Battling COVID-19 with Mission: Predictable Hackathon
style=”width: 665px;” class=”fr-fic fr-dib fr-fil”> In June and July of 2020, Women Who Code hosted a three-part Machine Learning for Social Good Workshop series to conceive new ways to combat COVID-19. Workshop participants harnessed the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence via Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) SageMaker models to develop their ideas. The workshop […]
A look back on Robots on Ice
The Goal of Robots on Ice was to push the boundaries of testing and accessibility of robotics on icy surfaces and inspire the next generation. The sparkles in adults’ and kids’ eyes were priceless with many parents saying they would come back for future years The Team: On January 11th, Robotics engineers gathered at the […]
WWCode Belfast She Rocks awards 2019 winners!
On Tuesday night, Women Who Code Belfast hosted our 3rd annual She Rocks Awards night. Due to a substantial amount of nominations, this year for the first time we celebrated a Highly Commended and an overall winner! The support in the Belfast tech community is certainly growing and this year was our biggest awards yet! […]
A Trip to Tech Crunch
style=”width: 700px;” class=”fr-fic fr-dib fr-fil”>Thanks to Women Who Code, I was able to attend and expand my tech knowledge and network at Techcrunch Disrupt, a prestigious conference in Silicon Valley that showcases bleeding edge technology and startups. I was first intrigued by the event after hearing of it from the HBO’s Silicon Valley, and I […]
JAX London Conference 2019
I was recently given the opportunity to attend the JAX London conference at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London by Women Who Code. I was beyond ecstatic because not only does a 4-day ticket cost over £1000(steep I know!) but I had wanted to go for many years being a Java Software Engineer myself. […]
Women in Tech Summit West!
width=”558″ height=”652″ class=”fr-fic fr-dii”> Tivoli Student Union Building – Host to our conference & historic home to the Tivoli Brewing Company Thanks to Women Who Code, I was able to attend Women in Tech Summit West, a one day conference in Denver that aims to look at all aspects of a career for a woman […]
WWCode Cloud 2019
Find out more about the author Sara Bunyard here. When I stepped into the Women Who Code Cloud Conference at Accenture, I was surrounded by a group of strong women ready to take on the world. I immediately felt like I belonged, and any nerves I had about being a student and not being experienced […]
SYNC 2019 a Visual Experience
Throughout the year, Women Who Code works hard to make free tickets available to important and informative tech conferences and events. These are advertised in the CODE Review Newsletter every Wednesday afternoon, which you can receive by signing up for an account on womenwhocode.com, or through this link. To date, we've given away a value […]
Code for Social Good
One of my realizations when I joined Women Who Code Manila, and eventually become a volunteer, was that tech communities in the Philippines have a fantastic collaborative environment. Different tech groups, big or small, are always ready to share and collaborate. For me, this is a modern “Bayanihan”, symbolic of the Filipino way of group […]
What I did at WWCode Connect Asia 2019 (Part II)
During WWCode Connect Asia 2019, the event started with the keynote, in which I describe during the first part of my previous blog. After breakfast, at around 10:00 AM, the training and workshop have started. I attended the “Agent-K: Building a support chatbot using Machine Learning” which the speaker is Aditi Agarwal. The chatbot name […]