Name: Opening Keynote: The Tech Landscape and Why Tech Needs Diversity
Start: 2021-11-30T09:30:00Z
End: 2021-11-30T09:30:36.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.82

Our thought leadership webinars are aimed at having insightful discussions with visionaries and thought leaders in the field of emerging technologies. Some of the broader themes that we focus on are: 

- What digital transformation means for your business
- Emerging tech and its impact on the modern workforce 
- Impact of upskilling  on innovation and time-to-market 
- Diversity & Inclusion

Our webinars are intended for business audiences - primarily technology leaders, decision-makers, and CXOs.


Join us in this in-depth discussion where we’ll explore the hurdles to success for Women in STEM and tactics that organizations can adopt to build an inclusive culture in tech.

Closing the gender gap to produce better business outcomes

Join us in this in-depth discussion where we’ll explore the challenges faced by enterprises when it comes to growing digital talent and learn the tactics to lead in today’s tech-driven environment.

Redefine your talent strategy to win in the digital-first world

Udacity's Talent Transformation Global Impact Report, recently launched in collaboration with Ipsos, highlights a glaring disconnect amongst enterprises:

- 80% of enterprises who offer L&D programs classify them as at least moderately successful.

- Only 45% of employees who have access to such programs say they are satisfied with them. Clearly, workers expect more.

Join us for an in-depth discussion and learn how to assess talent gaps, build an implementation strategy, get buy-in from company leadership, keep learners engaged, and measure the KPIs and business outcomes of your talent transformation program.

Playbook for Implementing a Successful Talent Transformation Strategy

Offrez des formations spécifiques sur les compétences recherchées par votre entreprise et créez votre pool de talents “job-ready skills” en alignement avec vos enjeux de recrutement, de diversité et d’inclusion.

Vous découvrirez comment Udacity, au travers de ce programme, a permis à des entreprises telles que Nokia, Bertelsmann, Accenture, AWS ou Shell de créer, former et recruter plusieurs milliers de collaborateurs sur les métiers de la Data, IA, du Cloud, du développement logiciel et de la cybersécurité, tout en intégrant également leurs objectifs en terme de Diversité et Inclusion.

Nous décrirons notre méthodologie pour supporter vos initiatives de digital talent acquisition et  répondrons à toutes vos questions sur ces sujets.

Talents et Digital: La Formation au service du Recrutement et de la Diversité

Listen to this in-depth discussion on the economic impact of talent transformation. See how Udacity drove a 232% ROI for a multinational oil & gas corporation.

Total Economic Impact™ of Udacity for the Oil & Gas Industry.

The pandemic has impacted organizations in many ways. We’ve seen immense pressure on costs, productivity, and digital readiness, in addition to large-scale workforce challenges like talent availability, engagement, and retention. While embracing digital technologies can help, these tools are only as good as the people who use them. And this is where organizations fall behind--lack of job-ready talent with the right mindset to get stuff done.

Listen to this in-depth discussion on global talent transformation, its impact on employee engagement and retention, and how a talent-obsessed culture drives diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Fighting the Great Attrition with Radical Talent Transformation.

In this session, Sheree will share why we must prioritise inclusion for everyone, not just those we directly or indirectly identify with. She'll share her life experiences as a woman of colour in leadership, who walks the line of being both underrepresented, yet privileged and take us all on a journey of understanding how we can change the world we live in, leaving it better than we found it.

This session will be followed by Closing Remarks.

Sheree Atcheson, Global Diversity & Inclusion Leader & Board Member of Women Who Code  
Jennifer Dearing, SVP Global Customer Success & Operations, Udacity

Demanding More: For ourselves and everyone around us

In 2020, several tech companies entered into conversations and promises about increasing representation in the workplace for underrepresented groups. But, these promises went unfulfilled. In fact, women still remain underrepresented in job clusters like computing and engineering, according to a Pew Research report. In this panel, our line-up of senior leaders address how companies can increase representation and truly build an inclusive culture in the workforce today.    

Moderator  
- Dr. Aljamea, VP & Dean, stc Academy    

Panelists  
- Çiğdem Kayali, Director of Cyber Security, Microsoft  
- Claudia Wentsch, Regional Managing Director, TTTech Auto Germany  
- Krishma Singla, Global Data & Analytics, HSBC Asset Management  
- May AlHoshan, Chief Human Resources Officer, Banque Saudi Fransi

Panel: Building a more inclusive strategy to close the STEM talent gap

Women today are facing more opportunities and challenges than ever before. Currently, it will take nearly 136 years to close the global gender gap. Governments and NGOs are in a unique position to drive global digital talent transformation by leading disruptive change. Learn from our distinguished panel of female leaders about the headwinds they’ve faced in their careers and how governments can help close the gender gap by leveraging the untapped potential of women to be leaders in STEM.

