Tech Stories: Women Sharing Their Journeys - Panel Discussion

🎉 Tech Stories: Women Sharing Their Journeys

Women Who Code Portland and LaunchCode are thrilled to present a cross-country online series focused on women in tech exchanging stories, building connections, and supporting each other in their careers. The series will be called "Tech Stories: Women Sharing Their Journeys" and it will take place the last Tuesday of the month.

Each session will feature a conversation with a woman in a senior tech role. Our speakers will talk openly about their current role, their journey, and what their day-to-day work lives are like. We will alternate speakers from the Portland and St Louis communities.

➡️➡️➡️ Join the Zoom call: https://zoom.us/j/4266077134 ⬅️⬅️⬅️

⏰ Agenda

4:00 – 4:05 PM – Intros from WWCode Portland and LaunchCode
4:05 – 4:25 PM – Our panelists shares their tech journeys
4:25 – 4:45 PM – Q&A from the audience

👩🏽 Our Speakers

Beth Effertz is currently the Enterprise Program Management lead at Bunzl Distribution. She has worked in a number of roles in Technology Leadership, including the CIO at Furniture Brands and North American CIO Curium Pharma. Beth started her career in IT as a Business Analyst and spent time configuring and managing SAP projects. In her spare time, she enjoys volunteering for the St. Louis Alumnae Chapter of Gamma Phi Beta and traveling as much as possible!

Martha Valenta has been a Human-Centered Design consultant for the past 15 years, with a focus on the financial industry. She has collaborated on strategy, experience, and interaction design with business stakeholders, development teams, and users to create or improve processes and experiences. She is the President of the St. Louis Experience Design organization (STLX) and occasionally teaches UX at LaunchCode's CoderGirl.

Pushkala Lakshmipathy is a Manager in Talent Acquisition at Mastercard, where she connects technology talent with priceless possibilities. Pushkala comes from a computer science engineering and marketing background. Her passion for people moved her towards the HR field, where she is currently managing the end to end recruitment process for all levels of candidates in Information Security Engineering and Enterprise Architecture business groups at Mastercard.

👩🏽‍💻 About Women Who Code

We are a global nonprofit dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers. Our events offer study groups, technical workshops, hackathons, networking events, panel discussions, lightning talks, and social events featuring influential tech industry experts, innovators, and investors. We help you build the skills you need to raise your professional profile and achieve greater career success. Current and aspiring coders are welcome. Join our Slack community here: https://bit.ly/wwcpdx-slack

💻 About LaunchCode

LaunchCode is a non-profit organization based in St. Louis, Missouri, that works with hundreds of companies to set up paid apprenticeships in technology for talented people who lack the traditional credentials to land a good job. For more information, please visit: https://www.launchcode.org/

📃 Code of Conduct

WWCode is an inclusive community, dedicated to providing an empowering experience for everyone who participates in or supports our community, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, socioeconomic status, caste or creed. Our events are intended to inspire women to excel in technology careers, and anyone who is there for this purpose is welcome. We do not tolerate harassment of members in any form.

Our Code of Conduct applies to all WWCode events and online communities. Read the full version at http://www.womenwhocode.com/codeofconduct If you would like to report an incident, please reach out to one of our volunteers or submit an incident report form: http://bit.ly/wwcode-incident-report