Expand Your Tech Team Internationally Through Effective Communities

Event description:
As women in tech community event host for the past 3 years, we've had lots of requests on tech talent sourcing/referrals and lots of these requests are from overseas. As some of our members are traveling to the US to join a few tech conferences in April/May, we'd like to reach out to local tech community leaders, women founders/execs and startup ecosystem to learn from each other.

In this Tech Talk, we will discuss when and how we would start looking for tech talent externally beyond our local market. We will invite speakers to share some of the best practices on managing a high performing team virtually, how to reduce your risk, and ways you could leverage known networks and community to scale.

Founders or Company Execs' Perspective:

Mo-Yun Fong is the Director, Operation Excellence, gTech Velocity at Google that will share her thoughts and initiative on women in tech and diversity practices with remote teams

Kaus Manjita will share her experience of trying to overcome the challenge of expanding their talent pool internationally. What factors she considered when forming a tech team outside of Silicon Valley and what support she got from the local communities.

Speaker bio:
*Mo Fong is currently Director of gTech Velocity at Google which has the mission of accelerating and scaling the strategic bets that we believe are core to Google’s future growth including integrating Google Assistant into more 3rd party devices in industries such as health care, consumer appliances, agriculture and education as well as enabling businesses with better mobile web technologies. Mo has also led Google's CS Education as part of the Google Wide Social Impact initiative with a vision to "help every student access the quality education they deserve" with specific focus on inspiring and engaging women and under-represented groups. In her first seven years at Google, Mo held a variety of positions in finance operations supporting payments becoming Director/Chief Compliance Officer for Google Wallet now Google Pay. Prior to Google, she worked at PayPal in risk management and was the Executive Director of the Stanford Educational Leadership Initiatives (https://seli.stanford.edu/). She has a BS in Chemical Engineering and MA in Education from Stanford University and MBA from Harvard Business School.

*Kaus (Kausambi) Manjita is a Content, Marketing & Brand Nerd. Her startup is Kubric.io - an Accel Ventures-backed MarTech solution for Video Marketing. She is a GraceHopper Fellow and ex-Head of Content Solution at decacorn Flipkart's fashion business. She juggles teams & customers across South Asia, South East Asia and now the US.

Panel:
Finally, Jane Shih from Taipei Women in Tech, Elisa Chiu from Anchor Taiwan and Albert Wang from BloomReach will speak on the processes, resources and strategies extended networks abroad are doing to address barriers entrepreneurs face. They will provide examples of the support and access to talent offered through their regional network of mentor, experts, investors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

Audience: Tech community builders, Women Founders/Co-founders, Small and Medium Size Company Entrepreneurs and Executives / Managers of Engineering looking to expand overseas; Startup Ecosystem Incubators

Cost: Free

Agenda:
(This is PST Time as we are hosting this event in San Francisco, CA)
6:45 - 7:00pm Checkin
7:00-7:20pm First speaker (Mo Fong)
7:20-7:25pm Q&A 5 mins
7:25-7:45pm 2nd speaker Kaus
7:45-7:50pm Q&A 5mins
7:50-8:15pm Panel discussion
8:15-8:20pm Q&A 5mins
8:20-9:00pm Networking