Dr. Anastasia Dedyukhina

Staying mentally healthy and productive in the situation of digital overload

• Consciously Digital template to plan your day avoiding digital distractions
• Learn key techniques to make working from home successful (organizing your space, time, managing relationships with others and managing your own motivation).
• Understand, how to recreate the boundaries that disappear when working from home.

Mental health, stress management and resilience in the age of digital distractions

The talk is based on the latest neuroscience research about the impact of technology and is explained in a clear and simple way with actionable applications. It combines insights from neuroscience, psychology, coaching, ethics, UX design, digital marketing to explain, how our digital habits are formed, and how to rewire the brain to become a more balanced, happier and more motivated person

Audience takeaways:

• Participants will be given tools to create their own digital control strategy.
• They will learn best practices to restore your attention, rewards system, make better decisions in the digital age.

Social health and true connections in the digital age

In this keynote Dr. Anastsia Dedyukhina approaches many questions including: While technology allows us to connect to others in all possible ways, increasingly many people report feeling lonely. Why does it happen? Is social media really about connections? What do they lack that we have in real life?  Why children are able to better recognize other people’s emotions after they are deprived of tech for 5 days.

Audience takeaways:

• Understand how we connect to others from the neuroscience perspective.
• Familiarize with the latest research on the effect of social media on our mental and physical health and risks associated with overusing it.
• Build awareness about own social media usage patterns.
• Have a clear road map of how to introduce a more balanced use of social media in their own lives.

Creative and innovative thinking in the digital age

Can the robot take your job? How can we prepare ourselves for upcoming automation of our jobs? Will creative thinking really remain an asset for humans, or will robots challenge it?

We look at what makes someone creative, what is an innovative culture from the neuroscience perspective, and how technology changes this.

• Understand, how technology can be helpful to enhance creativity and innovative culture and how can it intervene.
• Learn rules to encourage creative thinking and innovation in yourself build innovation culture in the company.

Diversity

Dr. Anastasia Dedyukhina talks about a huge need for diversity in technology and why it’s important not just from ethical but business perspective, using example of various tech products.

It’s not so much about a need for more women (which is also important), but more about a variety of skillsets and life experiences. Tech is playing an ever bigger role in our lives, and so different groups of people should have a say in it, not just one specific category of white male programmers. Qualities like empathy are extremely important when developing technology.