Own Your Path

These amazing women are going to share their career path with you, how they developed it; and how the OWNED it. Owning your career path is the next step for many of you, learning the tools to take control and champion yourself is the message of our August meetup!

6pm - Doors open. Registration

6:30pm- 'How to lean in and not forget who you are'- Veronika Janu

Since packing her bags at the age of 16 to leave her family in Czech Republic with the aim to try to 'conquer' the World, Veronika has spent the last 13 years in 5 different countries and is currently based in London. Although still a short career that she has gone through, she has spent four years working at Accenture Strategy specialising in Energy (Oil & Gas) and nearly 3 years at Blackstone Private Equity working part of their portfolio management team. Spending all her career in a very competitive and male dominant industries, expected to work very independently far away from home, she has had to learn the good and bad traits these areas bring and how to embrace them to succeed in her career. Veronika is very passionate about encouraging female to shine in their work, whilst not losing the personal side of them that makes them to stand out. She also feels very strongly about balance of female/male balance as long as it is not driven by only hitting the ratio targets, but the value these relationships bring. Veronika has spent the past year supporting Cloudreach with the delivery of their strategic and financial objectives on behalf of Blackstone and is big fan of sports such as tennis.

7pm- Light Refreshments Available

7:15pm- ‘The Extraordinary Journey of a Software Engineer & What It Takes to Be a Well-Rounded Developer in 2018’ - Sonya Moisset

Becoming a well-rounded developer usually requires you to cover a lot of skills. For beginners it might be overwhelming to understand what you need to learn and how everything gets together at the end.

Topics covered during this talk:

• What it means to be a developer nowadays
• What are the expectations from a company (technical skills, soft skills, tools, Agile methodologies...)
• How to build or improve your brand as a developer
• How to stay focus when there are so many things to learn and avoid rabbit holes

Sonya Moisset is a Full Stack Software Developer and an Application Security Engineer for a FinTech in London.
Formerly she was a consultant with over ten years’ experience in International Business Development. Sonya is also a Tech Advocate, a mentor for women in tech, a writer on Medium for FreeCodeCamp publications, and an active member of the Tech community in London.
Twitter. https://twitter.com/SonyaMoisset
LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonyamoisset/
Medium. https://medium.com/@sonya.moisset

7:45pm- In honour of reaching 2,000 members on our group, we would like you to join us in a celebratory drink at The Fence Farringdon (If you fancy it! Unfortunately as we are a non profit- this will have to be at your own expense).
All are welcome but please respect that this is a meetup group and everyone has a right to enjoy the night. Any heavy/ aggressive recruiting will be frowned upon!

Additionally, if you can't make it- please let us know. We want to make sure everyone who wants a spot will get one if at all possible!

We can't wait to see you there.

Many Thanks,

The Tech Women London Team