Name: Talk night
Start: 2020-01-29T18:00:00-08:00
End: 2020-01-29T20:00:00-08:00
Location: Procurify

A night of talks from our community!

Schedule

6 PM Door open at Procurify. Refreshments provided by Procurify.
6:30 PM Message from Sanaz Jahanbakhsh, Procurify
6:45 PM Talks begin.

Scheduled talks:

1. Back to the future: Timeless career tips for my younger self, presented by Kim-Adeline Miguel
Fundamentally, "managing your career" is about being happy at work, and moving your career in a direction that makes you happy. This talk will share 4 actionable tips to own your career, so that you can kickstart your happiness whether you are starting up, already climbing the ladder or simply looking for a change.

Kim-Adeline is a Software Engineer at Microsoft working on the Python extension for VS Code. Prior to that, she dabbled with parallel programming in Singapore and worked as a front-end engineer in Denmark and in Vancouver.

Twitter https://twitter.com/kimadeline_m
GitHub https://github.com/kimadeline

2. Programming a Robot Arm to Paint: Successes & Happy Accidents, presented by Joanne Hastie

I paint with a robot arm. I am often asked if I miss the “happy accidents” that happen when a human paints. I actually think there are even more mistakes that happen when programming a subjective process like painting! In this talk I will share the development of painting with a robot arm both the mistakes & successes.

Joanne Hastie is an artist based in Vancouver BC, Canada. Her focus is using technology to be more creative. In her current work she uses robotics, programming and paint to create art.
For over a decade she worked as an R&D Engineer in various small companies while painting on evenings and weekends. She kept both careers very separate as they have very different communities and expertise…. until recently.
Joanne’s first tech-art project was with a small desktop robotic arm and she taught herself to code in Python. This work earned her a 5th place in the 2018 International Robot Art competition and international press. Since then she has been incorporating machine learning algorithms and robotics throughout her work. Her painting robots have been installed in shows in Vancouver, Canada and London, UK.

Twitter https://twitter.com/JoanneHastieArt
Website joannehastie.com

Please take a moment to read our Code of Conduct before you attend the event: https://www.meetup.com/PyLadies-Vancouver/about/

Thank you to Procurify for hosting and providing us with refreshments.

Accessibility information

The venue is fully accessible. There is an elevator that takes you to the 5th floor.

We are open for more speakers - if you're interested in giving a talk on anything interesting to a group of Pythonistas, please fill out our form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeyv-SurQYWbIde3hetbCR8OFuM-ZvVo9tjoUA9V7G48Joqg/viewform We love first-time speakers and shorter talks! If you'd like to discuss talk idea, please get in touch by emailing vancouver@pyladies.com

Ideas for talks include: a walkthrough of a problem you solved recently, a demo of a project you're working on, a summary of your favourite Python library, a guide to how you got to your current technical skill level (including beginner!), a discussion of how software affects your field or anything else you might want to hear about! Talks can be as short as 5 mins or as long as 30 mins.

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