DevOps Girls Lightning Talks

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This event is open to all women and their allies!

DevOps Girls Lightning Talks is our opportunity to provide to you an all-women line-up of speakers showcasing their great ideas/stuff ups/feats in innovation/culture disruption and more!
The format of this event will be designed to keep you continually engaged as we provide back-to-back short and sharp talks exploring different ideas.
Come along for this exciting event and meet other legends in your industry!

KEY NOTES

Dayles Stevens talking about "How activists activate for change."

Bio
Dayle Stevens is an award winning technology executive, being named in the CIO50 list as one of Australia’s top CIOs, twice winning the Australian Computer Society Digital Disruptor Award, twice a finalist in Australia’s premiere business women’s awards, and winning a #TechDiversity Award.
Dayle joined AGL in Februrary 2018 as a Divisional CIO, leading the transformation of the Corporate & Operations technology services and part of the larger transformation taking place at AGL.
Previously Dayle was at NAB, where she was a Divisional CIO providing the technology services for NAB’s Corporate Operations divisions. Outside of work Dayle is a Non-Executive Director at Robogals Global, an international not-for-profit volunteer organisation aiming to engage young women in engineering and technical education and careers. Dayle is also an Ambassador at Girl Geek Academy, a global movement encouraging women to learn technology, create startups and build more of the internet. Dayle has been a personal mentor in the Queen’s Young Leaders Programme since 2016, and in 2018 is a tutor for the Programme based at Cambridge University in the UK.

Sylvia Sharper talking about "A relentless uncoordinated
fathlete’s rise to World Domination."

Bio
World Champion Boxer. Fathlete. Writer. Boxing & Muaythai Coach. Working in Marketing & Communications but studying Counselling with the goal of becoming an Animal Assisted Therapist. Married to a ridiculous man, step mum of two boys. Collector of animal misfits. Consistently late. Passionate about fighting. Prefers the company of animals. Beer and bread rolls are forever on my mind. Uncomfortable is my favourite place to be.

SPEAKERS!

Dede Lamb talking "Why Go is Great for DevOps (Girls)"

Bio
A DevOps trans girl; Linux ephemerist; pink gopher; feline advocate; her Tetris high score is 6500 lines.

Jenny Davies talking about "Machine Learning, this is getting kind of
heavy, how do I get started?"

Bio
Solutions Architect at AWS helping public sector customers serve the community better. Motorcycle rider and tech gadget fan – ask me about the motorbike helmet with heads-up display I have on order. Mother to a 7 year old so I know all about Minecraft, Pokemon and Terraria

Kate Deutscher talking about "The lift and shit: pitfalls of not
thinking cloud native"

Bio
Developer turned systems engineer and now team Lead at a green energy startup called GreenSync. When Not working on my LCD tan, you can find me training dogs and eating cheese, sometimes simultaneously.

Liza Nguyen talking "From development to production: a frontend
code odyssey"

Bio
Webmistress since 1999, I’ve created fan sites, angsty blogs, corporate sites and large-scale realtime web apps. Adores javascript and doggos. Enjoys travelling, binging TV shows and boardgames.

Raisa Hashem AKA RayRay talking "Why Security in the Cloud is Cool – Security Ninja 101"

Bio
Cloud Architect Consultant at Amazon Web Services - lover of whiteboards and automating all-of-the-things, passionate about Women-in-Tech. With a graduate degree in Biomedical Engineering, Raisa (aka RayRay) loves studying human movement, teaching yoga, and learning Indian Classical Dance.

** LIVE STREAM DETAILS **
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/925206795?pwd=U2lNR1ZkNi9KRFpiNnM0cU43OU9RUT09 (active from 5.30pm)
Password: To be sent out on the day!