Google Developer Group Boulder in back and in-person to celebrate International Women's Day at 6:00pm on with an evening of Lightning Talks from women in the Colorado tech community on March 8th at Google.
Snacks and drinks will be provided!
Registration for this event is now closed.
This is our first in-person event since COVID, and one of the first in-person events at the Google offices in Boulder. As with GDG Boulder events in the past, registration is required for entry and the number of attendees will be limited to 50. Google requires proof of immunization at the door to enter.
Your health is important to us and we are taking precautions to be safe when we gather. With this, it is required that all external guests verify their vaccination status in the lobby at guest
check in. If you are unable to provide visual proof of vaccination, you will not be permitted to enter Google buildings.
It is important that you stay home if you are not feeling well. Prior to traveling or coming onsite, we encourage everyone to test at home and to test on a regular basis to monitor your
health. If you have any questions or concerns about the event, please don’t hesitate to reach out to your event host.
Valid Forms of Vaccination Verification Include:
● Physical vaccination card
● Photo of vaccination card
● Official Digital records of vaccination from your vaccine provider and/or public health authority
Welcome to the Google Boulder office!
We are fortunate to be able to provide parking for visitors and event guests. Please review the information provided to ensure your parking experience is a pleasant one.
Access the Google parking garage from the alley on the South side of the Google buildings off of 30th street.
After parking, please locate the B1 or C1 elevator and take it up to the lobby ( 1). Upon exiting the elevator, you will see our reception desk where you can go to get checked in and receive further instruction!
At our Pearl St location, visitor parking is located on level P0 of our parking garage. Once at the garage entrance, use the intercom system to buzz our receptionist, provide the name of the employee you are visiting or event you are attending and access will be granted!
Visitor parking spots are located to your immediate left once you enter the garage. If all visitor spots are filled, just keep driving down the levels until you meet our valet team who can then assist you in finding an open space.
There is free street parking on Mapleton, West of 30th Street (0.3 mi walk).
There is a free parking garage at the Northwest corner of Canyon Blvd and 30th Street (0.4 mi walk).
The easiest way to access a ride share (Uber, Lyft, etc) is just across the Pearl Courtyard, adjacent to the Chase Bank parking lot. See the inset green arrow for additional location information.
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Medtronic
Senior Principal Software Engineer & Technical Fellow
Workday
Senior Design Technologist
Head of AI Services, Google Cloud
Uber
Senior Software Engineer
Virtual Gaming Worlds
Team Lead Backend Engineer
Lesley Pace-Gormley is a native of Aurora, Colorado and a proud graduate of Howard University where she obtained her B.B.A. in Computer Information Systems while minoring in Information Assurance. She later obtained her M.S. in Human Computer Interaction from Drexel University. Lesley currently works at Google as a User Experience Researcher on Google Workspace products like Google Sites, Sheets, Drive and Docs.
In addition to her technological pursuits, Lesley is a certified yoga instructor, speaking coach, keynote speaker, mindfulness coach, and wellness advocate. In both the realms of yoga and technology she realizes there is a tremendous lack of diversity. It is her goal to increase the amount of people of color and members of other marginalized communities in these spaces. In her free time you can find her bopping around the world for leisure, uplifting her community through her beloved Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., gracing the pages of Yoga Journal, and reading bell hooks to children.
Among her pageant accomplishments she was top 15
Erin Kearns is a software engineer with a passion for writing code that makes a positive impact on people’s lives. Over the past 20 years she has made a career of writing life-critical software in both the defense and medical device industries. Her code has helped to search for survivors under the twin towers, has protected American troops during the war in Afghanistan, and has helped surgeons remove cancerous tumors in the brain. She currently serves as a software team lead and technical fellow at Medtronic, developing surgical robotic systems.
Erin graduated from Dartmouth College in 2003 with a B.E. in Computer Engineering and went on to complete a master’s degree in the same subject from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. After experiencing the profound effects of the mind-body connection within her own health journey, she has a passion for integrating mindfulness into healthcare via technology. When not developing software, she can be found at the yoga studio or hiking with her family in the mountains of Colorado.
Sheelah Brennan is a design technologist at Workday in Boulder. She has worked as a frontend engineer at various startups, working on both product engineering and design systems engineering teams. Before finding her passion in UI development and making the pivot to web development, Sheelah was a Site Reliability Engineer at Google, helping maintain the high-availability systems that run all Google applications.
Sheelah graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a degree in Business Administration. In her spare time, she loves hiking, backpacking, snowshoeing, and photography.
Carolyn Ujcic, Google Cloud Head of AI Services, oversees teams of AI consultants and engineers in the Professional Services Organization. In this role, Carolyn helps Google Cloud customers adopt and realize value from AI. Carolyn has held positions of increasing responsibility, including Machine Learning Engineering Manager, AI Consultant, Fiber Learning Lab Lead and Global Training Lead. She joined Google as a Change Management Lead for Enterprise customers in 2010. Prior to Google, Carolyn served as a management consultant for multinationals at Accenture. Carolyn grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and attended The Ohio State University. She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Sofie Graham is a Team Lead Backend Engineer at Virtual Gaming Worlds. She has been working in the games industry for over a decade, first as a designer and now as an engineer. She manages a small team based in Boulder Colorado building microservices which back highly successful web and mobile games. When she's not coding, she's often found climbing, playing video games or running through the mountains with her dogs.
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