IWD 2025 - Redefine Possible

International Women's Day 2025 – Redefine Possible

Hosted by GDG Melbourne

Join us as we celebrate International Women's Day 2025 with the theme "Redefine Possible"! This year, we’re bringing together an inspiring lineup of speakers and an amazing community to challenge boundaries, break stereotypes, and explore new possibilities in tech.

Expect an evening of engaging discussions, knowledge sharing, and networking with fellow tech enthusiasts.

What’s in store?

✨ Lightning Talks – Short, insightful talks from industry leaders and rising stars.

   - Introduction to Android XR (Katie Barnett - Android Evangelist @ Bilue)

   - Redefining Web Accessibility (Maia Miller - Web Accessibility Specialist and Managing Director @ Aleph Accessibility)

🎤 Main Talk – A deep dive into redefining what’s possible in tech and beyond.

   - Intro to Multimodal Live API with Gen AI SDK (Gwenny Warnick - Product Manager - Cloud Compute @ Xero)

🍕 Pizza, Cupcakes & Soft Drinks – Because great conversations happen over great food!

Target audience: This event is open to all genders

📅 Date: 30 Apri 2025

📍 Location: Mantel Group, 452 Flinders Street, Melbourne, 3000

🎟 RSVP: Please RSVP using Meetup link

Come celebrate IWD 2025 with us and be part of the movement to redefine possible! 🚀💜 

Agenda

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Hosts

Katie Barnett - Bilue (Android Evangelist)

Katie is passionate about all things Android. She has taken on a wide variety of challenging projects including in the live event, media and travel space. Her favourite thing is to see someone having a delightful experience using something she has worked on. Katie is very active in the development community, she is one of the organisers of GDG Melbourne and is a Women Techmakers Ambassador. Sh…

Lovee Jain - Prezzee (Sr. Software Engineer)

Lovee is a Software Engineer at Prezzee, a GDG Melbourne Organiser and also a Women Techmakers Ambassador. A tech inquisitive philomath, she loves problem solving and solution design. She has worked at a city council where she developed a lot of useful system integrations and while at Prezzee she develops and works on multiple gift card solutions to cater the B2B2C market.

Suesi Tran

A Senior Flutter Developer with Android background, and with curiousity to solve any problems needed around software development

Poornima Sivakumar

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-melbourne-presents-iwd-2025-redefine-possible/.