Moderator
- Dr Christiane Mueck, Advisor, Founder, Coach and Trainer

Panelists
- Dr Abeer Shakweer, Assistant Resident Representative, United Nations Development Programme
- Cheryl Miller Van Dÿck, Digital Leadership Institute and CEO, Zen Digital Europe
- Hoda Alkhzaimi, President, Emirates Digital Association for Women
- Dr Sonia Ben Jaafar, CEO, Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education
- Ukinebo Dare, Managing Director, Edo State Skills Development Agency (EdoJobs)

Panel: How governments & NGOs can drive change to close the STEM talent gap

Hear from Women in STEM scholarship participants that have upskilled or reskilled in a technical field through Udacity. Get a closer look into the lives of women in the industry who have overcome challenges and ultimately found success despite underrepresentation, bias and more.

Women who Future

Women in STEM fields spend years and countless amount of hours acquiring skills to enter and thrive in the tech industry. Despite those accomplishments, women leave the industry twice as often as men do, according to research from the Association of Women in Science. In our panel, senior leaders from top companies will address how they moved past microaggressions, bias, and sexism to stay in their roles and advance to leadership positions in STEM.

Moderator
- John McCalla-Leacy, Partner & Head of ESG, KPMG

Panelists
- Dr Eva-Peggy Best, Senior Auditor, BMW Group
- Homa Siddiqui, Managing Director, Credit Suisse
- Dr Lamia Chaffai, CEO, Education for Employment
- Shilpi Saxena Bhatt, Director of Engineering, Sky
- Sylvia Mulinge, Chief Consumer Business Officer, Safaricom

Panel: Clearing the Hurdles to Success in your STEM Career

The pandemic forced many enterprises to embrace digital workflows for their remote workforces. But it also made enterprises far more vulnerable to Cybersecurity threats. Data from the Information Systems Security Association found a 63% increase in cyber attacks related to the pandemic, calling COVID a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for hackers and online scammers.”

Listen to this in-depth discussion on the relevance of cybersecurity in boardroom discussions, the role of security professionals in enterprise-wide talent transformation, and tactics for organizations to close the cybersecurity skills gap.

Rethinking Cybersecurity in Today's Digital Age with Okta

Among the many digital transformation challenges that IT leaders must overcome in the next 18-24 months, comprehensive training is one of the biggest. IDC research shows that investment in training impacts how quickly organizations can adopt the cloud: comprehensively trained organizations are 81% more likely to "move up" a cloud adoption stage in the next 24 months. Join us for an overview of the digital priorities and impact of skills for the telecommunications industry featuring experts from IDC and Udacity.

Talent Pipeline Issue Hindering Digital Transformation Initiatives (Telco)

In today’s enterprise, digital strategy drives business strategy, and skills drive digital strategy. Join experts from IDC and Udacity as they present an overview of today’s digital priorities and the impact of skill gaps on the Professional Services industry. We will explore key elements of the digital platform; how digital platforms address three of five change management dimensions (data, process, and technology); and why successful transformation requires skilled talent and governance.

Talent Pipeline Issue Hindering Digital Transformation Initiatives (Prof.Serv)

The IT talent gap issue is very real. In the financial services industry, digital disruption is reshaping tech investments and operations. As a result, digital skills gaps exist across organizations, specifically in data and data science. In addition to hiring new staff, IT teams also need to empower and create opportunities for employees to develop new skills in order to unlock data-driven business insights. Join experts from Udacity and IDC as they explore these issues and the potential solutions.

Talent Pipeline Issue Hindering Digital Transformation Initiatives (FinServ)

The business case for diversity and inclusion has never been stronger. Leaders and individuals from public, private and social sectors are striving to make meaningful cultural changes to remove unconscious bias and inclusivity barriers. Yet, in spite of all these efforts, challenges around racial equity have only increased and the progress has been incredibly slow.

Join us for a lively panel discussion where we will talk about the current state of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, the systemic changes that are needed, and how a focus on job-ready talent can create long-term, sustainable economic opportunities for underrepresented people.

Building an Equitable Future in STEM with Udacity & OneTen

Bjarne Stroustup, father of the C++ programming language, sits down with David Silver, Head of Content Development at Udacity, to celebrate 40 years of C++ and its past, present, and future applications.

40 years of C++

STEM Forward with Women

Tech is a booming industry with growing importance in any given economy, but it is also suffering from a large skill shortage at a time when a criminally low proportion of women are entering and staying in the field.  Anne-Marie will dissect the HERstory of the tech industry of the past and present and discuss what we can do to cultivate future tech leaders.

Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, CEO, STEMettes

Opening Keynote: The Tech Landscape and Why Tech Needs Diversity

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