A year in review: Highs, Lows, and Celebrating along the way!

Come and start to wind the year down with us at our FREE event! Hear our 3 directors share their learnings from the year, including industry trends, their highs and lows, and how we continue to celebrate ourselves and each other.

We are excited to run this event as a collaboration with Kaleida, Paths Uncovered, and Cloudheads Melbourne.

Location: Ferocia, 271 Collins St, Melbourne 3000 and online
Come in lift on left of HSBC if facing HSBC (not down hall in main part next to Peter Sheppard)

Feel free to come dressed in whatever celebrates you and/or your culture!

Speakers

Hosted by Jimmy Knight-Fallows

Akanksha Malik
Akanksha is a Data Consultant, a Microsoft AI MVP and an international speaker. After studying Financial Maths and Actuarial Science at UCC, Ireland, she realised she wanted to work with people as well as numbers. As a consultant, she works with clients to help them solve problems by making more informed decisions with data.

Gretchen Scott
Gretchen is the co-CEO and co-founder of Kaleida, a pioneering platform offering tech-focused career growth frameworks to empower diverse individuals in the industry. With a strong software development background, she's committed to creating inclusive workplaces. Before Kaleida, Gretchen served as Community Manager at Cloudflare and COO at Linc.sh, a CI/CD startup. Her journey began in optimisation modeling, and she's driven by the passion to promote diversity in tech. Gretchen has trained over 250 bootcamp graduates, serves as Director at Women Who Code Melbourne, and is on the Churchill Club Committee.
At Kaleida, Gretchen continues to lead with her passion for diversity and her unwavering commitment to creating a more inclusive and equitable tech industry. Through her leadership, the company strives to make a lasting impact on the future of tech and to empower individuals from all walks of life to thrive in the technology space.

Gwenny Warnick
Gwenny is a cloud engineer turned product manager of compute with a passion for DevOps and SRE. Currently working in Melbourne, Australia, she loves supporting teams to become high performing, inclusive, and operationally mature. She is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and has spoken across the globe on cloud computing, SRE, and DevOps.

Free food and drinks provided!