Agenda

Keynote powered by The Estée Lauder Companies Bucharest Global Technology Center

Women in Tech Stage — 30 minutes Women in Tech

• Alexandra Varzaru [Director, Tech Ops Discipline Lead — Estée Lauder Companies Bucharest Global Technology Center]

The Global Data and Cyber Security Skills Gap: Current Trends and Future Direction

Women in Tech Stage — 45 minutes Women in Tech

Employees need digital skills to work with new data management and privacy technologies and to keep up to date with rapid technological advancements. Data is central to business success in today's world. Increasingly, the insights it provides are being recognized as an enabler for more accurate, evidence-based decision-making. When it comes to increasing internal knowledge, up skilling existing teams and their understanding can be a vital step when a business faces a skills gap.
Mandatory staff training, appointing data protection and cyber security champions, and circulating reading materials can help boost awareness and educate employees that might be lacking essential knowledge. Enterprises need to sufficiently invest in their data security maturity and data protection teams to retain privacy staff, up skill talent to fill open roles, and prioritize privacy training efforts to ensure all employees support privacy initiatives.


Key Takeaways:
- Data security skills gap and its impact has come to the forefront of discussions in the new digital era.
- On a global scale, it is becoming increasingly clear that the privacy technologies skills gap comes at a cost.
- While the demand for data security skills is high, supply is low, and businesses often struggle to find talent for data protection roles.
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• Onur Korucu [Vice President of EMEA Consulting Service — WomenTech Global Ambassador & Council Member | IAPP Knowledgenet Chapter Chair]

Breaking the glass ceiling

Women in Tech Stage — 30 minutes Women in Tech

We are hearing talking about breaking the glass ceiling since 50 years now and the topic has always created huge debates worldwide. But do we really know what is this about?
And do we really care about it? I would like to have the audience leaving this session with more clarity on the concept and with a confidence that this concept doesn't define us as human beings. And that it's on us to take whatever it needs to become the version we aspire to be.
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• Corina Dinca [Team Leader IT — Societe Generale Global Solution Centre]

Empowering the Next Generation of Women in Tech

Women in Tech Stage — 1 hour Women in Tech

Panel discussion between powerful women from tech industry. A free discussion about their experience, share ideas with the audience and a dedicated Q&A session. 

• Diana Tarfulea [Director of Engineering — Adobe Systems Romania]
• Edwige Fiaclou [Head Tech Talent & Methodology — Swissquote]
• Elena Enache [Director Applications & Data - European Delivery Center — Cegeka]
• Andreea Ioniță [Chief Digital & Technology Officer — E.ON România]

Story of the Mayflower 400 – worlds first fully autonomous ship

Women in Tech Stage — 45 minutes Women in Tech

The culmination of a multi-year project with IBM and marine research non-profit ProMare The maritime research vessel Mayflower Autonomous Ship is a first-of its-kind autonomous ship — and IBM technology played a central role in bringing it to life. On its inaugural journey, the ship will commemorate the original Mayflower by following its transatlantic route. But this modern Mayflower will gather critical ocean data on the impact of climate change and pollution so that marine researchers can better understand and protect our oceans — now and into the future. IBM and ProMare co-engineered the software for the crewless ship with three layers of technology: sensory inputs, real-time machine learning and analytics, and a decision engine. IBM and ProMare experts used petabytes of data to train machine learning models and wrote rules-based decisioning for the decision engine, enabling the ship to react to an often-treacherous ocean environment — with zero human intervention. It adheres to maritime law while making crucial split-second decisions. It reroutes itself around harsh weather environments. It collects and analyzes massive amounts of ocean data. And it does it all 24/7. By extending the ship’s groundbreaking intelligent automation, operational decision-making, edge computing and AI-powered remote monitoring technologies across industries, we can pave the way for the next generation of innovation, efficiency, safety and cost-savings in your business. Read More...

• Victoria Bunyard [NCEE Technical Director — IBM]