WWCB & Bring IT On Present: Girls Can Do It Too!

• What we'll do
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2018 our WWCB meetup for March will be a little bit different! We’re teaming up with Bring IT On (from the Belfast Met e-campus) to showcase just how varied our Tech industry is. Our evening will see a variety of female speakers giving lightning talks on their different technical disciplines and how they became involved in these roles.

This is a great chance for young women who are interested in beginning careers in the tech and digital sectors to chat with employers, meet apprentices in tech, learn some new skills, network with tech professionals and ask any burning questions they might have.

The aim of this event is to encourage women, aged 16-21, and those new to tech into our technology industry. So if you already work in tech, please sponsor a young woman who you feel may benefit by inviting her. As places will be limited, priority will be given to WWC members who are bringing someone along for this purpose. Belfast Met are kindly sponsoring this round table evening, providing refreshments at the Titanic Campus. Refreshments will be served at 6pm with talks beginning at 6.30. We have an outstanding line up of speakers to celebrate International Women's Day including:

Victoria McCallum, Project Manager with SAP Software and Founder of Women In Tech Belfast(Lean In), Laura Finlay, Analyst with Deloitte, Heather Campbell, Technical Architect with Kainos, Jen Hanratty, Data Application Engineer with SpotX and Coordinator or Django Girls Belfast & Women’s Techspace, Kelly Moore, Software Engineer with Kainos, Siobhan Gallagher, Senior Manager: Cyber Security with PWC, OWASP Chapter Leader & Women In Tech Belfast (Lean In), Julie McGrath, Managing Director Grafitti Recruitment, Darcie Graham, Group Digital Director with AVB Group, City Lead with Women Who Code Belfast, Zoe Thompson, Foundation Degree student in Software Engineering, Clare Burn, Cyber Security Engineer with Rapid 7, Director of Women Who Code Belfast and Winner of Tech Women 50 Award UK, Kitty Crawford Multidisciplinary Design Lecturer with BMC, Game Designer & Producer of VR Gaming with Boomdash Digital, Claire Wilgar, Front End Developer, Founder of Farset Labs, Executive on Women In Tech Belfast (Lean In), Founder of Girl Geeks Dinner NI, Organiser of Global Game Jam, Angie McKeown, CEO & Games Dev with Drink From The Vial & SilverOak, Organiser of Global Games Jam, Founder of Game Devs NI, Lyndsey Parsons, Sofware Architect with Kraydel Ltd – plus more!

• What to bring
Bring yourself and a young woman who will benefit!

• Important to know
If you are a member of WWCB, you can sign up with guests here. If you want to share this event with NON members, schools & colleges please direct them to the Eventbrite page as we've split the invites for this reason! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bring-it-on-presents-girls-can-do-it-to-tickets-42861606218?aff=erelexpmlt Thanks!