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Over 150 girl geeks came to Postmates Girl Geek Dinner to hear women share insights on leadership, product engineering, growth, learning to code and more on November 7, 2018 at Postmates HQ in San Francisco! Speakers from Postmates: Allie Morse (Director of Launch & Expansion), Heather Pujals (Growth Product Manager), Samantha Phillips (Product Manager), Bianca Curutan (Mobile Engineer), Christine Song, (Software Engineer) and Amrit Bhatti (Technical Recruiter).

At Girl Geek X “Elevate 2018” conference, Samihah Azim (Product Designer, Lyft) discusses designing products at One Medical and Lyft by considering all sides of the user journey, and balancing their needs with business/product metrics. Startups aim to transform the world, and designers create artifacts visualizing that North Star vision with the users at top of mind. Monitoring the health of the business with the user in mind helps achieve successful, human-centered products along the journey to the North Star.

Over 100 girl geeks met at GroundTruth for a Girl Geek Dinner on October 18, 2018 in Mountain View. GroundTruth speakers include: Sarah Ohle (VP, Marketing Insights), Carol Chen (Senior Director, Software Engineering), Lauren Stephenson (Director, HR Business Partner), Shanshan Tuo (Senior Data Scientist) and Alicia Huang (Senior Product Manager).

At Girl Geek X “Elevate 2018” conference, Nicole Grinstead (Senior Security Software Engineer, Netflix) will discuss anomaly detection project, Trainman, and how it enables Netflix to find and act upon high risk corporate user behavior. Threat detection has become increasingly valuable in today’s complicated corporate security landscape.

At Girl Geek Elevate 2018 Leah McGowen-Hare (Senior Director, Developer Evangelism, Salesforce) shared how doing the work with a focus on adding value – and everything will fall into place – rather than focusing on self-branding.

At Girl Geek X “Elevate 2018” conference, Claire Vo (VP of Product Management, Optimizely), Selina Tobaccowala (Founder, Gixo/Evite) and Sarah Allen (Founder, RailsBridge & Engineering Manager, Google) shared their journeys in entrepreneurial leadership with Shanea King-Roberson (Senior Technical Product Manager, eBay). What’s life like after your startup is acquired by a larger company? How does your role as a leader change?

At Girl Geek X Elevate 2018, At Her Best founder Minji Wong shares stories and tools to grow your career. The journey from individual contributor to manager, to a manager of managers, is as much one of self-discovery as it is of learning new skills.

At Girl Geek X Elevate, Oath Director of Product Management Sophia Perl covers how to stay current with new technologies and business models in the constant pursuit of knowledge, relevance and fun. Staying up-to-date with industry trends, new tools and emerging technologies can seem like a full-time job — but it doesn’t have to be.

Over 100 girl geeks gathered at Branch to hear Co-Founder & Head of Marketing Mada Seghete, Director of Engineering Zeesha Currimboy, Senior Software Engineer Deepikaa Subramanium, Systems Engineer Javeria Khan and Strategic Partner Growth Ann Massoud speak at Branch’s beautiful new headquarters in Redwood City, California on September 25, 2018.