Margarita Neumueller

Everywhere you hear about AI right now. You should use this, you should use that and everyone is talking about AI literacy. Some of the tools are fun, but don‘t bring any value when talking about business and every day working life. Some of them cut me hours of work. So you don‘t need to try, as I will be sharing my experiences and engage in discussions about the topic (as we all can learn from each other). So that the AI jungle is not so confusing anymore.

WIT Uncensored. Unapologetic. Honest conversations that matter. At our lunchtime session on 21 May at 12:30, we’ll be opening a frank discussion about some of the real challenges faced across the tech industry today, from retention and burnout to the growing loss of experienced talent and the impact of not seeing enough senior role models to aspire to. Too many talented people are stepping away from tech, and the reasons are complex, systemic, and overdue for honest conversation. This session is about creating space for those conversations, sharing experiences, and exploring what needs to change if we want a more sustainable and inclusive future for the industry. If you care about the future of tech, representation at senior levels, and making the industry a place people want to stay and thrive — this conversation is for you. 🕛 21 May | 12:30 📍 Lunch-time session 💬 Open, uncensored discussion #TechCommunity #InclusionInTech #Leadership #RoleModels #WIT #DataGrillen2026

If you are not able to say no, then it does not only affect you - even when you‘re not in a leadership role. It affects your environment too. So what to do, if you have a hard time? In this session I want to emphasize the importance of saying no. To show the positive effects on oneself, the people around and also the projects. It always means saying „yes“ to something else. Additionally I also want to give communication tools that can be used in the daily business, where politics plays a crucial role. And to be frank? Politics in business can be the hardest. So much to think about! I want to give you some guidelines to walk through the business and project jungle, meeting your own and your stakeholders expectations without others to feel rejected and throwing stones in your way.

At conferences we talk a lot about doing the right things and what this right things could be. But even though everyone made experiences with problems in projects - nobody I know was blessed with projects where everything was going perfect -, we talk rarely about failures and what to do, when everything is falling apart. Thinking about my previous career and what experiences I made, I learned the most with a big gap in projects or situations, that were problematic. I didn't want to go through those failures again, so I learned what to do to prevent them. But it is not neccessary that everyone has to go through the same failures, we can and should learn from each other. This is the reason, why I want to talk about my worst projects in an interactive session and what concrete learnings I could make, hoping it encourages you to do the same. You didn't found a good solution of your problems in projects in the past? This is also fine, let's discuss what could have been done. Maybe someone with a similar situation is there and did find a way to handle it. So let's talk about our "Worst Of" projects and how to prevent them for us and for other.