Oh No You Didn’t: Conflict Management in Today’s Tech Industry

Shannon Vettes & Christina Aldan & Tara Manicsic &
Thu, Nov 9, 5:52 PM EST

On some level, conflict is an unavoidable part of any workplace - it’s tough enough for groups of people to always get along, even when the stresses of work aren’t involved. But how we choose to handle that conflict can factor hugely in the success of the team and in our own happiness.

Oh No You Didn’t: Conflict Management Panel

In this interactive event, our panel will discuss conflict that they have personally faced and how they handled it (even if not always perfectly or even well). We’ll invite the audience to chime in via chat with their questions or to share situations that they are facing/have faced. In the end, we hope that everyone will leave with new techniques that we use to resolve our conflicts.

Shannon Vettes

Head of Program Management at BlaBlaCar

Shannon is a swiss-army-knife who has worked in all things from project management to product management and basically everything in-between. She is an entrepreneur at heart who loves to dive into the tough questions. This has led her down many paths of conflict, and she hopes this panel will allow her to share a little of what she has learned in her trial-by-fire professional life.

Christina Aldan

Speaker, Trainer, Consultant

Christina Aldan is a TEDx speaker, trainer, and digital advertising consultant whose boutique agency, LG Designs, offers businesses brand consulting and creative content for everyday media. She currently serves as Marketing Coordinator for Starmark1 and has sat on state and local boards supporting women in tech, entrepreneurship and children with learning disabilities.

Tara Manicsic

Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify

Tara Z. Manicsic is a lifelong student, teacher, and maker. She has spent her career using JavaScript on both back-end and front-end to create applications. A Developer Advocate for Progress, Google Developer Expert, and international technical speaker, she focuses on conveying the codebase she has learned. In her free time she works in her community to educate and learn from other developers. Tara launched the Cincinnati Chapter of Women Who Code and the Cincinnati branch of NodeSchool. Beyond code, Tara still makes things but with solder/clay/wool and hikes any mountain she can get to with her family & trusty sidekick, #toshmagosh.

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