Wanted: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math

Have you ever read The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene? This bestselling book, with all its fans and critics, reminds us that life isn’t black and white, and teaches us through 48 laws how to live in the gray areas. Interestingly enough, those in cybersecurity should feel right at home in this gray space.

In this all-women panel discussion, Tamara Dull picks out ten of these 48 laws, and talks with cybersecurity experts to help draw out parallels for women who desire to be more powerful and successful in their cybersecurity (and tech-focused) endeavors.Come prepared to listen, hear differing views, and ask your questions at the end. We’re prepared to have a good time with this one!

Panelists:
- Barbara Cosgriff, Software Security Architect at SAS Institute
- Debra Baker, Product Certifications Engineer at Cisco Systems
- Jeanne Alley, Manager, Global Information Security at LexisNexis

Moderator:
- Tamara Dull, Director of Emerging Technologies, SAS Best Practices

In the current digital era, today’s top-performing professional women utilize the benefits of social media to help achieve their goals.

LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional online network, has more than 500 million members in over 200 countries and territories.

When you join LinkedIn, you’re not just joining a social network; you’re joining a community of sophisticated professionals simultaneously providing value and seeking news and innovations.

Whether you want to develop your corporate career or launch, build, and promote your own business, your LinkedIn profile is crucial to building your own personal brand, making yourself contactable, and showing yourself in the best possible light.

In this webinar, you will gain must-know tips and advice to help make your LinkedIn profile stand out, attract future connections, and help grow your influence on LinkedIn.

You will learn:

•Why your LinkedIn profile matters to your personal and professional brands;
•Best practices to help build your personal and professional brands and effectively boost your LinkedIn profile;
•Top tips and quick wins for optimizing your profile to attract more prospects and make your profile stand out from the crowd;
•What content to include in your profile and what to leave out;
•The right way to reach out to fellow professionals on LinkedIn; and
•How to use LinkedIn to bring your brand to life and make a positive, long-lasting impression.

Viveka von Rosen is known internationally as the LinkedIn Expert. She is the author of several published best sellers and a regular source on LinkedIn for prestigious news outlets such as Forbes, Money Magazine, Fast Company, Mashable.com, Ragan.com, SocialMediaExaminer.com and CNN.

View her profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/linkedinexpert/

SheWorx is hosting their next 100 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 10th from 6-8pm at Hack Temple.

As the global collective of female entrepreneurs, this event aims to transform the trajectory of women in entrepreneurship. Through facilitation of strategic, meaningful relationships with influential advisors and investors, attendees will be able to:

- Grow their professional network of connections
- Learn from other female entrepreneurs, investors and VCs
- Become a part of the growing community of SheWorx global collective empowering women in technology and entrepreneurship

For more details or to register, visit sheworx.com.

Research shows that 43% of highly qualified women with children are leaving careers or off-ramping for a period of time, and those who want to return often struggle with re-rentry. In this presentation, we’ll review a creative way to approach the issue using product strategy thinking — one that our own business has used.

About the Presenter:
Kirsten Liston has played a founding role in three different start-ups since 2000. She developed products and set product strategy for Integrity Interactive and Threat Ready Resources, both learning and technology companies selling to Fortune 500 customers. Today, she runs Rethink Compliance, which specializes in developing compelling content and online learning for compliance programs.

A mixed-reality world driven by intelligent systems would have to be observing behavior and sensing physical phenomena continuously in order to provide individuals with appropriate content. Is that a sensible trade-off or a dance with the devil?

Does the sensing possible with these technologies allow for ways to level the playing field or does it exacerbate existing power inequities? If the AI-enabled world of the future is monetized with personal data, then surveillance might well be baked into the system, but the ethical issues we see today will only be amplified in an immersive environment.

Join this discussion with Monique Morrow, CTO & Chief Technology Strategist, President & Co-Founder of the Humanized Internet, for an in-depth look at what a true MR/AR/VR world means.

Humans have shared gathered around and communicated through stories throughout history. Text, pictures, images and videos have sought to capture our imagination, or portray the non-fictional in a relatable way. Now, as we move beyond the 2D flat screen to new ways of interacting/communicating with the world — virtual and augmented reality, for example — we begin to see the power of immersion in storytelling, and the impact it has, beyond anything we have ever seen, on those in the receiving end. Arguably, the ultimate empathy machine.

As we shape the next 'Information Age', and given the state of the world today, never before have we been in more need of putting ourselves in other people’s shoes, and empowering diverse and inclusive voices worldwide. Never before have we seen more women jump at the opportunity to lead and make content that is all-encompassing, that touches and inspires, and that aims to build bridges not walls. Here is their story.

Learner, maker, systems thinker, innovator and tech evangelist, Luciana splits her time between growing the Realities Centre London — a new innovation space, incubator and academy for B2B/enterprise VR, AR, MR and AI — and Unfold UK, promoting women/diversity in future in the UK. Passionate about VR and tech for good, she carries ongoing research on the possibilities and challenges immersive tech presents as re neuroscience, empathy and female empowerment.

