Workshop
2021 Workshop Facilitators
Our conference enables our attendees to engage, learn and connect. We are excited to bring unique workshops to our events to educate and further our attendees career path in STEM.
Interested in becoming a workshop facilitator?
conference@womenofmenaintechnology.com
Day 1
Diana is a data driven tech marketer that is passionate about achieving transformational business results through data-driven creative marketing strategies and automation. In addition to her primary job function, Diana has been recognized by organizations for her extraordinary commitment to driving diversity and inclusion programs and running #IamRemarkbale workshops. She is passionate about technology, women empowerment, diversity & inclusion. She strongly believes that by celebrating success we can spark a sense of joy and belonging.
Title: #IamRemarkable Workshop
Date: November 4th
Time: 12:20pm - 1:50pm Dubai Time / 8:20am - 9:50am London time
#IamRemarkable is an initiative by Google empowering women and underrepresented groups to speak openly about their accomplishments in the workplace and beyond, thereby breaking modesty norms and glass ceilings.
Day 2
Misha Kouzeh is a TEDx speaker, consultant and lecturer at UCLAx with expertise in digital marketing, social impact and sustainability across three continents. Born and raised in the Netherlands, she took a leap of faith to pursue her Californian dream and found her true purpose.
For the past decade, she has worked with organizations such as Coca-Cola, Unilever, the United Nations' World Health Organization as well as Cal State Universities and various nutrition technology companies to leverage the power of marketing, social impact and education to drive positive change.
Title: Leveraging Education & Technology to Advance Social Impact
Date: November 5th
Time: 12:10 pm -1:10 pm PST
In today's corporate world, businesses must embrace technology and education to advance social impact. Unlike a traditional business model with its focus on shareholder returns, the purpose of a social business is to generate revenue to ensure the organization’s sustainability and create the widest social impact.
This interactive workshop, led by TEDx speaker and UCLA lecturer Misha Kouzeh, focuses on a new kind of business and how both entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs can leverage technology and education as a means to an end. Once that end is not driven by profit alone, but for the larger good and advance all levels of society, it can accelerate innovation to drive great changes and achieve a lasting impact that sustains a better future for the people, planet, and profit.
Dr. Sara Safari is an author, speaker, mountain climber, college professor, Electrical Engineer and advocate for women empowerment. She has received the award for The Global Citizen from the United Nations Association in 2015. She is a board member and director of development in Empower Nepali Girls foundation. She also has received the award for Outstanding Practice with Broad Impact in the area of women and leadership from International Leadership Association in 2017.
Sara will be the first Iranian in history to climb the Seven Summits, the seven highest peaks in each continent. She is climbing to raise funds for seven organizations who are empowering women.
Title: Accountability and Teamwork
Date: November 5th
Time: 12:10 pm -1:10 pm PST
Teamwork is an essential part of high-performance groups, and learning how to be a productive member of your team is vital. When you aspire to be a decent team player, others will follow. In doing so, you can improve your workplace, grow personally and advance in your career. In this workshop, we talk about how to be an effective accountability partner for other members of your team and to create win-win situations at your workplace. We discuss the elements of teamwork such as flexibility, respectful collaboration, positive attitude, self-leadership, commitment, and effective communication.
Yonah Welker has been working at the intersection of tech and society since 2005 - when he became a tech explorer and launched a hardware think tank. In his career journey, he worked with tech startups and labs, helped to facilitate tech ecosystems through North America to APAC, MENA, Africa, screened over a few thousand teams, contributed to policies, frameworks, ethics, public and multilateral initiatives. In 2020/21 Yonah spent over 60 world appearances to bring awareness to the neurodiversity/ability exclusion crisis, ethics and the role of social AI, robotics and tech.
Yonah Welker
Explorer, Public Evaluator, Board Member
Title: Algorithmic Diversity, AI & Ethics (Future Of Nonbinary, Neurodiverse AI & Robotics)
Date: November 5th
Time: 12:10 pm -1:10 pm PST
During the live session, we will dive into the meaning and application of algorithmic diversity in technology (including such cases as neurodiversity). Using the latest experiences, cases and research, we will analyze the current state and problems of inclusive innovation and technology, including the problems of representation and criteria, inclusive research and design-thinking, the building of inclusive products (AI-driven platforms, devices, apps, social and emotional robotics), ethical considerations and concerns (the "black-box" and "double-check" problems, transparency, explainability, fairness, surveillance), shortcomings of current technology ecosystems, policies and human rights frameworks.