Details
Women and femme coders will talk about more advanced topics in programming. We'll have two lightning talks and one longer talk (30 minutes).
The agenda for the evening:
7:00 pm - Start: get yourself a drink and a snack
7:30 pm - Community Announcements
7:40 pm - The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants, by Anna Melzer
8:00 - 8:10 - Short break
8:10 - 8:40 pm - Entering New Worlds - Storytelling in XR e, by Lena Gieseke
8:40 pm - Self care: A primer on work-life balance, by Carolyn Stransky
About the speakers
Anna Melzer is a computational linguist and web developer from Berlin. She likes looking for rules and patterns in the world around her, trying to connect language, life and music. Her interests include games, tango and grammatical idiosyncrasies.
Lena Gieseke is Professor of Visual Media Technologies at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Before that she worked as Phd researcher at the University of Stuttgart in the field of Computer Graphics. In 2015 she spent three months at Adobe Research in the US. Prior to her life in academia she worked as programmer and as 3D artist in the Visual Effects industry.
Carolyn Stransky is an American journalist and JavaScript developer based in Berlin. She’s currently working as a technical writer at Contentful and teaching front end development in the evenings at ReDI School. You can follow her on Twitter @carolstran ( https://twitter.com/carolstran )
Talk descriptions
The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants
In this talk Anna will introduce the attendees to the concept of formal grammars by looking at sentence structure of natural (human) language and building a bridge to Lindenmeyer Systems used to describe plant growth.
Entering New Worlds - Storytelling in XR The rise of Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality (in short XR) as media for storytelling fundamentally changes an audience's experience of the story. In this talk I will give a short introduction to storytelling in XR and show how the worlds of gaming and film are merging.
Self care: A primer on work-life balance
Let’s face it, lack of self care is a problem in the tech industry. We wear exhaustion like a badge of honor, promote unrealistic expectations about loyalty and often times we neglect our body, heart and mind’s most basic needs. In this talk, we’ll cover the scope of this issue—including the misconceptions around what self care actually is—and learn how you can build your own self care toolkit.
About the host:
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Native Instruments is a leading manufacturer of software and hardware for computer-based audio production and DJing. The company's mission is to develop innovative, fully-integrated solutions for all musical styles and professions. The resulting products regularly push technological boundaries and open up new creative horizons for professionals and amateurs alike. Native Instruments sees itself as a part of a vibrant international music scene, and is in constant communication with artists whose feedback is integrated into the conception and continuous improvement of its products.Native Instruments currently employs around 450 people in its offices in Berlin, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, Paris, and Shenzhen. Our international offices in Europe, Asia and the US reflect how international we have become over the years. As a global company, we welcome diversity and appreciate the wide range of unique experiences that our team members have. @NI_news