Women Techmakers Montreal IWD 2023

Name: Women Techmakers Montreal IWD 2023
Start: 2023-04-15T16:03:12-04:00
End: 2023-04-15T16:03:17-04:00
Location: ServiceNow

ServiceNow, 6650 Rue Saint-Urbain, Montréal, H2S 3G9

GDG Montreal

Cet événement vis à honorer et à donner du pouvoir aux femmes en technologique. / This event highlight the talent of women in tech.

Apr 15, 8:03 PM

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Key Themes

International Women's Day

Women Techmakers

About this event

[An English version will follow]
GDG Montréal est fier d'organiser l’événement spécial « The Women Techmakers Global Event Series Celebrating International Women's Day » qui a pour but de promouvoir le talent et la passion, accroître la visibilité de la communauté technologique montréalaise et honorer et donner du pouvoir aux femmes dans l’industrie technologique.
Cette année, notre événement est de retour en présentiel!
P﻿our connaître tout sur l'événement, regarder notre site web: www.wtmmontreal.com et suivez-nous sur nos réseaux sociaux. 

GDG Montreal is proud to organize the special event "The Women Techmakers Global Event Series Celebrating International Women’s Day" which aims to promote talented and passionate women, increase the visibility of the Québec technology community and empower women in technology.
This year, our event is back to an in-person event!
To find out everything about the event, check out our website: www.wtmmontreal.com and follow us on our social networks. 

When

Saturday, April 15, 2023
8:03 PM – 8:03 PM UTC

Where

ServiceNow
6650 Rue Saint-Urbain
Montréal, H2S 3G9

Agenda

8:03 PM	Inscription / Registration
1:30 PM	Mot de bienvenue / Keynote
2:00 PM	The tutorial is over: what now? Navigating your early years in the industry by Anita He	Your school years and internships are over, what now? There’s a lot to navigate in the open world of professional workplaces. If you are a young professional in their initial years in the industry, or want to learn how to best support those who are getting started, this talk is for you. To excel in your career, it is important to set up a solid foundation. We are providing mental frameworks and tips for ramping up in new roles, identifying opportunities, creating demonstrable impact and managing future goals. https://wtmmontreal.com/speaker/anita-he-en/ THIS PRESENTATION WILL BE HELD IN ENGLISH
2:30 PM	Embrace the Blur by Amanda Henry	Going out of our comfort zone, we develop new skills, but what happens then? We have more questions than answers, we enter the zone of the unknown: I call it the blur. With the combination of your internal resiliency and mindset, you can work on what I call embracing the blur. https://wtmmontreal.com/speaker/amanda-henry-en/ THIS PRESENTATION WILL BE HELD IN ENGLISH
3:00 PM	Pause / Break
3:30 PM	Dare to Deliver - combining a data-driven approach and motivational factors to get your team to succeed by Zilia Lavastida Lopez and Rebecca Reich	Delivery is always at the forefront of executives’ minds. How can we move faster? How can we deliver more? Zeroing in at the team level, engineering managers are then tasked with turning those questions into actions: how do we even measure how fast we are going? Once we have that baseline, how can we move the needle to increase the team’s output? There are several factors that can influence a team’s delivery. In this talk, we will explore velocity with a multi-dimensional approach: gathering data from developer tools, optimally organizing Agile ceremonies within a sprint, and providing shorter- and longer-term goals to the team as motivation. We also propose daring to have “difficult” conversations at the team and individual level, and harnessing customer feedback to close the loop with the team on the impact of their delivery. You’ll leave with concrete tools for measuring your team’s delivery, and inspiring them to give their best to achieve your company’s goals. https://wtmmontreal.com/speaker/zilia-lavastida-lopez-en/ https://wtmmontreal.com/speaker/rebecca-reich-en/ THIS PRESENTATION WILL BE HELD IN ENGLISH
4:30 PM	Dîner / Lunch time
6:00 PM	The sweet song of the $7 violin, and the woman behind it by Mary-Elizabeth Brown	In late 2022, a low-cost violin made on a 3D printer made international news from The Strad to Science Friday. At the helm was Mary-Elizabeth Brown, an award winning violinist, pedagogue, entrepreneur, and single mom. Hear her story and come away inspired cross boundaries in an all new way. https://wtmmontreal.com/speaker/mary-elizabeth-brown/ THIS PRESENTATION WILL BE HELD IN ENGLISH
7:00 PM	From Traveltech to Fintech - A data driven pivot by Anne Raby and Anwesha Bhattacharjee	Pandemic volatility and uncertainty in the travel industry inspired us. To help anxious travelers better plan their trips, we pivoted to fintech innovation. Guided by customer obsession and data, we built Price Freeze for hotels, the only fintech product of its kind in the hospitality industry. https://wtmmontreal.com/speaker/anne-raby-en/ https://wtmmontreal.com/speaker/anwesha-bhattacharjee-en/ THIS PRESENTATION WILL BE HELD IN ENGLISH
8:00 PM	Pause / Break
8:30 PM	Legend of Evelys: a case study into inclusive game design by Catherine Proulx	What does it mean to create truly inclusive video games? Is it even feasible, especially for mainstream games? Can you make your games more inclusive without making any faux-pas, even if you’re not an expert? And most importantly, could inclusivity actually make your games better for everyone? https://wtmmontreal.com/speaker/catherine-proulx-en/ THIS PRESENTATION WILL BE HELD IN ENGLISH
9:00 PM	Coming Soon
9:30 PM	Mot de la fin / Closing remarks
9:45 PM	Networking