Name: Jfokus Duchess Meetup Breakfast
Start: 2023-02-08T07:45:00+01:00
End: 2023-02-08T08:45:00+01:00
Location: Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre

**Jfokus Duchess meetup - The life of a software developer**

Welcome to a breakfast at Jfokus with the Stockholm Duchess meetup group - a group for women involved in technology around the JVM.

This morning you will take part of the story from three software developers whose life may differ some, but who all have made - or are planning to make - a career as a software developer.

This meetup group is only for people who identify themselves as women, but everyone is welcome to this specific meetup. If you are not a women and want to join the breakfast, either sign up as a guest via a female friend or send an email to helena@hjerten.com and I will include you in the breakfast.

**Speakers:**
Anna Skantz - KTH
Susanne Jarl - Susnet AB
Karen Huaulme - Mongo DB

**Moderator:**
Helena Hjertén - Crisp AB / Jfokus

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**What's up at the Universities nowadays - with Anna Skantz**

Anna will talk about her experience being a computer science student today and how her spontaneous and unexpected decision led her to the exciting career path within software development that she is on today.

**Bio**: Anna is studying her final semester of the five-year computer science program at KTH in Stockholm.

**The entrepreneur who made a business out of coding and cooking - with Susanne Jarl**

Susanne will explain to us how to think as an entrepreneur and share with us how and why she became one. She will also show us how to make money on websites and apps, and how to work with evaluating your ideas. Finally she will share her thoughts on why being a woman could be a big advantage in this area.

**Bio**: Susanne is an entrepreneur and a web and app developer. Susannes recipe website took over her life and she quit ”working" 14 years ago and has no regrets. She loves coding her own projects and being her own boss. Her websites/apps are: recepten.se, Kökshjälpen, poworkout.com. More info at susnet.se

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**The paragliding Developer Advocate who took a 10 year break in her tech career - Karin Huaulme**

Karen will share with us how it is possible to return to a tech career after 10 years of absence (parental leave). As an employee at MongoDB she is passionate about coding and knowledge sharing and participates in several conferences around, and maybe she can give us some tips on how to become a speaker? The ups and downs of being a female system developer is also a topic close to Karen's heart.

**Bio**: Karen works as a Principal Developer Advocate and software engineer at MongoDB. Prior to MongoDB, Karen spent most of her career working with video game developers as a Solutions Architect and Integration Engineer at Nvidia, Amazon and Twitch - but she took an almost 10 year mommy break in the middle of all of it. Fun fact : Karen paraglides every chance she gets with flights all around the world - and she hopes to add Sweden to her list this weekend!!

/Helena Hjertén, Jfokus crew and chairman of Duchess Sweden

Helena Hjertén

Karen Huaulme

Susanne Jarl

Anna Skantz

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