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Girl Geek X Clover Lighting Talks & Panel (Video + Transcript)
More than 200 girl geeks gathered at Clover HQ in Sunnyvale, CA to hear about topics such as Semi-Integrations, design thinking, and fostering customer empathy.
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Girl Geek X LiveRamp Lightning Talks (Video + Transcript)
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.
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Girl Geek X Aurora Lightning Talks & Panel (Video + Transcript)
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).
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“Enterprise to Computer (a Star Trek Chatbot)”: Grishma Jena with IBM (Video + Transcript)
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.
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Girl Geek X Zendesk Lightning Talks & Panel (Video + Transcript)
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.
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Girl Geek X Poshmark Lightning Talks & Panel (Video + Transcript)
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).
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“Unconventional Journeys in Tech” — Girl Geek X Elevate (Video + Transcript)
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.
