attend this session

The future of artificial intelligence and advanced tech systems (such as machine learning) Black and brown people, women, disabled populations, individuals living with mental health conditions and other marginalized communities is significant and can be both beneficial and harmful depending on the people designing, developing and delivering such solutions.

Taking a human-centered approach to socio-technical challenges means that instead of talking about technology first, we talk about humans first and then the relationships between humans and technology. Responsible AI pushes beyond compliance and tech policy, and introduces real lived experiences, examples and our own biases into the technology that we have grown to trust and rely on.

Session Key takeaways:

• What is responsible AI and why you should care, and how it can and will impact your life and those around you.
• What we can all do to contribute to closing the technology equity gap for marginalized communities.
• Responsible AI leads to true innovation, which leads to true opportunity and organizational impact.

Who is this session perfect for?

Anyone interested in getting involved, understanding the opportunities and gaps of AI, and believe that technology should be a benefit to society and will help play a role in shaping that as our future truth.

The Careers Advice Clinic will allow you to meet with industry leaders and sponsor representatives who are making themselves available to offer career advice and tips!

Each meeting will run for a maximum of 15 minutes and will operate on a first come first serve basis.

Slots will be released an hour before the session is due to take place

Representative's Areas of Expertise

• Digital transformation
• Data strategy
• End to end data science
• AI engagements
• Building data teams

In this conversation based session, our leaders will discuss the technical skills they acquired throughout their journey and the requirements they needed to reach the top. Our speakers will share their career routes and then open the floor for questions.

Key takeaways:

• Understand the true importance of balance
• Explore the Balance Challenge to Working Women Today
• Discover 5 Tips to Maintain Balance in The Pandemic
• Understand the steps you can start today

Who is this session perfect for?

Ellie will discuss why the pandemic has hit women leaders hard and how to retain top talent through the Great Resignation

Session Key Takeaways:

• Explore what's been hardest for hands-on parents
• Why this is hitting women leaders hardest
• How to retain talent (Personal experience)
• Strategies as we move forward, through a slow pandemic recovery

This virtual meet up is a chance to introduce yourself, access career advice and meet others on a similar trajectory. This session is is for our West Coast community, so if you're looking for your tribe, a mentor, or a mentee, join us and harness the power of your local network.

Any new disruptive technology with the potential to enable a fourth industrial revolution needs to be understood, sized and embraced. This presentation is intended to equip our audience with the toolkit needed to be able to understand the basics about 5G technology by reviewing essentials concepts such as mobile networks, frequency spectrum, antenna radiation pattern, macrocells and small cells and optical fiber infrastructure. The objective is to leave with a good understanding on what to expect from 5G technology, how to prepare for it and, most important, when.” Discover the basics about mobile networks and 5G tecnhnology.

Who is this session perfecty for?

If you want to have some basic command on what is yet to come with 5G technology and to understand where 5G-related opportunities are and will be

Why should you attend this session?

Any insecure overachievers in the room? It takes one to know one. This character trait feels annoying, even tiring. And so it took me a lot of trial and error to realize that it’s actually secretly helping me to get better each week. I’m a better mum, a better leader and a better colleague because of it. What if you can also turn self-doubt into your biggest strength?

I will give you my favourite tried & tested mental tools that will get more out of yourself and your business/job at the same time. Spoiler alert: you will get immediate results.

Key takeaways:

• Ambition and insecurity can go really well together
• The power of reflection is real
• Simplicity does it

Who is this session perfect for?

If you wondering how you can become an even better version of yourself by tapping into your personal superstar powers.

We have never had such a wealth of information about our customers, and companies are better than ever in being customer-centric. To manage and truly leverage the impact of this knowledge wealth, we need to sharpen our tools. In this session, we’ll explore the dynamics of knowledge and insights, when to apply which and how to be cost-efficient in your research endeavours.

Why should you attend this session?

 You want to create better products, be mindful of your time and leverage both customer lifetime value and churn reduction.

3 Key takeaways:

• Understanding is the difference between customer knowledge, and customer insights
• Discover how to leverage and create impact with both knowledge and insights
• The importance of balancing the trivial, and the delight, for a successful customer experience

Who is this session perfect for?

You work as a UX designer, a product owner, innovation manager, UX researcher and in related fields.

The life of a leader is not an easy one. 64% of leaders say that they’d like to leave management, and that between 40-80% of their time is spent
on low-value activities. The situation is pronounced for female leaders in particular.

The big issue is that the demands placed on leaders by organizations aren’t just problems that can easily be solved. The challenges are often connected to another opposing challenge.
Do your prioritise performance or wellbeing? Do you act with authority or build consensus? Solving one issue exacerbates another, creating a vicious cycle of polarized tensions.

This session reveals how to break free from this cycle and navigate the tensions leaders face. We introduce four practices that leaders can use to create happier, more productive, and successful
environment for themselves and their teams.

Session Key Takeaways:
Discover why leadership is so challenging in our current workplace
Develop an understanding of what tensions exist and how they impact leaders
Insight into four practices that help navigate tensions, resulting in happier, more productive, and successful teams

Who is this session perfect for?
You are a leader within your workplace and want to learn how to get the best for yourself and your team.

