The conference was held in Brooklyn College Student Center on March 24. The full-day conference included a keynote speaker, an “Own Your Shit” panel, and technical workshops.The event was hosted by the BC Women in Computer Science (WiCS) club in honor of Women’s History Month“in hopes to inspire others to be bold for change. Panelists included keynote speaker Thaney; Jessie Wu - an associate software engineer at Buzzfeed; and Shanna Gregory - the dean of an all-women’s coding boot camp program called Grace Hopper and a director of the WomenWhoCode NYC chapter. The keynore speaker was Kaitlin Thaney, a senior fellow at Mozilla who spoke about the importance of having and giving support to women in tech.
ACM-W supports, celebrates, and advocates internationally for the full engagement of women in all aspects of the computing field, providing a wide range of programs and services to ACM members and working in the larger community to advance the contributions of technical women. ACM-W is an active organization with over 36,000 members. The mission of ACM-W is to encourage and enable a significant increase in the participation of women in fields related to technology in the world market. I attanded second annual ACM-W event at Google with Women in Computer Science in Brooklyn College (WICS) team, heard amazing discussions and attanded workshops about testing tools for code.
Visited Shutterstock’s amazing office space inside the Empire State Building and heard from members of their engineering, product and design team about what it's like to work inside Shutterstock, how they've built this popular technology company, powering a global creative marketplace.
C4Q presents HackFemme, a conference that equips future tech leaders with the skills and knowledge they need to support womens success in the tech industry. Got a C4Q pin and heard amazing discussions of panelists about being a champion!