Cohosting IWD with Google Women Techmakers & Women Who Do Data (W2D2)

Ever feel like your career path is stuck on "Loading…"? Let’s Redefine Possible!

In honor of hashtag#InternationalWomensDay, we’re teaming up with Google Women Techmakers & Google Developer Groups (GDG) Burnaby for a virtual career session that’s way more than just a panel (moderated by Leigh Sitzman). Think of it as your personal career hackathon—where tech leaders spill their best secrets, review your resume/LinkedIn live, and help you build a Decision Tree to Redefine Possible for your next big move.

Why you should care:

🔹Real talk from women who’ve navigated messy career pivots (and lived to tell the tale).

🔹Small-group mentoring—no generic advice, just actual tailored feedback.

🔹Resume/LinkedIn Reviews! Bring yours for pro tips. 🔥

🔹Your "What’s possible?" → "Hell yes, I’m doing this!" pipeline starts here.

Here's our all-star panel:

Catherine G. Potts, Ph.D., Imogen Forbes, Lindsey Robertson, Astha Puri, ChengCheng Tan, Ziba Atak, Michelle Ng, Vaishnavi Venkata Subramanian, Kavitha Bangalore, and Raj Sri

📅 April 11 | 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET / 4 PM GMT

🔗 Claim your spot (filling fast!):

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/05FboPVhQTmIBpTNAqBEvw#/registration

P.S. Your future self will send you a thank-you note. 💌

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Agenda

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Hosted By

Rajat Dipta Biswas, Co Organizer GDG Burnaby

Sneha Jain, Co-organizer GDG Burnaby and Director

Healthcare innovation strategist and technology aficionado

Shivanshu Bansal, Co-Organizer GDG Burnaby, Lead GDSC SFU

Vaishnavi Venkata Subramanian, GDG Burnaby Lead Organizer

Vaishnavi is a Software Engineer passionate about working collaboratively and a champion for DEI, neurodiversity and accessibility.

She firmly believes that by breaking down silos and encouraging open communication, teams can achieve great things together. She understands the importance of creating empathetic products and services that can be used by people of all abilities and is constantly seeking ways to incorporate this mindset into her work.

She has saved withering codebases and refactored chunks of code to make it readable. Her passion lies in developing robust systems, enabling easy maintenance of codebases, refactoring to avoid redundancies, and eliminating code smells and anti-patterns.

She is passionate about improving ways of working and increasing business speed by accelerating value delivery and visual communication.

She is currently an ambassador for Google Women TechMaker (WTM) program, Drawify, Grammarly and Organizer of GDG Burnaby. She uses her voice to bring representation in Product, User Experience, Neurodiversity and Tech across all these platforms.

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-burnaby-presents-cohosting-iwd-with-google-women-techmakers-amp-women-who-do-data-w2d2/.