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Maria Wilvenna Añora

Maria Wilvenna Añora

Co-founder @ AtoANI and I-AM Consulting; Author @ Pluralsight

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With a Chemical Engineering and MBA Degree, she has corporate experience working for multinational companies such as Procter & Gamble and Lufthansa Technik in the Philippines in the areas of Strategy, Digitalization, Innovation, Finance, Logistics, Quality Assurance, Program and Project Management. This has enabled her to work with cross-functional and multi-cultural teams. With a freelance experience in consulting, creating business plans and digital transformation strategies in the areas of e-commerce, tourism and mobile applications, she recently co-founded I-AM Consulting working on innovation, project management and training services currently focused in the Aviation industry. She co-founded the social venture AtoANI that provides solutions to enable a data-based sustainable agriculture. She has also created some courses for Pluralsight in the following domains: Data (mostly in this domain), ITOps, and Business.

Analytics in Action: Business Analytics for Leaders, Managers, and Teams

With the pressing requirement to solve business problems and provide a basis for making business decisions in a more data-driven context to remain competitive, the need to understand where business analytics can be applied in the various functional areas of an organization becomes more relevant. The talk will cover carefully selected hypothetical case scenarios for identified functional areas of the organization to illustrate how business analytics can be applied using identified concepts and techniques.

Topics that will be covered during the talk include the following: (1) Business analytics and its relevance, (2) Real-word applications of business analytics, and (3) Organization-specific case scenarios in the selected functional areas to illustrate the following business analytics techniques using commonly-used tools: (a) Predictive Analytics, (b) Prescriptive Analytics, (c) Correlation, (d) Regression Analysis, (e) Text and Sentiment Analysis.

Beyond the To-Do List: A Talk on Strategic Work Prioritization

Managing a team whether large or small brings about many challenges particularly in driving efficiency. In relation to this, the talk will cover some concepts related to work prioritization and how to do it in a more strategic and data-driven fashion along with crafted case scenarios for identified functional areas in the organization. Topics that will be covered during the talk include the following:

 (1) Work prioritization and its relevance to organizations, (2) Work prioritization techniques, and (3) Work delegation techniques.

Tech for Good: Exploring Green IT Solutions for a Greener Tomorrow

With more focus being put into sustainability and the environment by companies of all sizes coming from different industries, the need to apply sustainability concepts to the Information Technology sector becomes more heightened. This lightning talk will cover key concepts of Green IT and technology sustainability as applied in identified IT areas to help you decide whether to introduce or implement it in your organization or not.

Topics that will be covered during the talk include the following: (1) Driving factors triggering focus on sustainability, (2) Green IT and technology sustainability concept, (3) Benefits of Green IT solutions, (4) Major governing Principles of Green IT, and (5) Real-word applications of Green IT.

(Note: Participants of this talk are encouraged to join the Workshop titled "Ideating Green IT Solutions for Your Organization: A Design Thinking Approach" to maximize what they can get out of the topic and to build meaningful connections as well with people within and outside their functional areas which can provide valuable inputs as they decide later on to implement Green IT solutions in their respective organizations.)

Tech for Good: Exploring Green IT Solutions for a Greener Tomorrow

With more focus being put into sustainability and the environment by companies of all sizes coming from different industries, the need to apply sustainability concepts to the Information Technology sector becomes more heightened. This lightning talk will cover key concepts of Green IT and technology sustainability as applied in identified IT areas to help you decide whether to introduce or implement it in your organization or not.

Topics that will be covered during the talk include the following: (1) Driving factors triggering focus on sustainability, (2) Green IT and technology sustainability concept, (3) Benefits of Green IT solutions, (4) Major governing Principles of Green IT, and (5) Real-word applications of Green IT.

(Note: Participants of this talk are encouraged to join the Workshop titled "Ideating Green IT Solutions for Your Organization: A Design Thinking Approach" to maximize what they can get out of the topic and to build meaningful connections as well with people within and outside their functional areas which can provide valuable inputs as they decide later on to implement Green IT solutions in their respective organizations.)

Ideating Green IT Solutions for Your Organization: A Design Thinking Approach

With the growing concern being put into the environment from organizations of all sizes from both developed and developing countries, this customized design thinking workshop that would focus on ideating Green IT solutions which can help you identify and assess solutions which you can possibly apply later on in your respective organizations and functional areas.

With this, professionals who are working on various technologies are encouraged to join this workshop to get more out of the topic on Green IT as you will be grouped with participants to brainstorm and assess Green IT solution/s which you will later on present to the all the participants towards the end of the session. This would help you not only gather as much Green IT ideas as you can but build meaningful connections as well during the session with participants from similar and different background as you.

Maria Wilvenna Añora

Co-founder @ AtoANI and I-AM Consulting; Author @ Pluralsight

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