Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day 2022 on April 8, 2022! International Women’s Day (IWD) occurs on March 8th every year. It marks a moment to celebrate and provide visibility for the incredible contributions of women around the world and is a call to action for accelerating gender parity.
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Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day 2022!
International Women’s Day (IWD) occurs on March 8th every year. It marks a moment to celebrate and provide visibility for the incredible contributions of women around the world and is a call to action for accelerating gender parity.
IWD is Women Techmakers annual event campaign where our community hosts events in March and April. We create connections, educate and inspire, and recognize that we still have a ways to go to close the gender gap.
Theme: #ProgressNotPerfection
This year our theme celebrates all kinds of progress - big or small - and the strength we demonstrate when we don’t let fear hold us back from following our dreams.
Agenda Overview: Friday, April 8, 2022, 12 pm EST:
12:00 pm - 12:15pm Connect & Network
12:15 pm - 12:55 pm Keynote: "Ask Us Anything on Cryptocurrencies, NFTs, Blockchain, Web 3.0"
America and Penelope Lopez, CyberCode Twins 👾 👾 Founders, Social Entrepreneurs, IoT Developers, TEDx Speakers
Meet the Cybercode Twins - America and Penelope M. Lopez and learn how they use blockchain technology to further social justice and humanitarian issues.
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Hands-on Workshop: "Create and Sell Your Own #ProgressNotPerfection NFT"
Learn how to mint your own NFT for free, share it, sell it or buy it yourself during this live workshop, led with the #RealRaise Future Founders.
100% of all proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross to provide vital aid to people in Ukraine!
Alexis Snelling, CEO WeTransact + NFT Future Founder Trading Cards
Michelle Zaffino, CEO MyLibrarian, SheTransacts Circle Leader + NFT Future Founder Trading Cards
Abby Sugar, CEO PlayOut Apparel + NFT Future Founder Trading Cards
Deka Dike, CEO Omatochi + NFT Future Founder Trading Cards
Live: participate in our hands-on workshop, mint you own NFT for free, share it, sell it or buy it yourself. 100% of all proceeds from the NFT event will be donated to the Red Cross to provide vital aid to people in Ukraine!
2:20 pm - 3:00 pm Tech Talk: "Why Google Cloud"
Claritza Abreu, Technology Solution Architect at Google
Learn what makes Google Cloud different from other cloud providers. Technology evangelist Claritza Abreu will discuss how to lead your digital transformation to successful outcomes. Bring all your questions!
3:05 pm - 3:45 pm Fireside Chat: "Solidifying Your Career in a Diverse Workplace"
Diana Agu, Chief Listener and CEO, Curain HealthCare Services, Advocate, Change-maker and Healthcare Champion
Mia Yinka Modile - HR Manager North America at ValueMomentum
Ijeoma Michelle Daramola, Vice President, Wealth and Personal Banking at HSBC
3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Open Mic - Community Discussion with Our Youth attendees
Poojita Garg, Research Intern at Georgia Institute of Technology
Madona Wambua, Android Engineer at Streem Inc, GDE Android and founder of Budgeting Buddy
Ruchi Kansal Gupta, Founder Monamedia
Join "Girls Who Code", Poojita, Madona and Ruchi in an informal discussion.
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Networking, Closing Comments & Prizes
Join our raffle for a chance to win prizes! Tweet what you loved about IWD Northeast by using the hashtag #IWDNorteast to enter the raffle!
Sponsors:
ROI Training https://www.roitraining.com/
ROI Training offers 5 On Demand Vouchers for Google Cloud Certification training: Associate/Professional Cloud Engineer ($500 value each) for our raffle.
O’Reilly https://www.oreilly.com/
O’Reilly offers 10 ebooks/books for our raffle.
This event is brought to you in collaboration with the following GDG chapters:
CyberCode Twins
Co-founder
CyberCode Twins
Co-founder
SkillVill
CEO & Founder
Technology Evangelist / Technology Solution Architect
MyLibrarian Inc.
Founder & CEO
PlayOut Apparel
CEO
Omatochi
CEO
Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Intern
Android Engineer
Google Dev Community
Sr. Program Director
Curain Healthcare Services
Managing Director
ValueMomentum
HR Manager North America
HSBC
Vice President, Wealth and Personal Banking
artnet.com
Analytics and Optimization Consultant
Android Engineer
Google Dev Community
Sr. Program Director
Lehman College
Deputy Chairperson & Lecturer
Outside, Inc.
Android Engineer
Open Hub Project
Accenture
Software Engineer
Philips Health Systesm
Senior SDE, Google Certified Cloud Architect , Flutter GDE
Data Innovations LLC
GDG Organizer
GDG Lawrence
GDG Organizer