International Women's Day FL 2022

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International Women’s Day (IWD) occurs on March 8th every year. It marks a moment to celebrate and provide visibility for the incredible contributions of women around the world and is a call to action for accelerating gender parity.

IWD is Women Techmaker's annual event campaign where our community hosts events in March and April. We create connections, educate and inspire, and recognize that we still have a ways to go to close the gender gap.

Theme: #ProgressNotPerfection

This year our theme celebrates all kinds of progress - big or small - and the strength we demonstrate when we don’t let fear hold us back from following our dreams. Learn and collaborate with from career changers, entrepreneurs and early career speakers.

Agenda

10:00 AM: Coffee and Networking

Coffee and Networking

10:15 AM: Welcome

Welcome to our 2022 International Women's Day Event - in Historic Downtown Kissimmee and Violet's Garage

10:30 AM: My Transformation from Technophobe to Technophile

Learn about how Gwenny Warnick transformed her career from music teacher to technologist

Gwenny currently works as a Cloud Engineer and is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Google Cloud Platform. She is a career-changer into tech with a passion for DevOps, machine learning, and improving diversity and inclusion in STEM. Gwenny is a yoga teacher and keen vegan cook, endlessly searching for delicious new recipes to try and technical concepts to learn.

11:15 AM: Whoooo Will You BE?

Get some tips and tricks for personal transformation

Christi Kapp is an artist, entrepreneur and also plays a role as a Technology Manager at Walt Disney World. She has been a technologist since the 1970's when she soldered together a Sinclair ZX-80 and coded "Hello World". She gardens a lot for fun. Her creative gardening activity produces butterfly plants as well as businesses such as Kapp and Kappy B&B, Art In Motion LLC Motorcycles and the Cosmic Gallery @Violet's Garage.

She will share with you some tips and tricks for finding out Whooo You want to BE - and life skills she has learned along the way that keep her from being overwhelmed

12:00 PM: Personal Perspectives on Progress Not Perfection (Plus Pizza)

Featuring

Nilsangel - A Personal Life Coach, Health Advisor, and a Transformation Speaker
Lauren DiSalvo, Software Developer
and more!

1:00 PM: Inspirational Apps for All

Wesley Chun, Developer Advocate, Google

WESLEY CHUN (@wescpy) is the author of Prentice Hall's bestselling Core Python series, co-author of Python Web Development with Django, and has written for Linux Journal, CNET, and InformIT. He is currently an engineer & Sr. Developer Advocate at Google focused on Google Cloud serverless, machine learning, higher education, and Google Workspace (Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets & Slides) APIs. Wesley has several decades of programming, teaching, and writing experience, and was previously at Sun, HP, Cisco, and was one of the original Yahoo!Mail engineers. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Music from the University of California and is a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation.

Ever want to integrate Google technologies into the web & mobile apps you [or your developer teams] build for your organization or your customers'? Most Google Workspace applications like Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, and Slides have a developer API. In this session, we explore each Workspace productivity tool, giving you an idea of its developer component, provide insight on use cases, and show some code demonstrating how to access its data & functionality. In addition to REST APIs, there's also Google Apps Script, the Workspace serverless platform providing an easier on-ramp to programmatic Workspace access.

Using Workspace APIs in simple scripts is one thing. It's another thing altogether if you wish to deploy apps to the cloud without having to worry about virtual machines, getting them connected to the Internet, figuring out operating systems, databases, security, and so on. Wouldn't it be great if you could just deploy code and make it globally available in under a minute? Attendees will also get a quick introduction to Google Cloud serverless platforms that deliver EXACTLY THAT, giving users the easiest & fastest way to deploy code with the least amount of effort. This session wraps-up with some inspirational examples of what you can build. With all this knowledge, you can begin to leverage the power of Google Cloud, whether Workspace, GCP, or both, in your own apps!

2:00 PM: After-Party

Sponsored by DataPsy, Inc and Violet's Garage

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Hosted By

Javier Carrion, GDG Organizer

Hey Hey, everyone. I want to introduce myself my name is Javier and I am from the land of the horse "Ocala". A little bit about me I am a Software Engineer (Web) for Design Interactive we play with the latest in human-system integration (HSI) in other words we get to play with holo lenses and such. I am active in the Orlando Development Community. My friends call me "Javi" and you guys are welcome to do so too.

Michael Rosario, GDG Team Lead Member

As an experienced software developer with over 19 years of experience, I enjoy helping organizations with agile software development, promoting cultures of innovation, and creative business solutions. I enjoy helping organizations and software teams discover the craft of continuous improvement. I am always looking for opportunities to serve leaders and teams who want to create more value with integrity, character, and predictability.

Professional interests: AR/VR, Web dev, MAKERS movement, Agile leadership, Machine learning, Cultures of Innovation, Gaming & Game based learning, Visual analytics

Christi Kapp, Founder & CEO

Christi Kapp is a well-respected Management Consultant and Coach that has spoken at numerous professional conferences on topics ranging from business analysis, to managing organizational change.

Christi’s career has included management consulting, executive leadership, coaching and teaching in the hospitality, training and technology industries. She has also managed performance, as well as the professional development of staff engaged in development and delivery of complex information system solutions, solution sales, training, and customer service.

Her entrepreneurial background includes founding, growing and selling TechKnowQuest, Inc – one of the Orlando Area's Fastest Growing Tech Companies in 1998 (1992 – 2000). While at TechKnowQuest, she created custom courses for a number of clients and performed management consulting services. She has also performed coaching and consulting services through KnowledgeSpot, Inc, (2000 – 2007) and JustIntegration, Inc. (founded in 2006). She was also co-founder of Art In Motion LLC Custom Motorcycles (founded in 2007), and is Owner/Innkeeper at Kapp and Kappy Bed & Breakfast (2016)

She is an accomplished author also. She has written several enterprise information technology books (Prentice-Hall), a UCF Master's thesis on “Regional Readiness for Homeland Security Information Sharing”, and in 2016, wrote a book chapter titled “Soft Factors Enabling Innovation” in the Apple Academic Press series called Ecosystems and Technology: Idea Generation and Content Model Processing.

She has a B.S. Degree from the University of Rochester and a M.S. from the College of Health & Public Affairs at the University of Central Florida.

Hendrix Tavarez, GDG Organizer

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