Organisations are centralising their data into a single view of data discovery but organisations also need to be able to trust their own data. During this process, organisations also need to understand the risk profile of data and understand if the data is compliant to governance standards such as GDPR. In this talk I'll take you through our vision of Data Governance and learn to maximise the business value of your data

Key Takeaways:

• Understand the impact of implementing data governance in an organisation.
• Purview benefits to help to build the data governance framework and maximise the business value of your data

Target audience:

Chief Data Officer, Data Owners, Head of Data, Data Architects, Data Engineers

With over 5 billion mobile users around the world, nowadays many businesses depend on apps used by the majority of their customers, and several successful companies have been built on top of a single massively successful app.

But how can you scale your mobile developers’ team efficiency in order to move quickly and avoid stepping on each other’s toes? How do you foster ownership and innovation in a shared mobile app project? How do you keep consistency between the two different platforms? Tips and tricks from a newly created mobile team!

Why should you attend this session?

In the era of remote work, is important to know that we still can foster teamwork, consistency and sharing of knowledge either as leaders or as members of a team. I'll share some practical examples from a remote team as well as in-office engineers working on a mobile app project.

Session Key Takeaways:

• What to care about when building up a team from the very beginning
• Best practices and processes on developing a mobile app project from scratch
• Sharing the experience of team working in a remote environment

Who is this session perfect for?

(Android, iOS or cross-platfrom), team leaders, chapter leaders, engineers wanting to enhance their teams with some remote working culture.

The Career Advice Clinic will allow you to meet with industry leaders who are making themselves available to offer career advice and tips!

Each meeting will run for 10 minutes and will operate on a first come first serve basis. Booking slots open September 20th.

Each speaker will run 4 121 sessions within the hour.

Mathew has a background in quantitative biomedical sciences.

Areas of Expertise:

• Machine Learning 
• Data Science
• Data Science skill sets 
• Digital Innovation

Why should you attend this session?

Discover how one of the world´s largest fashion retailers combined global branding with personalization, create an integrated customer experience across channels and empower their teams to put the customer in the center. Unpredictable is the new normal! With global scale, 120+ million members and more than 5 billion visits every year, H&M stays close to their customers during times of rapid change by being agile, using actionable data and creating a personal experience.

Session Key takeaways:

• Discover how we implemented personalization at scale
• Understand how we Built strong customer relationships
• Our journey to Customer centricity

Who is this session perfect for?

If you are interested in how one of the biggest fashion retailers in the world work with digital tools and channels to build long term customer relationships.

Data is only useful when you know how to extract value from it. Before acquiring more data, you should understand your existing data landscape. The most impactful insights are timely, informative, accessible and actionable. Most importantly, they should answer business critical questions or inform business strategy.

Who are my most engaged customers/prospects? Are the marketing campaigns having the impact we expected? What product should we launch next? Data helps us answer these questions and guide us on next steps. Join this session to understand how to extract the most value from your data and improve business performance.

Key takeaways include:-

• Be clear on the business questions you are trying to answer
• More data does not necessarily mean more insight
• The best business decisions are always data-driven
• Strong data foundations are fundamental before moving into more advanced analytics/data science

Who is this session perfect for:
Middle-management and up

Interactive discussion on Novartis approach to reimagine how we work globally, and how Ciara applied these concepts locally to empower employees and to attract talent outside of Dublin. We want to hear from you on what your organization has implemented and what learnings you have. The global pandemic has accelerated the organizational need of many companies to explore new working models.

In 2021 the Irish government published its Remote Working Strategy. People have expressed a strong desire for more flexibility in how, where and when they work. At Novartis, we believe we can create a future working model that optimizes both personal and business performance. This will be a multi-year journey for us and we have a lot to learn and experiment. This discussion will be an opportunity to share experience and ideas across a broader range of industries and organizations.

Session Key Takeaways:

1) Novartis’s approach to the Future of Work
2) The learnings in applying this global policy at a local level
3) Open discussion on the journey ahead to make the future of work a reality across different types of organizations

Who is this session perfect for?
If you have an opinion on this topic and would like to take part in a shared learning discussion on the future of work globally.

Mental health and wellbeing is more important than ever to businesses, business leaders and employees.  As social restrictions ease and the possibility of pre-pandemic ways of working begin to return, there’s an opportunity for organisations to learn and adapt to a new normal.

Hear how wellness tools such as Headspace can have a tangible impact on culture, engagement and retention as we all navigate the new environment.

Covington lawyers Louise and Luciana will talk through the unique challenges presented by tech sector mergers and acquisitions and some of the options and solutions to consider.

Why do tech M&A deals fail? Complex legal and valuation issues surrounding data and IP rights, regulatory concerns that can sink a deal, the need to incentivize a talented workforce to ensure business continuity and failing to consider key tax and insurance points are just some of the reasons.

Listen to our experienced tech transactions lawyers as they run through these and how to close a deal successfully.

Session Key takeaways:

• How best to structure your deal
• How to protect the value of your IP;
• What the UK's new National Security & Investment Act will mean for tech deals.

Who is this session perfect for?

If you are contemplating an acquisition or selling a business (no matter what size or location) and want a high-level overview of some of the key legal issues you need to think about.