International Women's Day 2021

Name: International Women's Day 2021
Start: 2021-03-27T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-03-27T16:00:00+02:00

(Online) To celebrate International Women's Day, the Southern Africa GDGs (South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe) will be hosting a joint conference with the theme "Courage to Create". Join us for inspiring talks, fun workshops, and learn from top women in tech about their journeys to the top.

Mar 27, 2021, 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM (UTC)

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Key Themes

Career DevelopmentInclusionMachine LearningMobileWomen Techmakers

About this event

(Online) International Women's Day 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.
For the past 9 years, Women Techmakers has celebrated IWD throughout the months of March and April. In 2020, in spite of a global pandemic and quick pivot to virtual, WTM Ambassadors reached over 80,000 worldwide through our IWD campaign #TogetherWeRise. 
In 2021, we hope to inspire even more women and allies across the globe in partnership with you! We are also excited to extend the WTM IWD campaign to our GDG communities, in an effort to work towards gender parity and equity in tech together.

When

Saturday, March 27, 2021
8:00 AM – 2:00 PM (UTC)

Agenda

8:00 AM	Keynote: How to be productive while being stressed with Irina Shikhman (Google)	Stress is everywhere - when we wake up too early, when we stay in traffic jams, when we are at work. Or when we have to work from home. It affects our lives, our mood and wellbeing. Can't we do something about that? The answer is yes, we can! We will start our journey with understanding what is happening in our body when we are stressed, then we will learn and try a few science proven methods to decrease the stress level and to be productive no matter how stressed we are and no matter where we are.
9:15 AM	Own Your Space - Public Speaking Workshop with Debby Kay Dewes	Own Your Space - Public Speaking Workshop - Debby Kay Dewes This workshop will highlight some of the key mental barriers that prevent people from speaking with confidence and practical ways to overcome them - hint: it's all about trust! Attendees will also learn a few basic physical techniques to calm the nerves before and during speech delivery. At the end of the workshop, attendees will be better equipped to own both their mental and physical spaces so as to deliver more compelling presentations.
9:50 AM	Getting started with Jetpack Compose with Maia Grotepass	This workshop will be an introduction session to Jetpack Compose. We will then look at a Compose codelab and explore completing the tasks in an interactive fashion. There will be time for questions during the codelab exercise. If there is time we can look at sample projects. Participants can choose to code along or follow the presentation.
10:35 AM	Panel discussion	What makes a successful women-in-tech? How do you get into the industry, and what will help you to stay in this male-dominated space? Our panel of expert women-in-tech will be deliberating these questions and share their journeys and lessons learnt making it to the top. The panelists are: - Debbie Rogers (MD, Praekalt.org) - Rebecca Franks (Android Principal, Over and GDE for Android) - Lebogang Madise (Developer Relations, Microsoft) - Tumi Sineke (Head, Offerzen Foundation) - Jacqueline Fouche (UX Designer, Superbalist) - Vimbainashe Laura Nhira (Senior Engineer, Cellulant)
11:20 AM	Lunch break
11:50 AM	Painting with coffee and ink workshop with Lauren Nel	We'll be painting with coffee - the life-blood of humankind! I invite you to leave any anxiety at the door along with any scary expectations. We're going to explore what we can do with some coffee and any ink (even ballpoint pens are welcome!). I'm really looking forward to exploring some coffee-painting techniques with you!
12:25 PM	Intro to AI Design and Development with TensorFlow workshop with Tlamelo Makati	Introduce both the code (“how you build neural networks”) as well as design (“how you build systems that users can trust”) at the same time using TensorFlow.
1:35 PM	Errbody Can Be an Entrepreneur with Sarah Jane Scott	So you want to start an online business? Let’s go over the basics of creating a solid brand identity so that you can launch your business and create powerful marketing content; no design skills needed. Find your brand story, create your logo, find your fonts and colours. Boom! You’re in business.
1:40 PM	Goodbye

Speaker

Irina Shikhman

Google

Software Engineer, Tech Lead

Facilitators

Debby Kay Dewes

DK Editing / 1Act Productions

Founder

Maia Grotepass

Luno

Android Engineer & Tech Lead

Lauren Nel

Luno

Illustrator and Product Designer

Tlamelo Makati

GDG Gabarone

Lead

Sarah Jane Scott

Over

Creative Lead

Panelists

Lebogang Madise

Microsoft

Developer Audience PMM

Rebecca Franks

Over by GoDaddy

Android Lead

Jacqueline Fouche

Superbalist

Head of UX

Tumi Sineke

Offerzen

Mentoring Programme Designer & Head of OfferZen Foundation

Debbie Rogers

Praekalt.org

Managing Director

Vimbainashe Laura Nhira

Snr. Software Engineer

Diné Bennett

Paystack

Engineering Manager

Hosts

Pamela Hill

Over by GoDaddy

Android Engineer

Mbalenhle Ndaba

Vusi Moyo

Takealot

Android Engineer

Potsane Mohale

Luno

Senior Android Engineer

Sylvia Dieckmann

Engineering Manager

Vuyo Mhlotshane

Container Solutions

Cloud Native Engineer

Maia Grotepass

Luno

Organizers

Michelle Piliso

Organiser

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Tswello Moreki

Young Cloud Explorers

Founder & CEO

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Lethabo Nkwana

GDSC Organiser

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Samuel Oladejo

Syft Analytics

Software Engineer

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Simphiwe Radebe

Standard Bank

Developer

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lavisa mlanzeli

Junior Software Developer at WeThinkCode_

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Zethu Nkosi

Software Engineering Student

See bio

Contact Us

International Women's Day 2021

Mar 27, 2021, 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM (UTC)

Key Themes

About this event

When

Agenda

Speaker

Irina Shikhman

Facilitators

Debby Kay Dewes

Maia Grotepass

Lauren Nel

Tlamelo Makati

Sarah Jane Scott

Panelists

Lebogang Madise

Rebecca Franks

Jacqueline Fouche

Tumi Sineke

Debbie Rogers

Vimbainashe Laura Nhira

Diné Bennett

Hosts

Pamela Hill

Mbalenhle Ndaba

Vusi Moyo

Potsane Mohale

Sylvia Dieckmann

Vuyo Mhlotshane

Maia Grotepass

Partners

Google

Offerzen

Paystack

Over

Organizers

Michelle Piliso

Tswello Moreki

Lethabo Nkwana

Samuel Oladejo

Simphiwe Radebe

lavisa mlanzeli

Zethu Nkosi

Mar 27, 2021, 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM (UTC)