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Our vision is to inspire more women in tech to become mentors, and equip more women in tech to find mentors and sponsors.
Mentorship and sponsorship are key drivers for success, yet women can have a hard time in finding mentors and sponsors, especially the ones with influence.
This workshop is determined to show how it is never too early to mentor someone. There is always a woman coming up behind you that will benefit from your journey. You will master how to initiate and manage the relationship with a mentor or a sponsor as a mentee. Learn key steps and hear stories from other women on how they secured their mentor and/or sponsor.
Who should join?
- Women in technology functions
- Women aspiring to be in tech
- Women looking for skills to secure mentors and sponsors
- Women who would like to mentor and need guidance on how to start
Our Moderators:
About our presenters:
Uma Thana Balasingam
Co-Founder Lean In Singapore
Founder Lean In Women in Tech Singapore & Women in Tech Asia
Vice President, Channels & Sales, Asia Pacific Japan, Riverbed Technology
Uma Thana Balasingam is Vice President of Channels & Sales, Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) for Riverbed. She is responsible for defining the region’s go-to-market strategies including channel, service providers and alliances. As a key member of the leadership team, she plays an active role in shaping the company’s growth strategy in the region. She was recognized in May 2018 in CRN’s The Most Powerful Women of the Channel list.
Uma has 17+ years’ experience in business and strategic channels development in the APJ region. Prior to joining Riverbed, she served approximately 8 years at EMC in various senior leadership roles that included new product sales, alliances, acquisitions, channels sales, strategy & planning. She previously held roles in management at Brocade and field sales at IBM, starting her career as a systems engineer.
Uma is the co-founder of Lean In Singapore and the founder of Lean In Women in Technology Asia & Women In Technology Singapore which has >700 members today. LeanIn.Org was founded by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to empower women to achieve their ambitions. Lean In Singapore, founded in 2016, is a community of over 2000 women & men that comes together to be inspired, empowered and educated with a focus on driving gender diversity in the workplace.
Uma has a Bachelor of Computer Science and Management Information Systems from University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur.
Helen Duce
Co-Founder Lean In Singapore
Founding partner of GreenOcean Group
Helen is a founding partner of GreenOcean Group, a sustainable business consultancy
focused on helping companies grows profitably through addressing social and environmental
issues.
She is passionate about diversity and inclusion across gender, generations and geographies. Helen founded the Singapore Chapter after reading Lean In and being unable to accept that unless there is significant change gender parity will not be achieved in her lifetime. She is committed to do her part, however small, in empowering women to Lean In to their career aspirations.