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More than 150 girl geeks gathered at the LiveRamp San Francisco HQ to hear lightning talks about data privacy and security, managing distributed teams, and listening to your customers.

On July 24, 2019, 200 girl geeks gathered at Aurora’s offices in San Francisco to learn about personal branding. Speakers included Jessica Smith (Software Engineer), Haley Sherwood-Coombs (Technical Operations Specialist), Elizabeth Dreimiller (Maps), Chethana Bhasha (Technical Program Manager), Lia Theodosiou-Pisanelli (Head of Partnerships Products and Programs), and Catherine Tornabene (Head of Intellectual Property). Panel moderated by Khobi Brooklyn (VP of Communications).

Personality and emotions play a vital role in defining human interactions. Enterprise to Computer (or “E2Cbot”) was created with the premise of adding a personality to a chatbot. This helps in making it appear human-like and contributes to a better and engaging user experience. Developed as an Amazon Alexa skill, E2Cbot uses neural networks to capture the style of Star Trek by incorporating references from the show along with peculiar tones of the characters.

More than 100 Girl Geeks gathered at Zendesk HQ in San Francisco to hear Engineering and Product leaders share how they build technology that champions the customer service experience.

At age 40, Akilah Monifa stopped practicing law to do what her younger self had wanted to do: become a full-time writer. She received an Amazon Echo as a gift and made another pivot at age 60. This time, she decided she would learn to build for voice. Her motivation: give voice to a subject dear to her heart and build an Alexa skill called Black History Everyday.

Over 200 Girl Geeks came together at Poshmark HQ in Redwood City on June 13, 2019. Speakers included Tracy Sun (Co-Founder & Senior Vice President of New Markets), Barkha Saxena (Chief Data Officer), Vanessa Wong (Senior Director, Product Management), Angela Buckmaster (Associate Director, Community Operations), Camille Forde (Senior Manager, New Markets), Adrienne Hamrah (Software Engineer, Cloud Platform).

The tech industry is full of misfits. Contrary to the myth, not everyone has a computer science degree and went to a fancy university. Hear from ambitious women who built tech careers on their own terms by leveraging their strengths and creating opportunities for themselves to succeed in roles from sales and engineering to product management, from entrepreneurship to corporate ladder climbing. Girl Geek X CEO Angie Chang speaks with Farnaz Ronaghi (NovoEd CTO & Co-Founder), Rosie Sennett (Splunk Staff Sales Engineer), and Shanea Leven (Cloudflare Director of Product Management) at this exciting panel discussion at Elevate 2019.

Over a hundred girl geeks gathered at Palo Alto Networks to hear from Liane Hornsey (Chief People Officer), Nir Zuk (Chief Technology Officer & Founder), Citlalli Solano (Director of Engineering), Archana Muralidharan (Principal Risk Analyst), Meghana Dwarakanath (Manager SQA Engineering) and Paddy Narasimha Murthy (Senior Product Manager) on April 25, 2019 at the beautiful Palo Alto Networks campus in Santa Clara! Palo Alto Networks is making the world a safer place — These speakers talk about how they design, build, maintain software with a security mindset in every function and capability. Get inspired and armed with Palo Alto Networks’ security-first mindset (vs security as an after thought).

Quick experimentation in your application can turn feelings-driven development into data-driven wins. Beyond blue buttons or red buttons, A/B testing can answer key questions on how best to serve your users by offering sometimes surprising insights into how they interact with your product. In this talk, Dena Metili Mwangi will get the first experiment up and running with PlanOut, a Python-based open-source framework. It’s cheap & easy to be A/B testing with open source.