Global Career Summit: Conference, Career Fair and Hackathon

Global Career Summit: Conference, Career Fair and Hackathon

Our summit is for at anyone looking for a job, a career transition, starting or scaling their business, finding funding, hiring talented candidates, creating solutions to career challenges and making valuable connections.

The event will consist of a conference, career fair and hackathon.

Conference : Will provide attendees with a unique combination of workshops, keynote speakers and solo TED-style talks by industry leaders, discussions about trending topics in the tech, business, startup and investor world, jobsearch, recruiter, entrepreneur and investor panels, latest tools and techniques from career experts and lasting connections with hiring managers and recruiters, technologists, entrepreneurs, innovators and investors.

Career Fair: Open to jobseekers or those looking for a career transition from students to senior executives

Hackathon: Focused on career, jobsearch and entrepreneur challenges and solutions 

The conference and career fair are open to women and men of all professional backgrounds.

The Hackathon is open to women only but the hackathon pitches are open to everyone. View a video of our March 2017 hackathon. Women interested in participating in the hackathon can register here

SUMMIT FORMAT

11:30am - 3pm CAREER FAIR ( Free)

Noon - 6pm CAREER CONFERENCE (Ticketed)

6:30pm - 9:30pm ALL-WOMEN HACKATHON (Ticketed)

CAREER CONFERENCE TOPICS

• Women Leaders in Silicon Valley: Breaking the Glass Ceiling - Nolwenn Godard, Director of Pricing Product & President of Unity, Women at Paypal,  Kathy Rokni, Director of Globalization at Netflix,  Iliana Quinonez, Director, Solution Engineering at Salesforce. Pamela O'Leary, Talent Acquisition, Global Diversity Lead at Ericsson, Rania Hoteit, CEO & Co-Founder at ID4A Technologies, Moderator: Smitha Prabhu, Director - HR Business Partner at DocuSign            

• My Career Journey - Inspring TED-style talks from successful expat women

  Rwandan Refugee to Woman in Tech @Slack - Jennifer Kanyamibwa, Program Manager, Communication Design at Slack, Shakira Niazi, Founder and CEO at Salvare La Vita Water

• Brand U" (the art of branding yourself) - Sarah Mills-Krutilek, Sr. Recruiter at Dropbox

• Career Transitions: Stories and Advice From Successful Women Who Took the Leap - Maire Sogabe, Chief of Staff to the Chief Security Officer, Principal Risk Advisor at PG&E, Preethy Padman, Director, Business Operations of Global & Strategic Accounts at Nutanix, Odile Roujol, Business Angel at Bay Angels. Stephanie McLean, Founder and CEO at Trendy Treat. Moderator: Sonya Pelia, Head of Marketing at Datometry and President of the Board at Maitri

• Building Inclusive Cultures in the workplace: The Value of Employee Resource Groups - Maria Cuba, Diversity and Inclusion Program Manager at Airbnb and Founder of Juntos, Khalida Ali,  Manager of Diversity & Inclusion at Zendesk, Jeel-Marie Plenos, International Treasury Management Sales, Vice chair of Wells Fargo Asian Connection Bay Area, Duretti Hirpa, Senior Engineer, Integrations at Slack and Founder of Earthtones ERG at Slack, Anne Vu, Senior Paralegal at Lyft and Founder and Lead at UpLyft Women. Moderator - Sepideh Nasiri, CEO and Founder of Persian Women in Tech & Diversity and Inclusion Advocate

• Equality in the Workplace: How to Assert your Legal Rights - Acrolina Panto, Attorney at Law Offices of Arcolina Panto

• Raising Capital in Silicon Valley - Nancy Hayes, Managing Director at Golden Seeds, Adina Tecklu, Venture Capital Investor at Canaan Partners, Jayni Shah, Investor at Menlo Ventures. Moderator: Ivy Nguyen, Investor at Zetta Venture Partners

• Getting Funded and Succeeding as an Early Stage Founder - Julia Lam, Founder & CEO at Tara&Co and Early Facebooker, Layla Sabourian, Co-Founder and Vice President at FairFunders and Founder at Chef Koochooloo, Liza Moiseeva, Co-Founder at GlobeIn, Komal Dadlani, CEO/Co-founder of Lab4U, Joanne Jiang, Founder at LadyMarry. Moderator: Sylwia Gorajek, Founder, Producer and Host at Valley Talks 

• Women in Sales and Marketing: Career Trends and Opportunities - Rebecca Mulligan, Marketing Manager Communications Program, VP at Bank of the West, Solu Nwanze, Director of Business Ops Marketing at Zendesk, Sharon Shi, Senior Account Manager at Twitter,  Anusha Sethuraman, Sr. Manager, Product Marketing at Microsoft. Moderator: Emily Chu, Senior Sales Account Executive at Farm Hill            

• Blockchain and cryptocurrencies 101- Natalia Karaseva, Advisor at FundCru

• Get Hired! Strategies to get noticed by Recruiters and find a Job in your industry - Siv Lam, Director of People Operations at Eaze, Carrie Brandes, Head of People & Culture at Redbubble, Ryan Tweedy, Managing Director at DeWinter Group. Moderator: Ginny Cheng, Sr. Recruiting Manager, Tech & Business at Zillow

• 2017 Job Search Trends: Insights from a Silicon Valley Recruiter- Alison MacKay, Infrastructure Data Center Recruiting at Facebook

• Finding Mentors and Sponsors to Fast Track your Career - Sumayyah Emeh Edu, Member Board of Directors of Techtonica and Diversity and Inclusion Management Consultant, 
  Aradhana Vaidya, Customer Success Engineer, Cloud Rendering at Autodesk. Cythnia Owyoung, Founder and CEO of Breaking Glaas Fourms. Moderator: Charu Sharma, Founder of Next Play Inc, Portfolio company at 500 Startups

• Communication Strategies and Tips for Expats and Immigrants to Navigate the US Job Market and Workplace - Joe Lurie,, Cross-Cultural Communications Trainer & Ex. Director Emeritus at UC Berkeley's International House

• MISSION IMPACTFUL EXPAT! Be Bold – Let Go - Create Space for a NEW YOU! Petra Chequer, VP, People Solutions at IMPACT Group

  
  

Prospective Speakers - If you are interested in speaking at our summit, please apply here

SUMMIT SPONSORS

Silver

Eaze

Bronze

Redbubble

Impact Group

Hackathon Sponsors

Datometry

Sunrun

Career Fair Participants

Eaze

Redbubble

DeWinter Group

Sonic 

Zillow

Workday

Good Eggs

JVS

Food and Drink

FundCru

Noosa Yoghurt

Kind Bars

Califa Farms

Runa Drinks

Hint Water

Clif Bars

Demo Tables

Jins

Artfulnoons

Media and Design Sponsors

Harshajain Designs

TwentyThree

Bel Air Films

Hackathon Prize Sponsors

Globein

Jins 

Benefit Cosmetics

Galvanize

If you are interested in sponsoring the event or workshop, participating in our career fair or sharing job openings at your company with our network, please e-mail us at info@theexpatwoman.com

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Jobseeker who want to share your information with our recruiter partners please complete this form

Terms of Participation Agreement: 

You agree that you are responsible for any accidents or damages that you cause. You also agree to not hold The Expat Woman, or any of the event supporters liable for any loss, damage, injury, or any other unforeseeable incident. 

You agree The Expat Woman, is not responsible for circumstances that may necessitate for substitutions or cancellations of speakers.

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Tickets to this event are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, you have the option of giving it to a friend or team member to attend in your place.