You're invited to our International Women's Day event! This is the start of more events with the theme #BalanceForBetter https://www.internationalwomensday.com.

We have a great speaker line up and we would love to hear from you as well. Please fill out our CFP to submit a lightning talk or a fireside chat question: https://bit.ly/2Yky8d9

Schedule
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6:00 Food and networking
6:30 - 6:40 Welcome

Talks:
6:40 "Talking technology" by Léonie Watson (35mins)
7:15 "Fast Adaptation via Meta Learning" by Luisa Zintgraf (25mins)
7:40 "Perfectionism, Impostor Syndrome, Anxiety and Learning to be Kind to Yourself" by Jo Franchetti (45mins)

8:25 - 8:35 Tea break
8:35 "Strategies for managing your career in the Tech industry" by Nana Fifield
9:00 9:05 "Career planning in Chaos" by Naeema Pasha
9:05 9:20 discussions
9:20 Closing remarks

Speakers

Léonie Watson
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Léonie is Director of TetraLogical; a member of the W3C Advisory Board; co-Chair of the W3C Web Platform Working Group; and a member of the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Advisory Committee. Please read more at https://tink.uk/about-leonie.

Talk
We've been talking with technology for longer than you might think, but
despite increasing conversational sophistication, relatively few ways
exist to help us make artificial speech sound human. Find out how to use
Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) with the Amazon Echo or Google Home, and the Web Speech API in the browser; how the CSS Speech module might be useful (if only it were more widely supported); and how we might be able to solve some problems by making things talk.

Luisa Zintgraf
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Luisa is a second year DPhil student at University of Oxford. Luisa has a B.Sc. in Mathematics and M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence.

Talk
The challenge of fast adaptation in machine learning is to learn on previously unseen tasks fast and with little data. In principle, this can be achieved by leveraging knowledge obtained in other, related tasks. However, the best way to do so remains an open question. In this presentation I will talk about the meta-learning approach to fast adaptation, i.e., learning how to learn on unseen problems/datasets within a few shots. In particular, I will focus on gradient-based methods, i.e., methods that adapt to unseen tasks within just a few gradient steps. I will also talk about my current work, the algorithm CAVIA, a meta-learning method for fast adaptation that is scalable, flexible, and easy to implement. I will show some empirical results on a variety of learning problems.

Joanna Franchetti
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Jo is an Engineering Engagement Manager at Trainline who is passionate about WebVR, PWAs, and great CSS. She’s got 7yrs of experience as a front end developer and has worked in various parts of the tech industry from startups, agencies, and charities to large organisations. She is also a mentor and organiser at codebar.io where she is able to action her passion not only for teaching good use of the web but also for improving the diversity and inclusivity of the tech industry.

Talk
Ever felt like everyone knows more than you? Spent hours procrastinating rather than starting or finishing a project? Perfectionism, anxiety & impostor syndrome affect many people in the tech industry. Learn how to spot harmful thought patterns, how to avoid anxious spirals and be kind to yourself!

Nana Fifield
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Nana is Director of Engineering at Anaplan, a mentor with a passion for innovation, helping build communities, and establishing truly diverse global workforces.

Neema Pasha
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Naeema has an international profile in Careers leadership, which is about positioning 'careers' to be the core of business.

We are very excited to welcome everyone to an inspirational and fun evening of learning and discussions.

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