SurrealDB and the WCC Platform: Practical Application in Real-World Projects

Getting Started with SurrealDB is a 3-part online workshops series hosted by Women Coding Community in collaboration with SurrealDB.

We’re thrilled to invite you to an interactive talk where we’ll dive into the Women Coding Community (WCC) platform project!
Gain an overview of our goals, discuss key database concepts, and work together to create the platform’s data model.

This session will also explore how SurrealDB can address the platform’s needs, from database functions to advanced vector search for mentor-mentee matching.

It’s a hands-on chance to learn, collaborate, and contribute!
In this session, we will take the concepts learned in the previous talk and apply them to WCC platform project. We’ll explore how SurrealDB’s features can be used to meet some of the platform’s needs, such as facilitating basic database functions as well as vector search for matching mentors and mentees.

This hands-on example will show how SurrealDB can help solve real-world problems, giving participants a better understanding of how the database can be applied to projects beyond theory. It’s a chance to see SurrealDB in action, tackling practical challenges in a real-world setting. This will build on what we covered in session 2.

Agenda:

• 20:00 - 20:10 Introduction to Women Coding Community
• 20:10 - 21:10 Tech Talk
• 21:10 - 21:30 Q&A

Speaker: Caroline Morton | LinkedIn
Dr. Caroline Morton is a software engineer, epidemiologist, and co-author of the Async Rust Programming book.
Caroline writes software tools and data pipelines for the Genes and Health initiative, the world's largest community-embedded biobank. Simultaneously, Caroline is pursuing a Ph.D. in Synthetic Data Generation for health data research, sponsored by SurrealDB. She also leads Yellow Bird, a London start-up changing medical training with its virtual emergency room product, Clinical Metrics.

Speaker: Alexander Fridriksson | LinkedIn
Alexander has been with SurrealDB from the start, being employee number 5. He is passionate about storytelling with data and sharing lessons learned working across Analytics, Data Science, Data Engineering, and Consulting.

Speaker: Adriana Zencke Zimmermann | LinkedIn
Adriana is a Software Engineer passionate about designing and implementing scalable and efficient data processing systems. With over 15 years of experience in the tech industry. Adriana is a volunteer and also a Director at Women Coding Community. Her goal is to empower women and support them with personal growth and career development.

Speaker: Sonali Goel | LinkedIn
As a Senior/Lead Engineer at Yoox-Net-a-porter, Sonali brings over 14 years of experience in the technology industry, specializing in managing extensive-scale e-commerce solutions.
Sonali is committed a leader in the Women Coding Community, she strives to support and advance diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives that uplift women in the field.

Host: Nevena Verbič | LinkedIn
Nevena is a Software Engineer experienced in working with diverse technologies such as C, C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, HTML, PHP and Java. Working for an ISO 9001 certificated company she had the opportunity to learn the best practices in software development and project organization. Nevena is improving Python, Java 21, and Spring Boot skills.

👩🏽‍💻 About Women Coding Community
Empowering women in their tech careers through education, mentorship, community building, and career services is our mission. We provide workshops and events, connect members with industry mentors, foster a supportive community through meetups and conferences, and raise awareness for more inclusive industry practices.
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