Lifting up diverse & underrepresented women by teaching them biz, tech, & product skills.

Speaker Panel:
- Shelmina Babai Abji, Author, SHOW YOUR WORTH : 8 Intentional Strategies for Women to Emerge as Leaders at work, Gender equality in leadership advocate, Speaker, Former IBM VP, Angel Investor, Board member and Distinguished alumni
- Rebekah Bastian, CEO and Co-Founder at OwnTrail, Author of Blaze Your Own Trail, Forbes Contributor
- Annika Sharma, Author: Love, Chai, & Other Four-Letter Words
- Dr. Aditi Paul - UX Researcher, Professor and Author
- Prof. Douglas Scherer Book Author at F.O.R.G.E.D.: Six Practices of Great Leaders in Volatile Times

Event brought to you in collab w/ Own Trail

Useful resources:
https://www.instagram.com/p/ChAzpU5v8dU/?hl=en
https://www.pw.org/
https://blog.ulysses.app/rebekah-bastian/
https://quotefancy.com/quote/37652/Brian-Clark-10-Steps-to-Becoming-a-Better-Writer-Write-Write-more-Write-even-more-Write
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Bala is a Product Leader at Meta, currently working on making communication private and safe for billions of people. Previously, she launched delightful customer experiences at Amazon Alexa, Amazon Payments and Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Technology.
She believes in leading with empathy, kindness and authenticity. She is an advocate for mental health and wellbeing, DE&I, creating access to opportunity for the disadvantaged, and animal rights. She feels most energized when solving hard problems to make the world a more kind, safe and equitable place, and while helping others thrive despite adversity.

Key Takeaways:
- Pivoting into Product Management
- Day in the life of a PM at Meta
- Career growth, skill development and mentorship
- Mental health and how you take care and invest in yourself
- Resources for interview prep
- QA

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Products by Women is a diverse global community for women in innovation and tech.

Speaker: Hiran Thacker has over 8+ years of driving M&A Strategy and Execution to accelerate growth and innovation for enterprises like Robinhood, Salesforce, Cisco via acquisitions and Venture investments. Prior to M&A, I owned transformational, operational, and strategic programs to enable new business models and bring emerging technologies to market as a Business & GTM Strategy Executive. I am passionate about elevating other women, non-binaries and early in career individuals to provide mentorship and coaching on navigating career journeys, exploring career changes and following a path of upskilling always. A thought leader have presented and hosted panels at industry conferences. As a champion of Inclusion & Diversity, I lead diversity empowerment programs like Women in M&A, Women in Tech, she who Cryptos, South Asian Equality to provide a platform across companies for diverse groups to succeed at their workplace.

What you'll learn:
- Speaker - M&A, Corporate Development at Robin Hood will share her journey into M&A from Product Management
- Things that no-one tells you
- Skills to enhance
- And a whole lot more

Speaker: Minjun is currently a product designer at Microsoft, designing expressive multimedia experiences for Bing search. Prior to Microsoft, she worked at top tech companies, such as Amazon and Wayfair, working on a variety of B2B and B2C products from membership subscription, supply chain to hardware. She partners with organizations worldwide to develop resources that help young designers to elevate their career and wellbeing.

Moderated by Dr. Aditi Paul - UX Researcher, Professor and Author

What you'll learn:
- Framework to answer behavior questions
- Most common questions to prepare
- Examples
- Dos and Don’ts during interviews

What you'll learn:

- Recap from part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qro8EwIIV44
- Deal sourcing and identifying opportunities
- Screening, Due Diligence and Negotiation
- Execution and Portfolio Management
- Exit
- Impact Measurement and Management

Speaker: Ankita Vashistha - Venture Capitalist and Founder

Workshop takeaways:
- Why should you embrace public speaking as a professional/woman in business?
- How to crack personal branding?
- Learn the secret framework that will propel you towards career success

Speaker: Priyanka is a dynamic trailblazer in the STEM space, who has carried her expertise into a multitude of channels, from conference rooms to radio talk shows. She is also the creator of Curryup Leadership, a boutique firm that specializes in leadership and public speaking coaching programs. Priyanka hosts a Curryup Leadership podcast with over 100 episodes that serve to platform the accomplishments of various Asian leaders and innovators who are making an impact in their field. Her outgoing attitude and driven approach to her work have brought her steady success, but her passion for uplifting and empowering others along the way is perhaps her most remarkable feat