Talks Tech #61: Speech to Text: Making Podcasts and AI Accessible
But find that community that has got people who’ve been through it. So there are a few different boot camps that exist, I think, in Melbourne, and there’ll be people who are like, “Oh, I’m doing this boot camp.” And I can guarantee there’s always someone else who’s done that boot camp in that event at that time. They’re like, “This is what I struggled with.” They’re like, “Oh, thank God. It’s not just me.” And it’s usually that “it’s not just me,” which makes everything a lot easier when you can find that community around you. So it doesn’t have to be Women Who Code, but so many different communities will exist wherever you are. And if it is the Women Who Code, go get that started. Come chat with us, and I’m sure someone will be happy to help you get that started where you are.
Conversations #101: Rosie Bu, Senior IT Director, Digital Technology Delivery at Walgreens
Building a strong team is one of the most important goals for me. Our team-building activities include helping new employees speed up learning, helping teams learn new technologies, creating opportunities for teams to share ideas, providing feedback, and addressing concerns. Fostering a transparent, sharing, and helping culture is extremely important.
Conversations #100: Inspiring Inclusion and Celebrating International Women’s Day with Julie Elberfeld and Joey Rosenberg
I really believe firmly in all the programming that we do to support women. I also would love to see a future where we don’t have to be having this conversation, where women of all backgrounds, all underrepresented people in tech, feel like they belong and can thrive like this is a place they’re meant to be. Technology is shaping everything about our experience. It’s shaping everything about the economy. Companies depend extensively on technology to thrive in our digital economy.
Talks Tech #60: The Most Talked-About Tech Disruptor of 2024: Artificial Intelligence
There’s so much potential. Take an industry like healthcare; some of the more interesting things that are emerging are, for example, if you are a doctor, you don’t have to write up patient notes anymore. You can use AI to capture those in an accurate way. Think about the time that frees doctor to focus more on their patients and patient care. Taking another step further, what if AI can help when that doctor follows up with that patient?
Talks Tech #59: Flutter, Mobile, and a Job Relocation From Kenya to Germany
Be open-minded to learn about what other people are doing. Find time to connect with other women in tech who are doing great things. Always ask questions. Finally, stay true to your dreams. If your dream is to become an engineer or a scientist, you will meet all your dreams if you have the focus.
Career Nav #83: Breaking the Glass Ceiling as a Latina First Gen in Tech/Web3
n general, being a woman, the bias that I see all the time is that, typically, we’re looked at as the ones who worry too much, care too much, or show too much emotion. Men also show emotions, and they can get angry, but it seems okay. Society accepts it more, and they don’t necessarily accept all of the emotions that they get from women. As a Latina in tech, I feel like I can’t ever get angry. It’s not an emotion that I’m allowed at work because of the stereotype of a spicy Latina. I can’t say I’ve overcome that bias forever because it just depends on who I meet on the other side of the table. I do my best to be a professional and go to places where I’m valued. I’ve had coaches and therapists learn how to respond versus react.
Talks Tech #56: The Value of Risk Management to Companies
The technology that I’m really excited about is the new generation of integration platforms. We now have multiple Cloud infrastructures. Orchestrating networks, orchestrating applications, and orchestrating the data layer across all three platforms in a multi-cloud, high-performance, secured way will be a huge challenge for many organizations. I get excited about integration and APIs.
Talks Tech #57: Intro to Open Source Contributions
This article is adapted from the podcast recording of Talks Tech #57. Watch or Listen on YouTube Cecelia Martinez, Developer Advocate for Appflow at Ionic, and Devanshi Modha, iOS Engineer at Accenture, share their workshop, “Intro to Open Source Contributions.” Devanshi discusses the benefits of contributing to open source and the many skill sets that […]
Career Nav #82: From Coder to Leader in the Tech World
If you are thinking about taking this path and having this position, think about it and really understand what you want to get out of it. Be ready to do less coding and more leading. I think that’s a very, very important thing. Also, you go from having very defined work expectations to defining the expectations.
Conversations #99: Panel Discussion: Leaders in Biotech and Engineering
The job you do will impact life. Somebody will benefit from the work you do. That is priceless. You cannot pay anybody enough to do that kind of work. We partner with life science companies because we can attract people who are passionate about making an impact. Also, we do hire a lot of students and young engineers. For them to be able to have a career path and have somebody that really cares for their development is very important as well.