Women in the Digital Economy - Navigating Careers and Leadership
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Synopsis
Women from all backgrounds are championing technology to make their personal and professional life better and our economies more diverse and richer. The opportunities to pursue careers in the digital economy are significant and widespread as is the opportunity to lead digital transformations in our organizations. These opportunities exist whether you are at the start of your career, mid-way or whether you are looking to switch careers.
In this exciting webinar, you can learn about the opportunities for women in the digital economy. You will learn about a new book titled “The Female Digital Revolution” and how mentoring and communities can support you on your journey.
The Female Digital Revolution
Smartphones, digital payments and health apps are examples of how technology is empowering women to upskill, lead or start tech companies and live healthier and greener lives. The digital revolution is dramatically transforming the role of women in the economy delivering new opportunities to work, play and learn. But women are missing out. Not enough innovative technologies are being developed ‘by women’ or ‘for women’ leading to untapped benefits for the female population and missed opportunities for businesses and governments to cater to half of the world’s population.
The Female Digital Revolution provides a unique insight into the changing role of women in the digital economy which is growing at an unprecedented rate. Through a collection of powerful real-life stories and research, it brings to life current and future digital changes that are reshaping the role of women. It urges government and businesses to start consciously thinking about women as powerful digital economic agents, highlights the need to increase female participation in all aspects of our digital economy, and implores all relevant actors―investors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, public leaders, and the like―to be part of the female digital revolution.
Nimisha Tailor
Competition and Regulation Specialist, E-nomics
Nishima is a competition and regulation specialist with international experience. She has advised tech companies, central banks and international organisations like World Bank and OECD in the areas of digital finance, digital trade, data governance, e-commerce and logistics.
Jamie Yau
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Partnerships Officer of Cyber Youth Singapore (CYS)
Jamie serves as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Partnerships Officer of Cyber Youth Singapore (CYS), a registered charity focused on empowering youths with skills and opportunities to become trailblazers of the digital future. The organisation was established in 2019, and till present, CYS has transformed into Singapore’s leading youth tech movement, with over 30,000 youths impacted since. Her commitment to technology for good sparked through co-founding an AI online safety startup, Empathly, which detects and nudges against hate speech online. She was recognised as one of the Top 30 Youth Leaders of Singapore in 2022 by Halogen Foundation, and has received academic awards like the Global Impact Scholar Award from Singapore Management University, and the Low Guan Onn Medal from Singapore Polytechnic. Beyond technology for good, she cares deeply about social impact, participating in panels and conferences addressing youth inequality and education. Jamie combines her academic prowess with hands-on experience in volunteerism. In her free time, she enjoys spending her free time volunteering for non profit organisations like Junior Achievement. Jamie graduated from Singapore Polytechnic as the Valedictorian and Institutional Medallist with a Diploma in Business Administration. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor's in Philanthropic Management at the College of Integrative Studies, in Singapore Management University.
Shehara Viswanathan
Leader Partner Adoption APJC | Cisco Global Customer Experience (CX) Partner Success
Shehara Viswanathan is a Technology Executive and Leader with over 20 years’ experience in Global Cloud, Security and Software industries. She is driven to ensure partners transform and change while delivering customer centric strategic solutions that produce significant growth.
She focuses on helping partners and customers solve their business problems in unique and effective ways.
Shehara leads a team of Partner Success Specialists who support partners as they adopt and optimize their customer success and software environments, assisting them as they transform and build technology strategies and program development, process improvements and changes, toolset development and digital services. At Cisco she also led the Cloud Advisory team working with customers to help them build and optimize their cloud environments.
Prior to Cisco, she spent nearly a decade working with Telstra where she spearheaded the global cloud strategy and delivered an award-winning, unique offering in Asia’s highly competitive cloud market. Prior to that as the General Manager of Cloud Applications she led the successful build of a SaaS delivery marketplace and delivery engine and she grew the partner and sales capability.
Shehara studied engineering at the University of New South Wales and Law at Sydney University. She is a Design Thinking, Agile and Rapid Delivery Expert.
Shehara has a keen interest in DEI and was the CX Inclusion, Equity and Diversity Lead for APJC. She is a board member of Cloud Seeders and she teaches the basics of Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain at the Singapore Council of Women’s Organization’s IT Hub. Shehara is a frequent speaker at Technology and Digital Thought Leadership events, and a member of the Asia Keynote Women Speaker Directory.
Yen-Lu Chow
Founding Executive Chairman WholeTree Foundation; Over-The-Rainbow; Asia Institute of Mentoring | Founding Partner Fatfish MediaLab | Executive Mentor YSI SEA | Founder of the Deep Human Movement
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