Lightning Talks @ Hook & Loop

1. Women’s Entrepreneurship Day – Can all women (and a few good men) celebrate, empower and support each other on at least one day? - Wendy Diamond (https://twitter.com/wendydiamond) (Founder Women’s Entrepreneurship Day (http://womenseday.org/) & Animal Fair Media, Inc. (http://animalfair.com/))

2. Teaching Kids to Fail - Maurya Courvares (https://twitter.com/MauryaCouvares) (Founder of ScriptEd (https://www.scripted.org/))

3. Why Everyone is Wrong About Your Product - Susan Ho (https://twitter.com/susan_ho) (Founder of Jounry (https://www.gojourny.com/))

4. A Swift Introduction - Paola Maldonado (https://twitter.com/PaolaNotPaolo) (iOS developer at Buzzfeed (http://www.buzzfeed.com/))

5. 5 Minutes to Save You From Callback Hell - Sarah Muenzinger (https://twitter.com/SarahMunzi) (Fullstack Fellow at Fullstack Academy (http://www.fullstackacademy.com/))

6. 6 Exciting Features of ES6 - Seema Ullal (https://twitter.com/seemaisms) (Fullstack Fellow at Fullstack Academy (http://www.fullstackacademy.com/))

7. Rebuilding Bias - Angelina Wedemeyer (Junior Software Engineer, Liquid Talent (http://www.liquidtalent.com/))

8. The Power of Collaboration: It Takes Two to Start a Tech Company - Irene Ryabaya & Diana Murakhovskaya (https://twitter.com/socialmonarq) (Founders at Monarq (http://www.monarq.co/))

9. 4 Things to Make Your Web Apps Accessible - Cassidy Williams (https://twitter.com/cassidoo) (Software Engineer & Dev Advocate at Venmo (https://venmo.com/))

10. Elasticsearch: Tips for Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning - Teresa Brooks (https://twitter.com/VaderGirl13) (Senior Software Developer at Xero (https://www.xero.com/us/))

11. How NOT to Lose Friends and Alienate People: Generating Physical and Language Awareness in the Workplace - Elizabeth Ferrao (https://twitter.com/MusingMurmurs) (Developer, Time Inc. (http://www.timeinc.com/) & Founder of Women Who Code (https://www.womenwhocode.com/) NYC Chapter)

All events are intended for people who identify as women. Men are encouraged to attend only when noted on a specific event. Our Code of Conduct (https://github.com/WomenWhoCode/guidelines-resources/blob/master/code_of_conduct.md) applies to all events run by Women Who Code, Inc.

HOST: We [Hook & Loop (http://www.hookandloopnyc.com/)] are the internal creative agency and R&D think-tank for Infor, the world’s largest start-up. We were formed in 2012 with the mandate to drive Infor’s products past functionality and into more meaningful experiences. Disparate platforms, frameworks, and interaction patterns made it difficult to unify Infor’s UI/UX, but we did it in under a year. Now we’re building new apps from the ground up while we continue to imagine the future of Infor software. Within Infor, we work with everyone: from strategy and development to marketing, sales, and support. As a central touch point for every team, we infuse our passion for beauty and simplicity into the way Infor products are built, marketed, and supported—and where Infor is going next.