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Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

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February 17th 2021: The Future of Women in Tech: How to Level The Playing Field?

The buzz 1: “Women earn about half of science and engineering degrees, but they make up less than 20 percent of people employed in those fields.” (mckinsey.com) The buzz 2: “Women are missing out on entrepreneurial success, making up just 17% of IT specialists in the UK. Worse still, a new survey shows that the number of women in the tech sector has barely moved over the past 10 years despite an industry-wide push. When tech has never had it so good, where are the women?” (theguardian.com) The buzz 3: “Women who have decided to pursue a career in computer science…credited early exposure

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Maria Villar

Maria Villar is Head of Enterprise Data Strategy Transformation, SAP NA. She has over 25 years of experience as a Chief Data Officer responsible for building enterprise data management organizations from the ground up. Most recently at SAP, she was the CDO from 2009 2017. In her current role, she advises SAP customers on the crucial role of data management in their digital transformation, leveraging her practical, operational experience as CDO. In 2017, Maria was honored with an award from the international Society of CDO iSCDO for outstanding CDO leadership in driving business outcomes and collaboration. Maria coauthored a book with Theresa Kushner, Managing your Business Data from Chaos
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Theresa Kushner

Theresa Kushner is an accomplished, business-centric data executive, board advisor, consultant, and published author who leads companies through transformation during rapid technology, regulatory and market disruptions. She brings 25+ of expertise harnessing data and analytics, company and customer information to lower costs and contribute multi-billion-dollar growth for technology leaders including Cisco Systems, IBM, VMWare, and Dell/EMC. Today, she leads the Data as an Asset practice for NTT DATA where she advises customers on how to get the most out of their data and helps them establish AI capabilities within their organizations.
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Einat Orr

Einat Orr is the CEO and Co-founder of Treeverse, the company behind lakeFS, an open source platform that delivers resilience and manageability to object-storage based data lakes. She received her PhD. in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University, in the field of optimization in graph theory. Einat previously led several engineering organizations, most recently as CTO at SimilarWeb.
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Radhika Rangarajan

Radhika Rangarajan is the Director of Cloud Foundations Solutions Engineering at VMware. Prior to VMWare, Radhika was with Intel for 19+ years where she held multiple leadership roles. A recognized community leader, Radhika’s passion is in strengthening Diversity and Inclusion in Tech. In 2015, Radhika co-founded womeninbigdata.org, a grass roots community focused on inspiring, connecting and championing the success of women in Data Analytics and AI. What started as a conversation in a conference room with 15 ambitious women in tech and one meetup community in the Bay area is now a vibrant women-in-tech community of 17K+ members across 39 chapters and 6 continents and is established as a Non
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https://www.voiceamerica.com/show/1981/technology-revolution-the-future-of-now 18/04/2024 06:00 18/04/2024 07:00 Technology Revolution: The Future of Now https://www.voiceamerica.com/show/1981/technology-revolution-the-future-of-now The buzz 1: “Women earn about half of science and engineering degrees, but they make up less than 20 percent of people employed in those fields.” (mckinsey.com) The buzz 2: “Women are missing out on entrepreneurial success, making up just 17% of IT specialists in the UK. Worse still, a new survey shows that the number of women in the tech sector has barely moved over the past 10 years despite an industry-wide push. When tech has never had it so good, where are the women?” (theguardian.com) The buzz 3: “Women who have decided to pursue a career in computer science…credited early exposure to programming as the greatest factor in their decision to become engineers. Conversely, a lack of early exposure to computer science was the primary deterrent for women who leave—or never join—the field.” (themuse.com) We ask SAP's Maria Villar, NTT DATA's Theresa Kushner, Treeverse's Einat Orr and VMware's Radhika Rangarajan to predict The Future of Women in Tech: How to Level The Playing Field? VoiceAmerica | Talk Radio | Online Talk Radio studio@voiceamerica.com false DD/MM/YYYY Add to Calendar
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