Lightning Talks


Details
Our first lightning talks will cover a range of topics.
Schedule:
6:30 Arrive/Network/Food
7:00 Welcome from Women Who Code
7:10 Welcome from Fog Creek
7:20 Lightning talks begin
9:30 Event ends
We have the following speakers and talks lined up:
Mariko Kosaka
Platform Innovations Developer, LiveIntent (http://www.liveintent.com/)
"Desktopify Your Web Chops with Node Webkit"
Linda Peng, @lpnotes (https://twitter.com/lpnotes)
Front-end developer, We Also Walk Dogs (http://actionkit.com)
"Running partners... for learning web development?"
Sojourner Hardeman
See Solve LLC
"How Do I Love Thee, Quicksilver? Let Me Count The Ways"
Olivia Gresham, @OGiDesigns (https://twitter.com/OGiDesigns)
User Experience Developer, Olivia Gresham's Interactive Designs
"Elements of UX Development"
Erin Zobitz, @erinzobitz (https://twitter.com/erinzobitz)
JavaScript Engineer, Barnes & Noble College (http://www.bncollege.com/)
"Why Functional?"
Lyndsey Jane Moulds, @lyyyndseyyy (https://twitter.com/lyyyndseyyy)
Applications Developer, MediaMath (http://www.mediamath.com/)
"How I Made My First Open-Source Contribution"
Sophie Houser, @tamponrunner (https://twitter.com/tamponrunner)
Co-Creator, Tampon Run (http://www.tamponrun.com/)
"Empowerment Through Coding"
Neha Batra, @nerdneha (https://twitter.com/nerdneha)
Software Engineer at Floored, Inc (http://floored.com/)
"You are not your imposter syndrome"
Tammy Butow, @tammybutow (https://twitter.com/tammybutow)
DigitalOcean (https://www.digitalocean.com/) Customer Support Manager + Co-Founder of Girl Geek Academy (http://girlgeekacademy.com/)
"Cloud Infrastructure"
Kaitlin Thaney, @kaythaney (https://twitter.com/kaythaney)
Director, Mozilla Science Lab (http://mozillascience.org/)
"Dragging science out of the 19th century"
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Lightning Talks