CH 2 · 4 SESSIONS WEDNESDAY
Early Professional
Growing toward leadership: promotion mechanics, visibility, influence, and practical AI skills.
EARLY PROFESSIONAL IN TECHNOLOGY
Who it is tailored for
- Individual contributors a few years in who want the next level
- People doing strong work that is not getting noticed
- New leads learning to influence without a title
WED, OCT 28 · IN THE ROOM · CENTRAL TIME
Your Wednesday on this channel
Wednesday covers how promotions really happen, how to be visible for the right reasons, how to steer decisions with metrics, and how to move from operational work to strategic work. Every session on this channel has a deeper technical alternative in the same hour.
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Doors, welcome and setupHEADPHONES OFF
Find a seat, get on the wifi, sign in to your own vGHC account and pick a channel.
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I’m Doing Great Work. Why Am I Not Moving Up?
How engineering promotions really work. Visibility, timing, scope and sponsorship, with a framework for moving up on purpose.
TECHNICAL ALTERNATIVE · 11:00 AMAgentic Public Health Copilots: Reduce Noise, Speed Response, Add Guardrails in Disease SurveillanceHow to combine classification, extraction and LLMs into a disease-surveillance copilot that triages reports, writes grounded summaries and hands uncertain cases to people.Session page in the GHC catalog -
From Visibility to Impact: Building Tech Personal Brands That Open Real Opportunities
Frameworks for a personal brand built on clarity, credibility and consistency instead of vanity metrics.
Runs during the lunch hour, 12:00 to 1:00.
TECHNICAL ALTERNATIVE · 12:00 PMAI as a Decision Layer: Redefining Trust, Risk, and Competitive AdvantageFor senior leaders: AI as a strategic layer that governs trust, access and risk continuously, and how to evaluate that kind of transformation.Session page in the GHC catalog -
Open hour
The natural time for lunch on this channel.
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Community block with Angie and MarkHEADPHONES OFF
A session of our own, led by the organizers. Topic to be announced.
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Influence Without Authority: How Product Analysts Drive Strategy Through Metrics
A workshop on using metrics to influence decisions when you do not own the roadmap, with exercises, scripts and templates.
TECHNICAL ALTERNATIVE · 3:00 PMBridging Bytes and Biology: Automating 3D Anthropological TopographyThe architecture behind a web app that turns 3D point clouds of teeth into automated measurements for anthropology research.Session page in the GHC catalog -
Open hour
Borrow a session from another channel, or take a break before the last one.
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Navigating from Operational to Strategic: Ops Hero to Strategy Star
For women moving from operational to strategic roles: building a strategic portfolio, a pivot plan and the visibility to back it up.
TECHNICAL ALTERNATIVE · 5:00 PMThe Solo Explorer’s Guide to SRE: Navigating the Unknown with AIIncident response as exploration: using AI in alerting to find error patterns and move from firefighting to prevention.Session page in the GHC catalog -
De-brief/Happy HourHEADPHONES OFF
What did you hear that you will use? We compare notes on the day, then carry on at [HAPPY HOUR LOCATION].
A technical alternative is a deeper technical session in the same hour. Watch it instead of the listed session and the rest of the day still fits.
THE REST OF THE WEEK
Keep going on your own
We are only in the room on Wednesday. The track runs all week, and these are its other sessions.
TUE, OCT 27
- Opening Plenary
THU, OCT 29
- Align Your Work With What Executive Teams Actually Care AboutTechnical alternative: From Automation to Augmentation: The New Era of Human-AI Collaboration in Supply Chain Planning (11:00 AM)
- Build Your AI Chief of Staff: A Hands-On Workshop for Non-Technical Women
- Elevate Your Leadership Presence: Using Public Speaking to Command the Room
- Endurance, Not Balance: A Framework for Sustainable Leadership in High-Performance Careers
FRI, OCT 30
- Become Irreplaceable: Turning Your Multi-Dimensional Edge into Career Leverage
- You Don’t Have to Pick Just One: Navigating a Cross-Functional Career in TechTechnical alternative: Modern Banking Fraud Detection: From Simple Rules to AI (3:00 PM)
- Why High-Performing Women Don’t Get Promoted and How to Position Yourself for the Next LevelTechnical alternative: From Solo Coder to Multi-Repo Engineer: Designing Systems That Scale Across Teams (4:00 PM)
Titles, times and session links come from the conference’s virtual catalog as we compiled it on July 13, 2026. Check your vGHC account for the current schedule.