Transitions in Tech Talks

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Did you know that the average person will change careers 5-7 times within a lifetime? However, each transition will probably seem daunting and overwhelming at first. If 2020 has you thinking about making a move in your career, this is the event for you!

Join us for an evening of talks about career transitions -- both to different areas within tech as well as transitions from other industries into tech.

We will have talks from a variety of womxn about their transition. Speakers will include:

Hiro Nishimura: Hiro is a Technical Instructor and Content Strategist, and Founder of AWS Newbies. She teaches on LinkedIn Learning and egghead.io, and demystifies Cloud Computing and Amazon Web Services (AWS) for people with non-traditional technical backgrounds.
She left university half a decade ago with degrees in Special Education, and began her career as a Junior Helpdesk Engineer. She will share her journey from Special Education teacher to SysAdmin to self-employed Technical Content Creator, who has managed to mash together her diverse backgrounds to create a unique career path for herself.

Jolene Langlinais: Jolene is a full stack engineer at Clause and an open source maintainer at the Accord Project. She will share her experience transitioning from culinary and massage therapy, how unrelated experience was helpful, and what she focuses on for a skill set.

Youn Lee: Youn is a UX designer at IBM, and was previously a product manager and hardware engineer at Samsung Mobile. She will talk about how she made a big transition from engineering to designer, and how the experience benefits her current job, especially working in a multidisciplinary environment in a tech company.

Yuval Idan: Yuval is a Backend Engineer at Frame.io, where she works on video collaboration tools. She will talk about her experience coming from a background in nonprofit work and community organizing into tech, and about how some of the skills that might seem completely irrelevant to the engineering world end up making all the difference.

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Schedule:
6-6:10 PM - Intro from Women Who Code, Code of Conduct, and ice breakers.
6:10-7:10 PM - Each speaker gives a talk of 10-15 minutes.
7:10-7:40 PM - Q&A.