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Women in Tech Community Launch

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Women in Tech Community Launch

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Women in Tech Community Launch in 2021 with three Sri Lankan female MVPs from Microsoft. Join us to inspire and get inspired from the women in tech.

Session 1 - How my never give up attitude helped me to become a passionate techie girl
Let’s talk about the challenges faced by the women in IT industry due to the social and cultural limitations in Sri Lankan context. However, before asking for equal rights we as women should equally take responsibilities and challenges in work environments positively and strive for success independently and passionately. Pushpa would share her journey in the IT industry to reach success and how she overcome the socio-cultural challenges in a developing country with a traditional mindset of women are inferior.

Speaker : Pushpa Herath, DevOps Engineer at Xamariners, Microsoft MVP
Pushpa Herath is a Senior DevOps engineer with 4+ years of industry experience . She is a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, an author of 4 books, a blogger and Lead of Sri Lanka DevOps Community.

Session 2 - Career Success through Blue Ocean Strategy
IT is an industry that updates every day. Within this competitive market how to position yourself in a high demanding position is the challenge we have. If you are doing the same thing which many are involved in then you have to struggle a lot to create a demand for yourself. Let's discuss how we can find our blue oceans and make our career successful.

Speaker : Sammani Palansuriya Ekanayake, Associate Technical Architect at 99x, Microsoft MVP
Sammani Palansuriya is an IT profession with more than 11 years of experience in the industry working on different technology stacks. She is currently working as Associate Technical Architect at 99X Sri Lanka. Sammani is a Microsoft MVP and an active member in the Microsoft tech community, speaker and a mentor.

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