WomenTech Global Conference, 2021 — An Unique Experience
On June 9, 6pm IST (8:30am EDT), I had attended Women Tech Global Conference as a Speaker to share my knowledge with the world.
What is WomenTech Global Conference?
The WomenTech Global Conference is a mission-driven program by WomenTech Network and the Coding Girls Foundation. This conference is for everyone to attend to build a stronger network in tech communities worldwide, collaborate locally and globally, find new opportunities and contribute to the community to make an impact.
How it works?
Each session was either 20mins or 40mins where each speaker has shared their knowledge on varied fields. They highlight through their experience how women can empower each other and help in creating more opportunities for a better tomorrow.
When was it?
The Global Conference was held from 7th June, 2021 to 11th June, 2021
How long was it?
The conference extended for five days. Starting from ‘Open Space’ followed by ‘Inspiration Day’, ‘Tech Day’, ‘Career Day’ and finally ending on ‘Contribution Day’
Open Space — This day was kept for ideation, group forming and networking.
Inspiration Day — I got introduced to some awesome stories of women and how they have influenced many. I have loved few talks like “The importance of global collaboration in a world of Brexit and Geo Political Shift” by CEO of OpenUK, Amanda Brock, “What can a software engineer do about climate change?” by a Cloud Platform Engineer of Goldman Sachs, Sarah Hsu, “Blockchain and Pandemics” by a Network Consulting Engineer of CISCO, Sayali Patil and many more
Tech Day — This day was marked with several talks on different technologies which made me stay glued throughout the day. Some important learnings I had were from “Hands-on NLP with Hugging Face” by ML Research Engineer, Maria Grandury, “Internet of things for airplane” by Nelli Safina, including mine on “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Healthcare” followed by several other interesting sessions.
Career Day — Followed by a day where one has learnt a lot on different career choices. The ones I liked: “How to negotiate away your personal gender pay gap” by Michelle Gyimah, “How to Grow a Career in Tech” by Lade Tawak, “Tricks & Tips to Navigate the Tech World” by Mansi Mittal and many more with some great takeaways.
Contribution Day — Finally, the last day with some great working groups and presentations.
Topic of my Session
Well, I attended the conference both as a speaker and as a listener. I had given a talk on my area of interest: Healthcare and Artificial Intelligence and how this culmination can bring some massive changes in the history of mankind.
How can AI help in Healthcare sector?
Physical Health: If machine can be trained on ample amount of data, several diseases can be detected way before doctors could trace them with naked eyes or patients could feel it through symptoms.
- If a person would have diseases like Cancer or Osteoporosis after 5yrs or more
- If a person might get retinopathy from diabetes where Google has already started working with their Deep Learning algorithms
- AI is already saving lives of people by notifying if they have experienced any episode of life-threatening heart rhythm which people tend to ignore or don’t even realise it physically. Eg: Apple watch
- We can use robotics for surgeries.
- We can use AI nurse to collect data while checking vitals of patients where chances of human error will become zero.
- Even AI and VR can be used to create simulated realities to distract patients when in pain.
- AI will help doctors with predictive analysis on critical patients such as probability of re-admission in hospital, probability of future life-threatening episode, etc. Also with time as it will become smarter, repetitive tasks of doctors will become automated.
Mental Health: Mental health is equally important and necessary as a healthy mind dwells in a healthy body. Implementation of Artificial Intelligence will be a great boon because
- It will help therapists to understand how fruitful was the communication with the patient or was it completely unproductive conversation only full of gossips.
- It can segment tendency of the patient based on the words that he uses mostly and will help to guide the therapist in the correct direction.
- It will assist patients by recommending the correct type of therapist based on his problem since Mental Health is still a huge challenge and requires lots of research and several sessions to determine the actual disorder.
CONCLUSION
It was a great experience. Looking forward to WomenTech Global Conference, 2022. Till then, cheers to some more awesome days of Learning and Sharing!
