Women in Tech: Making your own career opportunities & architecture via mindmaps

Women in Tech #15: Making your own career opportunities and architecture via mindmaps

If you love technology, are passionate about coding and empowering diversity in the tech world - come join us for our 15th “Women in Tech Forum” meetup.

** Please notice the meetup's location: Bitan 26, Namal Tel Aviv.

Check out our dedicated YouTube playlist with all videos from previous meetups.
The forum will be held in Hebrew and it is open to both women and men.

Schedule:
18:00 - 18:30 - Gathering, drinks and food
18:30 - 19:30 - Making your own career opportunities / Racheli Ebner
19:30 - 19:40 - break
19:40 - 20:30 - Better Software Design With Mind Maps / Rina Artstain

// Making your own career opportunities - Racheli Ebner

Want to make revolutionary changes in your career rather than going-with-the-flow of step-by-step career evolution? You can widen your network, extend your knowledge and exposure, to create your own creer revolution opportunities.

Racheli will share her inspiring story of revolutionizing herself from a software architect to be the co-founder Dapra an employee-led startup by SAP. On the surface it looks like a sudden change, but Racheli will share the behind-the-scenes process of exploring, and proactively widening her opportunities net to make this change happen.

Bio: Racheli Ebner is a co-founder and CTO at Dabra by SAP (https://dabra.ai), an employee-led startup inside SAP. Racheli was a software architect for over 10 years in SAP and led the 1-year architecture curriculum training program in Israel. Prior to her work at SAP she was a developer in several small and mid-sized companies. Racheli has M.Sc in physics and is a proud mother of 4.

// Better Software Design With Mind Maps - Rina Artstain

Have you ever tried to design a complicated bit of software and ended up with a great big tangled mess? Designing software is hard and formal processes can be frustrating. Is there a better way to approach this task? Mind maps are a fun and intuitive way to brainstorm and organize your ideas on paper or a whiteboard. In this talk Rina will show how to use mind maps to design software well, convert your thought process into an excellent technical spec, and break it down into workable tasks while leaving lots of room for agility and flexibility.

Bio: Rina Artstain is a full stack developer at Dropbox with 15+ years of experience in a variety of technologies at small, mid-size and enterprise companies, a blogger and a mentor. Rina is passionate about excellent software practices and teams working well together, and has been known to have opinions about things, though not about tabs vs. spaces.