She was elected one of Code First Girls ‘25 Ones to Watch’, 'Top 5 Female Role Models in the Tech Industry', and Virtual Perceptions' 'Heroes of VR' in 2016.

As a professor in a STEM career path, programming, I frequently ask my female student “How did you become interested in this career?” The answer seems to center on one fact – “My parents exposed me to computers when I was younger. As I became more and more interested they helped me understand there was a career in this.”

This early introduction to computer helps my female students overcome another observation I had made – girls feel like boys have been ‘engineering’ or ‘coding’ for a long time.

The stereotypical comment “Boys play with Legos and robots, and girls play with dolls and tea sets,” this seems to support this observation.

So, how do we address the lack of females entering into STEM careers? I propose we start at home.

This webinar addresses some of the obstacles we must overcome with regards to leveling the playing field between girls entering STEM and boys.

About the Presenter:
Anita R. Wood is an Assistant Professor for Computer Information Technology at the Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Join us at our next Career Conversations session. Career Conversations gives WSC members the opportunity to connect with career professionals. We'll discuss topics such as "What made them decide on IT or Cyber Security?, "What were some of their work/life challenges?" , "What skills and education do they see as essential to success?"

Whether you are an experienced professional or just contemplating a future in Cyber Security, WSC's Career Conversations allows you to have a conversation with women making a difference. Join us and share in Career Conversations!

Guests: Jenn Henley, Director of Security, Facebook

Lisa Jiggetts, Founder and CEO of the Women's Society of Cyberjutsu will moderate discussions.

About the Speaker:
Jennifer Henley is the Director of Security Operations at Facebook. In her current role, Henley is responsible for operational excellence, organizational management, and program management for the Facebook Security team. A jack of all trades, she also runs internal and external security awareness and outreach efforts, most notably, Facebook’s popular “Hacktober” events for National Cyber Security Awareness Month. She is also deeply passionate about attracting and retaining a diverse set of talent to the security industry. Prior to her employment at Facebook, she was Chief of Staff for the CISO at PayPal.

It is estimated that women make up 11 percent of the cybersecurity workforce. There’s no question that we need to get more women involved, especially as we move into this Internet of Things (IoT) era where data volumes are growing exponentially, and information security continues to be a hot topic amongst IT, executive boards, and everyone in between.

In this all-women panel discussion, Tamara Dull will be talking with cybersecurity experts about its threat, the impact of technology, why women need to be involved, their advice for President Trump, and the landscape moving forward.

Come prepared to listen, learn, ask your questions, and have a good time.

Moderator:
Tamara Dull, Director of Emerging Technologies, SAS Best Practices

Speakers:
- Barbara Cosgriff, Software Security Architect, SAS Institute
- Debra Baker, Product Certifications Engineer, Cisco Systems
- Jeanne Alley, Manager Global Information Security, LexisNexis
- Jennifer Rosario, Manager IT Risk Governance, First Citizens Bank

There are a lot of factors that play into choosing a career path. From the region you live in, to social upbringing, access to education and more, navigating your way through a career path can be tricky to say the least.

Oftentimes there is a certain stigma behind pivoting your career path, especially if you are already mid-career. A lot of companies are hiring millennials, so it can be tough to get interviews, find time to learn a new skill, get certified in something, and so on. As a woman, these obstacles can be even more challenging.

We've put together a panel of experts to address these particular issues, as well as provide best practices and tips on pivoting your career, carving out your own professional path, and choosing traditional or nontraditional careers as a woman in tech.

Join Jessica Naziri, Founder of TechSesh, Pattie Grimm, Author, Speaker, Trainer and Coach, Michelle Glauser, CEO & Founder of Techtonica, also named one of LinkedIn's top 10 professionals 35 and under in software, and Marie Perruchet, Author of One Perfect Pitch, Speaker and Consultant.

You may have heard that there's a shortage of diversity in Technology and Leadership, but it isn't always for the reason you think. In this empowering talk, CTO Heather Wilde will examine things like:
- Cultural and implicit biases
- Imposter syndrome
- First-hand look into the causes and possible solutions to create a more diverse field

About the Presenter:
Heather Wilde is CTO of ROCeteer, and is also known as the “Unicorn Whisperer” due to her special focus on entrepreneurs. She is a personal and professional growth expert, executive coach, author, and speaker. As a founding employee of Evernote, she oversaw the company’s growth from thousands to 100,000,000 customers. She is one of the only women to have wholly programmed, designed, produced and published a game at the company THQ. Additionally, she has worked with the U.S. Navy, NASA and state and local governments around the world. She has led development, scalability, and reliability engineering of web sites with 60+ million unique monthly visitors, 1.7+ billion monthly page views, and 99.99% uptime SLA requirements. Among her other awards, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid selected her for a commendation in 2016 for her work in increasing STEM education in schools. Wilde's writing and speaking spans social media, entrepreneurialism, startups, leadership, cybersecurity, customer experience, fundraising, and diversity issues. She writes for Forbes and hosts the "Entrepreneurial Revolution" column for Inc Magazine.

