Women's Communities Meetup (part of the Strata Conference)
Details
This is event will happen during the Strata Conference but you don’t have to be registered for Strata + Hadoop World to attend.
More info:
If you’re a woman looking for like-minded communities to join, c’mon down to our meetup on Wednesday evening after the Opening Reception for more appetizers, drinks, and networking.
In addition to meeting other women (and men) in the community, you’ll hear lightning talks from representatives of organizations and projects that support diversity in the technology community, including:
• Abigail Bracha, EMC (http://www.emc.com/index.htm?fromGlobalSelector)
• Colleen Tralongo, Year Up (http://www.yearup.org/about-us/our-locations/bay-area/)
• Cornelia Levy-Bencheton, Women in Data Research Report (http://www.oreilly.com/data/free/women-in-data.csp?intcmp=il-data-free-product-stca15_s+hwca15_womens_meetup)
• Dori Farah, NCWIT, National Center for Women & Information Technology (http://www.ncwit.org/)
• Erin LeDell, Bay Area Women in Machine Learning & Data Science (https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Women-in-Machine-Learning-and-Data-Science/)
• Gabriela de Queiroz, R-ladies (https://www.meetup.com/R-ladies/)
• Karen Catlin (http://karencatlin.com/), Male Allies: We Need You (https://twitter.com/BetterAllies)
• Marie Beaugureau and Shannon Cutt, writing for O’Reilly (http://www.oreilly.com/work-with-us.html)
• Suzanne Axtell, Speaking at Technical Conferences (http://oreil.ly/TWS2)
- This meetup is both transgender and guy-friendly—everyone is welcome! (You don’t have to be registered for Strata + Hadoop World to attend.)
