Women in Tech #11: Becoming a CTO & The Wonders of Machine Learning for Machines

If you love technology, are passionate about coding and empowering diversity in the tech world - come join us for our 11th “Women in Tech Forum” meetup.

** Please notice the meetup's location: Bitan 26, Namal Tel Aviv.

Check out our dedicated YouTube playlist with all videos from previous meetups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx7L_2VkfR4&list=PL_dMh3xjQSU9jQQgmE0WdVn8a36lNBErl

The forum will be held in Hebrew and it is open to both women and men.

// Schedule:
18:00 - 18:30 - Gathering, drinks, food and profile photoshoot*
18:30 - 19:30 - Can YOU be a CTO? Spoiler: YES! / Hila Noga
19:30 - 19:40 - break
19:40 - 20:30 - How does data science revolutionize the traditional world of machines/ Victoriya Kalmanovich

** As a treat for the approaching international women’s day: We’ll have a professional photographer taking profile pictures of you that you can use to refresh your LinkedIn / other profiles before and after the lectures.

// Can YOU be a CTO? Spoiler: YES!

So you’re thinking about the next step in your career. Should you switch tech stacks? Move to the backend? Become an architect? Should you even stay technical or take the management route instead? So confusing.
But wait.
Have you considered becoming a CTO?
Let’s talk about the CTO role, what it requires and whether you have what it takes to become one.

// How does data science revolutionize the traditional world of machines

Machine learning is rapidly entering many domains in the SW industry - allowing us to automate and achieve capabilities we didn’t envision as possible in the past. In this talk, I’ll share my journey of exploring machine learning capabilities and leveraging them for improving maintenance of actual machines.

As part of my role as R&D group lead at the Israeli Navy's technological unit, I deal a lot with vehicles, engines and machines. As part of my goal of improving machines maintenance efficiency I’ve explored and introduced predictive maintenance practices based on data science and machine learning solutions that were not part of our toolkit up-to that point.

Hopefully, this talk will ignite your imagination of additional arenas machine, software of human based where machine learning could help leap into the future.

// Bio

• Hila Noga is the co-founder and CTO of Lynx.MD, and was previously the CTO of Hello Heart. She has 15 years of experience building software, training software builders, and managing teams that build software. On her free time she likes to wander around the city and urban-sketch while eating all the things..

• Victoriya Kalmanovich is an R&D group lead at the Israeli Navy's technological unit.
  She specializes in healing work environments, promotes and leads innovative and broad processes throughout the organization.
  In her day-to-day experience, she deals with all technological issues, product management, budgets and client handling of her group. She is an education enthusiast, and often uses educational directives as a part of her management strategies, especially group members guidance and leadership.

She is a firm believer of deploying data science where there's a great value for data. She has organized a successful data science hackathon and is forming a data science community within the organization.