On average, women hold 47% of entry-level jobs. In tech, this number is significantly lower - only 37% of the entry-level jobs are offered to women. How do we recruit more women in tech, and once they are on a tech career path, how do we retain them?

During this talk, Brenda Piazza will share her 25+ years of experience as woman in technology, her challenges in being in a male dominant leadership position, overcoming obstacles, achieving success, and finding ways to recruit and retain more talented technology women in your organization.

Being able to “pitch” your idea, in person or in writing, has become a critical skill whether you are an entrepreneur, a manager climbing the corporate ladder or a freelance worker looking for engagement. Everyone has the ability to tell a one-of-a-kind story to make a good impression, convince an audience or make a sale. Join former journalist and news correspondent, Marie Perruchet as she outlines her proven methodology, with key do’s and don’ts to sway an audience. She will share her stories and best practices for what works across industries and mediums.

You will learn how to:
- Become a better speaker and overcome your fear of public speaking
- Communicate true, authentic experiences that come from the heart to engage any business audience
- Create a concise and repeatable pitch so that others feel compelled to tell your story as well

About the thought leader:
Marie Perruchet is a brand strategist, marketer and the author of One Perfect Pitch: How to Sell Your Idea, Your Product, Your Business – or Yourself at McGraw-Hill. A French native, she has lived in 9 countries, is fluent in 3 languages and is located in San Francisco. Her work with corporations and startups was featured in Le Monde and the Wall Street Journal. Check out her story at www.oneperfectpitch.com.

Savoir créer le lien immédiatement et attirer l'attention est facteur clé de succès, que l'on pitch sa startup à des investisseurs, une idée à ses équipes ou soi-même lors d'un entretien d'embauche. Comment rendre son pitch compréhensible, court et inspirant? Retrouvez Marie Perruchet, ancienne journaliste Radio France Internationale, experte du pitch Silicon Vallée et auteure de "One Perfect Pitch, how to sell your idea, your business, your product or yourself" aux éditions McGraw-Hill (en anglais sur Amazon et la Fnac).

Lors de cette session, vous apprendrez les meilleures techniques pour:
- captiver l'attention de vos interlocuteurs en moins de 10 secondes
- partager votre passion
- gagner en confiance lors de prises de parole en public

A propos de Marie:
Originaire de Normandie, Marie a vécu en Turquie, en Belgique, en Inde, en Chine et habite à San Francisco. Ancienne journaliste radio, où elle a acquis le sens de "l'histoire en une minute", elle a réinventé sa carrière aux Etats-Unis, en devenant coach pour startups puis spécialiste du branding pour les entreprises. Retrouvez-la sur LinkedIn, Twitter ou Instagram @MPerruchet.

Join the SANS Institute and WSC for an insightful presentation about the SANS CyberTalent Women’s Immersion Academy. This academy is designed to help qualified women receive training and certifications to quickly and effectively launch careers in cybersecurity. The Immersion Academy is an intensive, accelerated program designed for completion in six to eight months, depending upon program selected. The program is at NO COST to the selected women who attend and includes training and certification.

Applications are due by April 5th, 2017.

Come listen to learn:
• What the selection process includes and important application tips
• Understand what kind of training is provided (length and format)
• Hear from a recent graduate who will share her experience
• How this training academy and related certifications can help your career

Meet BrightTALK's Women in Tech Community Managers, Kelly Harris and Marija Atanasova, and hear from other women in teach leaders, founders, entrepreneurs, and more.

When it comes to women in leadership positions, statistics show that about 15% of C-suite Execs are women and about 50% are managers. So by definition, most employees are led by male-dominated executive teams.

Statistics also show that men are 3x more likely than women to succeed in salary negotiations, despite the fact that women ask for them just as frequently but receive them less often. Women are more reticent than men to negotiate, but why? Is there a correlation between less negotiation and less women leaders? More women are taking on more high-powered tech jobs, but still struggling with self-promotion.

During this highly interactive and informative session, you’ll …

- Learn what makes a great woman leader and how to use your unique talents to be successful women leader in any endeavor you chose
- Understand your strengths and how to leverage your strengths to excel at any job
-. Create your own personal vision statement to use as a guide for your career and life
- Learn how to stand out and be valuable, visible, and vocal to get that job or promotion you deserve
- Understand how to “pay it forward” and raise brave girls and supportive boys
- Understand the skills and tactics to be a powerful woman negotiator
- Learn the five biggest mistakes most women make when negotiating
- Practice the steps for a successful negotiation

How to keep that Imposter Syndrome at bay.

We are more likely to work harder than our male counterparts and yet we're less likely to believe in our capability for success. This presentation looks to help everyone in tech overcome her or his Imposter Syndrome, empowering you with tricks that can help position you for the right jobs, roles and collaborators in just 15 minutes a day. This will include presenting yourself online in the most favourable (and Googleable) light including branding, image, and social media networks like Twitter and LinkedIn.

After this webinar, you can continue the conversation and branding exploration via #InternationalWomensDay and @BrightTalk