Dear All,
We are erring on the side of caution and are postponing this event due to public and attendee health concerns raised by the Coronavirus situation. Our goal is to reschedule this event once public safety concerns have passed.
If you have RSVPed, we will send you an update once we have rescheduled and hope all of you will be able to attend then.
Thank you so much for you interest in WomxnPowered Tech and hearing Her Tech Stories.
Wishing you all healthy days ahead,
WomxnPowered Tech Organizers
In honor of Women's History Month, we invite you to WomxnPowered Tech, an event for womxn engineers. The archetype of the white male software engineer too often reigns supreme. This event will elevate the stories of and highlight the specific challenges and opportunities facing womxn engineers, especially underrepresented minority womxn. WomxnPowered Tech provides a space for you to build community with womxn engineers and build and envision the inclusive workplaces of the future.
THIS IS FOR YOU IF: You're a womxn engineer at any stage in your career (software, hardware, automation, data science, etc.)
Evening Flow:
5:30- Arrivals + Appetizers
6:00- Speaker Panel HerTech Stories: Many Paths into Tech
7:10- Community Building & Conversation: Envisioning the Inclusive Workplaces of the Future
Bites, beverages, and children +1s welcome. (Motherhood should not be a barrier to participation). We just ask that you register children attendees for correct head count. Thank you!)
Aline is the founder and CEO of interviewing.io, an anonymous technical recruiting platform where companies like Facebook, Uber, Dropbox, and Quora have hired great software engineers. Before that, she was a software engineer for 5 years, ran hiring at Udacity, and wrote a lot of stuff about hiring on the internet. Her data-driven posts about how typos matter more than pedigree, how resumes are a low-signal filtering tool, and how technical interviews aren’t deterministic have been read by millions of people, and her work on the subject has appeared in dozens of publications, including Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, and Fast Company.
Chances are you have something in common with Crystal. She's a Fresno native, third generation Mexican-American, a woman of color, queer, sci-fi fan, and a web developer. Previously she had a fulfilling career as a Production Artist. But (most likely) thanks to the movie Hackers, she took a leap of faith, quit her job, and attended a coding bootcamp in Provo, Utah. Afterwards she had several internships, and continued her education at Geekwise Academy. Since then she's worked for Bitwise Brand, and is currently Cohort Lead for Geekwise Academy's WordPress Cohort.
Allison Lacker joined Binti almost 3 years ago as Binti's first employee. Today, Allison leads the engineering team as Binti's VP of Engineering. In addition to being strong technically, Allison is an incredibly kind and empathetic leader. Allison shares, "I joined Binti because of the mission. It's fulfilling to go to work every day to increase equality of opportunity in the world and help every child have a safe, loving, and stable family. I'm proud of how far we've come, and the engineering team culture that we've built."
The Kapor Capital Talent Network serves as the bridge between great talent and great companies. The Talent Network connects startup job seekers to a portfolio of 120+ startups in the social impact space. We elevate the specific challenges and perspectives of underrepresented talent and provide networking opportunities for tech talent. We believe that startup readiness is more than a set of skills, it is a mindset paired with passion. The Talent Network is the sourcing engine of Kapor Capital, an Oakland-based, social impact fund.
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Kapor Capital is the venture capital investment arm of the Kapor Center based in Oakland, CA. Kapor Capital invests in gap- closing seed stage tech startups that generate both economic returns and positive social impact. We believe diversity in tech is a strategic priority to the industry. We are committed to closing the gaps of access, opportunity, and outcomes for low- income communities and communities of color in the US. It is our view that all companies have some sort of impact in the world—some positive, some negative—and that it is our responsibility as investors to nurture only those innovations that make our world more equitable.